Parliament opens as Mulroney faces line in Commons
Ottawa report outlines early Parliament resumption with focus on unemployment and the economy. Tory leader Mulroney makes his Commons debut as Liberals and NDP test his policy stance while Trudeau plans fall talks on growth and Medicare.
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John Roberts
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Ed Broadbent
Pierre Trudeau
Meech Lake
Quebec
Canadians oppose extra doctor charges and hospital fees
A Southam News survey shows 85 percent of Canadians view medicare as a top government service. Sixty percent oppose doctors billing beyond medicare payments, 16 percent support. About 17 percent allow some extra billing. On hospital user fees 54 percent oppose, 13 percent favor.
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John Ferguson
Southam News
Ottawa
Poll finds extra billing issue not yet political charge
A national poll of 1,063 adults, conducted last week, shows Ottawa and the provinces dispute over extra billing and user fees has not become a major political issue. Liberal 17 percent, Conservative 14 percent, NDP 10 percent. voters undecided.
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Alan Frizzell
Carleton University School of Journalism
Todd dead Todd dead
Clark Todd, London bureau chief for CTV, has died of wounds from fighting in Lebanon. He was 38, and his body was found and taken to Sidon by Red Cross and Phalangist militia after being hit by artillery shelling on September 4 at Kfar Matta in the Chouf mountains.
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Kfar Matta
US diplomat deemed persona non grata in Soviet spying case
The KGB said a U.S. diplomat and his wife were accused of spying in Leningrad and the diplomat has been expelled. Mark Smith of the U.S. Embassy confirmed Vice-Consul Lon David Augustenborg was declared persona non grata, the third U.S. diplomat accused this year. It was not disclosed if the couple was detained.
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Augustenborg
State Dept revises timing on KAL 007 engagement
U.S. linguists reanalyzed Soviet air to ground transcripts and say the pilot fired warning shots about six minutes before missiles brought down KAL Flight 007. The crew apparently did not hear or see any warning. Moscow maintains the plane was on a spying mission.
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Time Air sale gives PWA 40 percent stake in carrier
Time Air Ltd of Lethbridge sells 5 960 303 treasury shares to Pacific Western Airlines for 4.3 million, creating a 40 percent equity share for PWA. Time Air employees would receive 1 940 536 shares representing 13 percent, while present owners stay as shareholders. Stubb Ross says the equity injection secures current and future service obligations and that Time Air will operate independently with continued competition.
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Richard Barton
Alberta foreclosure surge strains recession relief efforts
Foreclosures rise sharply in Alberta as 2,832 final orders issued in the first seven months of 1983, about 50 percent more than all of 1982. Analysts warn the rate could triple last year, with CMHC noting many mortgages in arrears and unemployment up in Calgary and Edmonton amid slumping oil prices.
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