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...early evening it was evident that a landslide was in the making. As Liberal Party faithful gathered to celebrate at Montreal's Centre Pierre Charbonneau, loudspeakers boomed What a Feeling, the stirring theme song from the movie Flashdance. Liberal Party Chief Robert Bourassa, 52, took the microphone and, speaking in French, hailed his party's triumph as "a great victory for Canada." Switching to English, he pledged to "give back to Quebec the prosperity we had 15 years...
...Montreal, Que. native centered Crimson second line...penalty killed...lifted weights and added 20 pounds over the summer...will shift to right wing. Career Statistics: Year G GO A PTS PM Fr. 27 4 8 12 10 So. 32 7 11 18 18 Totals...
...stereo delivery men, who claimed to hail from Montreal, said they didn't know who had sent them to Cambridge. They said the benefactor had paid cash for the six-piece system, which included a direct-drive turntable, a Dolby cassette deck, a graphic equalizer, an AM-FM receiver and two 80-watt speakers...
...loosely regulated. It was a system, though, that seemed to work. The quiet was shattered last month with the collapse of two of Canada's 14 banks. They were the country's first bank failures in 62 years. Last week a financial crisis struck a third bank, the Montreal-based Mercantile Bank of Canada, the country's eighth largest, with assets of $4.4 billion (Canadian dollars). Mercantile, which is 24% owned by New York-based Citicorp, has been facing a severe cash squeeze. Investors who would normally buy Mercantile's commercial paper have been buying securities elsewhere. Their lack...
...fair, though, blame for its demise should be spread among several conspirators. Director Ted Kotcheff greedily sought to corner Quebec's French-Canadian market (Joshua was made and expected to flourish in Montreal) by casting Gabrielle Lazure, a French-Canadian starlet, in the lead role of Joshua's whitebread bedmate. This idea backfired, however, because the real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge...