Hat considered for frozen food plant in Alberta
Regina based Country Table Frozen Foods Ltd plans a new frozen food processing plant in southern Alberta. Mel Haddad says the firm may locate near Medicine Hat or Lethbridge and move most processing from Regina while keeping a skeleton staff there. The firm processes vegetables potatoes chicken and meats and aims to hire 78 within five years. No firm site, capital, or start date yet. Haddad will visit southern Alberta next week to study areas and meet officials.
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Alberta
Mel Haddad
Country Table Frozen Foods Ltd
Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Haddad
Regina
Alberta Agriculture
Hugh Horner
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce
Calgary
Alberta Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Department
Expanded guidelines issued for pipelines
Ottawa unveils 24 page northern pipeline rules to protect terrain rivers and wildlife along the Mackenzie Corridor and ensure priority jobs for northerners with required training and cultural orientation for workers. The measures target oil and gas projects and a gas pipeline consortium aims for early 1973 approvals with strict reporting and spill response plans.
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Donsellar Southam News Services
Ottawa
Mackenzie Valley Oil and Gas
Donald Macdonald
National Energy Board
Supreme Court rules against death penalty nationwide
The Supreme Court, in a 5 to 4 decision, bars capital punishment in the United States, reversing three death sentences in Georgia and Texas. The ruling leaves states with leeway to revisit capital punishment in special cases, while maintaining a moratorium on executions and noting 600 inmates on death row across 31 states and D C.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Georgia
Texas
William C. Douglas
William J. Brennan
Thurgood Marshall
Potter Stewart
Byron R White
Nixon Administration
Burger
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell
William H. Rehnquist
Douglas
Brennan
Marshall
Stewart
District of Columbia
Ottawa eyes proposed tax on oil reserves
Federal officials monitor Alberta's plan to tax oil reserves as Ottawa weighs potential loss of revenue and whether oil firms can deduct the provincial levy from corporate taxes. The debate touches equalization payments and the broader risk of federal tax deductions eroding Ottawa's revenue base.
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Ottawa Eyes
Donsellar Southam
Ottawa
Alberta
Finance Department
Peter Lougheed
Trudeau
Lougheed
Dustry
Saskatchewan
NDP
Canadian Petroleum Association
Beef Increase Forecast In July Markets Canada
The Agriculture Canada forecast for July predicts beef supplies will be higher than last year with greater availability of high quality cuts offsetting a drop in lower grades. Pork, eggs, poultry, and various fruits and vegetables are also profiled with regional notes on frost impact and early releases of new potatoes on the West Coast and Ontario crops.
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Ottawa
Federal Agriculture Department
Ontario
Supreme Court voids breathalyser case on right to counsel
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 6 to 3 that motorists may consult a lawyer before breath tests, overturning Clarence Wayne Brownridge’s conviction for refusing a test. The decision emphasizes the right to counsel under the Bill of Rights and limits police delay.
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Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Clarence Wayne Brownridge
Stayner, Ont
Toronto
Brownridge
Ontario Court of Appeal
Roland Ritchie
Supreme Court
Bora Laskin
Farm credit debate sparks attack on agriculture policy
OTTAWA CP Conservative and New Democratic MPs assailed a government bill to loosen farm credit and raise loan caps. The measures expand Farm Credit Corp loans to younger farmers, ease security requirements, and lift the maximum loan to 100000. Critics warned the plan favors large operations and weakens small farms, calling it a small farms extinction program.
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Ottawa
New Democratic
Federal Farm Credit Corp
Don Mazankowski
Pc-Vegreville
Protest Yacht Greenpeace III in Pacific Test Zone
France silent on planned nuclear tests in the Pacific fuels confusion over the Greenpeace III protest yacht believed in the test zone. The Canadian crewed ship sailed from New Zealand in April toward Mururoa Atoll to foil explosions and was reportedly arrested by a French naval vessel and taken to Hai base near Mururoa.
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Australia
Reuter
France
Pacific
Greenpeace
Tahiti
New Zealand
Foreign Affairs
Papeete
Greenpeace III
Hai
Mururora
French Defence Ministry
Paris
David McTaggart
Vancouver
Canada
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