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am tutu fSerj 331 illl ill lIlIl till Recalling war years Jules Paivio left and William Brennan two Canadian veterans of the Spanish Civil War are seen on an old battle site outside the village of Morata de Tajuna near Madrid Tuesday They are part of group of 40 Canadian veterans who are on tour of battle sites where they fought on the Republican side 40 years ago CP Laserphoto Striking bus drivers ready for mediation OTTAWA tCPi With one major hurdle behind them re gional transport officials and representatives of 1600 striking employees are ready to discuss their differences through fed eral mediator Officials of the annual Central Canada Exhibition which ended Sunday blamed poor weather and not the lack of bus service for the 131le drop in attendance this year Souvenir of tornado compared with last The drivers had hoped with drawing their services Aug 13 just before the exhibition opened would help force re gional officials to accept their bargaining position Now with schools reopening next week and 6000 students dependent on public buses both sides have agreed to meet through William Kelly the top federal labor negotiator dont think there is too much separating us Jacques Droin president of the Amalga mated Transit Workers said after meeting Tuesday with Ot tawaCarleton regional transit officials Tuesdays talks reduced the differences between the two sides which originally agreed to 165percent increase in twoyear package The workers earned an average $15662 Debbie Lamberink 22 is one of the proud survivors sporting souvenir shirts marking tornado that caused extensive damage to the Woodstock Ont area earlier this month Some of the profits from the sales of the shirts is being directed to local disaster relief fund CP Laserphoto Resolution gt bgr gssgciation session Marijuana possession move seen CALGARY CPl Justice Minister Jacques Flynn will probably be asked this week to instruct prosecutors to support absolute and conditional dis charges of persons convicted of possession of mariuana resolution to placed be fore the Canadian Bar Associ ations general session Thurs day also suggests that Flynn write to the attomeygeneral of Alberta to point out the high number of marijuana con victions in the province and the low number of discharges in re lation to other provinces The resolution was drafted by the Alberta branch of the 26000 member bar association hold Share profits Alberta asked CALGARY CP Ontario Treasurer Frank Miller begged Alberta Tuesday to turn over more of its huge petroleum rev enue to Ottawa It is time we all sat down and made deal Miller said during Canadian Bar Associ ation panel discussion here If no one yields this country is headed for bad news We shall have very unpleasant ten sion between regions ing its annual convention here this week Alberta lawyers said judges in Alberta give discharges in only two per cent of marijuana possession cases They con trasted this with eight per cent in Quebec 16 per cent in British Columbia 22 per rent in Sas katchewan 41 per cent in Mani toba and 46 per cent in Ontario The number of convictions in Alberta was dispropor tionately high ranking only behind Ontarios 12698 Alberta had 6847 convictions BC 4982 Quebec 2788 Saskat chewan 2100 and Manitoba 1698 The resolution did not contain conviction figures for the Atlantic provinces LEAVES N0 RECORD Absolute and conditional dis charges may be granted by Judges in these cases The dis charge means that the con victed person has no criminal record The alternatives are jail fines or suspended sen tences All carry records The Canadian Medical Association said in 1969 that the marijuana laws had worse effects than the drug itself which is listed under the Narcotic Control Act but is not anarcotic The doctors called for decr iminalization in 1972 and the Canandian Bar Association rec ommended last year that it be decriminalized The Senate passed govern ment bill in 1975 that would have placed marijuana under the 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