Levesque Talks With Trudeau In Quebec Capital
Levesque and Claude Morin met with Marc Lalonde in Quebec City amid questions of cable TV jurisdiction. Trudeau and premiers discuss economy national unity and constitutional reform as next steps. Blakeney and Lyon to meet next week.
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Levesque
Claude Morin
Marc Lalonde
Morin
Trudeau
Supreme Court of Canada
Quebec
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Allan Blakeney
Saskatchewan
Sterling Lyon
Manitoba
Revenue Minister confirms RCMP access to tax data
Revenue Minister Joe Guay told Commons that the department has provided confidential tax information to the RCMP for years and will continue. He corrected a previous mistake saying the practice had not stopped, citing taxpayer protection and money collection as reasons.
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Ottawa
Joe Guay
RCMP
Commons
Perrin Beatty
Wellington Dufferin - Waterloo
Revenue Department
Guay
James Laycraft
Alberta Supreme Court
Herb Gray
Moun
Beatty
Toronto
Joe Clark
Sadat Opponents Confer Ahead of Tripoli Summit
In Tripoli Syria's Hafez Assad is seen taking a moderate line toward Anwar Sadat. Assad arrived without direct criticism of Sadat or his peace talks with Israel, suggesting he may avoid moves to isolate the Egyptian leader despite differences.
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Tripoli
Libya
Anwar Sadat
Hafez Assad
Assad
Sadat
Israel
Saskatchewan imposes retroactive oil well income tax act
Regina announces a retroactive oil well income tax to recover about 500 million dollars in taxes challenged by Cigol. Attorney General Roy Romanow calls it a direct tax within provincial power but notes reduced flexibility versus royalties and plans talks with industry on the rate while refusing to refund past taxes.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Roy Romanow
Supreme Court of Canada
Romanow
NDP
Canadian Industrial Gas and Oil Ltd
Cigob
Cigol
Police raid party offices in Quebec corruption probe
Justice Minister Marc Andre Bedard confirmed police searched Montreal offices of the Liberal and Union Nationale as part of a two year probe into possible corruption at the Quebec Liquor Corp. Officers also took contributor lists and questioned assembly members and staff.
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Quebec
Marc-Andre Bedard
Montreal
Liberal
Union Nationale
Quebec Liquor Corp
Bedard
Parti Quebecois
Levesque
Liquor Corporation
Maurice Bellemare
Bellemare
Justice Department
Assembly
Raymond Garneau
Garneau
Jean Lesage
Energy ministers end rift on home insulation grants
Ottawa praised renewed cooperation after a day long meeting among energy ministers. They agreed to drop federal restrictions that had blocked provinces from joining the insulation grant program and welcomed broader conservation targets. Grants of up to 350 cover insulation in qualifying homes built before specific dates across provinces and territories with future expansion planned. Quebec and Alberta await final qualifying date decisions from Urban Affairs Minister Andre Ouellet after talks with their governments.
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Quebec
Levesque
Jean Chretien
Parti Quebecois
Ottawa
Alastair Gillespie
Alberta
Gillespie
Council of Energy Ministers
Andre Ouellet
Insulation Grants on Way for Alberta
Energy Minister Don Getty said Albertans should receive home insulation grants soon under a new Ottawa provincial agreement. Alberta and Quebec join the program after previously rejecting federal conditions seen as intruding on provincial jurisdiction. Ottawa abandons strict rules, commits to energy conservation talks with provinces.
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Quebec
Alberta
Alastair Gillespie
Centre
Gillespie
Don Getty
James Taylor
Ontario
Getty
Edmonton
Ottawa
Police bugging free for all during October crisis
Claude Lavallee, a former Quebec provincial police corporal, says bugging of a Rose-Lemieux meeting was just part of a broader electronic eavesdropping program during the 1970 October crisis. He recalls tapping the lawyer client office after Rose’s arrest but does not specify alternate charges.
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Montreal
Paul Rose
Free For
Quebec
Claude Lavallee
Rose
Robert Lemieux
Lavallee
Hose
Front de Liberation du Quebec
Pierre Laporte
Rose gets life term for kidnap killing in Laporte case
Sentenced March 13 1971 to life in prison for the kidnap killing of Laporte. Lavallee recalls a free for all during the October crisis and describes a 1969 bugging at a Parti Quebecois office in Shawinigan. Quebec police report four arrested after the bugging. one gets 10 years. Keable inquiry cites RCMP and city police involvement. Cuban links probed through Prensa Latina and a raid on lAgence de Presse Libre du Quebec.
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FLQ
Robert Haden
Jean Keable
Quebec Commission of Inquiry
RCMP
Montreal Police
Shawinigan Municipal Police
Keable
Mounties’ Security Service
Canada
Francois d'Entremont
Prensa Latina
Montreal
D’entremont
l'Agence de Presse Libre du Quebec
Bermuda Executes Two Men After Riots
Two convicted murderers were hanged at dawn in Bermuda, the colony's first executions in 30 years. Erskine Burrows, 33, killed Gov Sir Richard Sharples in 1973, and Larry Tacklyn, 26, who murdered two supermarket executives in 1973, had sparked protests overnight by Black residents.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Erskine Burrows
Richard Sharples
Casement
Larry Tacklyn
Burrows
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d'Entremont
Cuba
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