Nine die as eastern fires rage in Quebec and Ontario
Fires in Spanish Ontario and Quebec City kill nine people and leave many missing as flames engulf a four story building and six Latin Quarter structures. Firefighters face high winds and frigid temperatures with street closures and detours in place.
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Quebec
Spanish
Ont
Sault Ste. Marie
Quebec City
Latin Quarter
Priscilla Melis
North Shore
Richard Benjamin
Benjamin
Melis
MacEachen rejects stimulus as Canada slides into recession
Finance Minister Allan MacEachen acknowledged a recession and urged Canadians to endure austerity. He argued against new government spending, citing six month lag and higher deficits, insisting restraint is the only path to curb inflation and long term unemployment. Ed Broadbent criticized his absence from Parliament and urged an emergency debate.
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Ottawa
Allan MacEachen
MacEachen
Toronto
NDP
Ed Broadbent
Connians
Canada
Broadbent
Labor
Health and Welfare
Finance
General recommends end to martial law in Poland
Warsaw reports Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski told the Sejm that most martial law restrictions should end by the end of February while elements of martial law would remain in industry. He said 1,760 people have been released and 4,549 interned, with conditions guiding any return to normal life.
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Warsaw
Reuter
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Poland
Jaruzelski
Sejm
Warsaw Radio
Solidarity Free Trade Union
Council of Ministers
Site emergency declared at Ginna nuclear plant
A steam tube rupture in the primary cooling system at the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester New York prompted a site emergency. The plant was shut down and officials said there is no public danger though radiation was released briefly and weather service logged the emission. Fire departments were mobilized with no evacuations.
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New York
Ginna
Ontario
N.Y
Rochester
Gary Sanborn
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Richard Sullivan
Rochester Gas and Electric Co
NRC
Sue Gagner
Washington
National Weather Service
Opposition MPs prepare Commons economic debate in new year
MPs return from Christmas vacation to a charged Commons as Conservatives and NDP press Liberal economic policy amid high unemployment inflation and rising interest rates. They demand amendments or a new budget while Trudeau reshuffles cabinet to boost economic development and schedules a February premiers meeting on the economy.
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Ottawa
Commons
Britain
Allan MacEachen
Bill Rompkey
Tories
NDP
Ed Broadbent
Trudeau
Canada poverty rises in 1980 report
A federal advisory group's preliminary 1980 findings indicate nearly three million Canadians lived in poverty, up about 200 000 from 1979, with the rise highlighted in the report. The note also mentions weather, mail service in Medicine Hat, and a weather map on page 20.
Calgary mayor upstaged by strip tease protest
Calgary mayor Ralph Klein faced a surprise onstage when Toronto model Ann Marie danced a partial strip tease with a message on her panties aimed at him. Klein dismissed the stunt calling it an attempt to humiliate him as the act continued without the mayor.
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Klein
Ann-Marie
Toronto
Ralph
Calgary
World Airways DC-10 crashes in Boston Harbor
An airline official says slick ice on a frozen runway may have caused World Airways DC-10 Flight 30 to skid on landing in icy rain at Logan Airport. Officials collected cockpit voice and flight data recorders for analysis to determine touch down point, speed, and crew communications.
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Boston
World Airways
Logan International Airport
Boston Harbor
Michael Henderson
National Transportation Safety Board
Patricia Goldman
The
Safety Board
Massachusetts Port Authority
Peter Langley
Donald Hertzfeldt
Washington
Robert Buckhorn
Buckhorn
New York City
Eastern Airlines
Montreal
la Guardia
Eastern
Logan
Harborside
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