Medicine Hat not chosen for welfare work program test
Provincial officials will not implement the Compatisalty Self-Help Program in Medicine Hat as a test site. Taber Coaldale and Lethbridge will run the six month trial, with Webber to decide on a provincewide rollout after results are evaluated.
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Bruce MacKenzie
Medicine Hat
Social Services
Neil Webber
Bob Howell
Taber
Coaldale
Lethbridge
Witter
Low
Howell
Webber
Lethbridge Council
Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization
Webbers
PM rebukes bishops over economy on Asia trip
Prime Minister Trudeau rejects criticism from Catholic bishops about inflation and unemployment. He backs Toronto Archbishop Emmett Carter against eight bishops, notes five churchmen engage in economics, and defends refugee policy while visiting Muak Lek to launch a tree seedlings project amid deforestation efforts.
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Bangkok
Trudeau
Emmett Cardinal Carter
Toronto
Canadian Catholic Conference
Canada
Muak Lek
Medicine Hat College Readies Cultural Centre Addition
The college moves ahead with a cultural centre expansion despite Mayor Ted Grimm insisting the city will not fund the project. The municipal planning commission approved a development permit and construction could start soon, while the college argues the city must return unused funds from a 2.7 million grant.
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Bruce MacKenzie
The
News Medicine Hat College
Ted Grimm
Les Phillips
Cultural Centre
Grimm
Planning Commission
Medicine Hat
College
Grit
Grimm and Council
Bank rate falls to 9.74 percent in Canadian markets
Ottawa reports money markets pushed Bank of Canada to cut the bank rate to 9.74 percent from 10.05 percent the lowest since September 1978. Traders say a weak economy and falling inflation, plus expectations of U S rate cuts, kept markets firm in driving the rate down. The central bank has been absorbing cash this week to curb the rate drop.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
U.S
Weather forecast: a few clouds Friday
The forecast calls for a few clouds on Friday with a high near 10 and a low of minus 4. See weather map on page 20 for details.
Montreal gunman holds woman hostage in St Hubert
An armed man seized a woman during a nighttime break in at a Soucy Street home in St Hubert. Police blocked a two-block area, negotiated with the suspect who demanded a car and money to reach Alberta. The incident began at 5 a.m. and hostages were progressively released as officers closed in.
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Montreal
St. Hubert
Marcel Poitras
Pierrette
Soucy Street
Poitras
Alberta
Quebec
St. Lawrence River
Soviet Cosmos 1402 satellite to reenter Earth amid debris risk
The Pentagon warns the nuclear powered Cosmos 1402 may blaze back to Earth within weeks in an uncontrolled fall. It could drop radioactive fragments on populated areas and travel over oceans and many continents. Soviet officials say the satellite is functioning normally and poses no danger.
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Washington
Canada
Pentagon
North America
Soviet Union
African
South America
China
Defence Department
Santa Fund far exceeds goal in Medicine Hat drive
The Santa Claus Fund raised 23491.45 for 1982 in Medicine Hat surpassing the 10000 goal. Salvation Army distributed 203 hampers for 624 people with 346 children receiving gifts and Sunshine Bags to 1217 in nursing homes hospitals and detention centres. Remaining funds support 1983 efforts and family services.
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Medicine Hat
Medicine
Salvation Army
Salvation Army Family Services
Larry Lancaster
Family Services
Sunshine Bays
Medicine Hat News
Medicine Hat Community Services
Alberta Social Services
Santa
Santa Claus
Gerald Garde
Annie Nicholson
Roy Bettis
Matt and
Brenda Toews
William and
Catherine Naismith
Salem United Church Women of America
United Steel Workers
B.P.C.E. No
Beatrice and
Levi Pederson
Lillian Smith
Ron Falchuk
Harry Behman
Jim Lyczewski
Boylan Drugs
Redcliff
Crescent Heights
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Ann Landers
Bill Sass
Charles Lynch City News
Des O'Coffey
Pierrette Poitras
Vladimir Kotelnikov
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Kotelnikov
Moscow
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