Calgary protest over private roadside zoo demands closure
Calgary based report notes World Society for the Protection of Animals and Zoocheck urging the shutdown of GuZoo Animal Farm run by Lynn Gustafson, 100 kilometres northeast, amid claims of substandard facilities and animal bites. Alberta government has extended the farm’s temporary licence beyond expiry.
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Pat Tohill
World Society For the Protection of Animals
GuZoo Animal Farm
Lynn Gustafson
Alberta
Julie Woodyer
Zoocheck
Canada
GuZoo
Gustafson
Sustainable Resource Development Department
Klein reshuffles Alberta deputy ministers and top civil servant
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein replaced the top civil servant and shuffled deputy ministers across most departments. Ron Hicks becomes deputy minister to cabinet, replacing Julian Nowicki who is named chair of the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission. Several deputies receive new posts, with retirements announced for three senior figures, and five deputy roles left open to compete.
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Alberta
Ralph Klein
Ron Hicks
Hicks
Environment
Julian Nowicki
Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission
Shelley Ewart-Johnson
Aboriginal Affairs
David Evans
Children’s Services
Learning
Peter Kruseinicki
Government
New Zealand
Nein
Health
Roger Palmer
Jim Nichols
Dave Rehill
Brothers plead guilty in tainted water case
In Walkerton Ontario two brothers who ran the town water system pleaded guilty to common nuisance after a tainted tap water disaster in May 2000 killed seven people and sickened 2,500. Stan Koebel, 51, and Frank Koebel face possible jail or house arrest as the Crown seeks a mid range sentence. Mary Rose, the 2 1/2 year old girl, was one of the seven victims and her mother spoke of heartbreak in court as victim-impact statements were read.
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Ontario
E. Coli
Esther Raymond
Ontario Superior Court
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Frank Koebel
Mary Rose
Raymond
Koebels
Stan Koebel
Frank
Fire Kills Woman and Three Sons in Quebec Home
A police officer and his dog surveyed the wreckage after an overnight fire in Saint-Jean-de-Matha Quebec. Four people were killed including a woman and three of her four sons. investigators probed the cause as emergency crews secured the scene.
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Saint-Jean-de-Matha
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Journalist seeks jail for contempt over source at meeting
Hamilton Spectator reporter Ken Peters asks Judge Crane to jail him rather than pay a fine for contempt after refusing to name a source who attended a 1995 meeting revealing confidential city hall documents on St Elizabeth Villa. Crane will hear the citation as civil, avoiding a criminal record but allowing fines or jail.
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World AIDS Day highlights rising HIV infections in women
On World AIDS Day Canada notes a growing share of infections among women. Louise Binder, diagnosed in 1992, reflects on living with HIV for 12 years. UN and national data show women account for about a quarter of new infections in 2001 to 2003, up from earlier years.
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Toronto
Canada
Louise Binder
Binder
United Nations
Aids Committee of
Oldest Canadian nun Annie Samson dies at 113
Halifax reports the death of Annie Samson a Cape Breton nun aged 113 years nine months and 24 days She vowed in 1917 and taught for much of her life Born in River Bourgeois Nova Scotia she lived at the Convent of Les Filles de Jesus since 1985 Her great niece says she graduated from Normal College in Truro in 1912 and was considered Canada’s oldest woman at the time of death in Moncton New Brunswick
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Annie Samson
River Bourgeois
Nova Scotia
Richmond County
Canada
Moncton
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Guinness Book of Records
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Joan Sheehan
Dartmouth
N.S
Normal College
Truro
Les Filles de Jesus
Daughters of Jesus
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