Alberta to restore full kindergarten funding after caucus vote
Alberta will add 18 million dollars to restore pre deficit cut funding for kindergarten. The move ends a 56 percent cut and returns hours toward 400 per child for the 1994 95 school year amid public pressure from parents and educators in Medicine Hat and across the province.
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Medicine Hat
Kitchener School
Ralph Klein
Keith Jones
Prairie Rose Regional
Prairie Rose
Jones
Karen Charlton
Howick monster rivals Loch Ness claims in South Africa
South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal town Howick claims its own Loch Ness style creature. Businessman Bob Teeney spotted an 18 meter creature at a waterfall near Howick in October and promises evidence within two to three weeks to prove its existence.
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Johannesburg
Reuter
Scotland
Bob Teeney
Howick
KwaZulu-Natal
Teeney
Exorcism death trial convicts two along with one cleared
Maria Candoto and Daniel Aguiar were found guilty of manslaughter in the choking death of two year old Kira Canhoto during an exorcism in January 1995. The grandmother Ana Maria Canhoto had pleaded guilty previously and was sentenced to two years less a day. An autopsy cited choking or neck and abdominal pressure as the cause.
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Kitchener
Maria Candoto
Daniel Aguiar
Canhoto
Kira
Ana Maria Canhoto
Jim Marentette
Maria Canhoto
Crown
Peter Speyer
Candoto
Aguiar
Medalta warehouse fire may trigger lawsuits
The Friends of Medalta society faces potential lawsuits after a January 11 warehouse fire destroyed about 20 vehicles. Tenants paid $150 a month for storage. the city estimates $110,000 depreciation on the damaged building. Society officials say no liability attaches and mention month to month storage with no signed contracts.
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Friends of Medalta Society
Dave Oliphant
Albert Nieman
Nieman
Society
David Jamieson
Jamieson
Oliphant
First US execution by firing squad since 1960s at Utah prison
John Albert Taylor, 36, was strapped to a chair and executed just after midnight at Utah State Prison. A four-bullet volley from anonymous marksmen using .30-30 rifles ended his life, the first firing squad execution in the United States in 19 years. He chose firing squad over lethal injection to protest state murder.
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Point OF the Mountain
Utah
John Albert Taylor
Utah State
Gary Gilmore
Taylor
Alberta pays for 1950s sterilization case to Leilani Muir
The Court of Queen's Bench awarded Leilani Muir 740780 for wrongful sterilization at age 14 in Red Deer. Premier Klein called it a costly precedent while noting the impact on 2844 others coerced by the Alberta Eugenics Board from 1929 to 1972.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ralph Klein
Court of Queen’s Bench
Leilani Muir
Victoria
B.C
Red Deer
Muir
Ms. Muir
Joanne Veit
High Tomorrow Low Tonight Weather Map Note
Weather brief notes a high tomorrow and a low tonight with temperatures in the minus range. A weather map on page B6 accompanies the short entry, indicating regional conditions and outlook.
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Lorne Leader
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British Columbia
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Canada
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Davis
Doonesbury
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