Alberta Nurses Win Nine Percent Pay Raise
Alberta's 12,000 nurses gain a nine percent wage increase over one year, raising starting pay to 1060 dollars per month. The decision, by Mr. Justice Donald Bowen, places Alberta nurses near the top in Western Canada, with hospitals to cover an estimated 3 to 4 million extra yearly cost through higher grants.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Donald Bowen
Alberta Supreme Court
Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
Gordon Miniely
British air controllers strike halts flights at British airports
Thousands of would be travelers canceled flights as assistant air traffic controllers began a four day strike for higher pay. Many flights were delayed or scrapped though Heathrow saw only minor delays on departures. BA faced significant cancellations while senior controllers kept operations at other airports running.
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Graham Heathcote London
Britain
Heathrow
United States
Lois Bricklin
Miss Bricklin
New Jersey
British Airways
Robert Tout
Pan American
San Francisco
London
Gatwick
Quebec plot reports without foundation says police
Quebec provincial police found no serious basis for reports of a plot by United States agents against the Quebec government. Justice Minister Marc Andre Bedard said the dossier was closed March 23 after a thorough investigation.
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Quebec
United States
Justice
Marc-Andre Bedard
Bedard
le Soleil
Central Intelligence Agency
Parti Quebeois
Rene Levesque
Ottawa
Toronto
Quebec language bill Bill 101 nears passage tonight
The Parti Quebecois language bill 101 is expected to pass in the Quebec national assembly after final amendments. The 232 clause act now includes new provisions shielding learning-disabled students, English access for children of moving families, and office programs to promote French in business, while education provisions remain the bill’s core.
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Quebec
Parti Quebecois
National Assembly
Assembly
Medicine Hat
Bert Hargrave
Hargrave
the News Today
Camil Samson
Ind— Rouyn-Noranda
Liberal
Union Nationale
Clement Richard
Eskimos in Quebec demand removal of civil servants
Native communities in Fort Chimo Great Whale River Inoukhoac and Saglouc pressure Quebec to pull provincial police and civil staff from town over language law. Police flew in two 25 man riot squads. Eskimo leaders warn tension remains high as talks continue.
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Montreal
Quebec
Charlie Watt
Northern Quebec Inuit Association
Association
Michael Mcgoldrick
Fort Chimo
Here
Great Whale River
Inouchjouac
Saglouc
Parti Quebecois
Mcgoldrick
Fort Chimo Eskimos
Sydney Steel blast injures seventeen workers
Eighteen percent of the plant crew were seriously burned in a No. 6 battery explosion at SYSCO in Sydney. Eight men were flown to Halifax with burns while seven others received treatment in local Sydney hospitals. A formal probe starts today into the cause of the blast and the coke ovens’ banked condition.
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Sydney
N.S
Sydney Steel Corp
SYSCO
Victoria General Hospital
Halifax
Buffalo
Vance Covers Nuclear Plant Talks in Tokyo Visit
US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance met Japanese Premier Takeo Fukuda in Tokyo to brief him on his talks in Peking with China’s new leaders. They discussed Japan’s planned nuclear reprocessing plant near Tokyo and potential further talks with Gerard Smith on non proliferation. Fukuda raised US Japan trade concerns amid a large US trade surplus.
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Tokyo
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Peking
Takeo Fukuda
China
Carter
Japan
Vance
Fukuda
Gerard Smith
United States
Communist Party
Hua Kuo-feng
Mao Tse-tung
Taiwan
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Nikos Antoniou
Athens
Alta Magee
Medicine Hat Staff Nurse Association
Hat
Bill
Eskimos
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