Fatal tanker crash cuts Brooks canal spill disrupts irrigation
A tanker truck crashed 25 kilometres west of Brooks on the Trans Canada Highway, killing the driver and dumping 58 000 litres of gasoline into the Springhill Canal. The spill closed the canal for at least a day affecting 20 000 hectares of irrigation while crews used skimmers booms and pumper trucks to contain and clean up. Detours were in place on the Trans Canada Highway as responders worked.
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Brooks
Springhill Canal
Eastern Irrigation District
Jim Webber
Rosemary and Duchess
Webber
Brooks Rcmp
Man shoots self in sleep with loaded pistol
A 24 year old Detroit man sleeping with a loaded semi automatic pistol woke to a loud noise and found he had shot his penis. He drove himself to the hospital with 16 stitches and told police he did not know how the weapon discharged. No permanent damage beyond a scar was reported.
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Sterling Heights
Mick
Reuter
Detroit
al Zielinski
Zielinski
Zielinksi
Westbound CN wreck near Edson halts key line
A westbound CN freight train collided head on with a derailed eastbound consist on a main line near Edson 10 km east of Edson Alberta just before midnight. Three crew members are missing and three bodies were recovered for forensic examination. CN initiated a full investigation while noting possible safety declines since privatization.
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Edmonton
Edson
Alla
Jake Elder
Ken Trout
John Eric Fraser
Hinton
Rick Boyd
Western Canada
Montreal
Yates
Scott Roberts
CN West
Rocky Mountains
Boyd
Calgary high risk pedophile charged with sexual assault
Curtis Hilchey, 31, labeled a high risk pedophile, was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference with a child under 14, and indecent exposure after allegedly luring a seven year old girl to a Marlborough park. He will appear in provincial court Thursday. High River RCMP issued a public alert following his Bowden Institution release on June 22. Local residents question why the alert was not wider in Calgary.
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Calgary
RCMP
Marlborough
Curtis Kenneth Hilchey
Hilchey
Alberta
High River Rcmp
Hitchey
Bowden Institution
Bowden
Marlborough Community Association
Luanne Smith
Liberal call for emergency budget to fund health care
Liberal leader Grant Mitchell urged the Conservative government to pass an emergency budget before summer, directing new funds to health care amid a crisis claim. Health Minister Halvar Jonson rejected a quick fix, noting a prior 7 million injection to Edmonton Capital Health Authority and ongoing regional reviews.
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Edmonton
Iberia
Grant Mitchell
Mitchell
Brooks Tory
Lyle Oberg
Halvar Jonson
Capital Health Authority
Jonson
General Boyle says he did not authorize altered RTQs release
At the Somalia inquiry in Ottawa Gen. Jean Boyle, then associate deputy minister, denies authorizing altered RTQ briefing notes given to a CBC reporter in fall 1993. He says he would have recalled any document alteration and faults higher approval for the disclosure.
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Ottawa
Jean Boyle
CBC
Commission
Boyle
Department of National Defence
Department
Communications Department
Peter Desbarats
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