Ottawa jobless rate unchanged at 12.7 percent in November
Canada faces deeper recession as unemployment stays at 12.7 percent with 55 000 jobs lost in November and a 629 000 total since the downturn began. Quebec jobless drop flagged as sampling error while discouraged workers aren’t counted and full time losses outpace gains. Alberta and British Columbia show high rates with Calgary at 11.4 percent and BC at 14.3 percent.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Quebec
Alberta
Calgary
Edmonton
British Columbia
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Nova Scotia
Gift from the Heart Supports Salvation Army Christmas Effort
A Medicine Hat donor praised the Salvation Army for past help and gave fifty dollars at the mall kettle. The Santa Claus Fund will buy food hampers and toys. additional donors include Sandra Vangen with twenty dollars and eighteen dollars forty five cents in food. Other gifts from local residents and Medicine Hat News total many small contributions to aid less fortunate families this Christmas season.
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Medicine Hat
Salvation Army
Larry
Lancaster
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Alberta hospital money squeeze sparks talk of fees and bed cuts
Alberta Hospitals Minister Dave Russell warned boards the province will stop financing annual operating deficits. With a $40 million shortfall this year across 220 facilities, he floated options including patient fees medicare premium increases or property tax levies to erase deficits.
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Calgary
Alberta
Dave Russell
Russell
Hambleton names Canadian contact in spy trial
In London at the Old Bailey, Hugh Hambleton a Laval University economist on trial for spying for Russia refused at first to name his Canadian contact. He later wrote the name and address claiming the officer first approached him in 1967 and warned exposing him would endanger the officer.
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London
Hugh Hambleton
Russia
Moscow
Yuri Andropov
Soviet Union
Communist Party
Justice Croom- Johnson
Old Bailey Court
Hambleton
Laval University
Jean Masson
Rudy Herman
Alberta opposition funding cut shocks critics
Alberta House Speaker Gerry Amerongen cuts about 225000 from opposition funding, leaving 418000 in administrative and research funds for the province’s opposition. NDP Leader Grant Notley condemns the move as undemocratic and biased, urging Albertans to consider the democratic process.
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Edmonton
Gerry Amerongen
Alberta
NDP
Grant Notley
Amerongen
Notley
Medicine Hat axes $46 million gas field loan bid
Alberta Finance Chief Lou Hyndman refused Medicine Hat's bid for a $46 million loan to fund gas fields bought earlier this year. City officials, led by Mayor Ted Grimm, weigh private market financing as the short term loan nears expiry in early 1983.
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Alberta
Medicine Hat
Lou Hyndman
Hyndman
Alberta Municipal Financing Corporation
Heritage Savings Trust Fund
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Peter Lougheed
Notable Notices and Briefs Across City Pages
A compact roundup covers business, stocks, classifieds, and editorials. Bruce Levitt and Don McGillivray contribute local insights while Gordon Wright reports international and national items. A scoreboards and sports section closes with entertainment and lifestyle notes.
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Ann Landers
Bruce Levitt
City News
Don McGillivray
Gordon Wright International
Scoreboard Sports. TV
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Nancy Townshend
Maxwell
Bates
Santa
Claus
Sandra Vangen
Hilda Marschell
A.P.R. Lambert
Isabella Maxwell
Stuart Sinclair
Wilbur Eberman
Edna Smith
Dorothea Vasselin
Carol Rushworth
Mary Rushworth
Bessie Hopkins
Medicine Hat News
Cecil Hotel
D.L. Derbyshire
Dorothy Russell
Stan Dowling
Stephen Boisner
Pete Massey
Frank Walther
Thelma Burgess
Mrs. Pelchat
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