Bauman sticks to gas tax rebate plan despite Sauer switch
Bill Bauman refuses to alter his stance on rebates for $4 million in the Petroleum and Gas Revenue Tax, despite Aid Ken Sauer's latest reversal. Sauer now says the money should be rebated to customers, but Bauman and the utilities committee favor applying it to debt reduction.
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Sheri Murphy-Wright
News Aid
Bill Bauman
Ken Sauer
Bauman
Sauer
Ald
Jim Hirsch
Utilities Committee
Edmonton
PGRT
Larry Godin
Council
Quebec Premier weighs French-only outdoor sign plan amid cabinet split
Premier Robert Bourassa faces a cabinet rift over using notwithstanding clauses to preserve French-only outdoor signs in Quebec. He signals a possible temporary override of free expression while lawmakers respond to a Supreme Court ruling that allowed non French signs. Protests grow as anglophones threaten resignations and polls show deep split on Bill 101.
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Quebec
Robert Bourassa
Bourassa
Supreme Court of Canada
Environment
Clifford Lincoln
Herbert Marx
Richard French
John Ciaccia
William Cusano
Parti Quebecois
Quebec signs row could swing Meech Lake talks in Manitoba
Manitoba opposition leaders Gary Doer and Sharon Carstairs warn Premier Bourassa's Quebec sign policy undercuts minority rights and threatens Meech Lake, arguing it shifts powers to Quebec and complicates language provisions and distinct society status. They expect public hearings to pivot against the accord.
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Winnipeg
Robert Bourassa
Quebec
Manitoba
NDP
Gary Doer
Doer
Liberal
Sharon Carstairs
Bourassa
Supreme Court
Carstairs
Meech Lake
Leo Piquette
Ooser
Alberta
Israel forms national unity government under Shamir
Israel's Likud and Labor reach a unity pact with Yitzhak Shamir as prime minister. Shamir to lead with Shimon Peres as finance minister and Moshe Arens as foreign minister. Labor to control the Finance Committee and approve five to eight new settlements in the occupied territories within a year.
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Jerusalem
Reuter
Israel
Likud
Yitzhak Shamir
Israel Radio
Labor Party
Uzi Baram
Labor
Shamir
Shimon Peres
Yitzhak Rabin
Moshe Arens
U.S
Palestine Liberation Organization
Avi Pazner
Reuters
United States
Israeli Labor and Likud Agree to National Unity Government
In response to ongoing violence in occupied territories and the U S move to negotiate with the PLO the Labor and Likud factions agree to form a government of national unity to address security and political challenges.
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Israel
U.S
PLO
Labor
Likud
Christmas forecast uncertain as snow boosts farms and ski hill
Snowfall of 7.6 centimetres at Medicine Hat airport boosts hopes for moisture for spring production. Cypress Hills and Cypress Ski Hill report 7 to 10 centimetres, while Empress sees rain and drought recovery lags. Local farmers and ski operators push for more snow before Christmas.
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Allan Knops
Cee Gee Earth Moving
Medicine Hat Mail
Brian Foden
Cypress
Laurence Nicholson
Alberta Wheat Pool
Medicine Hat
Moerke
Don Moerike
Bill Prusak
Prusak
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Wes Mickey
Elkwater Lake
Dave Fischer
Cypress Ski Hill Ltd
Ken van Wert
Dunmore
Lutz Pershon
Walsh
Empress
Bob Miller
Ottawa advised to scrap tax breaks in Canada child care plan
The National Council of Welfare blasted the federal plan for child care as inadequate calling for ending tax breaks. It urged more direct funding to expand affordable day care noting the seven year package totals 6.4 billion dollars with 2.3 billion in tax benefits and 4 billion for new spaces. The group urged Health Minister Jake Epp to revise the plan to better aid low income families.
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Ottawa
National Council of Welfare
Canada
Jake Epp
Olympic Committee Drops $100,000 Suit Against McGregor
Calgary based Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1988 Winter Games discontinues a 1986 suit against jailed ticket manager Jim McGregor. McGregor was convicted of fraud theft and forgery over selling 1200 tickets in U S funds and a scheme to skim exchange-rate gains. Committee president Bill Pratt cited house cleaning as reason for withdrawal while former chairman Frank King disputes McGregor's innocence.
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Calgary
Jim McGregor
McGregor
John Richels
Bill Pratt
Pratt
Calgary Sun Sun
United States
Richels
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