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The Last Post
The Last Post was an independent left-wing Canadian newsmagazine published from December 1969 to January 1980.
The Last Post was founded by a group of young journalists, photographers, and cartoonists from across Canada, who described the newsmagazine as a “radical Canadian” publication. The magazine’s aim was to draw attention to topics which were ignored, neglected, or misrepresented in the commercial media. The Last Post’s articles often centred on topics such as criticizing the actions of large corporations, analyzing the policies by the Canadian government, and outlining unfolding events in Canada and across the globe. Notable writers for the Last Post were Patrick MacFadden, Robert Chodos, and Nick Auf der Maur. The Last Post was initially published in Montreal from December 1969 to December 1971. In 1972, publication moved to Ontario and remained there until it ceased publication in 1980.
The launch of the Last Post came a few months before the October Crisis of 1970. Many of the magazine’s most notable stories captured in real time the unfolding situation in the province. Important insights into the October Crisis can be found in Volume I, Number 1-5. The report “Quebec: Into the Streets,” written by staff writers Peter Allnutt and Robert Chodos, published in Vol. I No. I, December 1969, documents rising tensions in Quebec. “The plot against Quebec,” published in Vol. I No. 5, in November 1970, provides a thorough and contemporaneous coverage of the imposition of the War Measures Act in Quebec. The report was researched and written by Last Post staff, with notable assistance from journalists working for the establishment media in Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec City. “The plot against Quebec” documents what the Canadian government was trying to achieve in Quebec, the militant opposition to the government’s intervention, and the reactions of everyday citizens to the crisis. For the following ten years, the Last Post would continuously report on the FLQ (Front de Libération du Québec) movement and its members. In September 1978, Vol. 7, No. 1 reporter Carole Orr Jerome interviewed FLQ members Louise Lanctot and Jacques Cossette-Trudel in “The FLQ in exile.” Jerome documents Lanctot and Trudel’s lives in exile in Paris, France after the October Crisis.
The Last Post published numerous articles on art and culture, largely centred on socialist subject matter. Many of these articles were very critical of dominant cultural figures and ideologies in Western society. An example of this can be seen Claude Balloune's column “Last Psst.” Starting in February 1972, Vol. 2, No. 4 the “Last Psst,” was both a gossip column and political satire piece on important politicians and public figures in Canada and across the globe. Throughout its publication, the Last Post was filled with editorial cartoons that also made mocking commentary on current events. The Last Post's entertainment section “Rear View,” reviewed books, films, and plays, largely by English-speaking artists from Canada and the United States, often with socialist perspectives.
The Last Post’s final issue appeared in February 1980. It made no reference to the fact that it would be the newsmagazine's final edition.
Index
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Issue
#1
|
Vol. 1, No. 1 -
December, 1969
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
CBW in Canada
|
|
Why
I don’t want to write about Ireland
|
|
Quebec: Into the
streets
|
|
Farmers
Union: The politics of wheat
|
|
Great Slave Lake
Railway: They couldn’t have picked a better name
|
|
Ford
has a better idea
|
|
Issue
#2
|
Vol. 1, No. 2 -
February, 1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Report on
Business - INCO
|
|
The
Company
|
|
Keith Davey
saved from drowning
|
|
The
Spread
|
|
Down and out in
Toronto
|
|
Benson’s
tax smog
|
|
Weapons of the
World
|
|
Murdochville
1957.... Ottawa 1970
|
|
Issue
#3
|
Vol. 1, No. 3 -
April, 1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The great energy
con-game
|
|
Montreal’s
cabbies fight City Hall
|
|
Report on the
Maritimes
|
|
Hype
|
|
The Caribbean:
why they hate Canada
|
|
Issue
#4
|
Vol. 1, No. 4 - June,
1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Anatomy of the
Time lobby
|
|
Canada
in South Africa
|
|
The Ottawa Press
Gallery
|
|
The
CPR doesn’t like you
|
|
Issue
#5
|
Vol. 1, No. 5 -
August, 1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The plot against
Quebec
|
|
Memoirs
of a prisoner of war
|
|
FRAP
|
|
Drapocracy
|
|
The mania is the
message
|
|
White
niggers of America
|
|
Nova Scotia
fishermen strike
|
|
Issue
#6
|
Vol. 1, No. 6 -
September, 1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Michel
Chartrand’s 30-year conspiracy
|
|
Economic
prisons
|
|
The Rexdale
plant
|
|
Women
and the labor market
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|
Waiting down
East
|
|
Sudbury’s
trailer camp
|
|
Issue
#7
|
Vol. 1, No. 7 -
April-May, 1971
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The aftermath of
October
|
|
Marginalia
|
|
A Public Order
Act withdrawn
|
|
The
NHL power play
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|
The story of
David Lewis
|
|
Stephen
Lewis shapes up
|
|
Depression: a
four-letter word
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|
Interview:
the IRA chief of staff
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|
Issue
#8
|
Vol. 1, No. 8 -
Summer, 1971
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
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John Munro:
Super-spy
|
|
Fishermen
fight the companies union
|
|
Special report:
The renegade report on poverty
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|
War
games in the Arctic
|
|
Onward Hellyer
soldiers
|
|
Issue
#9
|
Vol. 2, No. 1 -
October, 1971
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Canada and the
Vietnam war
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|
Gastown:
what makes Tom Campbell run?
