Taxi committee revived to reexamine parking for taxis
Medicine Hat council reactivates the ad hoc taxi committee in a closed finance session to review taxi parking and other topics such as budget guidance and land sales. The move follows protests from Care Cabs and Deluxe Central Taxi about street waiting and solicitations, with DBA concerns on downtown parking load.
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Medicine Hat News
George Davison
Harold Maser
Care Cabs
Deluxe
Lloyd Harty
Medicine Hat
Ita Bakanec
Emphasis
Downtown Business Association
DBA
Jeff Welling
Larry Godin
Ted Grimm
Albert Nieman
Brooks man fined for drunk driving after .15 and .16 breath tests
Cameron Blaine Merkl 21 pleaded guilty in provincial court to driving a pickup while intoxicated. RCMP stopped him April 17 in his hometown. breath tests showed .15 and .16. Separate cases include a Calgary firm fined for trucking beyond authority and others for unemployment benefits fraud, assault, and license violations.
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Cameron Blaine Merkl
Merkl
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Calgary
Porter Freight Systems Ltd
Irvine
Winnipeg
Regina
Bill Cocks
.rcmp fines and liquor offenses in may case roundup
Leon Rae Ritz 18 was fined 150 for speeding May 22 by RCMP at Irvine who clocked 141 km h in a 90 zone. A 21 year old man paid 150 for drinking liquor in a vehicle in Cypress Hills Park. Wesley Schneider 302 First St N.W. was caught near Elk water May 22 by a park warden. A city youth was fined 100 after pleading guilty to providing liquor to minors. Geoffrey Clayton Lentz 16 was charged after parents of two suspended boys complained. Lentz had provided liquor to three minors Feb 19 at a juvenile friend’s home near Irvine while they should have been in school.
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Ritz
McCutcheon Place
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First St. N.W
Elkwater
Geoffrey Clayton Lentz
Medicine Hat Rcmp
Lentz
No democracy in voting says Western Canada MLA Kesler
The Western Canada Concept MLA Gordon Kesler told about 120 readers at Medicine Hat Public Library that Western provinces lack real voting power. He blamed centralized government for inflation, deficit spending, and loss of freedoms, calling for Albertans to resist Ottawa and seek provincial resource control.
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Canada
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Western Canada
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Medicine Hat Public Library
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Quebec
Brian Peckford
Newfoundland
Supreme Court of Canada
Peckford
Ding
Canagrex Agricultural Marketing Company
Canagrex
Peter Lougheed
Sunday shopping bylaw crusade stirs Alberta council
Alderman Lee Anderson resumes efforts to regulate Sunday store hours with an ad hoc committee and draft bylaw. Councillors last year refused to act, but renewed talks involve church groups, small retailers, unions, and city solicitor Frank OConnell. Police and courts face weak deterrents with fines under provincially enforced rules.
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Lee Anderson
Lee
Anderson and Company
Frank O’connell
Sam Stone
Anderson
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