Wake protests as Via Rail cuts hit Medicine Hat
About 150 people gathered in Riverside Park for a wake protesting Via Rail service cuts in Medicine Hat. Speakers linked the loss of train service to broader government cutbacks and urged continued petitions and public action. The coffin procession ended at the Via station and Porter’s constituency office.
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Gordon Lightfoot
Riverside Park
Via Rail
Medicine Hat
Brian Mulroney
Looney
Porter
Bob Porter
Jim Horsman
People For the People
People’s Rail
Jim Ridley
Federal
New Democrat Constituency Association
Goverment of Canada
Wilf Larson
Via
Jerry
Larson
Jim Hawley
Medicine Hat and District Labor Council
Ottawa
UIC
First Street
S.E
South Railway St. S.E
CP Rail
Calgary
Labor Council
Eldon Fischer
Toque
Hans Mueller
Lew Toole
NDP
Victor van Enk
Final Canadian hits truck on VIA transcontinental’s last run
A CP Canadian through Petawawa Township struck a truck at a level crossing. Two people died as the historic train’s four crew members faced retirement soon. Conductor Don Green recalled the wreck as crew and protesters faced a tense scene. Police, ambulance and fire crews worked 90 minutes to recover bodies and free the vehicle.
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Petawawa
North Bay
Don Green
Montreal
Sta
Pembroke
Mulroney
Campeau firms seek protection from creditors
Campeau Corp. and its U S retail units Federated Department Stores and Allied Stores filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Stores will stay open and customer services including credit, returns, gift certificates and service contracts will continue at the 258 U S department outlets. Trading halted then resumed on the Toronto Stock Exchange with shares bouncing to near 2 35 as Lazarus ads insist “business as usual.”
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Toronto
Campeau Corp
U.S
Federated Department Stores
Allied Stores
United States
Federated, Allied
Federated and Allied
Robert Campeau
Campeau
Toronto Stock Exchange
Lazarus
Cincinnati
Columbus
East Germans storm Stasi HQ in East Berlin protest
Tens of thousands of East German demonstrators stormed the Stasi security police headquarters on Normannenstrasse in East Berlin. They climbed gates and threw furniture from windows as workers dumped rubble outside. ADN reported a large crowd inside the complex. Calls for peaceful demonstration were ignored.
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East Berlin
Reuter
Stasi
ADN
Normannenstrasse
Citizens’ Committees
New Forum
Reyat Appears in British Columbia Supreme Court
Inderjit Singh Reyat a former Duncan resident charged in the 1985 Tokyo airport bombing appeared in B C Supreme Court and was ordered held in custody. He faces two counts of manslaughter and five explosives charges and will return Jan 26 for a bail hearing.
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Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Tokyo
B.C. Supreme Court
Inderjit Singh Reyat
Jim Jardine
New Westminster
Howard Callaghan
David Gibbons
Jardine
Reyat
Auto
Duncan
B.C
England
Canada
RCMP
Vancouver International
Wardair
London
Gibbons
Ethnic clashes surge in Azerbaijan threaten wider conflict
Soviet media report clashes between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in Baku and Yerevan leave at least 32 dead amid fears of open warfare. Kremlin troops rush to quell bloodshed as troubleshooters seek restraint after two years of Nagorno Karabakh tensions.
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Moscow
Azerbaijan
Kremlin
Caucasus
Baku
Yerevan
Armenia
Nagorno-Karabakh
Copps Enters Liberal Leadership Race First For Woman Candidate
Sheila Copps, 37, becomes the first woman to enter the Liberal leadership race. The Hamilton East MP announced at a news conference that she will seek the party leadership, aiming to appeal to grassroots Liberals with a focus on hope and quality of life. Delegates will select a successor to Turner in Calgary on June 23.
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Ottawa
Sheila Copps
Hamilton East
Copps
Liberal Party
Brian Mulroney
Liberal
Ontario
Conservatives
Liberals
John Turner
Turner
Calgary
Jean Chretien
Paul Martin Jr
Lloyd Axworthy
Gingras linked to slaying in Montreal cold case
Edmonton convict Daniel Gingras and his brother Claude faced questioning in a Montreal double murder and rape case from Jan 1979. Police previously investigated them for the Jalbert sisters killings but closed the file after arrest for another murder.
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Edmonton
Daniel Gingras
Montreal
Edmonton Journal
Gingras
Claude
Celine Jalbert
Solange
Jalbert
The
Journal
Edmonton Institution
West Edmonton
Gingras Brothers
Yves Richer
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Chuck Nisbert
Campeau Firms
Parker
Jason Noganesh
Grit Rat-Packer
Scarborough
Tom Wappel
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