Municipal Tax Relief Bid Fails At FCM Conference
Mayor Ted Grimm voices frustration over federal energy tax exemption for home heating and lighting as Medicine Hat delegates, including Aldermen Hirsch Stone Davison Anderson Keith, press for support at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The bid stalls amid national councils’ caution and fiscal strain.
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Ted Grimm
Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Jim Hirsch
Sam Stone
George Davison
Lee Anderson
Bill Keith
FCM
Medicine Hat
Grimm
Government poll on Alberta Heritage Fund sparks criticism
Alberta lawmakers debate a government commissioned survey on the 12 billion Heritage Trust Fund. NDP Leader Grant Notley calls it cynical manipulation while opposition alleges the probe serves as a pre election public relations push and questions the fund's management and disclosure.
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Alberta
NDP
Grant Notley
Lou Hyndman
Notley
Hyndman
Legislative Watchdog Committee
Progressive Conservative Party
Heritage Trust Fund
Heritage Fund
Israel Lebanon War and Falklands Crisis Shadow Global Tensions
Crisis spillover shows Israel strikes in Lebanon and Syria while Britain presses Falklands claim. Iraq seeks peace with Iran as power shifts. U S diplomacy under Habib helped secure a Lebanon ceasefire, but Palestine issue lingers unresolved amid regional turmoil.
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London
Israel
Lebanon
West
United States
Britain
Falklands
Iraq
Iran
PLO
Bekaa
Port Stanley
Argentina
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah
Philip Habib
U.S
Menachem Begin
Tanaka's Power Surges Behind Tokyo Silence
Kakuei Tanaka, ex prime minister and LDP king-maker, commands a 110-member faction from a gated Tokyo mansion. Despite reduced public standing and a looming Lockheed bribery case, he wields influence over Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, shaping party leadership and parliamentary loyalty through campaign funding and media favors. The court has found multiple defendants guilty in the Lockheed affair, as Tanaka contends his prime ministerial reach remains limited by law.
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Tokyo
Kakuei Tanaka
Japan
Tanaka
Lockheed
Lockheed Corporation
Zenko Suzuki
Suzuki
Susumu Nikaido
Nikaido
U.S
Liberal Democratic Party
LDP
Ballet Lessons Left Me Terrified and Shamed
The narrator recalls five years of strict ballet training as a stubborn back‑row, out‑of‑step dancer. He associates dance with humiliation, body doubt, and a lifelong aversion to movement framed by a mother’s longed-for youth and a girlhood dream.
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Purgatory
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John A. Weimer
J. W. ‘Bud’ Miller
Christopher Young
Falkland Islands
Foreign Office
Nicholas Ridley
Hong Kong
James Callaghan
Margaret Thatcher
Treasury
Labor
Peter Shore
LA Salle DE Soupe DU Jour
Andrew Horvat
Shogun of
Darkness
Diane White
Boston Globe
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