Cabinet reshuffle expands Chretien’s ministerial team
Prime Minister Jean Chretien overhauled the cabinet, promoting new faces from Quebec, reassigning veterans, and elevating backbenchers to 25 full ministers. Four senior ministers including Roy MacLaren were dropped. MacLaren became Canada’s ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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Rime
Jean Chretien
Quebec
Chretien
Michel Dupuy
Andre Ouellet
Sheila Finestone
Roy MacLaren
MacLaren
London
Ouellet
Chretien reshuffles cabinet picks new Quebec ministers
Prime Minister Chretien unveils a broad cabinet shake up naming Lloyd Axworthy foreign affairs David Anderson transport Sheila Copps heritage Sergio Marchi environment Diane Marceau public works Doug Young human resources Art Eggleton international trade Marcel Masse Treasury Board Alfonso Gagliano labor Jane Stewart revenue minister and Canada Post chair Pierre Pettigrew inter national co operation Stephane Dion intergovernmental affairs Dion to lead Quebec referendum prep. Duceppe criticizes timing and loyalties.
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Lloyd Axworthy
David Anderson
Sheila Copps
Heritage
Sergio Marchi
Environment
Diane Marneau
Doug Young
Axworthy
Art Eggieton
Marcel Masse
Treasury Board
Alfonso Gagliano
Jane Stewart
Canada Post
Quebec
Chretien
Pierre Pettigrew
Stephane Dion
Dion
Canada
Pettigrew
Liberal
Bloc Quebecois
Gilles Duceppe
Tragedy in Drummondville: mother kills herself and two children
Benoit Girouard arrives home to find wife Louise Maher and children Roxanne and Guillaume shot dead in a domestic murder suicide. The note cites unbearable illnesses and despair. Police report a family .22 pistol used in the killings. autopsy pending. Neighbors recall the stunned scene outside the duplex.
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Drummondville
Maher
Benoit Girouard
Roxanne
Guillaume
Jacques Hince
Sylvie Boisvert
Girouard
Italian swindler posed as monk for 18 months arrested
Italian con artist Costante Drago aged 34 posed as a novice in a monastery for 18 months. He kept a hi fi and color TV in his monk cell and duped monks into handing over valuables. Police found gold objects expensive watches credit cards and bank records in his cell and arrested him after friars reported suspicions.
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Naples
Reuter
Costante Drago
Weather Map Teases Extreme Cold Tomorrow
The page B4 forecast highlights a high near 24 degrees above zero tomorrow with a low around minus 30 tonight. The weather map marks arctic air sweeping into the region.
Saskatchewan Tory convicted of fraud
Ray Meiklejohn, a former Conservative cabinet minister in Saskatchewan, is convicted of submitting a false invoice to obtain 4500 in cash from his communications allowance. He receives a conditional discharge, must repay the money, perform 240 hours of community service, and is placed on one year probation. The case is tied to a larger scandal involving 12 Tory caucus members.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Ray Meiklejohn
Meiklejohn
John Scraba
Ross Moxley
Scraba
Tory
Grant Devine
Labor
Lorne McLaren
McLaren
Tories
NDP
Grant Hodgins
Simpson condemns victims' families in first post‑acquittal interview
In a one hour live BET broadcast, OJ Simpson urged the public to accept the verdict and grant him peace. He said he hired investigators to find the real killer, admitted money troubles since the murder acquittal, and asked detractors to leave him alone.
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Los Angeles
J. Simpson
Simpson
Nicole Brown Simpson
Ronald Goldman
Alberta Liberal probe into Ryckman loans at Treasury Branch
Alberta Liberals call for an auditor general review of Treasury Branch lending after Ryckman’s $3.8 million loan with no collateral. Ryckman, implicated by the Alberta Securities Commission, held Porsche and season tickets as insufficient collateral. Documents show two $500,000 loans in December 1993 for stock purchases with no cash margin.
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Edmonton
Lion
Ryckman
Treasury
Treasury Branch
Grant Mitchell
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