Medicine Hat Increases Taxes As Services Are Cut In 1982 Budget
City council approves a 1982 operating budget with a 15 per cent average tax rise and reduced services. Homeowners face a $58.77 higher levy on a $7,300 property, while pools cut to six days, eight outdoor rinks closed, and street cleaning reduced. Apartments and commercial properties also see higher mill rates.
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Medicine Hat
Council
Ald
George Davison
Community Services Department
Davison
Family Services
Public Works Department
Ted Grimm
Grimm
Bob Ardiel
Utilities Department
General Revenue Fund
Britain strikes Stanley airstrip as Falklands crisis deepens
Britain said its planes bombed the Stanley airfield again as the Falkland Islands crisis escalates. Argentina reported rescuing 400 survivors from the General Belgrano, with 642 crew officially missing. The United States warned that rising casualties could harden positions, while Britain defended sinking the Belgrano and vowed to keep pressuring the blockade.
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Associated Press
Britain
Falkland Islands
Stanley
Argentina
South Atlantic
DYN
Republic of Ireland
United Nations Security Council
Falklands
Islands
Washington
U.S
Alexander Haig
Belgrano
John Nott
House of Commons
London
Nott
Margaret Thatcher
Thatcher
British Defence Ministry
Ian McDonald
General Belgrano
South Atlantic Islands
Solidarity marches amid worst Warsaw clashes since martial law
Thousands of Solidarity supporters clashed with police in Warsaw and other Polish cities for a second time in three days. Police used water cannons and tear gas as protesters hurled objects near Parliament and Communist headquarters. Several dozen protesters were arrested while authorities warned of summary trials under martial law. Gen. Jaruzelski attended a closed observance as unrest raged into the night.
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Warsaw
Solidarity
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
Gestapo
Communist Party
Old Town
Warsaw TV
Poland
Gdansk
Baltic
Prussia
Russia
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Castle Square
Rakowski
Close watch on city hiring as revenues dwindle
Medicine Hat plans tighter hiring oversight amid rising spending and dwindling non tax revenues. Health officials report Redcliff drinking water remains safe. Five time Canadian amateur boxing champion Carmen Rinke discusses his career in retirement. Alaska Highway natural gas pipeline sponsors expect no major losses and may gain from delays.
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Medicine Hat
Carmen Rinke
Alaska Highway
Alberta doctors to end extra billing for social aid and true emergencies
The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons ruled that doctors may not extra bill social assistance recipients or patients with true emergency needs. Outpatient emergency ward visits may still be billed, and investigations can occur if doctors disobey. Previous local extra billing noted at Medicine Hat Hospital.
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Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons
Roy LeRiche
LeRiche
Edmonton
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat Hospital
Winkelaar
College Council
Kesler Leads WCC Purge Over Independence Talks
Kesler, newly named WCC deputy leader, says four executive resignations remove radicals pressing Western independence. He stresses the party will seek stability first, with any referendum on independence to come only after broad voter support and constitutional clarity.
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Edmonton
Western Canada
Gordon Kesler
Kesler
WCC
Olds-Didsbury
al Maggard
Wes Westmore
Garfield Peever
Jean Furgeson
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Stanley Airstrip
Ann Landers
Redcliff
Rinke
Allan Fotheringham
Ann Landersee
Charles Lynch City News
Rees
Renee Rene
Allan Coyle
Free of
West
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