Hatters urge more police as budget debated
Medicine Hat faces police staffing pressures as a $1 million provincial boost prompts calls to add officers. City budget discussions center on raising from 81 to 90 officers, cost estimates, and potential shifts to patrols and school crime prevention programs. Local residents stress response times and safety.
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Sue Feeney
Kearley
Crescent Heights
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Police Association
Rick Wigle
Medicine Hat
Ted Grimm
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Bill Spring
Wigle
Medicine Hat Police Service
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Cuba plans restraint as flotilla sails near Miami
Cuban exile flotilla sails from Key West into rough seas toward a Havana area where two planes were shot down last weekend. Cuban leaders vow restraint while alleging airspace violations. exiles report two comrades killed and several boats retreat.
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U.S
Florida Straits
Key West
Havana
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Cuba
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Roberto Robaina
Castro
Time Magazine
United States
High Tomorrow Low Tonight Weather Map Note
Readable weather note shows temperatures with a high around minus fourteen and a low near minus sixteen. Mentions a weather map on Page 5 for full regional details.
McClellan Pressures Student to Apologize at Debate
Calgary eighth grader Richard Warnica accused Health Minister Shirley McClellan and the Klein government of putting debt reduction over health care during a Brebeuf Junior High debate. The 14 year old apologized after McClellan called the remark deeply offensive and said she would not tolerate the insult.
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Calgary
Shirley McClellan
Richard Warnica
Brebeuf
McClellan
Warnica
Klein
Liberals Ride Wave Of Support In Canada Poll
Southam News Angus Reid survey shows the Liberals back at 58 percent among decided voters if election held today, up from 49 percent in December and reaching regional highs of 73 percent in the Atlantic provinces.
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Enane
Southam News
Angus Reid
Quebec
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Jean Chretien
Atlantic
Alberta
Panty Tree At Beaver Creek Is Cut Down
Beaver Creek officials removed the so called panty tree near a chairlift in Vail Colorado after a month of lingerie items being hung on an aspen. Resort manager Mike Beckly says complaints rose as items increased and a worker nearly slipped while removing knickers.
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Colo
Beaver Creek
Hill
Mike Beckly
Ex-soldier charged in hate crime murder
Matt McKay aged 25 from Calgary, a former Canadian Airborne Regiment member linked to a racist skinhead group, was charged with second degree murder over the June 1991 beating death of Gordon Kuhtey in Winnipeg. Police classify the case as a hate crime due to the victim's gay-targeted assault area. Armed Forces did not comment.
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Canadian Airborne Regiment
Matt McKay
Calgary
Winnipeg
Thomas Legge
McKay
Gordon Kuhtey
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