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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1985
Page
1
Bank of Canada Rate Climbs to 9.32 Percent
The Bank of Canada raised its rate for the sixth straight week to 9.32 percent from 9.10 percent, the highest since early August. Economists say the move does not necessarily imply further increases in other interest rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Bank of Canada
New Democrat MP admits contempt of court on Lyell Island action
Svend Robinson stated he knew he was in contempt when he blocked a logging road on Lyell Island to stop loggers. He told Chief Justice Allan McEachern he took full responsibility and acted personally, not for the New Democratic Party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vancouver
Svend Robinson
Lyell Island
Allan McEachern
New Democratic Party
Britain withdraws from UNESCO citing mismanagement
Britain announced its withdrawal from UNESCO, criticizing the agency as badly managed and biased against the West. Government sources said the decision was made at a cabinet meeting, making Britain the second Western nation after the United States to quit UNESCO.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Unesco
London
Reuter-Cp
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United States
Disused New Brunswick TB buffalo meat approved for domestic sale
Federal inspectors approved meat from a Jemseg herd exposed to tuberculosis for domestic consumption in Canada despite TB exposure in 11 buffalos. Experts differed on risk, with officials stating minimal or no danger to consumers, while others urged destruction or dog-food use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Fife
Ottawa
New Brunwick
Canada
Agriculture Department
Jemsey
N.B
Albert Stiemerling
Department
Remember
Separa
Stiemerling
Toronto
Capital Packers
Edmonton
Dandy Foods of
Dandy
John Graham
Dittberner
Tom Feltmate
Blais-Grenier trips detailed in government records
External Affairs documents reveal Suzanne Blais-Grenier conducted unneeded trips to Paris Stockholm Helsinki and private Corsica visits last spring and summer. Her husband and staff traveled at government expense with meetings in Leningrad, detailing costs totaling about 64 000 including staff while some expenses are described as private tours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Young
Southam News
Ottawa
External Affairs Department
Suzanne Blais-Grenier
Europe
Southam
Paris
Stockholm
Corsica
Leningrad
Albert Grenier
Montreal
Department
Helsinki
St. Malo
Andre Robert
Robert
Agathe Raby
Grenier
Raby
Optima
Institute For the
Canada
Wilson closes loopholes with new minimum tax plan
Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced a new minimum tax to curb high earners using deductions. The plan sets a 24 to 27 percent rate on taxable income, with unused deductions carryable for up to seven years, raising about 450 million for 1986 across federal and provincial treasuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Cowan
Southam News
Ottawa
Michael Wilson
Wilson
the Commons
Treasury
Quebec
Alberta
Inces
Newfoundland
Mulroney vows Canada will defend cultural sovereignty in talks
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney told a University of Chicago audience that Canada will jealously protect cultural sovereignty in any freer trade talks with the United States. He warned Congress' rising protectionism could derail a deal and said negotiations would be longer with provinces than Ottawa and Washington alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie Shepherd
Chicago
Canada
United States
Brian Mulroney
U.S
Mulroney
University of Chicago
Ottawa
Washington
Congress
Immunotherapy hailed as promising cancer treatment breakthrough
Boston AP reports that adoptive immunotherapy using interleukin-2, turning white blood cells into cancer fighters, showed tumor shrinkage in 11 of 25 patients and potential disease eradication in one case. Experts caution it's experimental, costly, with severe side effects, and limited to Bethesda trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
National Cancer Institute
The
Cancer Institute
New England Journal of Medicine
Vincent DeVita
Institute
DeVita
Bethesda
Steven Rosenberg
Hammer Prize Foundation
Armand Hammer
Occidental Petroleum Corp
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