Streakers disrupt PBS taped concert at St Olaf College
A man and a woman in boots and ski masks dashed through a holiday concert at St Olaf College in Northfield as cameras rolled for a PBS special. The orchestra kept playing and a school spokesman said most in the audience hardly noticed the brief interruption. The pair fled through a back door into the cold night as producers seek to preserve a G rating by editing in segments from other nights.
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Northfield
Minn
St. Olaf College
Minnesota
Boose sales drop in Canada 1991 year
Statistics Canada reports a four year decline in liquor and beer store sales in 1991 with spirits down 5.5 percent wine off 2.1 percent and beer down 1.7 percent The recession higher prices cross border shopping and changing habits are cited as causes but the industry argues heavy taxes push buyers into the black market led by door to door and cab driver sellers
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Association of Canadian Distillers
Ron Veilleux
South Africa Apology Seen As Step Toward New Constitution
In Cape Town the government apologized for apartheid as legislators opened debate on a 200 page constitution to end white minority rule. Roelf Meyer said the nation must leave the past behind and rectify wrongs while negotiations with the ANC and about 20 parties shaped the charter. An alliance of pro apartheid whites and boycott opponents challenge the autonomy provisions.
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Cape Town
South Africa
Roelf Meyer
Meyer
African National Congress
Welfare report says barriers keep welfare recipients from working
A federal advisory panel finds welfare and employment insurance recipients face real financial barriers to work, including low minimum wages and high taxes, with income losses from moving off welfare ranging from 46 in Manitoba to 4600 in Ontario. It urges tax credits, better child care, health benefits, and stable full time jobs to boost work incentives.
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Ottawa
National Council of Welfare
Quebec
Manitoba
Ontario
Santa loses temper with visiting children in Vancouver
Denise Sidaway recounts her daughter and about 20 preschoolers fled Santa’s Workshop after the Yuletide yelling by Fran Dowie who portrays Santa. Dowie apologized, saying he was rearranging signs when the kids arrived and blamed a cranky toe from a reindeer for his outburst.
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Vancouver
Denise Sidaway
Santa
Sidaway
Fran Dowie
Dowie
Supreme Court denies tax deduction for child care costs
The Supreme Court of Canada, in a 7-2 decision, rejected a bid by Toronto lawyer Beth Symes to deduct full child-care costs as a business expense for self-employed women. The ruling upheld a $4,000 limit, while a dissent argued the costs are legitimate business expenses for women with children.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Toronto
Beth Symes
Canadian Bar Association
Claire
L’heureux- Dube
Beverley McLachlin
L’heureux-Dube
Plan would reduce Red Cross control of blood supply
Ottawa reports provincial health officials favor a plan to shift purchasing of more than 100 million dollars in blood products annually from the Red Cross to the Canadian Blood Agency. The move undercuts Red Cross plans for a 150 million dollar Halifax blood processing plant with Miles Inc. and signals provinces would control funding.
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Ottawa
Canada
Red Cross Society
Red Cross
Canadian Blood Agency
Halifax
Miles Inc
Medicine Hat youth jailed after gun standoff with police
A Medicine Hat youth who held police at bay for about three hours with a .22 rifle and other weapons was sentenced to four months in closed custody. He pleaded guilty to pointing a firearm at officers and uttering a death threat and will be on probation for 14 years after release.
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Dietrich Brand
Medicine Hat
Rick Wigle
Glen Motz
Brand
Ron Hill
Ross Glen
Dorothy Smith
Rob Siegmund
Metz
Siegmund
Smith
Mike Durbeniuk
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