Pickets monitor two-year Lakeside strike and related plant fights
Lakeside Packers workers in Brooks guard a two year picket line while Edmonton Red Deer plants Gainers Fletchers and interrelated mills wage disputes. Union leaders say Alberta law allows scab labor and wages remain at issue with a rejected eight dollar an hour offer as talks stall.
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Don Stewart
Lakeside Packers
Brooks
Edmonton
Red Deer
Norm LeClaire
United Food and Commercial Workers’ Union
Canada Packers Inc
Burns Meatsee
Intercontinental Packers
St Gainers Inc
Fletcher’s Fine Foods
Lakeside
Mike Measure
Alberta
Gainers
Fletcher
Court of Queen’s Bench
Measure
Rogerson
LeClaire
Brooks Slaughterhouse
UFCW
Medicine Hat Hospital Reopens Historic Time Capsules
The Medicine Hat and District hospital board opened three time capsules from 1957 and earlier. Items include 1889 newspapers and 1893 additions, a 1955 telephone directory, 1950s coins, and a video of the September 12 ceremonies. Most finds go to the museum as the 1986 capsule plan unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Hat and District Hospital Board
George Rothwell
Medicine Hat Hospital
Medicine Hat Times
Swift Current
Mike Fiala
Alberta urged to tighten standards for child care
NDP MP Margaret Mitchell joined a federal task force in Medicine Hat urging Alberta to require formal training for child care workers. She noted no provincial training rules exist beyond age and basic first aid, while calling for two years of early childhood study and stronger government involvement to protect children.
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Medicine Hat
Bob Porter
Mitchell
Alberta
Medicine Hat Lodge
Wendy Fletcher
Medicine Hat College
Canada
Health and Welfare
Jake Epp
Evelyn Sera
Lethbridge College
Sera
Delores Viney
Lethbridge
Canadian Union of Public Employees
CUPE
Deborah Barrett
City of
Margaret Mitchell
NDP
Vancouver East
Leia Steel
Todd Schuh
Weiner
Frank Webber
V-5 rash spreads through Medicine Hat schools
A mild viral infection named V-5 causes red cheeked, slapped face rash in schoolchildren around May 1. Health officer Audrey Redmond notes the illness is not reportable, with no figures kept, and typically requires no school absence as the rash spreads easily through casual contact.
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Medicine Hat
Audrey Redmond
Medicine Hat Health Unit
Redmond
Municipalities debate pornography laws at Hamilton conference
Ald Lyle Flynn said the Federation of Canadian Municipalities rejected narrowly drafted anti obscenity proposals. Delegates backed broad task force recommendations to define obscenity, tighten penalties, curb child pornography, and consider bylaw enabled controls to limit access to explicit material for minors.
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Federation of
Ald
Lyle Flynn
Federation
Hamilton
Flynn
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Ted Grimm
Ken Sauer
Wayne Buss
Buss
Fraser
Paul Fraser
Vancouver
Canada
Justice
John Crosbie
FCM
Federation Task Force
Crosbie
Fraser and Bagley
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al Rogerson
Gainers and Fletchers
Gainers and
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Don Curren
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