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...arrangement originally made as a concession to populous Roman Catholic Quebec, which frowns on divorce and declines to establish a court of its own. The sole ground for a parliamentary divorce is adultery. Over the years, as the number of petitions grew (to more than 600 this year), Ottawa tacitly winked at its suspicion that Montreal detective agencies were doing a lucrative trade arranging the evidence. But last week an aggrieved husband named William Eccles blew the whistle on the game by describing in full detail in the Toronto Star how his divorce was rigged...
Rearguard Action. In Ottawa, Ont., the police department requested extra-wide seats on the new motor scooters ordered for its 20 female traffic cops...
...after 16 years was the Union Nationals, the ultranationalist coalition party founded by a stony-willed Maurice Duplessis and dominated by him until his death last September. In came the revitalized Liberals of new Premier Jean Lesage, 48, a longtime (1945-58) member of the federal Parliament in Ottawa, who has never even sat in the provincial assembly he is now to control. In an upset victory, the Liberals won 51% of the popular vote and increased their seats in the legislature from 17 to 50, giving them a majority of five. It was a close win, but its consequences...
Lesage is known in Quebec French as "le go-getter." In 1945 he won a House of Commons seat from a rural riding. Most Quebec M.P.s insist on speaking French in Ottawa; Lesage gamely practiced his halting English in the House until he mastered it. In 1958 he resigned his Parliament seat to take on the job of reviving Quebec's moribund Liberal organization. He is married to a former concert soprano, Corinne Lagarde, has four children...
...clear that Yankee coins could go home. Professional coin runners, who used to buy $100 of U.S. silver at border cities with $95-$97 in Canadian currency and then truck it legally across the border, were trying other ways to make a fast dime. The royal mint in Ottawa worked overtime to make enough coins for Canada's needs, for the volume of circulating U.S. coins was down by nearly...