Canada plans $3.5 million July 1 celebration
State Secretary John Roberts announced a coast to coast Canada Day program with a $3.5 million budget, aiming to revive centennial spirit since 1967. The plan includes a CBC televised three hour special, a Parliament Hill fireworks show, regional parades, and a 1 000 community coordination effort with the Council of Canadian Unity.
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Ottawa
John Roberts
Parliament Hill
Quebec
Roberts
The
Commons
Canada
Bernard Ostry
CBC English
Council of Canadian Unity
John Diefenbaker
Diefenbaker
Gulf and Mobil curtail Mackenzie Delta projects
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd and Mobil Oil Canada Ltd say Mackenzie Delta natural gas exploration on their Pars ons Lake leases will be curtailed until the federal government clarifies land regulations and approves a northern pipeline. The partners have invested over 125 million in the delta with Gulf as operator holding 75 percent.
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Calgary
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd
Mobil Oil Canada Ltd
Mackenzie Delta
Parsons’ Lake
Gulf
Mustard plant proposed for Warner area by international partners
Demeter Agro Ltd of Lethbridge Universal Foods of Edmonton B Heller and Co of Illinois and Sakai Spice Manufacturers Co Ltd of Japan plan a mustard seed plant to supply Edmonton Illinois and Japan. John McDowell says project would expand the local mustard facility with equal partners meeting later this month. Details not released. Gulf Mobil gas project in Delta faces pipeline and land regulation hurdles with a 400 million dollar processing plant contemplated amid a Moratorium on frontier development and a 10 year pipeline moratorium recommended by Mr Justice Thomas Berger.
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Mobil
Gulf
Brock Hammond
Delta
Imperial Oil Ltd
Shell Canada Ltd
S. G. B. Pearson
Pearson
Canadian Arctic Gas Pipeline Ltd
Justice Thomas Berger
Mackenzie
Explosions Hit Madrid Areas as Violence Rises Before Elections
Morning blasts knocked out power to about a quarter of Madrid while in Barcelona two civil guards were shot dead outside their barracks. Officials blamed extreme leftists ahead of Spain's June 15 elections. A Bilbao site had a construction explosion with no injuries. ETA abductors threaten to kill industrialist Javier Ybarra unless a $7 million ransom is paid by Sunday.
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Madrid
Barcelona
Bilboa
Europa Press
Spain
Political hijack ends with talks aboard train in Netherlands
Two South Moluccan elders boarded a hijacked train in the northern Netherlands to negotiate the release of about 60 hostages held at two locations. The AP reports the militants sought concessions from Dutch authorities as negotiations began.
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ASSEN
Netherlands
Josina Soumakis
Hassan Tan
Toos Faber
Justice Ministry
Tan
Airlines clash over Calgary airport rents in ATAC clash
Calgary’s major airlines remain opposed to new transport department rental rates for the city’s terminal. They will meet in Vancouver on June 16 to decide next steps after a fresh offer from the department following protests in January.
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Ottawa
Calgary
Transport Department
Vancouver
Angus Morrison
Air Transport Association of Canada
ATAC
Morrison
Village to be sold to non profit for seniors
Montreal reports that the Olympic Village will be sold to a non profit corporation which will rent about 500 of its 980 apartments to seniors. The CMHC will back a $37.4 million mortgage over 50 years, with the federal 10 percent share under a program ignored by the owner.
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Montreal
Olympic Village
Quebec
Claude Charron
Federal Central Mortgage and Housing Corp
CMHC
Charron
Loto-Canada
Lougheed In Talks With Soviet Officials On Policy
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed met with Leonid Yefremov in Moscow to discuss cooperation in oil, gas, and agriculture with the Soviet Union. The one hour session followed a prior Alberta trade delegation visit and included a note on potential cattle supplies. Lougheed toured the Kremlin, attended a Canadian ambassador lunch, and heads to Minsk on Saturday.
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Moscow
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Leonid Yefremov
Soviet Committee For Science and Technology
Soviet Union
Lougheed
Kremlin
Robert Ford
Minsk
Soviet Byelorussia
Radiation leak unnoticed at Pickering plant exposed safety gaps
The Toronto Star reports a 15 square inch opening in a key containment system went unseen for three days at Pickering nuclear station. The piece cites several serious events in 1976, questions federal safety compliance, and notes a new safety system has been devised after discussions with unnamed experts.
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Toronto
the Star
Pickering
The
Star
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