Word: ottawa
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Eighteen months ago, when the Union government launched the African show on the world tour which has already taken it to London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris and Ottawa, Sekoto had already left Johannesburg and was in Paris. There he hoped to get a look at the works of the great European masters he revered, learn more about his craft...
Died. Philip Dansken ("P.D.") Ross, 91, dean of Canadian newspapermen, millionaire publisher (for 62 years) of Canada's most widely quoted paper, the Tory Ottawa Journal (circ. 56,293); of hypostatic pneumonia; in Ottawa...
Elsewhere in Canada, leading newspapers judged the news on its merits, took sides only in their editorial columns. A survey made by the Ottawa Citizen near the end of the campaign showed that the circulation strength of the English-language papers backing the Liberals was close to 1,000,000, the Tories had about 800,000. Not a single daily editorially supported either the Socialist CCF, the Social Crediters or the Communists...
...that Drew's campaigning would have a similar effect on them, they failed to show it. The only thrust that seemed to worry them was the argument being used against St. Laurent in his home province of Quebec. Tory campaigners charged that St. Laurent was centralizing power in Ottawa, and thus undermining the autonomy of the predominantly French and Roman Catholic province. In driving home this point, the Tories got help from Liberal-hating independent candidates like Montreal's elephantine Mayor Camillien Houde. Said Houde: "Better for us to have in Ottawa a Protestant prime minister who will...
...first the church kept silent, but a fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week's end by Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, who asked the commission statement be read in all pulpits and that strike collections be taken every Sunday until further notice...