Inflation fighter's wage spirals upward
Ottawa reports Bank of Canada Governor John Crow has seen his pay rise 35 to 62 percent since 1987, with current estimates placing his salary in a 162000 to 243000 dollar range. Critics note the contradiction with inflation fights while wage gains average lower nationwide. Officials cite private sector pay scales and advisory panels, while others say salary confidentiality limits scrutiny. A banking executive suggests Crow is underpaid relative to his value.
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Deborah Dowling
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa
Bank of Canada
John Crow
Canada
Privy Council Office
Crow
New Democrat
Lorne Nystrom
Michael Wilson
Commons
James Burns
Power Corp
Jocelyne Sharron
Lithuania demands release of soldiers amid Moscow standoff
Lithuanian leaders condemn Moscow's use of force and seek the return of deserters. President Landsbergis appeals to Gorbachev for moral resistance while Soviet troops seize hospitals and the Communist party headquarters. A Vienna Warsaw briefing warned independence could destabilize Europe as 20,000 opposed demonstrators gathered peacefully in Vilnius.
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Moscow
Lithuania
Soviet Union
Vilnius
Baltic
Republic
Kremlin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vytautas Landsbergis
Baltic Republic
Communist Party
Warsaw
Europe
Gorbachev
Landsbergis
Washington
Sergei Chetverikov
Klein seeks meeting on Alberta pulp mill plans
Edmonton Alberta environment minister Ralph Klein says he was excluded from new discussions on the 1.3 billion Alberta Pacific pulp mill 200 kilometres north of Edmonton on the Athabasca River. He asked for a meeting with Premier Don Getty to clarify the government stance and discuss the issue after delaying construction to study effluent impacts. Getty defended the panel report and sought an independent scientist, noting ministers were not invited to a recent Alberta Pacific briefing.
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Edmonton (Cp
Ralph Klein
Alberta
Klein
Don Getty
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
Edmonton
Athabasca
Peace River
Getty
Edmonton senior moves sparks dynamite scare
A realtor discovering 23 kilograms of deteriorated dynamite in Jim Layton's garage in Old Strathcona prompted 150 residents to evacuate. Police bomb squads removed and detonated the explosives, with detonators found and neutralized, while Layton had recently moved to a seniors home.
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Edmonton
Jim Layton
Strathcona
Layton
Scona
Edmonton City Police
Mulroney Wins Quebec MPs Back For Meech Lake Accord
Prime Minister Mulroney secured support from key Quebec Conservative MPs after proposing the New Brunswick option and asking Parliament to fast track Premier McKenna's companion accord proposal. Some MPs abstained citing concerns over Quebec threats while others backed unity behind the plan. The Meech Lake accord seeks Quebec recognition as a distinct society with enhanced provincial powers. Newfoundland Liberal government moved to rescind earlier approval.
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Brian Mulroney
Quebec
Cacus
Meech Lake
Mulroney
New Brunswick
Commons
House
Frank McKenna
Louis Plamondon
Francois Gerin
Britain and U S foil Iraqi nuclear trigger plot
British Foreign Office says two Iraqi citizens were deported for illegal arms activity after devices seized at Heathrow were described as triggering equipment for nuclear weapons. An Anglo U S probe led to arrests of two men and a woman from the Iraqi airlines counter and four more suspects including Britons in southeastern England.
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London
Reuter
United States
Britain
Baghdad
Foreign Office
Heathrow
England
Israel
Iraq
Romanian warnings on abortion ban's deadly record
Gabriela Bocec of Romania's Family Planning Association warns that Nicolae Ceausescu's 23 year ban led to thousands of abortion deaths and widespread orphanage suffering. She cites 9400 deaths from 1966 to 1989 and an AIDS outbreak in malnourished orphans, urging Western lawmakers to avoid similar limits.
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Joan Ramsay Southam
Washington
Canada
United States
Romania
Gabriela Bocec
Family Planning Association
Nicolae ‘Oneal
Bocec
Nursing Association of
Ceausescu
Bucharest
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