City to Negotiate ECS Transfer to School Board
Medicine Hat moves to shift control of city run Early Childhood Services to the Public School Board. Pete Simpson chairs a six person negotiating team including ECS coordinating committee members and ECS staff representative Jim Hirsch. The aim is to reach a decision by June if possible.
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Aid
Pete Simpson
Simpson
ECS
Ted Grimm
Jim Hirsch
Maria Roberts
Community Services Committee
Roberts
ECS Coordinating Committee
Alberta
Argentina May Seek Help From OAS Over Falkland Crisis
Argentina’s Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendes said Buenos Aires may request military aid from OAS members including the United States under the 1947 Inter-American Regional Assistance Treaty. He spoke at OAS headquarters urging unity while Britain insisted on sovereignty. a possible conference and full consultation across hemisphere were hinted.
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Argentina
Organization of American States
U.S
Falkland Islands
OAS
Nicanor Costa Mendes
Mendes
Christopher Crabbie
Margaret Thatcher
Falklands
Britain
Canada
Reagan
PQ Loses Byelections in Quebec Ridings
In two Quebec byelections Liberal candidates won in St Laurent and Louis Hebert. Premier Rene Levesque called the losses a thermometer and noted the PQ’s long streak of defeats. Rejean Doyon won Louis Hebert over PQ’s Jean Keable amid tax discontent cited by Liberal leader Claude Ryan.
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Daniel Drolet
Quebec
Parti Quebecois
Rene Levesque
Claude Forget
Montreal
St. Laurent
Claude Morin
National Assembly
Quebec City
Louis-Hebert
Rejean
Doyon
Jean Keable
Liberal Party
Claude Ryan
Newfoundland Vote Tests Peckford Policy Gamble
Newfoundlanders vote today as Premier Brian Peckford seeks a mandate to press Ottawa over offshore oil and gas. Polls suggest Conservatives will win most seats, while Liberals hammer a 10 point fishery program and promise a 90 day offshore dispute referendum.
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ST. John's
Brian Peckford
Ottawa
Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland
Peckford
Liberal Party
Medicine Hat council backs gas tax protest petition
City council endorsed a 12 689 signature petition opposing the federal natural gas excise tax. They will send telegrams and copies to Prime Minister Trudeau Energy Minister Lalonde Sen Olson Finance Minister MacEachen Premier Lougheed Medicine Hat MP Bert Hargrave and the committee level in Ottawa. Petition organizers praised the effort while Alderman Yuill called the tax blackmail and warned against illegal action.
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The
News
Claudette Blahut
Trudeau
Marc Lalonde
Bud Olson
Allan MacEachen
Lougheed
Commons
Ald
Ken Sauer
Utilities Committee
Medicine Hat
Bert Hargrave
House of Commons
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Ottawa
Yuill
Sauer
Frank O’connell
O’connell
Blahut
Alpine Meadows operator found alive after deadly avalanches
Anna Maria Conrad, 22, a ski lift operator at Alpine Meadows Resort near Tahoe City, Calif., survived five days buried in a snow chamber after avalanches struck the resort. She was found alive with frostbite, a black eye, and bruises.
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Anna Maria Conrad
Alpine Meadows
Tahoe City
Calif
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