Inquest hears quick deaths in rail crew bus crash
Swift Current reporters heard that 22 CP Rail workers died in a May 28 crash near Swift Current as a car and a heated asphalt oil tanker collided with a CP Rail bus. Pathologists testified most victims died instantly or quickly from head or internal injuries or fractures, not smoke. The inquest resumes after a June adjournment with blood tests indicating no smoke inhalation.
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Swift Current
Sask
CP Rail
Newfoundland
AUPE Reaches Tentative Agreement in Liquor Board Talks
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees president John Booth said a tentative contract deal was reached with the provincial government after three weeks of strike by 186 liquor board warehouse workers who returned to work on July 28 amid essential services rules. Ratification vote planned later this week.
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Edmonton
Alberta Liquor Control Board
John Booth
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
The
Liquor Board
Brewery lockouts spread in Alberta dispute
Carling O'Keefe Brewery locked out 145 workers again, joining about 700 others across Alberta. Union leader Bill Flookes says the legality will be challenged before the Board of Industrial Relations as talks remain unsettled.
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Calgary
Carling O’keefe
Alberta
Bill Flookes
Carling Union
Board of Industrial Relations
Flookes
Carling
Bloods' boycott of Cardston may become permanent
Blood Indian tribe spokesman Dennis First Rider said the Cardston boycott could be permanent after a July blockade was lifted. He warned the measure may resume if talks with a joint tribe federal committee fail, while Calgary activists push for a probe into RCMP actions and the town defends police tactics amid a widening rift with whites and Indians.
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Cardston
Alta
Joe Scout
Alberta
John Munro
Calgary Committee Against
Graham Harle
RCMP
John Graham
Calgary
Graham
Bloods
Munro
Death toll rises as Hurricane Allen hits Caribbean and Jamaica
Hurricane Allen unleashed 160 km h winds and torrential rains along Jamaica as it passes Haiti and the Dominican Republic, killing at least five and raising Caribbean deaths to 21. The storm heads toward the Cayman Islands and western Cuba with Jamaica’s power grid severely disrupted.
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Jamaica
Allen
Haiti
Dominican Republic
Caribbean
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Port Antonio
Montego Bay
Sadat says talks unlikely unless Jerusalem is on table
Cairo reports Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Aly warned talks on Palestinian autonomy will not resume while Israel insists Jerusalem not be included. Begin government says Jerusalem may be discussed but not within autonomy talks as U.S. backed Camp David framework looms.
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Egypt
Israel
Jerusalem
Kamal Hassan Aly
Menachem Begin
Alexandria
Anwar Sadat
Holy City
Knesset
Foreign Ministry
Yoram Ben-Zeev
Occupied
Territories
Aly
West Bank
East Jerusalem
Middle East
Suspect arrested for depot bombing in Nice France
Marco Affatigato, 22, an alleged right wing Italian extremist, was arrested in Nice on suspicion of involvement in the Bologna railway station bombing that killed 76. He had been a fugitive since 1978 and was linked to prior extremist cases and a 1974 train bombing in Florence Bologna.
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Nice
France
Marco Affatigato
Bologna
Italy
Affatigato
Pisa
Mario Tuti
Tuti
Florence
Palermo
Sicily
Billy Carter Registration Sparks Senate Inquiry
A Senate subcommittee probes why Billy Carter avoided charges for 18 months by delaying foreign agent registration. He registered July 14 as a Libyan agent after White House urging, while Civiletti and others discuss enforcement and potential political influence amid Carter’s defense at a news conference.
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Cheryl Kastrukoff
Medicine Hat
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Bill Meyer
Chamber of Commerce
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