Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SCHEUMANN Ottawa...
When is this Canada of mine going to learn that government help does not come without cost? It is indeed a weak and unimaginative industry that must turn to Ottawa every time its profits are threatened...
...Scapegoat. The Coyne affair showered political sparks all over Ottawa's Parliament Hill. Liberal Opposition Leader Lester Pearson called for an emergency debate in the House of Commons. Hitherto opposed to Coyne's high interest rates and his stubborn insistence that Canadians are living beyond their means, Pearson suddenly came to the governor's defense. He challenged Finance Minister Donald Fleming to prove that Coyne had blocked a single government program. "We will not support the government in any attempt to use the governor as a scapegoat for their own faults," he cried...
During his state visit to Canada last month, Kennedy had attended a tree-planting ceremony in front of Ottawa's Government House. Shoveling about ten spadefuls of dirt, he felt a twinge in his back but said nothing about it. During the next few days the pain grew worse and when, just before his trip to Europe, he went to rest at Hyannisport, he sent for the White House physician, Dr. Janet Travell. She diagnosed the ailment as "a lumbosacral strain," treated the President with Novocain injections and hot packs. Out of public view, he used crutches...
Through the cavernous corridors of Ottawa's Government House last week padded Canada's Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker on his way to pay his welcoming respects to the bright young American couple who had just moved into the Royal Suite. Within minutes of crossing the threshold, the Prime Minister was plainly captivated by the U.S.'s Jack and Jackie Kennedy-and so, it seemed, was most of Canada...