Dangerous drugs parents should know about
In this column four more dangerous drugs are outlined. Quaaludes barbiturate like tranquilizers cause drowsiness and impaired thinking with overdoses risking unconsciousness, lung and heart failure, or death. Heroin is highly addictive and depresses respiration with overdose leading to coma or death. Amphetamines overstimulate the CNS causing prolonged wakefulness followed by a harsh crash. Inhalants such as gasoline and glue produce a rapid euphoric high with severe brain and organ damage and possible death. Your pharmacist can answer questions and refer to local drug abuse authorities if needed.
New Democratic pledge for job security in British Columbia
The opposition argues forests are public resources and companies should reinvest locally while providing jobs, decent wages, health and safety standards, and long term job security. A BC New Democrat government would pass legislation modeled on Japan and Scandinavia to protect workers from plant closures and mass layoffs, citing a Princeton shutdown as context.
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Japan
Scandinavia
European
Princeton
Canadian wholesale sales rise in July 1986
Statistics Canada reported a 12.7 percent jump in wholesale merchant sales for July 1986 from a year earlier, led by farm machinery and building materials. Inventories rose 10.6 percent, with the stocks to sales ratio at 1.56 to 1, slightly down from the prior year.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
This Day In History September 29 1986 Events
King Gustav I of Sweden founder of the Vasa dynasty died in 1560 after crowning in 1523 and unifying Sweden. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra born 1547. Horatio Nelson born 1758. Rudolf Diesel died 1913. Allied breakthrough on the Hindenburg Line 1918. Alouette I launched 1962 from Cape Kennedy.
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Gustav I of
Sweden
Vasa
Gustav
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote
Horatio Nelson
Norfolk
England
Rudolf Diesel
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Ontario
Ministry of the Environment
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Winnipeg
Manitoba Telephone System
Gilles Roch
Roch
MTX Telecommunications Ltd
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Hindenburg Line
Canada
Cape Kennedy, Fla
Chetwynd Chamber
Radio
Singer Sales and Service
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