Word: ottawa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mulroney goes to Ottawa...
Trudeau's confidence could not conceal the deepening malaise within his Liberal Party. Mulroney's rise to the Conservative leadership, combined with widespread public dissatisfaction over Trudeau's 15-year tenure in Ottawa, has given the Tories an unprecedented 55%-to-27% edge over the Liberals in recent polls. Says former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister Walter Baker: "We smell power...
...three days, eight candidates for leadership of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party pressed the flesh and corralled supporters in Ottawa's cavernous Civic Center. Most party insiders were predicting a victory for former Prime Minister Joe Clark. But by late afternoon, rumors of an upset were rife. Sure enough, after balloting stretched into Saturday night, the weary conventioneers finally rejected Clark in favor of Brian Mulroney, 44, a Quebec lawyer and business executive long active in party affairs. Mulroney has never run for office, but he will lead the Tories against the ruling Liberal Party in national elections...
...dropping from existence; there are new electronic microchip jobs that automatically produce a thousand individually addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly sum up the reasons for looking back with moderate affection on the manual typewriter and still not feel that the world is about to lose a piece...
Many Canadians oppose the missile idea. A January Gallup poll showed 52% against cruise testing, and only 37% in favor. In Ottawa, 15,000 demonstrators marched at an anticruise rally in October. Operation Dismantle, one of Canada's largest antinuclear groups, claims to have tripled its membership, to 2,000, in the past year. The 2 million-member Canadian Labor Congress pledged last week to support the anticruise movement, while last December leaders of five major national churches met with Trudeau to express their "deep concern" over the idea of bringing the missiles to Canada. Some of the protests...