Energy tax breaks fall short for oil industry
Calgary executives say the federal package worth 2 billion dollars in tax breaks and benefits is timid and too short lived to lift exploration. Industry leaders note the measures are less than Alberta’s recent 5.4 billion package and cite weak investor confidence and uncertain timelines as barriers to major development.
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Steve Merts
Calgary
Marc Lalonde
Alberta Energy
Merv Leitch
Ottawa
Alberta
R. H. Carlyle
Canadian Petroleum Association
Bob Buchanan
Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors
Buchanan
Gray
Supreme Court limits air traffic controllers strike rights
The Supreme Court of Canada rules unanimously that the government may designate all public air traffic controllers as essential, barring their right to strike. The decision upholds Treasury Board’s expansion of essential services and signals a shift in public service bargaining and operations nationwide.
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Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Troller
Canada
Goverment
Public Service
Canadian
Air Traffic Controllers Association
CATCA
Federal Public Service
Treasury Board
Government House
Public Service Unions
Public Service Staff Relations Board
PSSRB
Federal Court of Appeal
Public Service Staff Relations Act
Supreme Court
Pope Rebuffs Protestants as Edinburgh Meeting Continues
Pope John Paul met Scottish Protestant leaders amid a large hostile protest in Edinburgh. Protestants, led by Ian Paisley, jeered and threw objects but no one hit the Pope. The visit included ecumenical talks with Presbyterian Moderator John McIntyre and an open-air Mass in Glasgow's Bellahouston Park.
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Edinburgh
John Paul
Glasgow
Britain
Gordon Cardinal Gray
Scotland
Bellahouston Park
Ian Paisley
Northern Ireland
Paisley
Presbyterian Church of Scotland
My Father
Liverpool
John McIntyre
General Assembly Hall
John Knox
McIntyre
Argen
Fate of Carmont oil plan to be decided this week
Montreal news reports the five remaining partners in the Carmont heavy oil upgrader will meet Wednesday to decide if the $1.5 billion project can be salvaged. Shell Canada pulled its 16 percent stake and plans a $30 million refinery revamp to cut heavy oil surplus by about half.
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Carmont Oil
Montreal
Carmont
Shell Canada Ltd
Shell
Jacques Viau
William Menzel
Gulf Canada Ltd
Texaco Canada Ltd
Petro-Canada Ltd
BP Oil Ltd
Soquip
Quebec
Oil Development Agency
Gulf
Nicolas Gravino
Ottawa
Gravino
Imperial Oil Ltd
Philippe Hervieu
Nesbitt Thomson Bongard Inc
Hervieu
Hibernia
Newfoundland
Greenpeace plans nuclear protest in Saint John port
Greenpeace activists aboard the Rainbow Warrior sail into Saint John to plan opposition to shipments of 3000 uranium fuel bundles from Moncton to Argentina. Local 273 IL A members threaten to refuse handling if Saint John ships the bundles, with Montreal Halifax and U S ports possible.
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Saint John
N.B
Greenpeace
Rainbow Warrior
Argentina
Moncton
Combustion Engineering Superheater Ltd
Abel LeBlanc
International Longshoreman's Association
Atlantic Canada
Boston
Michael Mondson
Greenpeace Canada
Canada
Mondson
Montreal
Halifax
United States
Ian Skinner
Combustion Engineering
Portsmouth
N.H
Korean C-123 crash kills 49 soldiers and 4 crew
A South Korean air force C-123 transport plane crashed about 16 kilometers from Seoul during an airborne landing mission. Forty nine soldiers and four crew members died, with officials citing a sudden weather change after takeoff and offering no further details.
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Seoul
Reuter
Air Force
Defence Ministry
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Jim Gray
Canadian Hunter Exploration Ltd
U.S. Army
Fifth Corps
Frankfurt
West Germany
Reagan
Ronald Martland
Board
Lyle
Onalae
Plater
Simpsons-Sears Ltd
Seara
C.C.D
Auto Centre
Medicine Hat
Sears
Tire and Auto Centre
Tina
Falkland Islands
Manchester
York
Stelco
Ultragard
Stelco Inc
Medicine Hat Steel
Tonys Floor Styles Ltd
RED Carpet Service
S. Railway
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