Americans Defy Ban Attend Iran Conference
Ten Americans including Ramsey Clark and George Wald attended the opening of an international conference on U.S. crimes in Iran despite a travel ban. Canadian delegates criticized Ottawa's role aiding U.S. diplomats, while Iran's leader urged non governmental delegates to condemn the U.S. actions.
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Tehran
Ramsey Clark
George Wald
Justice Department
Iran
U.S
Toronto
Michael Smith
Canada
United States
Carter
Hodding Carter
U.S. State Department
American Friends Service Committee
Philadelphia
Friends
Ottawa outlines 137 million plan to create 31000 jobs
Government plans to spend 137 million to create more than 31 000 jobs and training opportunities before March end. Opposition MPs call the package inadequate arguing it offers cosmetic changes and no long term employment for the 937 000 unemployed Canadians noted by Statistics Canada in April. Axworthy says programs target women, disabled, and natives who benefit least from growth.
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Ottawa
Lloyd Axworthy
New Democrat
Statistics Canada
Axworthy
Alberta
Domglas workers vote to strike at Redcliff plant
In a government supervised vote Local 201 of the United Glass and Ceramic Workers backed strike action against Douglas Ltd. 383 of 390 ballots supported a walkout to press for wage and fringe benefit gains. Roy Hoffman said a strike notice is likely today as talks continue to avert action.
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News Douglas Ltd
Redcliff
United Glass and Ceramic Workers
Roy Hoffman
Hoffman
Douglas
Drapeau blamed for Montreal Olympic cost overruns
A Quebec commission reports Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau bore blame for the 1976 Olympic deficit, faulting him for lacking aptitude and for solitary control. It cites extravagant projects and late professional management, with inflation and strikes as secondary factors. opposition member Michael Fainstat questions Drapeau’s fitness to remain in office.
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Quebec
Montreal
Jean Drapeau
Drapeau
Perior Court
Albert Malouf
Commission
Malouf
Paris
Roger Taillibert
Olympic Park
Olympic Village
Michael Fainstat
Postal contract called extravagant in Ottawa
The new postal contract is one of the most extravagant ever signed by the government and will give postal workers a one year wage increase of 26 percent. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says 89.9 percent of its 23 000 members approved, but Treasury Board President Donald Johnston says ratification by the board is still needed.
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Ottawa
Sinclair Stevens
Treasury Board
Stevens
Donald Johnston
Commons
Miscellaneous Estimates Committee
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Johnston
Medicine Hat native among 1979 Nobel physics laureates
Richard Taylor, born in Medicine Hat, helped advance subatomic physics as part of the 1979 Nobel Prize team. Now based in Palo Alto, he remains connected to his roots while earning recognition from a French scientific group for work on weak atomic force, quarks, gluons, and bosons.
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Richard Taylor
Medicine Hat
The
Taylor
Palo Alto
California
Broadbent urges foreign auto plants to build in Canada
NDP leader Ed Broadbent told reporters in Anaheim that the Autopact could be undermined unless Japanese and other offshore manufacturers expand U.S. plants into Canada. He urged locations beyond Ontario including British Columbia, noting 70 percent of Canada built cars go to the U.S. market and pressed Tokyo and Detroit to create North American jobs. He spoke to the United Auto Workers near Disneyland and called for action to protect markets and autoworkers.
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Southam News
Anaheim
Calif
NDP
Ed Broadbent
Canada
West
Canada-Us
Autopact
U.S
Broadbent
Ontario
British Columbia
California
B.C
U.S. Midwest
United Auto Workers
America
Disneyland
UAW
North America
Embargo on grain sales prompts subsidy talk for farmers
Prime Minister Trudeau said Canada may compensate farmers facing lower wheat and feed grain prices due to the U.S. led embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union. Transport Minister Pepin said officials are studying the issue amid price cuts and drought pressures in Western Canada.
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Ottawa
Soviet Union
Trudeau
Stan Houdebo
New Democratic Party
Wheat Board
Jean-Luc Pepin
Commons
U.S
Canada
Australia
Russia
Pepin
Transport, Wheat Board
Agriculture Department
Hovdebo
Liberals
Hazen Argue
Canadian Wheat Board
Len Gustafson
Assiniboia
Saskatchewan
Gustafson
Afghanistan
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Canadian Party of Labor
David Jacobs
Clark
Domglas
Richard Helm
Donald Gibbons
Etienne Desmarteau
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