Air Canada fuel mix up tied to Gimli landing
Air Canada acknowledged a metric weight and volume conversion error led to a 767 running out of fuel and forcing a Gimli landing. Transport Canada cites an incorrect fuel weight calculation while investigators seek who bears responsibility amid procedures and gauge issues.
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John Ferguson Southam
Ottawa
Air Canada
Gimli
Man
Transport Canada
Department
Vic Bentley
Bentley
Air Force
Winnipeg
Transport Department
Massey dies at 87 in Los Angeles
Toronto born actor Raymond Massey brother of Canada's first governor general died after several weeks with pneumonia. The debonair star known for Dr. Kildare as Dr. Gillespie and for portraying Abraham Lincoln on stage and screen became an American citizen in 1944.
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Toronto
Raymond Massey
Canada
Los Angeles
Massey
Hart Massey
Port Hope
Sri Lanka Proposes Ban on Separatist Tamil Party
Government seeks a constitutional amendment to outlaw separatist activity by the Tamil United Liberation Front at home and abroad. Sixteen TULF members would lose parliamentary seats. curfew remains in Colombo with threats of shooting violators. The crisis follows ethnic violence after July and a Tamil faction seeking a separate state.
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Atist
Tamil United Liberation Front
Indian Ocean
Sri Lanka
PLO factions agree on truce after Lebanon clashes
In eastern Lebanon the PLO mutineers and loyalists announce a ceasefire after 24 hours of fighting in the Bekaa Valley towns. Police report 4 killed and 20 wounded, with total eight days of fighting yielding 30 dead and 73 injured. Reinforcements stand by in Tripoli as Syrian troops withdraw.
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Beirut
Yasser Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Lebanon
Tripoli
PLO
Bekaa
Cen
Tral
Saed Mousa
Arafat
Syria
Hafez Assad
Cabinet secrecy guidelines sharpen cabinet document cloak
Ottawa reports nine page Privy Council Office guidelines push cabinet documents beyond the reach of the new access law. The rules define confidences of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and bar disclosure even for draft legislation and informal minister chats. Only the prime minister or cabinet can override secrecy. ministers may disclose letters or briefing notes about their own discussions.
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Peter Calamas
Southam
Ottawa
Privy Council
Queen's Privy Council For Canada
Information Ombudsman
Courts
Taxable Free Flights for Cabinet Ministers Questioned
Canadian tax specialists say free air travel for ministers and guests aboard government jets can be a taxable benefit unless guests travel for official government functions. They note the prime minister flew with his sons on an April trip, then paid for a commercial Caribbean flight.
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Toronto
Federal Transport Ministry
Toronto Globe and Mail
Trudeau
David Thompson
Thompson
W. E. Crawford
John Broley
Ministry of Revenue
Transport Ministry
The
Globe
Ottawa
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