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Prince Philip, whose death at age 99 was confirmed by Buckingham Palace Friday, visited Quebec more than you might have imagined.
The Duke of Edinburgh was a more frequent visitor than Queen Elizabeth, dropping in 14 times, four more than his wife.
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And unlike the Queen, whose stops in the province were always part of tours that took her to other parts of the country, Prince Philip once spent an entire trip to Canada in Quebec a four-day visit in 1989.
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Kidnapping, Murder, Unrest: Quebec s 1970 October Crisis Explained
By Marina Manoukian/March 16, 2021 1:46 am EDT
In the 1960s, members of the Québécois separatist movement started a bombing campaign against the Canadian government. In 1970, this standoff escalated to a hostage situation. Overnight, people in Québec found themselves essentially living under martial law.
The October Crisis gripped the nation as a British diplomat and Québec s Minister of Labour and Immigration were kidnapped and held by the Front de libération du Québec. In response, soldiers and tanks rolled through the streets of Montreal while helicopters flew overhead.
Thousands of homes were raided by the authorities and hundreds were arrested, but these actions did little to impede the crisis. Despite being called the October Crisis, the hostage situation lasted until November, and it wasn t until the end of December that most of the kidnappers were apprehended. And in the end, although all of the
President Macron admits French assassination of Ali Boumendjel in the Algerian war
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged “in the name of France” that Ali Boumendjel, a lawyer and activist for the National Liberation Front (Front de Libération National FLN), was “tortured and murdered” by French General Jacques Massu’s paratroopers in 1957, during the Algerian war. His execution was made to look like a suicide.
Portrait of Ali Boumendjel [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
Macron’s statement was published on March 2 by the Elysée Palace. The same day, Macron met with Boumendjel’s grandchildren. During the Battle for Algiers, Boumendjel “was arrested by the French army, placed in solitary confinement, tortured and then executed on March 23, 1957,” the statement read.