MPs allege US defoliant tests at Camp Gagetown during Vietnam era
New Democratic MPs Terry Sargeant and Simon de Jong say a U S Army document shows 1966 defoliant spraying over hundreds of acres at Camp Gagetown New Brunswick involving Canadian Forces. They urge a health department probe amid questions about government denials and potential drift toward the Bay of Fundy.
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Ottawa
United States Army
Camp Gagetown
N.B
New Democratic
Terry Sargeant
Simon de Jong
Sargeant
Selkirk Interlake
de Jong
Regina East
U.S. Army
Gagetown
Health Department
Bay of Fundy
Defence Department
Winnipeg
Vietnam
Trudeau
NDP
Selkirk-Interlake
NORAD
NATO
United States
Monique Regin
Ndp-Regina East
Daily Commons
Alberta Plan Aims to Neutralize Hazardous Waste Time Bomb
The Alberta Environment Council issued 51 recommendations to defuse rising hazardous waste, urging a province wide disposal system within 100 kilometres of Edmonton and Calgary. Costs are set at 30 million per plant, 13.5 million yearly operating, with Crown Corporation management and private sector transport. A site is to be selected and a 1985 implementation target set.
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Edmonton
Alberta Environment Council
Jack Cookson
Alberta
Ralph Mursall
Marsall
Calgary
Mursall
Cookson
Reagan to honor Iran accord despite hostage reports
Washington officials said the administration will carry out the Iran settlement in line with U.S. law, despite outrage over hostage abuses. Vice President Bush vowed to review the agreement, while U.S. officials noted ongoing psychiatric care for 52 freed hostages in Wiesbaden and anticipated a possible return to the United States.
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Washington
Reagan
Iran
U.S
Congress
U.S. State Department
United States
George Bush
William Dyess
State Department
Dyess
Jimmy Carter
White House
James Brady
Wiesbaden
West Germany
Jack Cannon
Women challenge Axworthy over council minutes controversy
Shelley-Ann Clark, secretary to Doris Anderson, says she is being used as a pawn in the dispute over Lloyd Axworthy and the Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She defends her minutes which recount a plan to postpone a women’s constitutional conference, and warns she may take legal action to protect her reputation.
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Ottawa
Doris Anderson
Lloyd Axworthy
Advisory Council On
Shelley-Ann Clark
Axworthy
Commons
Council
Clark
Diplomatic
Canada
Anderson
Elizabeth Batstone
Grand Falls
Nld
Commons Committee
Greenpeace plots flotilla to halt supertankers in strait
Vancouver Island and Washington state groups rally public opposition as Greenpeace chief Patrick Moore outlines plans for a private boat flotilla to block a testing 188,000 deadweight ton supertanker in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Coast Guard maneuvers and safety zones are described as a PR effort to curb tanker risks.
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Victoria
United States
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Greenpeace
Patrick Moore
U.S. Coast Guard
Moore
Vancouver Island
Olympic Peninsula
Washington State
Coast Guard
B.T. San Diego
Strait
San Diego
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Medicine Hat
Ross Glen
Crestwood
Robin Schlaht
ABC News
Mel Scalzi
U.S. Air Force
Algeria
Scalzi
U.S. Marine Corps
Tehran
Cannon
Margaret Blakley
Roy
Utah
Strait of
Juan de Fuca
Vancouver
Seattle
Port Angeles
The
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Northern Tier Pipe Line Co
Trans Mountain Pipeline Corp
U.S. Midwest
B.C
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