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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 12, 2000
Page
12
A government audit found two Canadian sub contractors received a significant amount of contract information tied to a ten billion dollar frigate program. Production trainer work valued around ten million faced leaks dating back to 1994 with five substantiated incidents.
The Toronto Report Card on Homelessness shows 28 800 people used emergency shelters in 1998, far lower than New York City’s 75 000 municipal shelter users. When adjusted for population, Toronto’s shelter usage is 15.8 percent higher, prompting calls for action.
A century old Toronto Weekly Mail article on testing well water surfaces in Walkerton amid a modern crisis. Rev. Maggie Keates recalls the discovery at McIntosh United Church while seven deaths and a 1,000-strong illness tied to a May contamination prompt a provincial inquiry into drinking water safety.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien urged provincial health ministers to seek restoration of Ottawa's health funding before the next first ministers meeting. Ralph Klein pressed Ottawa to restore transfers to 1994-95 levels, citing a need to save medicare with an extra 4.2 billion annually, plus Alberta's 77 million crop insurance refund request.
Tom Long dominates Quebec outreach with 6000 membership cards as leaders gather in Montreal for a fifth debate. Day gains notice with decentralization stance while Quebec figures back his constitutional platform.
The Calgary Herald, its pressmen, mail room and distribution staff settled a four year contract. The strike of six weeks by pressmen and November walkout by distribution workers ended with a three percent raise in year one and 2.5 percent thereafter plus $1500 in total sign-ons. Mail room top rate cut to 11 dollars for new and lower paid workers. Current employees unaffected.
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