Government action halts nurse strike in Alberta
Alberta nurses who planned a January walkout will see the strike postponed by provincial action. Labour Minister Les Young announced a dispute inquiries board under 1980 legislation. The board, led by Erik Lefsrud, will hear evidence from the United Nurses Association and the Alberta Hospital Association and seek a settlement.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Les Young
Erik Lefsrud
United Nurses Association
Alberta Hospital Association
City hospital plans operations cutback amid nurses strike
The Medicine Hat and District hospital began reducing services as a nurses strike loomed. Emergency care would be restricted to life threatening cases, and patient load aimed to drop from 337 to about 110. A disputes inquiry board was appointed to study the impasse and delay any strike until reports are filed. The United Nurses of Alberta seeks wage increases and schedule changes.
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Medicine Hat and District
Leo Hill
Hill
Medicine Hat
UNA
United Nurses of Alberta
Disputes Inquiry Board
Public inquiry ordered into Montreal oil tanker disaster
Federal Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin announced a full public inquiry into the Christmas Day fire aboard the Hudson Transport near Matane Quebec in which four crewmen died and three are presumed dead. The Seafarers' Union criticized the rescue response as inefficient while the search for missing crew ended. Seven boats rescued fourteen. authorities planned to name a commissioner and set a date for the inquiry.
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Montreal
Jean-Luc Pepin
Pepin
International Union
Matane
Que
Quebec City
St. Lawrence
Montcalm
Gaspe Peninsula
Historic wells named historic resources in Alberta
Alberta's first gas wells, discovered nearly a century ago, have been designated historic resources. The report notes the wells’ significance and ties to regional energy history.
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Alberta
Walesa agrees to talks with Poland's regime
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa agrees to begin negotiations with Poland's martial law government as clashes continue and deaths are reported. Western reports cite seven confirmed deaths with unconfirmed counts in the hundreds. Reagan imposes gas pipeline sanctions on the Soviet Union while Bonn discusses ministerial meetings on the issue.
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Associated Press
Solidarity
Lech Walesa
Poland
Military Council
Lartier
Reagan
Soviet Union
Bonn
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Europe
Atl
Communist Party
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Walesa
Cee
Laivio
Politcal Memipultion
Sshdarinty
ATG
Jerzy Urbsan
Foland
Soviet Against U.S. Sanctions Draws Global Criticism
Tass denounces Reagan sanctions as illegal against a sovereign Poland and vows Moscow will not yield to what it calls political blackmail. It claims the move worsens Cold War tensions and notes no allies are expected to follow Washington's lead.
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Poland
Reuter
Today
Reagan
Soviet Union
Washington
Tass
Moscow
United States
Kremlin
U.S
Armored car heist in Trois-Rivieres nets 1.125 million
Three masked gunmen forced Alliance Blinde Ltd. employee Laurier Joly to open the vault and abduct his wife in a well planned robbery. Joly and a colleague were locked in the vault as the bandits fled with 1.125 million in cash after detouring to Cap de la Madeleine. Local police call it a professional job with a suspected local spotter among the five assailants.
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Trois-Rivieres
Que
Montreal
Normand Rouette
Laurier Joly
Alliance Blinde Ltd
Early Tory convention seen as mistake by Hargrave
Medicine Hat MP Bert Hargrave told a Kiwanis luncheon that any leadership gathering or federal convention ahead of January 1983 would hurt the Progressive Conservatives. He praised Joe Clark's rise in Quebec but warned of internecine strife in Ottawa and noted Gary Gurbin's resignation could signal broader discontent within the party.
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Medicine Hat
Bert Hargrave
Hargrave
Kiwanis Club
Federal
Progressive Conservative
Quebec
Diefenbaker
Union Nationale” Alliance
Pcs
Joe Clark
Clark
National
Grits
Gary Gurbin
Gurbin
Bruce-Grey
Alberta
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Margaret Ethier
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Giovanni Spadolini
Italy
NATO
James Dozier
Sporting News
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Edmonton Oiler
NHL
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Ann Landers
Charles Lynch
Jim Coleman
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