Court orders strikers back in Newfoundland dispute
Newfoundland Supreme Court extended an injunction against 5,500 government workers on picket lines. Chief Justice Hickman warned lawlessness risks citizens and called continued picketing deliberate defiance of the court. More than 1,200 highways workers have been on strike since March 3.
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ST. John’s
Nfld
Supreme Court
Newfoundland
Alex Hickman
Newfoundland Association of Public Employees
Premier Jim Lee calls provincial election for April 21
Charlottetown reports Premier Jim Lee has announced a provincial election for April 21. The writ dissolves the legislature after a throne speech viewed by the opposition as a pre election document, leaving 18 Conservatives and 14 Liberals in the house.
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Charlottetown
Jim Lee
Battle intensifies as U.S. widens Libya strikes in Gulf clash
Washington reports renewed U S attacks on Libyan naval and missile sites after Libyan forces fired on U S planes over the Gulf of Sidra. Pentagon says no Libyan missiles were fired Tuesday while Yorktown and Saratoga jets hit five boats and a radar site at Sirte. Canada seeks calm as U N protests continue.
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Washington
APCP
United States
Libya
Gulf of Sidra
Reagan Administration
Pentagon
White House
Larry Speakes
U.S
Robert Sims
Speakes
Yorktown
Sirte
Ottawa
Joe Clark
Gulf
Muammar Khadafy
Clark
External Affairs Department
Sean Brady
Michel Tessier
Tunisia
Brady
Sims
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
Khadafy
Saratoga
United Nations
New York
UN Security Council
Drop in oil threatens Canadian export sales
Ottawa reports falling oil prices could disrupt Canada’s energy exports, a major source of foreign currency last year. Exports of crude oil refined products and natural gas made up 11 percent of total revenue.
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Ottawa
Robert Reid
McLeod Young Weir Ltd
Toronto
Statistics Canada
Ian Smythe
Canadian Petroleum Association
Smythe
United States
U.S
Reid
Sikhs' leader released as explosives case dismissed
In Duncan B C two Sikh leaders, Talvinder Parmar and Inderjit Reyat, face explosive charges tied to a police raid linked to the June 23 Air India crash. Parmar’s explosives charge was dismissed. Reyat’s preliminary hearing continues under a publication ban as investigators pursue related cases.
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Duncan
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
RCMP
Air India
Tokyo
Narita
Parmar
Families plead for aid in Hinton crash inquiry
In Edmonton and New Westminster readers learn that Nancy Brown and four Peleshaty children urge witnesses to come forward about the February 8 CN Rail and Via Rail crash near Hinton. They fear a whitewash as the federal inquiry proceeds toward a May 30 report deadline.
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New Westminster
B.C
VIA Rail
Hinton
Alta
Nancy Brown
Mike Peleshaty
Jasper
Brown
Edmonton
Judy Desmond
Peleshaty
Canada
CN Rail
Rene Foisy
Alberta Court of Queen's Bench
Don Mazankowski
Rod McLennan
Commission
Ross Walker
Western
Via
Steve Fonyo hires ex-con manager in Toronto
Steve Fonyo the one legged cancer fundraiser has hired Morris Friesner a Toronto businessman with a long criminal record as his manager. Friesner admits arson assault fraud and possession of stolen goods but says he has not been linked to organized crime and that Fonyo was unaware of his past. Friesner will take about 30 percent of endorsements, potentially earning around fifty thousand dollars a year.
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Toronto
Steve Fonyo
Fonyo
Morris Monte Friesner
Friesner
Rocco Commisso
Fongo
Canada
Calgary
Fonyvo
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Christopher Young
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CUNEO
Tripoli
Misratah
Benghazi
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