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...outcome presented the Tories with a problem: their new party leader did not sit in the House of Commons. A Tory M.P. from Nova Scotia obligingly resigned, and Mulroney ran for the seat in a special by-election. Leaving nothing to chance, the rookie candidate moved his family into a three-bedroom log cabin in the contested district. Swapping his pinstripes for plaid sweaters, Mulroney beat his closest opponent by more than 2 to 1. Perhaps Trudeau, vacationing in Greece at the time, sensed what was to come. Remarked the Liberal leader upon hearing of Mulroney's election...
...addition, the World Court at The Hague is expected to rule soon on a longstanding fishing dispute between Nova Scotia and the New England states. The U.S. has laid claim to all of the Georges Bank, off the Massachusetts coast, while the Canadians contend that about half the bank belongs to them. The contested area is rich in scallops and other seafood (the annual harvest totals some $75 million), and may also hold abundant reserves of oil and natural...
This is wrong for Canada.' " In contrast to Turner's earnestly wooden style, Mulroney appears poised and confident. The Conservative leader kicked off his campaign to exchange his parliamentary seat in Nova Scotia for a new one in the Manicouagan riding of Quebec by visiting his home town of Baie Comeau on the St. Lawrence River. As a pack of reporters tagged along, Mulroney enthusiastically greeted boyhood friends and even visited a nursing home to say hello to a woman who once looked after him as a child. "I've met half my home town," he quipped...
...Ontario. For their part, the Conservatives have only one of 75 seats in the French-speaking province of Quebec. In parallel attempts to remedy that imbalance, Ontario-raised Turner is expected to run for Parliament from British Columbia, while Mulroney is expected to trade his safe seat in Nova Scotia for a constituency in his native Quebec...
Built in Spain in 1917 and refurbished in England 13 years ago, thew 117-ft. Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua...