Dead Candidate Wins Votes in Italian Election
In CORIGLIANO Italy Reuters reports 52 year old engineer Domenico Longo a candidate for Silvio Berlusconis Freedom Alliance died last week yet gathered over 18000 votes placing second. The Interior Ministry ruled deceased candidates need not be removed from ballots as the Freedom Alliance won a sweeping victory.
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Coriglian
Italy
Reuter
Domenico Longo
Silvio Berlusconi
Freedom Alliance
Interior Ministry
Berlusconi
Longo
Lotto 6 49 jackpot fuels Western Canada sales surge
Western Canada Lottery Corporation reported nearly 70 million tickets sold for Lotto 6 49 with a Canadian total prize pool. A single Ontario Quebec ticket matched the six numbers for a 19 million dollar grand prize while seven Western winners took 123 thousand dollars each and millions more won lesser prizes. In Ottawa, three teen suspects were arrested in a Sunday drive by shooting that killed 27 year old Nicholas Battersby. police said the attack appeared random and involved a stolen 1993 Jeep Cherokee near Elgin Street after two west end stores were struck.
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Marlene Gockel
Western Canada Lottery Corporation
Quebec
Lottery Corporation
Western Canada
Alberta
Gockel
Canada
Smithers
B.C
Ottawa
Nicholas Battersby
Brian Ford
Brian Skinner
West End
Battersby
Bell Northern Research
Elgin Street
Catholic school tax change threatens Medicine Hat board
Alberta moves to let Catholic school boards collect only part of property taxes potentially cutting Medicine Hat Catholic district revenue by 540000 to 1360000, risking the board's 12 million dollar budget. Critics call the plan coercive and say it may endanger funding for Catholic schools.
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Dhyana Roche
Medicine Hat News
Calgary Herald
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Tony Giesinger
Giesinger
Ziesinger
Pat Glashan
Glashan
Michael Tivadar
Confederation
Calgary
Shirley Valentine
Valentine
Laurence Decore
Calgary art show prompts funding warning from province
Alberta officials threaten to cut Lottery Fund support for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts after a Calgary New Gallery exhibition billed Bound to be Tongue Tied. Critics cited ads claiming cross dressing and other explicit themes, while Ken Kowalski vowed to seek answers and may reduce future theatre allocations.
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Calgary Herald
Edmonton
Ken Kowalski
Alberta Foundation For the Arts
Calgary
New Gallery
Tory
Lorne Taylor
City to Save Millions With Gas Storage Deal
Medicine Hat expects about 4 million in savings over 15 years from a 1.5 million gigajoule annual storage contract with Alberta Energy Company to store gas at a Suffield field. The 15 year agreement requires council and PUB approval and sets a 450000 first year cost plus 360000 yearly storage fee plus per gigajoule charges.
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Medicine Hat
Alberta Energy Company
AEC
Canadian Forces Base
Suffield
al Buchignani
Provincial Public Utilities Board
PUB
Dave Leflar
Leflar
Buchignani
Concord
Alberta Energy
Teale sent to trial for murder by Ontario government
Ontario's Attorney General ordered Paul Teale directly to trial for first degree murder and seven other charges in the sex slayings of two Ontario schoolgirls, bypassing a preliminary hearing. Teale's lawyer Ken Murray calls it a denial of a fair trial and a chance to test Crown witnesses. The move is described as an extraordinary use of a preferred indictment.
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Toronto
Ontario
Paul Teale
Marion Boyd
Teale
Ken Murray
Murray
Toronto stocks slump further as markets reel
Toronto stock market declines deepen with the TSE 300 losing 79.70 points to 4,213.91 as investors flee amid rising rates and political instability. In New York the Dow fell 72.27 points to 3,626.75, marking a broad retreat after a long slide since early March.
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Toronto
Doug Davis
D.A.C. Davis Investment Counsel
Toronto Stock Exchange
TSE
New York
David Shulman
Salomon Brothers
Canada
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Paris
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Balladur
France
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Foundation
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