Deficit not ours says Getty blasting sales tax plan
Alberta Premier Don Getty criticized Ottawa over a proposed nine per cent national sales tax to start in 1991. He argued premiers are not responsible for the federal deficit and joined other leaders arriving for the premiers meeting in Quebec City. A poll shows 45 percent oppose the GST, while 25 percent favor higher personal income taxes and 23 percent support the tax.
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Getty
Quebec
Alberta
Don Getty
Ottawa
Quebec City
Saskatchewan
Grant Devine
Mier
Devine
Gallup
London Thames collision of Marchioness and Bowbelle leaves many dead
Salvage crews searched the River Thames for more bodies after a late night collision between a party boat the Marchioness and the dredger Bowbelle. Police confirmed 27 dead with 38 unaccounted for as divers resumed under Southwark Bridge.
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London
Thames
Southwark Bridge
Antonio Vasconcellos
The
Independent
Nicholas Hastings
Scotland Yard
Light crude imports to rise then fall, study says
The Canadian Energy Research Institute projects Canada will import 75 percent of light crude by 2000 but drop to 15 percent by 2008 as projects such as Hibernia and OSLO come online. It urges expanding western sedimentary basin development and Beaufort Sea oil while supporting smaller processing facilities.
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Calgary
Canada
Canadian Energy Research Institute
Tony Reinsch
Ottawa
Western Sedimentary Basin
Beaufort Sea
United States
Venezuela
North Sea
Hibernia
Lloydminister, Sask
Heavy Oil Upgrader
Northern Alberta
Oslo
Solidarity Chief Demands Cooperation in Poland's Future
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa urged the Marxist Polish United Workers' Party to cooperate in forming a government or face no political future. He warned the party to act decisively, while President Jaruzelski pressed for a larger role for opposition backing in any new administration.
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Gdansk
Poland
Reuter
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Polish United Workers’ Party
Jo Walesa
Independent Trade Union Movement
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Jaruzelski
Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Defence
Alberta tax revolt debate swirls as GST looms
Economists in Edmonton say Alberta residents are not more affected by the federal sales tax than others, though political leaders battle over the issue. Premier Don Getty and Treasurer Dick Johnston oppose the plan while MPs split with party lines and Preston Manning calls for an Alberta revolt. Alberta’s lack of provincial sales tax is noted alongside low income tax, funded by resource revenues.
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Edmonton
Allan Tupper
University of Alberta
Alberta
Dick Johnston
Don Getty
Tion
Brian Mulroney
Red Deer
David Kilgour
Doug Fee
Alex Kindy
Preston Manning
Reform Party
House of Commons
Hage
Colombia raids detain 9 896 in crackdown on drug underworld
In nationwide raids 298 operations across Colombia detained 9 896 people and seized 330 weapons 1 023 vehicles and four tonnes of cocaine paste. Raids targeted estates linked to Pablo Escobar amid aftershocks from the assassination of Senator Luis Carlos Galan.
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Bogota
Colombia
Luis Carlos Galan
Liberal Party
Galan
Defence Ministry
Medellin
Pablo Escobar
Track officials blame in Ben Johnson steroid scandal
Ontario Track and Field Association chair Rolf Lund says athletes coaches and officials share responsibility for Canada's humiliation in the Ben Johnson steroid affair. He says he suspected doping in the mid 1980s but lacked evidence until reporting to Jean-Guy Ouellette before Seoul and confronting Charlie Francis.
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Toronto
Canada
Ben Johnson
Ontario Track and Field Association
Association
Rolf Lund
Johnson
Lund
Jean-Guy Ouellette
Canadian Track and Field Association
Charlie Francis
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Caroline
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Paul van Peenen
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