Suffield ecology under review as land restoration team eyed
Environment Minister Bill Yurko announced plans to seek federal approval for a team skilled in land restoration and land management to visit Suffield. The move follows debate over ecological damage from British Army training, with officials acknowledging surface damage from tank maneuvers and shell bursts.
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Edmonton
Bill Yorke
Suffield
Yorke
Suffield Range
Ward Stevens
Canadian Wildlife Service
Yurke
Government appeals to strikers to end Alberta teacher walkout
Edmonton CP report says the provincial government declined to confirm any plan to order teachers back to work. Labor Minister Bert Hohel urged trustees and teachers to resolve the dispute quickly while mediation by four government staffers continues. He noted no provision for volunteer classrooms and that correspondence schools cannot serve struck students.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Richard Gruenwald
SC — Lethbridge West
Labor
Bert Hohel
Hohel
Liberals and PCs push plans as NDP derides
Ottawa reports indicate the Liberal and Conservative parties offered five part programs aimed at repatriating the economy. New Democratic Leader David Lewis rejected both sets of proposals and criticized Paul Hellyer's plan in particular.
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Ottawa
NDP
New Democratic
David Lewis
Paul Hellyer
Toronto Trinity
Lewis
Canada
Alastair Gillespie
Gilliespie
Hellyer
Livestock groups oppose Nixon meat price ceiling plan
Livestock producers and farm leaders criticize the U.S. price controls on meat as unfair and unlikely to aid consumers. They warn reduced incentives to increase production could raise prices, while meat processors fear disrupted production and plant shutdowns. Housewives joining a boycott doubt the ceiling will lower costs.
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Associated Press
Nixon
American Farm Bureau Federation
William J. Kuhfuss
Denver
National Farmers Union
TI Am
Tony Dechant
Prairie leaders blast high freight rates at rail executives
Manitoba Premier Allan Blakeney Alberta’s Don Getty Saskatchewan’s Allan Blakeney and Manitoba’s Schreyer press rail chiefs F S Burbidge and J W G MacDougall during a western premiers conference. The leaders demand changes to discriminatory freight rates and seek federal action with BC Premier Dave Barrett joining to push co operation.
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Nick Hills
Southam Western Bureau
Winnipeg
CPR
CNR
J.W.G. MacDougall
CP Rail
F.S. Burbidge
Lougheed
Blakeney
Schreyer
Manitoba
Don Getty
Alberta
Burbidge
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Jean Marchand
British Columbia
Dave Barrett
B.C
Barrett
Prairies
Alberta bills expand bylaw power and cat control option
Alberta government introduces a broad Municipal Government Act reform allowing municipalities to force bylaws by petition, extend dog bylaws to cats, and impose redevelopment and off site levies for new buildings and raw land. Legislation cites 3 5 and 7 percent petition thresholds by community size and emphasizes permissive cat regulation.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Dave Russell
Rusty Zander
Drayton Valley
Russell
Alberta Association of Urban Municipalities
Alberta Education Chief Drives Worth Report Reforms
Education Minister Lou Hyndman outlined the Alberta government stance on the Worth Report, endorsing early childhood plans and teacher training increases while rejecting universal kindergarten and a centralized development plan. Examinations for grade 12 will be abolished in favor of achievement measuring, with four years of training for new teachers by 1977 and department reorganization. The plan allocates 4.5 million this year and 9 million next for preschool access and related services.
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Edmonton
Lou Hyndman
Alberta
Hyndman
Walter Worth
Jim Foster
Iiis
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J. K.) Gray
Yorko
Dr. Stevens
Fish and Wildlife Division
The
National Defence
James Richardson
Trudeau
Luis Echeverria
Echeverria
Cer Mea Cove
Medicine Hat
AMA
Pcs
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