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...concerned professional envoy. He traveled frequently through the country, mixed easily with its citizens, gave thoughtful and discreet talks about issues that jointly affect Canada and the U.S. But last week, as Porter left Ottawa to take up a new post as Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau angrily told a cheering House of Commons that Porter had gone beyond "the acceptable bounds within which an ambassador should stay." In a singular diplomatic snub, ministers of Trudeau's Liberal government refused to attend a farewell party given by Porter at his residence...
...bittersweet delight. Less than topnotch though they are, the songs brim with confidence and fun. So does the patter, which harks back to the days when sophistication meant wryness and a wise crack was communication. The cast communicates by singing and dancing, and at least two of them - Patricia Elliott and Janie Sell - should immediately have their snap and crackle popped into a real musical...
Amid a rising tide of nationalist sentiment, a committee of Canada's House of Commons is expected this week to end work on Bill C-58, which at first glance looks like a relatively minor amendment to the tax code. Yet the measure, introduced by Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal government last April and virtually assured of passage, could profoundly alter the shape of Canada's magazine industry...
...just enough distance, they can cause the real thing to be mistaken for them. This explains why half the shows on radio and TV nowadays sound suspiciously like Bob & Ray spoofs. In their 29 years as a comedy team - mostly on radio, with excursions into TV and Broadway - Bob Elliott, 52, and Ray Goulding, 53, have rarely misjudged that ironic remove. As a result, newscasts, soap operas, man-in-the-street interviews, sports features and public service announcements, among other detritus of the air waves, can never seem quite the same...
...Elliott Perkins '23, former Master of the House, said he was surprised anyone had noticed that the bells hadn't been rung. Such a thing has happened several times in the past, he said...