Prairie grain crop estimates anticipate higher Prairie yield
Pioneer Grain Co Ltd projects a 17 percent rise in western Canadian grain and oilseed output to 48.08 million tonnes for 1990. Wheat could reach 28.05 million tonnes, canola 3.6 million, and barley 11.91 million, with good growing conditions across the Prairies though frost risk in August remains. Saskatchewan Pool also sees potential for a record crop, while Alberta looks for average to above average yields.
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Calgary
Pioneer Grain Co. Ltd
Pioneer
Saskatchewan Wheat Pool
Alberta Wheat Pool
JoAnne Meents
Prairies
Rebels say they will free Trinidad PM
Rebels led by Yasin Abu Bakr threaten to release Prime Minister Arthur Robinson who was wounded in a coup. Officers say Robinson agreed to resign and call elections in ninety days to end the stand off.
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Trinidad
Port-Of-Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
Agence France Presse
Arthur Robinson
AFP
Robinson
Yasin Abu Bakr
Abu Bakr
IRA Claims Responsibility for Killing Ian Gow MP
The Irish Republican Army said it carried out the assassination of Conservative MP Ian Gow, a close Thatcher ally and Northern Ireland committee chair. Gow was killed by a car bomb outside his home, prompting Thatcher to vow the bombing would not halt efforts against terrorism and to attend Gow’s memorial service.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Ian Gow
Margaret Thatcher
IRA
Press Association
Britain
Thatcher
Gow
Hankham
Jane
Northern Ireland Committee
House of Commons
Northern Ireland
Independent
Commons
Hawkham
Mohawks refuse to resume Oka talks amid bridge blockades
Mohawk representatives in Oka Quebec refused Monday to restart negotiations with provincial police. They demand preconditions including international observers and free movement of food supplies and native advisers through police lines, as traffic to Montreal suburbs suffers from the Mercier Bridge blockade. Mohawk negotiator Joe Doom says preconditions have not been met despite government rhetoric.
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Montreal
Oka
Que
John Ciaccia
Kahnawake Reserve
Mercier
Chateauguay
Joe Doom
Vander Zalm seeks end to Kitwancool road blockade
Premier Bill Vander Zalm plans a flight to Hazelton to resolve a standoff between loggers and native protectors near Kitwancool on Highway 37. Native leaders warned of a full blockade that could affect up to 40 loggers, as talks with federal minister Tom Siddon loom in Victoria.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Bill Vander Zalm
Hazelton
Kitwancool
Vander Zalm
Victoria
Indian Affairs
Tom Siddon
Calgary dance troupe seeks legal options after fatal BC bus crash
The Artistique Performing Arts Company hired Calgary lawyer Virginia May to explore fault and possible compensation after a steel pipe load crashed into a charter bus on the Trans-Canada Highway near Golden, BC. Tammy Powers and Jamie Hill died. Emily Rowlands was injured and others were hurt.
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Calgary
British Columbia
The
Artistique Performing Arts Company of
Virginia May
Penticton
B. C
Linda Rowlands
Emily
Golden
Tion
Rowlands
Tammy Lynn Powers
Jaimie Hill
Doe troops accused of killing 600 refugees in Monrovia church
Witnesses and officials say soldiers burst into a church compound at 2 a.m. killing about 600 civilian refugees including many children some with babies. The attack targeted Gio and Mano tribes sheltering from the war as rebel factions clash nearby.
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Monrovia
Samuel Doe
Doe
BBC
London
Gios
Prince Johnson
Charles Taylor
Johnson
Taylor
Muammar Gaddafi
Canadians See Second Consecutive Monthly Economic Decline
Statistics Canada reports May GDP down 0.2 percent after a revised 0.1 percent drop in April, marking back to back contractions the first since 1982. Weakness spans goods and services sectors with construction hit hardest.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Ron Kennedy
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Saskatchewan Pool
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Anthony Smart
Smart
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Kennedy
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