What is the first news event you can recall?
In 1970, Canada’s prime minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act for the first time in Canadian history during peacetime. I remember the dark days of waiting to find out what had happened to Quebec’s deputy premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross, who were both kidnapped by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). Cross was released; Laporte was murdered.