Saskatchewan Potash Case Shapes Blakeney Election Strategy
Premier Allan Blakeney runs on resource ownership in Saskatchewan as potash court ruling prompts Ottawa clash. He vows to develop and protect resources while Liberal leader Dave Steuart counters Ottawa over taxes and provincial rights. Conservatives field candidates as a potential vote splitter looms.
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Southam Western Bureau
Allan Blakeney
Saskatchewan
NDP
Court of Queen's Bench
Blakeney
Ottawa
Saskatchewan Ndp
Dave Steuart
Ross Thatcher
Thatcher
Central Canada Potash Company
United States
Otto Lang
Lang
Canada
Trudeau
Steuart
Horsman expects fairly quiet legislative session
Medicine Hat-Redcliff MLA Jim Horsman says the next legislature session starting tomorrow should be fairly quiet with few major budget changes likely. He supports raising the senior citizens guarantee to 250 dollars a month and seeks quick cabinet approval for Canadian Fertilizers 300 million nitrogen plant.
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Gordon Pollard
The
NEWS
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Jim Horsman
Horsman
Alberta
Canada
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Tory
No News Monday holiday notice from The NEWS
The NEWS will not publish Monday May 19 due to Victoria Day. Display ad deadlines are 12 noon Friday for Tuesday May 20 and 5 p.m. Friday for Web May 21. Classified deadline is noon Saturday May 17 for May 20.
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Tues
RCMP Brief MPs on Mafia Ties in Canada with Slide Show
In Ottawa the RCMP presented MPs with portraits of Mafia figures operating in Canada and showed a color slide of a murdered man. Supt Hank Jensen led the briefing to the Commons justice committee noting organized crime control of about 50 billion dollars in the U.S. and possible tax evasion in Canada. The session drew praise and calls for tougher laws.
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Ottawa
RCMP
Canada
Commons Justice Committee
Gordon Fairweather
Fundy Royal
New Brunswick
Derek Blackburn
NDP
Brant
Mounties
U.S
Bourassa faces walkouts as province bars social order over Games
Premier Bourassa defends a second reading of legislation aimed at ending construction strikes that shut down about 9,000 workers at over 40 sites. Officials warned cancellation could wreck the Olympic Games economics, while unions and municipal leaders warned of broader economic impact beyond Montreal.
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Montreal
Cliche Commission
Raymond Beauchemin
Bourassa
Jean Drapeau
Lawrence Hanigan
Quebec
Chicoutimi
Hull
Cambodia opens fire on American planes
U S Air Force planes destroyed three Cambodian naval vessels after being fired on near the captured Mayaguez off Koh Tang Island. An AC 130 gunship and A 7 aircraft fired 20 millimeter rounds as U S warplanes tracked the vessel. Fate of the Mayaguez crew remains unknown.
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Washington
U.S. Air Force
U.S
Mayaguez
Cambodia
Pentagon
Koh Tang
Thailand
Ford
CN witness silent on beef transport profits at inquiry
In Edmonton CN market manager Tom Norwood told inquiry members he could not reveal the railway’s profit on shipping beef from Alberta to eastern Canada. He noted $4.77 per 100 pounds to move dressed meat to Montreal and Toronto vs $3.95 per hundredweight for live cattle.
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Edmonton
Canadian National Railways
Canada
Alberta
Tom Norwood
Montreal
Hu Harries
Harries
Norwood
Toronto
Perry Cowan
New Norway
Alta
National Farmers’ Union
Lydia Parry-Cullen
NFU
National Meat Authority
Dobson Lea
Sten Berg
Alberta Export Agency
Lea
Marchand pledges protection for farmers on rail deal
Transport Minister Jean Marchand assured in the Commons that the Crowsnest Pass rail freight agreement will maintain western farmers low grain transport costs. He said benefits will be kept under a new national policy, denying any plan to harm producers while warning changes could raise benefits. Opposition voices sought absolute assurances amid cabinet jurisdiction tensions.
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Cypress View
Horsman
Department of Highways
Dave Blairie
Ottawa
Crowsnest Pass
Jean Marchand
Western Canada
CP Rail
Marchand
Lorne Nystrom
NDP
Yorkton-Melville
Otto Lanz
Wheat Board
Lang
Business leaders meet Ottawa on voluntary wage controls
In Ottawa the top business figures gathered to press for voluntary wage and price restraints with government officials as Labour opposition grows. Finance Minister Turner and Prime Minister Trudeau plan to review the stalled anti inflation program at a cabinet session on Thursday. The CLC cites guarantees on incomes and some prices, while unions signal little chance of agreement with current proposals. The meeting marks the largest gathering of business leaders since inflation talks began last year.
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Ottawa
John Turner
Trudeau
Canadian Labor Congress
CLC
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By Nick Ales
Umea
Saskatoon
Beef Transport
CNR
Berg
Hugh Scott
Fairview
Patty-Cullen
Scott
Maxwell MacKenzie
St. Paul
Lloydminster
Sask
Stettler
Innisfail
Calgary
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