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 Pierre Trudeau - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia
Trudeau announced his intention to resign as Liberal Party leader; however, before a leadership convention could be held Clark's government was defeated in the Canadian House of Commons by a Motion of No Confidence and the party persuaded Trudeau to stay on as leader and fight the election.
Trudeau's government did remove the right of courts to substitute a conviction for an acquittal on appeal (the so-called Morgentaler amendment) in 1975, but when formulating the Charter Mr.
Trudeau's final term in office was signficant for the defeat of the first Quebec referendum on independence (called by Parti Québécois premier René Lévesque) and Trudeau's successful attempts to repatriate the Canadian constitution and add a Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which is his most enduring legacy.
http://encyclopedia.learnthis.info/p/pi/pierre_trudeau.html   (3071 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pierre Trudeau (1919 - 2000) was still a bachelor when elected Prime Minister of Canada in 1968.
As an 18-year-old on vacation in Tahiti she met Pierre Trudeau, who was then Minister of Justice.
After keeping their romance private, the Prime Minister astonished the country by marrying the 22-year-old Sinclair on March 4, 1971, in a private ceremony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Trudeau   (847 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Trudeau's first appointment to the Supreme Court in 1970, is promoted to Chief Justice.
Trudeau's retirement, he will have appointed seven of the nine justices on the Supreme Court.
Trudeau is galvanized into action and renews his crusade against separatism.
http://images.theglobeandmail.com/series/trudeau/trudeau01.html   (3420 words)

  
 Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Pierre Trudeau, 1919 - 2000
Trudeau avoided the spotlight after he retired from politics, and was often seen walking to his law office or with his sons.
Trudeau won his seat in Canada's Parliament in 1965, and by 1967 had been appointed Minister of Justice under Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.
Trudeau taught law at the University of Montreal before being invited by the Liberal Party to run in the Federal Elections to represent Quebec.
http://obits.com/trudeau.html   (1350 words)

  
 CNEWS Politics
Trudeau graduated with honours in law from the University of Montreal and was called to the bar in 1944.
Trudeau took a post at the University of Montreal, becoming a professor of constitutional law in 1961.
Trudeau preached participatory democracy during his early years, yet his later governments were accused of secrecy and avoiding Parliament by overuse of cabinet powers.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSPolitics/trudeau_pierre.html   (3401 words)

  
 Pierre Trudeau
Trudeau also has a daughter, Sarah, whom he fathered with Deboroah Coyne, a constitutional law expert.
Trudeau's given names thus captured the bilingual, bicultural personality of Canada, the federalism the man dedicated his political life to preserving and enhancing.
Marchand, Pelletier and Trudeau all won their seats in the 1965 federal election.
http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/politics/Pierre_Trudeau.htm   (1218 words)

  
 AETV.com Classroom Study Guides
When Trudeau was appointed Justice Minister by then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, he brought in a series of judicial reforms.
He understood the dignity and decorum associated with high political office yet Trudeau pirouetted behind Queen Elizabeth II after she signed the Canadian Constitution in 1982.
Once Trudeau was elected Prime Minister, what was his first priority in office and why?
http://www.aetv.com/class/admin/study_guide/archives/aetv_guide.0617.html   (584 words)

  
 FBI Spied on Canada's Pierre Trudeau for 30 Years
Trudeau was among thousands of Canadians barred from freely visiting the United States under a controversial American immigration law.
Trudeau became Liberal leader, the FBI combed its files for references to him at the request of U.S. officials in Ottawa, turning up several letters and memos.
He was first elected to the House of Commons in 1965.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0120-03.htm   (980 words)

  
 CBC News: Charter arguments defeat case against Margaret Trudeau
Telling reporters she was relieved by the decision, Trudeau praised the role her ex-husband, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, played in creating the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Trudeau's lawyer, Michael Edelson argued his client should not have been pulled over in the first place.
He said Trudeau had to choose a lawyer from a list provided to her by the police.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/11/22/trudeau051122.html   (359 words)

  
 Celebrities & Interesting People
An unknowing Margaret engaged in a three-hour conversation -- ranging from idle chit-chat to Plato and rebellion -- with an impressive water-skier who also happened to be the federal justice minister.
Learning Trudeau was a politician like her father -- former Liberal fisheries minister James Sinclair -- she grew disinterested, even standing him up for a deep-sea fishing date a few days later.
She was at his house when he died.
http://www.irinasworld.com/celebrity3.html   (1419 words)

