Article: Mr. Doer's next 'hood

Mansions, mansions everywhere but no burger joint in sight

WASHINGTON -- A late-summer saunter around Gary Doer's new neighbourhood begins in the driveway of the Embassy of the Republic of Guinea, a few doors up from the gorgeous red-brick mansion where Canada's next ambassador to the Socialist Sultanate of Obamaland is going to have to sleep.

There are two women chatting beside a Toyota Avalon, both of them in spectacular, flowing robes, and one has a two-year-old boy slung over her shoulders in a sack. It turns out the woman hauling the toddler is not his mommy; the other lady is, and she's also the Guinean ambassador's wife, swathed in silk and diplomatic privilege, not to mention a ...

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