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...rights, but the then separatist government of Quebec refused to endorse the new document. The Meech Lake accord, based on proposals put forward by Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa, was designed to overcome the province's opposition. Since then, however, newly elected governments in Manitoba, New Brunswick and Newfoundland have refused to ratify it. The holdouts argue that the accord grants Quebec special legislative powers over language and culture that other provinces do not have, and could endanger the civil rights of non-French minorities in Quebec...
Three years ago, a chartered DC-8 carrying home 248 U.S. soldiers from peacekeeping duty in Egypt crashed on takeoff after refueling in Newfoundland. All 248 died, as did eight crew members. In a long-awaited final report on the disaster, the Canadian Aviation Safety Board last week said, as expected, that the probable cause of the crash was icing: a sandpaper-thin coating on the wings that diminished their ability to lift the aircraft...
When four French officials and 17 sailors set off two weeks ago into rough Newfoundland seas aboard the trawler Croix de Lorraine, they hooked some trouble. The crew was arrested for illegally fishing in Canadian waters, and clapped in jail for 48 hours. Last week Paris recalled its Ambassador to Canada for "consultations," and passport and customs officials delayed Canadian visitors for hours at French airports...
...exact location of the ship was unknown. It was not until 1985 that an expedition mounted by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the French Institute for Research and Development of the Sea (IFREMER) found it broken into two pieces in the North Atlantic, about 350 miles southeast of Newfoundland, in 12,500 ft. of water. The following year, Woods Hole Marine Geologist Robert Ballard returned to probe inside the rusting hull and take photographs. But Ballard's crew left the ship and its artifacts undisturbed and urged others to do the same as a memorial to those...
...this case, both of the jumbo jets were flying toward the U.S. from London at 31,000 ft. and were reporting to the Canadian air-traffic center at Gander, Newfoundland. Their close call came in clear weather at about the halfway point in their crossing. The Delta airliner drifted south of its course and passed just under the Continental plane, which was on its proper track. According to the NTSB, which is cooperating in the investigation with the Canadian Aviation Safety Board, the Delta crew had not been supplied with oceanic charts to display the coordinates of their assigned flight...