Barrie Historical Newspaper Archive

Barrie Examiner, 4 Oct 1976, p. 3

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awlt Mrs Betty Williams left and Mairead Corrigan co founders of the womens peace movement in Northern PEACE MOVEMENT COMES TO US Ireland read the oath of peace at recent rally in Woodvalle Park Belfast The women will come to the US this week to make an ap peal on national television for Americans to stop sen ding money which might fuel Nothern Irelands sectarian fighting AP Photo Conservative leader Joe Clark backs away from nomination fight with backbencher OTTAWA Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark backed away from nomination fight with backbencher Stan Schumacher Sunday by announcing that he would be the Conservative can didate in the Edmontonarea riding of Yellowhead Both Mr Clark and Mr Schumacher had wanted to run in the new riding of Bow River where Mr Clarks hometown is located In showdown meeting Sun day morning of Alberta MPs Mr Schumacher reiterated his He Lory determination to seek the nomiA nation in Bow River even if Mr Clark was his opponent At news conference later Mr Clark said he would run in Yellowhead to avoid con troversy and in the best inter ests of the party Mr Clark hit barrage of questions said press was trying to make political issue of the matter because of the lack of news during the sum mer He said that in reality it was minor mattera case of two MPs wanting the same terri tory The news conference was held before almost the entire caucus of federal Conservative MPs It was learned that Mr Schumacher stepped down from his position as chairman of the Alberta caucus as result of Sunday mornings meeting Mr Schumacher Drumhel ler Alta lawyer said the dis pute does not affect his support for Mr Clark supported him when he was named leader and still do he said He said he had announced his intention to run in Bow River long before Mr Clark did The riding includes much of Mr Schmuachcrs present riding of Palliser was not challenging Mr Clark he was challenging me The larkSchumacher dis pute took the limelight from the meeting of the entire Con servative caucus which consid ered strategy to be followed when Parliament resumes Oct 12 Us Over From The CN Tower Good Times Jimmie Walker Mondays 700pm The Streets of San Francisco Karl Malden Mondays 1000pm The Bobby Vinton Show Tuesdays 700pm The Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner Tuesdays 800pm Switch Robert Wagner Eddie Albert Tuesdays 1000 pm féTl=ilV The Barrie Examiner Monday Oct 19763 Trudeau stuns senior party members by saying nation survival at stake TORONTO CP Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stun ned senior Liberal party mem bers here Saturday with war ning that the survival of Canada is at stake in the con troversy over bilingualism He bluntly told federal Liber als from Ontario to forget about shortterm tactics to bolster the partys popularity and concen trate on the unpopular but vital issues of bilingualism and the state of the economy The warning Saturday came in speech without notes or prepared text to about 500 party members including most of the Fullscale search continues for six dangerous escapees OTTAWA CP Six men all described by police as ex tremely dangerous escaped Sunday afternoon from the maximum security section of the regional detention centre in Gloucester Township near here Road blocks have been set up throughout the region and provincial police tracking dog was brought in but there were too many sets of tracks near the centre for it to be effective As darkness approached po lice started using aircraft equipped infrared and heat de tectors to look for the men be lieved hiding in bush surround ing the centre The centre is used mainly for prisoners awaiting tria or sentencing The six men who escaped are Lionel Wright 31 of Ottawa serving 17 years on drug charges and awaiting trial on further drug charges Yvon Roy 35 an escaper from Mon treals St Vincent de Paul prison believed serving two life sentences for murder Jean Faucher 24 of Cornwall Ont awiaiting trial for being unlaw AMO wants to stop Hydro rate increase ST 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chainlink fence while the guards went into the centre to report the escape at tempt Three of the men he said ran into dense undergrowth in the area and the other three got in to an automobile that was waiting for them The car was found later in suburban area of the west end of Ottawa several miles from the centre nann rationalist FABRICS AT ONE SPECIAL LOW PRICE 56 Ontario MPs and several cabinet ministers It caught the Liberals and even Mr Trudeaus own aides and advisers off guard coming as it did near the end of three day southern Ontario tour during which he delivered series of reassuring upbeat pep talks to other Liberal groups in St Catharines Niagara Falls and Toronto GIVES ULTIMATUM He gave the Liberals an ul timatum Place more em phasis on defending policies ike bilingualism even at the risk of further unpopularity or face the prospect of being the party in power at the collapse of Confederation He said that outside of On tario and Quebec the Liberals have in effect become party third in popularity and must rely on traditional Quebec sup port to retain power We are out of touch with large section of the grass roots especially west of the Ontario Manitoba border he said In many parts of the country we existasathird arty Liberal fun raising efforts are pitiful in Ontario and worse elsewhere The party still is re cruiting significant numbers of young Canadians but this is not enough he said Most provincial Liberal or ganizations have broken away from the federal party leaving the Ottawa Liberals to defend tough government actions on their own Mr Trudeau said the federal Liberals cannot afford to lay down their commitment to ilingualism or to go easy in their defence of the antiin flation program to placate the voters If this happens the voice of Quebec separatism will grow even stronger threatening the survival of Canada as coun try he said NOT MUCH TIME dont want to be fright ening but perhaps there is not that much time he said Stop demands first by labor 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