Weather Outlook for Tuesday Showers and Flurries
News brief notes cloudy conditions with a 40 percent chance of precipitation on Tuesday. High near 5 and low around minus 2. Map on page B4.
10 Mar 1986
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 10, 1986
Page
1
News brief notes cloudy conditions with a 40 percent chance of precipitation on Tuesday. High near 5 and low around minus 2. Map on page B4.
The Queen attended the State Opera of South Australia premiere Boojum in Adelaide's Scott Theatre. She enjoyed the show despite four letter words and an actor removing clothing. She later marked South Australia’s 150th anniversary and planted a gum tree at the site of the 1836 proclamation.
Remains and cabin debris from the Challenger disaster have been recovered from about 15 nautical miles northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Naval salvage and NASA officials await full identification and family notification as operations continue and crews review the find.
Solicitor General Beatty outlined plans for a Special Emergency Response Team within the RCMP to handle terrorist incidents after failed negotiations. The unit, drawn from current squads, will be an elite permanent police team modeled on the SAS, though under civilian police control.
Alberta's population rose to about 2.354 million as of Oct 1, despite 9,800 more people leaving the province than arriving from Jan 1 to Sept 30. Net migration out totaled 14,400 in 1984. Immigrants and natural increase keep the numbers up while moving companies report slower interprovincial business.
Vega 2 gave scientists its closest look at Halley's Comet as dust from the nucleus damaged its solar panels and cut power. The probe drifted within about 8 248 kilometers, while Vega 1 previously photographed the comet from 8 800 kilometers. European observers fear further dust impact during an upcoming flyby.
Vega 1 suffered dust damage and remains in orbit with limited propulsion. Giotto is planned to fly within about 500 kilometres of the comet’s centre, facing fears of collision with dust but officials expect it to yield new data if it stays operational.
A Edmonton Social Planning Council report estimates Alberta lost about 14 billion in production over 1983 and 1984 due to unemployment. The figures cite 134 000 and 140 000 unemployed, 274 000 person years of lost output, with 6.6 and 7.23 billion dollars in lost production respectively and 4.1 billion in tax revenue foregone.
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