Trade doors high on agenda at premiers conference
Ten provincial premiers meet to push dismantling interprovincial trade barriers and to decide next steps on the Meech Lake accord. They condemn Ottawa's nine percent sales tax and discuss a possible October conference to advance the constitutional accord before a November first ministers meeting.
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Quebec
Meech Lake
Canada
Joe Ghiz
Prince Edward Island
United States
Ghiz
New Brunswick
Frank McKenna
Ottawa
Manitoba
Newfoundland
Clyde Wells
Robert Bourassa
Meech
Czechs Demand Freedom Mark Anniversary of 1968 Invasion
About 300 people were arrested in Prague as police broke up demonstrations honoring the 21st anniversary of the Soviet led invasion. Police clashed with 2000 protesters while a West German TV crew reported injuries and confiscation of gear. In Krakow protesters demanded Soviet troop withdrawal.
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Czechoslovakia
Prague
Warsaw Pact
Amries
Reuter
Interior Ministry
Prague Radio
Krakow
Europe
Poland
Johnson given conditional discharge and probation in assault case
Ben Johnson, 27, received a conditional discharge and 12 months probation after pleading guilty to assault for pointing a starter’s pistol at a motorist in Toronto. The Crown dropped weapons charges. Johnson had earlier pleaded not guilty to common assault and possession of a dangerous weapon.
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Toronto
Ben Johnson
Johnson
Ian MacDonnell
Canadian among the missing in Thames tragedy
Coroner's inquest opens into the sinking of the Marchioness after a Bowbelle dredger rammed the boat on the Thames killing at least 26. Canadian Peter Alcorn, 23, of Antigonish Nova Scotia, is among those missing with 37 others believed dead and 87 survivors. Police consider unlawful killing charges.
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London
APCP
Thames River
Canadian High Commission
Peter Alcorn
Antigonish
N.S
Alcorn
Diane
Ward Bingham
Bingham
Canada
Toronto
Antonio Vasconcellos
Scotland Yard
Quebecers protest PCB policy stands amid cross province talks
Premier Don Getty said Alberta will not relax its ban on accepting Quebec PCBs despite an offer to take some from a warehouse fire leftover. Quebec plans to ship PCB waste to Hydro Quebec near Baie Comeau as protests grow in Baie-Comeau with thousands expected at a coalition rally.
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Alberta
Don Getty
Quebec
Swan Hills
Getty
Peminiers
Nova Scotia
Ontario
David Peterson
Lise Bacon
Hydro Quebec
Baie
Cote
Gainers may lose loan payouts without Picture Butte plant start
Agriculture Minister Ernie Isley warned Gainers Inc to begin construction by Sept 30 on a 22 million Picture Butte meat plant or lose provincial loan payouts. The Edmonton plant upgrade has already used 6 million of a 12 million loan, and land purchase for the new site remains未p.
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Edmonton
Gainers Inc
Ernie Isley
Gainers
Alberta
Picture Butte
Isley
Rick Casson
Peter Pocklington
Pocklington
Casson
Whales sink boat adrift couple survives 66 days at sea
William Butler and his wife Simone survived 66 days adrift after their 12 metre pleasure boat Siboney was rammed and sunk by whales off Costa Rica. They lived on raw fish and purified water, fended off sharks, and were rescued by a Costa Rican Coast Guard crew about 50 kilometres off Golfito. The couple, sailing from Coral Gables to Honolulu, were hospitalized and said to be recovering.
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Alameda
Calif
William Butler
Simone
Golfito
Costa Rica
Costa Rican
Coast Guard
Pacific
Egbert Vallecillo
Pacific Command
San Francisco
Butler
Siboney
Vallecillo
Butlers
U.S. Coast Guard
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Solidarity Independent Trade Union Movement
Neptune
Henry Beben
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan Economic Development Co
Mel Hinds
Hinds
Cody Smith
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