Moratorium on Death Penalty Debated Despite Prison Reform Call
Ottawa MPs debate extending a five year partial moratorium on capital punishment. Elmer MacKay argues reforms to the justice and correctional system should come first before abolishing the death penalty. Other MPs push for changes or abolition, with Prime Minister Trudeau set to speak.
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Ottawa
Elmer MacKay
Canada
Commons
MacKay
House
House of Commons
Blenkarn
Max Saltsman
NDP
Waterloo
Cambridge
Kustom Koach Alberta to Open Medicine Hat Trailer Plant
Kustom Koach Alberta Ltd will establish a $100,000 plant in Medicine Hat at the former Rick's hangar to produce six trailer models and employ 50 to 60, with plans to expand to a 60,000 square foot facility in Brier Park and shift operations from Aldergrove over two years. Carl Carstensen says the project aims for central western Canada sales and may seek a DREE grant, with Ron Carstensen as president of the new unit.
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Kustom Roach Ltd
Carl Carstensen
Rick’s
Aldergrove
Vancouver
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Brier Park
Bick
Federal Government of Regional Economic Expansion
DREE
Canada
Prairie Provinces
Kustom Koach Alberta Ltd
Kustom Koach
Border clash leaves two Canadian girls dead in Rhodesia Zambia crossfire
Two 19 year old Canadian girls Christine Sin clair of Guelph Ontario and Marian Drijber of Rockwood Ontario were killed when Zambian troops fired across the Zambesi River at Victoria Falls. An American man John Caruthers 28 of Troy Ohio was seriously wounded while his wife Carol 25 was uninjured. Rhodesia protested to Zambia calling it a deliberate violation of human rights and demanded justice and steps to prevent recurrence.
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Reuter
Zambesi
Rhodesia
Zambia
Christine Louise Sinclair
Guelph
Ont
Marian Ibana Drijber
Rockwood
Ottawa
John Caruthers
Troy
Ohio
Carol
Wankie
Caruthers
Victoria Falls
Lusaka
Canadian High Commission
U.S
Laska
Quebec labor leaders released from jail after unified stance
Quebec's top three labor leaders Marcel Pepin Louis Laberge and Yvon Charbonneau left prison still united against the Bourassa government. Pepin says his opposition remains while Laberge hints at no change to the common front and questions whether it was disbanded.
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Quebec
Bourassa
Marcel Pepin
Confederation of National Trade Unions
Louis Laberge
Quebec Federation of Labor
CNTU
Quebec Teachers Union
Yvon Charbonneau
Common Front
Robert Bourassa
Pepin
Rolypoly
Laberge
Orsainville
Here
Skylab heats up as NASA weighs next crew launch
Temperature climbed to 150 degrees inside the Skylab station at Cape Kennedy as NASA considered sending a three astronaut crew to restore systems. The heat rise comes amid ongoing repairs and mounting concern over station safety and mission viability.
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Fla
Skylab Space Station
Space Agency
Orbiting Laboratory
Charles Conrad
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Mission Control
Prison inquiry moves to Commons committee
The Commons justice committee in Ottawa voted to appoint a special parliamentary investigation into penitentiary and correctional operations, focusing on the St Vincent de Paul prison escapes near Montreal and the Cowansville facility. The debate stretched past midnight as parties pressed for a broader national inquiry.
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The
Commons Justice Committee
Justice Committee
Warren Allmand
St. Vincent de Paul
Montreal
Commons
Allmand
Quebec
Cowansville
Que
Lucien Lamoureux
House Committee
Slayings Taint Rural Family as Three Escapees Sought
Three escaped Maryland inmates are sought for questioning in the Alday family killings in Reynoldsville Georgia. Six members including Ned Alday 66 and his sons Jerry 35 Chester 32 Jimmy 25 Aubrey 57 and Mary 25 were found dead. Mary abducted wife found nude in a field and raped then shot. A Pennsylvania youth was linked to a car near the scene.
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Alday
Ned Alday
Jerry
Chester
Jimmy
Aubrey
Mary
Dan White
Mary Alday
Mrs. Alday
Pennsylvania
Wicomico County
Maryland
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