25 Jan 1992
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 25, 1992
Page
1
In Halifax a brick weighing heavily fell from a nearby Nova Scotia Power smokestack 73 metres and smashed through a ceiling landing at Calvin Dobson's feet near his coffee. Fire crews were called and the building evacuated after high winds blew the brick loose.
Imperial Oil reports a 36 million operating loss for last year and flags job cuts in 1992 as part of broader cost-reduction measures. Dennis Baxter confirms layoffs are likely alongside wider workforce reductions and other efficiency steps.
Cameron Page of AQ notes the government withdraws backing from Sydney Steel, signaling a shift in policy and potential impact on jobs and regional industry. The remark frames a broader restructuring of support for manufacturing and industrial sectors.
Former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed refutes Don Getty on bilingualism, calling official bilingualism the essence of Canada. He says he supports bilingual education and official policy, noting Alberta’s unpopularity of bilingualism but its essential role for national unity.
Lougheed defended the 1982 constitutional deal as central to Canada, noting bilingualism was not raised and the package passed without dissent. He declined to judge Getty’s push to scrap bilingualism or its impact on Alberta’s Triple E Senate bid, calling for more days of debate.
CALGARY Alberta political leaders clash over Triple E Senate reform at a federal constitutional conference. Joe Clark said passage would require a miracle akin to the virgin birth, while critics accuse him of undermining the process. Premiers Getty and Wells insist Triple E as a deal breaker. Rae rejects the concept.
Two Salvadoran military officers were sentenced to 30 years each for ordering the 1989 Jesuit murder in San Salvador. The amnesty law, part of UN peace accords, pardons most soldiers while a UN Truth Commission may exclude certain cases from pardon. The case also touches on the murder of the Jesuit priests and others during the civil war.
President George Bush used the Discovery shuttle flight to press Congress for a 2.2 billion NASA funding increase and to back space station Freedom. He praised Roberta Bondar and Canada-US ties, while astronauts conducted slime mould experiments and prepared 42 science projects on board.
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