Carlton Cards recalls offensive Father's Day card
Carlton Cards ordered 265 Canadian stores to stop selling a Marketplace card that jokes about drowning baby girls. The card features a daughter on the front and a line about not drowning the speaker at birth. The move follows a Winnipeg complaint by Anna Sutherland who linked it to infanticide concerns.
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Winnipeg
Carlton Cards Company
Canada
Anna Sutherland
Sutherland
China
Kendall Wigoda
Carlton Cards
Carlton
Wigoda
Flames Engulf Garuda DC-10 After Fukuoka Runway Skid
A Garuda Indonesia DC-10 skidded off a Fukuoka runway and burst into flames in a muddy field. Three confirmed dead, about 100 injured, and 12 missing as firefighters search the wrecked rear cabin. Most of the 275 aboard were Japanese. four foreigners' nationalities unknown.
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Tokyo
Garuda Indonesia Airways
Japan
Fukuoka
Seiroku Kajiyama
Bali
Jakarta
Transport Ministry
Garuda Indonesian Airways
Irvine residents rail at mayor over salaries and taxes
Irvine residents peppered Mayor Robin Metz and council with anger over tax dollars funding salaries. They challenged a $12 000 wage hike for town staff and questioned unclear pay brackets while noting muddy roads and a reduced tax rate after land sales.
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Irvinervine
Robin Metz
Bill Zawadiuk
Irvine
Zawadiuk
Russell Stuber
Don Young
Metz
Potatoes Dumped After City Giveaway Draws Complaints
In Philadelphia residents battled a huge potato pile left by a community activist. City workers spent hours tossing tubers into garbage trucks as odor grew after a week of heat. Liz Bacone led the effort with a North Carolina charity donating the spuds.
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Philadelphia
Liz Bacone
Community Associates
Strawberry Mansion
North Carolina
Bacone
Freemen near surrender as standoff with FBI winds down
After 81 days, the Freemen siege at Jordan Montana appears near end as youth depart and FBI tent shelters are removed. Mediator Karl Ochs arrived for final talks while a 16 year old girl was picked up by agents for state custody amid ongoing federal charges over counterfeit checks and threats to a judge.
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Jordan
Mont
FBI
Karl Ochs
Montana
Washington
Freemen
Amanda Michele Kendricks
Ashley Landers
Ashley Taylor
Colorado
Charles Duke
Calgary
Dale Jacobi
Mulroney defamation suit may cost Canadians millions
Reform MPs Deborah Grey and Stephen Harper say Brian Mulroney will settle his $50 million defamation suit with the government out of court. They question funding and the source of any payout, while Liberal Justice Minister Allan Rock cautions settlement is not imminent.
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Brian Mulroney
Reform
Deborah Grey
Stephen Harper
Mulroney
Grey
Allan Rock
Rock
Justice Department
RCMP
Harper
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