Swiss coach bans sex during World Cup preparation
Switzerland's Roy Hodgson orders his players to remain celibate from June 7 before the World Cup exhibition in Montreal and first match against the United States in Detroit on June 18. He says the trip is not a pleasure visit and bans wives or girlfriends from the squad's hotel.
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Geneva
Reuter
Switzerland
Roy Hodgson
Bolivia
Montreal
U.S
Detroit
Hodgson
Saskatchewan to require full benefits for part-time workers
Saskatchewan introduces changes to the Labor Standards Act making medium and large employers provide full benefits to part-time staff based on hours worked. 20 hour workers gain half the benefits, while firms with 20 or fewer employees are exempt. Estimated cost up to 14.2 million annually. Business groups condemn the measure as unprecedented and harmful to job creation.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Canada
Ned Shillington
NDP
Shillington
North America
Dale Botting
Canadian Federation of Independant Business
Hat labor council offers to speak for gagged Social Services workers
Medicine Hat and District Labor Council President Dave Condon says the council will speak for Social Services workers gagged by a department order. The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees appeals a ruling on gagging while praising solidarity and criticizing funding cuts.
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Medicine Hat
Labor Council
Social Services
Labor Movement
Dave Condon
Medicine Hat and District Labor Council
Alberta Union of Provincial Employees
Public Service Employee Relations Board
Social
Guy Smith
Medicine Hat News
Condon
Mike Cardinal
Nancy Furlong
Employee Relations Board
Public Service Alliance
Seniors ejected from meeting on Alberta benefit changes
Broken fire code forced 120 seniors from the Weiner Centre as Alberta ministers held a consultation on proposed benefit cuts. About 135 remained inside to hear Gary Mar defend changes, while others gathered outside to protest. Speakers charged misrepresentation of the plan which merges five subsidies into one and could cut income for single seniors over thresholds.
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Jeff Welke
Weiner Centre
Alberta
Gary Mar
Victor Wolfer
Mar
Elroy Lafond
Wolfer
Orland Marty
Marty
Eagleson fights extradition in U S racketeering case
Toronto lawyers defend former hockey czar Alan Eagleson who faces a 32 count indictment in Boston for racketeering embezzlement and fraud. US seeks extradition as Eagleson refuses voluntary appearance saying he will face charges in the United States with an extradition hearing to determine evidence.
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Eagleson
Donald K. Stern
Boston
Canada
Edgar Sexton
Justice Department
Toronto
Alan Eagleson
Brian Greenspan
Greenspan
National Hockey League Players’ Association
Players’ Association
Boston Bruins
Bobby Orr
Association
Inkatha joins first South Africa election opposition split
President Mangope of Bophuthatswana agrees to participate in the April 26-28 vote amid looting and killings as the Freedom Front enters the race for white voters. De Klerk pledges troops to restore order as the Freedom Front’s entry threatens a rift in the white right.
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Inkatha
Ter Maser
News
Johannesburg
South Africa
Ete
Lucas Mangope
Bophuthatswana
Mangope
Freedom Front
The
Freedom Party
Bophuthatswane
F. W. de Klerk
Bophuthaswana
Victim of tainted blood seeks assisted death at inquiry
Rochelle Pittman, grieving widower Ken Pittman’s widow, tearfully urged a doctor to help her end her life to avoid the AIDS illness blamed on tainted blood. She sued the Red Cross and a Toronto hospital for $2 million as an HIV tainted blood case moves toward a possible early ruling and compensation delays.
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Rochelle Pittman
Canada
Pittman
Red Cross
Ken
Douglas Elliott
Hivt Counsel Association
Elliott
Ken Pittman
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