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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 31, 2005
Page
1
Monday mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. Highs near 10. Toward Tuesday and Wednesday the pattern shows higher highs around 14 to 17 with lows near 6. The readable items are sporadic and incomplete.
March 31 1713 marks the Utrecht settlement with Nova Scotia returned to Britain while France keeps Cape Breton and St John Island. Other notes include Manitoba abolishing Catholic public schools and CPR wage increases for conductors baggagemen brakemen. Also mentions Selena death in Corpus Christi and Billboard chart note.
Calgary Archbishop Fred Henry defends his pastoral letter condemning same sex marriage and writes that society must curb homosexuality for the common good. The letter and a Calgary Sun column triggered two Alberta Human Rights Commission complaints, which Henry rejects as violations of religious and free speech rights.
Mayor Dave Bronconnier backs a one per cent room tax on Calgary visitors to raise up to four million dollars yearly for tourism marketing. The move follows plans to replace the provincial five per cent levy with a four per cent Tourism Levy Act, boosting Alberta’s tourism budget and allowing Calgary to add another one per cent.
In Regina, Premier Lorne Calvert moved to roll back part of the planned pay hike for cabinet ministers while all legislators would still receive a 4.5 percent raise. Calvert pledged to review the pay process amid union protests calling politicians greedy.
A 16-year-old boy appeared in Port Coquitlam youth court on a second-degree murder charge for the dragging death of a gas station attendant. His lawyer said he will plead not guilty. A judge warned that conviction could lead to an adult sentence of seven years to life.
Canadian press reports Opposition leader Stephen Harper faced polygamy questions during a British Columbia tour. Altering Destiny Through Education members from Creston pressed him on trafficking allegations tied to the Bountiful polygamous community near Creston, while Harper said enforcement is a provincial matter for the provinces to handle.
Al Jazeera aired a tape purportedly showing three Romanian journalists and an unidentified American held by an unnamed militant group in Iraq. The U S State Department confirmed a U S citizen was among the hostages.
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