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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Apr 05, 2006
Page
1
The brief lists temperatures and conditions across days from Monday through Tuesday. Highs range from 20 to 13 with lows from 7 to 6. Mostly cloudy and partly cloudy periods with a chance of showers are noted. An April 27 reference appears without full context.
A dated chronology notes Louis XIV bonuses in Canada 1669, representation by population debates in 1861, early Edmonton rotary phones 1908, Agnetha Faltskog born 1950, James Brown Boston concert 1968, Bryan Adams Heaven release 1985, James Brown arrest 1988, Saul Bellow death 2005, with brief context for each event.
Medicine Hat News announces purchasing access to Maple Creek News Maple Creek South West Advance Times and Shaunavon Standard from Saskatchewan. Individual copies cost 75 cents. Maple Creek South West Advance Times is weekly on Mondays while Maple Creek News and Shaunavon Standard publish on Tuesdays.
Medicine Hat Police seek public help after a break in on April 3 at a home in the 400 block of Aberdeen Street S.E. Stolen items include a Dewalt reciprocating saw brass faucets and a 28 foot ladder. Call police or CrimeStoppers with information.
A 16 year old boy was abducted in Calgary and his captors are demanding money. Staff Sgt. Dave Louie said police canvassed neighbourhoods and questioned students at the northwest high school as investigators work to locate the missing teen and verify the kidnappers’ identity. The boy’s father received the ransom call and authorities remain in contact with the family.
Manitoba authorities direct social workers to check on about 6,100 children in government care within 30 days after the death of a five year old. The move reverses an earlier stance by Family Services Minister Christine Melnick and aims to reassure the public on child safety in the shaken system.
Police and medical officials investigate the theft of 19 vials of HIV infected plasma from a locked sixth floor virology lab at St Pauls Hospital in Vancouver. Officials say the incident is unprecedented for the hospital and have no clear motive.
A Vancouver woman sues the police and three officers over the return of five old Swedish gold coins valued at about 165000 dollars. She says the coins, found by her mother at a garage sale, were seized last October and diverted to a third party after a theft claim.
A man walked into a downtown Tim Hortons around 1 pm and poured gasoline on his body in a restroom before lighting himself on fire, dies in the attack. Police say no crime is involved and identify the deceased remains uncertain due to notification delays. Ontario deputy chief coroner notes identification will require dental records or DNA once available.
Federal documents tie the rise to private sector wage gains for large employers while critics say MPs now sit in the top two percent of earners. Prime Minister Stephen Harper earns $295,400, exactly twice a backbench MP.
A premiers panel backs major reforms to Canada’s equalization system that could boost transfers to poorer provinces and reduce limits on health and social funding for wealthier ones. The report proposes including all provinces in the formula and scrapping a cap that currently trims transfers to richer regions.
Iraqi vice-president Adil Abdul-Mahdi urged embattled Shiite prime minister Ibrahim al Jaafari to resign to allow a new government. He said he met Jaafari and urged him to quit, but Jaafari refused and said he would pursue the case in parliament for a majority vote on a new cabinet.
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