Word: alberta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everyone. Until last week, Social Credit was a local Western phenomenon (the premiers of Alberta and British Columbia are Socreds). Yet Social Crediters won only four seats in the West. The movement's real strength now lies in French-speaking Quebec, where Réal Caouette's spellbinding appeal was worth an astonishing 26 of the province's 75 seats...
...water. He has also made geological studies for the oil industry, and is a consultant on building foundations. A native of Sydney, Australia, he taught geology for four years at New South Wales University of Technology (Australia) and for a year was seismologist with the Frontier Geophysical Co. of Alberta, Canada...
...Even Frenchmen, traditionally set in their views, whether Catholic, Protestant or skeptic, are giving a hearing to the young Americans who come to call. In the southern industrial city of Nimes (pop. 90,000), Craig Colton, 22, of Los Angeles and Gary Harris, 20, of Taber, Alberta talk with 50 to 100 people...
...most important are congestive heart failure and many forms of kidney disease (in which the body retains too much water, to match an excess of salt). Also, salt sometimes complicates cirrhosis of the liver and possibly high blood pressure. Yet in many parts of the U.S. and Canada, says Alberta's Dr. George B. Elliott, the benefits of the low-salt diet are wiped out by the water that patients drink-water loaded with sodium in any of several salts, including sodium chloride (common salt...
...Good a Cure? Some Canadians wonder whether the cure might not be worse than the disease. Alberta Premier Ernest Manning charges the federal government with "catering to a small element of bigoted nationalists" in a way that could only bring harm to the Canadian economy. Many businessmen, particularly oilmen, who need big chunks of investment capital, argue that Canadians do not have the funds to finance major projects themselves. Calgary's Oilweek trade bible cited as a typical case a nearly completed, $90 million financing by Canadian-owned Alberta Gas Trunk Line Co. Ltd. for a pipeline-gathering system...