Alberta tax incentive package aims to expand small business
Legislature hears plan by Treasurer Gordon Miniely to cut provincial tax on the first 500000 of income for Alberta controlled and resident firms and offer three year tax holidays for new companies. Existing businesses can gain tax-free growth for three years and then a six percent rate to reach 500000, with broadened incentives for resource firms and Investment Incentive Corporations to spur investment and R D in Alberta.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Gordon Miniely
Lougheed
Miniely
IIC
CNR resumes transcontinental service after engineers strike
Canadian National Railways announced in Montreal that it will resume transcontinental passenger service today despite work stoppages by locomotive engineers in Montreal Toronto Ottawa and Belleville.
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Canadian National Railways
Montreal
Toronto
Ottawa
Belleville
Niagara Falls
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
BLE
W.D. Piggott
Monteal
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Ontario
Canada
J.F. Roberts
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Extensive FBI hunt targets Weather Underground in bombings
A massive FBI pursuit focuses on Weather Underground operatives linked to the State Department bombing in Washington and a planned attack on a federal building in Oakland. Officials indicate the group is small, largely white, college-educated, and underground since 1970.
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Washington
FBI
Weather Underground
State Department
Oakland
Calif
The
Weatherman
Chicago
Uproar Over Bribe Charges Rips Ottawa Commons
The 11 member Social Credit party triggered a major uproar in the Commons and at a special committee hearing as they protested Speaker James Jerome's floor rules and held up business with procedural tactics. Leader Real Caouette faces bribery accusations linked to Gallery members and Roc LaSalle.
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Ottawa
Social Credit Party
Commons
James Jerome
Real Caouette
Roc LaSalle
Caouette
Social Credit
Jerome
Rondeau
The
LaSalle
Time running short for Syncrude deals
Ottawa energy minister Donald Macdonald said talks to keep the Syncrude oil sands project alive are far apart on terms as a 1 billion dollar funding package and partner extensions are debated. Ottawa Alberta Shell holdouts seek time while costs mount and a Friday decision looms.
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Ottawa
Donald Macdonald
Macdonald
Syncrude
Federal
Alberta
Shell Canada Ltd
Toronto
Peter Lougheed
Edmonton
Imperial Oil Ltd
Gulf Canada Ltd
Canada Cities Service Ltd
ERCB Approves Petrofina Oil Sands Plant North of Fort McMurray
The Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board approves a 122,500 barrel per day oil sands plant by Petrofina Canada Ltd and five partners 48 miles north of Fort McMurray. Construction could start January 1978 pending cabinet approval. It also backs a 250 megawatt power plant using coke and process gas as fuel while urging feasibility checks on coke sources and environmental impact.
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Clagary
Alberta Energy Resources Conservation Board
ERCB
Petrofina Canada Ltd
Alberta Oil Sands
Fort McMurray
Alberta
Petrofina
Pacific Petroleum Ltd
Hudson Bay Oil and Gas
Murphy Oil
CanDel Oil Ltd
Calgary
Shell Canada Ltd
Shell
Daphne
Canadian Tour Plane Crash Adds to Dominican Republic Tragedy
Twenty six Canadians aboard a tour plane that crashed in Santo Domingo were part of a Toronto booked group heading through the Dominican Republic and Haiti. A preliminary list shows 26 Canadians and one American injured, with about 110 people on the main tour.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Haiti
R. B. MacKenzie
Yurko awaits report on Alberta Ontario pipeline integrity
Alberta Environment Minister Bill Yurko said he is waiting for a report from Interprovincial Pipeline Co. on the pipeline between Alberta and Ontario. He notes ongoing investigations into a high spill rate over 17 months totaling over five million gallons and concerns over aging lines and possible replacements.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Bill Yurko
Interprovincial Pipeline Co
Ontario
Minnesota
Yurko
Strome
Alta
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Terry Phorley
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Miss Folkins
Grimm
Faye Johner
Charles Virtue
Games Society
Medicine Hat Police Boys
Jim Mill
CNR
Canada Labor Relations Board
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