  
 Madame Trudeau
In a series of bitterly contested actions that ultimately included three appeals to the Texas Supreme Court, Margaret was granted a divorce.
Around 1805 she married James Williams Hays and settled with him in Opelousas, Louisiana.
This may have been the first divorce granted in Texas.
http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/trudeaumadame.htm   (2071 words)

  
 Justin Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Justin Trudeau eulogizing his father during his state funeral
This attention only became greater when Pierre and Margaret Trudeau separated in 1977, making Pierre Trudeau the nation's most famous single father, and continued until Pierre retired as Prime Minister in 1984.
He and his younger brother, Alexandre (Sasha), were both born on December 25.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Trudeau   (480 words)

  
 The Globe and Mail: Series
Trudeau was 22 when she married the 51-year-old prime minister.
Robert Hurst, senior vice-president of CTV News, said both he and Mr.
Then, CTV newscaster Mike Duffy offered his condolences, and noted to her that it was the birthday of her son Michel, who died nearly two years ago in an avalanche.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/series/trudeau/michel.html   (468 words)

  
 Trudeaus remember Michel and promote avalanche awareness
Michel was the youngest of three sons of Margaret and former prime minister Pierre Trudeau, who divorced in 1984.
Justin said his 80-year-old father, who was recently hospitalized in Montreal for a bout of pneumonia, is doing well.
The Trudeau family has also offered its support for fundraising for a new Slocan Chief cabin in the provincial park.
http://www.canoe.ca/AllAboutCanoesNewsJan00/000114_av.html   (724 words)

  
 Robert Fulford's column about the CBC miniseries Trudeau
They chose to focus on three conflicts in Trudeau's life: the FLQ crisis of 1970, the struggle over the Constitution in 1981, and his failed marriage.
We didn't understand him when he was prime minister, we didn't understand him in his years of brooding and bitter retirement, and we gained little understanding by watching the series on CBC television.
This made Trudeau's folly incomprehensible and drained the meaning from their defective romance.
http://www.robertfulford.com/TrudeauMiniseries.html   (1144 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau: Former 1st Lady of Canada
Her official role led her on a continuous round of state visits, political campaigns and grand parties for world leaders.
Six years, three children and much speculation later, she walked out, taking the unprecedented step of leaving a reigning head of state.
In 1984 she remarried, and since then has committed her time to her new family and volunteer work in the schools and community.
http://www.speakers.ca/trudeau_margaret.aspx   (185 words)

  
 Trudeau's procession arrives in Montreal
Trudeau died Thursday at age 80, and the country has since been wrapped up in remembering his political legacy and flamboyant lifestyle.
Trudeau was prime minister from 1968 to 1984, with a brief break in 1979 after an election loss.
Close friends say Trudeau never recovered from the death of his son Michel.
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2000/10_2000/100320001.htm   (392 words)

  
 Welcome to WaterCan
WaterCan is pleased to announce the appointment of Margaret Trudeau as its new Honorary President.
Margaret Trudeau Appointed New Honorary President of WaterCan
Trudeau, who has taken on many similar duties on behalf of WaterCan in the past.
http://www.watercan.com/new/mar2002.shtml   (222 words)

  
 The Net Net: Zed
" Feb. 29, 1984, Pierre Elliot Trudeau announcing he was resigning as prime minister.
When the Front de Libération du Québec kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and then Pierre Laporte, the Minister of Labour and Immigration, Trudeau
When Nixon told Trudeau there would be no trade deal for Canada, Trudeau and his then-wife Margaret went to Cuba and ate raw lobster with lime and Castro.
http://www.thenetnet.com/zed/zed6.html   (666 words)

  
 Alexandre Trudeau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was one of several children of former Prime Ministers who became Canadian media personalities between 1998 and 2001.
The second of three children born to Pierre and Margaret Trudeau during Pierre's term in office, Sacha Trudeau was a media sensation, just like his brothers, when he was born.
Although Alexandre was visibly more reserved and quiet than his brother, his heightened public profile brought new attention to his work as a journalist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Trudeau   (422 words)

  
 Ex-wife of Trudeau avoids trial - Americas - MSNBC.com
OTTAWA - Margaret Trudeau, the ex-wife of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, had her drunken driving charge thrown out of court by a judge on Tuesday.
But Ontario Court Judge Lise Maisonneuve said police officer Trevor Archibald's testimony was unreliable and that he stopped her arbitrarily on an Ottawa street the night of May 30, 2004.
According to the judge Archibald also denied Trudeau access to her counsel of choice when he neither left a message nor gave her the option to leave a message when he called the first two lawyers she requested at the Ottawa police station.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7279844/did/10157026   (298 words)

