04 Dec 1986
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 04, 1986
Page
1
A weather brief notes an occasional snow event with a 70 percent chance of precipitation on Friday. It calls for very cold conditions with highs near minus eight and a low around minus fifteen. Map page B8.
The Bank of Canada rate fell to 8.43 per cent on Thursday, its lowest since mid July, easing from 8.49 per cent set last week.
Presidential spokesman Larry Speakes says he will resign from the White House after half a century service and join Merrill Lynch and Co. He remains in the role until his successor is ready to take over and had been Reagan's principal spokesman since the Brady assassination attempt in March 1981.
American lumber producers urged the Commerce Department to raise the preliminary penalty on Canadian soft wood lumber from 15 percent to at least 25 percent. Alan Wolff, lawyer for the coalition, said Canada’s timber costs amount to nearly free trees and unfair competition.
Ottawa will decide by May 15 whether to adopt the Forget commission reforms calling for a radical redesign of Canada's 12 billion dollar per year unemployment insurance system. Employment Minister Benoit Bouchard says he will weigh public debate before acting on the main report, which could transform life in Atlantic Canada and beyond.
In Medicine Hat the Santa Claus Fund, centered at Dunmore Road with coordinator Donette Patrick, seeks donations of money and non perishables to aid needy families. The fund aims for 50000 dollars, has 16237.50 so far, and features promotions from Golden Acre Garden Centre and Ace Tech Photolab. An auction of donated items is planned for December 17 at Schlenker Auction Service Ltd.
Santa Patrick manages the Santa Claus Fund as co-ordinator guiding a nine member board and volunteers. She handles mornings at 3078 Dunmore Rd SE taking hampers applications with over 100 received and coordinates weekly meetings and fundraising events.
Cabinet members may be called to testify before a Senate committee as two ex officials invoked the Fifth Amendment in the Iran Contra inquiry. John Poindexter refused to answer without immunity while Oliver North also invoked the Fifth.
Deputy Prime Minister Don Mazankowski threatened a closure on debate over amendments to the Patent Act affecting prescription drugs. Hours later he reversed course and opted for time allocation with less stringent limits. Liberal MP Jean-Robert Gauthier noted the tactic shift surprised opponents but grants marginal extra time.
Guy Guilbeault 32 acted instinctively when he shot and killed robber Jean-Marc Proulx 29 who fled with 300 from the cash register Nov 17. police say the act was within Criminal Code self defence. A coroner inquiry decision is expected.
Three Hell's Angels members Jacques Pelletier Luc Michaud and Rejean Lessard were sentenced to life with 25 years before parole for first degree murder in a drug gang case. A fourth member Robert Richard was acquitted. The trial included a juror bribery incident and pending appeals.
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