Word: manitoba
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Seagram was founded by Samuel Bronfman, Edgar's father, who was the son of a Manitoba, Canada, frontier hotel owner. In 1925 he set up a modest whisky distillery in Montreal. The company profited enormously during U.S. Prohibition, when rumrunners smuggled Seagram's whisky to a thirsty market in the U.S. Since 1947 the company has been the world's largest distiller. Edgar succeeded his father as head of the company...
True Bearing--the title reters to the steady course of protagonist and the path of an oil tanker involved in the collision he investigates--is a journalism junkie's equivalent of the idealized novels treasured by teenage hockey players in Manitoba ("Peter Plays Right Wing") or little leaguers in Williamstown ("A World Series for Johnny"). Though more serious than those efforts, True Bearing is essentially a novelized version of the kind of aspiring journalist who spent his childhood years listening to all-news radio, idolizing Woodward and Bernstein and "Scotty" Reston instead of Mays and Yastrzemski, and waiting...
...then swept through the traditional Liberal bastion of Quebec, and into the industrial heartland of Ontario. By the time prairie voters turned on television to hear the results from the east, the Liberals had won 144 seats, two more than necessary to control the new House of Commons. From Manitoba west, however, the Liberals managed to win only two seats, thus leaving the country troublesomely divided along strict geographical lines...
...election results underscored Canada's regional voting preferences. The Liberals prevailed in all but one seat in Quebec, but failed to win a single seat west of Manitoba. When Trudeau composes his cabinet, he will face a problem parallel to one Clark faced: equitable regional representation. Whereas Clark had to struggle to find legitimate Quebec cabinet ministers, Trudeau will have to search for Westerners. Already there is a growing fear in the resource-rich West of political isolation; and there are rumblings of separation...