New wheat pact talks slated by wheat council
London CP reports the International Wheat Council will hold preliminary talks next fall to begin firm negotiations on a new world wheat pact early next year. Canada senator Maurice Schwarzmann and Canadian Wheat Board officials attended. The delta between surpluses and price supports heightened tensions as exports and markets faltered, with Europe’s Common Market cited as a major hurdle.
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International Wheat Council
Canada
Maurice Schwarzmann
Canadian Wheat Board
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Australia
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U.S
Europe
Canada rejects role as the helpful fixer in world affairs
Ottawa reports a foreign policy white paper rejects Canada acting as the helpful fixer or honest broker in international disputes. The document, tabled by External Affairs Minister Sharp, marks a shift from Pearson era diplomacy and cautions against defining policy by a hoped for global mediator role.
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Ottawa
Canada
Pearson
Toronto bakery bombed in North York suburbs
A bomb rocked a North York Italian bakery early today, the second bakery bombing in nine days. No one was inside the shop. an adjacent drapery store was damaged. Police allege extortionists caused the blast with eight sticks of dynamite. Over 18 months there have been at least five Italian-owned business bombings in Metropolitan Toronto. Victims’ families remain unsolved.
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North York
Council of Postal Unions rebuts Trudeau on wage claims
A letter to Prime Minister Trudeau from the Council of Postal Unions accuses him of misrepresenting issues in the postal contract dispute. It corrects figures on hourly wages and notes only 2,000 of 27,000 workers qualify for the top rate. The letter urges direct government involvement to end the nine month stalemate as rotating strikes disrupt deliveries nationwide.
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Ontario
Canada
Trudeau
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Ether
Globe
Parenta
Mantrogh
Ontario to accept wage levy supports federal control
Premier John Robarts said Ontario backs compulsory federal controls if inflation worsens. He noted voluntary restraints may curb price hikes but doubt they’ll meet the six percent target. Ontario cooperated with the federal voluntary program but sees inflation as a federal matter and will not impose the six percent wage guideline. Rent control in Ontario remains limited to rent review boards under the new landlord tenant act.
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John Robarts
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Robarts
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John Young
Federal Prices and Incomes Commission
Edgar Benson
Young
Leads in Ottawa blast puzzle police inquiries
Ottawa police pursued two or three fair leads into Wednesday's bombing at a defence department building that killed Jeanne D Arc St Germain, 50, a communications worker. Three others, including two servicemen, were treated and released. No group was named as responsible. speculation pointed to possible disgruntled staff or separatists.
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Defence Department
Jeanne D'Arc St. Germain
Defence Headquarters
Quebec
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G. I. Swaffield
Claude Giroux
Hull
Que
Magna Carta idea gains in British justice report
Lord Shawcross, former Labor attorney general, urges a Britain bill of rights in the Justice annual report of the ICJ British section. He calls it a new Magna Carta for the common man and an example to other nations, while noting limited scope of the ombudsman and urging wider jurisdiction.
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Lord Shawcross
Britain
Justice
International Commission of Jurists
Justice’’s Council
Shawcross
Edmund Compton
U S launches peace effort for Middle East nations
Washington reports a major U S political initiative aimed at peace in the Middle East including a proposed three month ceasefire and a demilitarized zone straddling the Suez Canal. Secretary Rogers withheld specifics on arms sales to Israel and outlined a UN mediated negotiating path.
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Middle East
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United States
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Israel
Ba Saing
United Nations
Gunnar Tarring
Canada proposes 16 percent rise in foreign aid next year
A foreign aid white paper tabled in Commons by External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp proposes a 16 percent increase to 364 million dollars for the next year. It calls for aid to rise as a share of national income, boosts multilateral aid to about 25 percent via IDA, and urges Canadian business to expand in developing countries with CI D A financing for projects where Canadians win bids.
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Mitchell Sharp
International Development Association
IDA
Canadian International Development Agency
Sympathy walkouts spread to Cape Breton coal fields
Sympathy walkouts spreading across Nova Scotia reach the Cape Breton coal basin with 2000 miners at No 26 Glace Bay and No 12 New Waterford refusing to work. About 2500 construction workers on major industrial projects in Port Hawkesbury and surrounding areas stayed off the job for the third day. The strike supports trawler crews seeking union recognition from Acadia Fisheries and Booth Fisheries Canadian Ltd.
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Homer Stevens
United Fishermen Union
Acadia Fisheries Ltd
Mulgrave
Petit de Grat
Booth Fisheries Canadian Ltd
Chedabucte Bay
Lawyers to defend activist Kunstler in Toronto push
Thirty prominent lawyers offer to help defend artivist attorney William Kunstler, famed Chicago Seven figure, charged with assault by two Edmond Burke sect members after a University of Toronto meeting. The list includes Walter Tarnenoisky and James Renwick among others from Windsor and local universities.
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Claxton Rabycard Mediz Ye Dav
Ali Kunstler
Edmond Burke
University of Toronto
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Walter Tarnenoisky
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Schhool
Coralia Pore
Stephen Borns
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