Quebec backs Alberta in energy pricing clash over gas costs
Quebec Energy Minister Yves Berube expressed support for Alberta amid Ottawa driven price and tax measures under the national energy policy. He noted two cent per litre hikes due to imports and Saskatchewan production losses while warning of a dangerous federal precedent that could affect Quebec electricity. Leitch outlined Alberta production cuts as a response to federal policy, saying the move is a provincial restraint against unilateral pricing. Berube argued Canadians would pay more for domestic oil if the policy continues, stressing Quebec sits at the end of the pipeline and future supplies depend on Syncrude output.
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Quebec
Alberta
Ottawa
Yves Berube
Merv Leitch
Berube
Saskatchewan
Commons approves student loan bill for short term courses
The Commons unanimously passed a bill expanding Canada Student Loans to cover 12 week courses at community colleges and other post secondary schools. It relaxes the minimum duration from 26 weeks, increases weekly loan limits to 56.25, and adjusts annual caps while preserving eligibility rules for longer semesters and permanent residents.
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Ottawa
Commons
Canada
Senate
Francis Fox
Keable inquiry urges charges against police in Oct 1970s abuses
Quebec inquiry finds police who broke the law during the 1970s Ost Crisis era should face criminal charges. It urges reforms to the Official Secrets Act and surveillance rules, citing RCMP illegal detentions, a fake FLQ ad, dynamite thefts, and a barn arson to disrupt suspected FLQ meetings.
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Quebec
Keable
Montreal
FLQ
RCMP
Force
U.S
Black Panthers
CMHC Bounces Back as Mortgage Fund Rebuilds
Housing Minister Cosgrove says CMHC is pulling free from brink with $250 million fund injected in 1979 showing repayment and liquidity returning. He notes reduced losses from sold units, a tightened market, and expects remaining 15,000 CMHC holdings to be disposed by year end.
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Ottawa Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Paul Cosgrove
CMHC
Federal Treasury
Cosgrove
Ottawa
Canada
U S reaction to Reagan pullout of fisheries treaty
Ottawa voices shock at Reagan unilateral move to withdraw the fisheries part of the coast treaty and leave the boundary dispute to World Court arbitration. External Affairs cites regret and says Canada will review the situation, with leaders to raise the issue during Reagan's Ottawa visit.
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Ottawa
U.S
Ronald Reagan
Senate
Reagan
Charles Percy
Rep. Ill
Foreign Relations Committee
Canada
World Court
Hague
Christians claim victory in evolution trial ruling
Superior Court Judge Irving Perluss upheld state guidelines that describe evolution as the exclusive scientific theory while prohibiting dogmatic teaching. The policy must be distributed to school districts and made available to textbook publishers, signaling a cautious victory for creationist advocates.
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Sacramento
Calif
Superior Court
Irving Perluss
Perluss
State Board of Education
Creation Science Research Centre of
San Diego
Kelly Segraves
Public hearings kept secret by Alberta inquiry board
Calgary Canada The provincial inquiry board chaired by Justice J C Cavanagh will not disclose locations or dates of public hearings Instead briefs received will be notified to submitters while the general public and media must seek details themselves The closed process has drawn criticism from social groups including the Calgary Region CMHAThe three member board was appointed a year ago by cabinet after reports of treatment of emotionally disturbed children in a government funded home in northern Alberta were made public by the news media.
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Calgary
Provincial Inquiry Board
J.C. Cavanagh
Cavanagh
Canadian Mental Health Association
Alberta
American hostage Chester Bitterman killed in Bogota
The kidnappers of Chester Bitterman, 28, a linguist from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of the April 19 guerrilla group, killed him and placed the body in a minibus in southern Bogota. Police and Summer Institute of Linguistics officials confirmed the death amid notes of a shot execution in front of the vehicle’s driver.
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Chester Bitterman
Lancaster
Bitterman
Summer Institute of Linguistics
Chet
Robert Whitesides
M-19
Colombia
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Manitoba
Frank Webber
James Cross
Pierre Laporte
Front de Liberation du Quebec
Jean Keable
Quebec City
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James MacGrath
House of Commons
MacGrath
Mark MacGuigan
Romeo LeBlanc
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