Safeway workers to strike in Medicine Hat at midnight
About 340 Hat Safeway employees will walk out at midnight after a Friday vote 93 percent in favor of strike action. The four year contract offers wage increases of 1.17 to 1.20 per hour plus lump sums, plus a 20 hour minimum week, with stores to stay open 9 am to 9 pm during the strike. Replacement staff have been hired, and contract talks have dragged since March 1996.
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Hat Safeway
Lloyd Haynes
United Food and Commercial Workers
Safeway
Pete Pedersen
Medicine Hat Labor Council
Toby Oswald
Oswald
Hat
Safeway Management
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Provinces sought Ottawa aid amid 1990s fiscal crisis
Former finance minister Don Mazankowski recalls Ottawa stepping in as several provinces faced serious deficits in 1998. He cites discussions with Ontario and Ontario’s NDP government and notes Alberta also received stabilization support after revenue declines, with Saskatchewan singled out as severely strained.
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Edmonton
Ottawa
Don Mazankowski
Mazankowski
Brian Mulroney
The
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Mer Ndp
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Vegreville
English Patient dominates 69th Academy Awards with nine wins
The English Patient led with nine Oscars including best picture and director. Geoffrey Rush won best actor for Shine and Frances McDormand best actress for Fargo. Julie Binoche won supporting actress, while Minghella took best director.
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Los Angeles
Saul Zaentz
ABC
CTV
Geoffrey Rush
Shine
Frances McDormand
Fargo
Anthony Minghella
Toronto
Michael Ondaatje
Juliette Binoche
Rush
David Helfgott
Helfgott
Cuba Gooding Jr
Jerry Maguire
Weather outlook sunny with cold night likely
The forecast calls for mainly sunny skies with Monday’s high near 9 and a low around 0 degrees. No precipitation is expected. details appear on the weather map page A2.
Canada pledges pay rise and reforms for forces
Defence Minister Doug Young released recommendations from civilian review panels promising a spring pay increase and reforms including a stable 60 000 regulars and 30 000 reservists, stable funding, fewer generals, and an updated military justice system led by Brian Dickson. The plan aims to restore pride and purpose to the Forces after years of budget cuts and Somalia scrutiny.
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Ottawa
Defence
Doug Young
Young
Hensive
Somalia
Brian Dickson
Supreme Court of Canada
Red Cross ends top official role in Canadian blood system
Douglas Lindores, secretary general and CEO, is fired after the board doubts his direction as the Red Cross signals a diminished role in blood collection and testing. A new government agency may assume core duties while the charity focuses on swimming, first aid, and disaster relief.
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Ottaway
Canadian Red Cross
Douglas Lindores
Lindores
Ity
Red Cross
Ring Reunites Friends From Madison Class of 1972
In Mansfield Ohio Reggie Sturts a 1972 Madison Comprehensive graduate found a class ring marked RAM while trenching near an apartment complex. He learned Richard Metcalf a 1972 classmate may have lost it in 1975 while helping a neighbor remove a van seat.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Reggie Sturts
Madison Comprehensive High School
Sturts
RAM
Richard Metcalf
Metcalf
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