Alberta to study charges of punitive justice system
Alberta will study charges by University of Alberta sociologist Dr. Victor Matthews that the province has one of North America’s most punitive justice systems. Attorney General Merv Leitch urged thorough review and cautioned about some cost data, while Matthews said judges are behind times and most jailed serve short terms.
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Edmonton
Alberta
North America
Merv Leitch
Victor Matthews
University of Alberta
Matthews
Times
Canada
Flexibility for judges stressed at Alberta meeting
Hon. Otto Lang outlined upcoming Criminal Code amendments giving judges discretion to issue absolute or conditional discharges in guilty pleas and urged uniform sentencing standards. He proposed intermittent 90 day sentences and exceptions allowing livelihood driving, plus ongoing penal reforms with public briefs from groups like the John Howard Society.
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Otto Lang
Alberta John Howard Society
Elks Club
Lang
John Howard Society
Alberta minister urges farmers to back new marketing plan
Dr Hugh Horner provincial agriculture minister addresses about 300 at the Chamber of Commerce Farmer-Rancher Night urging support for a restructured department focused on three areas production, family farm and a new marketing branch. He warns rural Alberta faces a crisis and pushes export efforts in collaboration with Ottawa.
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Hugh Harrier
Chamber of Commerce
Calgary
Chamber
Phil LeSauvage
Hugh Horner
Horner
Alberta
Department of Trade and Commerce
Medicine Hat
Woodrow Lloyd Dies in Korea at 58
Regina report confirms former Saskatchewan premier Woodrow S. Lloyd died in a Seoul hospital while serving with the United Nations development program. He was 58 and had accepted the UN posting last year. Details were not immediately available.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Woodrow S. Lloyd
Korea
United Nations Development Program
Lloyd
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Seoul
United Nations
Bombs Hit Europa Hotel in Belfast Violence Surges
A truck bomb damaged Belfast's Europa Hotel and the nearby grand opera house as violence rose in Northern Ireland. Police blamed the Irish Republican Army for the blasts while internment detainees were released, drawing mixed reactions from political groups and citizens.
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Ap-Reuter Belfast
Belfast
Europa Hotel
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Republic of Ireland
Ulster
Londonderry
IRA
Provisional
Britain
William Whitelaw
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association
Social and Democratic Labor Party
Rory O’brady
Sinn Fein
Dublin
Lang ministers on feed grain export growth for Canada
Federal minister Otto Lang told about 20 Medicine Hat Uniform farmers that keeping feed grain and oilseed supplies for export is the year s major challenge. He outlined a goal to export 800 million bushels of grain and 500 million of wheat, with optimism to surpass 900 million and possibly reach a billion bushels. He urged acreage shifts to barley and called for an income stabilization plan amid market fluctuations.
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Medicine Hat
Otto Lang
Uniform
Lang
Canada
Hijacker on the Lam After $500000 Ransom Demands
A young hijacker forced a diversion on a United Air Lines 727 from Newark to Los Angeles, landed near San Francisco, and fled with $500,000 and four parachutes after a nine hour western U S odyssey. Police scoured Provo Utah and Utah Lake for the armed fugitive as the incident marked the seventh piracy case in five months.
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Utah
United Air Lines
United States
Utah Lake
Rocky Mountains
Denver
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Dick McLennan
CBS
Jim Kilpatrick
Sandy Wilkinson
Newark
N.J
San Francisco International Airport
California
Joseph Gonzales
William R. Coggin
Banff and Jasper Seen as Autonomous Towns
A report tabled in the Alberta legislature says Banff and Jasper could operate as autonomous towns without harming the parks. It endorses a petition by local school boards seeking town status and notes such incorporation would be voluntary for Albertans with safeguards in place.
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Edmonton
Alberta
National Park
Banff and
Jasper
Municipal Affairs Department
Peter Lougheed
Farmers to plant more wheat in 1972 Ottawa
Canadian farmers plan 21.4 million acres of wheat in 1972, up 11 percent from 1971, per Statistics Canada. Spring durum wheat rises to 2.58 million acres, while oats and barley fall. rapeseed, flax, rye also drop with regional declines in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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Statistics Canada
Newfoundland
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Ontario
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