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...vote delighted members of the Liberal Party, which approved the merger three weeks ago. Liberal Party Leader David Steel said the wide margin of approval "means that both parties can go forward together not just with confidence but with enthusiasm." Robert Maclennan, who succeeded Owen as head of the Social Democrats, declared that the newly formed party "has a great opportunity to take British politics out of the straitjacket of Conservative dominance...
...critique neatly encapsulates a view that has remained unchanged since Voltaire dismissed North America as "a few arpents of snow." Edmund Wilson gamely attempted to make his neighbors fascinating in a historical survey named for the country's national anthem, O Canada (1965). Pauline Johnson, Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan: above the St. Lawrence Seaway these are names from a literary pantheon. Below it, they are authors out of print...
...will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation is in danger and that, as Montreal Novelist Hugh MacLennan puts it: "This country we have taken for granted might be lost...
Quebec's claim to a distinct identity has for centuries made it Canada's problem child. Novelist MacLennan described the historical relationship between French-and English-speaking Canadians as "the two solitudes." Roman Catholic, French-speaking, stamped by a different culture and tradition, the mostly rural Quebecois lived a separate life from that of the province's Protestant, English-speaking minority, which centered its activities around Montreal and the nearby Eastern Townships. For the Anglophone elite, the hub of Quebec life was Montreal's fashionable Sherbrooke Street, within easy distance of the banks and big businesses that they dominated almost...
...seminar speakers include Marshall McLuhan, Hugh MacLennan, a Canadian novelist and essayist, and Northrup Frye, who was Norton Visiting Professor of Poetry here last year...