MPs face bill backlog as Commons returns
MPs return from a three week break to a backlog of 11 bills the Liberals aim to clear before a throne speech and new measures to boost the economy. Critics warn delays risk bitter exchanges as unemployment nears 1.5 million and the throne speech approaches.
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Erik Nielsen
Trudeau
Marc Lalonde
Flora MacDonald
Kingston and
the Islands
Jake Epp
Provencher
Manitoba
Pierre
Judy Erola
Erola
Government House
Yvon Pinard
Alberta Hospitals Face Private Management Debate
Alberta health policy sparks a clash as a minister proposes private management for provincial hospitals while Medicine Hat and District Hospital’s executive director defends public control. Toronto doctors report unethical cancer urine extract treatments being considered for coverage by Ontario plan. Medicine Hat Tigers end a four game skid with two weekend wins.
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Medicine Hat and District
Toronto
Texas
Ontario
Tigers
Medicine Hat Tigers
Premier tours flood sights as Newfoundland assesses damage
Premier Brian Peckford helicoptered over central Newfoundland to inspect flood damage in Bishop's Falls and nearby communities. Officials warned of further flooding from forecast rain while crews clean up and six houses on a steep riverbank remain evacuated and at risk.
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Nild
Brian Peckford
Newfoundland
Bishop’s Falls
Exploits
Bishop's Falls
RCMP
Robert Bond
Environment Canada
Halifax
Peckford
Glenwood
Gander
Turkish jet crash kills 45 in Ankara
A Turkish Airlines Boeing 727 crashed near Esenboga airport in heavy sleet and winds killing 45 of 67 aboard and injuring 21. The plane struck short of the runway and exploded, with rescue hindered by weather and snow. Foreign victims named. investigation promised.
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Reuter
Turkish Airlines
Bulend Ulusu
Ulusu
Istanbul
Paris
Copenhagen
Munich
Esenboga
Anatolian
Alex Cis
Edward Gregory
Turkish State Radio
Peter Andrews
Trabzon
Black Sea
London
Thatcher resigns from Saskatchewan Energy Ministry
Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine announces the resignation of Energy and Mines Minister Colin Thatcher effective immediately. Thatcher, 44, from Thunder Creek, cites family and financial reasons and will remain a government backbencher.
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Saskatchewan
Grant Devine
Cabinet of Energy and Mines
Colin Thatcher
Devine
United States
Thatcher
Thunder Creek
Ross Thatcher
Saskatchewan Mining Development Corp
Saskoil
Joann
Moose Jaw
Allan Blakeney
Pentagon backs first strike capability study says Europe unlikely war by 2000
A secret Pentagon analysis titled Air Force 2000 urges retaining first strike capability despite low odds of Europe war before 2000. The 31 page executive summary foresees limited nuclear war possible, warns Arab Israeli tensions likely to grow, and expects disarmament efforts to fail.
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Southam News
Washington
Europe
Pentagon
Sam
Air Force 2000
Trudeau
Canada
Middle Eas
U.S
Mideast talks enter seventh round in Beirut
Israeli, Lebanese and U.S. negotiators held the seventh session on foreign troop withdrawals from Lebanon and formed a subcommittee to study ending the state of war. A next meeting was set for Thursday in Kiryat Shmona as talks progress.
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Khalde
Lebanon
U.S
Israel
Beirut
Kiryat Shmona
Alrady
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