Stanfield Pushes Wage-Price Guidelines to Break Inflation
Opposition Leader Robert Stanfield urged Ottawa to adopt wage price guidelines as an interim step to curb inflation. He criticized higher taxes as brutal and ineffective, urged flexible fiscal monetary tools, and faulted the government for inaction on a prices and incomes commission and Western cash shortages. He warned the minister bets on inflation to balance the budget and urged mobilizing business labor and the public.
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Ottawa
Robert Stanfield
Commons
United States
U.S
Canada
Congress
Stanfield
Languages bill defeat in Commons over minority language rights
In Ottawa a special Commons committee defeated Dr. Paul Yewchuk’s amendment to reassure Western Canada’s minority language groups. An 8-2 vote rejected expanding rights for any minority language, with critics arguing it could undermine historic French rights and national unity.
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Ottawa
Western Canada
Commons
Paul Yewchuk
Athabasca
Allen Sulatycky
Rocky Mountain
West
Sulatycky
David Lewis
New Democrat
Yewchuk
Creditiste
Rene Matte
Champlain
Trudeau and 10 premiers meet behind closed doors
Prime Minister Trudeau and ten provincial premiers held a secret working session in Ottawa to tackle federal provincial relations. They focused on spending powers and regional disparities while noting the secrecy allowed candid discussion. Premiers Weir Bertrand Smallwood Robarts Strom Thatcher weighed in on timelines and significance.
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Trudeau
Ottawa
Union Station
Walter Weir
Manitoba
Jean-Jacques Bertrand
Weir
Bertrand
Joseph Smallwood
Newfoundland
Smallwood
Canada
John Robarts
Ontario
Toronto
Harry Strom
Alberta
Ross Thatcher
Saskatchewan
International Press Institute
College Plans Approved for Medicine Hat Junior College
Education Minister Robert Clark announced cabinet approval of the master plan and first phase drawings for Medicine Hat Junior College. Phase one will create about 152,200 square feet of gross area to serve 650 full time students, with construction expected to start early in 1970.
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Robert Clark
Medicine Hat Junior College
Bank of Canada raises rate to 7 percent onTuesday
The Bank of Canada boosted its bank rate to 7 percent effective today, signaling higher lending costs for banks and potentially for prime rates to Canadian industrial customers. The move follows prior U.S. rate rises and aims to restrain credit and inflation amid a persistent price spiral. Finance Minister Benson noted a lending-rate rise by Canadian banks was inevitable after New York banks hiked to 8 percent.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
U.S
Canada
Edgar Benson
New York
Officials await Hanoi response to Nixon withdrawal plan
Washington sources report U S officials are watching for Hanoi reaction through diplomacy or on the battlefield to Nixon's push for a North Vietnamese pull back matching the U S troop drawdown. Early signals appear negative amid propaganda and renewed combat offensives after a brief lull following Nixon Thieu meeting.
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Washington
Hanoi
Nixon
South Vietnam
U.S
Midway Island
Neuyen van Thieu
Tobacco Grower Advocate Attacks Health Ministry
Ottawa CP report notes tobacco farmer Bill Knowles urged Health Minister John Munro to stop pressuring tobacco growers during the budget debate. Knowles said tobacco is Canada’s agricultural bright spot and criticized the department for focusing on cigarette hazards. The NDP motion for income tax relief was defeated 112 to 67 in the Commons.
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Ottawa
Bill Knowles
Knowles
Ontario
Health Department
E. J. Benson
Chinese Soviet border clash in Sinkiang province report
Radio Peking said Chinese and Soviet border troops clashed in Sinkiang with many Soviet tanks entering after an initial exchange of fire near 10 p.m. A protest note claimed Soviet troops killed a Chinese woman shepherd and kidnapped a herdsman, alleging an intent to widen the incident.
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Hong Kong
AFP
Sinkiang Province
Radio Peking
Sinkiang
China
Peking
Peking Foreign Ministry
Barluk
Yumin
Sinkiang Uighur Autonomous Region
Cattlemen urge Olson to counter Basford beef plan
The Canadian Cattlemen's Association asks Agriculture Minister Bud Olson to counteract a Basford claim endorsing a consumer boycott of beef. In a Calgary news release they accuse Basford of ignorance about cattle and question his advice to consumers. They note Basford's own salary increase while beef prices rose and urge proper messaging from the minister.
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Stanfield
Calgary
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association
Bud Olson
Ross Beattie
Stayner
Ont
Baloney
Ron Basford
CCA
Olson
Fred Newcombe
Basford
Leon Weinstein
Loblaws Groceterias Co. Ltd
House of Commons
Special Parliamentary Committee On
Beattie
Cattlemen’s Organization
Agriculture Minister
Crown
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Matte
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Mons
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