Polish student strike expands to eight cities amid talks
In Lodz 4000 to 6000 students strike as talks continue on an independent union charter. By midnight, Lodz warned more cities including Torun Szczecin Warsaw Poznan Rzeszow Krakow Opole and Gliwice may join. Government reports say agreement reached on university autonomy but not on the union statute while Solidarity leader Walesa and officials discuss farmers’ independent union.
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Poland
Lodz
Torun
Szczecin
Poznan
Rzeszow
Krakow
Opole
Gliwice
Janusz Gorsfi
Students’ Union
Lech Walesa
Solidarity
Supreme Court
Terry Fox Receives Interferon As Last Hope
Terry Fox, 22, is treated as an outpatient with Interferon at Royal Columbian Hospital in a bid to halt his cancer. The Canadian Cancer Society funded the drug, details of dosage and cost withheld. Fox, whose Marathon of Hope raised about 22 million dollars, has endured amputation, chemotherapy, and a return to private care as doctors assess the unproven therapy.
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New Westminster
B.C
Terry Fox
Canadian Cancer Society
Fox
Royal Columbian Hospital
Port Coquitlam
Cancer Society
Vancouver
Toronto
Thunder Bay
Ont
St. John’s
Calgary
Y.H. Tan
Canada
Alberta doctors approve 12.8 percent pay rise
Alberta Hospitals Minister Dave Russell says the 12.8 percent wage increase for doctors is fair and should prevent a rise in extra billing. He notes about 30 percent of physicians still bill beyond medicare and mentions a new extra billing complaint committee may launch an advertising campaign to raise public awareness.
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Edmonton
Dave Russell
Alberta
Russell
Medicine Hat faces Ottawa tax fight over turbine import duties
Medicine Hat seeks relief from more than 1 million in tariffs after paying duties on two natural gas turbines bought for a $7 million Philadelphia purchase. Mayor Grimm says the dispute requires political action, while officials push for technical input and possible retaliation.
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Medicine Hat
Ottawa
Ted Grimm
Utilities Committee
Ken Sauer
Federal Department of Finance
Philadelphia
Canada
Hagenlocher guilty in convention fire
Rudolph Rolf Hagenlocher was found guilty of manslaughter and setting a fire that killed Liberal delegate Joseph Sponarski at the Holiday Inn in Winnipeg last July. The six day trial heard 30 witnesses. sentencing is set for March 6.
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Winnipeg (Cp
Rudolph Rolf Hagenlocher
Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench
Hagenlocher
Joseph Sponarski
Portage la Prairie
Man
Robert Kaplan
Holiday Inn
Naomi Levine
CBC
Manitoba Hotel Association
Dario Perfume
Welsh miners strike hits Thatcher government in Britain
26 000 Welsh miners stay away to protest plans to close up to 50 of 219 nationalized mines. Officials forecast widespread action next week as 80 percent of 230 000 NUM members may back a nationwide walkout. Pickets disrupt coal deliveries in South Wales amid unemployment concerns.
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London
Margaret Thatcher
David Howell
National Union of Mineworkers
National Coal Board
Scotland
England
Kent County
South Wales
Britain
the Times
Thatcher
Coal Board
Post Office Grievances Hit Vancouver Mail Shuffle
Vancouver residents face widespread mail delays as the system sends letters to smaller centers for sorting before returning to Vancouver. Union officials complain about 28 day lags and mobile storage with mail bouncing between cities like Trail Port Coquitlam Maple Ridge Cranbrook Sparwood Castlegar Grand Forks and Vancouver.
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Larry Honeybourne
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Vancouver
Honeybourne
Post Office
Trail
Port Coquitlam
Maple Ridge
City Council Approves First Reading of 18 Borrowing Bylaws
The council gave first reading to 18 bylaws totaling about 14.4 million dollars with a hitch over 547000 for water and sewer mains amortized over 20 years instead of 25. Officials corrected typographical errors at the committee level to proceed.
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Als
Bill Keith
Ald
George Davison
Finance Committee
Keith
Bob Archel
Frank O’connell
Council
Ted Grimm
Lorne Thompson
Public Works
Grimm
Pete Simpson
Public Works Committee
Simpson
Ken Sauer
Utilities Committee
Utilities Department
Public Works Department
Beer strike may end in Alberta contract breakthrough
Edmonton CP report says seven month beer industry strike lockout may end as negotiators reach agreement on a paid half hour lunch to meet a 74 hour working day. Final sign off awaits two locals acceptance with Molsons Edmonton and Alberta Brewers Agents Calgary expected to join. Roy Davis of Calgary ABA calls the dispute over.
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Edmonton
Ponting
Molson
Calgary
Alberta
Roy Davis
ABA
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