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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 16, 2007
Page
1
Thursday to Saturday outlook shows mostly cloudy and cold Thursday with a high near minus two and low around minus seven. Saturday turns partly cloudy and seasonable with continued wind and a chance of snow.
A 23 year old woman with two wombs gave birth to three girls in September at Southmead Hospital Bristol. The babies, two identical from one womb and one fraternal from the other, were delivered by C section seven weeks early and spent nine weeks in hospital. The family called the outcome healthy and joyful while experts noted the rarity and higher risks of such a multiple pregnancy.
U S Postal Service held a ceremony in Hershey Pennsylvania to issue the 39 cent With Love and Kisses stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of Hershey's Kisses. The stamp is part of the Love series begun in 1973.
High school students from western Canada will sample college life through Medicine Hat College’s bi annual Student for a Day program running January 22 to 24 and January 31 to February 2. About 30 students are signed up with room for more as the program grows from 25 to 60 participants.
The Weekend crossword puzzles will return to the News on Saturday January 20 after an outage at the source. The newspaper apologizes for the inconvenience caused by the weekend disruption.
Ralph Klein formally resigns from the Calgary-Elbow seat ending a 14 year tenure as Alberta premier and PC leader. He left the post last year and signs off as MLA after representing Calgary since 1989, signaling possible byelections in the coming months.
Regina reports that contract talks between the Saskatchewan government and the public-sector workers union were adjourned after mediator Vince Ready departed. Ready said the parties remain far apart on key issues, with wages a major stumbling block. He returned to British Columbia to prepare settlement recommendations. In Mogadishu, gunmen attacked a convoy of Somali and Ethiopian troops, destroying a vehicle in a half hour clash with no casualty figures available.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper plans a budget proposal to ease fiscal imbalance with provinces. The plan, tabled around March 20, would tax half provincial natural resource revenues for equalization, boosting Quebec to 7 billion while Saskatchewan would receive 200 million instead of current or promised levels.
Oil prices rise modestly amid talks of an emergency OPEC meeting to reverse a 13 percent yearly drop, though Vienna officials cited no quick action this week. A Chevron Richmond refinery fire, contained by dawn, accompanies the day’s trade. February crude at US $53.17 on NYMEX.
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