Word: ottawa
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...textbook cloak-and-dagger intelligence operation. Clandestine meetings were arranged by passing filmed instructions that were stuffed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. There were coded passwords and complex secret-signal systems. Using these elaborate precautions, the Soviet mission in Ottawa must have felt secure as KGB agents within the embassy seemed to have recruited a spy from Canada's equivalent of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For nine months, in fact, a Mountie had pocketed KGB bribes totaling $30,500 in exchange for what appeared to be highly sensitive...
...unity and perhaps even the survival of Canada. The bomb comes in the form of a threat by the separatist government of Quebec to seek independence for the country's largest province. Next week, at an extraordinary three-day meeting, Canada's national and provincial leaders will gather in Ottawa to discuss means of righting the country's grave economic problems, which include a galloping 8.5% unemployment and 9.5% inflation. But underlying the talks will be a nervous awareness that Canada's 111-year-old confederation is in danger and that, as Montreal Novelist Hugh MacLennan puts it: "This country...
...people of other provinces do?" asks Carrol Potter, a retired Canadian armed forces veteran in tiny Middleton, N.S. "We have a French Canadian Governor-General [who represents Queen Elizabeth II], a French Canadian Prime Minister and a lopsided number of French Canadians in the federal Cabinet in Ottawa [twelve out of 33]. Yet we are told that the French Canadian is still dissatisfied...
...America (BNA) Act of 1867. Among them: a provincial veto over federal decisions concerning natural resources, a greater say in the operation of the Bank of Canada and a hand in the appointment of Canada's Supreme Court judges. Says Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon: "English Canada tends to see Ottawa's tunnel vision [toward Quebec] as distracting from real issues...
Chain-smoking as always, Quebec Premier René Lévesque perched on the edge of an easy chair in the annex to his Quebec City office as he talked with TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief John M. Scott and Staff Writer George Russell. Excerpts from the interview...