They have a lot to lose, and despite the fact that I just rambled on about these rumours for five paragraphs, I get the whole respecting-privacy thing to a degree, clearly. And maybe it is all simply rumours. Especially with this photo just begging to be captioned along with it:. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Harper was in Welland, Ont.
Harper's love of animals goes back to her childhood, when her mother and father sheltered critters otherwise destined for a slow demise or a dinner plate. There was also a Palomino horse named Jack, and Maggie, an orphaned dairy cow they took in even though the family typically raised beef cattle.
Today, Mrs. Harper's mother, Barbara, drapes Boomer around her neck and takes him for walks. Even the asthmatic Mr. Harper has an affinity for animals: He proposed the name Gandalf — after J. Tolkien's famous wizard — before kitty Stanley got his name. He even tries to calculate the cats' birthdays. Harper jokes about her economist husband. For her own part, having studied at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology and then spent six months travelling in 13 African countries after graduation, Mrs.
Harper built a career in graphic design in Calgary. There, the photography lover ran her own company and continued to work while pregnant with Ben. She says she has a deep respect for Canadian businesswomen and female leaders, including those off the public radar who are rising stars in sectors such as mining and health care.
In a rare semi-political statement of her own three years ago, Mrs. Harper teamed up with Indigo president Heather Reisman and Nazanin Afshin-Jam, a human-rights activist married to Defence Minister Peter MacKay, to pressure the Iranian regime to spare a woman threatened with death by stoning for an adultery conviction. The results remain uncertain. After marking so many milestones this year, what lies ahead?
Harper says all her current charities — and there are dozens — are staffed with "wonderful people" and that she would be happy with "more of the same. But the more Canadians pay attention to her, the less likely it is that she and her daughter will wait at a downtown Ottawa walk-in clinic to see a doctor, who then asks if she can afford a prescription — as was the case just over a year ago.
Indeed, it becomes more likely that she will reflect on this statement with a flutter of nostalgia: "I like to walk down the street and nobody knows who I am. Follow us on Twitter: globepolitics Opens in a new window. Login to add information, pictures and relationships, join in discussions and get credit for your contributions. She is the wife of Canada's 22nd prime minister, Stephen Harper.
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