Prairie Rose chair blasts Taylor over wage rollback remark
Prairie Rose School Division negotiating chair Les Brest blasts incumbent MLA Lorne Taylor for backing a five percent wage rollback for teachers. He says Taylor intrudes on bargaining and has a conflict of interest since Taylor’s wife is a teacher. Alberta Teachers’ Association notes funding gaps affect salaries and class needs.
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Prairie Rose School
Lorne Taylor
Brost
Prairie Rose
Taylor
Brest
Terry Riley
Alberta Teachers’ Association
Riley
Ken Serr
Medicine Hat School
Hatters and Big Sugar Nominated for Junos
Terri Clark earns two Junos nominations including Best New Solo Artist and Country Female Vocalist of the Year. Gordie Johnson's Big Sugar receives one nod for North Star Rock Album of the Year, facing Rush The Tragically Hip 1 Mother Earth and The Watchmen. Junos air CBC at 8 p.m. Sunday.
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Terri Clark
Gordie Johnson
Big Sugar
Clark
Shania Twain
Michelle Wright
Patricia Conroy
CBC
Johnson
Rush
Tragically Hip
1 Mother Earth
The
Watchmen
Zit Entry Sparks Ottawa Phone Book Dispute
Ottawa residents recall a long standing misprint in the city phone book where Zit is listed with no address or name. The listing traces back five years to Anton Zitzelsberger who says Bell refused to reprint, defending the error as unworthy of correction.
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Southam
Ottawa
Anton Zitzelsbergler
Zitzelsberger
Bell
Tobacco bill clears Commons amid cancer data
The House of Commons passed the tobacco control bill 139 to 37 hours after new data showed lung cancer will kill more Canadian women this year than breast cancer. Senate timing could push final reading to mid April with possible amendments affecting the bill's passage.
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Ottawa
House of Commons
Commons
Sharon Carstairs
Senate Justice and Constitutional Affairs Committee
Senate
Scientists warn on human cloning viability and ethics
Dr Ian Wilmut told British MPs that cloning a human could take under two years but would need over 1,000 unfertilized eggs, highlighting vast technical and supply challenges. An authority spokesman warned of the burden on an already strained system, while Wilmut dismissed sensational human cloning applications as absurd.
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London
Dolly
Ian ‘Wilmut
Wilmut
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