Gold to meet with rails and unions today
Federal mediator Judge Allan B. Gold will meet today with management and union representatives to seek a quick end to Canada wide rail shutdown. The Associated Non-Operating Railway Unions and CN Rail officials will attend alongside nine smaller railways.
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Gerry Flaherty
Montreal
Allan B. Gold
Canadian National Railways
CP Rail
Seer
Richard Smith
Canada
Medicine Hat
Ottawa expands 100 million winter job program
The Trudeau government announced a 100 million winter job package to cut unemployment, with 83 million for Local Initiatives Program and 17 million for the Federal Labor Intensive Program. The plan, part of a 513 million Ottawa investment, prioritizes new projects, boosts LIP grants up to 75 000, and aims to increase projects by 15 percent while paying up to 100 weekly to recipients.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Robert Andras
LIP
FLIP
Andras
Manpower Department
French sailors seize Greenpeace III amid Mururoa protest
Greenpeace crew recount a brutal seizure of the Canadian ketch Greenpeace III by French navy in international waters off Mururoa. Skipper David McTaggart received injuries while navigator Nigel Ingham and two crew members Anne-Marie Horne and Mary Lornie described the attack and seizure as they were taken to Papeete for treatment.
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Auckland
Reuter
Mururoa Island
Anne-Marie Horne
Mary Lornie
France
Papeete
Miss Horne
David McTaggart
Vancouver
Nigel Ingham
Miss Horn
Miss Lornie
New Zealand
Ingham
McTaggart
Canadian High Commission
Wellington
Vancouver Sun
Tahitian
Robin McCreery
Tahiti
Fri
Mururoa
Health cost assist for elderly Albertans
Albertans 65 and over and 25 000 dependents will have optical dental and medical appliances costs covered by the province. The plan includes a $10 monthly boost for 75 000 old age pensioners to $80 starting October 1. The program costs about $2.28 million with the pension raise at about $9 million.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bob Dowling
Bomb threat ends as hoax per special printing of manifesto
Edmonton Journal publisher Ross Munro and two city police spent hours in a library standoff with James Cameron, a retired electrician, who claimed to have a bomb and demanded his manifesto be published. The device was a can with wires and a suitcase of books. Cameron admitted it was a hoax after reporters confirmed publication of the manifesto.
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Craig Munroe
British Columbia Supreme Court
Ottawa
Munro
James Cameron
Edmonton
Edmonton Journal
Journal
Ross Munro
Edmonton — Journal
The
Cameron
Alberta
Rossi Cameron
CBC
Jerry Managre Cjca
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Toronto
Union Station
Thunder Bay
Ont
Frank Mazur
John Munro
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Railways
Greenpeace
Pease Drive
Dowling
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