Alberta Faces Dilemma Over Care for Handicapped in Calgary
Alberta Social Services Minister Bob Bogle grapples with closing Baker Centre in Calgary due to building code and fire risks. The plan: three smaller special care units in Calgary Bow Island and Fort Macleod, with AAMR urging community care and at-home supports.
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Alberta Social Services
Bob Bogle
Calgary
Baker Centre
Alberta Department of Social Services
Bow Island
Fort Macleod
Alberta Association For the Mentally Retarded
AAMR
Reg Peters
Bogle
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Social Services
Ottawa extends textile quotas amid political calculation
The federal plan keeps five year quota protection and offers 250 million dollars to modernize plants and retrain workers. Critics argue this masks politics over economics, fearing a long term industry decline while inflation costs rise for Canadian families.
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Ottawa
Herb Gray
Canada
North-South Institute
Inside the Soviet GRU how Russia’s second intelligence service works
The GRU, the Second Chief Directorate of the Soviet General Staff, runs covert operations abroad with a large budget and extensive networks. It controls 100,000 employees across 24 mini directorates, trains terrorists, and uses Spetsnaz units for covert actions including assassinations.
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Soviet Union
KGB
General Staff
Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravleniye
GRU
Moscow
Georgia
Richard Sorge
Tokyo
Military-Industrial Commission
VPK
Ivashutin
Soviet Communist Party
Central Committee
Lenin
Y.K. Berzin
Stalin
Shtemyenko
Kremlin
Committee of State Security
Soviet Bloc
Spetsnaz
Poland
East Germany
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Turkey
Polish Communist Party
Patronage powers Liberal rule in British Columbia
Allan Fotheringham criticizes Liberal tactics, detailing patronage rewards and punishments. He notes BC’s Liberal weakness electorally while highlighting appointments of Ron Basford's successor as coal czar, Doreen Braverman to the Mint board, Simma Holt to the parole board, and Marke Raines to the CRTC, illustrating a pattern of political rewards and influence.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Brooklyn
Dolly Parton
B.C
Ron Basford
Trudeau
Doreen Braverman
B.C. Liberal Party
Social Credit
Royal Canadian Mint
Vancouver Sun
Stuart Keate
Tim Traynor
Energy
Ottawa
Lisa Hobbs
Parole Board
Dave Ablett
Privy Council
Simma Holt
Vancouver- Kingsway
Marke Raines
Burnaby
Ray Perrault
Tommy Douglas
NDP
Senate
Raines
Tadah
CRTC
All Canada
John Meisel
Perrault
Meisel
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J. W
Bud’ Miller
Alan Poirier
France Aleson
U.S
China
Pakistan
Indias
Russia
Soviet Committee For State Security
Kkk
Sanprobal
Crimea
Odessa
Italy
West Germany
Northern Ireland
Kiev
Transcaucasian
Ciscarpathian
Black Sea
Prague
Afghanistan
Aeroflot
Secret
United States
Defense Intelligence Services
Daily Telegraph
London
Allan Fotheringham
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