Vancouver shooting suspect appears on murder charges
A Vancouver man accused of murder and attempted murder burst into Facit Addo Canada Ltd. and killed Doreen Garbut and wounded Dennis Fea, prompting a four hour siege with heavy police response. Investigators say the gunman sought revenge for firing last summer and wished to join the navy in Russia. He was born in France and had been in Canada a few years. Ins. John Page described tense negotiations during the standoff.
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Vancouver
Guy Jean Barnier
Doreen Garbut
Facit- Addo Canada Ltd
Dennis Fea
Fea
Eugene Kiss
Facit-Addo Western
Kiss
John Page
Russia
Navy
France
Canada
Jean Barnier
Alberta
Fort Saskatchewan
Lougheed
Edmonton
Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Canada Signs First Nuclear Safeguards Pact With Finland
Canada and Finland reach an agreement to safeguard uranium materials and related nuclear equipment and facilities. The pact includes a clause that materials shall not be used for nuclear explosive devices. Canada seeks stronger safeguard deals after India’s 1974 plutonium device and pursues talks with India and Pakistan on upgrade efforts.
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Ottawa
Canada
External Affairs Department
Finland
Atomic Energy Control Board
India
Bank of Canada lifts rate to 9.5 percent in anti inflation drive
Ottawa reports the central bank raised the bank rate from 9 to 9.5 percent aiming to curb inflation amid slower growth and high loan demand. Governor Gerald Bouey said monetary expansion will stay within 10 to 15 percent annually, noting M-1 growth at 15.5 percent since last year.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Canada
Gerald Bouey
Oil price decision delayed after heated ministers meeting
Ottawa energy ministers failed to agree on raising oil prices at a one day private session. Ontario Manitoba and Nova Scotia opposed but Ottawa and Alberta signaled a likely price rise of about two dollars per barrel by late summer, pushing gasoline and heating fuel costs up eight cents per gallon.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Manitoba
Nova Scotia
Alberta
Dennis Timbrell
Saskatchewan
Alberta Premier warns of $3 billion energy deficit risk
Premier Peter Lougheed warned Canada could face a $3 billion energy trade deficit by 1980 if domestic oil prices stay below world levels. He urged review of staged federal price increases and noted Alberta opposes a two price system for new and old oil.
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Edmonton
Canada
Peter Lougheed
Lougheed
Justice retracts allegations In Quebec trial case
Mr. Justice Kenneth Mackay issued a retraction regarding claims that Jean Chretien interfered with a Quebec Superior Court trial led by Mr. Justice Harry Aronovitch. The letter states he has no personal knowledge of a telephone conversation and retracts insinuations about requests to the judge beyond the judgment date.
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Quebec
Kenneth Mackay
Jean Chretien
Federal Treasury Board
Harry Aronovitch
Quebec Superior Court
Liberal Party
Chretien
Justice Aronovitch
Ron) Basford
Special feature marks Education Week in Medicine Hat
Education Week wraps March 1 to 7 with a special feature page on Medicine Hat schools. The NEWS highlights the value of education and directs readers to story and pictures on page 12.
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Medicine Hat
Petro-Canada eyes ARCAN Canada purchase in Ottawa talks
Energy Minister Alastair Gillespie said Petro-Canada, the government owned oil firm, is negotiating to buy Atlantic Richfield Canada Ltd. ARCAN is valued at 440 million by ARCO and produces about 38 000 barrels of oil daily along with 81 million cubic feet of gas. Ottawa set a 90 day window for an independent appraisal while ARCAN holds six oil sands leases separate from the Syncrude project.
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Ottawa
Petro-Canada
Atlantic Richfield Canada Ltd
ARCAN
Alastair Gillespie
Atlantic Richfield Co
Los Angeles
Alberta
ARCO
Syncrude Canada Ltd
Ontario
Imperial Oil Ltd
Gulf Oil Canada Ltd
Canada Cities Service Ltd
Gillespie
Canada Teachers Strike Wave Across Provinces
The Canadian Press reports widespread labor action with at least 23 400 teachers on strike or locked out this week across Quebec Ontario and other regions. Protests include 22 000 Quebec Teachers Federation members in Montreal area and rotating strikes in Sault Ste Marie and Kent County.
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Canada
Quebec Teachers Federation
Montreal
Quebec
Quebec City
Kirkland Lake
Trudeau presses Quebec constitution move from Britain
Prime Minister Trudeau stated he plans to bring the Canadian constitution home during the current Parliament with or without provincial consent. He rejected Ottawa aid for the Olympics deficit and criticized Quebec language policy while defending bilingualism and urging English-speaking Quebecers to stay. About 1,400 delegates attended the Quebec Liberal biennial convention as Dalia Wood was named president.
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Alex Radmanovich
Quebec
Trudeau
Great Britain
Liberal Party
Robert Bourassa
Bourassa
Britain
Montreal
Ottawa
Jean Drapeau
Federal Party
Federal Liberal Party
Jean- Pierre Cote
Dalia Wood
Cote
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Mr. Gillespie
United States
Timbrell
Getty
Justice
Labor Report
Chatham
Ont
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Atlantic
Gander
Mld
Canadian National Telecommunications
New Brunswick Power Commission
West
Saskatchewan Power Corp
British Columbia
B.C. Railway
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