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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 06, 1983
Page
7
Ottawa reports a favorable response from evangelical and mainline churches to the CRTC plan to license one nationwide religious TV channel on cable and satellite. Rev. Bill Prankard, an Ottawa evangelist and radio host, calls the move long overdue.
Church leaders discuss a shared Canadian religious network funded by all denominations. David Mainse cites broad church cooperation, while the Roman Catholic Church supports faith-based public programming and a national interfaith option gains cautious approval from church groups. The CRTC proposal draws favorable remarks at Halifax from Rev. Barry Jones.
The head of the Anglican Church of Canada urged a stronger church response to pornography calling it a form of violence against humanity. Archbishop Edward Scott, 64, told the 30th general synod that the church should study the issue and involve members through a new program to alert Anglicans to the dehumanizing nature of pornographic materials. The synod will also address violence in the home and against women as part of its week-long gathering.
A four year old Vancouver Island boy who suffered permanent brain damage in a two year old car crash was awarded about $1 million by B C Supreme Court. The Insurance Corp of B C and Manitoba Public Insurance Corp remain in court over who must pay the boy’s medical bills with months of delay likely.
Alliance Quebec releases a Quebec government study arguing at least 50 regulations expanding the Charter of the French Language are illegal or void. Eric Maldoff cites rules on access to private schools and bilingual material as legally defective with serious doubts on a key regulation about distributing bilingual government documents.
Lawyer Greg Brodsky hopes police focus on abortion issues if charges are laid after the raid on Dr Henry Morgentalers clinic in Winnipeg. Morgentalers lawyer warns against fancy charges as the public seeks confirmation of abortions performed. Twelve people including Dr Robert Scott of Alexandria Ont were detained and questioned. Police say no comment until Crime Supt Stephen returns.
Gusty winds disrupted an Armed Forces Day Sky Hawks display at CFB Esquimalt. Steve Base of Toronto tumbled from a three storey roof and was later hospitalized with bruised ribs after being unable to control his parachute during the third jump. Only one of five jumpers landed on the field.
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