Phantom hunters plan sleep over at haunted Watson's Mill
Scott Jones Anne Hepplewhite and Colleen Wright plan a midnight vigil at Watsons Mill in Manotick Ontario to meet a phantom. Hepplewhite a lifelong local recalls ghost stories as mill lore includes a basement cry and reports of moved equipment and ghostly young women in the upstairs windows.
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Scott Jones
Anne Hepplewhite
Colleen Wright
Watson's Mill
Manotick
Ont
Hepplewhite
Canada Wins Ruling to Allow Pork Imports Amid Free Trade Pact
A special committee of retired jurists upheld a ruling allowing Canadian pork into the United States, reinforcing binational panel authority and ending years of tariff wrangling. The decision supports the bilateral free trade pact and ends a $17 million duty suspension on Canadian hog shipments.
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Washington
United States
Canada
U.S
Canadian Park Council
Ottawa
House of Commons
Michael Wilson
We are not racists Manning Page A13
A brief index item from the Manning Page A13 asserts a stance against racism. The note emphasizes inclusion and denounces prejudice in a concise newspaper card style. No further context or details are provided in the fragment.
Parliament pushes grainhandlers back to work in Vancouver showdown
Ottawa introduces fast tracked bill to end Vancouver grainhandlers lockout with no Prairie grain movement since Sunday. If passed by Senate and approved, terminals would operate seven days a week, despite opposition concerns over worker impact. Royal assent could restore operations by noon Saturday Pacific time amid 18 ships waiting in Vancouver and 16 en route.
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Ottawa
Vancouver
Marcel Danis
B.C
Danis
Senate
New Democrat
Mulroney vows reduced Canadian forces in Germany
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney announced Canada will cut troops stationed in Germany but stay in Europe. Ottawa has about 8,000 personnel at Lahr and Baden-Soellingen and will trim additional 1,400 positions already slated for elimination. NATO remains in place as reforms lessen the Western threat.
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Stephen Ward
Berlin
Canada
Germany
Europe
Brian Mulroney
Mulroney
NATO
Lahr
Baden-Soellingen
Ottawa
Tories attack Chretien’s daughter in Mashat affair row
Halifax MP Howard Crosby named Carolyn Chretien amid calls for more witnesses in the Commons inquiry into the al Mashat fast track immigration. Opposition MPs condemned the move as gutter politics while Liberals denounced the attack as desperation and smearing the family of Liberal Leader Jean Chretien.
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Ottawa
Raymond Chretien
Halifax
Howard Crosby
Carolyn Chretien
Jean Chretien
Commons
Mohamed al-Mashat
Crosby
Carolyn
Liberals
Newfoundland
Brian Tobin
Chretien
Tobin
Lloyd Axworthy
Axworthy
Rae refuses to accept resignations from ministers
Premier Bob Rae keeps two Ontario cabinet ministers in place after rejecting their resignations amid a dispute over interference with a disciplinary matter at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Swarbrick and Martel had urged action against Dr. Chikmagalur Mohan.
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Ottawa
Toronto
Ontario
Bob Rae
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rae
Anne Swarbrick
Government House
Shelley Martel
NDP
Evelyn Gigantes
Peter Kormos
Mike Farnan
Justices of the Peace
Swarbrick
Martel
North Bay
Ottawa Citizen
Chikmagalur Mohan
Mohan
Reform and Bloc Slip in National Polls as Liberals Hold Edge
A May 23 to June 2 Angus Reid-Southam poll shows Reform and Bloc Quebecois retreating from April highs of 17 and 8 percent. Quebec support for BQ drops to 27 percent. Reform falls to 29 percent in the Prairies and 21 percent in British Columbia. Nationally Liberals stay at 34 percent, NDP at 27, Conservatives at 16, with 21 percent undecided. Mulroney remains the least popular leader.
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Ottawa
Canada
Bloc
Quebecois
Reform Party
Liberals
Tories
NDP
Angus Reid-Southam
Reform
Lucien Bouchard
Quebec
Preston Manning
Prairie
British Columbia
Brian Mulroney
Liberal
Jean Chretien
Audrey McLaughlin
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Pinatubo
Andre Simard
Manning
Ann
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Canadian Wheat Board
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Helmut Kohl
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Mila Mulroney
Bonn
Southam News
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