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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 04, 2003
Page
1
Rand Shkurotoff, 41, last seen Thursday driving a brown 1989 Chrysler Fifth Avenue in Cypress County. He is a white man, 6'2", about 170 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes. Alberta plate VBJ448. Police urge tipsters to contact Redcliff RCMP.
Canada faces Russia in the World Junior Hockey Championship final in Halifax on Sunday as both teams vie for gold. The contest highlights junior stars and national pride across hockey circles.
A Chinook wind gusting to 119 kmh knocked canopy and signs from businesses in Medicine Hat. The Boston Billiards canopy crashed into a wall causing about $7,000 in damage while McDonald’s faced evacuated parking and a large sign damaged. About 1,300 homes lost power. The wind also felled a tree and sparked minor fire in a wire, with crews restoring services by early afternoon.
Gas station owners in Medicine Hat face losses as a price war keeps pumps under 50 cents per litre while crude prices rise on fears of war in Iraq and a Venezuela strike. Henry Atkins warns the war premium may lift U S prices, with Halifax and Montreal already above 80 cents per litre.
Ottawa reports an anthrax hoax aimed at the Canadian Firearms Centre. Critics insist on peaceful protest while opponents call Ottawa’s gun registry costly and wasteful. At Edmonton, 150 postal workers were quarantined after powder found on a letter to the registry. tests awaited results.
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