Pocklington pressed on bad debts at Calgary appearance
Calgary crowd hears Tory leadership hopeful Peter Pocklington explain Fidelity Trust potential sale or equity injection after NEP era pressures. He faces creditor accusations over Capri Drilling receivership, pledges to pay debts while defending Gainers Foods and Edmonton Oilers.
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JEFF ADAMS
CALGARY
Peter Pocklington
Pocklington
Fidelity Trust Co
overerica
Capri Drilling (Canada) Inc
Progressive Conservative party
Progressive Conservative Women’s Caucus of
Ken Moore
Midwest Surveys
Capri Drilling
Moore
Moore and Capri
Gainers Foods Ltd
Edmonton Oilers
National Hockey League
Welfare recipients warned over worm-picking jobs in Ontario
Elgin County social services director Bob Bell warned in Tillsonburg that welfare recipients who refuse work with worm salesman Frank Cus could lose benefits. Cus, needing about 150 workers paid 16 dollars per 1,000 worms, says few recipients meet his needs. Bell has not cut off beneficiaries yet but vows action if noncompliant workers are found. In Edmonton, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Tevie Miller upheld press freedom to report trial proceedings amid an attempted murder case and a defence bid to limit publication of part of the accused's record.
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Elgin County social services
BOB BELL
Bell
Tillsonburg
Ont
FRANK CUS
county social services department
Cus
North America
Court of Queen’s Bench
TEVIE MILLER
Edmonton
Miller
JOHN HAUNHOLTER
Bennett sets May fifth BC election to seek mandate
Premier Bill Bennett announced a general election for May 5 as he seeks a strong mandate to guide British Columbia out of recession. The speech highlighted restraint and recovery measures, with campaigns to begin after the dissolution of the legislature. Local ridings in Kootenay and Columbia are seen as tight contests.
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VANCOUVER
Social Credit
British Columbia
Bill Bennett
Bennett
Henry Bell-Irving
Kootenay
Mathias
Terry Segarty
NDP
Doug Wright
Segarty
Cranbrook
Wright
Elk Valley
Tory
Roy Paul
Tories
Liberals
Columbia
Kimberley
Columbia Valley
Roy Duff
United Church
Socred
Jim Chabot
Chabot
Sandy Smaill
Socreds
Alex Fraser
Tom Waterland
Lethbridge bids for major astrophysical institute
City officials support a locally led bid to host the Canadian Long Baseline Array headquarters on the University of Lethbridge campus with eight 32 metre antennas across Canada and a ninth at Yellowknife. The project, worth about 70 million in 1982 dollars, would create 66 to 83 jobs and boost high tech development without taxpayer costs.
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University of Lethbridge
Dennis O’Connell
CLBA
Canada
Yellowknife
Plan to alter remembrance books has Legion in suit
The Royal Canadian Legion denounces federal plans to add bilingual rank designations to Books of Remembrance, calling them historical documents. Legion president Dave Copperauld urged dropping the bilingualism initiative as the organization seeks to protect the volumes. Also notes a separate item about Fort Macleod Treasury Branch staff winning a $120,000 dream home in a community arena raffle.
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Legion
BRAMPTON
Ont
Royal Canadian Legion
Canada
Dave Copperauld
Treasury Branch
Fort Macleod
Gary
Beirut executes first killer in 11 years at Sanaya Square
In Beirut, Ibrahim Tarraf, 36, was hanged in public at Sanaya Square, after being convicted of murdering engineer Marcel Bahout and his mother Mathilda Helou and dismembering their bodies. Security sealed the area as Tarraf cried for the president and was led to the gallows. The execution marks Lebanon's return to capital punishment under President Amin Gemayel following decades of civil conflict.
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BEIRUT
Lebanon
Sanaya Square
Ibrahim Tarraf
Amin Gemayel
Tewfir Itani
Suleiman Franjieh
Tories regain poll support in March Gallup survey
A March Gallup poll of 1,063 voters shows the Progressive Conservatives at 50 percent, Liberals 30, and NDP 17. This reverses February declines after Winnipeg leadership race news and marks the highest PC support since 1959. Undecided voters fell to 26 percent from 31.
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TORONTO
Progressive Conservatives
Diefenbaker
Gallup
Liberals
New Democrats
NDP
Winnipeg
John Diefenbaker
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