A4-Sunday News, August 31, 1980

Provinces agree

on three items

OTTAWA (UPC) -
Provincial ministers say
unanimous agreement
has been reached bet-
ween the provinces on
constitutional items such
aS communications,
fisheries and offshore
resources, but Ottawa
was stil holding up the
pact.

The issue of resource
ownership will remain a
stumbling block between
the 10 provinces and the
federal government and
will not likely be settled
before Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau meets
with the premiers next
month.

Claude Morin,
Quebec's minister of
intergovernmental = af-
fairs, counted off the list
of items that the
provincial governments
and agreed to but which
were awaiting movement
by the federal govern-
ment.

“There is a unanimous
position on offshore
resources, com-
munications is the same,
and fisheries. with near

agreement on
equalization of
payments,” Morin said.

On family law. he said,
eight governments” -
including Ottawa - had
agreed.

Canadian GNP
dips slightly

OTTAWA (UPC) -
Canada’s gross national
product dipped by 1.1 per
cent during the second
quarter of 1980, placing
the level of production
0.2 per cent lower than a
year ago, Statistics
Canada announced
Friday.

The federal agency said
the country’s production
dropped by 1.7 per cent
for the first six months
indicates that Canada’s
recession is ‘‘more
severe” than the decline

in the economy during
the 1974-75 period.

Slumping consumer
demand, critically af-
fected by continuing
double digit inflation, was
the main culprit in
Canada’s deepening
recessions, it said.

A drop in demand for
durable goods, housing
and a slump in mer-
chandise exports of 2.8
per cent to the
economically troubled
United States has led to a
rapid rise in inventory for
the past six quarters.

Engineer dies
in CP Rail crash

DREFAL, Ont. (UPC) -
A CP Rail freight train
rammed into the rear of
another of the company's
freight trains. causing
both to derail and killing
an cngincer and slightly
injurnng three other train
men Pnday

CP Rail spokesman
Gerry La Fontaine said
the two trains travelicd
castbound about 27?
kilometres west of
Sudbury, Ont) when onc
train slammed into the
rear of the other Ed
DuBows. the trailing

train's engineer.
killed.
“The two engines

derailed, one ts burning
We have a caboose and
six cam of the sccond
train derailed. The cars
were carrying ratl and
wood pulp. and there
were no dangerous
commodities involved in
either train.”

CP officials routed Via
Rail passenger trains and
other freight trains
around the derailment
sate on CN Raa tracks, La
Fontaine satd

China protests

defection attempt

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defect in the Russian city
of Minsk. the | offiisal
Xinhua news ayeacy saw
Friday.

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As of Friday morning.
nine people had been
charged, but an RCMP
spokesman said several more
Cases are under investigation
and more people will be
arrested.

Charged with trafficking
in cocaine are Timothy

Tweed, aged 24, Gordon
Taylor, aged 27, Keith Pike,
aged 25, Roy Lincoin, aged
25, and Michael Duplissie,
aged 22, all North Van-
couver residents.

Murray Berger, aged 34.

of Vancouver has been

charged with trafficking tn
heroin.

As a result of searches

increase in B.C. homicides

VANCOUVER (UPC) -
Recently-released _ statistics
on crime in British Columbia
show that homicides have
increased by 28.2 per cent in
the first half of 1980 over the
first six months of 1979.

The statistics, compiled
from monthly reports of all
municipal police forces and
RCMP detachments in B.C.,

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