Oil price talks near as Alberta seeks agreement
Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed heads to Ottawa for talks with Prime Minister Trudeau amid reports of a draft accord on oil pricing. Officials say a deal may be within reach, though Alberta plans a 60,000 barrel per day production cut today and disputes over gas taxes and revenue sharing remain unresolved.
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Ottawa
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Marc Lalonde
Merv Leitch
Toronto Globe and Mail
CBC
Canada
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Medicine Hat weighs formal push for emergency runway generator
Ten days after Transport Canada promised a generator, Medicine Hat officials urge applying for one. Public works director Lorne Thompson says the promise was odd and suggests submitting a formal request. Officials note funding would begin after March 1982, with a three to five year timeline for action.
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Medicine Hat
Public Works
Lorne Thompson
Thompson
Public Works Committee
Bill Almolky
Edmonton
Almolky
Ald
Sam Stone
Ottawa group rejects social program cuts in federal budget
A seven member parliamentary study group in Ottawa urged no reductions to medicare education and equalization funding and warned cuts would hurt services unless provinces boost spending. It argues federal transfers have stayed steady since 1970 and disputes that social programs drive the deficit. Committee chair Herb Breau rejects blocking proposed cuts.
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Ottawa
Allan MacEachen
Edmonton Medicine Hat borrowing bylaw advances says Crawford
The Edmonton Medicine Hat city council seeks a 150 million borrowing bylaw for future gas supplies. Attorney General Neil Crawford says the bylaw appears legal, with an initial report noting it can be done. LAB reviews and possible amendments may shape final approval as officials wait for a decision next week.
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Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Neil Crawford
Local Authorities Board
LAB
Crawford
Mary Moore
Attorney-Gival
Moore
McKimmie Mathews
Sauer
Grain handlers stage picket at Cargill in Thunder Bay
Grain handlers from Local 650 of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks set up a picket at the Cargill Grain Co. Ltd. elevator in Thunder Bay as part of a contract dispute affecting six elevators. About 60 Cargill workers joined the action, with 1,600 total handlers in position since a federal mediator’s report. Negotiations remain stalled after talks with mediator Bill Kelly failed, and union leaders demand wage and job security concessions despite limited plant operations following a prior fire.
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Thunder Bay
Ont
Cargill Grain Co. Ltd
Frank Mazur
Lakehead
Mazur
Cargill
Bill Kelly
Lake Superior
Winnipeg
Brotherhood of Railway
War Amps key tags found dumped on city landfill
A large dump of hundreds of key tags associated with War Amps of Canada was discovered at a city landfill on the southwest outskirts. The find has drawn interest from the finder and War Amps head office in Toronto.
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Canada
Toronto
Eight more murders charged in BC mass-kill case
Vancouver's Clifford Olson, 41, faces eight new counts of first-degree murder in the case tied to 11 missing or slain youths on the lower mainland. Police report multiple stab wounds or bludgeoning. several bodies found, with two still missing. RCMP continue searches and consider links to other highway slayings while pledging an intense investigation.
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British Columbia
Clifford Robert Olson
Judy Kozma
RCMP
Terri Lyn Carson
Louise Chartrand
Ada Court
Caryn Johns
Johnsrude
Saskatoon
Coquitlam
John Hall
Colleen Daignault
Surrey
Sandra Wolfsteiner
Langley
Bruce Northorp
Simon Partington
Christine Weller
Lower Mainland
B.C
Alberta
Yellowhead
Trans-Canada
Larry Proke
Proke
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