Social Credit urged to suspend Alberta leader Keegstra
National Social Credit Leader Martin Hattersley called for the suspension of Jim Keegstra and two Alberta branch executives over Keegstra’s anti Jewish teachings at Eckville school. Keegstra remains Eckville mayor amid dismissal by Lacombe school board. An emergency Alberta meeting was planned to address the matter as Erhart and Green defend Keegstra citing free speech. Students watched a film on the Holocaust with little discussion.
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Jim Green
Nariy
Jack Hopkin
Erhart
Green
Donald Brittain
National Film Board
Ed Olsen
Brittain
Bennett Barrett close BC election campaign in 1979 race
The two leaders delivered final speeches before voting day in British Columbia. Premier Bill Bennett urged maximum turnout in a tight Dewdney race after his Socred party held 31 of 57 seats, while NDP leader Dave Barrett warned against hypocrisy and predicted a close race in Nanaimo and beyond as about 1.7 million voters prepared to choose 57 of 224 candidates.
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British Columbia
Bill Bennett
Social Credit
Dewdney
Bennett
George Mussallem
Socreds
Mussallem
Austin Pelton
New Democratic
Dave Barrett
Nanaimo
Barrett
New Democrats
NDP
Davis declines federal Progressive Conservative leadership bid
Ontario Premier William Davis announced he will not run for the federal PC leadership. He said remaining in provincial politics would better serve Canada and that a Davis candidacy could divide the party and the country. He cited constitutional tensions and Western resistance as factors shaping his decision.
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William Davis
Canada
Davis
Western Canada
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Trudeau
Hugh Segal
Camp Associates Ltd
Segal
Keith Davey
Peter White
Brian Mulroney
Quebec
Police rule out homicide in infant death at Toronto hospital
Metropolitan Toronto Police say seven month-old Gary Murphy was not murdered after medical and legal reviews. An inquest is set for May 24 after preliminary digoxin findings on the infant who died April 23 on a cardiac ward at the Hospital For Sick Children.
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Toronto
Gary Murphy
George Taylor
Taylor
Alois Haspreiter
Metro Police
Ross Bennett
Ontario
Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences
Corporations help fund Alberta Conservative victory
Campaign expense reports show major banks oil firms and Beverly Nursing Home among hundreds of corporations that contributed to the Progressive Conservatives Nov. 2 Alberta election win totaling 1.54 million dollars. NDP raised most funds from unions and individuals while Liberals received scattered corporate gifts.
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Edmonton
Calgary
Progressive Conservatives
Alberta
Conservatives
NDF
NDP
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Western Canada Concept Party
WCC
Peter Lougheed
Nova Corp
TransAlta Utilities Corp
Canadian Utilities Ltd
Grant Notley
Imperial Oil Ltd
Esso Canada Resources Ltd
Beverly Nursing Home Ltd
Andropov Proposes Warhead Count to Balance Forces
Soviet leader Yuri Andropov offered counting warheads alongside missiles to balance NATO and Soviet forces. Washington welcomed the move as progress if it follows the U S basis, but cautioned that ambiguities could harden Moscow's position. He did not address dismantling SS-20s and kept Britain's and France's missiles in NATO’s arsenal.
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Yuri Andropov
Washington
State Department
Andropov
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Department
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