Severe cold grips western Canada on Boxing Day
Temperatures plunge below minus 38 C across the Prairies as Environment Canada warns of blizzards and blowing snow. Vancouver endures its coldest Boxing Day on record at minus 12.5 C while Lookout Shelter reports rising demand with about 200 outdoors daily, amid continuing frigid conditions.
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Norm Lloyd
Environment Canada
Calgary
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Lloyd
Vancouver
Greater
Dan Newalt
Lookout
Jim
al Mitchell
City health office battles cigars with posters and TV ads
San Francisco health officials launch an awareness campaign to curb cigar use among young professionals especially women. Posters compare cigars to dog droppings with a slogan and TV spots show a dog sniffing a discarded cigar as owners sweep it away. Alyonik Hrushow of the Tobacco Free Project calls it a public health problem and seeks to counter glamorization by sellers.
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San Francisco
Reuter
Department of Public Heath
Alyonik Hrushow
Belgrade police block thousands of students in crackdown
In Belgrade police blocked thousands of students as they attempted to march on the city centre for a 38th day of protests against Slobodan Milosevic. Authorities warned an illegal march and pledged a crackdown while foreign pressure mounted including Felipe Gonzalez urging Milosevic to accept election results and respect opposition gains.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Felipe Gonzalez
Milosevic
Gonzalez
Zajedno
Geneva
Organization of Security and Co-operation In Europe
Zoran Djindjic
Slashing Attack Shocks Edmonton West Edmonton Mall
Holiday shoppers fled as three young men attacked two teens on the second level near the ice palace. One teen died and the other was critically wounded. Witnesses described black dressed attackers fleeing as ambulances arrived late. The incident marks Edmonton’s third mall violence flare this season. Calgary also saw a fatality linked to Christmas Eve violence. RCMP investigate foul play in a burned body found east of Calgary.
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Edmonton
Calgary
West Edmonton
Ice Palace
St. John
RCMP
Bailey named Canada’s 1996 newsmaker after Olympic sprint
Donovan Bailey's record 100 metre dash in Atlanta and the nation’s pride after the Ben Johnson steroid scandal propelled him to the top of a Canadian Press/Broadcast News poll. Canadians embraced his July 27 win as a unifying moment amid floods in Quebec and a tough year.
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Toronto
Donovan Bailey
Atlanta
Ben Johnson
Bailey
Canada
Quebec
Bill McGuire
Daily News
Truro
N.S
Austin
Tex
Japan appeals to G seven for aid in Peru hostage siege
In Lima the 10th day of the embassy siege sees Marxist rebels holding over 100 hostages inside a fortified compound. Rebels mine the area as police options loom while freeing one captive, and Japan urges G seven intervention to secure release of dignitaries and jailed comrades.
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Lima
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement
Japan
Yukihiko Ikeda
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