Y2K updates planned as Ottawa holds info sessions
Federal officials schedule two December 31 and two January 1 briefings to inform Canadians about Y2K developments. Media will be barred from Emergency Preparedness Canada’s monitoring centre on New Year’s Eve while officials from National Defence and Foreign Affairs will answer questions as needed.
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Ottaware
Emergency Preparedness Canada
Guy McKenzie
Y2k
National Defence and Foreign Affairs
McKenzie
Principal stabbed at McCoy High School shocks Medicine Hat students
McCoy High School students recount a knife attack outside the school during a dance. A non student youth stabbed Principal Chuck Love before police arrested him without incident. Students express disbelief while police hold details and charges.
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Love
Daffy
Dave Carnegy
McCoy
Luke Ganzer
John Ganzer
Tabor
Colorado
Medicine Hat
Credit unions merge to grow regional reach in Alberta
Medicine Hat Community Credit Union and Red Deer's Parkland Savings and Credit Union plan a merger to form the second largest Alberta credit union with assets over 870 million. The union aims to expand technology, wealth and estate planning services, rural branches, and business banking while promising no layoffs and more jobs.
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Medicine Hat
Community Credit Union
Red Deer
Parkland Savings and Credit Union
Murray Haubrich
Capital City Credit Savings and Credit Union of Edmonton
Parkland
Alberta
Haubrich
Credit Union
William Anhorn
Anicorn
Herb der
Thief returns long‑lost reindeer to porch in Ontario
Lorraine Coughtry of SPENCERVILLE Ontario says her faith in people was restored when a wooden reindeer ornament stolen two years ago reappeared on her porch. A Christmas card accompanying the reindeer claims the thief now believes it was wrong and offers no identification. The artist had stopped making the craft, leaving no replacement possible.
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Spencerville
Ont
Brockville
Lorraine Doughtry
Coughtry
Alberta health plan push costs taxpayers 370000
Alberta spent 370000 on public relations to promote the moves toward privatized health care. Premier Ralph Klein touted a plan to let regional authorities contract out high demand surgeries and reduce waiting lists with a phased legislative push and large ad campaigns across newspapers and TV.
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Alberta
Richard Plain
University of Alberta
Ralph Klein
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