ATA Opposes Body Shop Plan
The Automotive Trades Association voice strong opposition to a proposed 93000 federal project to open an auto body shop employing prisoners and ex prisoners. The plan, influenced by Ken Leishman and others, faces advisory board oversight and a decision post the July 8 election.
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ATA
Automotive Trades Association
Ken Leishman
Stony Mountain Penitentiary
Loewen
Turpday
Corrections
Dick Sheppard
Leishman
Sheppard
Lie Detectors Enter Retail Field in Edmonton Stores
In Edmonton, Jolly Marts and 7 Eleven pilot voluntary lie detector tests for employees to uncover shortages and theft. Some staff fear the process though managers say tests are voluntary and may lead to undercover surveillance if guilt is indicated. Opinions vary from mistrust to acceptance among workers.
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Edmonton
Walter Thornton
Jolly Marts Ltd
Thornton
Long Beach
Calif
Valerie Avery
Jolly Mart
Brad Miller
Norma Peterson
Pill Poppers Beware in Ottawa Health Push
Donald Munro Conservative MP for Esquimalt Saanich urged federal health officials to permit a Chinese herbal pill to be sold in drug stores with prescriptions at current prices. Officials seized 160 dozen bottles from 10 city shops pending tests in Vancouver and Ottawa. The health department warned against use without medical supervision and noted the pills contain two prescription drugs that can cause a severe blood cell count drop.
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Donald Munro
Esquimalt-Saanich
Munro
Health Department
Ottawa
Vancouver
Unemployment Benefits in Canada Rise in April
Ottawa reports 211 million dollars paid in April unemployment benefits, five percent above March and five percent above April of last year. First four months total 900 million, up two percent from a year earlier. Average weekly payment 75.24 dollars, up from 68.56. Claimants end of April reach 960,000, two percent fewer than March, four percent above last year.
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Ottawa
Canada
Housing Starts Ahead Of 73 Level Despite Predictions
CMHC reports May urban starts at 20 008 up three percent from 19 458 last May. January May totals 71 616 just ahead of 71 216 last year. Single family starts rise nine percent. multiple activity falls six percent. Despite tight money, housing demand remains high with April completions at 2 65 thousand and earlier month declines easing. Leaders cite uncertain mortgage market and higher rates ahead. Johnson Morley of Costain Canada Ltd noted slowdown in residential activity due to funding.
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Srea Minary
CMHC
Eaicten
Bank of Canada
Junk Foods In High Schools Prompt Nutritious Switch
A Manitoba survey by four provincial groups finds 42 percent of 600 schools' vending machines offer non nutritious items like soft drinks candy and chocolate and only under two percent stock nutritious foods. Recommendations push phasing out junk foods from machines by fall 1976 discourage cafeterias from selling them fund alternate council incomes and encourage nutritious snack development from local industry.
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Manitoba
Manitoba Home Economics Association
Manitoba Womens’ Institutes
The
Consumer's Association of Canada
Manitoba Dietetic Association
Department of Education
B C Takes Look At Fruit Prospects
B C Tree Fruits Ltd reports a substantially reduced cherry crop and smaller plum and pear yields due to a cool wet spring. Peaches and apricots may rise slightly while cherries, apples, and pears face declines. prune shows the largest drop. California and Washington prices will influence outcomes. Kamloops notes bumper hay and lower prices, with strawberries and raspberries harvesting late due to delays.
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B.C
Tree Fruits Ltd
California
Washington
Kamloops
Bill Hubbard
Countess Tolstoy Celebrates 90th Birthday
Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, last surviving child of Leo Tolstoy, who wrote War and Peace, marked her 90th birthday on Monday. Among her well wishers were President Nixon, Alexander Salomatin of the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow, and exile author Alexander Solzhenitsyn who cabled from Zurich Switzerland.
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Alexandra Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy
Nixon
Alexander Salomatin
Tolstoy Museum
Moscow
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Zurich
Switzerland
Housefly Develops Resistance on Ontario Farms
Entomologist Prof. Russell Wright of Ontario Agricultural College says houseflies are developing resistance to chemical controls. He urges farmers to adopt total fly control emphasizing sanitation and timing, removing manure and damp bedding, and applying chemicals early and periodically for ongoing suppression.
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Russell Wright
Department of Environmental Biology
Ontario Agricultural College
Arsenic The Cause at Port Credit refinery
Police said seven Texaco Canada refinery workers in Port Credit fell ill from arsenic poisoning in tea this spring. Six workers on April 1 and a seventh on May 29 drank poisoned tea, with investigators seeking a mentally deranged suspect after initially blaming a gas leak. Tea bags reportedly absorbed most of the poison. Eighty percent of Canada’s farmland lies in Western regions.
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Mississauga
Uni
Port Credit
Texaco Canada Ltd
Gerard Stuen
Lew Lawson
Peel
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Central Mortgage, and Housing Corp
H. Keith Morley
Toronto
Richard Costain’ Canada Ltd
Portage la Prairie
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Phnom Penh
Cot
Victoria
West
Western
Austin Credit Union
Austin, Magregor and
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Austin
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Marph
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