Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been Canada's Prime Minister for more than eleven years, governing his nation longer than any other contemporary leader in the West. He had become a symbol of Canadian federalism who fought hard against the separatist yearnings of his fellow French Canadians in his native province of Quebec (see box). Swept to power on a wave of "Trudeaumania," he had once seemed the very model of a philosopher-statesman, blessed with an impressive intellect and an acerbic wit-not to mention a sensuous young wife. But last week Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 59, who had served three times as Canada...
...ended the Trudeau era is Joe Clark, the little-known leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. At 39, Clark will become Canada's youngest Prime Minister ever and its first Tory leader since John Diefenbaker was defeated by Lester Pearson in 1963. Clark faces the most difficult challenge that has confronted Canada in the 112 years since confederation: reconciling a nation that has never quite come to grips with its divided past...
...beautiful this short work is, how well-written and human. She retains her humor and her independence, no matter how many times the man in the Brooks-Brothers suit is revealed to be a Brooks Brothers mannequin. Occasionally, she can be crustily funny about it; traveling across Canada by train, surrounded in the railway car by drunken men, her Elizabeth has the fragile temerity to howl "Canadians, do not vomit on me!" More often she is sincere, direct, touching, with only a trace of the sentimentality of the German romantics she quotes so often. Evil is not in her world...
...Conservatives won only two seats out of 74 in Quebec, but they swept all the seats in Alberta and took a majority of seats in both Atlantic Canada and British Columbia...
Douglas F. Francis '80 from Edmonton. Alberta, said he thought it was "a great day for Canada...