Glass plant strike continues after rejection of offer
Dominion Glass Company workers in Redcliff reject a two year contract with small wage gains, voting 164 against and 70 for a new offer at a Medicine Hat Library meeting. Local 201 president Roy Hoffman says a one year deal with a $1 raise remains focus while talks proceed with manager Bill Sellhorn and the strike remains the Medicine Hat area’s sole labor dispute after 110 days.
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Dominion Glass Company Ltd
Redcliff
United Glass and Ceramics Union
Medicine Hat Library
Roy Hoffman
Hoffman
Bill Sellhorn
Dominion Glass
Sellhorn
Medicine Hat
Delayed byelections raise questions in Commons
Ottawa reports mysterious delays in issuing warrants to create six vacant Commons seats. Liberal losses could shrink majority to six while opposition leader Walter Baker plans to probe the delays amid Liberal unpopularity and Quebec vacancies. Trudeau has yet to set byelection dates.
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Ottawa
Progressive Conservatives
New Democrats
Social Credit
Quebec
Walter Baker
Baker
Bach
Real Caouette
Temiscamingue
Albanie Morin
Louis-Hebert
Government House
Allan MacEachen
Prince Edward Island
Jean Marchand
Langelier
Bryce Mackasey
Verdun
Joseph-Roland Comptois
Restigouche
N.B
Montreal-Hochelaga
Liberals
Hochelaga
Trudeau
St. John’s West
Mld
Ottawa-Carleton
Cow-calf program seen as first step toward beef stabilization
Senator Hazen Argue calls the new federally funded cow-calf stabilization plan only a first step. He warns it may not meet producers needs and could leave some worse off than provincial plans. He cites 1976 Saskatchewan Alberta cash grants and compares potential 1977 payments. The Senate agriculture committee will hear from Whelan and provincial ministers in February.
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Ottawa
Hazen Argue
Senate Agriculture Committee
Argue
Eugene Whelan
Senate
Whelan
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Hunters may gain access to Cypress Hills park amid resource limits
Alberta officials propose limited logging oil and gas and hunting in provincial parks to fund recreation while preserving core protections. Cypress Hills may allow hunting under supervision along with a managed wildlife plan. Conservationists criticize proposed park redevelopment as eroding wilderness protections.
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Tom Drinkwater
Recreation, Parks and Wildlife
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Elkwater Recreation Association
Cypress Hills
Parks Department
Brost
Cypress
Brest
Contaminated Swine Flu Vaccine Cleared For Cleaning
Federal health inspectors found 1.6 million swine flu vaccine doses unfit without cleaning after particles were detected. Connaught Laboratories in Toronto works to filter out particles while noting most batches still pass safety tests. The broader swine flu program has faced ongoing manufacturing and processing issues since last spring.
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Ottawa
Alex Morrison
Federal Health Protection Branch
Morrison
Connaught Laboratories Ltd
Toronto
Britain
France
Australia
Holland
West Germany
Connaught
John Kieran
Kieran
U.S
Pepsi fined for dangerous drink contaminants in Canada
In Montreal a sessions court fined Pepsi Cola Canada Ltd 3000 for three counts of selling soft drinks with dangerous materials. Inspectors found foreign particles in 3 bottles from 2000, including glass sand and a book of matches, prompting questions on human inspection limits.
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Montreal
Pepsi Cola Canada Ltd
Michel Lecours
Pepsi-Cola
Teem
Pepsi
Redmond Roche
Posters Demand Teng Hsiao-ping Return In Peking Demonstration
Posters in central Peking praise Teng Hsiao-ping and demand his rehabilitation under Hua Kuo-feng. Thousands read in the Square of Heavenly Peace as police stood by. readers and foreigners translated the writings while radicals face renewed pressure over last April riots and Chou En-lai’s death anniversary.
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Peking
Reuter
Teng Hsiao-ping
China
Mao Tse-tung
Square of Heavenly Peace
Mao
Hua Kuo-Feng
Teng
Chiang Ching
Capital Workers
Chou En-lai
Chou
Man Teng
Hsinhua
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Melinda
By Paul Gessell
Orv Kope
Kope
Les Brost
Drinkwater
Pharis
Ross Hodgetts
Edmonton
National and Provincial Parks Association
Dorothy Broadbent
Red Deer
Alberta Federation of Naturalists
Doug Brown
Bob Bates
Calgary
Juliet O'Neill
Hsio-ping
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