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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 25, 1990
Page
7
Public accounts show the Renaissance Hotel and Convention Centre received a 219710 tax break in 1989 under a long term city agreement. Cadillac Fairview's Cornwall Centre Mall got 158084. City uses exemptions to spur development, housing and preservation.
Clouds of Change by the Vancouver Task Force on Atmospheric Change urges polluters pay and drivers be charged for city centre access. The 83 page report to city council on July 10 seeks immediate cuts in CO2 emissions and a 20 percent reduction from 1988 levels by 2005 with a carbon tax and phasing out ozone depleting chemicals.
A city task force urges doubling the fuel tax by 1997 to fund mass transit bicycle paths and clean burning fuels. The report praises municipal leadership but warns funding and provincial and federal action are needed. proposals include a $50 monthly downtown driving pass and banning ozonedepleting chemicals.
About 150 Okanagan Valley fruit growers blocked Premier Vander Zalm’s car in Penticton to demand a guaranteed minimum price for apples amid costs of 13 to 14 cents per pound and prices paid of 3.5 to 7 cents. They cite royal commission criticism of subsidies and push for a national apple agency to stabilize tree fruits.
Premier Bill Vander Zalm says British Columbia will negotiate directly with the federal government on unresolved Meech Lake issues. He plans a constitutional advisory panel led by Edward McWhinney to explore a Quebec like association within Canada and new immigration and spending arrangements.
CP reports Dr. Jim McGettigan, Saskatchewan president of Campaign Life Coalition, will sue doctors under Ottawa’s abortion bill if passed. He aims to deter abortions, while national coalition leaders say they do not plan lawsuits. some clinics in Calgary, Winnipeg and Halifax suspend abortions amid the dispute. Tom Schuck of the Saskatchewan Pro-Life Association previously urged lawsuits by women against doctors for malpractice.
In Vancouver the French Canadian community marks St Jean Baptiste Day while grieving Meech Lake accord failure. Federation president Marie Bourgeois laments Quebec’s distinct society setback and Chretien's Liberal victory, but vows renewed political effort to preserve language and culture. about 50,000 in BC claim French as mother tongue, 10,000 speak it at home.
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