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...nasty, you thought the ECAC was close last year? Well hang on to your zambonis because it's going to be even tighter this year. Aside from B.U., who wooed every top high school player East of Oshkosh, and Cornell, who has some sort of deal going with the Ottawa high school system, the race for the other six playoff spots should resemble a Bruno Sanmartino-George Steel Texas Death Match...
...Ottawa, the Liberal government of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was seriously embarrassed by the disclosure of illegal behavior by the Security Service of the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All of the incidents went back to 1972-73, when the Mounties were still smarting over the failure of their intelligence during Québec's terrorist crisis of 1970. Then two cells of the Front de Libération du Québec kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered Québec's Labor Minister Pierre Laporte. According to evidence now be ing heard...
Washington established ten task forces to examine the pipeline applications, and Ottawa set up three special committees. The hearings were exhaustive, especially those conducted by Canadian Justice Thomas R. Berger, who was commissioned to examine the pipeline's ecological and social impact. After interviewing 300 environmental and economic experts and 1,000 natives in the region, Berger ruled last May that the consortium's line was unacceptable because it would endanger the habitat of many species of wildlife. Canada's Natural Energy Board backed Berger, thus killing the Arctic project...
...this direction, and are praying it will now work out. I am very happy, but I'm not setting any time limit." The couple, according to Margaret, planned to meet in Vancouver this week and then return to the capital. Said she: "We will be staying together in Ottawa for a while as father and mother, not husband and wife at the moment. We are a family...
Fireworks blossomed and flags rippled in Ottawa last week, as 23 million Canadians-or most of them, anyway -cheered the 110th anniversary of their national confederation. The $3.5 million birthday bash was a big change from last year, when merrymaking funds were slashed abruptly by an austerity-minded government. This time the question of national unity overrode any urge for thrift. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was determined to show that Canadians want to stick together as a nation despite the election victory of the separatist Parti Québécois last November in Quebec, his country's largest...