Principal Group noteholders plan lobby for Alberta aid
About 80 noteholders and 2,500 investors with roughly 500 notes totaling some 90 million dollars seek a hired lobbyist to pressure the Alberta government for compensation after Principal Group Ltd. collapsed. Participants urge public campaigns, noting possible 10 to 50 cent recoveries without a bailout.
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Calgary
Principal Group Ltd
Alberta
Andrew Gross
Springvale
First Investors Co
Associated Investors of Canada
Donald Cormie
PGL
Quincy Smith
Steve Allan
Principal Group
Rita Farley
First
Farley
Young pilot Emma Houlston completes cross Canada flight
Emma Houlston, age nine, completed a two week cross country trip in a single engine plane visiting 14 cities including Kelowna Regina Winnipeg Thunder Bay Montreal and Ottawa. She spoke at the Ontario Science Centre and opened the aeronautics display while also crashing several flight simulator mock flights. Her father Paul navigated the journey and they plan a relaxing camping trip after the media blitz.
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Toronto
Canada
Emma Houlston
Medicine Hat
Ontario Science Centre
Great Lakes
Emma
Paul
National Science Centre
Glenda
Pennsylvania
Leanna Bowman
Albertan
Paul Houlston
Sydney
N.S
Kelowna
Cranbrook
Nelson
Regina
Winnipeg
Thunder Bay
Montreal
Ottawa
Zoe Harrison
Speedboat crash injures twenty four on Allegany River bank
An investigation begins as a Canadian Formula One boat veers off course and crashes into spectators along the Allegany River. The impounded vessel and scene are under scrutiny after 24 people are injured, eight critically, in the mishap witnessed by the driver's parents.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny River
Robert Wood
Ennismore
Peterborough
Ont
Three Rivers Stadium
Barry Carras
Wood
Allegheny General Hospital
Karen Long
U.S. Coast Guard
Lawyers accuse Immigration Dept as hearing chaos erupts
Hamilton reports the defence claims three government media officers violated the Privacy Act and should be excluded from Mohammad case hearings. Adjudicator McNamara refused to bar them after Mohammad consented attendance. The government dropped a subversion charge, saying it could prompt a politics row about Middle East policy.
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Israel
Ed McNamara
Mohammad
Alberta sees record tourism year fueled by Olympics
Alberta expects 21.9 million visitors and 2.3 billion in revenue as Calgary Banff Jasper attractions surge. Stampede attendance hits 280 000 up 84 percent from 1987 while Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump draws 160 000 visitors in its first season. Weather and Olympics boost bookings despite drought impacting farmers.
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Calgary
Alberta
Calgary Banff
Phil Robart
Tourist and Convention Bureau
Banff
Jasper
Robart
Shultz narrowly escapes Bolivian bomb blast
U S Secretary of State George Shultz and his wife were unharmed after a bomb exploded on the edge of La Paz while his motorcade arrived from the airport. A window in his wife’s car was shattered and debris scattered as the blast occurred just after his vehicle passed. Shultz and his wife were in separate cars.
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LA Paz
U.S
George Shultz
Bolivia
Shultz
Vander Zalm faces internal clash as media hits loom
British Columbia premier Bill Vander Zalm says the press is to blame for the ongoing spy scandal and cabinet defections as his Social Credit government contends with investigations and internal feuding. He cites a smear campaign while defending his administration’s resilience.
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Peter Toigo
Vander Zalm
David Poole
Toigo
Vancouver
Cuellar predicts Iran Iran Iraq truce within two weeks
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar says a ceasefire and direct talks under UN auspices will start within two weeks after Iran agrees to Iraqs compromise. He plans to deploy 250 UN peacekeepers along the 1175 kilometre front, with 24 of 30 interested nations onboard.
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United Nations
APCP
Javier Perez de Cuellar
Iran
Iraq
Perez de Cuellar
Security Council
Ali Akbar Velayati
Ismat Kittani
New York Times
Canada
Sweden
Denmark
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