Greyhound Workers Set Western Canada Strike For Tonight
Western Canada Greyhound depots halt long distance ticket sales as about 1400 Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada employees from ATU Local 1374 prepare to walk out at midnight. It marks the first strike since 1947 bargaining victory. Bruce Tyson notes passenger protection while negotiations continue.
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Calgary
Greyhound
Canada
Greyhound Bus Lines of Canada
Amalgamated Transit Union
Bruce Tyson
Greyhound Canada
Edmonton
Toronto
Greyhound Bus Lines
Tyson
Vancouver
Toronto-Windsor-Detroit
Mich
Toronto-Buffalo
N.Y
Winnipeg-Fargo
N.C
Vancouver-Seattle
Wash
Don Crabbe
Bill Palesch
Palesch
Bob Saarinen
Alberta faces poorest year in a decade in 1981
Bank of Montreal forecasts Alberta's real GDP to grow 3-4 percent in 1981, below the national pace due to the energy dispute and reduced oil production. The bank blames Ottawa's energy program for a sharp drop in investment growth in oil and gas, with U.S. demand waning for Alberta gas.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bank of Montreal
Business Review
Don Peacock
Calgary
U.S
Ottawa
National Energy Program
Greyhound drivers plan walkout pending talks
Striking bus drivers in Medicine Hat may leave routes incomplete with the last bus at 9 45 p m risking layoffs at the terminal if talks fail. The planned action follows a day of potential disruptions on page 3.
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Greyhound
Medicine Hat
Conservatives Reject Provincial Opt Out Of Charter Rights
Prime Minister Clark's Conservatives reverse a long standing policy saying no province should opt out of a charter once seven provinces representing 50 percent of the population endorse it. If July 1 1983 passes without agreement the project dies. The party also seeks to strengthen the charter and abolish the Senate veto with a 180 day delay option.
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Ottawa
Joe Clark
Trudeau
New Democratic Party
Clark
Canada
NDP
Senate
Riots Rock English Seaside Resorts and London Fairs
White teen vandals rioted at seven English seaside resorts while black West Indian youths ran wild at three London Easter fairs. More than 1,600 black youths were involved in London, with 50 arrests and 17 officers injured overall.
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London
Shore
Southend
Brighton
Margate
Great Yarmouth
Scarborough
Weston-super- Mare
Bournemouth
Finsbury Park
Ealing Common
Wanstead
Scotland Yard
James Dickinson
Pat Carson
Brixton
South London
Lenin offers unprecedented peace deal at Versailles
American historian Eugene Gonda contends Lenin proposed to cede four fifths of Russia in return for Allied recognition and aid in 1919. Wilson rejected the bid, fearing a Bolshevik secret plan, thus missing a chance to halt worldwide red revolution and foreign intervention.
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Paris
Vladimir Lenin
U.S
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene Gonda
Kremlin
Lenin
Baltic
Archangel
Byelorussia
Ukraine
Crimea
Caucasus
Ural Mountains
Siberia
Wilson
Russia
Germany
Brest-Litovsk
Gonda
Maxim Litvinov
William Bullitt
Moscow
Bullitt
Soviet Union
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Grain Transportation Authority
Frank Webber
RCMP
Phil Crosby-Jones
America
el Salvador
Catholic Church
Halifax City
U.S. Navy
Wayne Who
Wayne Graham
Houston
Texas
Medicine Hat Blue Jays
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Charles Lynch City News
Berm
Jim Coleman
U.K
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