Trudeau outlines plan to end regional freight inequities
Prime Minister Trudeau unveiled a broad transportation policy in Edmonton promising to remove regional inequities in freight rates and overhaul grain handling. A Crown freight car leasing fleet would back a regional port restructuring while tariffs for short hauls would not exceed long hauls, with exceptions for Maritimes and Crowsnest Pass.
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Edmonton
Trudeau
Edmonton International
Maritimes
Crowsnest
Crown Freightcar Leasing Corporation
Packing firms propose new deal after union vote reject
Canada Packers Swift and Burns Foods offer a five point plan after 91 percent turnout rejects the mediated settlement. The proposal includes binding arbitration on wages and benefits, withdrawal of lockouts, and a pledge from the union not to issue strikes during arbitration. Ontario and Atlantic plants show mixed support. Alberta and BC workers had rejected the initial deal.
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Toronto
Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union
Canada
Canada Packers
Swift and
Burns Foods
Romeo Mathieu
Ontario
Alberta
British Columbia
Mathieu
Swift
Robert Joyce
Quebec
The
Maritimes
Recovery progresses for Governor General Jules Leger
In Sherbrooke Quebec aides report Governor General Jules Leger continues recovery five days after a stroke. He is progressing to doctors satisfaction, enjoyed a good night's sleep, can eat what he wants, sits in a chair, and walks with effort. Speech remains affected. long term effects cannot yet be determined.
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Sherbrooke
Que
Jules Leger
Leger
Nantel
University of Sherbrooke Medical Centre
Guerrillas kill three to protest Nixon trip
Arab guerrillas crossed the Lebanese border and killed three women including a New Zealand national in an Israeli farming settlement. An off duty paratrooper killed two assailants while the third blew himself up. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command claimed responsibility in Beirut, calling the attack a response to Nixon’s Arab world tour. Nixon was in Alexandria, Egypt, three days before his Israel visit.
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Tel Aviv
New Zealand
Beirut
Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine General Command
Nixon
Alexandria
Egypt
Israel
Nixon Visits Egypt Draws Massive Alexandria Crowds
President Nixon and Anwar Sadat rode through Alexandria in an open car as crowds estimated up to a million cheered. The two leaders spoke of a new era of cooperation and continued talks during a 34 hour train ride from Cairo, with security heavy and Egyptian officials expecting millions to greet them along the Nile route.
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Alexandria
Nixon
Cairo
Anwar Sadat
Nile Delta
Middle East
Sadat
Suez Canal
U.S
Khedive Ismail
Nile
Mediterranean
Ras el Tin Palace
Injured British Soldiers Treated After Base Accident
Two soldiers from the British Army Training Unit Suffield were injured in an morning incident on the base. One remained at the BATUS Medical Centre for treatment while the other was flown to Medicine Hat General Hospital by helicopter before noon. Authorities have not released identities or details of the accident.
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Suffield
BATUS
Batus Medical Centre
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Lawyer pleas for Indians in James Bay case
In Montreal the Cree Indians and Inuit seek to preserve their homeland as the $6 billion James Bay hydro project faces a Quebec Court of Appeal challenge to a temporary injunction. Peter Hutchins argued the land is central to existence and the project would cause significant environmental disturbance and alter native life.
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Montreal
James Bay
Quebec
Quebec Court of Appeal
Peter Hutchins
Hutchins
James Bay Development Corp
JBDC
Albert Malouf
Quebec Superior Court
JEDC
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Ebles Saki
Raphael Eytan
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