| Headline's from today's Toronto Star (not my favourite paper but
nonetheless sitting here:
PM HINTS AT ELECTION CALL
ON FREE TRADE BEFORE '89
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, facing strong opposition to free
trade from three premiers, has hinted that Canadians will have a
chance to vote on the deal before it takes effect in 1989...
PETERSON, GHIZ, PAWLEY MEET
BUT DENY PLOT TO THWART DEAL
The three premiers opposing the Canada-U.S. free trade deal held
their own closed door meeting on free trade last night, but deny
that they are plotting to thwart the deal...
DRINKING DRIVERS FACE HOLIDAY CRACKDOWN
Police will crack down harder on drinking drivers this Christmas
in response to increases in traffic accidents and fatalities...
CLARK SEES ROLE FOR OUR TROOPS
San Salvador - Canadian soldiers may well be flown into help police
the Central American peace pact, External Affairs Minister Joe Clark
said last night...
PENSIONS AT HEART OF AIR CANADA CONFLICT
Behind looming rotating strikes that threaten to disrupt or even
ground Air Canada is a determined bid by 8,500 ground workers for
pensions that rise with the cost of living...
BIG MALLS TO OPEN ON THE SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
The largest retail developers in Metro, under competitive pressure,
are preparing to open their shopping malls for Boxing Day sales
on Sunday, Dec. 27.
(only in Toronto would this be deemed newsworthy for the front page!)
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| I'm going to be haphazard about posting these headlines...but when
I do, if they are interesting to any expatriates out there around
the world, please let me know by carrier pigeon, mail (otherwise,
I won't bother).
THE GLOBE AND MAIL Headlines Thursday, December 10
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TALKS ON STRATEGIC ARMS GO WELL
Both sides remained optimistic yesterday about reducing their
inventories of long-range nuclear missiles as the second day of
th U.S. Soviet summit came to an end.
ONTARIO FUTURE ROSY UNDER TRADE PACT, PROVINCE FORECASTS
Ontario's economy has been out-producing all its U.S. counterparts
and will continue to expand under the proposed free-trade agreement,
a new forecast by the provincial Government says.
WITCHCRAFT HIGH PRIEST MUST GET HOLIDAY PAY, HUMBER COLLEGE TOLD
A Metro Toronto community college has been ordered to provide paid
religious holidays to a devotee of witchcraft.
FIGHT LOOMS IN SENATE OVER JUMP IN BUDGETS
A plan to increase fund for Senators' research and offices appears
destined to become another bitter partisan battle within the formerly
sombre chamber.
TADDEO WAS SEEKING COURT REMEMDY IN MONEY FEUD WITH BROTHER-IN-LAW
Slain businessman and Conservative Party organizer mario Taddeo
was involved in a bitter dispute over millions of dollars with his
brother-in-law and former business partner, Antonio Accurso, court
documents show.
PARENTS FRIGHTENED BY HATRED EMERGING IN RC SCHOOL FUROR
Roman Catholic parents and school board officials say they are
frightened by religious hatred emerging over plans to rensfer three
public school buildings to the separate school board.
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| Some more news from Canada.... [from The Ottawa Citizen, Fri. Dec. 11th]
OFFICIAL CONTRADICTS EPP AS TOXIC MUSSEL CLAMOR GROWS
The controversy grew Thursday over the government's handling of
poisonous P.E.I. mussels that have killed one man and made at least 78 others
ill.
Albert Pomeroy, 71, died Thursday in Montreal General Hospital, 12 days
after eating Prince Edward Island mussels that contained an unidentified poison.
FINAL TEXT OF FREE-TRADE DEAL FINALLY READY
After months of haggling, the long-awaited final text of the free-trade
agreement will be made public today. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is to table
the 2,400-page document in the House of Commons.
FOOD EXCLUDED FROM SALES TAX, SAYS WILSON
Toronto - Groceries would be exempt from the federal government's
proposed national sales tax, Finance Minister Michael Wilson said Thursday.
FIRST CANADIAN CHARGED WITH NAZI WAR CRIMES
A Canadian of Hungarian descent is the first person charged in this
country with crimes stemming from the Holocaust in the Second World War.
Imre Finta, 76, of Toronto, was arrested Wednesday morning by RCMP
officers as he was getting on a bus in Hamilton bound for Buffalo N.Y, said
Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn, who signed the charges.
Finta is charged with manslaughter in the deaths of Jews being deported
from Hungary to concentration camps and of kidnaping and confining more than
8,600 Jews in Szeged, Hungary in 1944.
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