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...Civil War was over before they were born, but they knew its bitterness through their spouses. DAISY ANDERSON, 96, and ALBERTA MARTIN, 90, are two of the last widows of Civil War veterans. Daisy's husband Robert Anderson was a former slave and Union soldier. Alberta married Confederate infantryman William Jasper Martin when she was 21 and he was 82. When he died, she married his grandson. The two widows met for the first time to lay a rose each on the coffin of an unknown soldier whose remains were found on a Gettysburg battlefield and reburied...
...last week's election dramatized a new deterioration in Canadian political life. The new Parliament is more regionally Balkanized than at any other time in the country's 130-year history. The Reform Party nearly swept the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia but failed to pick up a single seat east of the Prairies. In Quebec the separatist Bloc Quebecois took a majority of the 75 seats in its home province. And even Chretien's Liberals depended for two-thirds of its majority on a single province, Ontario. The new fault lines could not come at a worse time...
...power by the seat of its pants, clutching a slim, four-seat majority that will barely support any ready-made Liberal solution to such nagging problems as Qu?bec separatism, growing unemployment and a sagging national health care system. Taking up the position of chief opposition party is the Alberta-based Reform Party, whose right-wing, populist agenda dominated in the West. That was enough to push the separatist Bloc Qu?becois, the Reform Party's diehard foe, into the number two government heckler slot, further muddying the chances for a national referendum on Qu?bec independence. The Liberals now face a House...
...real life. TV mirrors society. Society includes everyone. It is unfortunate that people will judge Ellen DeGeneres for her sexual orientation instead of just enjoying her gifted humor. Enjoy your life, Ellen! To the rest of the world: Get over it! SHELLEY R. BEAUBIEN Edmonton, Alberta...
Last week, she played for Team Quebec in Vancouver for the Canadian National Championship. Her team placed second to Alberta, but Shewchuk can find consolation knowing she led her team in scoring, ahead of four girls already named to Team Canada--the Canadian Olympic team which will represent the country in 1998 in Nagano, Japan...