Lottery About Turn Principle Bending in Manitoba Cabinet
Conservative backbenchers accuse NDP cabinet members of bending principles to push a provincial lottery bill. Ed McGill cites past opposition from Labor and Resources ministers and Attorney General Mackling while urging full debate before passage. The bill aims to restore a Centennial lottery similar to 1970 funding.
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NDP
Manitoba
Ed McGill
Brandon West
Labor
A. R. Piley
Sidney Green
A. H. Mackling
McGill
Green
Welfare Loophole Plugged in Manitoba
The NDP cabinet approved an order in council to adjust welfare rules by considering parental support when a single person applies. Municipal bylaws must be amended first. The change follows lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18, which allowed young adults living with parents to claim welfare despite parental income.
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NDP
Manitoba
Social Development
Rene Toupin
Order-In-Council
Altona Plant Expands Refinery and Capacity
Altona Co Op Vegetapie plan to expand its extraction and refinery facilities with a 5 million dollar program. Shareholders heard the goal to double refinery production to 100000 pounds of oil daily and to boost processing capacity from 250 to 300 tons per day. General manager John Enns said new equipment will enable processing of locally grown sunflower and rapeseed.
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Co-Op Vegetapie Uus Laa
Altona
John Enns
Avy Tona
Alberta bills target clean up and auto insurance
In Edmonton the Legislature introduced three pollution bills to curb litter on highways and rivers, plus the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts to empower government action. An amendment to the Lord's Day Act would allow wrestling on Sundays. A Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Act amendment would require compulsory auto insurance from April 1, 1972, phasing out the green card.
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Alberta
Edmonton
Gordon Taylor
Taylor
U S Owned Mercantile Bank to Offer Canadian Shares
Mercantile Bank of Canada plans to issue shares to Canadians later this year under a program to sell 75 percent of the bank to Canadian interests within 10 years. P H Austin in Winnipeg said the plan aims at eventual Canadianization while expanding authorized capital to 40 million by 1980.
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Mercantile Bank of Canada
P. H. Austin
Winnipeg
Canada
Austin
First National City Bank of New York
Transportaion
Mercantile
Duteh
Reston
New York Bank
Bank of British Columbia
Farmers Fed Up With Strikes Warns Unions
Lang tells rail union delegates that western farmers resent wage settlements and use of strikes in bargaining. Association chairman McGregor warns of a rift if this propaganda continues, while Mackay.sey notes a 63 year first strike threat by locomotive engineers. Transport Minister Jamieson absent. Public concern over pollution and environment noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Lang
Wheat Board
Canadian Railway Labor Association
Lang
William McGregor
McGregor
Bryce Mackasey
Trendnot downward says Evans Manitoba investment view
Industry minister Leonard Evans told the Manitoba Legislature that federal forecasts showing a four percent drop in new capital expenditures for 1971 do not show a downturn in the provincial economy. He noted the figures reflect investment intentions and are subject to change, citing prior revisions in the Dominion Bureau of Statistics and Industry Canada survey.
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Austin
Mercantile
Canada
Leonard Evans
Manitoba
Evans
Sidney Spivak
Donald Craik
Riel
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Federal Department of Industry, Trade and Commerce
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Newfoundland
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Zenith
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