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Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay, Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans to expand a golf course into a forest that...
JUST FOR LAUGHS: THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL (Showtime, July 21, 10 p.m. EDT). Bob Newhart is host for a live stand-up extravaganza...
Nearly 200 defiant Mohawks, some wearing war paint, fought a brief but furious gun battle with 100 armed Quebec police officers that resulted in one police death last week near the village of Oka, 18 miles west of Montreal...
...mood in Montreal this week was buoyant. Nobody seemed to be mourning the agreement...
...Montreal in the next few years, the majority of the schoolchildren will be non-Francophone. The attraction of English in North America is unlimited. So we needed to send new immigrants a message saying this is a French-speaking province. We were not enthusiastic about that, but we thought it was justified. In English Canada, they overreacted...