Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college student to a youthful senior citizen in the 40 + years of the strip's daily existence.

With the exception of Walden College, Trudeau has frequently used real-life settings, based on real scenarios, but with fictional results.

The unnamed college attended by the main characters was later given the name " Walden College ", revealed to be in Connecticut ( the same state as Yale ), and depicted as devolving into a third-rate institution under the weight of grade inflation, slipping academic standards, and the end of tenure — issues that Trudeau has consistently revisited since the original characters graduated.

C-SPAN has also carried CBC ’ s coverage of major events affecting Canadians, including: Canadian federal elections, key proceedings in Canadian Parliament, Six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the power outage crisis in summer 2003, U. S. presidential elections ( e. g. in 2004, C-SPAN picked up The National the day after the election for the view from Canadians ), state visits and official visits of American presidents to Canada, and Barack Obama inauguration in 2009.

The airport has a few regularly scheduled flights to points within Quebec, but most residents of Gatineau use the nearby Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport or travel to Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal.

The cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who draws the Doonesbury comic strip, was raised in Saranac Lake and has maintained his connections there.

And in the latter, Phoebe has a premonition of Andy Trudeau being killed by a demon.

During his tenure at the helm of CBC's flagship newscast beginning May 1, 1988 ( as co-anchor of CBC Prime Time News from November 1992 to fall 1995, and as sole anchor of The National otherwise ), he has covered Canadian news stories including federal elections, party leadership conventions, the Meech Lake Accord negotiations, the Charlottetown Accord and its referendum, the 1995 Quebec referendum, floods in Manitoba in 1997, ice storms in Ontario and Quebec in 1998, the six days in September 2000 that marked the death and state funeral of Pierre Trudeau, the 2003 blackout across much of Eastern North America and the death and state funeral of Jack Layton.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

* Power Corp .' s international advisory board has featured individuals such as former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former oil minister of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former head of the US Federal Reserve Board Paul Volcker, and the previously mentioned former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau.

Liberal Party leader John Turner was put into a tough position, considering the popularity of the agreement in Quebec ( a traditional Liberal stronghold until Trudeau's patriation of the constitution in 1982 ; since, Quebec has not voted Liberal to such an overwhelming extent ) and the Trudeau ideal of federal power.

During the domestic terrorist crisis Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was asked how far he was willing to go to resolving the problem, " Just watch me " was his response, a phrase that has become famous in Canadian lore.

" Much of Bourassa's subsequent career has been spent trying to regain what he was once so unwise as to refuse ," Trudeau wrote.

Fellow Yale graduate Garry Trudeau has immortalized Coffin ( combined with Coffin's protege Rev.

At the end of the musical, Duke's efforts to seize the Walden Commune so it can be razed and the land used for the rehab center are thwarted, and Trudeau has stated in interviews and on the official website FAQ that both Duke and Honey were forced to flee the country afterwards.

Trudeau has a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature from McGill University and a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia.

Trudeau has used his public status to promote various causes.

Trudeau has been acknowledged as the " rock star " of the party, and since his re-election he has traveled the country hosting fundraisers for charities and the Liberal Party.

While Trudeau is seen as a frontrunner for the leadership of the Liberal Party, he has received criticism for his perceived lack of substance.

Trudeau also denied later rumours-for which no evidence has been uncovered-that he and Arcand had once been members together of a secret Rosicrucian Order.

While the Liberal Party has had internal conflicts during its history, it has had a tumultuous period during the later leadership of Pierre Trudeau.

He has been a member of the Liberal Party since the early 1970s, and skipped class in 1972 to attend a rally for his political hero, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Following Meighen into civilian life were: Robert Borden, who served as Chancellor of Queen's and McGill Universities, as well as working in the financial sector ; Lester B. Pearson, who acted as Chancellor of Carleton University ; Joe Clark and Kim Campbell, who became university professors, Clark also consultant and Campbell working in international diplomacy and as the director of private companies and chairperson of interest groups ; while Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien returned to legal practice.

Trudeau also liberalized divorce laws, and clashed with Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr. during constitutional negotiations.

Trudeau also remained active in international affairs, visiting foreign leaders and participating in international associations such as the Club of Rome.

They were also made against Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau and Chancellor of West Germany ( later all of Germany ), Helmut Kohl, when in power.

He was also good friends with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

Turner was also generally respected for his work as a Cabinet Minister in the 1960s and 1970s, under prime ministers Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau.

Trudeau also suggested that Turner's years as finance minister were very difficult because of turbulent and unusual conditions in the world economy, characterized as stagflation, largely caused by enormous increases in the price of oil.

However, Trudeau also complimented Clark as a respectable leader and a better choice over Brian Mulroney, who had defeated Clark at the leadership convention 1983.

Pressure from provincial governments ( which in Canada have jurisdiction over property ) and from the country's left wing, especially the New Democratic Party, also prevented Trudeau from including any rights protecting private property.

By the end of the 1960s, Trudeau had also passed legislation decriminalizing homosexuality and certain types of abortion.

On one occasion, LeBlanc also persuaded Trudeau to advise the Governor General to close Canadian ports to Soviet fishing vessels, a headline-grabbing diplomatic thrust that resulted in better co-operation, and forbade all foreign corporations from holding commercial fishing licences in Canada.

Schreyer also later suggested that he might have dissolved parliament at any point through 1981 and 1982, had the Prime Minister by then a returned Trudeau tried to unilaterally impose his constitutional proposals.

Paul Desmarais is also the former employer of Pierre Trudeau, Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney and Maurice Strong, the " father of the Kyoto Accords, which was sacked for taking part in a fraud of 10 billion USD under the food program in Iraq Oil cons.

University College is also home to the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs.

Trudeau's assistant Ted Johnson also worked for Power Corp. During the Trudeau administration Michael Pitfield held a variety of positions in government but during his time in the private sector he was at one time a Vice-Chairman of Power Corp. and is currently listed as a Director Emeritus.

Trudeau also addresses the nation in a televised speech explaining why he invoked the War Measures Act.

When interim leader Rae, who was also seen as a frontrunner, announced he would not be entering the race in June 2012, Trudeau was hit with a " tsunami " of calls from supports to reconsider his earlier to decision to not seek the leadership.

He is also a director of the Trudeau Foundation for excellence in social sciences and humanities research and innovation.

Those who followed his career, as a publisher and later as a politician, have noted that he also opposed the existing federal status quo, which he considered as too centralized, despite statements to the contrary by the then-Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Trudeau and Ryan were also helped by a political and public relations disaster that the Pequistes themselves created.

Lapierre was a strong proponent of the Meech Lake Accord, while Turner and Martin also expressed support for it, though Trudeau publicly campaigned against it and his protege Chrétien was later revealed to oppose it as well.

Lapierre also commented that Dion was the first leader not to have to cope with a divided party, after decades of infighting between Trudeau / Turner and Chrétien / Martin.