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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 16, 2007
Page
1
An unidentified woman sits on a chair fixed to a wall six meters above the ground during the X-times people chair performance by Angie Hies! Production in downtown Prague. The scene is part of the 14th International Prague Quadrennial exhibition of scenography and theatre architecture, the world’s largest of its kind.
A 32-year-old woman from Bell, Tara Spears, was knocked unconscious by a leaping sturgeon while boating on the Suwannee River north of Rock Bluff, Florida. She was taken to a hospital with non life threatening injuries and is expected to recover. The incident follows an April attack on a St. Petersburg woman on a personal watercraft with severe injuries.
The Ecole les Cypress hosts a fundraising barbecue at the Brick today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Medicine Hat's new medical evacuation helicopter will be on display along with police, ambulance, and fire department emergency vehicles. Early birds may arrive at 9 a.m. to watch the helicopter descend and land.
A nature scaping workshop at Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park Alberta Sunday 9 am to 12 pm at the Alberta Visitor Centre. Horticultural specialist Cathy Linowski from Medicine Hat College and invasive species expert Darian Kath will teach bird and butterfly plantings native plants and how to avoid harmful invasive species. Hands on planning of local yards in Elkwater included. For information call 893-3833.
Saskatchewan releases a plan to tackle climate change and grow its energy sector. The strategy targets a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and an 80 percent cut by 2050 built on five emissions reductions wedges. Saskatchewan produced 69.1 million tonnes of CO2e in 2004 per Environment Canada's inventory.
Two federal NDP MPs Peter Julian and Denise Savoie voiced concern at Vancouver's main cruise ship terminal about May regulations aimed at shielding Canadian waters from ship pollution. They said current measures are voluntary guidelines with no enforcement.
In Montreal at Dawson College Premier Jean Charest unveiled legislation named after Anastasia De Sousa who was killed in a 2006 school shooting. Her parents attended the announcement as the premier pledged stricter provincial gun controls to prevent future tragedies.
Food and Water Watch petitions U S Agriculture Secretary Michael Johanns alleging that cattle over 30 months old from Canada are routinely entering the U S food supply despite a ban. The group cites affidavits from five unnamed inspectors claiming supervisors ordered non intervention at slaughterhouses in three states.
State media said 468 slave labourers were freed in the past month from brick kilns and illegal sites in central China. They were starved beaten and forced to work 14 hours daily. The announcement followed a national investigation ordered by President Hu Jintao into widespread slave labour in rural kilns.
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