Relief expected as meat prices ease in week or so
Ottawa Trade Minister Alastair Gillespie says relief from high meat prices should reach consumers in about a week as packing industry signals an easing of prices. He notes recent U.S. price freezes and Canadian export controls influence the market while aiming to protect supply.
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Ottawa
Alastair Gillespie
Gillespie
Canadian Federation of Agriculture
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association
Hog Producers
Trudeau
United States
Canada
U.S
Rotating rail strikes halt Alberta traffic
About 8,000 non operating railway workers in British Columbia Alberta the Northwest Territories and the Yukon began a 24hour walkout while 18,000 Quebec non ops ended a 48hour strike. The dispute involves 56,000 non operating workers across 11 railways with wage talks stalled.
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Montreal
British Columbia
Alberta
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Quebec
Western
Canada
Ontario
Thunder Bay
Atlantic
Alan B. Gold
Vancouver Island ferry workers vote to strike amid transport halt
About 2,000 non licensed B C government ferry workers vote to strike effective immediately affecting service to Vancouver Island. Rotating 24 hour railway walkouts added to groundings as airlines report congestion and long lines at Nanaimo and Victoria ferry terminals with delays and travel uncertainty.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
B.C
Canadian Pacific
Victoria
Nanaimo
Langdale
Bob Strachan
Canadian skipper injured resisting French sailors
David McTaggart, skipper of the Greenpeace III, was injured after resisting a French naval tow near Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific. He is reported in good condition in a French military hospital in Papeete with an eye injury.
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Ottawa (Cp
David McTaggart
Greenpeace III
South Pacific
External Affairs Department
McTaggart
Papeete
Tahiti
Vancouver
Greenpeace
CMHC Raises Rates on Mortgage Loans Nationwide
CMHC announced a rate hike on direct National Housing Act mortgages to 9.4 percent from 8.34 percent and for low income rental loans to 8 percent from 7.54 percent. The move follows a Bank of Canada rate rise and aims to align CMHC lending with market rates. CMHC committed about 5.4 billion dollars in housing loans last year, mostly to low and moderate income Canadians.
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Ottawa
Central Mortgage and Housing Corp
William Teron
CMHC
Bank of Canada
Canada
National Housing Act
Teron
NHA
Drunk Libyan hijacker faces charges in Israel
Mahmoud Toumi a 37 year old Libyan merchant who lived in Lebanon seized a Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 125 aboard and forced a landing in Tel Aviv. Magistrate Eliezer Goldberg ordered 15 days detention as police pursue hijacking and endangering lives charges.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Eliezer Goldberg
Mahmoud Toumi
Toumi
Libya
Golda Meir
Lebanon
Middle East Airlines
Cairo
David Elazar
Benghazi
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Richard Smith
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Medicine Hat
Ted Anhorn
Anhorn
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Swartz Bay
B.C. Ferries
Mainland
Air Canada
Pacific Western Airlines
CP Air
B.C. Capital
Paris
France
Mr. McTaggart
Department
Beirut
Kawas
Moshe Dayan
Chuong Thien
Mekong Delta
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