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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Mar 31, 2006
Page
1
Fragmented forecast shows days Monday through Thursday with mostly cloudy pleasant conditions and a high around 11. A law line and a chance of showers appear, followed by an unclear high and cooler skies.
March 31 1713 Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain while Cape Breton and St. John’s Island stay with France. 1890 Manitoba abolishes Catholic public schools. 1923 first US dance marathon in NYC ends with Alma Cummings’ 27 hour world record. 1943 Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration runs 2212 performances. 1975 CN Tower tops world with 553.35 m. 1995 Carl Story, bluegrass gospel pioneer, dies at 78 in Greer SC after recording 65 albums. 1995 Selena dies in Corpus Christi. Yolanda Saldívar convicted of life imprisonment. 2005 Canada Supreme Court narrows English school access criteria while upholding Quebec limits.
Medicine Hat will shut down its Materials Recovery Facility from April 3 to 6. Recycling depots stay open for drop offs, and residents are asked to store recyclables and bring them after April 6 if possible. Call 502-8045 or visit city website for details.
Alberta Crown land auctions earned a record 3.4 billion dollars in 2005-06, the highest revenue in a fiscal year. Public offerings for petroleum and natural gas rights occur biweekly in Calgary, with mineral rights awarded via competitive sealed bids. Budget 2006 projects non renewable resource revenues at 11.4 billion for 2006-07, about 35 percent of provincial income.
A government report says a 75‑person gondola derailment at Lake Louise was not caused by negligence. Resorts of the Canadian Rockies must review evacuation procedures amid maintenance and mechanical issues. Trapped riders endured up to five and a half hours in subzero temperatures on November 27, with communication criticized by some passengers. John Vanderwerf cited his sons age nine and 10 as among those stranded.
Michael Laughing reports that the sheriff stated the law was violated during a stand off at a construction site near Caledonia Ontario on Thursday. Six Nations members say the land was stolen by the Canadian government two centuries ago and have camped at the site entrance since February 28 as police action to remove them is dismissed as irrelevant.
The FAO says bovine spongiform encephalopathy cases are falling worldwide, with a 50 percent yearly decline over three years. In 2005, 474 deaths vs 878 in 2004 and 1646 in 2003, far fewer than the tens of thousands in 1992 per OIE data. Andrew Speedy notes continued global measures are key to eradication.
Immigration Minister Monte Solberg in Ottawa says deportations of Portuguese workers have dropped from 400 a year ago to 166 in the current fiscal year while the Conservative government studies options for addressing foreign workers. He stressed compassion but noted many illegals remain on humanitarian grounds.
Harmeet Sooden of the Canadian Christian Peacemaker Teams says he suspects a ransom funded the release of himself and two other hostages after 118 days in captivity in Baghdad. He cites instinct and notes he has no firm evidence of any ransom paid by authorities.
American reporter Jill Carroll, 28, was released in Baghdad about three months after a deadly ambush that killed her translator. She said she was treated well and that she did not know why she was kidnapped. Carroll was abducted January 7 near Adil neighbourhood while to interview Sunni politician Adnan al Dulaimi.
At Kedoumim entrance in Nablus area a Palestinian suicide bomber in a car with Israeli plates blew himself up after nightfall, killing three Israelis and injuring others. Police say three Israelis gave him a ride. bodies burned, identification hard. Riot scenes followed in Paris during protests over France’s CPE labor law.
Tehran rejects a UN Security Council call to suspend uranium enrichment calling the move not reversible. Ali Soltanieh said Tehran cannot suspend and the issue is not reversible. The confrontation shadowed a six-nation meeting with Rice reporting unity among the United States Britain France Russia China and Germany.
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