Grain talks resume at Thunder Bay port strike
In Thunder Bay Ontario talks resumed as the dispute that has shut Canada’s largest grain port sees unionized Lakehead Grain Handlers and Lakehead Terminal Elevators Association meeting separately in hotel rooms and face to face. Mediator Bill Kelly met with both sides to push toward ending the 10 day strike.
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Thunder Bay
Thunder Bay, Ont
Canada
Lakehead Grain Handlers’ Union
Bill Kelly
Union
Lakehead Terminal Elevators Association
Kelly
Frank Mazur
Martin
Maztr
Ottawa
Cargill Grain Co. Ltd
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Canadian Wheat Board
Murder charge filed in Medicine Hat stabbing death
A Medicine Hat woman Kim Gosnell, 26, was charged with second degree murder after her husband Kevin Oliver Gosnell, 69 2 Rutherford St N W, was stabbed to death Friday after 5 p m at their home. Police said the incident occurred during a domestic dispute.
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Medicine Hat
City Police
Larry Brink
Kevin Oliver Gosnell
Rutherford St. N.W
Kim Gosnell
Brink
Canadian banks cut prime and mortgage rates amid rate slide
Major Canadian banks lowered their prime rate by half a point to 21.75 percent, with the Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Montreal and Toronto Dominion leading the move. Mortgage rates also fell, with one to five year terms dropping to 21.0 21.25 and 21.5 percent, as the Bank of Canada rate slid to 20.18 percent the lowest since July.
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Toronto
Royal Bank of Canada
Bank of Montreal
The
Royal
Toronto Dominion Bank
Mercantile Bank of Canada
Continental Bank of Canada
Bank of Nova Scotia
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Bank of Canada
Toronto Common Bank
Continental Bank
Freighter Fire Off Pacific Coast Engulfs Honda Cars
Coast Guard cutter Morgenthau raced 700 nautical miles southwest of San Francisco to battle a blaze aboard the 570-foot freighter Blue Hawk. Seventeen of 22 crew members evacuated but returned to assist as about 2,500 of roughly 5,138 Honda cars burned or damaged. no injuries reported as crews fought flames amid heavy smoke near the bridge and pilot house.
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San Francisco
John Simpson
Coast Guard
Morgenthau
Blue Hawk
Honda
Japan
Jacksonville
Fla
Portsmouth
New York
Canadian Cup Hockey Semis Set After Canada Beats USA
Canada advances to the Canada Cup final with a 4 1 win over Team USA in Montreal, while Russia defeats Czechoslovakia 4 1 to reach the final. The day’s headlines cover political resignations and economic forecasts affecting housing.
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Canada
USA
Montreal
Davis blasts Trudeau on federal economic leadership
Ontario Premier William Davis criticizes Prime Minister Trudeau for alleged incompetence and predicts a serious recession. He urges Conservatives to adopt a national approach, convene a federal provincial economic conference, and propose plans for energy revenues.
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Toronto
Ontario
William Davis
Canada
Trudeau
Davis
Ottawa
Millions to run for Terry Fox Day across Canada
More than three million Canadians expected to run walk jog or wheel 10 kilometres Sunday to raise money for cancer research and honor Terry Fox. Ontario leads with 200 races while Alberta BC and other provinces host multiple events and international runs occur in Austria Switzerland and at Canadian bases in West Germany.
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Terry Fox
Canadian Cancer Society
Canadian Track and Field Association
Four Seasons
Fox
Port Coquitlam
B.C
Canada
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Alberta
British Columbia
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New Brunswick
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Saskatchewan
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Yukon
Austria
Switzerland
Lahr
Baden-Baden
West Germany
United States
New York City
Collinsville
Conn
Purdue University
Illinois
Levesque vows tougher stance against Ottawa in fights over gas line and transfers
Premier Rene Levesque declared Quebec will fight Ottawa on two fronts: the Montreal to Maritimes natural gas pipeline and fiscal transfers. He criticized Prime Minister Trudeau for high interest rates and warned regulators quebec will resist federal cuts.
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Newfoundland
Mines and Energy
Ottawa
Brian Peckford
Drummondville, Que
Rene Levesque
Levesque
Montreal
Maritimes
Provinces
National Energy Board
Trans-Quebec Maritime Pipelines
Lower St
Lawrence
Quebec
Gros Cacouna
Trudeau
Canada
U.S. Nears Decision on Israeli Base Offer
The Reagan administration weighs Israel’s offer to use its air and naval bases but seeks other options with Egypt Oman and Kenya. Officials stress continued commitment to Israel while avoiding strained Arab ties. Defense Secretary Weinberger and Ariel Sharon discuss the plan amid a Soviet threat. State Secretary Haig cautions limits to any strategic partnership.
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Reagan
Menachem Begin
Israel
U.S
Persian Gulf
Coun
Egypt
Oman
Kenya
Begin
Blair House
Mediterranean
Defence
Caspar
Weinberger
Ariel Sharon
Middle East
Soviet Union
Alexander Haig
Clark wins bid to keep Southam News leadership
Joe Clark seized a unanimous confidence vote from the Conservative national executive in Montreal, forcing views on leadership and pledging loyalty. The victory followed a summer of grassroots campaigning, polls showing narrowing gaps with the Liberals, and Clark moving to reshuffle his shadow cabinet while fending off rivals John Crosbie and David Crombie.
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Montreal
Joe Clark
Clark
Peter Blaikie
Blaikie
Liberals
Newfoundland
John Crosbie
Toronto
David Crombie
Tory leadership defeat reshapes cabinet and politics
The 1979 Tory split moves Crosbie to external affairs and Crombie to labor while Walter Baker loses House leadership. Clark lines up a showdown September 23 with the Conservative caucus as dissidents gather, with a formal challenge unlikely until February 1983. Trudeau’s tenure and Liberal replacement loom over the timing.
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Crombie
Ottawa
Walter Baker
Clark
Treasury Board
National Executive
Trudeau
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