Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just as we expect that they respect our views in our relations...
...Bristol Britannia with the Cubana Airlines markings bobbed to a halt on the runway of Ottawa's Uplands Airport, and out stepped ten Cubans who had flown nonstop from Havana. At their head stood Regino Botí, Fidel Castro's U.S.-hating Minister of Economy. They had come to Canada, proclaimed Botí, with $150 million "to find out what we can purchase." His face abeam, Trade Minister George Hees told newsmen: "You can't do business with better businessmen anywhere...
...Song. Set up by Premier John Diefenbaker three months ago, the Royal Commission on Publications is headed by the Ottawa Journal's president and editor, Michael Grattan O'Leary, also includes John George Johnston, a Toronto public-relations man, and Montrealer Claude Beaubien, vice president of the Aluminum Co. of Canada Ltd. The committee's assignment: to prepare, for parliamentary action, recommendations that, "while consistent with the maintenance of the freedom of the press, would contribute to the further development of a Canadian identity through a genuinely Canadian periodical press...
YOUSUF KARSH Ottawa...
...Return to Orthodoxy." Weather-head's successor, Dr. Leonard Griffith. 40, last week sounded a new and sterner note. Lancashire-born Preacher Griffith was taken to Canada by his opera-singer parents when he was eight, joined the ministry 15 years ago, served Ottawa's fashionable United Church for the past eleven years. He accepts the Bible as divinely inspired, is not a whit interested in psychiatry. In a church whose tradition is liberal, he is perhaps the true nonconformist: a conservative...