Biological warfare tests tied Canada and allies to 1948 programs
U.S. documents show Canada Britain and the United States collaborated on biological warfare tests from 1948 in Canada and the Caribbean. Experiments at Grosse Ile and Suffield aimed to study agents affecting humans and animals, with aerosol delivery and large scale seaborne trials.
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Glenn Somerville Washington
U.S
Church of Scientology
Canada
Caribbean
Grosse Ile
Que
Britain
Suffield
Alberta
United States Navy
Royal Navy
U.S. Defence Department
Ottawa
Geoff Haswell
Defence Department
Oan
Pacific
Winnipeg
United States
Weather snapshot: High of 20 and low of 7
The day foresees a cool pattern with a daytime high near 20 degrees and a frigid overnight low around 7. A weather map on page 18 provides regional details and visibility notes.
Mexican oil deal partial breakthrough for Canada
Ottawa reports a preliminary agreement to deliver 50 000 barrels a day of Mexican oil by December to ease Canada’s Middle East dependence. Oil will start at about 10 000 b/d in October and reach 50 000 b/d two months later, with potential for higher volumes to be negotiated.
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John Ferguson Ottawa
Canada
Middle East
Jose Lopez Portillo
Trudeau
Ed Schreyer
Jose Andres de Oteyza
Lopez Portillo
de Oteyza
Begin backs hardliner Arens for defence post in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin favors Moshe Arens, a hardliner, to succeed Ezer Weizman as defence minister. Weizman, resigning, urged a more moderate line on Egypt autonomy talks, while Ariel Sharon also seeks the post. Moderates in Likud may oppose both, and talks with Egypt have stalled as May deadline passed. Egypt halted talks May 9, with a possible resumption soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Reuter
Menachem Begin
Moshe Arens
Ezer Weizman
Begin
Weizman
Egypt
Arens
Knesset
Ariel Sharon
Likud
Constitutional talks near as June date surfaces
An official said a constitutional conference could occur as early as June 9 with Prime Minister Trudeau inviting the 10 premiers to a post referendum meeting. Deputy Prime Minister MacEachen said no date will be announced until talks with Quebec are held and premiers push for a timely conference on renewed federalism.
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Otfawa
Richard Hatfield
New Brunswick
Montreal
Trudeau
Allan MacEachen
The
Commons
Quebec
MacEachen
Joe Clark
Jake Epp
Jean Chretien
Claude Morin
Chretien
Florida
Quebec City
Ontario
William Davis
Saskatchewan
Allan Blakeney
Hatfield
House
Canada
Levesque
China accuses USSR of expanding into Pacific and Indian oceans
China at a UN meeting in Geneva charged the Soviet Union with a global plan to push southward into the Pacific and Indian oceans. It linked Cambodia and Afghanistan invasions to advancing that strategy and said Moscow backs Vietnam in a war of aggression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Reuter
China
Soviet Union
Pacific
Indian
Cambodia
Afghanistan
He Ying
Moscow
U.S
Warren Christopher
Phnom Penh
Postal contract delivers all CUPE demands with wage and benefit gains
Ottawa reports the new postal contract meets the Canadian Union of Postal Workers demands including a higher eight percent raise plus cost of living allowances and a paid half hour lunch. The deal specifies minimum hourly wages for mail handlers clerks and dispatchers and adds overtime rules shift premiums boots and gloves allowances and a bilingual grievance cleanup system with union post office and mediator-arbitrator representation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Conciliation Board
Germain Jutras
Union
Post Office
Hungarian Cosmonaut Launches From Baikonur Spaceflight
Bertalan Farkas, 30, from Hungary, launched with Valery Kubasov aboard Soyuz 36 from Baikonur to rendezvous with Salyut 6. The mission follows allied pilots from Czechoslovakia East Germany Poland and Bulgaria into the Intercosmos program aboard a two man craft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Reuter
Hungary
Bertalan Farkas
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Poland
Bulgaria
Farkas
Valery Kubasov
Baikonur
Central Asia
Space Station
Leonid Popov
Valery Ryumin
Laboratory
Earth
Wallaroo is Lassoed by San Francisco Police
In a 30 minute chase on Skyline Boulevard Donald Condencia and Officer Mark Hawthorne pursued a wallaroo escaping the city. The wallaroo reached speeds up to 64 kilometres an hour before Condencia finally lassoed the marsupial, recalling past cowboy days.
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San Francisco
Donald Condencia
Skyline Boulevard
Condencia
Mark Hawthorne
Police
Yesteryear
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Etl
Mexico
Senate
Fort Frances
Kenora
Grassy Narrows
Christopher
Malaysia
Thailand
Bangkok
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