Medical care bill sails through despite delay on date
Ottawa MPs wrap Thursday sitting with the medical care insurance bill advancing to final reading despite Liberals and allies defeating an amendment to restore the earlier July 1 1967 start. Opposition cited election timing and cost concerns as debate focused on pensions and old age security measures.
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Nicholson
P. B. Rynard
Simcoe East
Social Credit
House
New Democrats
Thompson
Howard Johnstone
Sc—Okanague Revelstone
Hees
Lewis
Britain Faces UN Oil embargo debate over Rhodesia
Britain contends for a limited oil embargo as part of UN sanctions against Rhodesia. African delegates press for oil bans to accompany measures on asbestos iron ore chrome tobacco and other exports. Foreign Secretary Brown opposes a broader oil move but signals willingness if tied to South Africa and Mozambican routes.
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Britain
Security Council
Rhodesia
S. O. Adebo
Nigeria
Tomar
George Brown
Council
South Africa
Mozambique
Brown
Ferry disaster in Greece leaves 235 feared dead
Athens reports revised toll from the Heraklion sinking reaches 235 dead or missing with only 46 survivors found so far. Rescue teams search amid drifting cargo and debris as more bodies are recovered and fears grow for unlisted passengers aboard the Crete to Piraeus voyage.
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Heraklion
Ministry of Merchant Marines
Piraeus
Crete
Canea
Aegean
Rhodes
Cyprus
West Coast dock strike settled after Ottawa agreement
The federal government settled the West Coast port tie up using the Nicholson formula. Labor Minister Nicholson announced the emergency legislation was unnecessary and the ports would reopen while a federal inquiry examines the dispute. MP Gilles Gregoire’s delay tactics were condemned by Nicholson as a disgraceful performance.
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Ottawa
Gilles Gregoire
Gregoire
Nicholson
Publi’ Ae
Quebec
BC Longshore Foremen to Return as Truce Holds
About 4000 British Columbia longshore foremen resume work amid a shaky truce with waterfront employers after a Commons announced settlement. The deal includes a collective bargaining clause for foremen and rights to form an association, plus an industrial inquiry commission to prevent future disputes. Foremen voted unanimously for terms. ports to resume full operations and grain shipments to be restored.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Nicholson
ILWU
S. Bar
Winters
the Prairiees
Etale
West Coast
Johnson cites space treaty as major arms control step
President Johnson announced a U S Soviet pact banning war and weapons from space at the United Nations a breakthrough in a decade long push for a legal code governing space exploration He said it could prevent lunar military activity and ensure free access to space while signaling progress toward halting nuclear spread with Geneva talks resuming in 1967 in hopes of broad ratification.
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Johnson
UN Ario
Geneva
Texas
United States
Private Eye Testifies RCMP Directed Bugging Assignment
Vancouver private investigator Weldon Graham testified at a provincial royal commission that two RCMP officers steered him to align with union organizer Pat O Neal for an assignment. He said the plan was to bug a rival union convention at a downtown hotel and that O Neal claimed funds were diverted. Graham noted RCMP contacts indicated a bugging job and described meetings with RCMP officers and a union contact. He said he consulted a lawyer and was told there is no specific law against bugging.
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Vancouver
Weldon Graham
RCMP
Pat O'Neal
Union’ Si
Graham
O’neal
International
Pul Up’ and Paper Workers of Canada
A International
Nanaimo ‘Lo
O'Neal
Kam
R. A. Sart
Harry. Reed
E.p.quellette
Cpl
Reed
Rcmp Security and Intelligence
Cpl. Reed
B.C
Canada centennial song may become hit in Ottawa
A Toronto born composition by Bobby Gimby could become a centennial hit as the federal centennial commission holds copyright until March 31 1968. A special recording is planned, with lyrics in English and French and a simple upbeat tune used in Preview 67 and a television commercial.
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Toronto
Bobby
Gimby
Federal Centennial Commission
Bee
Centennial Commission
Canada
Heine to appeal CIA slander case against Juri Raus
Eerik Heine of Toronto born in Estonia, naturalized Canadian, lost a 1 107 000 dollar slander suit against CIA officer Juri Raus who called him a Soviet spy. Heine will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. he contends he fought against communism in WWII and seeks to clear his name amid legal costs.
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Toronto
Eerik Heine
Estonia
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Supreme Court
Heine
Russia
Juri Raus
Mr. Heine
Rand
CIA
Roszel ‘Thorsen
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Frere
Jacques
Jacques Merrily
le Centenaire
Frere Jacques
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