Winnipeg lab move delayed by rising costs
Defence Minister Barney Dawson cited cost escalation from 11.5 million to 25 million as the key reason for postponing indefinitely the military research laboratory in Winnipeg. He said Canada will re-evaluate military research spending and consult NATO partners before proceeding. The lab, announced in 1974, was to employ 70 scientists and 130 staff.
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Defence
Barney Dawson
Dawson
Canada
NATO
Canadian Forces Air Command
James Richardson
Ottawa
Punchy federalist show ends PMs Quebec tour
Prime Minister Trudeau aided by three Quebec MPs closed a bold pro federalist run in Quebec City. He attacked separatism and urged national tolerance at a Liberal function, warning of two battles ahead including five federal by elections in Quebec.
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Paul Gessell
Trudeau
Mr. Trudeau
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Andrew Ouellet
Marc ‘Lalonde
Chateau Frontenac
Marchand
Liberdroli
Louis-Hean
Claude Morin
Parti Quebecois
Vancouver
Rene Levesque
York
Canada
Mr. Levesque
Levesque
Quebec City
Pop Shoppes fined for contaminated bottled drinks
EDMONTON CP Pop Shoppes Alberta Ltd was fined 1600 in provincial court after dead insect larvae and plastic sticks were found in bottled drinks. The firm pleaded guilty to four charges under the Federal Food and Drug Act and faced 400 per charge. Judge Dean Saks criticized slip shod inspection methods. Crown prosecutor Shelagh Creagh said health officials had warnings after consumers reported a plastic stir stick and plastic straws in bottles, with a fourth bottle then found. Defence lawyer Paul Sully said detection and sanitizing equipment were being improved.
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Edmonton (Cp
Pop Shoppes (Alberta) Ltd
Dean Saks
Crown
Shelagh Creagh
Court City
Paul Sully
Gas and oil treaty signed between Canada and United States
Canada and the United States signed a treaty in Washington under which each nation agrees not to interfere with the other's gas and oil in transit. Canada commits not to tax or interfere with American gas or oil via the Mackenzie Valley pipeline, while the U.S. agrees not to interfere with Canadian gas moving on the Great Lakes Transmission line.
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Canada
United States
Washington
Mackenzie Valley
U.S
Emerson
Man
Sarnia
Ont
Great Lakes
TransCanada PipeLines Ltd
Mackenzie
Alaskan
North Slope
Jack Warren
Julius Katz
London blasts rock Oxford Street and Soho area
Police warn Londoners to expect more bombs after 11 explosions hit Oxford Street and Soho. Three fires started but no injuries reported. Authorities detained two men seen acting suspiciously in the area.
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London
Oxford Street
Soho
Ottawa explosion injures woman. London bomb spree unfolds
A 19 year old woman loses an arm and a leg in a car explosion in Ottawa. Nancy Larose and Gordon Martin, 24, were hurt. Martin in satisfactory condition. Scotland Yard warns of further blasts. dozen streets cordoned. Oxford Street and Soho hit by fires and shattered windows as eight bombs explode in a wave from midnight.
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Nancy Larose
Gordon Clifford Martin
Martin
Scotland Yard
Central Criminal Court
The
Old Bailey
Irish Republican Army
London
Jim Nevill
Oxford Street
Two Die in Weekend Hostage Incident in Alberta and California
RCMP report a hostage situation near Vauxhall Alberta ended with 39 year old June Waddle killed after her attacker commandeered a vehicle and fled. In California, a distressed air salesman fatally dived a twin engine Piper Cherokee into the Pacific after telling radio they were going in, with Coast Guard confirming no wreckage found.
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Edward Beroza
Coast Guard
San Francisco
Beroza
RCMP
Waddle
Vauxhall
Alberta
Robert Joseph Legacy
Calgary General Hospital
Ottawa Finance Minister backs weight tax on heavier cars
Finance Minister Donald Macdonald rejected opposition calls for lighter car tax cuts as the Commons approved a bill imposing a weight tax on most cars produced since last fall. Cars under 4425 pounds are exempt. wagons and vans get a 5000 pound threshold. Tax rates start at 30 dollars for up to 100 pounds over the limit and climb by 40, 50, then 60 dollars per extra 100 pounds.
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Donald Macdonald
Commons
Senate
Macdonald
The
Sinclair Stevens
York -Simcoe
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