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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 29, 1992
Page
1
In Kelowna British Columbia Linda and her husband discovered their new home phone was misrouted to an escort service ad in a city 275 kilometres east of Vancouver. The mistaken connection began with obscene calls and escalated to inquiries about rates before the couple traced the source to a defunct ad.
Nancy B a 25 year old paralysed woman from Montreal who won the right to stop life support is now embracing life. An anonymous Hotel-Dieu staff member says she no longer talks of dying and feels she has influenced society by asserting the sick must refuse treatments. She feels freer more loved and more confident and may learn computer use. She has been paralysed from the neck down by Guillain Barre syndrome for over two years with little hope of recovery.
Two men linked to Alberta crime lose bid for shorter eight year sentences in a $22 million fraud against Canadian Commercial and Northlands banks. Knut Svidal smiled in court as Justice Michael O’Byrne upheld the appeal panel’s ruling. Hersh Welch urged a reduced term noting co-conspirators Blythe and Stott received 74 years.
Ottawa backs a new $140 million five year package for Canadian book publishing and distribution. The Association of Canadian Publishers praised Perrin Beatty for cabinet approval and measures to limit foreign investment, aiding industry hit by recession and past tax changes.
Banff Alberta ministers approve a unified plan to cut medical school admissions by 10 percent in 1993, shift to salary or capped funding for doctors, end exclusive practice fields, and budget care costs regionally. Ontario and Alberta officials stress urgent reform to curb unsustainable medicare growth.
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says nearly 461000 manufacturing jobs vanished from 1989 to last fall, about 23 percent of all Canadian manufacturing employment, under the Canada U.S. free trade deal. The study argues job losses outpace the U.S. and refutes government claims that recessions explain the downturn.
Ottawa report shows the government deepening debt by nearly 25 billion dollars in eight months of the 1991 fiscal year. If trends hold, the year ending March 31 could exceed 37 billion in deficits, though November's rise slowed and adjustments are in place to trim the gap to about 31.5 billion.
President George Bush outlined a mix of tax cuts, deregulation, and investment incentives to ease economic woes. He pledged support for first time home purchases and medical insurance for the poor while planning deeper defense cuts and a smaller nuclear arsenal. A CBS New York Times poll showed low approval as Democrats decried delayed help and opposed national health insurance plans.
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