Levesque accuses Sun Life of leaving Quebec for Toronto
Premier Rene Levesque criticized Sun Life Assurance Co. for moving its head office to Toronto and voting in Toronto with year-old proxies. He urged the company to hold its meeting in Montreal to encourage policyholder attendance and warned it shows a lack of roots in Quebec.
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Montreal
Rene Levesque
Sun Life
Levesque
Toronto
Sun Life Assurance Co
Richard Holden
Quebec
Smith Concessions Reported In Rhodesia Talks
Rhodesia Herald cites Prime Minister Ian Smith accepting universal suffrage with white veto safeguards. Black leaders agreed to a white reserved bloc and Smith's demand for white parliamentary power, with talks resuming to decide how long safeguards remain. Separately, Sun Life proxies dispute grows as policyholders seek access to lists and court injunction threat surfaces in Quebec.
Break-in focus at two inquiries over 1972 Quebec RCMP action
Montreal reports reveal that a high ranking provincial officer approved a break in at the Agence de Presse Libre offices after learning RCMP involvement. The Keable commission heard that federal officials may have known earlier. Coutellier testified the RCMP participation compelled consent.
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Montreal
Agence de Presse Libre
RCMP
McDonald Royal Commission
Quebec
Keable Commission
Rcmp Ac
David McDonald
Jean Coutellier
McDonald Commission
City Hall Plans Stir in Medicine Hat
The council reactivates the 1983 timetable while eyeing a new city hall east of the courthouse. Land including the CHAT Radio property was bought for 922600, prompting debate over urgency and the old building’s longevity.
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Milt Reinhardt
First Street
Chat Radio
Gas City Planing Mill Ltd
Graham Kelly
Ron Clement
George Davison
Lucille Moyer
Clement
Medicine Hat
Ald
Old City Hall
Reinhardt
Europe
Kelly
Sun Life to review move of head office to Toronto
Sun Life Assurance Co will reconvene its board to review the decision to shift its head office from Montreal to Toronto. Finance Minister Jean Chretien said the talks with Sun Life executives, Prime Minister Trudeau, and himself produced optimism that Montreal and Quebec losses could be limited. Shareholders meet in Toronto January 27 to vote unless the board changes course. Quebec leaders have warned of possible investment measures.
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Ottawa
Sun Life Assurance Co
Toronto
Montreal
Jean Chretien
Trudeau
Quebec
Chretien
Rene Levesque
Jacques Parizeau
Parizeau
Levesque
Funeral of Chamorro Fails to Open Dialogue in Nicaragua
After the publisher Pedro Joaquin Chamorro was killed, rioting eased by dusk but the political outlook remained unsettled. About 25 arrests were reported as mourners gathered for Chamorro’s funeral, which was held early to curb violence.
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Managua
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
Chamorro
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Nicaragua
The
Democratic Liberation Union
Britain reels from worst storms and flooding in 25 years
Britain counts the cost of storms with winds up to 130 kmh as floods hit coastal towns. Up to 27 dead or missing, and damage estimated at 20 million dollars by the Insurance Association. Seventeen mariners feared dead after three ships sank in the North Sea and several other fatalities were reported. A Greek vessel Sea Diamond sank near Lowestoft with three bodies found.
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London
Britain
British Insurance Association
English Channel
North Sea
Europe
Lake District
Scottish Highlands
Sea Diamond
Lowestoft
Suffolk County
Rowdy Manitoba meeting shocks Task Force over bilingualism
A Winnipeg audience of over 500 heckled the Unity Task Force with anti-Ottawa and anti-French chants. Solange Chaput-Rolland and co-chairman Jean-Luc Pepin faced boos as tensions over bilingualism dominated the four hour session.
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Winnipeg
Unity
Levesque
Solange Chaput- Rolland
Quebec
Chaput-Rolland
Task Force
Jean-Luc Pepin
Southam Press
Manitoba
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Pepin
Audi
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the Herald
Pierre Laurin
Ecole Des Hautes Etudes Commerciales
Camille Laurin
Laurin
Montreal Chamber of Commerce
Louis Laberge
Quebec Federation of Labor
Laberge
American Agricultural Movement
Sweet Grass
Montana
United States
Morris Larson
Murray Taylor
Bruce Taft
Dan Lander
Coutellier
Supt
Donald Cobb
Roger Cormier
Roger Vincent
Pierre Laporte
James Cross
Jerome Choquette
Bryan Blomme
Council For Dialogue
Union
Social-Christian
Eost
Southam News Services
Cochairman
Liberal Party
Charles Huband
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