Medicine Hat council travel expenses rise amid budget cuts
Medicine Hat taxpayers cover about 75 percent more this year for city council travel, with expenses climbing from 13 000 to 22 500. Overrun stems from trips tied to a 46 million gas fields purchase and a federal gas tax case, including visits to Fredericton Ottawa and Baden Baden.
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Medicine Hat
Council
Jim Standell
Standell
Finance Department
Larry Godin
Aid
Bill Keith
Fredericton
N.B
Ottawa
IsraelI raids on West Beirut hit PLO positions again
Israeli planes bombed guerrilla targets in West Beirut near Bourj el Barajneh and the airport for a second day. Reports from Yasser Arafat’s base in Fakhani described multiple strikes on PLO centers and tanks near the Sabra quarter with no casualty figures immediately released.
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Associated Press
West Beirut
Palestine Liberation Organization
Bourj el-Barajneh
Terry Anderson
Yasser Arafat
Fakhani
Sabra
Mediterranean
PLO
Israel
Beirut
Lebanon
Right to tax gas exports riles federal stance
The piece notes Chief Justice Bora Laskin and two benchmates backing the federal claim that Ottawa can tax exports of natural gas from provincially owned wells. The report is part of a broader index entry listing items on pages 9 and 3.
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Bora Laskin
Supreme Court of Canada
Bank rate drop signals relief for borrowers in Canada
Ottawa lowers the Bank rate to 15.60 percent from 16.17 percent amid cuts by Toronto Dominion Bank and Royal Bank of Canada. Prime rates drop to 17.25 percent for top corporate clients while consumer loan and mortgage charges may fall soon. Economists forecast continued rate relief in the near term.
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Ottawa
Bank of Canada
Toronto Dominion Bank
Royal Bank of Canda
Montreal
Canada
U.S
Tories win pledge to cut borrowing bill by one third
In Ottawa the government agreed to reduce its $11 billion borrowing bill by about one third and delay up to $4 billion in borrowing until fall in exchange for constraints on debate then. Opposition leaders lauded the move as saving Canada billions in interest while the government framed it as rapid passage of other legislation.
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Kelly
Quebec
FCM
North Vancouver
Edmonton
Halifax
Davison
Medicine Hat
Ben Tierney
Southam
Ottawa
Tories
House of Commons
Joe Clark
Canada
House
Yvon Pinard
Clark
Commons
NDP
Ian Deans
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Wayne Moriarty
Richard and
George Rayner
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Allan Coyle
Ald
George Davison
Ted Grimm
Lee Anderson
Sam Stone
Keith
Grimm
Anderson
Stone
Jim Hirsch
Pete Simpson
Saskatoon
Library Board
Lethbridge
Calgary
Graham Kelly
Simpson
Community Services Committee
Alberta Urban Municipalities Association
Jasper
Ken Sauer
Godin
Matthew Gallardi
North Bay
Ont
Matthew
Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Recreation
CP Laserphoto
Medicine Hat Blue Jays
Kash Beauchamp
Toronto Blue Jays
ID Municipal Planning Commission
CBC
The
Blues and Royals
Hyde Park
Attias
Andrew Horvat
Ann Landers
Eve
Enan
Jotices
Eaee
Pete Massey
Cree
Eenraten Bares
Vanes
Les Whittington
Southam News
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