Alberta towns feel squeeze as taxes rise and new revenue ideas emerge
Alberta taxpayers face higher property taxes with Edmonton up to 880 from 760 and Calgary to 852 from 733. Officials discuss municipal funding options including a possible municipal gasoline tax and revenue sharing from oil and gas income. Alderman Wickman warns municipalities may push for new taxes amid funding pressures.
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Edmonton
Alberta Urban Municipalities Association
Marvin Moore
Moore
Percy Wickman
Wickman
Firefighters hold lines as Alberta forest fires face new starts
Fire crews kept active lines around fronts in Alberta while warning that higher temperatures and lower humidity could spark new starts. Sl que Forest District official Carson McDonald said progress is good but not secure. Wabasca blaze had burned about 46 000 hectares (115 000 acres) by Wednesday.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Carson McDonald
Slave Lake Forest District
Carl Leary
Footner Lakes District
Wabasca
Alberta politicians hold back on mandatory seat belt laws
Alberta government remains without seat belt legislation despite strong evidence and backing from Transport Safety Director Ross Hogg and medical group spokesperson Ronald Kustra. The department has pushed for five years while politicians have the final say.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ross Hogg
Alberta Transportation Department
Ronald Kustra
The
Alberta Medical Association
Caucus Committee On Health and Social Services
Twin roads to Redcliff bridge near completion by autumn
City engineer says motorists will use a twinned Trans-Canada Highway from the Saskatchewan border to the gates of Banff by 1990 with the old bridge reopening delayed to spring 1983. Separate eastwest corridors for north of the river to be ready by mid September.
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Chris Harbron
the News
Redcliff
South Saskatchewan
Jack van Eerde
Charles Lendzion
Alberta Transportation
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Banff National Park
van Eerde
Underwood McLellan Ltd
Department
Public Works Department
Lendzion
Bus hours cut back earlier in Medicine Hat Transit
City officials say the last downtown bus will depart at 10:15 p.m. starting August 15, not 10:45 p.m., after consultants and the utilities committee recommended changes. An error in June minutes had shown a 11:15 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. hours reduction, brought to attention by utilities director Winston Kerr.
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Alberta Transportation
Utilities Committee
Larry Godin
Medicine Hat
Godin
Winston Kerr
New Citizens Swear Allegiance at Medicine Hat Ceremony
Twenty four residents from Medicine Hat district became Canadian citizens in a court of citizenship ceremony at Medicine Hat College. Judge Emmet Reidy presided as applicants from Chile Hong Kong and Australia recited their oaths, pledging responsibilities and rights including voting and running for office. Local civic leaders Sam Stone and Reverend David Paterson spoke as Tonny Kuipers family from Holland received certificates.
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Court of Canadian
Chile
Hong Kong
Australia
Emmet Reidy
Medicine Hat College Theatre
Canada
Joe Zasada
Zasada
Sam Stone
David Paterson
Reidy
Tonny Kuipers
Holland
Tonny
Tina
Jasine
Danielle
Bow Island
Kuipers
Simona
Paterson
Josine Kuipers
S. Sgt
A. C. Grier
Medicine Hat Rcmp
Robin Schiaht
Murder hearing set in August for Maple Creek case
Maple Creek rancher Earle Ferguson and his son Guy Ferguson, both charged with first degree murder, set a preliminary inquiry for August 12 after a Swift Current court appearance. They are in custody in Regina and have been observed in Saskatoon. the victim, Gary Horton, died May 25 from a head wound near Maple Creek. A bail hearing is scheduled for June 30.
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Maple Creek
Swift Current
Earle Frederick Ferguson
Guy
Regina Correctional Institute
Prairie Region
Saskatoon
Gary James Horton
Maple Creek Union Hospital
Regina
Maple Creek Rcmp
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