|
|
Beer politics in
Newfoundland
|
|
A
special section: Canada’s resources: the piecemeal surrender
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|
Les gars de
Lapalme
|
|
Strike-busting
at Brantford
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|
Issue
#10
|
Vol. 2, No. 2 -
November, 1971
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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The farmers:
their anger bites deep
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|
Ottawa:
brave talk from shaken men
|
|
The saga of
Stompin’ Tom Connors
|
|
London’s
spy scare, nicely timed
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|
Aislin’s best
caricatures
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|
The
continental computer web
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|
The
strike-breaking script
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|
Issue
#11
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Vol. 2, No. 3 -
December-January, 1971-1972
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|
Contents
|
Title
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Labor builds a
common front
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Ottawa’s
two faces
|
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Educating the
minority
|
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An
early underground novel
|
|
Drapeau-phrenia
|
|
The
story behind the Auto Pact
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|
Issue
#12
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Vol. 2, No. 4 -
February-March, 1972
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Unbending Ben
|
|
Cowboys
and Indians
|
|
‘I’, the story
of Joey Smallwood
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|
CSAO:
The union that goes along
|
|
The U.S. in
Panama: mores than a canal
|
|
Issue
#13
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Vol. 2, No. 5 - May,
1972
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Out of the act
|
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Chou
and Dick
|
|
The road to Mont
Laurier
|
|
Canada
and Puerto Rico
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|
Deals behind the
Toronto Star
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|
Printing:
Canada’s lost jobs
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|
Trudeau on
economic independence
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|
Issue
#14
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Vol. 2, No. 6 - July,
1972
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|
Contents
|
Title
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The May revolt
shakes Quebec
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|
Liberating
the media
|
|
Sept-lies set
things off
|
|
Year
of the manifestos
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|
Ottawa’s strange
reaction
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|
Stephen
Lewis declares war on the Waffle
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Jean Marchand’s
business is business
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|
Issue
#15
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Vol. 2, No. 7 -
October, 1972
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Balloune goes to
the elections
|
|
What
makes Claude Wagner run?
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|
From Waffle to
MISC.
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|
Last
rites of B.C.’s Bennett
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|
Issue
#16
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Vol. 2, No. 8 -
December, 1972
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Election report
|
|
Miners’
challenge
|
|
The pollution of
professional hockey
|
|
Canada’s
plan to attack the U.S
|
|
Portrait of a
strikerbreaker
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|
Issue
#17
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Vol. 3, No. 1 -
January, 1973
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|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Post-election
report
|
|
Prairie
Resources
|
|
The Shape of
Independence: The making of the president
|
|
Who
would run the ‘new Quebec’?
|
|
Choose... yes,
but choose what?
|
|
The
reports everyone ignores
|
|
Issue
#18
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Vol. 3, No. 2 -
March, 1973
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Ottawa tightrope
|
|
Vietnam
cease fire
|
|
Turning up the
energy crisis
|
|
Hear!
