Edmonton eyes gas purchases and borrowing bylaw
Medicine Hat wins support to let municipalities borrow for gas reserves as its $150 million bylaw sits with LAB. Edmonton seeks legal advice on municipal borrowing power in Alberta to buy natural gas. Authorities debate legality as lawyers discuss the framework.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta Local Authorities Board
LAB
Attorney-General’s Department
Edmonton
Alberta
Edmonton Power
Ed Kyte
Kyte
Doug Burrows
Sauer
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Oil pricing talks push past make-or-break day in Ottawa
Federal Energy Minister Marc Lalonde and Alberta counterpart Merv Leitch resume talks on revenue sharing and pricing of Alberta’s oil and gas. Extraordinary market watch and long-running impasse frame hopes for a deal. Edmonton and Medicine Hat study legal options to allow gas reserve purchases amid potential provincial hurdles.
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Montreal
Marc Lalonde
Alberta
Merv Leitch
Grain strike set at midnight in Thunder Bay
Federal mediator Bill Kelly met separately with union and elevator officials as a grain handlers strike set to begin at midnight. The 1,600 workers of the Canadian Lakehead Grain Elevator Workers group back a walkout after talks broke down, while fresh talks resumed. The dispute centers on overtime pay and a plan to extend Lake Superior port operations to 24 hours daily.
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Thunder Bay, Ont
Bill Kelly
Lakehead Grain Elevator Workers
Canada
Lakehead Terminal Elevators Association
Lake Superior
Trudeau says he removed names from RCMP list after FLQ crisis
Prime Minister Trudeau testifies to the McDonald royal commission that he personally deleted names from a 300 person RCMP list of separatists after the War Measures Act was imposed in October 1970. He criticized RCMP intelligence and said cabinet discussed not using the act again, noting Cross was released and violence subsided.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
RCMP
McDonald Royal Commission
Mounties
FLQ
Quebec
Front de Liberation du Quebec
James Cross
Pierre Laporte
Jean Marchand
Gerard Pelletier
Pelletier
Marchand
Cabinet Committee On Security and Intelligence
Cabinet
Cross
Cuba
Ovett breaks record in world mile run at Koblenz
Britain's Steve Ovett clocked 3:48.40 to break Sebastian Coe's world mile mark in Koblenz West Germany. The performance set a new standard and drew worldwide attention to track action on Wednesday.
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Ovett
Britain
Steve Ovett
Koblenz
West Germany
Sebastian Coe
Broadbent accuses Trudeau of neglecting RCMP misconduct
Ed Broadbent says Prime Minister Trudeau failed to supervise the RCMP after being told of illegal activities in 1970 by RCMP security head John Starnes. He cites the McDonald commission finding Trudeau and Justice Minister Turner were informed, but the issue was never fully pursued.
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Trudeau
Ottawa
NDP
Ed Broadbent
RCMP
Force
Broadbent
McDonald Commission
Pierre Elliot Trudeau
McDonald
John Turner
Turner
Committee On Security and Intelligence
John Starnes
Commission
Starnes
No vinyl chloride detected in derailment spill near Saskatoon
Emergency crews detected no vinyl chloride monomer leak after a CN freight derailment west of Saskatoon. Ethylene glycol and caustic soda spilled. seven farm families within four kilometres evacuated as CNR traffic diverted north through North Battleford.
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Saskatoon
Canadian National Railways
CNR
RCMP
Gordon Butte
Dow Chemical of Canada Ltd
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Thern
North Battleford
Bill Parker
Emergency Measures Organization
Parker
Butte
Kharlamov and wife die in Moscow area crash
Soviet star Valery Kharlamov and his wife Irina were killed in an automobile accident near Moscow while returning from their country home. Tass reported the 33 year old forward and his wife died. no further passengers or details were released.
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Moscow
Valery Kharlamov
Soviet Union
Tass
Kharlamov
Irina
Whelan vows 14 percent farm loans via new funding source
Agriculture Minister Eugene Whelan said the Farm Credit Corp Act will be amended this fall to allow the corporation to borrow from outside sources and lend to farmers at 14 percent. He cited tax breaks for investors to offset lower returns and warned that high rates could push hundreds of farmers to receivership this fall.
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Toronto
Farm Credit Corp. Act
Eugene Whelan
Whelan
Federal Treasury
Ottawa
Canadian National Exhibition
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CP Rail
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Yeager Very
Frank Webber
Kelly
Federal Labor Department
U.S
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Amalgamated Transit Union
China
Deng Xinping
Renee
Ann Lander
Charles Lynch
Christopher Young
City News
Don McGillivray
Peter Cowan
Western Express
CNE
Ben Gestrin
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Lynne Carlisle
Toronto Dominion Bank
Richard Wagner
Agriculture Department of the Royal Bank
Statistics Canada
Federal Farm Credit Corp
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