Word: ottawa
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...stage. Although his policies and personality had commanded world attention for a country so often hidden in the shadow of its powerful neighbor to the south, Trudeau has scarcely been heard from since announcing last March that he would not seek a fifth term. Says Douglas McNaughton, chairman of Ottawa's Public Affairs Institute: "We are at the end of the Trudeau era. The public is in the mood for a change...
...officials contend that despite disputes over trade barriers, U.S. investment in Canada and environmental issues such as acid rain, relations between the two neighbors have taken a turn for the better. But the American economic upsurge has only just started to spill across the border into Canada. Economists in Ottawa fear that as Canadian interest rates climb ever higher to keep Space with American lending rates, the fragile Canadian recovery of the past 15 months could be choked...
Trudeau could behave petulantly-yes, indeed-but he also showed grace under pressure, he was eloquent on occasion and easily the intellectual superior of anybody else in Parliament. He entrenched French power in Ottawa to the happy extent that it is now no longer possible for a unilingual leader to be Prime Minister...
...leader of Canada's ruling Liberal Party, Toronto Lawyer John Turner, 55, became the nation's 17th Prime Minister last week, succeeding the retiring Pierre Trudeau, 64. Early Saturday morning, Trudeau drove from his official residence in Ottawa to Government House, where he offered his resignation. Scarcely half an hour later, Turner and his new 28-member Cabinet arrived to be sworn into office by Governor General Jeanne Sauve...
...late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically advises, "Remember, you're sitting next to a job, not a person." Gotlieb's columns, in the form of letters to a fictional friend back in Ottawa, cast wry glances at officialdom and toss bemused barbs at her own role as a Washington "Wife Of." Diapers and car pools are not her problem, but "if you don't know the results of the last two primaries and you're having people for dinner, you might...