Mass Beijing Demonstration Demands Democracy Amid Hunger Strikes
More than a million protesters in Beijing march from Tiananmen to the former Imperial Palace in the largest show of dissent in four decades. Hunger strikers refuse to end a four day fast, while workers join students in a nationwide pro democracy rally. Gorbachev receives letter from protesters and cancels Imperial Palace visit as Shanghai and other cities see similar actions.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev
Tiananmen Square
Mao Tse-tung
Imperial Palace
Great Hall of the People
Shanghai
Beijing University
Thatcher seeks public support for new murder trial appeal
Colin Thatcher former Saskatchewan cabinet minister and convicted murderer says new evidence could overturn his 1984 conviction in the JoAnn Wilson killing. In a Regina radio interview he claims testimony by key Crown witnesses is unreliable and urges a fair jury to review his case, while officials say any new trial would go through federal authority.
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Edmonton
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Ross Thatcher
Calvin Smoker
Smoker
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Anderson
Serge Kujawa
Doug Lewis
Senate Must Approve $33 Billion Bill To Preserve RCMP Pay
Treasury Board President Robert de Cotret warned the Senate must approve a $33 billion money bill today or about 17,000 RCMP and intelligence officers may not be paid. Liberal senators pledged no pay delays amid a dispute over warrants used to fund winter spending. The bill, already passed by both Houses, includes a $7.5 billion warrants dispute and a $30 million RCMP-CSIS payroll due Thursday.
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RCMP
Treasury Board
Robert de Cotret
de Corret
Royce Frith
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
Via Rail western service to survive budget cuts says official
Via Rail's western passenger route will not die amid federal budget cuts. Hugh Horner, vice-chairman, says the service can pay for itself and a Rocky Mountain route will operate by daylight. Clark met with Alberta leaders to assess options and keep Calgary to Vancouver service viable.
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Via Rail
Via
Hugh Horner
Joe Clark
Terry Cavanagh
Rocky Mountain
Horner
Alberta
Calgary
Vancouver
Clark
Yellowhead
Jasper
Alta
Rocky Mountains
Cavanagh
Cne
Exports Tax Sparks Canadian Energy Outrage
Canadians rail against a nine percent federal sales tax amid Ottawa plans on taxing home heating oil and other petroleum products while exempting exports of oil and natural gas to the United States. Industry leaders warn higher consumer costs and unclear rules on pipeline shipments as royalties stay exempt.
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Calgary
Maude Barlow
United States
Michael Wilson
Barlow
Nationalist Council For Canadians
Wilson
Ottawa
Reid
Canada
Finance Department
Unite States
Alberta
CBC seeks higher cable fees to fund French news channel
Ottawa CBC requests up to a 44 percent fall increase in English cable bills to subsidize a proposed French all news service. The plan, now merged pricing for Newsworld and the French channel, faces a public hearing by the CRTC next month. Newsworld launches July 31 and goes free until Sept 1.
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CBC
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
Guy Therriault
CRTC
Newsworld
Deis at fault officials cite pilot error in crash near Los Eles
Federal investigators in California say the pilot from Camrose, Alberta, was to blame for the March crash that killed Jeff Rich and his family near Los Eles as they visited Disneyland for Easter. A faulty fitting on one engine likely caused the problem, though the plane could fly on its remaining engine. The Piper Aerostar slammed into a tennis court and burned, killing the Alberta man and his wife and three children. Authorities may issue a bulletin to Piper Aeros owners.
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Alberta
Jeff Rich
National Transiion Safety Board
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Camrose
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Disneyland
Money machine beats man in court battle
Edmonton CP report says Justice E A Marshall dismissed Bob Aloneissi’s claim for seven $200 withdrawals from his Toronto Dominion Green Machine account. He failed to reimburse. the ruling gave him about $1400 to cover the bank’s costs.
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Court of Queen’s Bench
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Aloneisai
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