Word: secessionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Similar scenes were taking place elsewhere in the country as workers scrambled to form the independent unions they had been promised by the government in a series of extraordinary strike settlements. Negotiated separately in Gdansk, Szczecin and Jastrzebie, the accords had ended the country's major strikes after two...
If Stevens has charisma, he also has an unusual outside sponsor in Michael Oliver, 51, an American real estate developer, coin dealer and fervent antiCommunist. In the mid-'70s, as the leader of a group called the Phoenix Foundation, Oliver tried-and failed-to build a Utopian, tax-free...
"Until next time"--the phrase conjured a specter of success, a shadow of eventual secession to observers across Canada. In Levesque's deeply-set eyes Tuesday night, you could detect both shattering disappointment and tenacious optimism. The self-styled Lenin of the Quebec "revolution" viewed the setback as severe, but...
Clark gave the impression of dismantling the federal authority. He talked of Canada as a "community of communities"; he said offshore resources belonged to the provinces; he tried to dismember Canada's national oil company, PetroCan, and repeatedly waxed inconsistent. In addition, he ceded Loto Canada, formerly the Olympic lottery...
Despite Trudeau's overwhelming popularity in Quebec, Quebec's secession movement remains, spearheaded by Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois. One disenchanted Canadian student watching the election returns Monday predicted, "Trudeau will be prime minister when Canada falls apart."