City cuts funding for Medicine Hat College day care remains open
Medicine Hat council did not renew a three year funding deal for the college day care. The service costs about 250000 annually to operate with 54 children and 12 staff. users cover most costs. The board will seek other funding sources as city funds have dried up.
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Deddeda Stemler
Camryn Aubry
Medicine Hat College
Craig Wood
Medicine Hat
Wood
Community Lottery Board
Julie Friesen
Lethbridge students walk out for teachers
Lethbridge Collegiate Institute students joined a province wide walkout protesting teacher strikes. About 75 gathered in the courtyard waving placards and voicing support for teachers while noting the impact on events like track meets and graduations.
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Lethbridge
Lethbridge Collegiate Institute
Janelle Marietta
Ralph Klein
Campbell
Baby girl abandoned outside strip mall in Maple Ridge
Police seek the mother of a newborn girl found in a baby sleeper under a blanket outside a strip mall medical clinic. The eight and a half pound, full term infant, believed to be 36 hours old, appears of native or Asian descent. Teenagers who found her heard noises and alerted authorities. No note was left and motive is unknown.
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Maple Ridge
B.C
Derrick Pickrell
Duct Tape Quotation Echoes Star Wars Spirit
A Carl Zwanzig quote likens duct tape to the Force with a light and dark side, saying it holds the universe together. The remark blends humor with a pop culture comparison and playful imagery.
Protective services trims budget as costly 2003 rooms
Fire chief Gerry Mauch notes the Protective Services Department kept the 2002 budget but faces a 2003 rise with the opening of a third fire station and about 18 new firefighters. A $65,000 paramedic position was cut and ambulance substation spending deferred, while council approved design work for the new station and warned of possible future property tax increases.
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Gerry Mauch
Protective Services
Council
Eee Mauch
Garth Vallely
Flore
Vallely
Mauch
Dissidents return after Clark Harper meeting fails
Five of seven Alliance dissidents led by Deb Grey and Chuck Strahl plan to rejoin the Alliance after a failed meeting between Joe Clark and Stephen Harper. The rift in the Tory-dissident coalition widened as both leaders blamed each other for rejecting joint candidate proposals and a full parliamentary coalition. Clark said cooperation talks collapsed. Harper said Clark refused broader ties.
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Ottawa
Alliance
Deb Grey
Chuck Strahl
Stockwell Day
Strahl
Grey
Jay Hill
Jim Pankin
Grant McNally
Joe Clark
New Alliance
Stephen Harper
Clark
Harper
Tories
Commons
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Southern Alberta
Carl Zwanzig
Ann Landers
Canada
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Will
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