Jailed protesters von Hill return to Parliament Hill
Rev. Tony Van Hee and Glen Kealey, jailed four days for protesting within 50 metres of Parliament Buildings, were freed after a bail hearing. A federal lawyer sought a no-return undertaking, which the justice of the peace refused, allowing their return to protest near Parliament Hill next week.
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Stephen Bindman
Southam News
Ottawa
Parliament Buildings
Tony van Hee
Glen Kealey
Justice of the Peace
Daryl Bartraw
Parliament Hill
RCMP
Canada
Bartlaw
Bartraw
van Hee
Kealey
Hull
Mounties
Andre Potvin
West Entrance
Meech plea fails to sway pact critics
Prime Minister Mulroney's TV appeal to salvage the Meech Lake accord drew sharp critique from top opponents. Manitoba premier Gary Filmon demanded substantive changes, while Newfoundland's Clyde Wells held firm as Atlantic premiers met. Quebec's Bourassa insisted the accord pass as is, and British Columbia debated Senate reform implications.
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Marky Meech Lake
Brian Mulroney
Mulroney
Filmon
Gary Filmon
Manitoba
Frank McKenna
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Clyde Wells
Atlantic
Corner Brook
Nild
McKennan
Meech
McKenna
Toronto
Robert Bourassa
Quebec
Meech Lake
Bourassa
Valcourt
British Columbia
Social Credit
Bill Vander Zalm
B.C
NDP Criticized for Delays Over Long Weekend Vote
Tory whip Jim Hawkes accused the NDP of wasting taxpayers money by delaying Commons business for a rare Friday confidence vote. He claimed obstructions cost at least 68 million dollars in under a year as MPs traveled to prepare for Monday proceedings. The government survived the vote 115 to 30.
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Ottawa
Jim Hawkes
NDP
Commons
Hawkes
Vancouver
Yellowknife
Newfoundland
Boston
Bill Blaikie
Parents seek better life lure abandons East German children
In Schoenebeck East Germany about 40 children, some as young as 11 months, live in a gray orphanage after being abandoned by parents who moved West seeking work. The director says many families wait for word that never comes as refugee camps in West Germany face unreported East German children and unpaid child support cases.
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Schoenebeck
East Germany
Karmen Zwick
Karmen
Karsten
Gesina
Elbe
Gernot Heiduk
Schoe
Heiduk
Zwick
West Germany
Europe
Gesina Zwick
West
Gernot Helduk
Edmonton teen’s two secret births disclosed in court
In provincial court Lisa Needham 19 pleaded guilty to concealing her newborn daughter’s body in a downtown garbage bin and neglecting to obtain childbirth help. The case reveals a prior secret birth at age 16 with the infant left on a neighbor’s doorstep and adopted.
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Edmonton
Lisa Needham
Needham
Tony Koehn
Brian Lobay
Brian Peterson
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