Canada Rules Out Peaceful Nuclear Explosions For A Decade
Canadian experts told a Geneva conference that peaceful nuclear explosions for resource extraction or engineering projects are impractical for the next ten years. Allan MacEachen urged a halt to all such experimentation until global energy needs justify it, signaling a stance against India’s prior plutonium-driven test and urging stronger nonproliferation measures.
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Allan MacEachen
MacEachen
India
Canada
France
China
Argentina
Quebec
James Bay
Athabasca
U.S
Microfilm Ltd
Ave
West
Calgary
Alta
PM Trudeau Returns to Ottawa to Face Domestic Issues
Prime Minister Trudeau arrives in Ottawa after a Caribbean tour focusing on Third World policy. He will appear in the Commons to discuss wage and price restraint questions, with no statement planned, as officials await potential Commonwealth backed reforms and a September report from a 10‑member working group.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Commons
Caribbean
Brussels
Trinidad and Tobago
Barbados
Guyana
Jamaica
United Nations General Assembly
Bangladesh
Jamba
Commonwealth Finance
Georgetown
Commonwealth Common Front
Senate pushes farm aid bill ahead of MPs pay rise
Ottawa MPs and senators face delays as the Senate weighs a farm credit bill aiding young farmers under 35. The debate centers on raising the loan age limit from 35 to 40 and the risk of amending a money bill. Senate leaders vow weekend sessions to pass the measure, citing urgent need for land transactions by thousands of young farmers.
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Ottawa
Ray Perrault
Senate
Farm Credit Corp
Perrault
George Mcllraith
Commons
Hazen Argue
Saskatchewan
Agriculture Committee
McIlraith
A. H. McDonald
Mcllraith
Labour criticizes Turner's anti inflation plan in Canada
The Canadian Labour Congress denounces voluntary income and price restraints as discriminatory and calls for an equitable package including rent and fuel price controls, job guarantees, housing supply, land speculation curb, and targeted pensions. They warn current proposals burden workers while inflating costs.
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Toronto
John Turner
Canadian Labour Congress
CLC
Joe Morris
Morris
Turner
Alberta to shield gas customers from price hikes
Alberta will protect natural gas users from much of rising prices in 1975 76 under the rebate plan. Minister Alan Warrack says provincial support sets the rebate price at 28 cents per thousand cubic feet for the year with 70 million dollar cost potential. He notes 1974 75 savings reached about 32 million and calls Alberta's gas prices among the most attractive in Canada.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alan Warrack
Utilities and Telephones
Warrack
Lang rejects change in grain legislation
Ottawa CP Otto Lang minister for the wheat board rejected opposition demands for changes to a bill that would fix a domestic wheat price at 3.25 dollars per bushel with a 1.25 dollar subsidy to 5 dollars, retroactive to 1974 through 1980. Opposition MP Jack Horner urged a shorter seven year limit and annual cost based review but Lang defended the seven year guarantee saying farmers prefer stability.
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Ottawa
Otto Lang
Wheat Board
Jack Horner
Crowfoot
Horner
Lang
Don Mazankowski
Pc-Vegreville
Debating Vaillancourt Death Penalty Amid Slated Execution
Ottawa debate on capital punishment grows as five month delay for Rene Vaillancourt nears. Opposition questions Allmand about potential blanket commutations while Allmand maintains he is opposed to capital punishment and will push discussion. By October only cabinet action can avert Vaillancourt’s and Connearney's executions.
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Ottawa
Rene Vaillancourt
Warren Allmand
Eldon Woolliams
Calgary North
John Francis Connearney
Montreal
Vaillancourt
Toronto
Woolliams
Allmand
Supreme Court of Canada
Emmett Hall
David Crombie
Leslie Maitland
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