Levesque Seeks early talks after national holiday
Premier Rene Levesque said negotiations with Ottawa should begin soon after the Fete Nationale next Monday and he will lead Quebec's negotiating team. Opposition leaders pressed about his possible resignation amid PQ pressure and byelection losses. he gave no final decision date.
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Quebec
Rene Levesque
Ottawa
National Assembly
Liberal
Robert Bourassa
Levesque
Bourassa
Parti Quebecois National Council
Liberals
Chemicals coat Toronto waters
Ontario Environment Ministry report finds Toronto waterfront among the most chemically contaminated areas on the Great Lakes in 1983. Transit of PCBs remains linked to sewer discharges. map data show highest levels at harbors mouths where combined sewers discharge.
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Toronto
Great Lakes
Ontario Environment Ministry
Kate Davies
Toronto Health Department
Ontario
Douglas Wilkins
James Bishop
Wilkins
Bishop
Unrest in Montreal Breaks Train at PSAC Convention
More than 200 Montreal PSAC members walked out of the national convention in Ottawa as leader Andre Senechal warned the largest sector may quit. The union represents about 180,000 federal civil servants and delegates capped at 457 to speak.
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Ottawa
Montreal
Public Service Alliance of Canada
Andre Senechal
Public Service Alliance
Samson
Rights conference ends in blame over Helsinki human rights
The six week CSCE conference in Ottawa closed with mutual accusations as Soviet and Western blocs failed to agree on any proposals to strengthen Helsinki 1975 human rights accords. Turkey Bulgaria clash drew intervention. Canada urged help for Sakharov amid rumors he may be dead in exile.
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Ottawa
Soviet Union
Anthony Williams
Europe
Vsevolod Sofinsky
Turkey
Bulgaria
Harry Jay
Canada
Andrei Sakharov
Sakharov
Gorky
Women press Tory action on equality in charter debate
The traveling Commons committee heard from groups led by the YWCA and the Toronto Women's Health Network that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms obliges governments to do more than tweak laws. Activists cited issues from gendered language to abortion access and noted cases like Infant K, a mentally disabled girl forced to hysterectomy, as proof of ongoing inequality.
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Toronto
House of Commons
YWCA
Toronto Women's Health Network
Kathleen Ruff
Canadian Human Rights Advocate
All-Party Committee On Equality Rights
British Columbia
Ruff
Canadian Abortion Rights Action League
Canada
Robert Kaplan
Liberal
League
Caroline Lindberg
Lawyer warned about liability in Ontario crash case
In Windsor Ontario Kathleen Naegaert lost an $800000 suit over a 1979 crash that blinded her. Justice John Bowlby ordered Naegaert's lawyer Stephen Shanfield liable for more than $50000 in costs to the Elias estate and five Elias children, citing cross centerline collision evidence and new Ontario civil rules allowing lawyers to bear client losses.
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Windsor
Ont
John Bowlby
Ontario Supreme Court
Kathleen Naegaert
Leamington
William Elias
Bowlby
Stephen Shanfield
Naeyaert
Naegaert
Elias
Kingsville
Ontario
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Rights Conference
Shrivels
North America
Tory
Colaman
Diet Centre of
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Kingsway S.E
Medicine Hat
Alto
José Orom
Royal Trust
Dunmore Road
S.E
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