Manitoba Assembly Bristles As Adjournment Debate Flows
Opposition Leader Spivak moved to adjourn over a guard service crisis at Headingly Jail sparked by a former inmate. The Speaker denied the motion after a brief exchange, a delay, and a small bout of political comic relief as Barrow and Burtniak moments lit up the floor.
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Sidney Spivak
Headingly
Speaker
Shafransky
Spivak
Tom Barrow
Voice of the North
Green
Gun Legislation Debates Sweep Canada and United States
Canadian readers are warned of rising gun control talk as MPs and senators push registration of long guns and possible hand gun bans. The piece cites NDP figures Stuart Leggatt and Senator Donald Cameron and notes David Lewis’s anti gun rhetoric with calls for public outreach to MPs. It also highlights fishing lore and pike hunting in Manitoba with season opening May 12 and mentions Saskatchewan cougar reports cited by Tom White.
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United States
Canada
Stuart Leggatt
NDP
New Westminster
Donald Cameron
House of Commons
Senate
David Lewis
Lewis
Ottawa
Northern Pike
Beard Fire Fatality Sparks Caution on Smoking
A man with a long beard died from burns after his beard caught fire from a cigarette. The incident prompts readers to consider safety around facial hair and smoking.
Harold's Starburst bonus ties to Texaco purchase
Harold buys $100 of Texaco farm products to qualify for a Starburst bonus offering one complete Manitou dinnerware setting or two Witton place settings or eight Apollo tumblers or Malibu towel set. His wife already owns parts of the Starburst collection and selects another Manitou setting before dinner.
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Harold
Texaco
Grindley
England
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Barrow
Peter Burtniak
Boyce
Evans
Gonick
Pawley
Peterson
Patrick
Soc Cred Froese
Rifter
Attorney-General Department
Mackling
Internal Services Department
Russ Paulley
Labor Department
Manitoba
I. H. Asper
House
Assembly
Mila
Bilton
Swan River
Uruski
St. George
Portage Plains
Dauphin
Swan River Valley
ROD and Gun Digest
Fishing Lake
Winnipeg
Molson Lake
Gods Lake
Churchill River
Gudzler
Esox Tucius
Tom White
Fish & Game Sportsman
Saskatchewan
Maryland
Notre Dame
Roblin
James Alfred Hilland
Dauphin Land Titles Office
A.D
E. P. Black
Man
Manitoba Crop Insurance Corporation
Hamiota
St. James Street
Reggie
Virden Knitwear
Manitoba Department OF Industry and Commerce
Norquay
Leonard S. Evans
Leonard Remis
Bourassa & Sons
Wilfred Lizotte
San Clara, Man
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