23 Jan 1997
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 23, 1997
Page
1
Thirty members of a Suez family saved about 294000 dollars from begging in the Red Sea port city. Al Ahram reported the family’s arrest and that the time to accumulate the money was not disclosed. Begging is illegal in Egypt but enforcement is lax.
Premier Klein says Alberta municipalities can ban video lottery terminals if a plebiscite shows 50 percent plus one in favor. He notes removal removes local revenue sharing, and confirms the law allows communities to decide to keep or drop VLTs.
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with flurries and a high tomorrow of minus eighteen. Tonight low minus eighteen and Wednesday highs near minus ten with low minus seventeen. Precipitation about zero millimeters.
Medicine Hat police search for a daylight robber who entered the Bank of Montreal at about 3 p.m. and fled with money. A man in a blue ski jacket was seen in the Carry Drive area, with blue coveralls found in a dumpster and gloves and sunglasses along the escape route. Police have not disclosed the amount stolen.
Independent investigator John Grace concludes that federal and provincial bureaucrats improperly destroyed audio tapes and verbatim transcripts from a 1989 tainted blood committee meeting to shield themselves from access requests. The findings tie to lawsuits and the broader tainted blood tragedy affecting thousands in Canada.
A Fort McMurray black bear, aged about a year, woke during den sleep when a heavy equipment operator drove over its den at the Suncor oil sands plant. Veterinarian Bob Gilbert repaired a fractured femur with pins and wiring under anesthesia. the bear will continue artificial den sleep in a temperature controlled warehouse until April.
Police say Elizabeth Robertson 79 died a homicide while Stewart Robertson 79 died in a non criminal death after being found with their bodies in a Brookside house near 52nd Avenue and 142nd Street. Elizabeth suffered advanced Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease and was legally blind. Authorities await toxicology results to finalize causes.
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