Wheat shipping problems prompt Ottawa talks
Ottawa aims to resolve wheat shipping logjams with a joint meeting of the railways the wheat board and elevator companies. Lang says deliveries above 800 million bushels are sought with talks continuing and contracts remaining in Vancouver while Thunder Bay concerns are being monitored.
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Ottawa
Farmers Airways
Otto Lang
Lang
Heat Board
Alf Gleave
NDP
Saskatoon Iggar
West Coast
Thunder Bay
Ont
Canada
Wheat Board
Prairies
John Diefenbaker
Prince Albert
Vancouver
Mr. Diefenbaker
James Richardson and Sons
James Richardson
William Knight
Assiniboia
Great Lakes
Knight
Railways
Transport Minister
Ottawa Bill Pushes Collective Bargaining Over Tech Change
Labor Minister Martin OConnell said employers will oppose the bill encouraging collective bargaining on technological change effects. The bill, first read in the Commons, keeps core principles from Bryce Mackaseys 1971 plan but narrows limits on contract reopenings and aims to prompt regular negotiations between unions and employers.
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Ottawa
Martin O'Connell
O'Connell
Bryce Mackasey
Canada Labor Relations Board
William Wightman
Canadian Manufacturers’ Association
Canada
Organized Labor
Mackasey
Commons Labor Committee
Labor Relations Board
Municipalities urged to take initiative in urban talks
Canada’s municipalities pressed for more consultation with federal and provincial governments. Ottawa pledged to push for tri level discussions while noting municipalities must rely on provinces for initiative. The Great Lakes pollution accord would cost Ontario towns 437 million with only 80 million forgiven.
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Ottawa
Canada
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
Pinance
John Turner
Ron Basford
Federation
Marcel D'Amour
Hull
Desmond Newman
Whiteley
Ont
Trudeau
Ottawa-Ontario
Great Lakes
Ontario
Milk marketing plan favored by Alberta dairy producers
Alberta dairy producers voted 76 percent in favor of a milk marketing plan. More than 7,500 registered dairymen, about 67 percent of producers, participated at the Alberta Milk Control Board Offices in Edmonton. The plan, due to take effect April 1, restores subsidy eligibility quotas lost as producers exited the industry.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta Milk Control Board
S. H. Thomas
Canadian Dairy Commission
Premier Lougheed says family farms a grave challenge
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed warned the preservation of small family farms is a very grave challenge amid depopulation in farming communities. He cited a 3.1 million dollar first budget for family farm development, vowed balanced provincial growth, and pledged a mobile government with ministers touring the province.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Alberta
Progressive Conservatives
Lougheed
Federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion
Fred Peacock
Medicine Hat
Board of
Medicine Hat General Hospital
Babey chairs farm products council
The Agriculture Department announces the appointment of the first six members to the national farm products marketing council with three more to follow. Paul Babey of Edmonton 44 serves as council chairman and Real Roy of Boucherville Que 43 as vice chairman. Other appointees include J Adrien Levesque Saint Leonard New Brunswick Hector Hill Truro Nova Scotia Ralph Ferguson Alvinston Ontario and Albert Vielfaure La Roquerie Manitoba.
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Ottawa
National Farm Products Marketing Council
Agriculture Department
Paul Babey
Edmonton
Alberta Environment Conservation Authority
Real Roy
Boucherville
Que
le Grath Packaging Co
J. Adrien Levesque
St. Leonard
N.B
New Brunswick
Hector Hill
Truro
N.S
Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture
Ralph Ferguson
Alvinston
Ont
Albert Vielfaure
la Roquerie
Man
Manitoba Hog Producers Marketing Board
la Verendrye
Strike closes 5 000 schools in Quebec history
A 24 hour general public service walkout by 210 000 workers shuts down 5 000 schools and most hospitals and government offices in Quebec. Courts blocked actions in psychiatric centers and Hydro Quebec sites while promises to keep essential services operate.
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Quebec
Hydro-Quebec
Quebec Hospitals Association
Common Front
Confederation of National Trade Unions
Quebec Federation of Labor
Quebec Teachers Corp
RCMP silent on alleged Soviet agent case stirring debate
Ottawa reports indicate the RCMP offered no comment on a suspected Soviet spy case linked to a semi fictional profile in The File on Anton Sabotka. officials noted speculation over whether any expulsions or prosecutions will occur while sources describe a real case buried in secrecy.
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Ottawa
RCMP
Canada
Anton Sabotka
Anton
Sabotka
Commons
Trudeau
Robert Stanfield
Mitchell Sharp
Jean-Pierre Goyer
Mexico
Protestants March in Belfast as Power Seizure Triggers Fury
Some 60,000 Protestants marched on Northern Ireland's Parliament in Belfast to protest Britain's seizure of power. A general strike shut down the province for a second day as violence erupted in Limavady near Londonderry where two men were killed by a bomb outside a police station, the gelignite device believed planted in a passing truck.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Britain
Limavady
Londonderry
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