Hear! The game of parliamentary pitfalls
|
|
Brascan, Brazil,
and the Liberal Party
|
|
Barrett:
Where’s the hurry?
|
|
Issue
#19
|
Vol. 3, No. 3 - May,
1973
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Energy crunch
|
|
Sinking
dollar
|
|
“I am Yvon
Dupuis”
|
|
The
Pros grab for James Bay
|
|
The Caribbean’s
dead season
|
|
The
‘greening’ of Toronto
|
|
Issue
#20
|
Vol. 3, No. 4 - July,
1973
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Stanfield
|
|
Watergate
|
|
ITT moves in on
Canada
|
|
Canada’s
Whole-Earth Catalogue
|
|
B.C’s Land Act
battle
|
|
Who’s
to blame for the food prices?
|
|
Issue
#21
|
Vol. 3, No. 5 -
September, 1973
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Alberta Inquiry
|
|
Bucks
from Canucks
|
|
New revelations:
The Laporte file reopened
|
|
Behind
the Haidasz-Ostry flaplet
|
|
The battle for
Phnom Penh
|
|
Issue
#22
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Vol. 3, No. 6 -
November, 1973
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Quebec elections
|
|
Alberta
Oil Sands
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|
The two coups
|
|
The
war of the classes
|
|
Fidel Castro’s
premonition
|
|
Canada
and Chile
|
|
The CPR’s rule
of the West
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|
Issue
#23
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Vol. 3, No. 7 -
January, 1974
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Energy
arithmetic
|
|
Special
report: Quebec election
|
|
First assault on
the bunker
|
|
Judge
Malouf’s verdict
|
|
The Greering of
the Land
|
|
Caricatures
’73
|
|
Caught in the
act
|
|
Cables
from Santiago
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|
Issue
#24
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Vol. 3, No. 8 -
March, 1974
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
ABC’s Olympics
|
|
Arms
for Thailand
|
|
Kissinger vs.
Schlesinger
|
|
The
Vietnam War continues
|
|
Ma Bell and
Canada’s newest multinational
|
|
Herman
Kahn among the tar sands
|
|
Oil’s men in
government
|
|
Bland
Bill Davis’s dilemma
|
|
Grenada’s
joyless independence
|
|
Issue
#25
|
Vol. 4, No. 1 - May,
1974
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Cabinet split
|
|
Quebec
crime probe
|
|
The U.S in Egypt
|
|
Unease
in Lison
|
|
The James Bay
site explodes
|
|
The
CLC leadership muddles through
|
|
John Shaheen and
the seven sisters
|
|
The
deepening crisis in Trinidad
|
|
Issue
#26
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Vol. 4, No. 2 -
August, 1974
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Stanfield stung
|
|
Barrett
backlash
|
|
CLC convention
|
|
India’s
bomb
|
|
The Pentagon’s
plans
|
|
Peron’s
successors
|
|
The Hudson
Institute comes to Canada
|
|
Home
is where the mortgage is
|
|
Jean-Luc Pepin’s
spirit lives on
|
|
The
plot to invade Queenston, Regina
|
|
Some people have
more shares than others
|
|
Issue
#27
|
Vol. 4, No. 3 -
October-November, 1974
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Ma Bell’s
buddies
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|
Sharp
to MacEachen
|
|
Greece marks
time
|
|
Bauxite
producers
|
|
The Mounties’
strange activities
|
|
How
Bata built its empire
|
|
What are the
city reformers doing?
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|
Rhodesia’s
last years
|
|
Issue
#28
|
Vol. 4, No. 4 -
January, 1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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The recession
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|
Montreal
votes
|
|
Vorster’s
promises
|
|
Brazilian
armaments
|
|
Nova Scotia: the
“power cow”
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|
Dr.
Strangeoil in the tar sands
|
|
McDougald’s
business: the food complex
|
|
Issue
#29
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Vol. 4, No. 5 - February-March,
1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Combines bill
|
|
CIA
in Canada
|
|
Gold politics
|
|
Portugal’s
parties
|
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Syncrude: the
pollution cover-up
|
|
B.C’s
northern dilemma
|
|
Issue
#30
|
Vol. 4, No. 6 -
April, 1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Immigration
|
|
Gypsum
|
|
Doug Fullerton:
Ottawa for ever
|
|
Dubcek
echoes
|
|
Rockefeller wins
|
|
Donald
Macdonald: the Syncrude story
|
|
Forbes Burnham:
Reynolds’ boss
|
|
The
CIA: It’s only business
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|
Issue
#31
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Vol. 4, No. 7 - June,
1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Death squad
|
|
Farmers
|
|
Population
control
|
|
Mrs. Thatcher’s dazzle
|
|
Robert Bourassa:
in trouble
|
|
Why
Bennett sold the Columbia
|
|
Mighty Shadow:
Trinidad Carnival
|
|
Issue
#32
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Vol. 4, No. 8 -
August, 1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Meal scandal
|
|
The
budget
|
|
Garrison
|
|
Turner:
Whose budget?
