Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard by a Québec government inquiry, the Mounties were determined not to be caught short again. Among other things, an elite Mountie dirty tricks squad staged a break-in at a leftist Montreal news agency, and stole dynamite from a construction firm, apparently to convey the impression that terrorists were again running amuck...
...more serious incident, on Jan. 9, 1973, the Mounties broke into a Parti Québ&3233;cois office in Montreal. According to federal Solicitor General Francis Fox, the Mounties lifted computer tapes containing the P.Q.'s membership list and financial records and copied the documents before surreptitiously returning them. It seemed a pointless burglary, since the Mounties apparently learned nothing that they could not have found out as easily by perfectly legal means. What enraged the federal opposition parties, and dismayed Trudeau's Liberals, was not simply that the Mounties had operated beyond the law but that...
...priests and lay leaders of the million-member Orthodox Church in America gathered in Montreal's gray stone Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul to choose a new primate last week, the tensions between the church's old-country past and New World present were plain. The cathedral's choir insisted on singing in Old Church Slavonic, eschewing the English now used in most O.C.A. parishes. When it came time for the creed, however, one of the visiting priests began chanting hesitantly in English, "I believe in one God ..." Joyously, the entire congregation joined him. Soon after...
...born candidate got the most votes, but failed to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, and the predominantly elderly, Russian-born bishops turned instead to runner-up Ireney, a bishop in New England. In choosing a successor to Ireney, now 85 and ailing, the delegates in Montreal nearly gave a first-ballot victory to Hartford, Conn.'s, popular Bishop Dmitri, a Texas-born, former Baptist who converted to Orthodoxy as a teenager. But the bishops instead chose Theodosius. He comes from an Orthodox family in the church's Pennsylvania heartland and thus would be easier for older members to accept...
...sporting a 3-2-1 record, the A team will host Montreal's McGill University next week, and the following weekend they travel to New Haven for The Game, their season finale...