Quebec white paper tightens referendum rules and funding
The Parti Quebecois government introduced a white paper on referendums to curb spending campaign time and political organization for future referendums including independence. It borrows from Britain and other nations with limits on expenditures and fundraising. Bill 2 would bar unions and corporations from contributing to parties while parties may donate 25 cents per Quebec voter to ad hoc committees and committees may accept only individual voter contributions.
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Quebec
Parti Quebecois
National Assembly
Great Britain
Plan to topple Rhodesia leader and deploy UN peacekeepers
The United States and Britain developed a plan to remove Prime Minister Ian Smith from power in Rhodesia. It calls for dismantling his government and disbanding both black nationalist forces and the white Rhodesian army, with a large UN peacekeeping presence.
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N.Y. Times News
Washington
United States
Britain
Rhodesia
Ian D. Smith
United Nations
Smith
Commonwealth
Africa
Nigeria
The
Carter
Young
Owen
Botswana
Zambia
Tanzania
Mozambique
Angola
Alberta MLA urges province wide water policy debate
Alberta MLA Fred Mandeville of Bow Valley called for a formal provincial water policy. He criticized $12 million for Bassano Dam rehab over Ayrmore Dam and urged multi use benefits including irrigation tourism and potential power by Calgary Power. He also objected to $61 million Red Deer River Site 6 dam contrary to conservation advice.
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Brooks, Alta
Alberta
Fred Mandeville
Bow Valley
Environment
Dave Russell
Bassano
Brooks
Ayrmore
Calgary Power
Mandeville
Red Deer River
Environment Conservation Authority
CRTC blocks Telesat join with TCTS proposal
The CRTC ruled that Telesat Canada cannot join the Trans-Canada Telephone System linking plan. It said the move would harm public interest by restricting regulation and consumer benefits. The cabinet had conditioned approval, risking Commission independence.
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Ann Duncan
Ottawa
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
CRTC
Telesat Canada
Telesat
Trans-Canada Telephone System
TCTS
Commission
Alaska Senator backs El Paso gas plan over cross Canada route
Senator Ted Stevens said the El Paso plan to ship Alaskan gas remains a viable U S option despite talks favoring a cross Canada pipeline. He cited Canadian demands and rising costs as obstacles and noted Carter will decide after further ministerial talks, with Congress to react.
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Garry Fairbairn
Washington
United States
Alaska
Carter
U.S
Ted Stevens
Canada
Stevens
U.S. Senate
Congress
Yukon
Dawson
Police flown to Fort Chimo to keep order in Eskimo protests
Twenty five Quebec provincial policemen were flown to Fort Chimo to maintain order as Eskimo communities protested Bill 101. Fort Chimo Great Whale River Inoucdjouac and Saglouc councils had urged 50 civil servants to leave the area amid concerns over language policy.
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Montreal
Quebec
Fort Chimo
Great Whale River
Inoucdjouac
Saglouc
Baie Comeau
Camille Laurin
Talks stall as Vance wraps Peking visit with little progress
U S Secretary of State Cyrus Vance concluded four days of talks in Peking without progress toward normalizing relations with China. Hua Kuo-feng and Teng Hsiao-ping pressed for Taiwan ties to be severed and for a U S withdrawal from Taiwan, while Vance and Hua expressed mutual understanding and commitment to the 1972 Shanghai communique.
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Peking
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Vance
Hua Kuofeng
Hua
United States
China
Washington
Taiwan
Carter
Mao Tsetung
Shanghai
Huang Hua
Teng Hsiao-ping
Nixon
Chou En-lai
Teng
Communist Party Congress
Saskatchewan to Transfer One Million Acres to Treaties
Regina reports a federal provincial deal with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indians to transfer about one million acres of Saskatchewan land to treaty Indians. Bands will choose from unoccupied provincial Crown land federal Crown land or bought private land to fulfill treaty entitlements under 1930 agreements.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Federal Indian Affairs
Warren Allmand
Federation of Saskatchewan Indians
FSI
Allmand
David Ahenakew
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Redcliff
Medicine Hot
Mechanical Insulators Ltd
Medicine Hat
Alboin Bertrand
Thompson Crescent
Roger Bertrand
A. Lawrence
By David Binder
Olesegun Obasanjo
Andrew Young
British Columbia
Alaska- Canada
CBC
Laurin
Formosa Strait
Taipei
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