Canine Pee Breaks Up Tiburon Sidewalk Lights
In Tiburon California dogs peeing on 30 centimeter lights in Shoreline Park drains the city’s $20,000 sidewalk lighting. Public works director Tony Iacoppi says the damage costs $200 monthly and may force replacement rather than repair. Town manager Bob Kleinert budgets $4,500 for fixes and seeks cheaper long term options as efforts to curb pets fail.
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Tiburon
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Town Public Works
Tony Iacoppi
Shoreline Park
Bob Kleinert
Klein joins elite Bilderberg conference in Switzerland
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein will attend the invitation only Bilderberg conference in Switzerland next month as the sole Canadian political leader. Conrad Black invited him, Klein travels to Quebec, and assistant Rod Love says Klein is flattered. The two day meeting gathers leaders like Ruud Lubbers Volker Ruehe Willy Claes and royalty from Spain and Holland to discuss global political and economic issues with no formal resolutions.
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Edmonton
Southam News
Alberta
Ralph Klein
Klein
Bilderberg
Switzerland
Conrad Black
Quebec
Rod Love
Quebec City
Black
Ruud Lubbers
Volker Ruehe
Willy Claes
Spain
Holland
Gay rights on trial in Alberta Court of Appeal
The Alberta government appeals a landmark ruling by Court of Queen's Bench Justice Anne Russell that declared the Individual Rights Protection Act unconstitutional for excluding sexual orientation as a prohibited ground. Delwin Vriend, fired in 1991 for being gay, challenged the act as a Charter rights violation. Russell ruled on April 12, 1994 that the act infringes Section 15 of the Charter guaranteeing equality before the law.
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Edmonton
Southam News
Alberta Court of Appeal
Court of Queen’s Bench
Anne Russell
Delwin Vriend
Russell
Alberta
Vriend
King’s College
Alberta Human Rights Commission
Mount Cashel abuse liability admitted by Newfoundland and Christian Brothers
The government and the Christian Brothers admit liability in the Mount Cashel abuse case involving Shane Earle from the 1970s. A May 18 hearing will address compensation as legal action seeks damages, with victims urging timely compensation to enable healing and closure.
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Newfoundland
Christian Brothers
Mount Cashel
ST. John's
Mfld
Shane Earle
St. John’s
Church
J. J. Byrne
Hat hospital staff join province-wide protest
More than 100 hospital staff and family members protested funding cuts to Alberta health care during lunch hour in Medicine Hat. The action, organized by United Nurses of Alberta Canadian Health Guild and Health Sciences Association of Alberta, aimed to pressure Premier Ralph Klein and spotlight cuts. Staff cited bed closures job losses and fewer specialists as harm from the funding cuts. Brenda Conley urged public complaints to the right officials amid perceived disregard by Klein.
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Tammy Hillel
Brant
Jocelyn
Alberta
United Nurses of Alberta
Canadian Health Guild
Health Sciences Association of Alberta
Oliver Nikiel
Medicine Hat
Ralph) Klein
Stuart Hickey
Cindy
Pete Pedersen
Brenda Conley
Klein
Edmonton mother awaits transplant bill decision
Alberta health minister promised to inform Crista Christensen by Thursday whether the province will cover four month old Nathan Dziwenka’s heart transplant in California. A committee holds until today to recommend funding, while the University of Alberta Hospitals is ready to perform the surgery when a donor heart arrives. An American transplant costs between 250000 and 600000, versus about 73380 in Canada plus doctors fees.
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Edmonton Journal
Alberta
Edmonton
California
Shirley McClellan
Crista Cristensen
Nathan Dziwenka
J.L. Lewis
Nathan
Cristensen
Alberta Health
Howard Sapers
Sai McClellan
Canada
University of Alberta
Fairy Godfather's identity revealed in AIDS case trial
Bruce Sansom, a Toronto businessman, loses bid for name protection as a publication ban fails. Justice Keith Ritter says open court safeguards justice while Sansom, a Crown witness, faces implications from his links to Marilyn Tan. Tan is accused of infecting Don Boland with HIV in 1992.
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Court of Queen’s Bench
Keith Ritter
Bruce Sansom
Ritter
Sansom
Managed Investments Ltd
Tan
Don Boland
Boland
Edmonton
U.S
George Bush
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