Alberta legislature resumes after adjournment session
The 18th Alberta legislature resumes after a week-long break with major bills still pending. Government plans include anti inflation and rent control measures and possible adjustments to MLA salary increases and the Alberta Heritage Trust Fund Act. The premier and opposition leaders’ salaries, plus other pay scales, are under consideration amid a federal anti inflation program.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Assembly
Government House
Lou Hyndman
Alberta Heritage Trust Fund Act
Hyndman
Justice Clifton Prowse
Prowse
Ford's China talks reported going well
President Ford's China visit yields positive signs despite no communique. Ron Nessen notes a 110 minute talk with Mao Tse tung and a two hour session with Teng Hsiao ping as significant. Talks cover detente, international issues, and Sino Soviet relations amid illness of Premier Chou En Lai.
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Peking
Gerald Ford
Ron Nessen
United States
Nessen
Ford
Mao Tse-tung
Richard Nixon
Chou En-lai
Shanghai
China
Teng Hsiao-ping
Chou Enlai
White House
U.S
Henry Kissinger
Chiao Kuanhua
Asia
Teng
Mao
Canadian Commons report December 2 1975 highlights
The national postal strike ends after workers vote narrowly for the government offer. Canada and Norway sign a fisheries treaty. U S border TV may cut ads to keep Canadian viewers. Heraldry expert Alan Beddoe dies at 82. Gulf Oil lowers Mackenzie delta gas reserve estimates by about 25 percent. Judd Buchanan says BC native land claims talks set for January 12. Ontario urges Bell Canada bid revenue relief of 25.3 million. Three NDP MPs renew attack on anti inflation program. The December 3 sessions note continued anti inflation debate and Senate government measures.
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Canada
Norway
Commons Broadcasting Committee
U.S
Alan Beddoe
Gulf Oil
Mackenzie River Delta
Beaufort Sea
Indian Affairs
Judd Buchanan
British Columbia
Ontario
Canadian Transport Commission
Bell Canada
NDP
Commons
Posties back at work as mail service is restored
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers yesed a narrow 51.8 percent vote to accept a tentative agreement ending a 43 day strike. CUPW president Joe Davidson praised members while noting lingering bitterness and possible unrest as Canada’s mail system resumes service and prepares for Christmas deadlines.
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Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CUPW
Ottawa
Joe Davidson
Government of Canada
Postal Department
Vancouver
Regina
Saskatoon
Ontario
Windsor
Sarnia
Sudbury
Sault Ste. Marie
Montreal
Quebec City
Edmonton
Calgary
Winnipeg
London
Ont
Toronto
Halifax
Jean-Claude Pageot
Bryce Mackasey
Final vote on controls expected in Commons
The Commons will vote on the anti inflation program as opposition MPs attack the plan. With 140 seats, the government is confident of passage, then needs Senate approval and royal assent. Separately AHOP changes would lower rates and boost subsidies for rental builders.
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Glenn Somerville
Ottawa
The
Commons
Senate
Claude Wagner
PC -St. Hyacinthe
Liberal Party
Gulf cuts Mackenzie delta gas reserve estimate
Gulf Oil Canada said its estimate for Mackenzie River delta Beaufort Sea gas potential dropped to 50 trillion cubic feet from 65 trillion. The revised figures, issued during National Energy Board hearings, also reduced near term gas expectations to 36.5 trillion cubic feet from 47.5.
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Ottawa
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd
Mackenzie River Delta
Beaufort Sea
National Energy Board
Gulf
Canada and Norway Reach Major Fisheries Accord
Canada and Norway signed a landmark fisheries pact to guide future treaties. Allan MacEachen and Knut Hedemann led the agreement, which awaits Norwegian Parliament ratification but is expected to take effect early in 1976. The deal covers surplus Canadian fish species and rests on an extended area of fisheries jurisdiction.
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Ottawa
Canada
Norway
Allan MacEachen
Knut Hedemann
Hedemann
Oslo
Panarctic eyes Arctic oil pipeline to Bathurst Island
Panarctic Oils Ltd mayor Charles Hetherington told a Commons committee a second Cameron Island well is being drilled and a commercial reserve may justify a 160 mile 10 inch pipeline to Bathurst Island for year round tanker access. He noted a Manhattan class tanker and new ships would be needed to meet north transport rules and supply about 50 000 barrels per day to eastern provinces.
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Ottawa
Panarctic Oils Ltd
Cameron Island
Charles Hetherington
Commons
Panarctic
Hertherington
Bathurst Island
Bathurst
Maritimes
Hetherington
Manhattan
Humble Oil Corp
Police Evict Protestors From Edmonton Agriculture Building
Police carried 25 to 42 protesting farmers from the 12th floor of the provincial agriculture building in Edmonton after they refused to leave at 5 p.m. The demonstrators, linked to the National Farmers Union, demand a 100 dollar subsidy per head on the first 75 cattle and say they want aid not talk as Agriculture Minister Marvin Moore met them.
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National Farmers Union
Provincial Agriculture
Edmonton
Legislature
Marvin Moore
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the News
Commons Report
By Doug Long
the Canadian Press
Post Office
Mackasey
New Democratic Party
Toronto Board of Education
David Orlikow
Winnipeg North
Howard Collins
Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Ltd
Foothills Pipeline Ltd
Parsons Lake
Northwest Territories
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