Ottawa students die in wreck near Barbentane France
Four Ottawa area high school students were killed when four cars of a Nice to Paris express derailed at Barbentane station in France. 23 others were injured including at least nine Canadians. the dead were Patricia Paquin Maria Basile Robyn Powell and Leanne Jones all 17 or 18.
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Barbentane
France
AP CP
Ottawa
Paris
Marseille
Patricia Paquin
Maria Basile
Robyn Powell
Leanne Jones
Powell
French National Railways
Collinda Joseph
Edward
External Affairs Department
Hans Ohman
Lisa Grant
Michele Gramlich
Gail Holleran
Caroline McIntosh
Heidi Moore
Marian Presley
Shelley Wilson
Tarascon
Canada
Mel Shea
Nepean High School
Avignon
Metric mix up linked to near airliner fuel loss in Canada
Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel mid flight and made a powerless landing on an abandoned raceway in Gimli Manitoba. Experts cited metrication confusion as a likely cause with manual fuel checks possibly misreading dipstick measurements. Transport Canada officials consider fuel leakage engine overuse and computer error as other possibilities.
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Gimli
Man
ABC News
Air Canada
Montreal
Transport Canada
Ken Johnson
Federal plan sparks protests over health care penalties
The Canadian Medical Association denounces Ottawa's proposal to withhold one dollar from provinces for every extra dollar billed by doctors and hospitals, calling it financial blackmail and electioneering as health ministers warn of harsh penalties and a broader medicare funding gap.
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Canadian Medical Association
Ottawa
Monique Begin
Montreal
Nova Scotia
Gerald Sheehy
Federal threats on provincial user fees spark political debate
Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Jim Horsman calls Ottawa’s plan to impose penalties via a Canada health act a political gambit. Monique Begin argues user fees violate Medicare access, while warning Alberta could face transfer cuts.
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Jim Horsman
Dave Russell
Horsman
Monique Begin
Ottawa
Alberta
Begin
Arafat Loyalists Repel Rebels in Bekaa Fighting
PLO forces loyal to Yasser Arafat repelled Syrian backed rebels in Jdeita Bekaa Valley as heavy fighting left 14 dead. In Hebron Arab attackers killed three and wounded 28 at the Arab University, with renewed vows of retaliation.
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Associated Press
PLO
Yasser Arafat
Bekaa
Jdelta
West Bank
Hebron
Tel Aviv
Palestine Liberation Organization
Arafat
Saed Mousa
Beirut
Jdeita
Mousa
Col
Abu Ahmed Ismail
Khalil Wazir
Lebanon
Fatah
Israel
Syria
U S grain woes strain Canada amid Carg core farm politics
U S farmers face surplus and debt as demand falls and a recession bites, prompting an early push to win rural votes. John Block's Ottawa visit was cancelled but likely pressed Canada to cut production while warning of lower world wheat prices. Canada, Australia, and France are called price takers as U S subsidy programs shape global prices.
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Dave Todd
Southam
Ottawa
Reagan
Middle America
U.S
Canada
U.S. Agriculture
John Block
Trudeau
Washington
Australia
France
Jimmy Carter
U.S.S.R
Afghanistan
Wheat Board
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