Exodus of Montreal head offices continues in secrecy
The Montreal business community reports a stealthy migration of head offices westward driven by tax policy and PQ politics. Sun Life's 1980 move began a trend now affecting about 30 firms with 400 to 500 Prudential staff shifting to Kitchener Ontario.
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Montreal
Parti Quebecois
Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada
Toronto
Sun Life
Donald Armstrong
McGill University
Conseil du Patronat
Quebec
Association of Employers
Patronat
le Devoir
Prudential Assurance Co. Ltd
Kitchener
Ont
Prudential
Ian D. Mair
Mair
Canada
Mount Royal Club
Captains of Industry
Finance
Levesque
la Belle
McGill
Quebec Hydro
Armstrong
New York State
Ottawa
Half a Million Rally in Central Park for Nuclear Disarmament
An estimated up to a million demonstrators marched from Central Park to the Great Lawn in New York in a colorful, music filled protest for disarmament. Signs urged a freeze or dismantling of nuclear weapons while the crowd balanced activism with art and hopeful chants.
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New York
Central Park
Great Lawn
Sailor’s
Challah
Rachel
Julianna
Fifth Avenue
U.S
United Nations
Moscow
Reagan
42Nd Street
Canada
Times Square
Chapman named press secretary to Prince of Wales at Palace
Canadian public relations figure Victor Chapman, famed for tough football days and service to Prime Minister Trudeau, is designated as press secretary to the Prince of Wales and likely Princess Diana. The appointment raises questions about British media reaction as Chapman brings his aggressive, locker room style to royal coverage duties.
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Ottawa
Fleet Street
London
Ink
Buckingham Palace
Trudeau
Victor Chapman
Chapman
British Columbia Lions
Edmonton Eskimos
Montreal Alouettes
Rory Michener
Michener
Canada
Dreamland
Palace
Jack Horner
Canadian National
Horner
Birks
Prince of Wales
Diana
Edward VIII
Princess di
Barbra Streisand
Soviet Union
Streisand
Parliament Hill
Harrington Lake
Margaret Trudeau
Princess Anne
John Turner
Angelo Mosca
Southam
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Duart Farquarson
of Trade
Robert Harrison
Southam News
Prudential of
Great Britain
Rodrigue Biron
National Assembly
St. Jean Baptiste Society
Jacques Parizeau
Matt Seiden
Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
ACE Realty