Merchants study core parking plan
Downtown merchants meet to respond to a downtown parking study. The parking review committee recommends a 3.7 million parkade at Market Square and a 1.3 million 200-stall lot west of Fourth Avenue, plus possible merchant taxes. Discussions include financing, rate parity, and city involvement.
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Jeff Welling
Downtown Business Association
Council
Market Square
Fourth Avenue S.E
Welling
DBA
Yuill
Premier praises new constitution in Canada’s sovereignty milestone
Premier Peter Lougheed called the constitution debate completion a momentous occasion. He said the United Kingdom Parliament will no longer amend the constitution, granting Canada full sovereignty and a federal mechanism for future amendments. Opposition leader Ray Speaker joined in praise, saying Canada is now truly independent.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
United Kingdom
Canada
Ray Speaker
Lougheed
Tests to determine Dunvegan dam size
Utilities Minister Larry Shaben said final dam size decisions await soil stability tests on the Peace River site next summer. Results will guide choosing between low medium or high dam levels, with BC resistance shaping the decline of both high and low options.
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Edmonton
Dunvegan
Alberta
Peace River
Utilities
Larry Shaben
Shaben
British Columbia
B.C
Former missionary McClure sees dream of China come true
Lethbridge Alberta CP reports 81 year old former United Church moderator Robert McClure on a speaking tour recalls China’s 1949 revolution and says China’s people work for the common good. He contrasts Western politics with Chinese social change and notes reforestation as a civic model. He argues youth education drives social change and will address the Canadian Club at Medicine Hat College next Thursday.
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China
McClure
Lethbridge
Alta
Robert McClure
United Church of Canada
Mao Tse-tung
Canada
Medicine Rat College
Premier dodges question on buying capped Alberta gas
Premier Peter Lougheed dodged whether Alberta would buy gas from about 10 000 capped wells for later use. Energy Minister Merv Leitch was to answer after returning next week from official business and vacation. Gas markets are weak and drilling has slowed. Alberta remains neutral on the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline.
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Edmonton
Peter Lougheed
Merv Leitch
Lougheed
Fred Mandeville
Sc-Bow Valley
Leitch
Mandeville
Alberta
Alaska Highway
Alberta opposition faces five day limit on Heritage Fund debates
Government house leader Neil Crawford rejected a schedule switch as the legislature limits debate on Heritage Fund capital division estimates to five days and on appropriation bills to three. Opposition leaders and Sindlinger had urged faster passage to probe a potential 30 percent resource revenue transfer next year. Premier Lougheed will attend the bill debate as fund investment chair.
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Alberta
House
Neil Crawford
Heritage Fund Capital Division
Socred
Ray Speaker
NDP
Grant Notley
Tom Sindlinger
Sindlinger
Crawford
Peter Lougheed
Fund Investment Committee
Lougheed
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