Mix-up at Vancouver hotel leaves cashier shortchanged
A Vancouver hotel cashier exchanged East German marks for Canadian dollars thinking they were West German currency. She gave about 450 dollars in marks worth roughly 68 Canadian. the East German notes are not legal for exchange outside the Iron Curtain, leaving the hotel with worthless bills and police unable to act.
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Vancouver
West Germany
Karl Marx
East Germany
Picket planner jailed four years for fatal crash
William Craig, 39, of Pierrefonds, pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death of three people after a Feb 10 crash. An off duty Nordair pilot, he had nearly triple the legal alcohol limit and no license at the time. The sentence includes a 10 year licence suspension. Three workers Gaetan Duguay, Guy Miron, and Roger Chouinard were struck while picketing outside Wire Rope Industries in Pointe Claire.
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Montreal
William Craig
Pierrefonds
Nordair
Jean-Pierre Bonin
Craig
Gaetan Duguay
Guy Miron
Roger Chouinard
Wire Rope Industries
Pointe- Claire
Memo sparks blackmail claims over NB job aid memo
Ottawa faces accusations of political pressure after a New Brunswick memo urged using federal job programs to aid Premier Hatfield's re election bid. Labor Minister Mombourquette said he sought funds for Acadian Peninsula Fishermen with Musgrove suggesting program alignment. Liberal leader McKenna called the move near blackmail.
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Chris Morris
Fredericton
New Brunswick
Ottawa
Flora MacDonald
Richard MacDonald Hatfield
Joe Mombourquette
Mombourquette
MacDonald
Acadian Peninsula
Bill Musgrove
Musgrove
Hatfield
Gaetan Lussier
John Edwards
Employment Department
British Columbia
Newfoundland
Ontario
Frank McKenna
Island women lose last therapeutic abortion committee
Prince Edward Island disbands the Summerside hospital therapeutic abortion committee after five years of effort by an anti abortion coalition. Health officials signal possible talk with the provincial medical society while critics warn Islanders may seek abortion services in Maine or Montreal at substantial travel and private costs.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island
Alice Crook
Canadian Abortion Rights Action League
Keith Milligan
P.E.I. Medical Society
Canada
Prince County Hospital Corp
Summerside Hospital
Crook
Maine
Montreal
U.S
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