Regional and Linguistic Agenda-Setting in Canada

A Study of Newspaper Coverage of Issues Affecting Political Integration in 1976

Bibliographic Data

ID7703296
AuthorsWalter C Soderlund (University of Windsor), Ronald H Wagenberg, E Donald Briggs (University of Windsor), Ralph Nelson (University of Windsor), Ralph C Nelson
Year1980
Volume13
Issue2
Pages347-356
Publication date1980-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423900033059
OpenAlexW2164685218
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited6

This note examines the way in which newspapers across Canada reported on events affecting political integration in the country during 1976. The year 1976 was significant with respect to Canada's political integration. While there were crises such as the “strike” of air traffic controllers over the introduction of French as a language of air traffic control in the province of Quebec (the incident which prompted us to undertake the study), it was of course the victory of the Parti Québécois in the November 15 election which provided the most direct challenge of all to the future of Canadian political integration. That event meant that what had been a cause for concern had now become a cause for alarm; a “situation” had become a “crisis.” A unique characteristic of this study is, therefore, that it begins in a “noncrisis” atmosphere and runs through the period of initial popular realization that the threat to “national unity” is both real and immediate

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