Word: elliott
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Crimson defenders Lori Barry, Joan Elliott and Inga Larson were faced with a steady stream of Eagle hopefuls, but were successful in denying them access to the goal...
Thomas Axworthy served as Principal Secretary and Chief of Staff to former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He is currently a fellow at the Institute of Politics...
Also on defense, senior Joan Elliott and Karen Garabaldi will see plenty of action...
...contrast, the Liberal Party, headed by Prime Minister John Turner, won only 40 seats, down from 147 in 1980. The defeat was not only a loss for Turner but a national repudiation of the party dominated by the cosmopolitan, sometimes cavalier Pierre Elliott Trudeau, under whose leadership the Liberals had ruled Canada for all but nine months since 1968. Turner, a Toronto corporate lawyer who became his party's leader after Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister in June, came close to losing his own constituency in the western province of British Columbia. He eventually prevailed...
...election has also been enriched by little ironies. Turner, having acquiesced under duress to confirm a flood tide of patronage appointments demanded by departing Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, has been handicapped since Day 1 of his campaign, with Mulroney jabbing away effectively on the issue. But speaking from the heart to his own potential constituents in Baie Comeau, Mulroney assured them that if he were elected, they would enjoy "priority treatment," which is to say wink, wink, they would be first into the trough...