Dawson Creek fair ends after four day event
Seven injured by a runaway horse as Dawson Creek fair and Rodeo concludes its 31st annual four day run. Organizers express satisfaction with results noting attendance down slightly due to excellent haying weather. Gate est about ten thousand dollars. Livestock show draws exhibitors from Vancouver Island and Alberta including Cloverdale and Erskine. A spooked draft horse incident caused no serious injuries.
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Randy Brant
Dawson Creek Exhibition Association
Vancouver Island
Lower Mainland
Cloverdale
Erskin
Alberta
Public Sector Amendments debated amid union critique
BCGEU president calls Social Credit changes a misleading PR move. amendments would require economic justification for layoffs and create appeal procedures for about 250,000 public employees. James Chabot removed some layoff wording while Brant notes a separate incident and minor injuries from a runaway horse accident.
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Vancouver
Social Credit
B.C. Government Employees Union
James Chabot
BCGEU
Norman Richards
Idea realized Tumbler Ridge on the map
Pat Larken reports on the North East Coal project conceived in 1972 by Don Phillips and advanced by Premier Bennett. After years of opposition, a 1980s population boom is forecast with 5,000 construction workers by 1983 and 9,850 possible with a Petro-Canada mine, amid growing pains in a new regional boom town.
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Pat Larken
North East Coal
Don Phillips
Bennett
N.D.P
Jananeese Steel Industry
British Columbia
Tech Cooperation
Denison Mines
North East Coal Development
Canada
Tumbler Ridge
Canada CEIC reports $12 million UI overpayments 1982-83
The Report on Hirings program identified overpayments totaling about $12 million in the 1982-83 UI year, with each $100 spent revealing more than $750 in overpayments. About 70,000 employers across Canada report Social Insurance Numbers and first day worked for hires monthly.
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Canada Employment and Immigration Commission
The
Commission
Canada
B.C
CEIC
Mulroney avoids health care dispute questions in West
Canadian Conservative leader Brian Mulroney urged universal health care support but dodged a clear stance on Ottawa provincial health care fights. On a West Coast swing for the Aug 29 by election in Central Nova, he criticized Health Minister Monique Begin and avoided details amid provincial pressure and politics.
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Vancouver
Brian Mulroney
Ottawa
Mulroney
House of Commons
Nova Scotia
Central
Nova
Alberta
Monique Begin
Begin
Edmonton
Spe
Gerry St. Geory
Mission-Port
Maritimes
Mar
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Bill Ritchie
Chetwynd
Lasser
Chamber of Commerce
Chetwynd Airport
Victoria
Moberly Lake
R.C.M.P
Richards
Public Works Ministry
Mr. Chabot
Petro-Canada
Bernice Pohl
Chetwynd Library
Highwa
Robin Elkins
Elkins
Anso
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