21 Jul 1997
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 21, 1997
Page
1
Calgary officials stress Alberta needs skilled workers to support a construction boom worth 15 billion this year, up from 12 billion last year and 8 billion in 1995. Mayor Al Duerr warns against unemployed entrants while Alberta Chamber of Commerce cautions against influx of unemployable applicants.
Southam Newspapers reports a national search for wrongful conviction victims will begin with DNA testing. Osgoode Hall law students at York University will run Project Innocence to review cases exhausted on appeal and offer free DNA testing similar to the U S program that freed nine prisoners including a man on death row.
Industrial byproducts from mining sugar refining automotive pulp and paper and cement kilns are increasingly applied as fertilizer to crops destined for Canada dinner tables. Regulators insist on safety standards while environmental groups warn enforcement is weak and some firms are unaware of required approvals.
About 400 Hell's Angels were set to patch over in Red Deer Alberta to join Grim Reapers while about 100 RCMP and city officers prepared for stepped up policing. Police conducted a public intimidation campaign to deter trouble and monitor law infringements as bikers traveled to the event. Separately 75 bikers caused disruption at a Kelowna club and clashed with staff before police intervened.
In west Belfast the Ferris family welcomed the IRA ceasefire as a hopeful sign for youth, while Protestant worshippers near the Free Presbyterian church warned the gesture may not last, citing past promises and conditional terms.
Northern Vancouver Island fishers block the Alaskan State ferry Malaspina to protest American overfishing while a Federal Court of Canada ruling orders noninterference. Dennis Brown criticizes Ottawa as 200 boats surround the Alaska State ferry with 300 passengers aboard, signaling ongoing protests until minister Anderson meets fishermen.
Ottawa reports that nearly every criminal group in the country is active in smuggling driven by high profits and lenient penalties. Alcohol tobacco carpets and gems move across regions as weak laws and money laundering enable rapid crime networks.
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