Young sleuths tackle Felix case in classroom mystery
Education feature follows twenty five Grade 6 students at George Davison School solving a staged death of Felix the millionaire. Using an evidence trail with two pop cans two glasses and a guitar string they rotate through teams to deduce the victim's end amidst police guidance and a future station tour culminating in a student jury.
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Felix the Millionaire
George Davison School
Derek Pomreinke
Tracy Knibbs
Felix
Tyler Jobling
Medicine Hat Police
Delline Sharpe
Courtnne Woodman
Pomreinke
Knibbs
Woodman
Jobling
Bre-X stock soars then dips on rumors and Philippine dig news
Bre-X Minerals stock surged to 5.75 on the Toronto exchange before slipping to 3.62 as 17 million shares traded in a frenzy in the final 90 minutes. A TSE official called the trading pandemonium. Reports say Philippine investigators confirmed geologist Michael de Guzman’s body by fingerprinting.
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Toronto
Bre-X Minerals
TSE
Philippine Bureau of Investigation
Michael de Guzman
Residents told to leave flood's path
Winnipeg residents face evacuation as Red River flood rises toward what officials call the flood of the century. About 500 homes near the river are told to be ready to leave by weekend. hospitals prepare for possible dike breaches and surrounding communities brace for rising waters and limited exits.
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Winnipeg
Red River
Susan Thompson
Manitoba
St. Boniface
Emerson
United States
Dominion City
Art Kathler
Margaret
Man pinned in scrap metal accident in Medicine Hat
Leonard Wilcox a 45 year old Hat Salvage truck driver is in stable condition at Calgary Foothills Hospital after being crushed between a metal bin of scrap and a truck at Medicine Hat power plant on Noble Street Wednesday. He underwent abdominal surgery for blunt trauma. Alberta Labor investigates the incident.
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Calgary Foothills Hospital
Leonard Wilcox
Hat Salvage
City of Medicine Hat
Noble Street
S.W
Medicine Hat
Pat Flinn
Rod Crockford
Wilcox
Doug Bull
Flinn
Alberta Labor
Tom Samoila
Statistics Canada delays payroll survey after data error
Statistics Canada admitted a data processing error inflated December and January employment estimates in its payroll survey. The mistake could skew month to month changes by up to 68 000 jobs, with the latest labor force results showing 68 000 added but a 95 percent confidence interval of 129 000 created or 7000 lost. Analyst Peter Lys called it unfortunate but solvable.
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Ottawa
Eee
Statistics Canada
Southam
Peter Lys
Bombing trial opens as audio tapes depict Oklahoma City blast
Denver reports that prosecutors will present an audio tape and videotapes of victims and burning cars to illustrate the 1995 OKC bombing. Timothy McVeigh faces opening statements as defense attorney Stephen Jones argues flaws in the investigation begun April 19, 1995. Lou Klaver is expected to authenticate the explosion tape.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Timothy McVeigh
McVeigh
Stephen Jones
Lou Klaver
Associated Press
Balloon Man Earns 1997 Darwin Award for Self Sacrifice
Larry Walters of Los Angeles attached helium balloons to a garden chair and rose to 11,000 feet. He drifted for 14 hours above the city before rescue and arrest, later telling reporters a man cannot just sit around.
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US Air Force
Larry Walters
Los Angeles
Walters
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