Lethbridge Proposes City bylaw to Halt Power Equalization Costs
Lethbridge council considers drafting a bylaw to bill the province for roughly 25,000 a month in power equalization costs tied to the Energy Marketing Agency. The move aims to pressure changes to a scheme critics say raises southern Alberta rates while shielding northern areas.
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Edmonton
Lethbridge
Alberta Electric Energy Act
David Smith
Alberta Electric Energy Marketing Agency
Beele
Bob Bogle
Doug Hudson
TransAlta
David Carpenter
Ed Martin
City of
Alberta
Unemployment rate revised to include part-time workers
Statistics Canada reports a new formula that raises the July unemployment rate to 13.5 percent if part-timers seeking full-time work are counted. The seasonally adjusted rate remains 12 percent, and the method excludes discouraged workers who stopped job hunting.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Unem
Passenger signals way for air safety
Survivor of a fatal Air Canada jetliner fire urged smoke detectors in aircraft washrooms and redesigned exits to speed evacuations. Graham Wright of Toronto also called for better cabin crew emergency training and heightened public awareness during air emergencies at a U S N T S B hearing near Cincinnati after the Dallas bound DC-9 fire.
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Juliet O’neill
Cincinnati
Air Canada
Graham Wright
Toronto
Wright
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board
Fort Mitchell
Dallas
Tex
Harry Moseley
French forces edge into eastern Chad amid Libyan threat
President Habre rejects Khadafy conditions while France sends paratroopers to Biltine and Arada to bolster defenses. Western sources estimate 2,500 Libyan troops near Faya-Largeau as Khadafy pours in Soviet arms. The U.S. backs Chad with 25 million in military aid as talks with Goukouni falter.
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3Rd Marine Regiment
Chateau Bougon
Nantes
France
Chad
Hie
Hissen Habre
N'Djamena
Hissené Habre
Goukouni Oueddei
Ee Habre
Muammar Khadafy
Khadafy
Biltine
Arada
Oum Chalouba
Abeche
N’djamena
French Defence Ministry
Salal
Habre
Faya-Largeau
Goukouni
United States
Libya
Reagan
Washington
France urges Barbie trial after U S shielded Nazi fugitive
France condemned U S intelligence for shielding Klaus Barbie and whisking him to Bolivia but welcomed his arrest in Lyon. State Department regrets concealment actions while French officials prepare a case expected to take at least a year. Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, faces justice in France with no capital punishment in force.
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Paris
France
U.S
Klaus Barbie
Bolivia
Max Gallo
U.S. Justice Department
U.S. Army
Barbie
Sed
Lyon
Gestapo
Jacques Verges
Lougheed Projects Asia Swing to Boost Alberta Exports
Premier Peter Lougheed departs for a month in Asia aiming to attract more foreign investment and expand Alberta exports. He will meet government and business leaders in Heilongjiang China and Japan to push coal canola petrochemicals and LNG ventures while evaluating Dome Petroleum linked LNG plans and oil sands potential.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Alberta
Japan
Hong Kong
China
Wayne Clifford
International
Department of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Heilongjiang
Clifford
Lougheed
Ministry of International Trade and Industry
Dome Petroleum Ltd
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