  
 CM Magazine: Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
The final chapter, "The Statesman Departs," describes the public reaction to Trudeau's death in 2000.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau: The Fascinating Life of Canada’s Most Flamboyant Prime Minister.
Sauerwein traces Trudeau's quick rise in the ranks of the Pearson government and the resulting "Trudeaumania." The highs and lows of his prime ministerial career, such as the Official Languages Act, October Crisis, and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, are outlined.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol11/no13/pierreelliottrudeau.html   (387 words)

  
 Cuba News / Miami Herald - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
Other photographs captured scenes of Trudeau in recent years, leaning over dinner tables in discussions with his longtime friend.
His father died Sept. 28 at age 80.
Michel died two years ago in an avalanche in British Columbia.
http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y00/oct00/05e5.htm   (957 words)

  
 The prime minister's wife goes clubbing - The Rolling Stones: Canada gets Satisfaction - CBC Archives
The couple met in Tahiti in 1967 and were married in secrecy in 1971.
The press followed their every move during their six-year marriage, the birth of the couple's three children, a very public divorce and Pierre Trudeau's death in 2000.
Margaret Sinclair was 22 (half Pierre's age), a flower child who spoke no French and had little interest in politics.
http://archives.cbc.ca/400d.asp?id=1-68-832-4892&wm6=1   (384 words)

  
 Canadian Association of Journalists — Media Magazine
Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, came to Trudeau's funeral in Montreal last year, as did Jean Chrétien a politician few people expected would become Prime Minister back when Trudeau still led the party.
This led to some exclusive photos for her and her family, but the rules were that my employers would have the right to use the pictures.
The photos of Trudeau and his family were used around the world by publications that subscribed to United Press International of Canada Ltd (UPI), my employer at the time.
http://www.eagle.ca/caj/mediamag/spring2001/photojournalism.html   (637 words)

  
 CTV.ca Margaret Trudeau's driving case thrown out
The judge noted Archibald's story changed during the trial.
Ontario Court Judge Lise Maisonneuve said Trudeau's right to counsel of choice and protection against unwarranted detention were violated when she was picked up May 30, 2004.
Trevor Archibald would compromise her right to a fair trial.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051122/trudeau_case_051122/20051122?hub=Canada   (596 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau, Bryan Adams kick off avalanche awareness fundraiser
The family hopes to raise $900,000, which would also restore the historic Slocan Chief Cabin, where Michel Trudeau spent his last night.
Margaret Trudeau said in a newspaper interview last month that the former prime minister was certain Michel was waiting for him in the afterlife and refused anything - even a sip of water - which might have postponed his death.
The Trudeau family had planned to launch a national awareness campaign about avalanche and backcountry safety last month, but postponed it following the October death of the former prime minister.
http://www.bryanadams.nu/reviews/r123.htm   (657 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Movies - Artists - Shannon, Polly: Prime role for Polly
She first met swinging bachelor Pierre in December 1967, when he was still a brash Quebec newcomer in the Liberal cabinet of prime minister Lester Pearson.
As Trudeau's political fortunes declined, so did his marriage.
Often characterized as a "hippie love child," Margaret Sinclair was actually the daughter of a former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister, James Sinclair.
http://jam.canoe.ca/Movies/Artists/S/Shannon_Polly/2002/03/31/761644.html   (1110 words)

  
 TheStar.com - New CBC mini-series tackles Trudeau
She would masterfully render Margaret's delicate state of mind as life at 24 Sussex became isolating.
CBC announced yesterday that Canadian actor Colm Feore will play the lead role in Trudeau, portraying the former prime minister from the late '60s onset of ``Trudeaumania'' to the political wrangling leading to the 1981 deal to bring home Canada's Constitution.
And she would be brilliant in the Tahiti beach scene, resplendent in her retro bikini, as Feore first sets eyes on his future wife.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=997740234578&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call_pagepath=News/News&col=968793972154   (712 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau and Her Influence on Music
When he was a bachelor, Trudeau was something of a rock star too (for a politician).
Explain what - the sex appeal of Trudeau, or the Margaret Sinclair saga?
The girls all wanted him, or so I've been told.
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/thread.php?msgid=4581925   (193 words)

