Vandalism crackdown urged as city battles wilful damage
Medicine Hat police warn vandalism carries serious penalties including life imprisonment for when life is at risk. Alderman Graham Kelly and Chief Eric Lloyd push for more police coverage, surveillance, and active Neighborhood Watch to curb the small but destructive minority.
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Canada
Larry Brink
Medicine Hat
Brink
Community Services Committee
Graham Kelly
Kelly
Community Services
Eric Lloyd
Alberta Chamber faces reorganization doubts at Peace River meeting
Reiny Lehr, newly elected president elect, said the 12,000 member Alberta Chamber of Commerce must conduct deep soul searching over the next year to decide if the province wide body can continue under its present structure during the three day annual meeting in Peace River.
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Karl Bruhn
Alberta Chamber of Commerce
Peace River
Reiny Lehr
Lehr
Medicine Hat
Calgary
Edmonton
Dave Oliphant
Social Credit
Bob Clark
Clark
Oliphant
Alberta Chamber
Howard Geier
Municipal leaders condemn government on reform and housing
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities denounces federal and provincial governments for excluding municipalities from constitutional reform and housing policy talks. The body calls for a flexible decentralized federalism, equality of status for founding peoples, a constitutional commission, and a convention within six months, with delegates urging local input.
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Edmonton
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
FCM
Quebec
Canada
Federation
Alberta
Peter Lougheed
Jack Volrich
Lougheed
Ottawa
Volrich
Vancouver
Building permits rise for May with more houses
City utilities department shows May permits issued 50 houses, up from 37 last May, but overall construction value dropped from 4.13 million in 1977 to 3.76 million this May. January–May totals hit 14.27 million, down from 18.83 million last year.
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City Utilities Department
Glanville Ford
Medicine Hat
Redcliff
Redcliff school board backs core project bid
Redcliff school board accepts Bennett and White Western Ltd. of Calgary low bid of 944 778 for the core school project. The proposal goes to the Alberta Department of Education for final approval with Medican Construction Ltd. of Medicine Hat as the next closest bidder at 948 630.
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Redcliff
Bennett and White Western Ltd
Calgary
Department of Education
Medican Construction Ltd
Medicine Hat
Medican Construction
Bennett and White
Medican
Bennett
White
Bergman Structures Ltd
Edmonton
Contempt Hearing Set For Peigans In Lethbridge Case
The contempt hearing proceeds before Chief Justice J W H Milvain as LNID ends interest in citing Peigan Indians. The case stems from defiance of an injunction issued during a three week Peigan blockade of an unspecified site.
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Supreme Court
J. W. H. Milvain
Peigans
Milvain
LMD
LNID
Rick Ross
Notley slams Getty over Cold Lake oil plant clash
NDP leader Grant Notley accuses Energy Minister Don Getty of intolerance and arrogance amid protests by Grand Centre residents against the proposed heavy oil plant at Cold Lake. He says the government has grown arrogant after its 1975 big majority.
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Edmonton
NDP
Grant Notley
Cold Lake
Don Getty
Notley
Getty
Grand Centre-area
Mr. Getty
Hat resolution pulled from Alberta Chamber meeting
Medicine Hat resolution calling for averaged gasoline transport costs was withdrawn before a vote. Alberta Chamber president elect Renny Lehr said it will be rewritten and reintroduced next year to remove implications of government market intervention. The plan criticized zone pricing that raises costs in places like Medicine Hat.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta Chamber of Commerce
Alberta Chamber
Renny Lehr
Lehr
Chamber
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