Medicine Hat eyes lure of cheaper electricity for business
Alberta firms weigh moving to provinces with lower power costs as Medicine Hat studies energy demand limits. City official notes potential to attract business with stable rates despite a coming eight percent rate increase and deregulation pressure. Chamber leader cites Jobs Plus program to lure smaller manufacturers.
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Alberta
Tim Fedunin
the Hat
Fedonin
Bob Drever
Fedunin
Dan Macnamara
Industrial Power Consumers and Cogenerators Association of
Saskatchewan
Manitoba
British Columbia
Medicine Hat Chamber of Commerce
Donald Fisher
Chamber
Jobs Plus
Fisher
Province to hire plea bargain unit across five cities
The Alberta government will spend 1 million dollars to create a seven member plea bargain unit in Edmonton Calgary Red Deer Fort McMurray and Lethbridge. Prosecutors will be hired to assess which cases can be offered speedy plea deals. The plan follows a 10 month Edmonton pilot that saved 177 court days and spared 2000 witnesses from testifying.
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Edmonton Iberia
Justice
Dave Hancock
Edmonton
Cal
Gary
Red Deer
Fort McMurray
Lethbridge
Hancock
Day Henton loses bid to expand political privilege in defamation case
Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day failed to create a new privilege category for political commentary to defend a defamation suit. The Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench ruled no new occasion of privilege based on political comment should be created. Day faces trial in Red Deer over a 1999 letter about lawyer Lorne Goddard.
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Stockwell Day
Day
Alberta
Court of Queen’s Bench
Keith Ritter
Red Deer
Lorne Goddard
Red
Ritter
House of Lords
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