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|
Britain
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South
Africa
|
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Bankers:
Nassau’s gnomes
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Women:
Work & wages
|
|
Issue
#33
|
Vol. 5, No. 1 -
October, 1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
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NEB report
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|
Greenpeace
|
|
Cash flow
|
|
CIA
doings
|
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B.C Pen
|
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Broadbent
|
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Chile
|
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Weston
- More is right
|
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Hughes - Ruling
the waves
|
|
Joe
Greene - Where are they now?
|
|
Belfast -
Cartoon chronicle
|
|
Issue
#34
|
Vol. 5, No. 2 -
December, 1975
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Land claims
|
|
Red
power
|
|
Wage controls
|
|
Bryce
probe
|
|
Sysco’s crisis
|
|
Bricklin
|
|
Rosie Douglas
|
|
Mary
Steinhauser: The prison dilemma
|
|
Lougheed: Bogus
populism
|
|
Issue
#35
|
Vol. 5, No. 3 -
February, 1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Blakeney’s
gamble
|
|
Monument
|
|
Conglomerates
|
|
Expulsion
|
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Lougheed: The
New West
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Racism:
Old and new
|
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Castro: The next
challenge
|
|
Issue
#36
|
Vol. 5, No. 4 -
April, 1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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Trudeauphobia
|
|
Nuclear
safety
|
|
Hot town
|
|
Gift
Horst
|
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Baby Wac
|
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The
war of the Ads
|
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In Solitary
|
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Chile
deal
|
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Drapeau: The
Olympics
|
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Teron:
Housing czar
|
|
Issue
#37
|
Vol. 5, No. 5 - June,
1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Judge’s Affair
|
|
Post-docs
|
|
Rhodesia
|
|
Joe
Clark
|
|
Subliminals
|
|
Bryce
probe
|
|
Brownmiller:
Causes of rape
|
|
Issue
#38
|
Vol. 5, No. 6 -
August, 1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
War games
|
|
Olympics
stadium
|
|
Prisoners
|
|
Rodrique
Who?
|
|
Bell’s move
|
|
Texasgulf
|
|
Fluker’s faux-pas
|
|
Pelletier
|
|
Sudbury
|
|
Joe
Morris: Labour’s big bid
|
|
Richard Nixon:
Woodsteined
|
|
Issue
#39
|
Vol. 5, No. 7 -
October, 1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Joe vs Pierre
|
|
Rudnicki
wins
|
|
The McCain boys
|
|
Black
Consciousness
|
|
Bilingualism:
the backlast
|
|
Quebec:
Confusion’s reign
|
|
Comics: Vietnam
revisited
|
|
Issue
#40
|
Vol. 5, No. 8 -
December, 1976
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Billingualism
|
|
Otto’s
way
|
|
Ham report
|
|
Morgentaler
|
|
Kissinger
|
|
Socreds
|
|
Levesque’s
victory
|
|
Is
Joe next?
|
|
Reed’s deals
|
|
Issue
#41
|
Vol. 6, No. 1 -
March, 1977
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The best and
brightest
|
|
Quebec’s
American connection
|
|
Pundits and
Pollsters
|
|
Understanding
Quebec
|
|
The quiet
Canadians
|
|
The
‘San Juan’ scandal
|
|
Special Reviews
Section
|
|
Issue
#42
|
Vol. 6, No. 2 -
April, 1977
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Trudeau,
Levesque woo the U.S
|
|
Jimmy’s
friend
|
|
The Goyer 21
|
|
Winnipeg’s
folly
|
|
Double-talk in
double-knit
|
|
Brascan’s
big ploy
|
|
Canada’s
Generals go shopping
|
|
Racism,
the Canadian way
|
|
Pity the poor
farmer
|
|
Issue
#43
|
Vol. 6, No. 3 -
June-July, 1977
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Gift of the MAGI
|
|
The
EDC’s deals by Virginia Smith
|
|
The Castaways
|
|
Pierre
Pourquoi?
|
|
Bill Bennett
& Company
|
|
Issue
#44
|
Vol. 6, No. 4 -
September, 1977
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Probing the
Mounties
|
|
How
much centralization?
