Brooks woman testifies officers assaulted her in car
A 20-year-old Brooks woman testified at Medicine Hat Court of Queen’s Bench that off‑duty RCMP officers Real Fillion and Cameron Ward Ritchie assaulted her during a July 1989 taxi drive after a night out. She described being restrained, molested, and taken to hospital where staff believed she had overdosed.
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Brooks
Anties
Brooks Street
Medicine Hat
Queen's Bench
RCMP
Robert Fillion
Cameron Ward Ritchie
Fillion
Ritchie
Force
the Zoo
Court
Justice L.D. MacLean
Linda McAulay
McAulay
Mary-Ellen Sturgeon
Indigenous runners relay baton to North American Games in Edmonton
A 1 600 kilometre relay carries a sacred beaded baton from the Big Horn Mountains to Edmonton for the July 1 opening of the North American Indigenous Games. Nine Cree runners join from Saskatchewan. the event aims to motivate youth through sport and unite Indigenous communities through archery swimming track and field and more.
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Petra Kossman
the News
Medicine Hat
Edmonton
Big Horn Mountains
Sheridan
Wyo
John Fletcher
Bob Coulter
Saamis Tepee Association
Fletcher
Ray Tootoosis
Wyoming
Saskatchewan
Lethbridge
Tootoosis
Rufus Goodstriker
Joe Crowshoe
Patti Halkett
Highway 3
Craig Sand
Chuck Nisbett
School board reexamines no smoking policy
The CAM McCULLOCH report shows the public school board will have its coordinating committee study the no smoking policy. Trustees want tougher action and consider declaring buildings smoke free by Sept 1 1991 with cessation programs, while delaying final changes for further review.
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Cam McCulloch
The
News
Public School Board
Central Park
Earl Kitchener
Riverside
Ken Serr
Harold Storlien
Anderson
Taylor
Serr
Macdonald
Roy Wilson
Wilson
Coordinating Committee
Snake causes city wide outage and $75000 bill
A bull snake entered a circuit breaker triggering a city power outage on June 3. Utilities commissioner Winston Kerr said power was restored in 45 minutes but the breaker stayed offline until June 7. Replacement parts were shipped from Nova Scotia Power Corporation after a Canada wide search. Total costs reached about $75,000 plus $25,000 for restoration work and $21,000 for extra fuel.
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Winston Kerr
Canada
Nova Scotia Power Corporation
Public school capital plan awakes tax hike talk
The board proposes a five year capital program totaling about 20 million for Crescent Heights Medicine Hat and Alexandra schools with 75 percent provincial funding. One percent annual tax increases would run through 1991 to cover capital costs and could rise to 2 or 3 percent by 1996 if borrowing needed.
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Cam McCulloch
The
Public Schools
Doug Pudwell
Crescent Heights
Medicine Hat High School
Alexandra Junior High
Lorne Taylor
Pudwell
Harold Storlien
Sabbatarian clause could save Sunday bylaw in Medicine Hat
Sears and Safeway clash over a Sunday shopping bylaw in Medicine Hat as a Sabbatarian exemption is proposed to defend the ordinance. City committee seeks a neutral, religion-respecting rule while large chains warn of court battles and market pressure.
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Ontario
Sears
Don Macdonald
Macdonald
Ontario Supreme Court
Safeway
Jim Waters
Medicine Hat
Ping
Queen’s Bench
Canada Safeway Ltd
Lethbridge
Super Sam Food Stores
London Drugs
Red Deer
Ald
Graham Kelly
Kelly
John Hughes
Canadian Tire
K-mart
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Gordon
Bernie Anderson
Eee
Skip Macdonald
Mark Rogers
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