Protesters arrest in Toronto anti G7 demonstration
More than 100 people were arrested as 130 groups rallied against leaders of the G seven nations. Demonstrators scaled barricades near the provincial legislature while police faced a wall of 500 officers. Some burned flags and torched newspaper boxes in an anti American protest atmosphere.
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Mike Trickey
Southam News
Toronto
Nations
Popular Summit
G-7
USA Today
The
Wall Street Journal
Debt summit makes slow progress on Third World debt
At the two day economic summit in Toronto leaders touted goodwill while Finance Minister Michael Wilson urged clear principles for case by case debt negotiations and discussed agricultural subsidies costs. A plan for a drug money laundering agency was floated as progress toward easing the debts of the world’s weakest nations was noted.
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Toronto
Michael Wilson
CTV
Canada AM
Wilson
Ron” Reagan
U.S
Chlorine plant blaze in Springfield forces thousands from homes
A three day chlorine plant fire near Springfield caused a gas cloud and chlorine fumes. Firefighters worked to douse smoldering debris as 4,600 residents remained evacuated. At peak, 275 people including 22 firefighters went to hospital with skin and respiratory injuries.
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Springfield
Mass
Fire Department
Giorgio Placanico
Advanced Laboratories
Placanico
Therese Theroux
Springfield Municipal Hospital
Missing 13 year old Renee Lannon returns home
After a Saturday newspaper appeal, 13 year old Renee Lannon was found in a Bridge Street South East house at 1 15 PM Sunday. Police learned from an anonymous tip that led to her return. Her mother Geraldine Lannon credited the paper for helping reunite them.
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Geraldine Lannon
Renee Lannon
Bridge Street
S.E
Renee
Crescent Sten High School
Willie Brees
Brees
Gerry Kipta
Kipta
Lannon
Police Shoot Confined Dog After Child Bite Calgary
Calgary police said they fired nine times with a .38 revolver and then used a shotgun to kill a 40 kilogram German Shepherd cross named Duchess after it bit a three year old boy and a police officer. The child suffered a bruised shoulder and the officer was treated and released. Duchess was tied in the front yard when shot.
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Calgary
Karen Johnston
British Columbia
Duchess
Johnston
Beaton
Beal
Bouchard's Fate Hangs On Lac-St-Jean Byelection
In Alma Quebec polls opened at 9 am as Conservative star Lucien Bouchard seeks a win in Lac-St-Jean byelection pitting him against Liberal Pierre Gimaiel NDP candidate Jean Paradis and independent Jolly Taylor. Bouchard skipped a campground appearance to late campaigns, while public polls showed him trailing in past surveys and a large undecided bloc looms.
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Alma
Que
Lac-St-Jean
Lucien Bouchard
Bouchard
Bouchard Bouchard
Jean
Quebec
Mulroney
Clement Cote
France
Gimaiel
Haiti Coup Dismisses Manigat as Namphy Seizes Power
Troops loyal to Lt Gen Namphy freed him from house arrest and seized the national palace in a late Sunday battle, overthrowing civilian President Manigat after a week of military turmoil. Namphy appeared on state television declaring the army would lead Haiti. Casualties were unconfirmed but reported among Manigat loyalists and palace forces.
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Port-Au-Prince
Henri Namphy
Haiti
Leslie Maniy
Namphy
Manigat
Jean-Claude Paul
Agence France
Paul
Dessalines
Namiphy
Blue front page and ink change for cleaner News
The News explains a new low pur inks and redesigned pages to reduce turns on front page stories. The blue from Medicine Hat sky is chosen as the new front page color and readers are invited to accept the cleaner look.
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Medicine Hat
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