Premiers accept federal tax deal after long bargaining
The 10 premiers ended a tax and spending power conference with a deal worth about 600 million in new transfers and health and social payments. Quebec's Rene Levesque condemns the plan as costly for Quebec while others express mixed feelings about the compromise.
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Rene Levesque
Quebec
Frank Moores
Newfoun
Trudeau
William Davis
Ontario
Gerald
Levesque
Charles Lynch
Confederation
French deny charges of meddling in Quebec politics
Paris sources reject CTV allegations that two French agents promoted separatism and sought Quebec independence. Officials say Rossillon and Daniau acted only as private figures, not as government spokesmen, while denying ties to plans for UN entry, Europe linkage, or new bases on St Pierre and Miquelon.
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Quebec
James Bond
CTV
Phillippe Rossillon
Xavier Daniau
Rossillon
Rene Levesque
Claude Morin
Daniau
French National Assembly
Elizabeth
Levesque
United Nations
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Newfoundland
Acadia
France
Radioactive barrels found near Vancouver area
Three hundred barrels of thorium bearing tailings were found abandoned on private property in Port Mann east of Vancouver. Health officials say the material is low radioactivity and poses no health hazard, with disposal to follow Atomic Energy Commission guidance. Owner’s wife says barrels belonged to Fundy Chemical International Ltd, long closed.
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B.C
Vancouver
Provincial Health Department
Radiation Protection Service
Wayne Greene
Protection Service
Port Mann
Environment Canada
Atomic Energy Commission
Greene
Ministry of Health
Connor Supplies Ltd
Court Faessler
Fundy Chemical International Ltd
Winnipeg
M. G. Smerchanski
Fundy
Candu sale talks delayed as AECL meets Argentine investigators
Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie said AECL officials will meet Argentine investigators in about two weeks to discuss the controversial Candu reactor sale. He told the Commons that discussions could not begin this week in Buenos Aires, amid questions over a 2.4 million payment to unnamed agents and the Triangular Trading entity's legal status. The dispute included criticism from NDP MP T. C. Douglas and calls for inquiry by the public accounts committee.
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Ottawa
Alastair Gillespie
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
AECL
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Commons
Argentine Atomic Energy Commission
Buenos Aires
T.C. Douglas
NDP
Nanaimo-Cowichan
the Islands
Atomic Energy Commission
Italianplanti
Gillespie
Douglas
Triangular Trading
United Development Inc
Tel Aviv
Panama
United
South Korea
Triangular
Commons Public Accounts Committee
Canada population grows to 23 143 000 on July 1
Statistics Canada figures show Canada's population as of July 1 at 23 143 000, up 312 000 from July 1975 to July 1976. Growth occurred in all provinces. Yukon and Northwest Territories held at 21 000 and 38 000 respectively. Ontario 8 345 000 and Quebec 6 249 000 lead.
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Canada
Statistics Canada
Yukon
Northwest Territories
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Alberta
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Prince Edward Island
Crown tests fertilizer court case in Calgary
The Crown has completed its case in a preliminary hearing for six Western Canada fertilizer manufacturers charged with price fixing under the Combines Investigation Act. The hearing began in October and concluded Friday. the companies will call no defence. A publication ban was set. The hearing resumes January 10 for the Crown to present closing arguments before a decision on trial commitment.
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Calgary
Western Canada
Sherritt Fordon
Cominco Ltd
Western Cooperative Fertilizers Ltd
Northwest Nitro-Chemicals Ltd
Imperial Oil Ltd
Simplot Chemical Co. Ltd
Defence Establishment Closure Debate Reaches Suffield
DRES representatives and Suffield city officials seek talks with Defence Minister Barney Danson to brief him on the Suffield establishment closure issue and its economic impact. Mayor Ted Grimm says Ottawa feedback hints no closure but pressure to act remains. Four area reps met former defence minister Richardson earlier but no final decision yet.
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Suffield
Defence
Barney Danson
Danson
Ted Grimm
Dawson
Ottawa
Grimny
James Richardson
Suffield closure delayed as defence prompts reprieves
Richardson announced in 1973 that Suffield must relocate to a new Winnipeg establishment, with the site in Winnipeg still under option but no construction begun. Grimm and Alberta negotiators press for an immediate meeting with Dawson to present their case before any final decision.
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Suffield Research Establishment
Winnipeg
Grimm
Ald
George Davison
Union of National Defence Employees
Kay Luna
Ridley Shaw
Dawson
Electors vote Carter. Reform calls rise over Electoral College
As Carter’s victory is certified, electors debate abolishing or reforming the Electoral College. In Washington a maverick elector backs Reagan, while Iowa favors constitutional change. Carter tallies 297 votes to Ford 240. one to Reagan.
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Jimmy Carter
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Ronald Reagan
Iowa
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Ford
Reagan
Ohio
District of Columbia
Nelson Rockefeller
Warlords plan merger of Christian militias in Lebanon
Beiruit reports two Lebanese Christian warlords announce plans to merge their private armies to ease factional clashes. A later car bombing injured none of Karim Pakradouni, Phalange official, while Camille Chamoun and Pierre Gemayel back the move as a way to avert internal friction. Raymond Edde accuses Syria of attempts to kill him.
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Karim Pakradouni
Phalange Party
Camille Chamoun
National Liberal Party
Pierre Gemayel
Raymond Edde
Elias Sarkis
Syria
Edde
Sarkis
Lebanon
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