Abbotsford Students Walk Out Over Teacher Photo
More than 50 Clearbrook junior high students were suspended after walking out to support Ilze Shewan 34 the teacher facing suspension for a semi nude photo in an American magazine The Abbotsford school board weighs firing reinstating or extending the suspension following a radio report about the Gallery image and its identification of the teacher.
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Abbotsford
B.C
Clearbrook
Ilze Shewan
Shewan
Fonyo Reaches Winnipeg Amid Frigid Cold
Steve Fonyo arrived in Winnipeg to a warm welcome but battled a sustained cold spell with temperatures below minus 30 C. He has raised about 500000 for cancer research as his cross country fundraiser passes Canada’s geographic midpoint on the Trans Canada Highway.
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Winnipeg
Steve Fonyo
Canada
RCMP to Review Hatfield Pot Case After Acquittal
In Halifax the RCMP will review their probe into the marijuana possession charge against New Brunswick Premier Richard Hatfield. Pat Ryan, a reporter linked to the case, agrees to a lie detector test amid calls of possible planted evidence. Hatfield was acquitted in Fredericton after a two day trial.
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Halifax
RCMP
New Brunswick
Richard Hatfield
Elmer MacKay
MacKay
Ottawa
Ryan
Pat Ryan
Hatfield
Queen
Fredericton
Andrew Harrigan
Atlantic Television System
Harrigan
Donald Gillis
Newsroom
Fredericton Gleaner
Canada adopts dual metric imperial rules for selected goods
Ottawa outlines a compromise allowing businesses to sell in metric while offering imperial options. Small firms and troubled larger businesses are exempt from metric scales but must advertise metric equivalents.Gas stations must display a reasonable metric presence, with details on pump setup to be clarified.
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Nicole Baer
Ottawa
Canada
Michel Cote
Imperial
Cote
Alberta Premier calls OPEC accord fragile yet important
Premier Peter Lougheed in London assesses OPEC price cut to 28 dollars a barrel as an important but fragile move. He says Canada will shift to market pricing by April 1 and that lower new oil prices will be offset by higher old oil prices, keeping Alberta producers largely unaffected.
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London
OPEC
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
U.S
Canada
Lougheed
Ottawa
Alberta House
Saudi Arabia
Alberta's first test-tube baby born in Calgary
Dr Pat Taylor heads the Calgary clinic performing in vitro fertilization. The mother and baby remain anonymous as 45 couples seek help, with seven more pregnancies. 120 on the waiting list. The Canadian test-tube birth history and a shift to ultrasound guidance are noted.
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Jeff Adams
Calgary
Alberta
Pat Taylor
Taylor
Ontario
Foothills Hospital
University of Calgary
England
Louise Brown
Canada
Vancouver
Star-like UFO sighted over Soviet airliner near Minsk
Soviet Air Force crew and passengers reported a star shaped object beam a thin ray to the ground then illuminate the plane and become a green cloud that escorted the Aero flot flight from Tbilisi to Tallinn as ground control logged readings. Authorities say similar cases are known by the commission.
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Moscow
Jst
Gennady Lazurin
Aeroflot
Minsk
Trud
Lazurin
Nikolai Zheltukhin
Soviet Academy of Sciences
Tbilisi
Tallinn
Estonia
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