Aproud woodcutter in the forests around Val-d’Or, Que., Leon Robede punted his son to boarding school at the wisecracking age of 15. “My dad told me I was bad,” Miguel Robede said the other day in the Calgary Stampeders locker-room. “So he sent me to military school to shape up.” …
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