  
 Crowbar Interview 1971
And so we saw Trudeau after and we gave him and Margaret one of our Crowbar necklaces and Roly got it stuck over his head, actually his hair was so long on the back of his head that he got it stuck over his nose.
As part of Pierre Trudeau's bid to gain the youth vote, his wife Margaret Trudeau who was a Crowbar fan, asked the band to become the opening act of Trudeau's re-election campaign in 1972.
And he was yanking it and it wouldn't move and so Roly pushed in his nose and pulled the chain over his nose.
http://www.rickmcgrath.com/crowbar.html   (4160 words)

  
 CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Pierre Trudeau - Did You Know
Trudeau there would be world peace." Years later, in 1983, Trudeau would launch his own peace mission.
The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines Trudeaumania as "widespread popularity and fascination" with Trudeau that reached a peak "during the election campaign of 1968." Trudeaumania came to an end when the prime minister married Margaret Sinclair in 1971.
In addition to his three sons, Trudeau fathered a fourth child in 1991, a daughter named Sarah Elisabeth, with Deborah Coyne.
http://www.cbc.ca/greatest/top_ten/nominee/trudeau-pierre-know.html   (671 words)

  
 CTV.ca Margaret Trudeau speaks about ex-PM's last days
Margaret was married to Pierre in the 1970s.
Margaret Trudeau also showed off a collage she made to commemorate the ex-prime minister's funeral.
She made the comments during a TV interview in which she speaks candidly about her ex-husband's final days.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1025814605700_21223805   (320 words)

  
 Eye - Trudeau's long goodbye - 10.12
Throughout his national campaign in 1969, at the dawn of television politics, Trudeau's personality and public image were in stark and exciting contrast to the horn-rimmed, dark-suited gaggle of reporters and political functionaries who surrounded him at campaign stops.
Duffy became news himself by commenting on-camera to the grieving Margaret Trudeau that the final day of Trudeau's lying in state in Ottawa coincided with the birthday of their son Michel, who died in an avalanche in 1998.
Duffy's error was to assume that his role as a longtime Ottawa courtier gave him special rights of personal insight and access.
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_10.12.00/news/media.html   (800 words)

  
 Satiric Press -
Chretien, who was Trudeau’s Finance Minister at the time and one of his most loyal lieutenants, never forgave Margaret Trudeau or the Stones for the alleged affair.
The rumoured liaison made headlines around the world, and was a source of deep embarrassment for Pierre Trudeau and his supporters.
Paul Martin, Chretien’s most likely successor as Prime Minister, is also opposed to funding the Stones concert, though for different reasons.
http://www.satiricpress.com/sp/archive/2003-06-09/a_canadianprimeminister.asp   (1052 words)

  
 Plea to ensure water is treated with respect The Record.com
Margaret Trudeau was a guest speaker at Wilfrid Laurier University yesterday to talk about the role of the public person in community service.
It was that their children were no longer dying.
Trudeau -- the former wife of Canada's 15th prime minister, Pierre Trudeau -- is the honorary president of WaterCan, a Canadian charitable organization that builds drinking water and sanitation systems in some of the world's poorest regions.
http://www.therecord.com/links/links_06031591431.html   (493 words)

  
 New Page 6
It was November of 1971 during my freshman year at River High School in Hannibal, Ohio and I just found out that I had won the American Legion's Americanism Contest not just for my high school but the entirety of Monroe County.
For you see, the real source of tension between the United States and Canada is the result of the affair I had during the 1971-1972 academic year with Margaret Trudeau.
I cleared my throat and made eye contact consecutively with each of the Trudeaus.
http://www.iconoclast.ca/newPage6.asp   (4368 words)

  
 580 CFRA - News Talk Radio
Trudeau is fighting her drunk driving charge, saying her charter rights were violated the night she was arrested on May 30th 2004.
An Ottawa court heard Margaret Trudeau's blood alcohol level was over the legal limit on the night she was pulled over.
Trudeau was arrested after failing a breathalyser test.
http://www.cfra.com/headlines/index.asp?cat=1&nid=32621   (142 words)

  
 Passion Before Reason: The Life & Times of Margaret Trudeau
She was a flower child, married a Prime Minister, partied with Mick Jagger, cavorted with royalty and went on to divorce, depression, and remarriage.
She is one of the most controversial, criticized, and misunderstood Canadians of her time.
Passion Before Reason: The Life & Times of Margaret Trudeau
http://www.tv.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/programs/viewer.cgi?FILE=LT19981026.html&SC=LT   (74 words)

