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...Everybody I saw today clearly felt they were voting with their lives and they were generally scared about the outcome," McWhirter adds. "Whatever the outcome, you can be sure that pro-federalists in the province of Quebec and in Montreal cast their votes to the very last man. But the results in Montreal may not reflect the sentiments of the rest of Quebec. This is a very highly educated internationalist enclave, even as it doubles as the capital. It will be interesting if you have a brand new country called Quebec that does not have the support of its business...
Martins, a native of Quebec, collected numerous collegiate hockey awards, including ECAC Player of the Year ('93-'94), First Team All-ECAC ('93-'94), All ECAC Tournament Team (1994), Ivy League Player of the Year ('93-'94), Ivy League Rookie of the Year ('91-'92) and Best New England Forward...
...National Hockey League is undergoing its own greed-fueled identity crisis. The Nordiques are abandoning their antiquated arena in Quebec City for a new one with lots of luxury suites in Denver next year, while the Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils--who, as it happened, played in Denver before they moved to the marsh across the river from New York City 13 years ago--are trying to clear the way for a move to a box-studded arena in the not particularly hockey-loving city of Nashville, Tennessee...
...concept of luxury seating just isn't funny in Quebec City. Or in New Jersey, where, last Wednesday, 25,000 Devils fans gathered outside the Brendan Byrne Arena both to celebrate their team's Stanley Cup victory and to implore owner John McMullen to leave the team be. (NASHVILLE DOESN'T NEED ANY MORE TOOTHLESS MEN, read one sign.) The show of support was nice. But nowadays it hardly seems to matter...
Salt Lake City willhost the 2002 Winter Olympics. While boosters watched on a giant screen back home, delegates from the Utah capital sprang from their seats when the International Olympic Committee cast its ballot today in Budapest. Ostersund, Sweden, Sion, Switzerland and Quebec were the runners up. The decision brings the Winter Games to U.S. for the first time since 1980, when they were played in Lake Placid, N.Y. Salt Lake City has been lobbying for the honor since 1966. B.Y.O.B...