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Politicizing sport, a dangerous business, is never more seductive than when one wanders in Montreal. In suburban Verdun, swarms of children trying to win a midget hockey tournament skate under a flag showing white fleur-de-lis on a field of blue. The flag symbolizes Quebec and French Canadian nationalism. In the Forum, one finds Les Canadiens de Montreal defending their National Hockey League championship in a setting that proclaims élan. Forum announcements on goals are bilingual. Always the French-"Montréal but par Yvan Cournoyer "-comes first. Watching Canadiens named Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire outskate visiting...
Proud Traditions. As Salutin's play suggests, there was a time when Les Canadiens worked as a symbol for Quebec spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team...
Puerto Rico would resemble Quebec in other ways. There would always be a separatist party. There was one before the current fashion of civil war and balkanization, and there will be one afterwards. Its members are the unreconstructed heirs of the tradition of nationalist politics, the victims of American racism, all those who reject the American way of life. Some of them will always be furious enough to shoot up the House of Representatives or blow up a Wall Street restaurant. The world cannot be run by fear of fanatics, but neither can a nation be constituted through wishful thinking...
...took 14 hours and 23 matches, but on Saturday afternoon the second Annual Marathon Women's Volleyball Tournament finally did declare a winner: the Pierre Fonds club which plays out of the Pierre Fonds province of Quebec, Canada. The Maple-leafers defeated Harvard's own Marathon Sports team in the final match...
...breaking point with the Liberals came in 1967, shortly after Charles de Gaulle outraged Ottawa with his famous cry of "Vive le Québec libre!" Lévesque was squashed by the party after he presented a plan for more social, economic and political autonomy for Quebec within an altered Canadian union...