Government halts debate on tax bill
Ottawa moves the seven percent goods and services tax toward law as the bill clears second reading and goes to committee. Finance committee chair Don Blenkarn cites about ten technical fixes and hopes committee review could finish within four weeks.
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Ottawa
Commons
Commons Finance Committee
Don Blenkarn
Senate
NDP
Nelson Riis
Audrey McLaughlin
Liberal
Doug Young
Michael Wilson
Young
Blenkarn
PM faults Quebec for language spat
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney blamed Quebec's sign law for a wave of linguistic intolerance in Canada. He said Ontario municipalities declaring themselves officially English reflect part of the nationwide reaction to the provincial language controversy.
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Julian Beltrame
Southam
Ottawa
Quebec
Brian Mulroney
Ontario
Mulroney
Ince
Queen’s Park
David Peterson
Sault Ste. Marie
Thunder Bay
House of Commons
Liberal
Jean-Robert Gauthier
Meech Lake
Doug Lewis
Public Service of Canada
Chambly
Que
Nova Scotia apologizes to Marshall in wrongful imprisonment case
Nova Scotia Prime Minister Tom McInnis issued a formal apology to Donald Marshall and his family for the wrongful imprisonment and the flawed acquittal that followed. A royal commission blamed the justice system for errors and coverups, and called for a federal review while noting compensation issues.
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Patrick Nagle
Southam
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Donald Marshall
Province of
Tom McInnis
Marshall
Royal Commission
Ian MacKeigan
Gordon Hart
Malachi Jones
Angus L. Macdonald
Leonard Pace
Pace
Baker offers solution in arms dispute talks in Moscow
In Moscow the United States and the Soviet Union resumed talks on non-nuclear weapons as Baker proposed settling combat aircraft restrictions and deeper tank cuts. Shevardnadze signaled movement while Bush’s troop reduction plan would shrink forces to about 195000 each side. Baker’s four day visit to meet Gorbachev was planned with optimism high.
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Eduard Shevardnadze
U.S
James Baker
Moscow
Europe
United States
Soviet Union
Baker
George Bush
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Warsaw Pact
Vienna
Shevardnadze
Soviet Union moves toward multiparty system and presidential rule
The Communist party signals a shift to multiparty politics with a president elected by the people. Reform advocates urge removing party control from military police and courts as Gorbachev pursues broader freedoms, though reforms await parliamentary adoption.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Svyatoslav Fyodorov
Central Committee
Congress of People’s Deputies
Gorbachev
Anatoly Lukyanov
Europe
Lukyanov
Bank of Canada Hikes Rate to 5-Year High to Support Dollar
The Bank of Canada raised the bank rate to 12.79 percent the highest in five years as John Crow seeks to boost foreign confidence in the sagging Canadian dollar. The move, the third straight weekly increase, followed a prior surprise cut and involved aggressive currency market actions to stabilize the loonie. Rod Fowler of Bank of Montreal notes confidence in the dollar has been damaged.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
John Crow
Crow
Rod Fowler
Bank of Montreal
Toronto near-collisions rise at Pearson Airport in 1989
The Canadian Aviation Safety Board reports near collision incidents at Pearson International rose to 33 in 1989 from 20 in 1988 amid overall 5 percent national increase to 218 incidents. Data for Toronto Montreal and Vancouver show changes, with officials citing air traffic pressure and controller shortages as contributing factors.
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Mark Kennedy
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa
Toronto
Canadian Aviation Safety Board
CASB
Pearson International Airport
Pearson
Canada
Montreal
Vancouver
Benoit Bouchard
Roger Burgess-Webb
Canadian Air Line Pilots Association
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Southam News
Fyodorov
Mityunov
Mikhail Gorbachev
Thames
Weybridge
Surrey
British Isles
Carl Fisher
Air Traffic Control Association
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