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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 19, 1982
Page
2
Nova Corp. President Bob Blair told 300 delegates in Banff that the West has been turned off by Liberal government practices and style. He urged electoral reform to empower the West and noted there are no Liberal MPs west of Winnipeg.
A forest fire near Red Earth Creek Alberta moved within two kilometres of oil storage tanks and prompted evacuation as winds forecast to push the blaze closer. Union Oil foreman Bert St Martin warned an explosion could occur amid the 10,496 hectare fire threatening the settlement about 340 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
A Salvation Army time capsule from Sept 13 1913 beneath the corner stone of Calgary’s Citadel was opened at the Glenbow Museum. It contained a 1912 George V nickel and 188 Victoria silver dime, seven year old Elizabeth and others named in a note, with value tied to history rather than coinage. The capsule’s future display at the Hat museum remains undecided.
Edmonton activist Cal Adam of the Peoples Movement to Stop Trudeau announces a ridings list focused on pressuring Liberal MPs to desert the government. He calls Trudeau a dishonest socialist while naming MPs including Garnet Bloomfield, Robert Bockstael, Maurice ee, Jack London Hudecki, and Norm Kelly.
The widow of a Royal Canadian Air Force veteran who hanged himself at Alberta Hospital Ponoka urged the government to use part of the Heritage Savings Trust Fund to improve services at the institute. The 62 year old man, a WWII fighter pilot decorated three times, died the day after a CMHA report called hospital conditions scandalous.
Calgary CG news confirms Ottawa provides 200 million dollars for the 1988 Winter Development project. The package covers capital costs and includes a 500 thousand advance, with CODA praising fast federal action and hopeful provincial follow through.
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