CRTC Announces Major Rules To Open Telecom Hearings
Ottawa in a Tuesday release the CRTC outlined changes applying to Bell Canada BC Telephone CNCP Telecommunications and Telesat Canada. Subscribers will receive notices of rate or service changes and complainants may be funded by the companies. Formal hearings may be preceded by regional informal sessions and subscribers can register to receive all filings automatically. Each firm must establish an office to review consumer complaints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunication Commission
CRTC
Bell Canada
The
British Columbia Telephone Co
Cncp Telecommunications
Telesat Canada
Quebec
Bell
Commission
RCMP Designates 900 Organized Crime Targets
Commission counsel reveals 900 individuals or firms designated as organized crime targets since 1972. The figure relates to a 1972 RCMP tax department agreement allowing confidential income tax data sharing for organized crime investigations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
RCMP
Commission
John Sopinka
Department of National Revenue
The
Revenue Department
Medicine Hat hostel overrun raises funds as opens
The Medicine Hat Hostel Society reports a $30,000 overrun on permanent hostel costs bringing total to $195,000. They will fund the shortfall with summer events including a June 2 disco and a $2,640 grant request under Project Co operation while awaiting federal operating grants. The facility aims to be self supporting after summer with local group use and community partnerships developing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat
John Piea
Medicine Hat Hostel Society
Piea
Pica
Einplex
Department of Culture and Recreation
Alberta
Federal Department of Secretary of State
Marylin Moyer
Moyer
Errol Haddin
Haddin
Ken Sauer
Box Springs Road
Sauer
Hunger in Kolwezi As Refugees Return to Starvation
Refugees returning to Kolwezi face starvation and epidemics as water and food run out and copper mines stay shut. Rebels retreat through Zambia with many European hostages and loot, while hundreds of bodies remain in the streets amid a deadly rampage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kinshasa
Zaire
Kolwezi
Shaba
Zambia
Yves Gras
Red Cross
Angola
French Foreign Legion
Lusaka
London
Royal marriage ends in seconds in swift British divorce
Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon secured a consent divorce in the High Court’s Gothic Law Courts in London. The decree nisi was issued in under two minutes as 27 couples were processed, with Margaret keeping custody of Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones amid ongoing speculation about Snowdon’s future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Margaret
Lord Snowdon
Antony Armstrong-Jones
High Court
John Willis
Strand
Westminster
Laura Knowles
Dragoon
Michael Farr
Roddy Llewellyn
Snowdon
Lucy Lindsay-Hogg
Britain
Viscount Linley
Sarah Armstrong-Jones
Princess Margaret
West Indies
Canada to end aid to Cuba amid Africa military concerns
Prime Minister Trudeau said Canada will end aid to Cuba soon with no future projects planned. He noted the line of credit and technical assistance are nearly exhausted and cited Cuban troop involvement in Africa as a stumbling block in future aid talks. External ministers indicated no new discussions are planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Trudeau
Canada
Africa
Cuba
Don Jamieson
Canadian International Development Agency
CIDA
Jamieson
Commons
John Diefenbaker
Ethiopia
Doctor Exodus Grows As Canada Sees Surge Of Emigration
A Health Department report projects 1978 physician departures could reach 1,500 if current trends continue, with 140 leaving in the first quarter mainly for the U.S. The pattern shows more specialists leaving, many Canadian trained, amid wage gaps and governance concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canada
Health Department
U.S
Sales Management Systems
Toronto Data Bank
U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
Jack Walters
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Ottawa
Walters
Toledo
Ohio
Ontario
Douglas Waugh
Association of Canadian Medical Colleges
Genius begins university at age 12 in USC program
Mariel Aragon, age 12, entered USC conditionally last fall and now takes a full prelaw and premed course load. She plans physics biology psychology and French with goals of a BA MD and PhD by age 15 and 22 respectively. Her IQ is about 180 and she speaks multiple languages while pursuing piano singing and acting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mariel Aragon
Mariel
University of Southern California
USC
Burt Wuttken
Also Mentioned on This Page
NCA
Don Lander
French Defence Ministry
Legionnaires
Doctor Exodus
By Marlene Orton
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!