Premier warns of stormcloud on horizon over Alberta workers
Premier Peter Lougheed warns Alberta faces a growing influx of job seekers from other provinces. He cites a 9 percent rise in working-age Albertans and a labor force surge outpacing jobs, risking unemployment gains despite the province's low rate. He urges federal and manpower action.
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Ernest Hall
Edmonton
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Canada
Jim Corneil
British Columbia
Lougheed
PWA to buy 70 percent of Transair shares
Pacific Western Airlines accepts offer to purchase 70 percent of Transair Ltd. issued and outstanding common shares. Winnipeg based Transair lists R. R. McDaniel as chairman and R. G. Eyton as president. Alberta officials are noted in the agreement.
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Winnipeg
Pacific Western Airlines
Transair Ltd
R. R. McDaniel
R. G. Eyton
Alberta
PWA
Pacific Western
Transair
Harold D. Cope
Cope
Argosy
NEB wraps up hearings on Alaskan gas pipeline bids
After 18 months of hearings the National Energy Board finished public deliberations on rival proposals to move Alaskan and western Arctic gas to southern markets. V ice chairman Jack Stabback closed the session at 8 44 p m EDT and the board now prepares a cabinet recommendation by July 1 with a late summer decision planned.
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Ottawa
National Energy Board
Jack Stabback
Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd
Moratorium on Major Alberta Hospital Expansions
Alberta Hospitals Minister Gordon Miniely imposes a moratorium on major hospital expansion and renovations to March 31 next year after a cost study shows hospital space costs rising 175 percent since 1971 while general costs rise 80 percent. The pause allows review of design, standards, and control procedures to curb expenses.
Moratorium on Alberta Hospital Construction Affects Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat and District Hospital sits among Alberta facilities hit by a province wide construction moratorium announced by Hospitals Minister Gordon Miniely. Officials expect the 20 million expansion to begin next spring may not be delayed, though architect appointments could await moratorium end.
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Edmonton
Medicine Hat and District Hospital
Alberta
Gordon Miniely
Leo Hill
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Hospital
Red Deer
Oil and gas revenue climbs for Alberta in 1977 first quarter
Alberta reports 629.2 million in petroleum and natural gas rights revenue for January to March 1977, up from 376.7 million a year earlier. Royalty taxes rose to 537 million due to a crude price increase. oil royalties reached 318 million and gas 218.9 million, versus 248.4 million and 93.2 million in 1976.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta adopts metric speed limits nationwide rollout begins
Transport Minister Hugh Horner announced Alberta will switch to metric speed limits on Sept 1. Cars on freeways up to 110 km h and 100 km h at night. trucks 90 km h. expressways and two lane highways 90 km h at night. primary roads 90 for cars 80 for trucks. local roads 80. Signs to show kilometres. enforcement to continue during changeover.
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Ernest Hall
The
NEWS
Edmonton
Alberta
Hugh Horner
Horner
Canada
Riding change delay fails as Alberta MLAs push for rural voice
In Alberta, an attempt to delay the second reading of a bill merging Hanna Oyen and Sedgewick Coronation into Chinook failed. The shift would raise seats to 79, add two Edmonton and Calgary seats, and redraw ridings, preserving rural representation advantages despite concerns from rural MLAs and commission members.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Jack Butler
Hanna-Owen
Sedgewick
Chinook
Calgary
Redcliff
Cypress
Butler
NDP
Grant Notley
Spirit River-Fairview
David King
Edmonton Highlands
Hanna-Oyen
Nixon discusses foreign policy in Frost interview
In a taped Frost interview Nixon says he opened talks with China and backed Israel after the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He claims he stood up to Kissinger to keep Cambodia operations and praised Mao and Khrushchev, calling Kissinger a genius who must have his way.
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Tokyo
Yeh Chien-ying
United States
Soviet Union
China
Peking
Yeh
U.S
Washington
Richard Nixon
Middle East
Anwar Sadat
David Frost
Nixon
Henry Kissinger
Cambodia
Kissinger
Pentagon
Israel
Egypt
Syria
Mao Tse-tung
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Commonwealth Microfilm Library
Ave. S.W
Alta
Majorette Fay Bierbach
Tenepese
Dan Lander
Transair Control
Howie Collins
Eyton and
Ontario
Manitoba
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Edmonton — Hospitals
Alberta Hospitals Commission
Miniely
Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Nikita Khrushchev
First Street
Frank Webber
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