27 Jan 1996
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 27, 1996
Page
1
Peter Hoffarth, 76, battles Alzheimer's disease as Canada faces a rising caseload. The illness destroys short term memory first, then long term memory, with no cure and limited treatment. Louise, his wife, describes heartbreak and tears amid daily struggles.
The Alzheimer Association of Alberta cites about 10 000 Albertans with Alzheimer’s and 161 000 Canadians over 65 with the disease. A couple speaks of daily frustration as memory fades, conversations falter, and 24 hour care becomes a relentless routine.
In Happy Valley California an old dial telephone is placed on a school counter for students to learn calling home. Sandra Taylor notes the children, versed in computers and VCRs, were baffled by the non dial and had no idea how to use a rotary phone.
Readable weather note predicts a high near 30 tomorrow and a low around 35 tonight with details on the map page B4.
The Committee to End Tax Funded Abortion pushes PC constituency associations to pass resolutions backing a provincial referendum on removing abortion funding. Lorne Taylor supports the move, Cathy Smith cites unity, and a 1995 poll showed 67 percent in favor of ending tax funded abortions despite Premier Klein’s opposition.
Ottawa experts warn that trust is thinning between Quebec and the rest of Canada as talk of secession grows. Alan Cairns cites rising suspicion and polarization after the Quebec referendum and Stephane Dion suggests possible secession paths for natives and municipalities.
The electoral boundaries commission proposes shifting power to Edmonton and Calgary by eliminating two southern ridings and merging five southern constituencies into four. Conservative MPPs Ron Hierath Lyle Oberg and Shirley McClellan criticize the plan as a brutal imbalance, with Taber-Warner and Cardston Chief Mountain most affected and Bow Valley-Chinook created.
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