18 Dec 1993
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 18, 1993
Page
1
In Indianola Iowa residents react to new licence plates bearing the SOW prefix. Rebecca Origer notes her plate SOW306 misses her real weight by nine pounds and she finds the coincidence unflattering though not personal. The SOW combo happened as Warren County sent a new batch of plates.
Military leaders announced separate Christmas truces on Croatian and Bosnian battlefields offering hope for peace in former Yugoslavia. Talks to end the war continue with Geneva and Brussels meetings planned, while Bosnian PM Silajdzic meets mediators in Vienna. Stoltenberg and Owen press for concessions as they visit Belgrade and Zagreb.
Wardens search for poacher after a bighorn sheep was shot and decapitated near the Yellowhead highway inside Jasper National Park. The head could fetch about 50 000 on the black market. hunting is illegal with penalties up to 150 000 fine and six months in jail.
Charles Ssenyonga dies before ruling on three criminal negligence charges in a case alleging he knowingly infected three women with HIV. Justice Dougald McDermid rules the issues moot and notes the trial cannot proceed. One witness, a woman with AIDS, expresses disappointment and a sense of unfinished justice.
British Columbia accuses Alberta of steering welfare recipients west with one way bus tickets. Joy MacPhail says Alberta offloads responsibility onto BC while Alberta disputes the claim and notes similar policies in other provinces. May include broader tensions over contracts and welfare reforms.
A Globe and Mail report quotes a senior adviser saying Canada must align with the bilateral trade deal and NAFTA by phasing out supply managed dairy egg and poultry protections and removing tariffs on U S shipments by 1998 while the United States must open its border to Canadian products by the same date.
A binational panel in Washington 3 2 majority rules the US claim of Canadian subsidy on softwood lumber lacks rational basis. Canada officials and industry groups hail the decision as a step toward closing the case while U S producers vow appeals. Deposits and duties remain until regulatory processes finish.
Canadian natural gas producers seek a cold spell this weekend to lift prices as oil slides. With a mild early winter, gas costs have fallen from last year's levels and remain vulnerable to global oil tilts.
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