Readers invited to choose south Alberta’s top story of 2000
Southern Alberta readers are urged to pick the most important year 2000 news event from across the region. The Medicine Hat News and Lethbridge Herald collect votes by Dec 27 via phone, message line, or email, with results to be published. Political, economic, and social topics are all eligible.
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Medicine Hat
Lethbridge
Gwright
Medicinehatnews
Peterscott
Lethbridgeherald
Alberta to cut flat tax rate amid federal cuts
Alberta plans to reduce its flat income tax from 10.5 percent to 10 percent retroactive to January 1, 2001, to ensure middle income earners save and offset federal cuts. The change aims to keep 192,000 low income individuals exempt from provincial tax while costing the province about $1.3 billion in revenue.
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Ralph Klein
Alberta
Ottawa
Brad Severin
BDO Dunwoody LLP
Tory
Liberal
Howard Sapers
Klein
Toy Train Delivers Donated Toys From Albany to Plattsburgh
The Canadian Pacific Railway Big Toy Train, a joint Toys for Tots effort with the U.S. Marines, delivers donated toys at stops from Albany to Plattsburgh on Saturday. It begins at 8 a.m. in Albany with 20 minute toy handouts at each station.
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Canadian Pacific Railway
Plattsburgh
U.S. Marines
Canadian Pacific
Marines
Taber school shooter sentence upheld on appeal
Alberta Justice announced it will appeal a three year jail term for the Taber high school shooting teen. Victim advocates denounce the plea as too lenient while noting the judge considered 18 months already served. The Crown sought up to ten years and four years of supervision.
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Bart Johnson
Alberta Justice
Gary Rosenfeldt
Victims of Violence
WR. Myers High School
Gerald DeBow
Johnson
DeBow
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