Lukowich fuels Canada to tied lead at world curling
Ed Lukowich and Canada, led by Mike Chernoff, won four straight to move into a first place tie with the United States at the world curling championship in Winnipeg. Canada beat France 8-6 and Sweden 9-2, while Sweden fell to Italy and the US edged Germany and Italy in day draws.
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Winnipeg
Ed Lukowich
Fast Eddie
Medicine Hat
Canada
Germany
United States
France
Sweden
Norway
Mike Chernoff
Scotland
Leone Rezzadore
Italy
Tom Schaeffer
Chernoff
Canadians
Keith Wendorf
Bob Nichols
Nichols
Denmark
Switzerland
USA
Carter ends visit in Brazil meets human rights critics
President Carter wrapped up his Latin American trip in Rio de Janeiro by a 45 minute meeting with Brazilian human rights advocates including two Roman Catholic cardinals, a session the White House did not expect to please hosts. He then headed to Nigeria for a state visit, meeting Gen. Obasanjo and signaling Africa outreach.
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Rio DE Janeiro
USS
Carter
Latin America
Nigeria
U.S
Africa
Julio Mesquita Neto
Mesquita
Weizman visits Cairo but no progress on peace talks
Cairo Radio says Defense Minister Ezer Weizman and President Anwar Sadat made no progress toward resuming Egypt Israel peace negotiations. Sadat writes to Carter, Begin may yield but no shift in Israeli stance. Separately in Los Angeles two suspects in the Hillside Strangler case are in custody in connection with killings.
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Cairo
Ezer Weizman
Israel
Cairo Radio
Anwar Sadat
Egypt
Sadat
Carter
Osama el Baz
Begin
Brazil
Middle East
Menachem Begin
U S
Lebanon
Weizman
Los Angeles
Boston
Hillside
Daryl Gates
George Francis Shamshak
Peter Mark Jones
Beverly Hills
Shamshak
Jones
Jill Barcomb
Kathleen Robinson
Alberta offers home adaptation grants for wheelchair users
The province unveils a 2.25 million program to help Albertans in wheelchairs remove stairs with ramps, lifts, widened doorways and other changes. Grants up to 1000 are available to eligible homeowners or households with a wheelchair resident, income under 19500, with front end costs covered by credit and reimbursements after bills. Applications from the Home Adaptation Office in Edmonton.
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Bill Yurko
Yurko
Alberta Housing and Public Works
Edmonton
ATCO to join Genstar land venture in Alberta development
Genstar Ltd and ATCO Industries Ltd announce ATCO will become a partner in Alberta Land Development Co a Genstar unit holding over 13 000 acres in Alberta valued at more than 190 million when developed The project plans residential and commercial use with Mercantile Bank of Canada and Toronto Dominion Bank as minority partners and aims to close by end of April subject to tax rulings and regulatory approval.
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Edmonton
Genstar Ltd
Atco Industries Ltd
ATCO
Alberta Land Development Co
Alberta Land Development
Genstar
Alberta
Mercantile Bank of Canada
Toronto Dominion Bank
Coal gas unlikely future petrochemical feedstock says Alberta officials
Alberta executives from AGCL and Alberta Gas Chemicals say coal produced gas is not a viable near term petrochemical feedstock. High coal extraction and gasification costs, plus gas price dynamics, keep coal gas from replacing natural gas despite Medicine Hat and provincial study plans.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta Petrochemical
Robin Abercrombie
Alberta Gas Trunk Lines
Sam Egglestone
Alberta Gas Chemicals
Economic Developers Association of Alberta
Abercrombie
AGCL
Energy Resources Conservation Board
Egglestone
U.S
Seven Persons Area
Co-discoverer of insulin dies in Toronto
Biochemist Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin, died in hospital at 79 after surgery for a ruptured abdominal artery. A renowned medical researcher, he helped develop insulin with Dr. Frederick Banting in 1921 and spent years advocating diabetes research.
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Toronto
Charles Herbert Best
Toronto General Hospital
Best
Banting and Best
University of Toronto
The
Banting Institute
the Hospital For Sick Children In
Mount
West Pembroke
Maine
Harbord Collegiate Institute
Henry Best
Halifax
Cornwallis
Dr. Banting
Banting
Alberta waits for Ottawa and Quebec plans on constitutional change
Premier Peter Lougheed says Alberta will outline its stance only after Ottawa and Quebec reveal their proposals. He pushes for a delayed first ministers meeting, seeks a 40 percent provincial input on national regulators, and notes Banff outcomes shape Western leverage.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Quebec
Peter Lougheed
Ottawa
Lougheed
Bob Clark
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Bean
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Leone Rexadore
Ger
Olusegun Obasanjo
South Atlantic
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Rosalynn Carter
Clark
Banff
Yorkton
Saskatchewan
Canadian Wheat Board
National Energy Board
Canadian Transport Commission
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