McNab laid to rest in Canadia Alberta
More than 800 mourners attended the funeral for Lorraine McNab 47 and her boyfriend RCMP Sgt Peter Sopow 52 shot to death last week on McNab property south of Pincher Creek. Police step up hunt and appeal for help tracing movements before December 15.
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Pincher Creek
Alberta
Lorraine McNab
RCMP
Peter Sopow
McNab
Grant
Lorraine
Sopow
Edmonton
Fort Macleod
Loonie Slips Below Seventy Cents As BoC Intervenes
The Canadian dollar slipped to as low as 69.66 cents US with Bank of Canada traders stepping in to buy currency. It closed at 49.71 cents US down 0.17, and analysts expect it to stay under 70 cents US into the New Year. The rate drop could push the Bank of Canada to raise rates, affecting loans.
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Toronto
Bank of Canada
Medicine Hat Santa Claus Fund brings Christmas hope
A Medicine Hat reporter reflects on delivering hampers to families for the Santa Claus Fund. He recalls a grandmother whose daughter is in Calgary with a sick child, a working poor family, and a孤 woman living alone facing despair. The piece underscores gratitude, hardship, and communal giving beyond mall lines.
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Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat News
Calgary
Peter Mah
Santa Claus Fund
Southridge
Mike Berezowsky
Evelyn Pudweil
Canadian AIDS doctor pleads guilty to assisted death
Dr. Maurice Genereux, a Toronto AIDS specialist, pleads guilty to two counts of assisted death by own action. He faces up to 28 years in prison, with bail conditions allowing treatment but banning prescribing controlled substances. The case centers on HIV patient Aaron McGinn who died in 1996 after a prescribed dose of Seconal, and on a 1995 incident with Mark Jewitt.
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Toronto
Maurice Genereux
Genereux
Aaron McGinn
Mark Jewitt
Ontario
Steven Minuk
McGinn
Minuk
Aaron
Festive Divorce Ends With Car Left in Lawyer’s Driveway
Brenda Melville sent her ex husband’s Christmas‑themed parting gesture by delivering the 1974 Mercury wagon to a lawyer’s driveway adorned with a red bow baubles lights a Santa on the door and a wreath on the antenna. A toilet sits on the roof as a final gag while she kept the car.
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Nanaimo
B.C
Brenda Melville
Melville
Calgary firm recruits doctors to tackle Alberta rural shortage
Dr. Larry Ohlhauser of Rural Physician Action Plan says rural Alberta needs 25 to 40 doctors. Davies Park and Associates, funded by a $2 million Alberta Health grant, will recruit from North America or abroad with a target to place doctors in rural Alberta by July next year. Alberta Health counters that the province added 86 doctors in the first nine months of this year.
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Calgary
Head Hunters
Alberta
Larry Ohlhauser
Alberta Health
Davies Park
Garth Norris
RCMP weighs charges in tainted blood scandal probe
RCMP renews criticism over delayed action as it launches a three month preliminary criminal probe into administering infected blood products from the 1980s. Possible charges include administering a noxious substance breach of trust and criminal negligence. criminal negligence causing death faces a time limit of one year and a day. About 2,000 recipients were infected with AIDS and 60,000 with hepatitis C through transfusions.
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Ottawarp
Canada
RCMP
Mounties
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Alexander Smith
Ann Landers
Canada City News
Santa Claus Fund Christmas Blessings
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Richard Foot Southam
Funt
Southam Newspapers
Jennifer Ditchburn
Canadian Press
Medicine Hat Mall
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