09 Dec 1994
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 09, 1994
Page
1
Cynthia Davis of Savannah Mississippi found Christmas ornaments on the floor and a squirrel living inside her decorated tree. An animal rescue team struggled to coax the creature out as the tree's inner habit likely attracted the furry jumper.
Alberta officials reject a one time lottery cash infusion for the Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos while weighing long term policy. The Calgary owner warns of moving south if the marketing deal ends. final recommendations due by December 31. In separate dispatch, 55 UN peacekeepers freed by Bosnian Serbs return to duty negotations pending debriefings.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien dismissed the Parti Quebecois draft bill for independence as unachievable. He argued Quebec would lose monetary policy control and its voice in Canada’s citizenship, currency, and international agreements. Manning welcomed the blunt response, seeing progress in question period.
Province collects a record 1.01 billion in land sale bonuses from energy companies in 1994, up from 1980's high. Analysts forecast higher 1995 production and more drilling, boosting Alberta’s natural resources revenues and easing a prior deficit outlook.
Firefighters spent about four hours smothering a wood pit blaze at the Dunmore Wood Preservers yard after embers from a nearby scrap pile ignited the material. The blaze, visible from Ross Glen, was started when Meier Lawrence Trucking dumped scrap wood next door.
The Commons finance committee urges over 2 billion in tax increases for motorists lottery winners and corporations over two years while proposing 1.1 billion in surtax cuts for low and middle income Canadians. It also calls 9 billion in spending cuts and a potential 1 percent surtax if deficits persist. Alberta politicians oppose the plan citing potential return of deficit.
A blaze at the Friendship Hall theatre in Karamay Xinjiang China killed at least 310 people many of them children during a cultural show held for nearly 800 attendees including 500 schoolchildren. Officials said about 300 were killed with several missing as doors were locked and bars blocked exits.
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