Canada to buy 100000 barrels oil daily from Mexico for decade
Canada and Mexico sign a 10 year deal to supply 100000 b/d of Mexican crude with Petro Canada as middleman. The price will be negotiated but likely exceed five billion dollars over the contract, starting with small shipments late this year. Canada aims to cut Middle East dependence and study Candu reactors with Mexico.
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Ottawa
Mexico
Canada
Alastair Gillespie
Barrios Gomez
Alberta
British Columbia
Gillespie
Petro-Canada
Middle East
Atlantic
Quebec
Venezuela
Petro- Canada
Gomez
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd
Mexico City
James Langley
Halifax
Don Jamieson
Jamieson
Newfoundland
Wet Spring Delays Seeding and Branding for Area Ranchers
Cool wet spring keeps fields muddy with about 20 centimetres of snow and rain. Rancher Charles Hougen notes two week setback for seeding and branding while calving proceeds with no major delays. Wilma Brest says branding of calves on their Walsh-area ranch was postponed by the weather. Police report muddy roads but roads remain passable as conditions persist with more wet weather expected.
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Charles Hougen
Hougen
Wilma Brest
Walsh
Brest
Weather Office
Mercury
Brooks man killed in head on collision near town
Brooks RCMP report a late Sunday head on crash on North Headgate Road left James Andrew Lowe 28 dead. Robert Brodie Brooks remains in serious condition and Neil Irvine treated for minor injuries. Damages estimated at 12000 dollars.
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Brooks
Here
James Andrew Lowe
Robert Brodie
North Headgate Road
RCMP
Brodie
Neil Irvine
Lowe
Parrot Sentenced To Three Months In Prison
Ottawa CP Jean-Claude Parrot leader of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is sentenced to three months in prison and 18 months probation for defying Parliament's back to work order last October. CUPW members protest outside the courthouse calling for a pardon and restored bargaining rights as eight other union executives face charges.
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Ottawa
Jean-Claude Parrot
Parrot
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
CUPW
Ontario Supreme Court
Labour Attacks Thatcher Pick Lord Carrington for Foreign Secrecy
Labor MPs condemn Margaret Thatcher’s appointment of Lord Carrington as foreign secretary arguing an upper house member cannot face Commons debate. They urge Carrington to renounce his peerage and seek a Commons seat while criticizing his stance on Rhodesia and detente with Russia.
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London
Labor
Margaret Thatcher
Lord Carrington
House of Commons
Labor Party
Frank Allamn
Commons
Allain
Carrington
Russia
Rhodesia
Robert Cryer
Flood waters recede in south Manitoba
In Morris Manitoba floodwaters peaked then receded about 15 centimetres below 1950 levels. Premier Sterling Lyon urged caution as residents anticipate returning home in the Red River valley. EMO officials and soldiers from Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry remain in towns to aid and secure safety.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Morris
Red River Valley
Sterling Lyon
Lyon
Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry
Emerson
United States
EMO
Three Die When Fraser River Raft overturns
A Cascade River Holidays Ltd raft carrying 11 men and one woman overturned in a turbulent Fraser River section about 140 kilometres northeast of Vancouver. Three bodies recovered downstream. one victim was a company employee. The remaining two survivors, a woman and a man, were treated and reported stable. The raft likely struck a rock causing the capsizing.
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Boston Bar
B.C
Fraser River
Vancouver
Cascade River Holidays Ltd
Yale
Thompson River
RCMP
Wally Kreke
Hope Search and Rescue
Hope
Kreke
Five businessmen face prison terms in dredging case
Crown attorney Roderick McLeod says prison terms will be sought for five prominent businessmen convicted of conspiracy to defraud government agencies by rigging bids on dredging contracts. The Ontario Supreme Court jury found five of 11 executives and eight of nine companies guilty after 12 days of deliberation. John Baden and Peter Kiewit and Sons Co. Ltd. of Toronto received a hung count. Sentencing is set for June 4.
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Toronto
Roderick McLeod
Ontario Supreme Court
Peter Kiewit and Sons Co. Ltd
John Baden
William Parker
Crown
McLeod
Striking Inco workers near vote on tentative contract
Eleven thousand seven hundred miners and smelters at Inco Metals Sudbury reach a tentative eight month settlement. The union says ratification within a week will raise base pay to 7.30 an hour, add 10 cent yearly raises, plus a pension and benefits package. Workers may return within 14 days after ratification.
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Toronto
Inco Metals Co
Sudbury
Ont
United Steelworkers of America
Inco
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Medicine “Hat
Medicine Hat
Frank Webber
Exxon Corp
Sir Ian Gilmour
Lord Privy Seal
Walter Johnson
Thatcher
William Whitelaw
Keith Joseph
Cooke
Bill Correll
Gilbert Gilchrist
Co-Operative Union-Management
David Patterson
Patterson
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