Nurses seek nine percent pay rise in Alberta legal action
Alberta nurses sue to force the Alberta Hospital Association to honor a nine percent salary increase awarded by a public tribunal. Writs of execution, encumbrances, and affidavits are filed across court, land titles, and sheriff offices as about 6000 nurses pursue the pay hike.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Alberta Hospital Association
AHA
Alberta Supreme Court
Land Titles Office
Sheriff's Office
Bob Donahue
Alberta Association of Registered Nurses
AARN
Donald Bowen
Federal
Murray Ross
Donahue
Trudeau urges Canadians to work more and want less
Prime Minister Trudeau told 1,200 party faithful in London Ontario that Canadians lack a sense of community and are unwilling to take menial jobs. He cited waitresses as readily available work and warned that an unwillingness to collaborate could let others own the country. Trudeau defended his stance on Quebec language issues and criticized Joe Clark while urging action in Quebec to defend freedoms.
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George Oake
Southam
Toronto
London
Ontario
Commonwealth Holiday Inn
London District Labor Council
RCMP
Constellation
Lucas High School
Quebec
Joe Clark
Supreme Court
Clark
Vancouver
Thunder Bay
Levesque
Rene Levesque
Parti Quebecois
Ottawa
Quebec judge finds French documents clause unconstitutional
A Montreal judge ruled that the French language charter requires court papers in French is unconstitutional. The decision does not affect the law’s validity, a justice ministry spokesman said, noting no formal challenge notice was filed as required.
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Quebec
Montreal
Perry Meyer
Man charged in family shooting in Alabama farm
A 21-year-old man, Tim Crawford, was arrested after his father, sister and niece were killed and his mother brother and sister in law were seriously wounded during a family argument at a Rehobeth area farm. Crawford faces three counts of murder and three counts of assault with intent to murder. An injured sister in law escaped to summon help. two other children were unharmed.
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Dothan
Ala
Tim Crawford
Crawford
Clark
Manitoba Party Leaders Outline Tax and Housing Plans
Premier Ed Schreyer after dissolving the Manitoba legislature outlines the NDP campaign focus on record and avoids new proposals while Lyons and Huband push tax cuts and housing policy. The NDP favors current taxes but hints at review. Conservatives push corporate taxes and capital measures. Liberals seek limits on capital taxes and broader exemptions. Housing policy calls for less dependence on public housing, seen as a key NDP achievement.
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Winnipeg
Manitoba
Ed Schryer
NDP
Sterling Lyon
Charles Huband
Lyon
Huband
Schreyer
Rail link urged as key to Canada unity on Prince Edward Island
The Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture told the Task Force on Canadian Unity that reviving Canada's rail system could boost regional economies and help keep the country together. PEI must improve rail to survive economically, said federation president Prowse Chappell. The federation and other PEI groups pressed economic issues as central to unity, with church and language concerns also addressed by the task force members.
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Charlottetown
Prince Edward Island Federation of Agriculture
Task Force On
Canadian Unity
Canada
Federation
P.E.I
Confederation
Prowse Chappell
Mme
Solange Chaput-Rolland
Quebec
Jean-Luc Pepin
Mme. Chaput-Rolland
Pepin
Broadbent ends Quebec tour urges focus on economy
NDP leader Ed Broadbent wrapped a three day Quebec trip by pressing the federal government to deprioritize the language issue and push quick economic gains. He met small business groups and strikers at a radio station, taped a TV interview, and criticized Prime Minister Trudeau for a lengthy letter proposing minority education rights amendments, which Rene Levesque has rejected.
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Montreal
NDP
Ed Broadbent
Quebec
Broadbent
Trudeau
Rene Levesque
Levesque
Acid attack damages Rembrandt works in Kassel gallery
Vandals threw acid at two Rembrandt paintings in Wilhelmsthoe Palace gallery Kassel injuring Jacob's Blessing and a 1655 self portrait. Two students of Rembrandt also damaged The Architect by Nicolaus Maes and Christ Appears to the Magdalene by Willem Drost. Police linked one suspect to an Aug 24 Rubens attack in Dusseldorf.
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Kassel
West Germany
Wilhelmstoede Palace
Museum
Rembrandt
Nicolaus Maes
Christ
Magdalena
Willem Drost
Rubens
Duesseldorf
Archduke Albrecht of
Austria
Auditor General Act outlined for Alberta legislature
Alberta's fall legislative slate includes the Auditor General Act to create an independent auditing department under the legislature. Attorney-General Jim Foster said details are pending, with expectations it mirrors an ombudsman role focused on government spending and returns. The bill's reach and readings remain uncertain amid a broad agenda of about four dozen pieces of legislation.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Jim Foster
Foster
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