Alberta opposition holds marathon session over closure move
Alberta's five oppositions debated past 15 hours to challenge a government plan to limit debate on Heritage Fund expenditures. Leader Ray Speaker denounced closure as curbing free speech while Notley hailed public support and pledged more material for continued sessions, including scrutiny of $60 million losses and auditor letters.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Government House
Neil Crawford
Alberta Heritage Fund
Ray Speaker
NDP
Grant Notley
Crawford
Auditor General
Socred
Tom Sindlinger
Walt Buck
Clover Bar
Fred Mandeville
Speaker
Alberta Legislature Sets Far Nightlong Debate Record
In Edmonton the Alberta legislature set a record for lengthen debate on a motion to limit debate on trust fund estimates. The session began 3:30 p.m. Monday and ended after 4:47 a.m. Tuesday with strong opposition input led by Ray Speaker and Grant Notley. A midnight protest by Albertans for freedom of speech drew candles and mock wakes on the steps, while the vote tally fluctuated from 48-5 to 27 in a close, exhausting session.
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League of Albertans For Freedom of Speech
Alberta
Edmonton
Merv Leitch
Sindlinger
Notay
Edmonton White
Peter Knaak
Ross Harvey
Notley
Knaak
Heritage Fund
Vermilion
Tom Lysons
Peter Lougheed
Weather Map Forecast Hint Reveals Cold Front
The brief notes a cloudy day with a high near 3 and a low of -10, directing readers to the weather map on page 26 for details. The terse item serves as a short weather update in the paper’s internal reference.
Medicine Hat council to hire firm for org review
City council on Monday decided to hire a management consulting firm to examine the city’s organizational structure. Page 3. Edmonton Eskimos star Ron Estay visiting town to address a Christian Businessmen’s Committee luncheon says he is weighing retirement from professional football. Page 11.
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Medicine Hat
Ron Estay
Edmonton Eskimos
Christian Businessmen's Committee
Levesque accusesPQ convention of provocateur manipulation
Montreal Premier Rene Levesque charged that agents provocateurs warped the Parti Quebecois convention to back outright independence. He blamed a foreign power and questioned organizers for inviting PLO members, while he pondered resigning as PQ president.
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Montreal
Provocateurs
Parti Quebecois
Canada
Rene Levesque
Radio-Quebec
Levesque
RCMP
Quebec
The
Palestine Liberation Organization
Levesque Responds to PQ Delegates Over Quebec Program
Jacques Rose, ex Front de Liberation du Quebec member and former Laporte murder accomplice, is cited by delegates at the PQ gathering. Levesque faced boos as he said he could not back the radically altered party program unless changes are made. He added he is still analyzing the issue as part of his life.
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Jacques Rose
Front de Liberation du Quebec
Quebec
Pierre Laporte
Levesque
Alberta doctors threaten direct billing in labour dispute
Alberta physicians, amid a fee schedule battle with the government, threaten to bill patients directly starting January 1 1982. They refuse to renew telephone prescriptions and have pulled services from hospital boards. Alberta Health Insurance would not cover the added 30.5 percent, prompting officials to warn of delays in payments and potential access issues.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Dave Russell
Alberta Health Insurance
Insurance Commission
Russell
Alberta Medical Association
Hijacked airliner odyssey continues
Three Venezuelan airliners with about 150 hostages were flown toward Cuba after hijackers seized the planes in Panama City. Venezuelan officials and security sources gave conflicting details on numbers and motives as the planes stopped in Colombia Honduras and Guatemala before the Cuba destination.
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Panama City
Venezuela
Cuba
Aeropostal
Panama
Cesar Rondon Lovera
Caracas
Rondon Lovera
Rome
Nicosia
Beirut
Lebanon
United Nations
Libya
Imam Moussa Sadr
Sadr
City to press fast track in gas tax case
City lawyers will push to speed up a constitutional challenge over municipally owned natural gas taxes if the federal government has not filed a defence by Thursday. Council weighed alternatives including withholding taxes as protest, but deemed illegal by officials.
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Ted Grimm
Grimm
Frank O'Connell
Provincial Court of Queen's Bench
Medicine Hat
O’connell
Ottawa
Don Rennie
Federal Department of Justice
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Jean Chretien
George Davison
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