Government drug files exempt from Human Rights Act credibility hit
Critics charge Canada's new Human Rights Act fails its privacy promise as over 200,000 drug files remain exempt from public access. They warn many listed may be unconvicted or based on secondhand info and that ministerial discretion can mask errors. An inquiry by Monique Begin seeks to justify the broad exemption.
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Ged Baldwin
Health and Welfare
Monique Begin
Begin
Cabinet
Prison wages could aid rehabilitation and reduce recidivism
The piece argues for raising prisoners wages from 10 dollars an hour to about 4 000 dollars a year to help ex‑convicts save, start small businesses, and avoid returning to crime. It links earnings to discipline, rehabilitation, and societal protection, noting wage scales should reflect work type and progress.
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Donald Yeoman
Poll signals Liberal tilt in May as Trudeau’s hold stays firm
The May Gallup poll shows Liberals at 43 percent, Tories at 39, with Liberal strength centered in Metro Toronto and Ontario shaping the leadership battle. The piece weighs Trudeau’s grip into winter and possible October election depending on July surveys, amid commentary on bilingual services and Mounties inquiry pressures.
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Ottawa
Gallup
Liberals
Tories
Pierre Trudeau
Finance
John Turner
Trudeau
Quebec
Ontario
Toronto
Metro Toronto
Lamontagne Pushes to Renegotiate 1975 Post Office Contract
Ottawa signals a bid to renegotiate the 1975 post office contract with CUPW to avert a national mail strike. Lamontagne cites three to four clauses, including technological change and contracting out, that CUPW could veto as blocks to modernization, while CUPW vows no job losses though plans may shift.
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Ottawa — Post Office
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Gilles Lamontagne
Lamontagne
National Mail
CUPW
Jean Claude Parrot
Post Office
Quebec City
Canada
Southam News Services
Radiation limits raised without fanfare
Saskatchewan inquiry into uranium mining finds a marginal rise in the maximum radiation exposure for workers due to January federal regulations. The 1,050 page Cliff Lake report says the change creates ambiguity and could push total limits higher, while an Atomic Energy Control Board official notes the rise is not as dire as it first appears.
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Cliff Lake Board of Inquiry Into
Uranium Mining
International Commission On Radiological Protection
Saskatchewan
E.D. Bayda
Ottawa
Federal Atomic Energy Control Board
Bill Bush
Southam News Services
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Douglas Fisher
William Davis
Albert Roy
Davis
GR. Smith
Willowdale
Smith
Roy
Tom Wells
Montreal
Jean Chretien
Jacques Parizeau
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Security Service
Force
MacDonald
Mounties
Justice MacDonald
Peter Calamar
Regina
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