City to Let Teachers Go Amid Enrollment Drop
Alberta Teachers Association and the city public school board agreed to nonrenew 20 probationary teachers due to declining enrolment from 5870 in June 1981 to 5712 in September. Officials hope to rehire them if conditions improve, with May 31 as the informing deadline.
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Alberta Teachers’ Association
Ken Sauer
Eugene Sauer
ATA
Medicine Hat
Sauer
National Energy
U.S
Alberta
Sauler
Riverside School
Calgary
Haig Presses Argentine Talks Over Falklands Crisis
Thousands fill a Buenos Aires plaza as Argentina seizes the Falklands, while U S Secretary Haig seeks historical cooperation to avert war. He warns Argentina may need to withdraw to reach a settlement with Britain as Britain shelves a naval blockade amid mounting tensions.
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Buenos Aires
Falkland Islands
Britain
U.S
Alexander Haig
Haig
United States
Argentina
South Atlantic Islands
Falklands
Leopoldo Galtieri
Galtieri
England
London
Argentine Soccer Association
Nicanor Costa Mendez
Margaret Thatcher
UAW approves GM contract saving $2.5 billion
UAW President Douglas Fraser announces General Motors autoworkers ratified a new contract in the closest vote yet, projecting a $2.5 billion savings over the next 30 months. The report notes weather and other briefs on pages 7 and 11.
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UAW
Douglas Fraser Friday
General Motors Corp
U.S
WCC Eyes Tory MPs to bolster provincial push
Western Canada Concept officials press federal Conservatives to switch allegiance as Gordon Taylor and Dr. Lorne Greenaway acknowledge being approached to run for the WCC in British Columbia and Alberta. Party leaders deny coordinated recruitment while promising to build credibility and defeat the Tories in future races.
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Ottawa
Gordon Taylor
Alberta
Bow River
Lorne Greenaway
Cariboo-Chilcotin
British Columbia
WCC
Taylor
Greenaway
B.C
Allan Maggard
Maygard
Tory
Gordon Kesler
Fire damages Y M YWCA building. arson suspected
Police say arson is suspected after a Friday morning blaze destroyed the inner offices of the YM-YWCA at 150 Ash Ave SE. Firefighters fought the 1½ hour fire with no serious injuries and investigators noted a break in through an east window and damage across the coffee room area.
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Ym-Ywca
Ash Ave. S.E
Pat Bennett
City Fire Department
Grant Pisko
U. City Police
Larry Brink
Roy Funk
Ash Avenue
Crestwood Pool
Brink
Grain freight costs overestimated study
A Travacon Research Ltd analysis for the Prairie wheat pools asserts Crowsnest Pass rail costs were overstated by more than 200 million dollars. It challenges the Snavely inquiry figures of 1980 losses at 670.7 million, proposing 467.9 million, and questions subsidies treated as railway expenses.
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Winnipeg
Travacon Research Ltd
Snavely Inquiry Commission
Carl Snavely
Washington, D. C
The
Wheat Pools
Travacon
Turkish diplomat wounded in Ottawa assassination attempt
Kemalettin Kani Gungor remained in serious but stable condition in hospital in Ottawa after an assassination attempt. Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia claimed responsibility from Beirut saying a commando completed the mission and returned to base safe and sound, warning Canadian authorities against actions against Armenians.
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Ottawa
Kemalettin Kani Gungor
Armenian Secret Army For the Liberation of Armenia
Beirut
Associated Press
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Graham Clark
Medicine Hat Ymca
Fred Westerson
Ron Bell
Robin Schlaht
Allands
Manitoba
Ken Kurtz
Lethbridge
Allan Fotheringham
Andrew Snaddon
Ann Landers
Bill Sass
Charles Lynch
Ee City News
John Walker
Tories
Canada
Lani Krantz
Frank Webber
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