Trudeau attacks Alberta medicare user fees in Commons
Prime Minister Trudeau charged Alberta Premier Lougheed with imposing hospital user fees for ideological reasons not to raise money. He noted Health Minister Begin defending medicare as Liberals clash with Conservatives over cuts and access. Trudeau also cited New Brunswick plans on user fees but questioned Hatfield's motive.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
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Commons
Peter Lougheed
Monique Begin
Montreal
le Devoir
House
Begin
New Brunswick
Richard Hatfield
Lougheed
Hatfield
Liberals Sweep Three Quebec By elections In Defeat For PQ
Liberal leaders hailed victories in Charlesbourg Saguenay and St Jacques as a clear rejection of the Parti Quebecois and its policies. Liberal wins in 16 consecutive byeswords since 1976 leave Premier Rene Levesque’s government facing scrutiny amid the defeats.
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Montreal
Quebec
Parti Quebecois
Gerard D. Levesque
Charlesbourg
Saguenay
St. Jacques
Rene Levesque
National Assembly
Shuttle crew cools satellite as SPAS rendezvous in view
At Cape Canaveral the Challenger crew cools an overheated 1500 kilogram satellite in the cargo bay to enable Wednesday rendezvous maneuvers with the Canadian robotic arm. Sally Ride and John Fabian will grasp the satellite for a free flight and rehearsal of a next year retrieval mission amid spacewalk preparations.
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U.S
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John Fabian
Canadarm
Robert Crippen
Rick Hauck
Pope Blesses Polish Workers as Wroclaw Protests Erupt
In Wroclaw crowds clash with riot police after Pope John Paul II blesses workers. Police with water cannon and helicopter disperse several hundred marchers shouting Gestapo. In Gdansk, Lech Walesa ally meets the Pope in Krakow as one million fill the Hippodrome for the pontiff’s sixth day in Poland.
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Wroclaw Hippodrome
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Lech Walesa
Solidarity Labor Union
Krakow
Hippodrome
Lower Silesia
Solidarity
Interpress
Pontiff
Crow block defeats bill at state dinner vote
Ottawa report: Prince Charles and Diana present as cabinet ministers and MPs are hustled from a state dinner to resume a Commons vote on Crowsnest Pass freight rate legislation. The Liberals win 133 to 72 against NDP and PC opposition, amid applause as leaders Broadbent and Nielsen vote. Government House Leader Pinard calls the move tasteless.
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Ottawa
Prince Charles
Diana
Commons
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NDP
Ed Broadbent
Erik Nielsen
Government House
Yvon Pinard
Inflation rate drops to 5.4 percent in Canada
Ottawa reports inflation fell to 5.4 percent the lowest in over a decade continuing a year long decline from 11.9 percent in May 1982. The drop follows the six-and-five wage policy and rebounds in Western regions as Vancouver and Toronto show 5.1 percent with Thunder Bay at 3.9.
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Don McGillivray
Southam News
Ottawa
Canada
Trudeau
Marc Lalonde
Vancouver
Toronto
Thunder Bay
Gas tax threat on Medicine Hat utility case
Medicine Hat faces a constitutional challenge to federal excise taxes on natural gas. Mayor Ted Grimm testified that the taxes threaten the city’s independent public utility, arguing the taxes drain city coffers and impair services. Witnesses include utilities commissioner Winston Kerr as trial proceeds in Calgary.
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Medicine Hat
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Court of Queen’s Bench
Smith
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Ottawa
Paul Chrumka
Alberta Court of Appeal
James Crawford
Winston Kerr
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