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...that time, the Trudeau government appeared to be involved in scandal. The first came in November, when Tory M.P. Elmer Mackay unsuccessfully petitioned Commons for a judicial inquiry into possible federal influence peddling in the granting of duty-free shop concessions at Montreal's airports. Mackay charged that Louis Giguere, a Liberal Senator and prominent party fund raiser, had made a $92,000 windfall profit from the timely purchase and sale of shares in Sky Shops Ltd., the concession in question. Mackay also charged that Health and Welfare Minister Marc Lalonde, who was Trudeau's principal secretary when...
...Games this summer have been grumbling ever since their government tapped Britain's Queen Elizabeth for the honor. Now, at least, they can claim victory in a minor skirmish over the Queen's visit. It seems that the royal yacht Britannia, which will carry Her Majesty to Montreal, has old-style lavatories that empty directly into the waves. Royal flush or no, that is a violation of the St. Lawrence Seaway's antipollution laws, ruled Canada's Ministry of Transport. Denying the Royal Navy's pleas for an exception, the Canadians then flew a modern...
...resemblance between Michael J. Doonesbury and his creator is more than a case of art imitating life. Garretson Beekman Trudeau can trace his ancestors back to the 1650s, when the first Trudeaus moved from France to Montreal. One branch of the family stayed in Canada (and eventually produced Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau); another moved south, eventually to New York City, where Garry was born in 1948. When he was five, his family moved upstate to Saranac Lake; there his father, Francis, 56, still practices medicine. Garry and Sisters Michelle, now 24, and Jeanne, now 31, enjoyed a crystalline childhood...
...long claimed that he had met a mysterious Latin-looking man he knew only as "Raoul" in a Montreal bar after his escape. Raoul, Ray insisted, had planned the murder and given Ray money to buy a car and a rifle and to finance his travels. But Ray's brother Jerry told McMillan: "The whole thing about Raoul and running drugs from Canada was bullshit. He went to Canada the first time to look the place over, to see how to get out of the country...
...after the eight-game series between two Soviet hockey teams and eight clubs in the N.H.L. Nobody important, if Campbell is to be believed. The Soviets, Campbell pointed out, failed against the Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres, the two teams that played for the Stanley Cup last spring. The Montreal Canadiens, says Campbell, gave the Russians "a hell of a beating...