Canada imposes temporary meat export controls
Ottawa enacts export licence curbs on beef hogs and byproducts after a six hour cabinet session. Prime Minister Trudeau rejects wage and price controls, pledges no food shortages, while opposition leaders critique the plan and a federal provincial conference is set for next month to align policy.
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Clair Balfour
Financial Times News Services
Ottawa
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Trudeau
New Democratic Party
David Lewis
House
Gerald Baldwin
Baldwin
U.S
Alastair Gillespie
Industry, Trade and Commerce
Tories and NDP call for recall over food price crisis
Ottawa reports the NDP and Tories demand Parliament be recalled from summer recess to address spiralling grocery costs. David Lewis and Ged Baldwin clash over Liberal wage and price controls while outlining steps, including measures on pensions, social aid, and price monitoring, with a possible early election looming next week.
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Ottawa
NDP
David Lewis
Mr. Lewis
Conservative House
Ged Baldwin
Alberta
Jobless, jobs drop in July
Canada’s job growth slowed in July as government moves to curb inflation took effect. Unemployment fell to 5.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis, with 119,000 more employed to 9,229,000 but adjusted to a 90,000 drop. The July decrease follows June’s small rise and context of anti inflation measures.
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Ottawa
Canada
Statistics Canada
Trudeau
Crestwood to Get New Multi Purpose Arena
A bylaw for a Crestwood recreation centre was given first reading amid approval of a $634 310 project to build a 200 by 85 foot ice arena at Stampede Grounds. Capacity 400 possibly 1000, with offices for Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company financing $120 000.
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Crestwood
Stampede Grounds
Crestwood Recreation Centre
Arena Convention Centre
Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede Company
Rail mediator proposal spurs cautious talks in Montreal
CN and CP Rail with Associated Non-Operating Railway Unions meet federal mediator Judge Alan B. Gold to discuss his proposal described as meriting attention. If talks with both sides go well, a joint session could follow as Trudeau cites rail strikes lifting food prices in Canada. Newfoundland reports shortages while Montreal awaits meat shipments valued over $2 million from western Canada.
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Terry Flaherty
Montreal
CP Rail
Alan B. Gold
Gold
George Lach
Richard Smith
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Smith
Trudeau
Newfoundland
Atlantic Provinces
Quebec
End of U S bombing in Cambodia closes long air war
The United States will cease bombing Cambodia by midnight EDT, ending a 644 month air war that dumped about 7.4 million tons of explosives. The campaign involved 430 plus aircraft, with 16 air crews killed and 4 Americans missing. Pentagon cost estimates run into billions, while insurgents controlled most of Cambodia as North Vietnamese forces remained a threat in the region.
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Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
United States
Cambodia
Indochina
Vietnam
U.S
Pentagon
Hanoi
South Vietnam
Laos
Southeast Asia
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Morley
Richard Frank
Yellow Lake
Burdett
Colin Cooper
Tories
Robert Stanfield
Lewis
Price
New Democrats
Food Prices Review Board
Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Health and Welfare
Environment
Canadian Association of Consumers
Food Board
Herb Gray
Commons
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