|
|
Socreds vs
Labour
|
|
The
West Bank Issue
|
|
The Rothschild
connection
|
|
The
Noranda file
|
|
Issue
#45
|
Vol. 6, No. 5 -
November, 1977
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The fishery
dilemma
|
|
B.C’s
de-nationalization debate
|
|
Disarmament and
hypocrisy
|
|
Why
Inco likes Guatemala
|
|
All quiet in
Belize
|
|
Indexing
pensions
|
|
Canada’s stake
in deep sea mining
|
|
Yesterday
the Congo, Today Canada
|
|
Beginning the
Begin
|
|
Issue
#46
|
Vol. 6, No. 6 -
January, 1978
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Continentalism
revives
|
|
INCO’s
goof
|
|
Schreyer’s
defeat
|
|
B.C’s
strike law
|
|
Exploiting
domestics
|
|
Tory
story: Joe Clark gets a few breaks
|
|
Immigration: The
crackdown
|
|
Issue
#47
|
Vol. 6, No. 7 -
April, 1978
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Neighbourhood
talk
|
|
Down
the drain
|
|
Can Blakeney
hold on?
|
|
“Civilian”
arms sales
|
|
Bell keeps
tolling
|
|
Barrett’s
press hate
|
|
Ottawa Journal
strike
|
|
Sun
Life: Goin’ down the road?
|
|
Issue
#48
|
Vol. 6, No. 8 - June,
1978
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Claude Ryan: Too
much his own man?
|
|
Too
much the bosses’ man?
|
|
The worm turns
|
|
The
Lyon uproar
|
|
Canada’s “Panama
Canal”
|
|
Banking
on apartheid
|
|
Zap, you’re
frozen!
|
|
‘Campaign’
biographies
|
|
Hello to arms
|
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No,
not our Inco!
|
|
Issue
#49
|
Vol. 7, No. 1 -
September, 1978
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
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The FLQ in exile
|
|
The
year of the U.S
|
|
Political
service
|
|
China’s
new look
|
|
Is bigger
better?
|
|
Billingualism
returns
|
|
Rhodesian
problems
|
|
Issue
#50
|
Vol. 7, No. 2 -
November, 1978
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Here they go
again
|
|
Nova
Scotia’s decision
|
|
Exporting drug
addicts in B.C
|
|
Indian
disunity
|
|
Manitoba’s Price
|
|
Bankrolling
dictatorship
|
|
Investment that
cripples
|
|
Talking
disarmament
|
|
U.S bilingualism
|
|
See
the premiers
|
|
The liberal
leadership race
|
|
The
men who built the railway
|
|
Issue
#51
|
Vol. 7, No. 3 -
February, 1979
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Swinging left
|
|
The
bankers
|
|
Who’s reopening
the free trade file?
|
|
Banquo’s
children: rank and file rebellion in the world’s biggest trade union
|
|
Ontario demotes
the environment
|
|
Issue
#52
|
Vol. 7, No. 4 - May,
1979
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Will the
election settle anything?
|
|
INCO
strike
|
|
Pork Barrel
|
|
Schreyer’s
successor
|
|
Is the U.S
planning to be the world’s policeman again?
|
|
B.C
Vander Zalm: There’s political hay to be made in poor-bashing
|
|
Issue
#53
|
Vol. 7, No. 5 -
August, 1979
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Prisoner of the
right?
|
|
The
big split
|
|
Lyon at bay
|
|
The
NDP regroups
|
|
Levesque falters
|
|
Polarization
|
|
Bennet’s slim
win
|
|
Lochinvar’s
luck
|
|
Takeover fever:
Thomson and The Bay
|
|
Strikebound
|
|
TV: Destroying
traditional politics?
|
|
This
year at Cannes
|
|
Issue
#54
|
Vol. 7, No. 6 -
November, 1970
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
The developers
|
|
Wanted:
refugee policy
|
|
Science on trial
|
|
Red
Days of ’79
|
|
The ‘Wired City’
|
|
Grenada
|
|
Issue
#55
|
Vol. 7, No. 7 -
February, 1980
|
|
Contents
|
Title
|
|
Trudeau:
Resigned to run
|
|
Ontario:
Joe Clark’s downfall
|
|
The PQ’s ‘New
Deal’
|
|
“Atikokan
is everywhere”
|
|
NDP meets
|
|
James
Bay turns on
|
|
Lyon vs Pawley
|
|
Investigating
Them
|
|
Bell’s ‘chips’
|
|
“Lettergate”
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|
