Utilities profits cushion Medicine Hat budget increase
Medicine Hat council approves a 1978 budget with total expenditures rising from 10.39 million to 11.94 million. Utilities surpluses projected at about 3.73 million offset tax gains, with property taxes at 2.62 million and grants at 2.37 million. Mayor Reinhardt says the city is moving into energy business alongside running a city.
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Bryan Blomme
the News
City of
Medicine Hat
Ald
Lucille Moyer
Milt Reinhardt
Public
Jim Anderson
Ald. Moyer
Medicine Hat Crossroads
Devonian Foundation
City backs Sears mall plan for southeast subdivision
City council approved a 335,000 square foot Sears shopping centre proposal in the southeast subdivision. In a closed meeting, council also recommended the Medicine Hat Regional Planning Commission approve the sector conceptual plan by Ross Creek Developments Ltd and Hat Development Ltd.
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Sears
Medicine Hat Regional Planning Commission
Ross Creek Developments Ltd
Hat Development Ltd
Regional Planning Commission
Simpsons-Sears
Canadian Tire
Canada Safeway
Municipal Planning Commission
Rainier man jailed 18 months for assault causing death
Dwayne Redcalf pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in the death of Cynthia Bearshirt after stabbing her in the leg on Nov 2. The charge was reduced from manslaughter and criminal negligence. Bearshirt bled to death within 45 minutes. Redcalf received an 18 month sentence.
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Rainier
Supreme Court
Medicine Hat
Dwayne Douglas Redcalf
Cynthia Lillian Bearshirt
W.K. Moore
Redcalf
Brooks
Moro Death Report From Kidnappers Shocks Italy
A message claimed by the Red Brigades said former premier Aldo Moro was executed and his body dumped in Lake Duchessa near Rome. Police sought confirmation as divers searched the lake while party leaders informed Moro’s wife Eleonora and officials mourned at party HQ.
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Rome
Aldo Moro
Red Brigades
Christian Democratic Party
Lake Duchessa
Moro
Brigades
Italy
Eleonora
Ottawa MPs pass priority bills amid election scare
Prime Minister Trudeau sparked a brief election scare prompting MPs to rush four priority bills before dissolution. They backed a postal strike ban, oil sands pricing, an occupational safety center, and measures targeting income tax rebate gouging as budget debates and conferees loom.
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Ottawa
Trudeau
Commons
New Democrats
Crosbie
Cyril Symes
NDP
Sault Ste Marie
Centre For
Occupational Health and Safety
Export Development Corporation
EDC
Alberta courts reorganized with single Court of Queen's Bench plan
Alberta plans merging the higher courts into a Court of Queen's Bench with an ongoing Court of Appeal. Attorney General Jim Foster says the model judiciary will save time and use judges efficiently, while opposing chiefs caution risk of bureaucracy. Local MLA Horstman awaits debate.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Jim Foster
Court of Queen's Bench
Cis
Supreme Court
Court of Appeal
Foster
Court of Queen’s Bench
Medicine Hat
Grande Prairie
Redcliff
Jim Horstman
J.W.H. Milwain
William McGillivray
PWA Ground Crew Return After Tentative Airline Pact
Pacific Western Airlines ground workers allied with the Canadian Airline Employees Association returned to work at 12:01 a.m. after a tentative deal reached with Alberta's government-owned airline. Ratification details were withheld. The 550 workers across 50 bases in BC Alberta and the Northwest Territories had been contractless since August 31 with rotating strikes since March.
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Calgary
Pacific Western Airlines
Alberta
Canadian Airline Employees Association
Brian Johnson
Don Crabbe
Vancouver
British Columbia
Northwest Territories
Yurke May Resign to Seek Federal Tory Edmonton East Seat
Alberta Housing Minister Bill Yurke may resign his provincial seat to run for the federal Tory position in the reformed Edmonton East riding. A press conference is planned as speculation grows. incumbent William Skoreyko is also rumored to retire. Yorke was first elected in a 1969 byelection in Edmonton Goldbar.
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Ed Broadbent
NDP
Senate
Athabasca
Syncrude
Alberta
Ontario
John Crosbie
St. John’s West
Alastair Gillespie
Crosbie
First Ministers
Edmonton
Bill Yurke
Edmonton East
Yurke
William Skoreyko
Yorke
Goldbar
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