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...Toronto Star went further. It said that the treasures were "securely hidden in a church seven minutes' distance from Cardinal Villeneuve's Palace" in Quebec City...
...squatters moved in on Montreal last week. And the Communists moved in on the squatters. Leader of the Montreal squatters, who took over two empty gambling joints, was Henri Gagnon, 36, Quebec's No. 1 Communist and an organizer of the Communist Labor Progressive Party. The Montreal squatting movement, like others in Canada, was born out of the attempts of non-Communist veterans to find living quarters. At the first Montreal meeting, Gagnon appeared, had himself elected president of the newly formed Homeless Veterans' League, and led the squats...
Premier Maurice Duplessis, who hates and fears Communists, cried excitedly: "It is part of a worldwide Communist plot to disrupt democratic institutions." But the Premier, who is empowered under Quebec's Padlock Law to close any establishment in which subversive activities are being carried on, could not move against the squatters until the courts rule on whether Gagnon's squat constituted forcible entry...
There had been the by-election in Pontiac, Quebec, lost to a Social Crediter, and the by-elections in Toronto-Parkdale and Portage la Prairie last week, lost to the Progressive Conservatives. The worst bump was raised by Portage. The Liberals had not only fought hardest there to keep the seat, Liberal for the last eleven years, but the election had been decided on an important national issue (TIME, Aug. 5). The farmers had shown that they did not like the wheat agreement, under which Canadians sold wheat to Britain at far less than the world price. Yet the Liberals...
Specifically U.S. and Canadian troops, with uniform equipment, would be stationed at big bases like Churchill, Manitoba (tentatively, Canada would have 500 men there, the U.S. 100), at forlorn little landing strips like "Crystal 1," at Fort Chimo in northeastern Quebec, and "Crystal 2," on Baffin Island's Frobisher Bay. Soldiers of both nations would also staff a ring of weather stations and radar listening posts all across the continent's bleak Arctic vastness and down the east and west coasts to the U.S. The suggestions sounded simple. But the arguments pro & con were complex...