1.   Although red and white maple leaf flags generally fly only over federally owned buildings here, separatist passions and linguistic tensions seem increasingly relaxed.

2.   Deputy Prime Minister Sheila Copps, who as Heritage Minister first envisioned a sea of maple leaf flags reuniting Canada, declined to be interviewed.

3.   The two older girls are enrolled in preschool and would almost have you think they were born under the maple leaf flag.

4.   They waved maple leaf flags and cheered the fisheries enforcement officers responsible for capturing the Estai.

5.   A quick glance around Halifax shows the British Union jack second only to the Canadian Maple leaf flag -- even on official buildings.

6.   Bailey strode forcefully away on the final leg before brandishing a huge maple leaf flag with Surin, Robert Esmie and Glenroy Gilbert.