Tory MPs clash over GST impact and watchdog cuts
Ottawa MPs debate how the goods and services tax will affect consumer prices with Tory and Liberal critiques. The majority report warns price rises may not be fully passed on while urging trimming the proposed GST pricing watchdog budget from 19 million. Opponents call for scrapping the tax and abolishing the information office, with Senate reviews planned into October.
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Ottawa
Commons Consumer and Corporate Affairs Committee
Garth Turner
Labor
Russell MacLellan
Wilson
Consumer Information Office
Senate
Baker pleads not guilty in Quebec sign language case
Harry Schick 41 owner of Swiss Vienna Pastries pleads not guilty to Law 178 challenging outdoor French only signs while interior signs may be bilingual with French dominant. He faces fines from 60 to 1150 dollars as Quebec's language charter pressure continues after court battles and use of the notwithstanding clause.
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Montreal
Quebec
Harry Schick
Supreme Court of Canada
Parti Quebecois
Robert Bourassa
Chiefs reject Meech Lake olive branch
Manitoba natives rebuff federal outreach to end opposition to the Meech Lake accord. Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Phil Fontaine says the position is firm and efforts to kill the accord will continue. Premier Gary Filmon warns passage by Saturday is unlikely amid blame and public-hearing tensions.
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Peter Bardgeorge
Southam News
Winnipeg
Meech Lake
Manitoba
Brian Mulroney
Ottawa
Phil Fontaine
Metis Leaders Clash Over Meeting Sparks Accusations
Filmon condemned Murray as promoting a shortcut around the rules to wield power and inflict injury on their people. Fontaine accused Murray of trying to split native solidarity after a hastily arranged meeting with federal officials and Manitoba Metis leaders.
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Murray
Fontaine
Manitoba
Daring hijacked helicopter frees prisoners in B C
In daylight two inmates flee Kent Institution aided by a hijacked helicopter. Pilot Fred Fandrich was forced to fly to the prison as machine gun fire erupted. The escapees Robert Ford and David Thomas then fled by car after leaving the tied pilot unharmed.
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Agassiz
B.C
Fred Fandrich
Kent Institution
Fraser Valley
RCMP
Darrell Price
Bear
Price
Robert Ford
David Thomas
Ford
Thomas
Swan Hills plant seeks rapid start on expansion plan
Bovar Inc. aims to quickly expand Alberta's only hazardous waste facility at Swan Hills with a $50 million project to quadruple capacity and to push for lifting the province's import ban. The Swiftsure incinerator at CFB Suffield is under construction for chemical stock destruction, while a citizens committee questions post disposal dismantling.
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Alberta
Swan Hills
Edmonton
Bovar Inc
Calgary
Bow Valley Resource Services
Bovar
Chem Security Ltd
Chem-Security
Swiftsure
Canadian Forces Base
Suffield
Amnesty details police torture and killings of Brazilian street children
Amnesty International documents in a four year inquiry that police death squads in Brazil routinely torture and kill street children. The report notes one third of violent child deaths in 1989 stemmed from such squads and cites cases of coerced labor cards and extrajudicial killings. It covers 1985 to 1990 with testimonies from victims families officials and media evidence.
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Ottawa
Amnesty International
Brazil
Amnesty
RBA
Hello Gueiros
Wells rethinks Meech vote amid deadline debate
Newfoundland premier Clyde Wells suggested dropping the Saturday deadline for ratifying the Meech Lake accord and hinted at canceling a Newfoundland vote. He said resolution depends on Manitoba where native groups oppose the plan and stalled talks prolong. Bourassa urged extension talks but warned against delay.
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Norma Greenaway
Southam
Mystic
Conn
Clyde Wells
Meech Lake
Newfoundand
Wells
Manitoba
Newfoundland
Elijah Harper
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Tory
Eric Beauchesne
Baker
Odie
Olive Branch
Filmon
Mulroney
John McAndress
Harold Fieldberg
Citizens’ Committee
Defence
William McKnight
Rights Group
Sao Paulo State Penitentiary
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