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...Trudeau's home province of Quebec, the government of Premier Rene Levesque is determined to end the minority status of French-speaking Quebeckers in predominantly English-speaking Canada by achieving independence for the province. As a first step, the Levesque government is preparing to call a plebiscite as early as next fall, asking for a mandate to negotiate a vaguely defined formula of political sovereignty for Quebec and an economic association with the rest of Canada. A few years ago, Trudeau declared that "separatism is dead." Now he is trying to rouse attention to the threat of separatism...
Bethel cut the gap to one with only eight seconds left in period two. Fidler supplied the feed and the Roxboro, Quebec, native converted it from in close. 6:58 into the third period, as Bethel took a deserved break from the spotlight, a freshman, Robbie Davies, flipped a backhander through the legs of a sliding Vermont defenseman and into the net to make...
...rail system for days, kept firemen from reaching burning buildings, and forced critically short-staffed hospitals to import 1,000 pints of blood from Los Angeles. The city attached snowplows to garbage trucks, even fire trucks. Convoys of borrowed snow-fighting equipment rolled in from as far away as Quebec...
...never formed a national government. Usually winning between 16 and 22 per cent of the national popular vote, and never having won a single seat in Quebec, the NDP does not have a realistic chance of forming a government in the near future. About the most the NDP can realistically expect in Canada's upcoming election is to repeat its 1972 electoral performance and gain the strategic balance of power position in Parliament...
Canadian labor split over the issue of supporting the postal workers' refusal to return to work. The National CLC refused to endorse the postal workers' position, while Quebec labor and a number of CLC affiliates strongly supported the strikers. The CLC refused to back the postal workers for "strategic reasons." According to Charles Bauer, CLC director of public relations, the CLC felt "at that time it was a suicidal decision to try to buck the federal government." Essentially, the CLC felt too weak to effectively rally around the beleaguered postal workers, and the national labor organization preferred not to risk...