19 Aug 1994
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Aug 19, 1994
Page
1
Lucille Conser of Bonnie's Bouquets received over 60 calls after a USA Today cartoon spoofed Fidel Castro with a 1 800 COM MIES number. The paper apologized and ran a notice asking calls stop. it offered to cover Conser's phone charges.
The Alberta Heritage Fund converted 150 million in convertible debentures into 14 million NOVA shares, then sold six million for 78.7 million, yielding a 16.5 million profit. The fund retains 10.8 million NOVA shares valued at 13.12 each and will reinvest 62.2 million back into the fund to help cover deficits.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service denies spying on CBC and says the claim has no basis. Solicitor General Herb Gray's watchdog panel SIRC will investigate the reports and broaden inquiry to CSIS activities related to a Fifth Estate program and a racist group.
About 237 Medicine Hat provincial employees will vote next week on a tentative three year contract that would roll back wages five percent with four unpaid holidays per year and a severance package. Union leaders say they support restoration of paid holidays but oppose wage gains. Results in three to four weeks.
The defense filed a 23 page motion alleging Mark Fuhrman is prone to fabricating evidence against African Americans. It seeks police records and psychiatric reports and includes statements from witnesses about Fuhrman’s racist remarks and possible planting of a bloody glove at O J Simpson's estate.
Canadian war crimes prosecutors advise deporting eight suspected WWII collaborators. Two are landed immigrants facing immediate hearings, six are citizens pending citizenship revocation. Most live in the Montreal Toronto corridor, with RCMP screening noted. The unit aims to act while acknowledging a Supreme Court ruling has limited prosecutions.
Premier Daniel Johnson told 500 Liberals not to worry as Leger and Leger place Liberals within 3 points of the Parti Quebecois at 48 percent to 45 percent. The same firm had shown a 5 point gap a week earlier. The survey of 1352 voters has a three point margin of error. Parizeau’s sovereignty message appears weaker with 42 percent support, while he defends a referendum as beneficial to Quebec and Canada.
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