BC market strike threatens farm income
British Columbia farmers warn of potential losses up to $1 million daily from a pending supermarket strike lockout across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Perishable goods may be dumped. vegetables and fruit crops first, then eggs milk turkey and chicken. The dispute involves bakery meatcutters and clerks unions, with lockouts set and a possible Friday meeting uncertain. 4500 workers affected.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Lower Mainland
Vancouver Island
Bakers
Dick Stocks
B.C. Federation of Agriculture
Canada
B.C. Agriculture
B.C. Food Industrial Relations Council
Bakery Workers Union
Meatcutters
Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union
Retail Clerks International Association
Food Council
Bakery Union
Meatcutters Union
George Spelifore
B.C
Barrett
Spellfore
Clive McKee
Industrial Inquiry Commissioner
Witness protection debated at Canadian Bar Association workshop
Quebec participants urged stronger witness safeguards in criminal trials. Victoria lawyer Cecil Branson pushed counsel access for witnesses and protection from self incrimination, while Dr. Allan Mewett urged only an Evidence Act amendment. Judges warned against overloading proceedings as rights of witnesses remain to be balanced with those of the accused.
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Quebec
Canadian Bar Association
CBA
Criminal Justice Section
Victoria
Cecil Branson
Peter O’hearn
Nova Scotia
Branson
Morris Manning
Ontario
Mr. Manning
CDC stock issue sale to proceed next week
Canada Development Corp will proceed with its share offering next week despite slow response. H. A. Hampson, CDC president, said the plan to raise 125 to 150 million dollars remains intact, with underwriters reporting over 3,000 prospectus requests though Quebec response is slower. The issue was first unveiled July 25 in Montreal amid market caution from rising rates.
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Toronto
Canada Development Corp
CDC
H. A. Hampson
Hampson
Quebec
Pelletier resignation reported from cabinet post
CKSL radio in London quotes Ottawa sources that federal Communications Minister Gerard Pelletier has resigned from the cabinet. He is said to take a senior diplomatic post, with reasons for leaving not disclosed. Pelletier has served since April 1968 while Trudeau vacationed in the Arctic. Mitchell Sharp offered no comment. Pelletier is traveling overseas.
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London
Ont
CKSL
Gerard Pelletier
Ottawa
Pelletier
Mitchell Sharp
Trudeau
Arctic
Lang in Saskatoon Firm on Ottawa Cost Sharing
Federal Justice Minister Otto Lang says Ottawa will not quit hospital and medical cost sharing with provinces. He argued threats to withdraw were the only leverage to rein in rising costs and noted the June budget termination caused confusion. He also backed a national guaranteed income to streamline welfare and reduce staff, aiming to address transportation inequalities before the 1978 election.
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Saskatoon
Otto Lang
Ottawa
Canada
Lang
Kissinger Presses Sinai Pact Details In Mideast Talks
Secretary Kissinger meets Israeli leaders for hours to finish clauses of a Sinai pact and plans more Jerusalem Alexandrian shuttle travel through Saturday. U.S. officials say initialling could occur Sunday or Monday as talks focus on surveillance posts and staged Israeli pullback.
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Jerusalem
United States
Henry Kissinger
Sinai
Alexandria
U.S
Kissinger
Egypt
Ben-Gurion
Air Force II
Gidi
United Nations
Israel
Central Intelligence Agency
National Security Agency
Abu Rudeis
Montreal plans France liner casino to fund Olympics
Le Devoir reports Montreal and Quebec officials eye purchasing the liner France to operate as a floating casino and convention center. Revenues would help offset Montreal 1976 Olympic deficit while potential rapid rail to New York could bring gamblers and delegates. Opening aimed Oct. 26 with Concorde landing.
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Montreal
le Devoir
Quebec
France
Paris
Quebec City
Jean Drapeau
New York
Mirabel International
Picketing Allowed But Interference Banned in Grain Move
Federal Judge Owen Cox ruled West Gulf longshoremen may picket the White House but cannot disrupt loadings of grain bound for the Soviet Union. The injunction covers the Gulf from Lake Charles to Brownsville, requiring the ILA to honor its contract and refrain from work stoppages.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
West Gulf
White House
Soviet Union
U.S
Owen Cox
Texas
International Longshoremen’s Association
ILA
Gulf of Mexico
Lake Charles
Brownsville
United States
West Gulf Maritime Shippers Association
Galveston
Cox
Union leadership raps minister on wage claims
Canadian labor leaders condemned Trade Minister Alastair Gillespie for saying high wage demands harm competitiveness. William Mahoney of the United Steelworkers accused him and Liberal allies ofManufactured inflation and unemployment. Stan Little of the CUPE questioned if wage reductions would follow if jobs could be done cheaper in Japan.
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Toronto
Alastair Gillespie
Canada
William Mahoney
United Steelworkers of America
Gillespie
Trudeaucrats
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S
Stan Little
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Ottawa
Japan
Propaganda Office Seized in Portugal Amid Rebellion Claims
In Lisbon a newspaper says Copcon seized the army propaganda section known as the 5th Division to prevent guns going to Communists backing Premier Vasco Goncalves. Demonstrations split support between Goncalves backers and Socialist opponents as unrest spreads in Esmeriz Leiria and Rio Maior.
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Lisbon
Vasco Goncalves
Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho
Copcon
Jornal de Noticias
Porto
Goncalves
Communist Party
Esmeriz
Leiria
Rio Maior
National Guard
Madeira
Here
Costa Gomes
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Mr. Barnston
Allan Mewett
University of Toronto Law School
Mewett
Mideast
Oporto
Portugal
Azores
Atlantic Islands
Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Giree Rive
Pease
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