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St. John's, Nfld. - Thousands of public servants on strike in Newfoundland and Labrador should defy any moves by Premier Danny Williams to order them back to work, the union president said on Thursday. "In the event that he resorts to the legislature, I will say to [union] members that you should not go back to work," Leo Puddister, the president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Public and Private Employees, told thousands of strikers at a rally Thursday morning. St. Catharines, Ont. - People who work at a General Motors plant in St. Catharines, Ont., soon won't be able to use the main parking lot unless they drive a GM vehicle. This is the first move of its kind for a GM plant in Canada, though some of the car maker's facilities in the U.S. have similar policies. Starting Monday, employees driving cars and trucks made by other manufacturers will have to park in a smaller lot south of the components plant. Ottawa - A day after Colin Thatcher was told he would not be allowed out on parole, he found out he can try again in a couple of years. Last fall, a jury awarded him permission to ask for parole before he had served the statutory 25 years in prison under the Criminal Code's so-called faint hope clause. Thatcher, a former Saskatchewan cabinet minister, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson, in 1984.
