DCHP-2

current affairs DCHP-2 (November 2016)

• n. & adj. — plural, Politics

  current news of public interest, usually of a political nature.

  As Charts 1 and 2 shows, the term has no Canadian dimension from a frequency perspective. While it has a long history in the country (see the quotations), current affairs has no Canadian dimension in our framework (see Dollinger 2015c).
  See also COD-2, s.v. "current affairs", which is marked "esp. Cdn & Brit".

  • 1849  [...]I have endeavored by all the means in my power to keep myself acquainted with its current affairs, [...] 
  • 1892  Of vigorous intellect, he was progressive in his ideas and well informed on current affairs of moment. 
  • 1925  No less an authority than the late Charles P. Steinmetz, Chief Consulting Engineer of the General Electric Company, was some time ago quoted in Current Affairs as saying: [...] 
  • 1950  It is presupposed in almost every private conversation, at every public meeting and conference, in every newspaper and book about current affairs. 
  • 1977  It was indeed refreshing to read in your letters to the editor about a subject which far outweighs in importance such current affairs as the state of the economy, Quebec separation, bugging of MPs' offices, RCMP dirty tricks, metrication, etc. 
  • 1990  The CBC current-affairs series sent reporters and film crews across Canada and the U.S. to conduct a comprehensive study that will provide after-the-fact background to the summer's events at Oka - and, unless reforms come, a prelude to future conflicts. 
  • 2008  I had observed in a previous column that there was an opportunity in the downtown for a new kind of bar, one that served as a public place for meaningful social interaction, political debate, philosophical argument and current affairs.