Cabinet Blocks PWA Staff Transfer Amid Transit Control Debate
The federal cabinet blocked transferring Pacific Western Airlines head office staff from Vancouver to Calgary to prevent fragmentation of interprovincial air services. Senator Ray Perrault warned other provinces could follow Alberta’s example, while Alberta’s 99.5 percent shareholding sparked constitutional questions about federal versus provincial authority. Transport hearings may proceed if the court upholds federal jurisdiction.
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Vancouver
Pacific Western Airlines
Calgary
Canada
Ray Perrault
Senate
Ottawa
Alberta
PWA
Quebec
Quebecair
New Brunswick
Eastern Provincial Airways
Ontario
CP Air
Supreme Court of Canada
Canadian Transport Commission
Perrault
Transport Commission
B.C
Air Canada
Inter
D. R. Jacox
Murder probe expands in Alberta after teen found dead
RCMP in Edmonton appeal for public help after Marie Goudreau 17 was found naked in a ditch near Devon southwest of the city. Investigators seek clues about clothing missing from the scene and possible sexual assault tests are pending autopsy results. The teen disappeared after leaving Beaumont with a friend Monday night and her car was found running near Ellerslie.
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Edmonton
RCMP
Marie Goudreau
Devon
Here
Ellerslie
Bob Preston
Preston
Beaumont
Alta
Largest credit deal in Canadian fertilizer history
A $172 million credit arrangement between Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce funds a $230.2 million three-plant complex for CFL at Brier Industrial Park. Construction underway on two plants, final phase to finish by early 1978. Output planned 1.335 million tons annual ammonia and urea combined with 225 jobs post completion.
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Scott Clark
the News
Medicine Hat
Bank of Montreal
Imperial Bank of Commerce Today
Canadian Fertilizers Ltd
Brier
Ross R. Curtis
CFL
Frank Duncanson
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
United States
Canada
Western Cooperative Fertilizers Ltd
Calgary
Co-operative Federee de Quebec
United Cooperative of Ontario
CF Industries
Long Grove
Canadian
Kellogg Ltd
Foster Wheeler International Corporation
St. Catharines
Ont
Globe says Arab boycott impact overstated by lobbyists
The Globe and Mail reports a cabinet memo suggests pro Israel lobbyists exaggerated the boycott on Canadian firms. It says seven contracts included boycott clauses, with no losses due to refusals, and warns unilateral action could risk export markets and oil, while officials deny a secret document and decline comment.
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Toronto
The
Globe and Mail
Israel
Allan MacEachen
Canada
Ottawa
MacEachen
Glen Shortliffe
Red Cross convoy withdraws from Tal Zaatar amid panics
A Red Cross rescue convoy pulled out of the Tal Zaatar camp after hundreds of panicked Palestinians surged the vehicles. One driver was lightly wounded. 28 wounded were evacuated from the first convoy, with uncertainty about the second. Reuters witnesses reported firing by Christian militiamen and ongoing fighting nearby as ceasefire conditions remained fragile amid Arab League peacekeeping talks.
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Beirut
Red Cross
Tal Zaatar
Undergound
Nabaa
Arab League
Flu vaccine liability meets House opposition in commerce panel
The commerce committee balked at a Ford plan to have the U.S. government assume liability for deaths or injuries from a nationwide swine flu vaccination program. The bill would make the government defendant while allowing suit against vaccine makers for negligence. Senator Kennedy pushes a parallel Senate bill.
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Washington
Reuter
U.S
House of Representatives Commerce Committee
Ford Administration
Congress
Henry Waxman
Dem. Calif
Waxman
Senate
Edward Kennedy
Dem. Mass
Sky Shops officials charged in Montreal Sky Stops affair
NHL president Clarence Campbell and Montreal businessman Louis Lapointe face Montreal court on August 11 for allegedly illegally providing 95 000 in benefits to Senator Louis Giguere to secure a duty free shop lease extension at Dorval airport for Sky Shops Export Ltd. Proceedings also involve Gordon Brown and James Lavery. preliminary hearings set in Ottawa and Montreal with potential five year penalties.
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Montreal (Cp
Clarence Campbell
National Hockey League
Montreal
Louis Lapointe
Gordon Brown
Freeport
Bahamas
Sky Stops
Louis Giguere
Dorval
Sky Shops Export Ltd
Giguere
James Lavery
Toronto
Ottawa
Sky Shops
Campbell
Lapointe
Brown
Lavery
Transport Department
Soweto Riots Erupt As Police Fire On Demonstrators
Police opened fire on Soweto demonstrators amid three days of racial rioting in the black township eight miles south of Johannesburg. Students attacked buses and buildings while demanding the release of arrested leaders. Police reported seven killed in two days and warned of increasing militancy as clashes continued.
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Johannesburg
Soweto
Editorial staff walkouts hit CP bureaus coast to coast
The Canadian Press again faced temporary editorial stoppages in Halifax and Montreal with reporters in Saint John Saint John Newfoundland St Johns Newfoundland Victoria British Columbia and other bureaus. The walkouts follow failed contract talks between the Canadian Wire Services Guild and CP along with Broadcast News.
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Toronto
National Newsgathering Co-Operative
Halifax
Montreal
Saint John
N.B
St. John’s
Victoria
B.C
Canadian Wire Services Guild
Guild
Broadcast News
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Horner
Air Transport Committee
Ment
British Columbia
Tripoli
Lebanon
Ceeeee
TRS Atlanta
Centre For Disease Control
David Sencer
CDC
American Legion
Philadelphia
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