Strike may close Hat Safeway stores in Medicine Hat
About 340 Safeway workers in Medicine Hat could trigger a strike as early as Tuesday after 72 hours notice. The company has begun ads for replacement staff in Alberta cities, but aims to operate stores during a strike. Union talks broke down March 4 with local 401 president Doug O’Hallo unavailable for comment.
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Medicine Hat
Toby Oswald
United Food and Commercial Workers
Alberta
Edmonton
Calgary
Lethbridge
Oswald
Public meeting to study Dunmore Road overpass plans
Businessman Rupert Ibbotson opposes an overpass at Dunmore Road near the Trans Canada Highway arguing tax dollars would fund a future Wal Mart site currently an open field. Wal Mart plans a 10,000 square metre store nearby and Scheffer Consultants will examine traffic at the request of the city.
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Dunmore Road
Rupert Ibbotson
Wal-Mart
Ibbotson
Animal World
Scheffer Consultants Ltd
Edward Gould
Wal-Mart Canada
Gould
Com
Dunmore traffic meeting aims to shape road plan
A Dunmore area meeting at 440 Maple Ave SE Thursday 4 to 9 pm invites about 200 local businesses after Scheffer Consultants circulated information sheets. Municipal works chief Sheldon Dattenberger cites rising traffic from development and Walmart as a reason to seek public input before deciding on an overpass.
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Wal-Mart
Dunmore Road
Dunmore
Lottery winner ordered to pay parents monthly support
In Quebec, a Superior Court judge ruled Francine Landry and her husband must pay her destitute parents Gaston Landry and Lise Courval 1000 per month from their 2.1 million lottery windfall until the mother begins old age pension on December 1, 1999.
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Montreal
Quebec
Francine Landry
Landry
Gaston Landry
Lise Courval
Andre Denis
Francine
Klein warns unions over wage demands as oil price slips
Premier Ralph Klein says Alberta’s oil price drop signals danger to a planned 2.3 billion surplus in 1996 97 and urges unions to back off wage demands. He notes oil prices fall from 26.62 to 20.25 per barrel between Jan 8 and Mar 3 and warns of possible revenue adjustments. Outgoing Treasurer Jim Dinning also cautions that sustained slump could jeopardize surpluses.
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Edmonton
Ralph Klein
Jim Dinning
Queen orders toothy busts scrapped in Mansfield visit
Buckingham Palace ordered a sculptor to remove a smiling portrait of the Queen after officials deemed it too toothy. Gordon Brown said the piece showed teeth in photos. A second version without a grin will be unveiled during her Mansfield visit to Queen Elizabeth School.
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Mansfield
England
Buckingham Palace
Gordon Brown
Queen Elizabeth School
Central
Elizabeth I
Brown
Elizabeth
UGG takeover bid ends as pools withdraw stake plan
Alberta Wheat Pool and Manitoba Pool Elevators drop their $172 million bid for United Grain Growers after Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench ruling enables a poison pill. The pools had spent $21 million to acquire 14.9 percent and will return shares while UGG defends with new share issue guarded by the court.
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Alberta Wheat Pool
Manitoba Pool
United Grain Growers
Lawrence Nicholson
Medicine Hat
Alberta Pool
Pool
UGG
Nicholson
Prairie Grain
Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench
Geoffrey Southwood
Southwood
Manitoba
Alberta
Toronto Stock Exchange
Weather brief for tomorrow and tonight
Variable cloud cover expected with a high around eight and a low near three. Precipitation remains at 0.0 millimeters with the forecast page A2 providing the map.
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