Winnipeg Firms Launch Bid to Buy London Life
Great-West Life Lifeco and Investors Group lead a bid to acquire London Life for 2.9 billion with Power Financial backing 300 million. Royal Bank of Canada withdraws after a Toronto board meeting, signaling a Winnipeg triumph in a high stakes life insurance tilt.
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Toronto
Bay Street
London Insurance Group
London
Ont
Royal Bank of Canada
Ge London Life
Great-West Life Assurance Company
Canada
Great-West Lifeco
London Life
Great-West
Winnipeg
Investors Group Inc
Montreal
Paul Desmarais
Power Corporation of Canada
Great-West Life
Power Financial Corporation
Irumapos Couspesance
Royal Bank
The
Royal
John Cleghorn
Great West Life
Exec
Great-West Life and Investors Group
Raymond McFeeters
Eric Stefanson
Manitoba
Manulife Financial
McFeeters
Financial
Greatest phony health scares named by the American Council on Science and Health
The council lists twenty unfounded dangers from past decades including Aminotiazole in cranberries, DDT links, cyclamates, DES in beef, nitrites in meats, Red Dye No 2, hair dyes, triss and Love Canal hysteria. It notes investigations and reforms followed by lingering public memory and later refutations.
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American Council On Science and Health
Washington
Zanzibar
Sri Lanka
Edward Kennedy
Ralph Nader
America
Moscow
M and M's
American Cancer Society
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Tris
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Love Canal
Hooker Chemical Co
Hwasbestos
U.S
Congress