Alberta budget hints at sale of province assets
Alberta Treasurer Dick Johnston may sell Alberta Government Telephones and perhaps the Syncrude stake to help cut a roughly 1.5 billion dollar deficit. The budget speech, expected around 8 p.m., pledges restraint and no income tax rise, with warnings of cuts in health, social services, education, and other programs. Opposition leader Ray Martin bets tax hikes and fee increases loom.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Dick Johnston
Lethbridge
Johnston
Inet
Telephone Company
Fort McMurray
Ray Martin
Don Getty
Martin
Ment
Lithuania refuses Gorbachev arms decree amid independence stand
Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene rejects the Soviet order to surrender firearms as Lithuania presses for secession. President Landsbergis denounces Moscow policy and warns the move risks Stalinist echoes while troops and equipment are partially turned over to Soviet forces.
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Vilnius
U.S.S.R
Lithuania
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kazimiera Prunskiene
Gorbachev
Baltic State
Vytautas Landsbergis
Kremlin
Wells Upends Meech With Push For Referendum
Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells introduced a resolution to rescind and amend Meech Lake, urging a provincewide or national referendum. The move follows Premier Frank McKenna's bid to unblock the impasse, while PM Mulroney prepares a televised plea for ratification.
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Julian Beltrame
Southam
Ottawa
Ewfoundland
Clyde Wells
Meech Lake
Brian Mulroney
Wells
Canada
Wells Wells
Newfoundland
CBC
Herb Gray
New Brunswick
Frank McKenna
Lowell Murray
McKenna
Meech
Manitoba
Gary Filmon
Soviet archives reveal NKVD mass killings of Polish officers
Moscow weekly publishes lists naming NKVD officers including Stalin and Beria connected to the Katyn massacre. About 15 000 Polish officers were captured near Katyn. 4 500 remains found in 1943 by Germans, with ~10 000 said to have died in the Baltic. Observers see potential Soviet acknowledgment.
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Moscow
AFP
Katyn Woods
NKVD
Katyn
Josef Stalin
Lavrenti Beria
KGB
Soviet
Byelorussia
Baltic Sea
Poland
U.S.S.R
Alberta nurses and hospitals reach tentative contract
The United Nurses of Alberta and the Alberta Hospital Association reached a tentative contract offering a 20 percent wage rise over two years for starting nurses and 24 percent for seven year veterans. If ratified, an $18.53 hourly rate for new nurses would rise to $22.73. The pact includes extended vacation, double time for overtime, improved shift premiums and a shorter work week. Negotiations began last December with the current agreement expiring March 31 and a ratification date likely March 30.
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Alberta
Alberta Hospital Association
Medicine Hat
United Nurses of Alberta
Gloria Bish
Hosital
Calgary
Donna Angus
The
Hospital Association
Canada
Fiori
Angus
Tory support hits record low in Gallup Canada poll
Gallup finds Conservative support at 17 percent of decided voters, the lowest in 48 years, with Liberals at 50 and NDP 25. Results cover 1,054 interviews March 7 to 10, noting regional splits and impact of the budget and GST talks.
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Gallup
Tory
Toronto
Conservative Party
Liberals
New Democrat
Toronto Star
Gallup Party
Canada
Liberal Party
NDP
Prairies
Tories
Reform Party
Conservatives
Ontario
Finance Committee
House of Commons
Bank of Canada Raises Key Rate Linking World Trend
The Bank of Canada raised its key rate to 13.38 percent from 13.28 percent to align with a global move after Japan increased its discount rate to 5.25 percent and German rates rose. Economist John Clinkard and George Saba note no domestic pressure to cut rates as inflation ran up to 5.5 percent in early year, with rates likely held for two more months.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Bank of Japan
George Saba
Montreal Trust
John Crow
Aon
Canada
Crow
Saba
Japan
John Clinkard
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
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Calgary Multicultural Centre
Param Sekhon
Dawn Miller
Prunskiene
Landsbergis
Quebec Intergovernmental Affairs
Gil Remillard
Quebec
Senate
David Peterson
Murray
Mulroney
Soviet Union
Nazi Germany
Moscow News
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