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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 20, 1995
Page
1
Sweden uses wolf urine on roads to deter elk and studies show camels in Kuwait may be guided away from vehicles. Research at the University of Umen reported similar wide-turn responses by camels and elk when exposed to the scent.
Steve Carpenter arrived in Calgary asking Albertans to aid the search for his 23 year old daughter Melanie who disappeared from a Surrey tanning salon on January 6. RCMP are pursuing forensic leads including hair samples from a suspect and Melanie’s brush. Aaron Bastien, Melanie’s fiancé, also sought information and a cash reward was offered.
John Martin Crawford, 32, was charged with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Eva Taysup 30 Shelley Napope 16 and Calinda Waterhen 22 whose skeletal remains were found near a golf course outside Saskatoon last fall. RCMP arrested him on a residential street after months of investigation.
Canada weighs dismantling its famed Airborne regiment after a video showing brutal initiation rites and a Ku Klux Klan marked humiliation of a black recruit. Prime Minister Chretien and Defence Minister Colenette push for a rapid, decisive report and action before a possible Croatia mission in April.
Top brass at Canadian Forces Base Suffield state no hazing occurred locally after a video from the Canadian Airborne Regiment circulates. Captain Ken Nodorft, base personnel administration officer, calls the incident shocking and says he has never seen or experienced any such behavior in eight years of service.
More than 55 000 Albertans donated blood for HIV antibody testing in 1994 setting provincial records. Of 258 positive cases 119 were gay men, 32 heterosexual men or women and 76 drug abusers. Ages ranged from infants to over 50 with most positives between 20 and 39.
CRTC chairman Keith Spicer says the consumer payout over negative option billing and cable rates will push the agency to reexamine pricing and marketing practices. He notes Rogers backtracking after a consumer uprising and predicts broader support for consumer-friendly reforms among the commission’s members. Spicer cites Rogers takeover of Maclean Hunter as part of industry shifts fueling the revolt.
A city report by occupational health officer Larry Bonneville details poor handling of methanol at the Medicine Hat transit garage from 1986 to 1994. It finds widespread noncompliance with safety rules, skin and inhalation exposure, lingering fumes after start up, and no working carbon monoxide alarm since the early 1980s.
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