Harry Flemming (1933 – 16 February 2008) was a

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focused on

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. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the

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in the

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. Born in

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, Flemming was raised in Truro and went on to graduate from

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and Dalhousie Law School. Involved in politics throughout his life, he tried his hand at politics directly for the first time at age 34 by running for Parliament for the Liberals in the strongly Conservative riding of Cumberland-Colchester North, losing to

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candidate Robert Coates 18,446 votes to 10,139. Flemming was a well-known journalistic political commentator, for years with the former

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and on television for

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's supper hour news show

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(with Parker Barss Donham) between 1986 and 1995. Flemming died on February 16, 2008, of complications from cancer and pneumonia.

References

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