Word: devoir
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...helped boost the unemployment rate to 18%. Today Quebec is at peace not only with Ottawa but with itself as well. Many parts of the province are already enjoying newfound prosperity; elsewhere, at least the beginnings of a recovery have taken hold. "Quebec," says the Montreal daily Le Devoir, "has entered a whole...
...vesque had posed the question to the voters. He merely asked approval to begin negotiations, promising that there would be no change in Quebec's political status until the results were approved in a second referendum. Ryan, the onetime publisher of Montreal's daily Le Devoir, denounced the ambivalent proposal as "the lowest depths of intellectual decrepitude," since it carefully disguised Lévesque's real goal: to seek independent status for Quebec. In his first province-wide campaign since becoming Liberal leader two years ago, Ryan mounted an old-fashioned electoral drive of evening rallies...