29 Apr 1998
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Apr 29, 1998
Page
1
The Medicine Hat News features a 20 page Hat Fits supplement with event listings and activity ideas to help readers plan a summer of fun. The guide provides varias suggestions and highlights for outdoors, entertainment, family outings and local happenings this season.
In Ottawa the Liberal government wins a confidence vote over its hepatitis C compensation package. 155 Liberals opposed a Reform motion to extend compensation to all tainted blood victims while 140 from the opposition supported it. Four MPs were absent. Tearful victims and opposition members clashed as the result upheld the existing plan.
World Wildlife Fund gave Alberta an F for failing to keep untouched spaces free from industry. Alberta officials touted 28 000 hectares added under Special Places but WWF cited four issues including logging and petroleum activity inside protected sites and slow progress with only two sites designated in the past year, including Yamruska Natural Area with expanding mining.
A compact reflection contrasts patient mastery with ease in hard tasks and humor in speech. It pairs Johann C. Schiller’s note on patience with Carl Sandburg’s view of slang as ready to work, stripping language to its practical core.
Palliser Health Authority announced an 84 million dollar balanced budget with 2.3 million in new program funding and potential new jobs. Leadership cites inflation consuming about 2 million of the increase while prioritizing extended hours for part time staff and doctor recruitment in Bassano Brooks and Medicine Hat.
Budget highlights reveal allocations for Brooks Acute Care Medicine Hat Acute Care Nursing and Regional Laboratory Services with additional funds for emergency department operating room and ICU. Officials project rising patient revenue and grants in 1998 99 plus a 4.5 million capital plan including millennium bug funding Palliser and lottery funds while doctors call for more support to reduce stress and waiting lists.
In Geraldton Ontario road crews report urine bottles and litter along the Hearst to Nipigon stretch of Highway 11 due to few restrooms. Police say using vehicles as mobile toilets could bring littering fines and driving charges for lacking care and control.
The Canadian Auditor General denounces the 1.2 billion Griffon helicopter program for lacking tests and failing to assess defence needs. He notes risk of severe electric shocks to crew and criticizes early budgeting to favor election timing, while praising public service cuts of over 30,000 from 1995 to 1997.
The 8th Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry will mount the guard at Buckingham Palace today for the first time in 45 years. From May onward, Canadian sentries will replace the bearskin wearing guards, surprising Japanese shoppers in London. Private Sean Naugle of Halifax, part of the team from CFB Edmonton, hopes to keep a straight face during the ceremonial duty.
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and team governors from Vancouver Calgary Edmonton Toronto Ottawa and Montreal urged MPs on Parliament Hill to recognize hockey as an eligible industry for financial incentives such as tax credits. Senators president Rod Bryden floated a revenue deduction plan while committee members pressed on salaries.
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