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Good old times when conservatives (not progressives) wanted to ban books

Good old times when conservatives (not progressives) wanted to ban books

1976: Inflation, marriage law reform, women in mining, communes against urban alienation

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The seventies are a different country. Chatelaine issues from 1976 can confirm.

This is next-to-last year of Doris Anderson’s tenure as editor.

Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro books pulled out of high schools for obscenity

Magazine itself is smaller, though paper quality is better.

Men discover consciousness-raising. Domestic violence on the radar. How to beat inflation! Flora MacDonald rises to prominence in federal politics

Young mother of three, Margaret Trudeau is also a photographer. These are her photos. (Chubby cheek Justin on the left.)

Who is Maureen McTeer, the feminist wife of the leader of the opposition, Rt Hon Joe Clark?

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