Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, 1989

Graeme S. Mount is a professor of history at Laurentian University, the
author of

Canada’s Enemies: Spies and Spying in the Peaceable Kingdom, and the
co-author of The Border at Sault Ste. Marie.

Even then it was obvious that 1989 was a pivotal year. The massacre at
Tiananmen, the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the opening of the
Berlin Wall, and the collapse of Communist governments across Eastern
Europe brought expectations of major change. George Bush became
President of the United States and launched an invasion of Panama. The
Canada–U.S. Free Trade Agreement went into effect. In the aftermath of
Quebec’s latest language laws, the Meech Lake Accord became
increasingly unpopular. The Mulroney government slashed Via Rail and
prepared for the GST. Psychopath Marc Lepine murdered 14 female
engineering students at the University of Montreal. Reform won its first
seat in the House of Commons.

The Canadian Annual Review has done a superb job of summarizing and
interpreting the signi-ficant political, diplomatic, social, and
athletic events of 1989.