Alberta challenges federal control of grain industry
Alberta moves to create an Alberta driven grain handling and transport system with inland terminals hopper cars and a coast dock plan. Critics warn the program risks chaos for Saskatchewan and Manitoba farmers and bypasses Wheat Board regulation. Grain ministers and industry leaders debate authority and implications for Canada’s marketing system.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ottawa
Prairie
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Dallas Schmidt
Gordon MacMurchy
Canada
Manitoba Wheat Pool
Wallace Fraser
Wheat Board
Vancouver
Agriculture
Hugh Horner
Alberta Grain Commission
John Channon
Channon
Commission
West
Prince Rupert
Calgary
Sam Scharf
Alberta Terminals Ltd
Alberta Terminals
Federal
Grain Transportation Authority
Scharf
Alberta Agriculture
Peter Perkins
Winnipeg
Howard Falkenberg
Unifarm
Permisson
Schmidt
GTA
Fraser
Gary Dewer
Alberta Wheat Pool
Pacific Terminals Ltd
Douglas Radke
Econ Consulting Ltd
Alec Kowalchuk
Alberta Pool Transport
Neptune
Linkage tensions shape U S Soviet policy race
A White House strategy known as linkage seeks to tie arms talks to restraint in Afghanistan Vietnam Cuba and the Middle East. Haig plans to press for a withdrawal from Afghanistan and restraint in Vietnam Cuba and Nicaragua while Moscow pushes a more cooperative stance. The feud risks miscalculation as hard rhetoric clashes with Moscow’s insistence on nonconfrontation and limits to U S pressure.
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Moscow
Poland
Ronald Reagan
Leonid Brezhnev
Washington
Alexander M. Haig
New York
Andrei Gromyko
Haig
Europe
Afghanistan
Vietnam
Cambodia
Cuba
Angola
Nicaragua
Latin America
Mideast
Persian Gulf
Soviet Union
Reagan
Henry Kissinger
U.S
Brezhnev
United States
Africa
Ethiopia
OPEC
Japan
Pakistan
China
Kremlin
Anatoly Dobrynin
Jack Matlock
Foreign Ministry
Federation hosts forum on shielding minors from pornography
The Quebec Federation of Women led a forum urged governments and the public to pass laws removing pornography from minors. Hundreds of organizations and thousands signed a petition presented to the federal justice minister. The federation argues adults’ freedom ends where minors’ innocence and emotional maturity begin.
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Montreal
la Presse
Quebec Federation of Women
Letters from readers weigh Trudeau era debates in Ottawa
A selection of reader letters from Ottawa and across Canada discuss language policy, constitutional changes, Western separatism, imperial vs metric measures, political satire, and national unity. Contributors include Andre Joly of Touraine Quebec Tom Brooks of Ottawa Joel Lidster of Whitehorse P J Andrishak of Elk Point and others.
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Ottawa
Andre Joly
Touraine
Que
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Tom Brooks
Parliament Hill
Echo L.R. Lidster
Whitehorse
Y.T
Quebec
West
P.J. Andrishak
Elk Point
Alberta
West Canada
Jim
Lillian McEvoy
Dundas
Ont
George Hees
Hees
Sam MacLean
Trudeau
Roberta M. Sergeant
Calgary
Doris S.H. Hoogestraat
Medicine Hat
Jean M. Arnold
Richmond
B.C
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Kelly McParland
Rick Boychuk
British Columbia
B.C. Shippers Clearance Association
Gary Dewar
Southam News
Eugene Whelan
William Beecher
Charles Lynch
I. Carroll
Hawaii
D.W. McCallister
C.I. McMillan
Niagara-on-the-Lake
P. Thorpe
Westmount
P.Q
Ralph Vigon
Pine Lake
Doreen Barrie
Sandra Vanderwood
Okanagan Centre
Alexander