Alberta fires threaten ranchers as aid uncertain
Disaster Services Minister Walter Paszkowski said most losses were insurable and thus ineligible for government disaster aid. He emphasized replacing five small bridges for feed delivery and swift removal of carcasses. The Western Stock Growers Association offers help via Calgary, coordinating feed and supplies. Fires scorched 100 square kilometres of grassland and damaged buildings and animals.
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Paszkowski
Western Stock Growers Association
Calgary
Sad sacked Santa at mall despite apology
Canadian Press reports 50 year old Alan Turner is fired again after a TV clip shows him grabbing his crotch in a Santa suit at a suburban mall. Turner says he is innocent while merchants condemn the image and vow not to rehire him.
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Alan Turner
Turner
Peter Quakenbush
Colwood Plaza Merchants Association
Suffield researchers say no current human testing at DRES
Deputy director Bob Suart says Defence Research Establishment Suffield no longer experiments on humans. Documents show wartime tests used soldiers with mustard gas. today animal testing is used and primates have been discontinued for over a decade.
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CFB
Suffield Miers
Defence Research Establishment
Suffield
Bob Suart
Suart
Raymond Marusyk
Calgary
Biological and Chemical Defence Review Committee
DRES
Marusyk
Bernt Johnson
Red Deer
Canadian Forces Base
Tony White
Ottawa
Department of National Defence
Sofia Gawron Not Fit For Trial In Alberta Slaying Case
Medicine Hat authorities report Sofia Gawron, 79, not fit to stand trial after a psychiatric assessment at Peter Lougheed Centre. She faces charges including interfering with a dead body and three fraud counts tied to her husband Tadeus Gawron. A Jan. 22 hearing will decide custody and potential future status reviews.
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Medicine Hatalgary Hospital
Sofia Gawron
Medicine Hat
Peter Lougheed Centre
Philip Wambolt
Wambolt
Gawron
Blairmore
the Crown
Tadeus
Ted) Gawron
Prospect Dr
Canada Pension Plan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Mountie and teacher slain in Pincher Creek case
RCMP from across southern Alberta converge on Pincher Creek after Fort Macleod Mountie Sgt. Peter Sopow and local kindergarten teacher Lorraine McNab were found shot to death on McNab’s property. Police say the murder occurred Saturday evening. investigators follow multiple leads.
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Pincher Creek
RCMP
Alberta
Fort Macleod
Peter Roger Sopow
Lorraine McNab
McNab
Sopow
Jone
Ken Dickie
Natives react to Ottawa 100 million fund and weak apology
Aboriginal leaders welcomed a 100 million healing fund as part of a 350 million package from Ottawa tied to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples but labeled the apology as weak. They cautioned the measures fall short of expectations yet stopped short of outright rejection.
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Edmonton
Iberta
Ottawa
Commission On Aboriginal Peoples
Edmonton Journal
Pie theft hits Chatham baker again this Christmas
In Chatham Ontario Jean Stoffyn reports 120 pies vanished from her home just a year after similar losses. The pies including meat blueberry raisin cherry and 50 apple varieties were taken in boxes, suggesting the thief may be someone who knows she bakes for relatives.
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Chatham
Ont
Jean Stoffyn
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Sofia
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