Basford Declares Retirement From Federal Politics
Justice Minister Ron Basford announced he will not run in the next federal election. The Vancouver Centre MP said he made the decision with his wife Madeleine and Prime Minister Trudeau for strictly personal reasons. Basford has served since 1963 with roles including urban affairs, revenue and justice minister.
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Basford
Vancouver
Ron Basford
Liberal Association
Vancouver Centre
Madeleine
Trudeau
House of Commons
Liberals
Richards Schreyer clash over unity and tolerance in Manitoba
Former Manitoba leaders Ed Schreyer and James Richardson presented starkly different views on national unity at Task Force hearings. Schreyer praised Canada’s progress toward cultural acceptance, while Richardson urged a bilingual debate that would bring Quebec into an English-dominated Canada, drawing mixed reactions from the audience and Task Force members.
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Peter Calamas
Southam
Winnipeg
Ed Schreyer
James Richardson
Quebec
Canada
Gerald Beaudoin
Ottawa Law School
Schreyer
Cochairman
Jean-Luc Pepin
Richardson
University of Toronto
John Evans
Evans
Pierre Trudeau
Liberal Party
National Defence
Trudeau
Humphrey Dies at 66 in Minnesota Home
Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey died at his lakeside home near Waverly Minnesota after a long cancer battle. He was 66 and surrounded by family as Air Force One carried his body to Washington to lie in state.
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David Gartner
Humphrey
Muriel
Hubert III
Robert
Douglas
Nancy Solomonson
Carter
Air Force One
Washington
Naval Air Station
Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
Betty South
Minnesota
State Capitol
St. Paul
Lakewood
Minneapolis
Gartner
Sun Life Directors Reopen Debate on Toronto Move
Montreal leaders meet to re-examine Sun Life’s plan to shift the head office to Toronto after talks between Prime Minister Trudeau and Finance Minister Chretien. Board members signal cautious approach while pressure from Quebec officials and potential legal action loom.
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Sun Life
Toronto
Montreal
Dominion Square
Trudeau
Jean Chretien
Chretien
Ottawa
Alistair Campbell
Thomas Galt
Alfred Powis
Powis
Noran
da Mines Ltd
Quebec
Claude Beauregard
Chambre de Commerce de Montreal
Beauregard
Ghislain Dufour
Conseil du Patronat du Quebec
Rene Levesque
Jacques Parizeau
Dufour
Richard Holden
Holden
Canada
Quebeckers urged to stay
STANSTEAD QUE STated by BILL FOX Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau told Quebec English speaking minority that resolving Canada's unity crisis requires unity and dialogue as the federation confronts secession pressures.
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Stanstead
Pierre Trudeau
Quebec
Canada
Post Office Workers to Brief McDonald Commission Hearings
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers will lead first testimony before the McDonald royal commission in Montreal Toronto and Vancouver next week about internal help for the RCMP Security Service to open first class mail. The session will include dozens more groups and individuals including Mr X from Kingston and the Quebec Human Rights League.
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Gerard McNeil
Ottawa
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Post Office
RCMP
McDonald Royal Commission
Security Service
Postal Union
Commission
Montreal
Mr. X
Toronto
Vancouver
Harry Johnson
Kingston
Ont
Rcmp Veterans Association
Quebec Human Rights League
Royal Commission
League
Canadian Labor Congress
Organized Labor
Mounties
Communist Party of Canada
Communist Movement
Church of Scientology
Revolutionary Workers League
People’s Republic of Poetry
North American
Labor Party
Law Union of Ontario
Quaker Committee On Jails and Justice
Law Union of
British Columbia
Sadat pessimistic over talks in Middle East peace effort
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said he has absolutely no hope a principles statement can be agreed with Israel. He warned the talks could fail, following meetings with Israeli Defence Minister Ezer Weizman and ahead of a Jerusalem session attended by U S secretary Cyrus Vance.
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Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Israel
Middle East
Sadat
Jerusalem
Aswan
Ezer Weizman
Mideast
U.S
Cyrus Vance
Weizman
Man Shot in Truck in Surrey During Rush Hour
Gerardus Spaniers, 45, a maintenance worker for a church group, was killed when a high powered rifle shot pierced his pickup windshield and back window. The vehicle lost control and hit a telegraph pole in heavy traffic. RCMP have no motive or suspects. Earlier a separate shooting in New Westminster left a 50 year old man dead.
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B.C
Gerardus Spaniers
Vancouver
Spaniers
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RCMP
New Westminster
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Que
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Stanstead College
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Mr. Levesque
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