Justice In North Gets Close Look
Delegates at a northern Manitoba conference on justice hear concerns about native people pleaing guilty to charges they may not understand. The Pas interpreters say rights awareness is low and fear drives guilty pleas. Judges note progress but urge deeper reform and better police training. An elderly delegate says natives fear reporting complaints.
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Manitoba
Guiboche
Pas
Ava Ule
Selkirk
William Martin
The
Piabea
Martin
RCMP
Regina
God
Heaven
Jesus Christ
Yad
Nat
Saskatchewan to pay welfare linked jobs in winter works
Premier Allan Blakeney announced Saskatchwan's 1973 74 winter works plan offering municipalities up to 60 percent of project costs and a $2 weekly bonus for each welfare referred hire. The program runs Oct 15 to May 31 1914 with $125 weekly per worker and up to 60 percent cost coverage plus a $25 weekly welfare referred bonus.
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Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Blakeney
Ottawa
Lang Defends Grains Policy in Brandon Tour
Justice minister Otto Lang faced polite skepticism during a Brandon stop as he defended a new feed grains policy. About 150 seats were empty at Keystone Centre while Lang argued the Agriculture Products Board would not rival the Wheat Board, and would buy feed grain to store rather than sell, addressing fears of lower prairie prices and cheaper eastern feed.
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Justice
Otto Lang
Brandon
Canadian Wheat Board
Keystone Centre
Lang
Montreal
Toronto
The
Wheat Board
Agriculture Board
Mackenzie Highway Delays Hit Northern Construction
Mackenzie Highway work stalls as Hire North cannot find supervisors or heavy equipment operators in the north or south. Project officials blame the firing of a foreman at the training camp and pending environmental permits for delaying start dates.
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Mackenzie Highway
North
Rudy Steiner
Eldon Schorn
Stu Demelt
Pee-wee Dictatorship Debate in Rural Manitoba
Winnipeg journalist Heather Robertson discussed a two year study of five rural Manitoba communities at a seminar on multiculturalism. The study examined how small towns age and local power dynamics evolve under a so called peewee dictatorship and related social changes.
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Heather Robertson
Winnipeg
Robertson
Manitoba
The
Institute For Saskatchewan Studies
Federal approves two VD education films for youths ages 10 to 14
The health department approves two preventive films VD Kids Get It Too and More Common than Measles and Mumps to address sexually transmitted diseases among preteens. A health educator notes careful planning is needed to be tasteful yet informative.
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Michael Palko
Health Department
Store Pilfering and Major Concerted Security Moves
Executives of Loblaw and other chains alarmed by rising pilferage outline new security measures including better price label adhesives enhanced surveillance and prosecutions of shoplifters. Toronto and U S theft trends show meat lobster cigarettes and health items targeted while staff collusion and bad cheques also loom. Companies move to tighten receiving controls including lie detector tests for clerks and moving high-risk items to secure counters.
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G. B. Pahnos
Loblaw Groceterias Co. Ltd
Toronto
Loblaw
United States
Pahnos
Promits
Louis Sherman
Steinberg’s Ltd
Miracle Food Marts
Milk Price Dropped in Winnipeg Under Subsidy Deal
Manitoba Milk Control Board cut the maximum price of a quart of milk in Winnipeg to 33 cents effective Oct 1. Chair Dr Baldur H Kristjanson said the reduction arises from an Ottawa subsidy of five cents per quart, with producers gaining 1.75 cents and processors 2.5 cents per quart, the consumer receiving the remaining three cents.
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Manitoba
Milk Control Board
Winnipeg
Baldur H. Kristjanson
Kristjanson
Ottawa
Consusner
Cheap Food Policies Denounced by Farm Group
The Canadian Generation of Agriculture, the nation’s largest farm lobby, urges agriculture ministers to end cheap food policies at the federal provincial talks. It warns that long-standing problems of capital and labor returns in agriculture may be closing as policies favoring low farm prices are challenged. The federation calls for measures to secure adequate returns, boost investment and manpower, and prioritize farm land and environmental concerns over urban aims.
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Federation
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Macgregor Herald
macGregor
Alien McGrégor
Audit Bureau OF Circulation
Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association
Manitoba Weekly Newspaper Association
Steiner
Stuart Hodgson
Demelt
Territorial
Indian Brotherhood of
North-West Territories
Sir
Palko
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein
Central Park
Sherman
George Thomas
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. of Canada Ltd
Trimble’s
Vincere
Portage LA Prairie, Manitoba
McLaren
Rupert
Rueline
Denwal
Orator’s Corner
Hyde Park
London
Jim Wet
Ria
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