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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1994
Page
1
In Linthicum Maryland the NSA quietly opened a cryptography museum in July. Housed in an old motel near the agency headquarters it sits behind a fenced unmarked site at the end of a crumbling road. The exhibit chronicles code making and code breaking with no current secrets on display.
A University of Alberta historian testified that nearly all RCMP uniform changes were for functional reasons, noting the pillbox hat was replaced by the Stetson and the turban exception. The witness spoke amid a Federal Court challenge over turbans for Sikh officers in Calgary.
A 30 member Canadian UN convoy from the 12th Armored Regiment was fired on with a rocket grenade and small arms rounds 10 to 20 metres away while stopped to repair a vehicle 4 kilometres south of Visoko returning from Sarajevo. No injuries or damage reported. A complaint will be lodged.
Canada's Supreme Court upheld the drunk driving conviction of Nicola Colarusso for two impaired driving causing bodily harm counts and a fatal crash near Caledon Ontario in November 1986. The decision allowed use of illegally seized blood evidence, warning police no back door seizures to gather evidence. The court stressed integrity of the justice system if evidence is excluded. Colarusso was sentenced to five years in prison for the incidents that killed 22-year-old Carol Connors and injured others.
Air Canada unexpectedly withdraws all court challenges to American Airlines proposed investment in Canadian Airlines parent PWA Corp. The move follows hints of government decisions on Japan rights and Gemini data processing work, with remaining hurdles noted for Gemini Covia and related parties.
A United Nations Human Rights Committee ruling says Canada violated the International Covenant by extraditing Charles Ng to the United States without assurances that he would not face the death penalty in California. The panel urges Ottawa to seek representations to avoid future similar outcomes and to minimize risks of cruel or degrading punishment.
In Cochrane Alberta a pregnant 18 year old woman Tanya Meahan survived frostbite and hypothermia after her friend Ryan Moran died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a parked car. Military rescuers found her near Calgary after they heard faint cries for help.
About 50 students protested at the Toronto school board offices over a deal granting Pepsi-Cola exclusive vending rights in public schools. They warned the agreement could lead to an "insidious corporate invasion" while stressing the need for smarter budget choices.
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