Meningitis scare at Bible camp leaves 80 treated
A meningococcal meningitis case and a tragedy at Crowsnest Lake Bible Camp prompted about 80 people from Western Canada and one U S state to receive antibiotics. The deceased youth died New Year’s Day after headaches led to hospital transfers. Hospitals faced disruption as a 24 hour Saskatchewan health worker strike began with 12 000 CUPE members across 18 districts.
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Lethbridge
Canada
U.S
Paul Hasselback
Crowsnest Lake
Alberta
Hasselback
Bible Camp
Martin O'Hanlon
Regina
Saskatchewan
Canadian Union of Public Employees
Snow removal crews hustle through Medicine Hat dump
Environment Canada logged 5.2 cm of snow Tuesday and 1.5 cm more by noon Wednesday as six Lawn Shop Services crews began at 6 am to clear homes under winter contracts. Owners note cash flow from winter work while recalling last year’s light snowfall and the need to survive long shifts.
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Medicine Hat
Gord Sulz
Sulz
Second Avenue
Environment Canada
Lawn Shop Services
Mike Melham
Melham
Richard Oster
Art
Oster
Kelly Meier
Meier Lawrence Trucking
Lulz
John Elliott
Colin Cook
Tannis Toohey
Ninth Street
S.W
Lawn Shop
Halifax diver returns home after Nigerian kidnapping
Steve Ogilvie of Halifax recounts a three day kidnapping by Nigerian "freedom fighters" while on a barge off Warri. He and fellow diver Scott Lilley were released after talks, after initial ransom demands of 385000 Canadian dollars were reduced to about one tenth. Ogilvie reached Halifax on New Year’s Day.
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Halifax
Nigeria
Steve Ogilvie
New Zealand
Scott Lilley
Warri
Freedom Fighters
Ogilvie
Lilley
Man pleads guilty to staged kidnapping in Ontario case
In St Catharines a man and his accomplice admitted public mischief after faking a kidnapping to extort $200 from the husband’s supposed captor. Police traced the ruse to a seventh floor apartment where Allan Kellar and Scott Mathison were found. Mathison wore a plaster cast. Kellar has since moved to Ottawa.
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ST. Catharines
Ikind
Geniius
Donald Wallace
Donce Sa
Ore
Scott Mathison
Allan Kellar
Mathison
Detexes
Kellary
Kellar
Ottawa
UN experts accused of aiding U S spying on Iraq
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan denied awareness of reported UNSCOM intelligence sharing with the United States to eavesdrop on Iraqi military communications. The disclosures, if true, could threaten UN disarmament work and fuel Iraqi complaints of compromised inspections.
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United Nations
Kofi Annan
United States
Annan
U.S. State Department
James Rubin
UN Special Commission
Iraq
Unscom
U.S
Richard Butler
Nizar Hamdoon
Boston Globe
Washington Post
Hamdoon
Butler
Washington
Scott Ritter
Israel
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