Klein pushes ban on loan guarantees to curb losses
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says a new law will outlaw cabinet loan guarantees and large scale government investments in business ventures. The bill seeks to stop behind closed door decisions that led to 1.8 billion in losses, excluding government lenders from the scope. Liberal critic Mike Percy welcomed the move.
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Edmonton
Imning
Alberta
Ralph Klein
NovAtels
Klein
Bovar Inc
Swan Hills
Alberta Opportunity Co
Alberta Treasury
Liberal Finance
Mike Percy
Footprints Lead Police to Suspect in Twin Break-ins
In Cookeville Tennessee police linked a market and a restaurant burglary to suspect William Gaw 19 by following snow tracks. The footprints connected the two crime scenes to his home where the stolen merchandise was recovered.
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Cookeville, Tenn
Sherlock Holmes
William Gaw
Germany
Luebeck
Michael Boeckenhauer
Mine Boss Pressed For Quick Restart After 26 Die
In Stellarton Nova Scotia Gerald Phillips urged miners to restore coal production a week after 26 men died in an underground explosion. Wayne Cheverie testified Phillips sought media support and showed little remorse, while describing preexisting fire hazards.
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Stellarton
N.S. Estray
Gerald Phillips
Wayne Cheverie
Phillips
Cheverie
Draegermen
Clinics to drop facility fees in Alberta next week
Deputy Health Minister Jane Fulton said private Alberta clinics will stop charging facility fees as early as next week as the province phases out the monthly fines from Health Canada. She noted deals with regional authorities to contract cataract surgery and other services may bring clinics into public funding, though few details were disclosed.
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Calgary
Alberta
Jane Fulton
Health Canada
Diane Marlowe
Ottawa
Fulton
Shirley McClellan
Paul Rushforth
Guy Bujold
Marlowe
Planets found may host life say astronomers
Two newly found planets, 35 light years away in Virgo and Ursa Major, could have surface conditions for water and life. Geoffrey Marcy and Paul Butler reported at the American Astronomical Society meeting that one world may harbor oceans and rain, while the other resembles Earth's solar system with atmospheric regions possibly supporting liquid water.
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San Antonio
Texas
Stronomers
Earth
Juife
Geoffrey Marcy
San Francisco State University
American Astronomical Society
Jean Luc Picard
Jean Luc
Marcy
Paul Butler
Virgo
Ursa Major
Jupiter
Canada moves toward global ban on land mines
Defence Minister David Collenette announced a moratorium on production export and use of anti-personnel land mines. Canada joins a small group seeking a world ban though stopping short of destroying stockpiles.
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Ottawa
Canada
Defence
David Collenette
Andre Ouellet
Canadian Forces Base
Suffield
Canada to halt land mine exports and push for world ban
Canada announced a moratorium on land mine exports and backed a global ban at a Geneva conference. Collenette said mining stockpiles will be kept for training and extreme cases only, while peace groups praised a meaningful if limited step toward stronger mine restrictions worldwide.
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United Nations
Geneva
Canada
Collenette
Cambodia
Yugoslavia
Ken Epps
Project Ploughshares
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