11 Dec 1999
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 11, 1999
Page
1
Furby remains a top seller as Pokemon rivals the toy. Tiger Electronics says it sold 500,000 Furbies in the U S last week and forecasts over 10 million for the year, up from four million last year, helped by Furby Babies.
In Medicine Hat, 12 year old Geraldine Schwentafsky and other students discuss Y2K, noting dreams of a calm transition while adults worry about power outages and financial chaos. Children describe rumors of utilities failure and computer glitches.
Students discuss Y2K fears and myths blending tech glitches with religious anxieties. A Grade 6 pupil warns of nuclear winters while a peer questions missile locations, and a Grade 7 classmate cites a Japan news anecdote about pills to avoid a virus.
Justine Seddon, 17, from Medicine Hat, died weeks after a snowmobile crash in Nahanni Butte Northwest Territories. She borrowed the machine on November 25, was not wearing gloves or a helmet, and was reportedly going fast to catch another snowmobile. She died December 5 after being taken off life support.
A 55-year-old Dutch woman found about 11 600 dollars on a street and gave it to police. Days later she won 41 900 dollars in the Post Code Lottery after authorities traced the money to a 73-year-old woman who received a small reward.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien tables a bill to require a clear question and majority before talks on Quebec sovereignty, aiming to prevent another referendum under past rules. Premier Lucien Bouchard condemns the move while planning to table Quebec’s own bill defining referendum rules.
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