City ponders options for $4 million PGRT funds
City council plans closed door talks on four plans for the $4 million Petroleum and Gas Revenue Tax account. Options include placing funds in a gas depletion reserve or issuing lump-sum rebates to current utility customers based on 1988 usage, with debate over fairness and regulatory approval.
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Sheri Murphy-Wright
News City Council
Utilities Committee
Ald
Ken Sauer
Sauer
Council
Jim Hirsch
Ottawa
Many Islands
PGRT
Public Utilities Board
Buchignani
Medicine Hat
Canada
Utilities
Utilities Commission
Quake Victims Die From Cold in Soviet Armenia
Survivors in the Armenian earthquake zone are freezing at night as only a fraction of tents reach the homeless. Official tolls show 55,000 dead and 13,000 injured, with half a million left homeless. Premier Ryzhkov blamed shoddy construction and disorganized rescue efforts, while Pravda called for prosecutions of scrap builders.
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Narineh Eritsyan
Leninakan
Soviet Armenia
Yerevan
U.S.S
Nikolai Ryzhkov
Alberta to announce over billion in northern forestry projects
In Athabasca region Alberta plans a giant chemical pulp mill worth up to 1.2 billion creating 1200 to 1500 permanent jobs. A second project a Lac la Biche sawmill 20 to 30 million will be built by Nortek Energy Corp. Premier Don Getty attends both briefings with ministers.
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Leo Piquette
North America
Athabasca
Alta
Edmonton
Don Getty
Forestry
LeRoy Fjordbotten
Environment
Ian Reid
Farmers eligible for tax deferral on sales to rebuild herds
Ottawa Finance Minister Michael Wilson announced federal relief for farmers forced to reduce breeding herds by drought. Eligible owners who cut herds 15 percent or more can defer tax on up to 30 percent of sale proceeds, with deferred funds to be used next year to repurchase stock. Regions outside the Prairie drought may qualify if the Agriculture Department confirms impact.
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Ottawa
Michael Wilson
Wilson
Federal Agriculture Department
Anti-drug rally at Crescent Heights sparks parent anger
A school district faced criticism after an anti-drug daytime lecture by David Story led to an evening revival meeting at Crescent Heights High School. Parents complained the event was misrepresented to students and urged to attend without full disclosure. Religious emphasis drew concern from teachers and administrators.
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Crescent Heights
Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International
Lorne Taylor
David Story
First Assembly of God Church
Story
Marvin Miller
Medicine Hat High School
Alexandra Junior High School
Crescent Heights High School
Bill Rae
Jim MacFarlane
Stu
Nat Flaig
Crescent Heights High
Medicine Hat High
Alexandra Junior High
Flaig
Ron Zablocki
Gas dumped into Pacific by Canadian military in 1947
A 1947 Victoria Times front page reports 400 tonnes of unnamed gas dumped into the Pacific, contradicting later CAF denials of postwar chemical weapon disposal. Retired soldier Patrick Thomas says shells with gas were loaded near Esquimalt and dumped in the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Cape Flattery. Col. Mialkowski says no record of chemical weapons operations exists.
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Victoria
Pacific Ocean
Victoria Times
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Cape Flattery
Wash
Patrick Thomas
Calgary
Thomas
Esquimalt
Conrad Mialkowski
National Defence Headquarters
Ottawa
Arafat Proposes Three Point Plan for Mideast Peace
In Geneva Yasser Arafat calls for an international peace conference under UN auspices. He urges UN supervision of occupied Palestinian land, deployment of peacekeepers, and a comprehensive settlement including Palestine, Israel, and neighbors. He invites Israeli leaders to join negotiations to forge peace.
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Geneva
ILO
Yasser Arafat
Israel
United Nations
UN General Assembly
Arafat
Palestine
Middle East
U.S
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Pravda
Communist Party
Alberta
Marschel
Taylor
Ernest Marschel
PLO
Ocean
Doria
Hurrica
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