  
 "Trudeau" (2002) (mini)
Likewise at the end of the second episode, so 'genius' decided to use an actual speech by the real Trudeau, but made it into a grainy scratch filled piece of black and white film as if it had been film in the time of Laurier not Trudeau.
Plot Outline: A biography of the famous, controversial and flamboyant Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
(1965) Ciccoritti felt this style would help convey Trudeaumania, which swept Canada during Trudeau's first election campaign.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0299404   (556 words)

  
 Page 6 - Weekly Observations
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>>counted Trudeau once, even though he served twice).
>>>>counted Trudeau once, even though he served twice).
http://www.cyclingforums.com/t-284303-15-6.html   (2577 words)

  
 eBay - margaret trudeau, Nonfiction Books, VHS items on eBay.com
PEOPLE Magazine September 4 1978 MARGARET TRUDEAU +++
PB 1ST - Beyond Reason by Margaret Trudeau (1979)
Beyond Reason HC Book Margaret Trudeau Canadian Politic
http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=margaret+trudeau&...   (289 words)

  
 Canconrox - Bob & Doug McKenzie
Rumoured to be held up in Hanger 13 right now, there's probably some little green man right now listening to stories of Margaret Trudeau and Mick Jagger...
The story of our unofficial ambassadors to the rest of the world is a twisted tale from day one.
Little did she know he would NEVER change.
http://www.canadianbands.com/Hosers.html   (809 words)

  
 Cocaine Cowboys - Andy Warhol
Albert Goldman on Tom Sullivan: "The spring the movie was conceived was the climax of his long career as a drug smuggler.
Andy introduced Tom to Margaret Trudeau, who had recently left her husband to have some fun herself.
Then there was a horrible plane crash in Florida in which his closet friend was incinerated, and then hard on the heels of that a great big shrimp boat full of contraband came in but Tommy cracked up and couldn't handle it.
http://www.warholstars.org/warhol/warhol1/warhol1c/warhol1cl/cocainecowboys.html   (589 words)

  
 Margaret Trudeau'S Wedding Cake Recipe
The Wedding Cake made by Margaret Sinclair for her wedding to Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
ONLY YOU see your private notes, and they print with the recipe.
Prepare fruit and nuts before you make the cake.
http://www.recipezaar.com/55291   (384 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - Adams, Bryan: Margaret Trudeau inspires Adams tour
According to a press release from his management company, Adams was made aware of the organization while preparing his photography book, "Made In Canada." While photographing Trudeau, who lost her son Michel to an avalanche in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park two years ago, she told him about the organization.
Added Margaret Trudeau: "I am so thrilled that Bryan is able to help with this important cause.
With his ability to reach an audience that will appreciate a service of this kind, we hope to create greater awareness of avalanche danger and provide people with a place to get this information in order to enjoy outdoor sports and be safe."
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/A/Adams_Bryan/2004/12/01/753423.html   (374 words)

  
 thetyee.ca Wanna Jam?
Trudeau seems to have changed her mind about being tired of words.
Journalists are supposed to be skeptical and ask tough questions, for god's sakes.
It ends with "Can this latest flood of words - admittedly ambitious and technologically sophisticated - actually lead to the action Margaret Trudeau was longing for thirty years ago?
http://thetyee.ca/Mediacheck/2005/12/02/WannaJam   (1736 words)

  
 Mary Kay presents Women of Courage 2006
Join us at the 2006 Women of Courage Luncheon Speaker Series and hear the stories of four extraordinary women.
Speakers include former First Lady of Canada, Margaret Trudeau; Women's Rights Spokesperson Gloria Steinem; freelance video journalist Tara Sutton and Indy Race Car Driver Lyn St. James.
The Women of Courage luncheon series is a volunteer driven initiative.
http://www.womenofcourage.ca   (125 words)

  
 Life & Times - MARGARET TRUDEAU - KEMPER
Following this episode, we will be pre-empted until July.
Life & Times is re-running our Margaret Trudeau-Kemper episode on April 19, 1999.
Life & Times - MARGARET TRUDEAU - KEMPER
http://www.tv.cbc.ca/cgi-bin/programs/viewer.cgi?FILE=LT19990419.html&SC=LT   (30 words)

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