Shorts. (News in Brief: Canada).Nunavut--The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times headlined an Agence France-Presse item, "Canada: Traditional values help condom campaign." Canadian health officials say they've been able to sell the "safe sex" concept to Eskimos by packaging condoms in wrappers showing Arctic trout, caribou Caribou, town, United States Caribou (kâr`ĭb ), town (1990 pop. 9,415), Aroostook co., NE Maine, on the Aroostook River; inc. 1859. , musk ox musk ox, hoofed ruminant mammal, Ovibos moschatus, found in arctic North America and Greenland. The northernmost member of the cattle family, the musk ox grazes on the stunted vegetation of the tundra. , and other native animals. Borrowing from the Winter Olympics in Utah, promoters gave away condoms at the recent Arctic Winter Games The Arctic Winter Games is an international biennial celebration of circumpolar sports and culture. BackgroundThe Arctic Winter Games were founded in 1969 under the leadership of Governor Walter J. Hickel of Alaska, Stuart M. (Communique, Mar 28/92). **** Canada's outstanding politically correct columnist Dalton Camp died in Fredericton at age 81. Ostensibly a Conservative, Camp found his greatest admirers among the readers of Toronto's left-Liberal Star. Nothing infuriated in·fu·ri·ate tr.v. in·fu·ri·at·ed, in·fu·ri·at·ing, in·fu·ri·ates To make furious; enrage. adj. Archaic Furious. this son of a Protestant pastor more than those who spoke out of deeply-held religious convictions, which he portrayed as hypocrisy or fanaticism or both. Needless to say, "anti-abortionists" were foremost among them. "The true religion of politics and government," he wrote in the Star (Jan. 22, 1995) "is secularism." **** Canada's feminist, pro-homosexu al, Supreme Court Justice Claire L'Heureux-Dube will leave the bench in July, two months short of the mandatory retirement age of 75. She has been on the Supreme Court for 15 years, since April 1987. |
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