CF-18 Training Rules Tightened After Island Crash
Canadian CF-18 pilots will fly higher faster and more carefully as training resumes after a 48 hour moratorium. New limits raise air intercept speed to 480 km h and minimum ground attack altitude to 75 metres with fewer aircraft in multi plane exercises. Lt Gen Fred Sutherland notes no evidence low speeds caused the crashes but stresses safety margins. Captain Hollis Tucker is presumed dead from the Vancouver Island crash amid Canada’s North American Defense role.
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Ottawa
Defence
Bill McKnight
Vancouver Island
Canada
Fred Sutherland
Air Command
Sutherland
Hollis Tucker
Recording contradicts Tory’s Smoky Lake tape claim
A recording from a Smoky Lake public meeting on April 5 shows Conservative backbencher Steve Zarusky pressing the town council to approve a chicken plant on his fully serviced lot or risk delays and up to 2 million in costs. Deputy Premier Jim Horsman says Zarusky did not act as a government member in the talks. The tape was obtained by the Edmonton Sun from the Smoky Lake Signal.
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Edmonton
Smoky Lake
Alta
Steve Zarusky
Alberta
Edmonton Sun
Jim Horsman
Medicine : Hat
Zarusky
Zarusky Cording
The
Sun
Smoky Lake Signal
Andrew
Don Getty
Horsman
Smoky Lake Council
Executive Council
Legislative Assembly
Peres ends bid to form coalition
In Jerusalem Labor leader Shimon Peres acknowledged defeat after weeks trying to form a peace talks government and said he would formally abandon his effort. He spoke after a cabinet minister backed Shamir, and Peres had until today to assemble a coalition for a plan backing U.S. peace talks.
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Jerusalem
Reuter
Labor Party
Shimon Peres
Peres
Likud
Yitzhak Shamir
Getty gains day parole for cocaine charges
Alberta premier Don Getty's eldest son, Dale Getty, 33, began day parole at The Seventh Step Society halfway house in Calgary after leaving the Red Deer Remand Centre at 8 a.m. He served one sixth of a 33 month sentence for trafficking in cocaine and cocaine possession, with the original 18 month term later increased on appeal. The Seventh Step confirmed his arrival.
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Red Deer
Alta
Alberta
Don Getty
Calgary
Dale Getty
Seventh Step Society
Getty
Wilson defends PMO and Bank pay as not excessive
Finance Minister Michael Wilson told MPs that salaries for Prime Minister and Bank of Canada staff are in line with private industry. He rejected claims of a 16 percent PMO raise since 1987 and noted a 4.2 percent recent increase was not retroactive. He cited Bank of Canada gains driven by bonuses and skill upgrades.
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Deborah Dowling
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Finance
Michael Wilson
Wilson
Brian Mulroney
PMO
Central Bank
John Crow
Crow
Statistics Canada
StatsCan
Bank
Court delays Oldman Dam ruling in federal environmental dispute
Calgary court adjourned proceedings on stopping the Oldman dam as Justice Forsyth delays a ruling and awaits action from a federal minister. The case centers on whether reservoir filling can proceed before a federal environmental review is completed.
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Mike Lamb
Calgary Herald
Calgary
Oldman
Alberta
Court of Queen’s Bench
G.R. Forsyth
Lucien Bouchard
Quebec Tories Target Grits in Commons Clash
Quebec MPs led by Lucien Bouchard pressed Liberal leader candidates in a Commons clash over separatism. Bouchard charged John Nunziata’s Halifax remarks crossed lines by implying betrayal, insisting Chretien, the Liberal frontrunner, is the real target amid cautions about sedition notions.
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Joan Bryden
Southam
Ottawa
Commons
Quebec
Toronto
Bouchard
Canada
Lucien Bouchard
Parti Quebecois
Rene Levesque
Nunziatz Bouchard
Chretien
Nunziata
Jean Chretien
John Turner
Blackout Hits Toronto Shuts Lights Downtown
A transformer explosion at a midtown station caused a citywide blackout in Toronto and areas of Scarborough East York and North York leaving about 90 000 homes and 10 000 businesses dark. Power was restored by early morning with traffic chaos and minor looting reported as crowds filled Yonge Street in a festive mood.
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Eaton Centre
Toronto
Yonge Street
Canada
Michelle Em
Ontario Hydro
Bill Friday
Scarborough
East York
North York
Anne Nofle
Subway
Gordon Miller
London
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