Manpower Minister backs UIC crackdowns across Canada
In Ottawa, Manpower Minister Robert Andras says Toronto Hamilton disqualifications reveal system abuses and vows no witchhunt. He notes 70 percent of checked cases were disqualified, with more women affected, and assures appeals will stabilize workload as probes move to Montreal and Vancouver.
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Arthur Blakely
Montreal Gazette
Ottawa
Montreal
Vancouver
UIC
Toronto-Hamilton
Robert Andras
Andras
Flora MacDonald
Kingston and
the Islands
Toronto- Hamilton
Quebec Social Credit
Manpower Department
The
Unemployment Insurance Commission
Cypress Hills Park to Expand Under $5 Million Upgrade Plan
Edmonton officials announced a $5 million expansion and upgrade program for Cypress Hills Provincial Park to be carried out over the next five to 10 years. Work will be targeted across six to eight parks each year as part of a broader effort to upgrade all 51 parks. Park officials cited rising visitation, with Cypress Hills drawing 742,699 visitors in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year, and scheduled master plans to guide future use and public hearings.
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Edmonton
Cypress Hills Provincial Park
Lands and Forests
Allan Warrack
Cypress Hills Park
Dr. Warrack
Gordon Miniely
Tom Drinkwater
Drinkwater
IRA halts program at Ulster national meeting after IRA threat
Belfast CP reports Northern Irelands biggest horse racing event was cancelled after republican militants threatened to blow up the Downpatrick track. Provisional IRA warned fans trainers and jockeys to stay away and warned of possible car hijackings as two members died in a bombing at the same track last year.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Downpatrick
Here
Farran appointed Alberta Minister of Consumer Affairs
Premier Peter Lougheed created a Department of Consumer Affairs and named Roy Farran, MLA for Calgary North Hill, to lead it. Bob Dowling, MLA for Edson, becomes Minister with Tourism retained. Dowling replaces Len Werry who died. Farran will also oversee telecoms and utilities reforms and the rural natural gas plan.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Department of Consumer Affairs
Calgary
Len Werry
Bob Dowling
Edson
Alberta
Werry
Roy Farran
Calgary North Hill
European airlines avoid French skies after deadly midair collision
Six major European airlines ordered pilots to bypass France during the air traffic controllers strike following a crash near Nantes at 29 000 feet that killed 68 people. Air France Air Inter Ufaplus British European Airways Caledonia Iberia among those delaying over French air space. SAS reroutes via Britain and Germany.
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Ben Tierney
Southam News Services
Paris
France
Nantes
European Airlines
Air France
Air Inter
Ufa
British European Airways
Caledonia
Iberia
Scandinavian Airlines
AIR
Canada weighs withdrawal from Vietnam supervisory commission
Canada moves toward exiting the four power supervision group in Vietnam unless conditions improve. External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp warned withdrawal could come before March 28, citing Paris talks as insufficient to establish a permanent political authority. The test remains cease fire violation reports to the four combatants in the next weeks.
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Peter Calamas Southam
Ottawa
Canada
Foumation International Supervisory Commission
Vietnam
Mitchell Sharp
Commons
Sharp
Paris
International Commission For Control and Supervision
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West Canadian Microfilm Ltd
West Calgary
Alta
Cypress Hills
Heather Forton
Toronto
Miss Forton
IRA
Farran
Gordon Pollard
the News
Consumer Affairs
Licencing of Trades and Businesses
Department of Industry and Commerce
Attorney-General’s Department
Public Utilities Board
Dowling
Pease Jirive
AMA
Medicine Hat
John Diefenbaker
Claude Wagner
Mr. Sharp
Wagner
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