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There musta been a memo

I bet some smart PC staffer nipped out over lunch to buy 19 poppies because every single Tory MLA was sporting one Monday in the house.Across the aisle, none of the NDP MLAs donned the Remembrance Day symbol, even Premier Gary Doer.(To be fair, none of the reporters in the press gallery had scrounged up a poppy either. We have enough trouble with the mandatory tie rule.)

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About Mary Agnes Welch

Mary Agnes Welch joined the Free Press in 2002, first as a general assignment reporter and then covering city hall and the Manitoba legislature before moving to her current post as public policy reporter.

Before Winnipeg, she worked at the Windsor Star and the Odessa American, a small daily newspaper in West Texas. There, in addition to covering more than 20 counties, she took high school football scores from coaches all over West Texas by phone every Friday night.

Mary Agnes is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, has won several Western Ontario Newspaper Awards and has been part of two teams of reporters nominated for a Michener Award. In 2011, she was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the beat category. She is also the former national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

She once misspelled "Shih Tzu" in the paper and received 37 emails from angry dog-owners.

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