Medicine Hat Traders Seek Tougher Pedlar Rules
City merchants push stricter limits on transient traders and pedlars in Medicine Hat. Amendments would raise annual licences to 300 and daily fees to 100 for most goods, with higher fines and a seven day wait for license approval. Merchants seek bonds and longer police review. Council will refine provisions before next vote.
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Medicine Hat
City Council
Phil Wambolt
Medicine Hat Menswear Association
Wambolt
Ken Gardner
Downtown Business Association
Dave Oliphant
Chamber of Commerce
James Bay land claim accord debated in Ottawa
MPs begin debate on a bill that approves native land claim agreements between Canada, Quebec and the Cree and Inuit in James Bay. The pact grants land and hunting rights while delivering 225 million dollars over 20 years, amid mounting opposition from Indigenous groups and a 1975 fiscal pause.
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Ottawa
Quebec
James Bay
Robert Bourassa
Montreal
Indians of Quebec Association
Northern Quebec Inuit Association
National Indian Brotherhood
Firth
New Democratic
Wally Firth
Northwest Territories
Taxpayers Face Greater Grain Transport Losses
Ottawa says taxpayers will likely shoulder a bigger share of rail way grain transport losses after a report fixed losses at 89.3 million dollars in 1974. The Crowsnest Pass rate remains contested with Western farmers viewing it as a basic right.
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Ottawa
Otto Lang
Newfoundland
Confederation
Lang
Carl Snavely
Washington, D.C
Snavely
Winnipeg
Real bargaining starts at finance conference
Ottawa faces unified provincial pushback over revenue guarantees as ministers close in on the five year Fiscal Arrangements Act. Quebec signals future separation while seeking temporary cost sharing, amid talks on anti inflation and wage controls ending March 31.
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Macdonald
Ottawa
Jean Luc Pepin
Manitoba
Quebec
Canada
Jacques Parizeau
City workers to return wages after AIB rollback
More than 300 CUPE city employees will repay half of August wage increases after the federal inflation board reduced an 18.97 percent settlement to 9.4 percent. Union leader Ian Downey called the decision appalling and appealed to AIB administrator Donald Tansley. City Alderman Sam Stone said officials support the union and will aid the appeal.
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
Ian Downey
Downey
Lethbridge
AIB
Donald Tansley
CUPE
Ald
Sam Stone
Stone
Gary Schneider
Police Association
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Amalgamated Transit Union
Custodian held hostage on 62 story building roof to protest smoking
Dolphin Lair 21 tied up a harmless starter pistol and held engineer Martin Hickey during a two hour siege atop the United California Bank Building in downtown Los Angeles causing a traffic jam. He demanded TV coverage for an anti smoking protest and surrendered after a radio broadcast of his statement. Hickey unharmed. Lair jailed on kidnapping investigation with bail set at 5000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Dolphin Lair
United California Bank
Lair
Martin Hickey
Hickey
Medicine Hat population figures revised by Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada raised Medicine Hat’s population to 32 436 after a second review, up 163 from 32 263 but still 784 below the city’s 1976 census. Mayor Ted Grimm notes the city census determines provincial grant eligibility.
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Statistics Canada
Medicine Hat
Ted Grimm
One day reprieve on postal strike in Canada
Ottawa talks resume after CUPW and Postmaster-General Blais agree to continue discussions over technological change. CUPW warns of possible strikes if negotiations fail, citing contract breaches and 4000 casual workers while seeking guarantees against adverse effects of change.
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Ottawa
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CUPW
Jean- Jacques Blais
Blais
Post Office
Joe Davidson
Davidson
Square One
Noel Hall
Vancouver
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Public Works Committee
Hugh Belsher
Council
Belsher
Jack Horner
Progressive Conservative
Alberta
Crowfoot
Doug Brown
Bill Sass
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