Calgary landfill worker fired over dumped barrels
A Calgary sanitation employee was fired amid allegations that improperly marked waste from a Medicine Hat firm subsidiary was dumped at a Calgary landfill. Police seized records from Al-Tech Sanitation Systems Ltd and its unit, and officials began excavating 88 hazardous barrels.
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Calgary
Al-Tech Sanitation Systems Ltd
Al-Tech Waste Systems
Calgary Aid
Rick Smith
Smith
Western premiers study regional income tax plan for West
Western leaders met at Lloydminster to discuss replacing federal income tax with a regional system. The plan aims to curb federal transfer payments, gain provincial control, and redirect funds to health and education, with a regional council to consult on constitutional issues and environmental guidelines.
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Lloydminster, Sask
Ottawa
British Columbia
Bill Vander Zalm
Western Canada
Lloydminster
Saskatchewan-Alberta
Western premiers back shared site for hazardous wastes
Premier Don Getty of Alberta urges regional cooperation to use Swan Hills hazardous waste treatment plant as a West wide facility. He cites cost and efficiency benefits and calls for a regional waste policy while waiting Alberta and Manitoba input on the proposal. Premier Gary Filmon of Manitoba supports funding and sharing operational costs to run the plant jointly.
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Lloydminster, Sask
Alberta
Don Getty
Western Provinces
Swan Hills
Getty
Mohawks mull two proposals ending Kahnesatake impasse
Ottawa and Quebec discuss steps toward ending the 18 day armed confrontation at Kahnesatake and Kahnawake. Quebec pledges police withdrawal if Mohawks retreat from barricades and secure weapons. Ottawa buys disputed land near Oka for 1.4 million dollars and negotiates rest as a truce aim.
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Oka
Que
Quebec
John Ciaccia
Kahnesatake
Kahnawake Reserve
Montreal
Mercier
Ottawa
Indian Affairs
Tom Siddon
Siddon
Trinidad faces coup as rebels seize parliament and PM
Rebel group Amaat al-Muslimeen surrounds the Parliament building in Port of Spain and claims to have toppled Prime Minister Ithur Robinson with 19 officials captive. Reports say casualties, looting, and fires as security forces loyal to the government move to restore order.
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Reuters-Ap-Cp
Port-Of-Spain
Loglist
Trinidad and Tobago Parlient
Tiday
Port Ofpain
Aribbean
Caribbean
Amaat al-Muslimeen
Olice
Yasin Abu Bakr
Ithur Robinson
Robinson
Bakr
Libya
Rod Irwin
Canada
Trinidad and Tobago
Irwin
External Affairs Department
Ottawa
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Gary Filmon
Saskatchewan
Federal
Environmental Department
Grant Devine
Devine
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Clach
Joe Wimberley, Jr
Cool
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Ryan Byrne
Paul van Peenen
Jean Forbes
Rod Bennett
Toronto
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Chaos Reigns
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