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The hockey gods and the habs bruins rivalry

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The Habs Bruins rivalry has always been one-sided for many decades until the late 80's. It was more of a habs curse on the bruins. No matter who and what the bruins threw at the habs including Orr, Esposito, Cheevers, Middleton, Ratelle, Park, O'Reilly, Oates and Thornton the habs would eventually come out the victors. The last decade has seen a reversal of fortunes up to a point. I guess the first inkling of the rivalry was when Rocket Richard took out his frustrations after being high sticked by Bruin Hal Laycoe and retaliated with a high stick of his own and then went loco on the linesman punching him unconscious. The Rocket was suspended for the rest of the season by anglo Clarence Campbell and the quiet revolution finally took to the streets. As a footnote, the Rocket the leader in points up to then  would be overtaken by the Boomer in the last few games and would never win a scoring championship. The Bruins team of the sixties stunk until the arrival of Number 4 Bobby Orr

2014 Quebec election campaign- the bull evolves

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                            I always felt that politics should  not affect my daily life.  However, from the start of their getting power the pequistes have done just that.  As  an allophone in Quebec, I have watched so many twists and turns of the sovereignist movement in Quebec during the decades and every twist and turn has made my head spin. From the time of the Camille Laurin shock therapy Bill 101 that led Head Offices to leave Montreal for Toronto and left many allophones gripping with 20% unemployment. Meanwhile the mobile anglophones moved down the 401. Then we had the Rene Levesque resignation and the separatist reincarnation when he died. There was the period of the many turncoats from federalist to separatist or vice versa. We had Claude the squealer Morin, to Lucien Hamlet Bouchard to Jean Lapierre and finally Francois TwoFace Legault to the filthy rich PKP.  There was a time that maybe the sovereignist movement had history on its side. However, this is the 21st century wh