Premiers Cool to Federal Wage Controls
Ottawa reports Premier objections to Trudeau wage caps for provincial staff with some support for salary limits but deeming federal timing late. Premiers argue they already limit raises and do so more fairly, naming Newfoundland’s Brian Peckford British Columbia’s Bill Bennett and Manitoba’s Howard Pawley as players in the talks.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Trudeau
Sussex Drive
Newfoundland
Brian Peckford
British Columbia
Bill Bennett
Howard Pawley
Manitoba
Peckford
Ontario
Pawley
Power restored after Medicine Hat storm and outage
A severe thunderstorm swept Medicine Hat knocking out dozens of transformers. Crews repaired 50 to 60 transformers by midmorning as power gradually returned to most areas. Some blocks remained without electricity, including Medicine Hat High School, while TV and cable services faced brief outages. Local authorities reported minimal property damage and no major hail reports.
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Medicine Hat
Gerald Prokopet
Lloyd Jans
City Utilities Department
Jans
Crestwood
Flats
Crescent Heights
Medicine Hat High School
CHAT
Doug Cocks
Cablevision
CFCN
Alberta
Seventh St. S.W
11Th St. S.E
John van Keulen
Lethbridge
Medicine Hat News Offers Free Canadian Flag Page
The paper promotes Dominion Day and Canada Day by giving readers a free full page color Canadian flag, encouraging readers to display it in windows parks or porches in celebration.
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Canada
Medicine Hat News
Pap
Begin orders Beirut withdrawal as army clamps down
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin warned of a 48 hour deadline for the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas trapped in West Beirut. He told civilians to leave and vowed to finish the operation, saying forces would not permit the guerrillas to stay and would advance to drive them out.
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Associated Press
Beirut
Begin
Israel
Knesset
Gouzenko dies and burial confirmed
Igor Gouzenko the defecting cipher clerk who exposed Soviet espionage has been fed and buried, Solicitor General Robert Kaplan said Tuesday.
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Gouzenko
Igor Gouzenko
Robert Kaplan
Non-confidence motion urged over budget in Parliament
Opposition MPs from the Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats push to force an election by testing the Liberal budget in Parliament. They cite falling stock prices and a weaker dollar as signs of public loss of faith and demand a vote on the non confidence motion, with key absences and required attendance noted.
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Leslie Shepherd
Ottawa
New Democrats
Michael Wilson
Wilson
The
Commons
Lougheed rejects reopening energy pact amid price increase
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed dismissed reopening the energy pact with Ottawa to delay a 10 percent rise in the oil wellhead price. He offered little detail but warned changes could erode investor confidence and push the dollar lower as the Canadian economy weighs options at a first ministers meeting. The U.S. dollar traded near 77.43 cents.
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Lougheed
Ottawa
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Canada
U.S
Crowsnest proposal a diplomatic move
The plan to replace the Crow rate with a new rail subsidy system seeks broad agreement among farmers cattle producers and railways. Clay Gilson of the University of Manitoba authored the proposal and Ottawa must now judge it with Transport Minister Jean-Luc Pepin overseeing the next steps and funding.
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Peter Cowan
Southam News
Winnipeg
Clay Gilson
University of Manitoba
Jean-Luc Pepin
Gilson
Pepin
Ottawa
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Medicine Hat Mall
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Con
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John Walker
Crowsnest
Crow
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