Sun Life faces Montreal to Toronto head office shift
Controversy grows after Sun Life Assurance Co reveals plan to move its headquarters to Toronto citing Quebec language law. Royal Bank of Canada pledges to stay in Montreal, while Quebec groups condemn the move as a potential French English divide and consider state intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Sun Life Assurance Co
Toronto
Rowland Frazee
Royal Bank of Canada
Canada
Quebec
Royal Bank
Sun Life
Quebec RCMP inquiry resumes hearings in Montreal
Quebec's inquiry into the RCMP, led by Jean Keable, resumes public hearings as it presses Solicitor-General Francis Fox for RCMP files. Fox faces possible contempt if he fails to appear or comply. The dispute centers on whether a provincial panel may investigate federal police activity, with appellate tests upcoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Ottawa
Quebec
Commission of Inquiry
RCMP
Francis Fox
Jean Keable
Quebec City
Fox
Keable
Quebec Court of Appeal
Commission
Montreal police return to old work schedules
The Montreal Urban Community wins a permanent injunction ordering the Policemen's Brotherhood to return to the five day schedule. Some officers reportedly call in sick with the Vignola flu named after police director Henri-Paul Vignola. Union leaders expect a Tuesday meeting on new proposals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Quebec Superior Court
Montreal Urban Community
MUC
Policemen’s Brotherhood
Pierre Lenoir
Vignola
Henri-Paul Vignola
Pierre Des Marais II
Shah of Iran Supports Egypt Peace Drive in Cairo Visit
The shah of Iran arrived in Egypt for talks with Anwar Sadat and immediately declared support for the Egyptian president’s bold Middle East peace initiative. He said Egypt is doing precisely what is necessary to seek peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iran
Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Middle East
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Upper Nile
Aswan
Sadat
Israel
Syria
Libya
Palestine Liberation Organization
Nile
Shah
Saudi Arabia
Khaled
Moshe Dayan
Begin
Tel Aviv
Sinai
Jewish Agency
RCMP Fake Communique Warned Quebec Terrorists
RCMP Security Service in Montreal drafted and issued a fake communique in December 1971 urging violence by Quebec terrorists. Solicitor-General Francis Fox disclosed the action, noting the document was treated as genuine by Quebec police and Ottawa HQ, and by Jean-Pierre Goyer. Chief Supt. Donald Cobb authorized it and later pleaded guilty to an unrelated raid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
RCMP
Montreal
Quebec
Francis Fox
Fox
Fluebec
Jean-Pierre Goyer
la Minerve
Front de Liberation du Qubec
Vietnam close to securing border zone in Cambodia clash
Western diplomats doubt Cambodia's claimed victories as Vietnam's army of about 600,000 dwarfs Cambodia by roughly ten to one. Diplomats note Vietnamese forces may have penetrated up to 32 kilometres but have no plan to seize Phnom Penh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangkok
Reuter
Cambodia
Radio Phnom Penh
Vietnam
Hanoi
Indochina Federation
Phnom Penh
Energy threat renewed as Carter pushes curb on imports
President Carter told Energy Secretary James Schlesinger that Saudi Arabia France and Iran fear energy imports are wrecking the dollar. Schlesinger pledges rapid move to end congressional impasse on natural gas pricing and to curb imports if Congress fails to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter
James Schlesinger
Saudi Arabia
France
Ira
U.S
Schlesinger
Congress
Henry Jackson
Senate Energy Committee
Morocco
Iran
Cessford Gas Well At Risk Of Capping By Jan 15
A relief well near Welland Creek, 165 kilometres east of Calgary, is being drilled to intersect Gamma Resources Ltd. blowout. Crews aim to cap with water mud and cement after interception, with Amoco and Adair consulted for past Alberta blowouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cessford
Alta
Calgary
Dan Hewitt
Farries Engineering Ltd
Hewitt
Gamma Resources Ltd
Rod Edgecombe
Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board
Adair
Paul
Red) Adair
Texas
Gamma
Alberta
Amoco Canada Petroleum Co. Ltd
Drayton Valley
Edmonton
Suspect to be arraigned in multiple slaying
Simon Peter Nelson 46 faces arraignment over the murders of his six children and wife in Rockford Illinois. Police say the children were killed in their beds with a mallet and knife while their mother Ann Nelson 38 sought divorce and checked into a Milwaukee motel. The attack occurred after marital tensions escalated over the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockford
Ill
Simon Peter Nelson
Nelson
John Seward
Roseann
Jennifer
Matthew
Andrew
Simon Peter Jr
David
Richard Anderson
Michael Weldon
Rockford Morning Star
Milwaukee
Weldon
Also Mentioned on This Page
St. Jean Baptiste Society
Force Investment
Parizeau
Liberal
Raymond Garneau
Garneau
Khartoum
Jaafar el-Numeire
Shah of Iran
THE
Associated Press
McDonald Royal Commission
Cobb
Goyer
Tehran
Menachem Begin
Sinai Peninsula
White House
Jody Powell
Powell
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!