Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Canada, John Paul mixes strong words and tact
...came to preach about "the issues of our time, concerning culture, the community, technology, the family, sharing and justice." But, he said, his visit was "essentially pastoral." As Pope John Paul II launched a twelve-day, 8,000-mile voyage across Canada last week, it seemed as if the Pontiff had decided to avoid major political or doctrinal controversy. Instead, on his 23rd foreign tour, the first papal visit ever to Canada, John Paul concentrated on his forte: warming the crowds who come to see him, then using the glow he inspires to stir reflection...
...equalizer came in the 55th minute when lohn Catliff, one of the players who has contributed to the Crimson' United Nations light appearance (he's veteran of Canada's Olympic team), drilled a bullet directly into the goalkeeper's worst enemy, the left-hand corner...
Both nature and culture have long conspired to excite Quebec's yearning for autonomy. As Canada's largest province, with twice the area of Texas and a gross domestic product double that of New Zealand, Quebec is confident that its thick forests and clear mountain lakes afford it the resources to go it alone. As a pocket of Europe, American-style, graced with both fairy-tale cobbled streets and shiny futuristic shopping malls, the province seems already to belong to a different country from Newfoundland or the Yukon...
...Professor Daniel Latouche. "Like all Canadians, they're reacting to Turner's gaffes, the Liberals' patronage issue, Mulroney's perfect campaign." That in itself suggests that as the separatist impulse fades, the once single-minded province is increasingly of one mind with the rest of Canada...