Alberta farmers report harmless but dramatic tornadoes north of Calgary
Farmers and ranchers across fields north of Calgary watched multiple tornadoes roil the sky Friday. A Crossfield twister pulled a fence post and split a name sign while a second near Drumheller damaged a shed and a gas plant tank. No injuries or major damage reported. Calgary weather office notes the event as dangerous but not as powerful as Edmonton’s 1987 twister.
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Calgary
Arlene Grad
Soderglen Farms
Crossfield
DePape
John MclIntrye
Edmonton
Minister promises pulp mill hearings
An independent three member science panel will review Alberta Pacific Industries plans for a 1.3 billion pulp mill in northern Alberta with public hearings on a revised bleaching process that cuts organic chlorides by 80 percent. Authority will issue permits only after the panel reports and funding is provided for affected residents to hire experts.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Environment
Ralph Klein
Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries
Klein
Alberta-Pacific
Gerry Fenner
Environment Departments
Athabasca
Fenner
Calgary
NDP
Ray Martin
Liberal Environment
Grant Mitchell
Mitsubishi and Honshu Paper Co
Japan
Canada urges aid to Gorbachev after NATO summit
Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney said western leaders should consider helping Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev as NATO redefined its role at a London summit. He anticipated progress at the G7 meeting in Houston on aid to the USSR while U S President Bush opposed funding Moscow. The conference urged dialogue with Warsaw Pact states and kept nuclear weapons as last resort.
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Brian Mulroney
NATO
Mikhail Gorbachev
London
Mulroney
Gorbachev
Houston
Tex
West Germany
Soviet Union
Canada
U.S
George Bush
Cuba
Western Alliance
Pro-life group pledges funds for abortion-related lawsuits
Ottawa reports that anti abortion activists plan to finance lawsuits against doctors by distraught women who had abortions. Canadian Rights Coalition leader Bev Daw said the first suit will target a Toronto physician next month. A Kingston woman promoting post abortion syndrome advocacy runs a toll free line for women seeking to sue, with billboard ads planned in Ottawa.
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Ottawa
Bev Daw
Canadian Rights Coalition
Toronto
Kingston
Ont
Dan
Susan Stanford-Rue
California
Christopher Fleming
Ottawa Academy of Medicine
Senate
Sikhs cheer Ontario kirpan ruling in schools
Ontario Sikhs celebrate an adjudicator's decision that Peel board policy banning kirpans violates the Ontario Human Rights Code and must be withdrawn. The ruling allows baptized Sikhs to wear kirpans in schools, with objections from some parents and potential appeals by the board.
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Ontario Commission
Kirpan
Toronto
Canada
Ontario
Harbhajan Pandori
Peel
Peel Board of Education
Gunther Plaut
Peel Board
British Columbia
Pandori
Canada flunks Green Test in environmental ranking
Canada ranked near bottom in a Green Summit report by environmental groups assessing the world’s rich economies. Canada scored 24 of 60, tied with Japan for second last, with Italy worst. Germany led, followed by France, the United States, and England.
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Ottawa
Canada
Paris
Julia Langer
Friends of the Earth
Japan
Italy
Germany
France
United States
England
Canadians
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Harvey Rowe
Willis Nelson
Poco
Nelson
Grad
Pro-life Body
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Elle
Fleming
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Costigan
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Mississauga
Susan Little
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