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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Meet the first Jewish butcher to give Prince Charles a local Canadian tour
Description: Last week, Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, took a stroll through Ottawa’s Byward Market. They spent the day in the Canadian capital as part of a brief visit to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. And though Charles has been to Canada nearly 20 times before, this was the first time the future King of England had a Jewish butcher as his tour guide.
John Diener’s family has run Saslove’s Meat Market in the historic neighbourhood since 1954, when Charles himself was just a boy prince. Diener’s father worked there before he and his brother st...