Government moves on heroin crisis across Canada
Federal health officials push for action ahead of LeCain report after a closed meeting of 60 drug experts warned of a new pattern of heroin use. Montreal Toronto Vancouver Windsor border zones and northern Ontario are noted as affected with a push for a national advisory body and stronger doctor discipline measures.
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Peter Calamas
Southam
Ottawa
Canada
LeCain Commission
Federal Health Department
John Munro
National Health and Welfare
Munro
William Craig
Health Department
Craig
Montreal
Toronto
Vancouver
Windsor
B.C
Ontario
Maurice LeClair
LeCain
Canadian Medical Association
Federal Food and Drug Directorate
LeClair
Medicine Hat Lethbridge teachers approve contract deal
Teachers in Medicine Hat and Lethbridge vote 88 percent in favor of a settlement with four school boards. A memorandum of agreement signed in Lethbridge on Monday sets a 28 month term with an average salary increase around 15 percent.
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Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Alberta Teachers Association
Joe Berlando
Alberta
Mr. Berlando
Indian Push Near Dacca Seizes Chandpur Port
Indian forces report advance to Meghna River within 20 miles of Dacca and claim major towns Comilla and Sylhet captured. They say air and naval actions sunk numerous Pakistani vessels and gunboats while Chandpur fell, opening path toward East Pakistan’s capital.
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Dacca
Ganges
Pakistan
Kashmir
Meghna
Jagjit Singh Aurora
India
Calcutta
Chittagong
Aurora
East Pakistan
Comilla
Sylhet
Jessore
Supreme Air Chief
H.C. Dewan
Shillong
Brahmaputra River
Phulchari
Sirajganj
Bharib River
Khulna
All- India Radio
Chandpur
West Pakistan
Sylehi
Rangpur
Pakistan Navy
Chhamb
Alberta to offer grants for exhibition and agricultural buildings
The Alberta government will provide capital grants up to 50 percent of project costs for exhibitions and agricultural facilities, with a maximum of 50,000 and a yearly cap of 800,000. Projects must be municipal approved, for multi purpose buildings, and aimed at winter employment. Dirk Scholten of Medicine Hat Exhibition awaits details.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Hugh Horner
Horner
Dirk Scholten
Medicine Hat
Exhibition and Stampede Co
Scholten
CLC executives press Mackasey on tech change clause
Canadian Labor Congress leaders met Labor Minister Bryce Mackasey and officials to urge against weakening protections in the labor bill. They argued against corporate pressure to drop a provision allowing unions limited strikes over adverse technological changes, while Mackasey signaled revisions to reinforce tech-change clause in future reintroduction.
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Ottawa
Canadian Labor Congress
Bryce Mackasey
CLC
Commons
Mackasey
Labor Department
Donald MacDonald
Weather Outlook for Medicine Hat Today and Friday
Strong gusts and drifting snow are forecast as a weather office warns of snowflurries turning heavy this afternoon. Westerly winds 25 to 30 mph gusting to 50 mph will ease. temperatures fall from the 20s to near zero tonight with northerly gusts. Friday brings 10 to 15 degrees with occasional snow and continued drifting conditions.
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Medicine Hat
Department of Transport Weather Office
Alberta to join federal unemployment insurance plan
Alberta will participate in the federal unemployment insurance program starting January 2. Minister of Labor Bert Hohel says the move covers all public service employees and saves the province about 2.2 million dollars yearly in social allowance and social assistance, with an estimated 1.6 million cost in 1972. He calls the concept sound and notes benefits links to unemployment levels may stabilize the economy.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bert Hohel
Hohel
UN diplomat Ralph Bunche dies at 67 in New York
Ralph Johnson Bunche 67, undersecretary general of the United Nations and 1950 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died at New York Hospital after months of illness. He helped broker the 1949 Palestine armistice, oversaw UN operations in Congo, and influenced 1956 Palestine force deployment following the Suez crisis. He rose from grandson of a slave to top UN official.
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United Nations
Ralph Johnson Bunche
Middle East
Palestine
Bunche
New York Hospital
Israel
Congo
Folke Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Tax bill survives vote in Ottawa passage stalls debate
The 707 page government bill survived its first Commons vote after 32 days of clause by clause study and 12 days of second reading. MPs halted debate with the 1969 guillotine rule as the bill faces further scrutiny and potential Christmas delays.
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Ottawa
Commons
Royal Commission
Alberta Federation of Labor urges higher royalties and $2 wage
The Alberta Federation of Labor asks the cabinet for increased royalties on oil and gas and other natural resources, severe penalties on polluters, and a $2.00 per hour minimum wage with potential rise to $2.50. It backs a publicly run auto insurance program, compulsory arbitration, changes to the Labor Act, extended coverage for medical care, and bans on private employment agencies.
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Edmonton
Alberta Federation of Labor
Canadian Labor Congress
Alberta
Federation
McIntyre Porcupine Mines
Environment
Bill Yorke
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