Public health care ads target Klein government in Alberta
Calgary lobby group Friends of Medicare launches a $200000 radio and TV blitz to mobilize Albertans against proposed health system cuts. Christine Burdett says ranges of calls letters and e-mails may sway the government though officials argue reform is needed with $6.8 billion in annual health spending and Roy Romanow weighing federal changes.
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Calgary
Klein
Christine Burdett
Friends of Medicare
Alberta
Mazankowski
Burdett
Alberta Health
David Dear
Dear
Roy Romanow
Edmonton
Life is Easier Than It Seems Quote
A brief anonymous aphorism suggests acceptance of the impossible and endurance of hardship as a means to ease life. The speaker urges bearing the intolerable and foregoing the indispensable to simplify existence.
Earth Day at Eagle Butte High Sees Horseback and Bike Travel
Students celebrate Earth Day with an awareness campaign by traveling to school via horses seven riders plus seven bikers nine wheels and other modes. Sara Davies rides Lucky and plans to bring the horse trailer home. Staff note the event aims to promote non motorized transport and environmental awareness.
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Eagle Butte High School
Sara Davies
Lucky
Julie Rasmuson
Red
Donna Steele
Green Club
Cornerstone Garden Market Iga
Steele
Palliser Health Authority
Deddeda Stemler
Garden Market Iga
Medicine Hat
Woman dies after fatal hit and run in Medicine Hat
An 18 year old woman died after being struck by a 1987 Buick in the 1100 block of First Street N W in Medicine Hat early Sunday. Police say charges are pending against the 22 year old driver as investigators review alcohol involvement and witness accounts.
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Bob Ross
First Street
N.W
Medicine Hat
Foothills Hospital
Calgary
Ross
Inquiry opens into friendly fire deaths of four Canadian soldiers
The Canadian military set up a board led by retired general Maurice Baril to investigate the Kandahar incident. An interim report is due in 21 days, final in 60. U S and Canadian teams gather evidence as families plan services and a poll shows support for compensation.
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Ottawa
Afghanistan
Maurice Baril
Defence Staff
Defence
Art Eggleton
Eggleton
Kandahar
U.S
Rumsfeld
Pentagon
Baril
Marc Dumais
Mark Hodgson
Gregory Matte
Denis Levesque
Dumais
Washington
United States
Dogs and cats find unlikely bond in Ontario pair
Marilyn the Doberman, adopted with a litter of three week old kittens, ran away and was found starving in Kitchener. A kitten was used to lure her home and the pair were seen cuddling, now named Monroe, showing they belong together.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Ont
Marilyn
Ontario
Kitchener
Ron
Peggy Lund
Lunds
Lund
Munroe
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