City council approves sharp rise in property tax mill rates
Medicine Hat council adopted a 1981 budget raising residential rates to 64.31 mills for small homes and 70.31 mills for larger units while commercial and industrial rates climb to 109.47 mills. The levy funds education and municipal services, with about seven million going to education and a $10.07 million federal energy tax payment shaping the year. Alderman Davison blamed inflation debt and provincial debt reduction policies, noting the city must also cover a large education foundation levy and warn that future budgets may need higher taxes, capital cuts, or service reductions. Taxes due June 30. sewer and water charges unchanged.
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George Davison
Provincial School Foundation
Davison
Medicine Hat
Cypress View Foundation
Public Library
Hospital District
Museum and Exhibition Centre
Provincial Planning Fund
Grimm
Finance Committee
Harry Yuill
Sauer
Council
Sands dies triggers Belfast riot violence after hunger strike
In Belfast and Londonderry Catholic districts police and troops fired live rounds and plastic bullets as mourners and rioters clashed days after IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands died in his 66th day of fasting. Up to 100 jailed IRA convicts may join the hunger strike at Maze prison. Police reported at least 10 injured and enhanced security across the city.
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Irish Republican Army
Bobby Sands
Northern Ireland
IRA
Maze
Sands
Londonderry
Provisional
John Paul
Francis Hughes
West Belfast
Ulster Defence Association
Alberta plans telecom jurisdiction clash in new bill
The Alberta government introduces a communications bill in the legislature aiming to control telecom matters within the province. The move is expected to trigger another constitutional dispute with Ottawa.
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Alberta
Court ends hearing on constitution package in Canada
Ottawa CP report on the Supreme Court of Canada hearing. A federal lawyer said provinces missed a 1927 chance to block Ottawa from amending the constitution. If the court backs the federal view Ontario and New Brunswick may see a new amending formula within weeks.
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Ottawa
Supreme Court of Canada
Raynold Langlois
High Court
London
Ontario
New Brunswick
Canada
Michel Robert
Medicine Hat asks Ottawa to ease federal energy taxes
City officials urge Ottawa to lighten the burden as rising taxes on natural gas and electricity hit Medicine Hat finances hard. Alderman Sauer cites $12 million annual impact and asks for tax exemptions for municipal gas use and electric utility. Mayor Grimm notes dire provincial contrasts and possible court action pending legal review.
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Medicine Hat
Ottawa
Ald
Ken Sauer
Utilities Committee
Council
Canada
Sauer
Pierre Trudeau
Marc Lalonde
Allan MacEachen
Bud Olson
Bert Hargrave
Petrofina
Grimm
Man is sentenced seven years for manslaughter in Aitkins case
John Allen Glenn, 28, was jailed seven years by the Court of Queen's Bench after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the Sept 24, 1980 killing of Gerald Roger Aitkins in Medicine Hat. The case, with no eyewitnesses, found Aitkins shot in a kitchen and his body later dumped in a dug-out 45 kilometres north.
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John Allen Glenn
Queen’s Bench
Gerald Roger Aitkins
Glenn
Darwin Greaves
L.D. MacLean
Aitkins
Greaves
Medicine Hat
Noel O'Brien
O’brien
O'Brien
Calgary
MacLean
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