Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Vor 5 Tagen · Born in Carbonear before Newfoundland joined Canada, Rex came of age as the province became the personal dominion of Joey Smallwood, the charismatic premier with authoritarian tendencies. At Memorial University, where Rex enrolled at 15, he was elected student union president at 18. Rex refused to be a courtier, an option open to him in the closed coterie of St. John’s politics.
Vor 3 Tagen · Rex’s passion for politics can also be attributed to growing up in a province where the legendary political icon Joey Smallwood was, apart from the weather, the main topic of conversation ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In his early days in Newfoundland, he was a controversial reporter as he naturally took some issue with the flamboyant but high-handed government of Premier Joey Smallwood. His literacy and ...
Vor 5 Tagen · From Joey Smallwood to Justin Trudeau, Rex had a word for them all. But what he really liked to use his expansive vocabulary for, was to tell stories about Canada through commentaries and documentaries, as he did on the CBC for decades.
Vor 6 Tagen · [quote] The first premier of Newfoundland, Joey Smallwood, coined the term "Atlantic Canada" when the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949. He believed that it would have been presumptuous for Newfoundland to assume that it could include itself within the existing term "Maritime provinces," used to describe the cultural similarities ...
Vor 4 Tagen · He graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a degree in English in 1968 and studied law for a year at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, as a Rhodes scholar. Murphy first gained national attention in 1965 with a speech criticizing Newfoundland Premier Joey Smallwood's governing style. He worked as a special assistant to PC leader and ...
Drew has hosted an Anglo-American Summit alongside President La Follette and Newfoundland Prime Minister Joey Smallwood. -With Bolshevik Russia as the senior partner, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has been established as an alliance between Russia and its satellite states in Kazakhstan and the Caucasus.
