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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jan 29, 1994
Page
1
Former vice president Dan Quayle stars in a Plano Texas halftime commercial for Lay's Potato Chips. The ad shows him engaging with a potato themed joke and he donates his fee to charity.
Strike closes BC ports from Chemainus to Vancouver as 3,500 longshoremen walk out over wages. Ottawa says it is too early to legislate an end to the dispute. ministers discuss next steps during weekend talks.
The Detroit Free Press reports Tonya Harding obtained Nancy Kerrigan's hotel room number at the Westin in Detroit hours before the assault. Investigators note Gillooly and others planned the attack to target Kerrigan in her hotel room. Harding later called Gillooly with the room number. Kerrigan was harmed and could not compete in Detroit.
Health Minister Diane Marleau told Parliament that federal rules uphold universal access and would block provincial user fees. She warned such charges are costly and discourage care for minor illnesses, while Alberta vows to de-insure certain services despite Ottawa's stance.
Marum Resources reports gold in the Pinhorn property southeastern Alberta while pursuing diamonds. President Richard Boulay notes gold values around one gram per tonne, marginal for mining, with two targets identified. Provincial official Brian Hudson calls the find interesting but low value, delaying further testing until next year due to sample limitations.
Fighting in central Bosnia and Mostar kills at least ten, including four Westerners, as aid efforts stall. UN says British worker Paul Goodall and two colleagues are killed, with Italian journalists among the dead. UNHCR weighs suspending operations amid halted convoys and rising violence.
Ontario Bus Industries Inc. and president Donald Sheardown face a 400000 dollar penalty for placing Made in U S A labels on Canadian built buses sold in the United States. The New York subsidiary could incur an additional 600000 at sentencing on February 9.
Ottawa reports an Anik E-1 outage and E-2 disruption blamed on numerous theories from acts of God to Klingon-like saboteurs. Telesat officials cite solar particle storms and a damaged momentum wheel as likely causes, with astrophysicists noting coronal hole activity.
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