MP Denies Charges About Nigeria Delegation
Medicine Hat MP H A Bud Olson rejects professor Anglin’s claim that Canadians left a bad impression in Nigeria. Olson says his five of 12 Canadian delegates found Nigerians welcoming and found officials and citizens friendly. The dispute centers on a letter from Ibadan in Nigeria.
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Ottawa Citizen
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Argue Lashes At PM Over Rail Line Abandonments
Hazen Argue and fellow Liberal MPs criticized Prime Minister Diefenbaker for alleged arrogance and contempt after refusing to discuss prairie rail line abandonments. The trio met Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Farmers Union representatives to discuss agriculture policy ahead of a Prairie rally. Argue urged a full inquiry into abandonment effects weighing railway savings against costs to farmers and municipalities.
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Roger Teillet
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Crow’s Nest
Albertans Discover British Columbia A Satirical Note
A west coast column jokes that British Columbia is "Discovered by Albertans" with Rogers Pass opening in 1962. It mocks myths of BC and quips that July 30 1962 marks BC’s discovery, noting 7000 motorists attended and politicians posed with blue ribbon. It ends with a call for BC to reciprocate and discover Alberta.
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UN Chief Skeptical About Katanga Secession
Elisabethville reports President Moise Tshombe of Katanga today sent a note to the United Nations claiming the secessionist movement remains firm while critics question its viability. The scene adds to growing tensions as international observers urge restraint and dialogue.
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Elisabethville
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Liberal To Join NDP Liberal To Join NDP
Vincent Kelly former Liberal MP for Lanark resigns from the Liberal Party to join the New Democratic Party over Lester Pearson’s nuclear arms policy. He argues Pearson’s call for Canadian warheads for NORAD and NATO betrays Liberal policy and urges reform within the NDP.
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New Democratic Party
Lester Pearson
Kelly
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NATO
Canada
Khrushchev Attacks China and Urges Unity at East Berlin
Khrushchev condemned China indirectly during a speech to the East German Communist congress in East Berlin. He warned Peking to mend its ways, touted a Cuban crisis victory, urged a German peace treaty, and predicted a global spread of communism while pledging unity among Soviet allies.
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Castro Deplores Split In Communist World
Fidel Castro denounced divisions in the Communist bloc and urged exploited masses to rise in revolution. Speaking to a Congress of American Women in Havana, he argued history is made by the masses and hinted at a possible peaceful transition, though not yet realized. Delegates from the U.S. and Canada joined observers from Europe and Asia at the five day conference on women's rights and duties.
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Od Canadar
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Asia
Fulton Calls Story Dirty About Diefenbaker Health
Works Minister Fulton labeled a Le Devoir report on Prime Minister Diefenbaker a dirty story. He denied the claims, stating the prime minister is not suffering from Parkinson's disease. Fulton stated he has known Diefenbaker for over 15 years and dismissed the allegations as untrue.
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Victoria
Fulton
Diefenbaker
Montreal
le Devoir
Freedomites Move Toward Vancouver by Bus Caravan
About 600 Doukhobors in two buses and cars left the Fraser Valley camp near Hope headed for Vancouver. RCMP said they would not disclose destinations though drivers were told to reach the city’s CPR pier area for ferries to Nanaimo. Authorities may pursue truancy charges for school-age children. camp education had been offered but stopped when water was shut off.
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CPR
Nanaimo
Victoria
Vancouver Island
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Freedomite
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Mounain
Princeton
Quebec moves to drop province term in official usage
Montreal francophone bureau head says premier Lesage supports removing the words province and provincial from official use. A memorandum urged newspapers to stop using the terms, advising they should write Government of Quebec rather than provincial government.
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Montreal
Quebec
Itas
Jean-Marc Leger
Cultural Affairs Department
Lesage
Government of
Edmonton to Get Museum Expansion Plans In Flux
Provincial Secretary Ambrose Holowach announced a provincial museum and archives will be built in Edmonton with construction set for next year. A smaller Calgary courthouse will house the Glenbow collection this summer while Edmonton’s site remains undecided.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ambrose Holowach
Calgary
Glenbow
Holowach
Edmonton Museum
Sask Shops Lose Business Over Border Tax
Residents of eastern Saskatchewan border towns buy in Manitoba to dodge a five percent Saskatchewan sales tax. A spokesman for border merchants says the provincial government ignores the problem.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
Border Towns Merchants’ Association
Predinchuk
Snow blankets Britain as cold wave persists
Fresh snowstorms sweep across Britain deepening a three-week cold spell. A Savoy Hotel fire in London Ontario asphyxiates a mother of six. In India a pneumatic pier plant blast kills forty five and injures twenty nine. A Negro student wins admission case at Clemson College. A British tribunal orders reporters to reveal sources in naval security inquiry.
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