Alberta approves Bill 44 labor arbitration overhaul
Edmonton CP report notes Alberta's new labor law Bill 44 cleared final reading with little fanfare despite prior outcry from labor leaders. Changes limit hospital arbitration and keep police outside the act while preserving hospital worker strike rights amid ongoing union responses and AF of L critique.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Les Young
Young
Firefighters and Policemen
United Nurses of Alberta
Dave Werlin
Alberta Federation of Labor
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Grainworkers Union secretary predicts Vancouver lockout
The secretary treasurer of the Grainworkers Union says terminal operators will provoke a lockout in Vancouver that will halt grain shipments from the West Coast. Also noted is El Salvador's leftist guerrillas vowing to keep killing U.S. advisers until they exit the country.
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Vancouver
West Coast
Freath
el Salvador
U.S
Regan flights queried and family on government jets
CBC reports that in 1981 Gerald Regan then secretary of state traveled on 15 government JetStar flights with family members aboard on four trips no officials present. One trip to Calgary on April 16 cost nearly $10,000 and JetStars cost $1,150 per hour to operate. Regan was in Moscow and unavailable for comment.
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Toronto
Gerald Regan
Cbc-Tv
the National
CBC
Regan
Sport
Calgary
Ottawa
Air Canada
Jean-Luc Pepin
Moscow
Sharon draws hundreds to Montreal benefit speech protests
Former Israeli defence minister Ariel Sharon spoke at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel to raise funds for a Jerusalem hospital drawing 250 attendees who paid 500 each. Outside, about 1 200 protested and 1 000 cheered as police kept order amid a divided crowd including trade unionists nationalists Arab groups and a few dissenting Jews.
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Montreal
Ariel Sharon
Sharon
Lebanon
Beirut
Ritz-Carlton
Menachem Begin
Quebec
Socreds
Jerusalem
Crawford mum on MD's name in infant drug death case
Alberta Attorney General Neil Crawford refused to confirm a physician identified in reports as the Israel‑based doctor responsible for a morphine overdose death of a newborn last year. A fatality inquiry decision may come this week. critics press for charges while officials review evidence under the Fatality Inquiries Act.
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Lethbridge
Alta
Neil Crawford
Israel
Crawford
Alberta
Candace Taschuk
Health study links Twin Butte illnesses to gas plants
Edmonton CP reports sociologist Earle Snider finds nine symptoms more prevalent near Shell Canada and Gulf Resources plants in Twin Butte Alberta. Using a 93-person, 32-family sample, he notes downwind status from two gas plants correlates with health complaints including coughs nosebleeds and weakness. Concerns grow as critics push for broader study amid Alberta’s sour gas industry.
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Edmonton
Earle Snider
Foothills
Alberta
Twin Butte
Alta
Snider
University of Alberta
Gulf Resources Inc
British American Oil
Calgary
Shell Canada
Gulf
Shell Or Gulf
Alberta Ndp
Grant Notley
PLO mutiny grows as top commander defects from Arafat
In Housh Barada Lebanon Mousa Awad alias Abu Akram a senior PLO officer and Revolutionary Command Council member says he and more than two dozen Fatah commanders have joined the mutiny against Yasser Arafat. He predicts no fighting between factions and cites 10000 rebels including 4000 non military supporters.
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Housh Barada
Lebanon
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Mousa Awad
Arafat
Palestine Liberation Organization
Awad
Abu Akram
Revolutionary Command Council
Fatah
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