Edmonton to lay off 500 civic workers in budget purge
Edmonton faces mass cuts as 500 workers receive layoff notices as part of a citywide purge affecting 254 water sanitation drainage staff and 43 trainee policemen among nearly 1,000 slated for reduction through next year. Firefighters and unions warn of hardship for young families while officials defer comment pending council budget approval.
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Edmonton Firefighters Association
Social Service
Immigration Canada
Stan Kuss
Edmonton Firefighters Savings and Credit Union Ltd
Hambleton alleges Andropov funded Canadian Parliament bid
In a Britain court Hambleton, a suspected Soviet spy, claims Yuri Andropov wanted to finance his Canadian election bid. Canadian officials question his double agent story as RCMP officers travel to Britain to testify if needed while cross examination proceeds at Old Bailey about his Soviet espionage charges.
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Old Bailey
Central Criminal’ Court
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Moscow
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Soviet Communist Party
U.S
NATO
Paris
Laval
Soviet Union
Opposition seeks hearing over Alberta Speaker nomination
NDP Leader Grant Notley and former Alberta opposition leader Ray Speaker urge talks with Premier Peter Lougheed on naming a new Alberta legislature Speaker. Ray Martin and Walt Buck joined the news conference amid outrage over Gerard Amerongen's allocation of more than 400000 in the opposition budget.
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Edmonton
NDP
Grant Notley
Alberta
Ray Speaker
Peter Lougheed
Ray Martin
Norwood
Walt Buck
Clover Bar
Ron Liepert
Lougheed
Gerard Amerongen
Chrysler UAW clash over December work return deadline
Toronto reports that Chrysler chief Lee Iacocca warned the 9,600 Canadian striking workers to return by December 13 or bargaining talks would pause until January. UAW director Robert White said a return could happen sooner if a solid wage proposal is tabled soon. The strike is costing Chrysler up to 15 million dollars weekly as talks resume November 22.
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Chrysler Corp
Lee Iacocca
United Auto
UAW
Robert White
Iacocca
Highland Park
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Tacocca
Chrysler
U.S
Canada
Alberta hospitals plan ends deficit pickups
Alberta's hospitals minister says the province will stop covering deficits while Leo Hill of Medicine Hat and District Hospital says residents will not feel the pinch. Prime ministers Expo 86 pavilion plans were announced in Vancouver, and Vegreville Composite School leads the Alberta 3A girls volleyball championship after day one at Cypress Centre.
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Alberta
Leo Hill
Medicine Hat and District
Canada
Vancouver
Trudeau
Vegreville
Vegreville Composite School
Cypress Centre
U S House blocks F-18A bomber until meets specs
A House appropriations panel endorses a rule requiring Navy certification that the F-18A bomber version meets original attack mission specs before funding. The measure could affect Canada’s CF-18 deal and includes a pending Pentagon review and sea-trial findings on range. The Navy says it will comply if law passes.
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Outham News
Washington
U.S
Canada
House of Representatives
U.S. Navy
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House
Pentagon
Congress
Trudeau
US. Navy
U.S. Senate
House Committee
Navy
Brazilian jet crash near Brasilia injures one
A chartered jet carrying TV technicians and others clipped a light tower and belly landed at Brasilia airport. One person suffered a bruised elbow. no other injuries were reported. Reports vary on passenger counts with numbers including 57 Americans and 53 others, or 57 Americans and 11 crew members aboard a Boeing 707.
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Brasilia
Reagan
Brazil
Canada’s Third Quarter GNP Dips Amid Unemployment Rise
Ottawa reports a one percent real drop in gross national product for Q3 1981 with unemployment at 12.7 percent. Statscan notes weak consumer demand, high unused capacity, slumping business investment, and modest signs of nonresidential construction firming, while exports slow and the government deficit widens to 19.5 billion.
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News Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Cpelines
Statscan
Marc
Lalonde
Canada
Quarte
Tsapitectirine
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