No Action on Rates as Canadian Rail High Increase Stands
The Canadian Transport Commission will not immediately roll back freight rate hikes after the Federal Court of Appeal ruling. It declined to rule on legality, allowing a Friday hearing to address implications while signaling ships will not be severely hurt in the short term. Gordon Blair says Manitoba and Saskatchewan will renew the request.
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Federal Court of Appeal
Railways
Commission
Gordon Blair
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Montreal CN Locomotive Engineers Vote for Immediate Strike
CN locomotive engineers in Montreal voted to walk out immediately jeopardizing a week-old wildcat walkout nationwide. Doug MacAvoy of CBLE said 100 Montreal engineers booked off and Montreal is off the job, risking negotiations and likely delaying a settlement.
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Canadian National
Montreal
Doug MacAvoy
Canadian Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
CBLE
Quebec and
Maritimes
MacAvoy
Turner's inflation comments spark PC criticism in Commons
Ottawa Finance Minister John Turner faced sharp questions from Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield and PC critic Sinclair Stevens over his remarks that wage and salary costs drove inflation. They pressed for clarity on voluntary restraint guides while Turner said talks with labor and business remain exploratory and aimed at mutual understanding.
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John Turner
Labor
House of Commons
Robert Stanfield
Sinclair Stevens
York-Simcoe
Turner
Stanfield
Stevens
Finance
Joe Morris
Canadian Labor Congress
Ed Broadbent
New Democratic Party
Commons
Toronto
Syncrude sticks to Friday deadline amid funding doubts
Syncrude Canada Ltd. will cancel its Alberta oil sands plant this Friday if no new partners and financing are secured. The company demands adequate assurances of a going project as governments consider a 60 to 90 day extension and potential $1 billion investment.
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Ottawa
Syncrude Canada Ltd
Alberta
J. A. Cogan
Donald Macdonald
Toronto
Cogan
Imperial Oil Ltd
Syncrude
Atlantic Richfield Canada Ltd
Imperial Oil
Gulf Canada Ltd
Canada Cities Service Ltd
Atlantic Richfield
Sadat Announces French Jet Purchases Amid Disengagement Talks
President Anwar Sadat disclosed Egypt bought supersonic jets from France to offset Soviet shortages. He kept exact numbers secret, saying deliveries will occur in years and confirming the figure is far below the 120 previously cited. He also aligned with Kissinger on reconciling Egypt Israel disengagement positions.
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Egypt
France
Soviet Union
Sadat
United States State
Henry Kissinger
Israel
Kissinger
Washington
Middle East
Valery Giscard d’Estaing
Paris
Giscard d’Estaing
Europe
Montreal mayor pushes stadium plan for 1976 Olympics
Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau presses ahead with the main stadium and swim hall for the 1976 Summer Games after consultants reject relocating the Autostade. Architect Claude Gagnon says relocation would cost 92 million plus 70 million in related changes and delays. Construction would finish by February 1976. the fate of a retractable roof tower remains undecided as deficits climb.
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Montreal
Jean Drapeau
Autostade
Claude Gagnon
National Assembly
Gagnon
Drapeau
Gerard Niding
Quebec City
Eleventh hour bid to keep Syncrude afloat
Alberta government to meet with Syncrude partners Imperial Oil Gulf Oil Canada and Canada Cities Service in a last effort to secure an additional 1 billion by Friday for the 2 billion Athabasca oil sands project. Premier Lougheed says all options remain open as talks extend 60 to 90 days.
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Alberta
Syncrude
Athabasca
Don Getty
Imperial Oil Ltd
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd
Canada Cities Service Ltd
Getty
Donald Macdonald
Alberta Energy Company
Lougheed
House
Bob Clark
Clark
Harry Strom
Strom
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