Word: quebecers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUEBEC--Cam Neely scored two goals as the Boston Bruins defeated Quebec, 4-2, last night, handing the Nordiques their fifth consecutive loss...
Boston took a 3-1 lead into the third period, but Quebec made it close when Walt Poddubny pounced on a Randy Moller rebound and beat Rejean Lemelin at 9:10 of the third period...
...hockey arena in the gritty Quebec town of Baie Comeau, lasers flashed and a nine-piece band pumped out noisy dance numbers. Amid the din, 3,000 supporters of the Progressive Conservative Party whooped it up, delighting in one of Canada's most momentous election triumphs -- and waiting for the hometown hero to make his appearance. Then the doors opened, the television lights switched on, and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, 49, strode in. "Feels great," he said as he shouldered his way across temporary plywood flooring toward a stage set up roughly at center ice, with a huge...
...often happens in Canadian politics, Quebec provided the decisive margin last week. The Conservatives benefited, of course, from the fact that Mulroney is a native son, fluent in both English and locally accented French. The party also enjoyed the strong support of Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa, a Liberal but a believer in free trade and Quebec's prospects in a more open North American economy. Most important, Quebec's response reflected the degree to which the French-speaking province has become politically and culturally self-assured, apparently more confident than much of English Canada that its identity will...
...Cronkite, Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Alistair Cooke are hardly xenophobes. They believe that, in a land that was founded by immigrants, English is the essential unifying force. The propositions they support may be little more than useless clutter, a reassurance that the U.S. is not vulnerable to a Quebec-style bilingualism with all its attendant bitterness. Ironically, it is the debate over the ballot initiatives themselves that has created so much rancor...