Guilt-Driven Return Of Stolen Detroit Library Book
An anonymous sender mailed the German novel The Black Galley to the Detroit Public Library with a note admitting theft in the mid-1930s and included 40 dollars. The library confirms overdue fines up to five dollars for a book and ten for reference works as it steps up a campaign to recover more than 250000 books valued around five million dollars.
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Detroit
Owen Sound, Ont
Detroit Public Library
Jean Curtis
After-tax income of Canadian families falls in 1990
Statistics Canada reports average after tax family income dropped 22 percent to 41434 in 1990 from 42367 in 1989. Taxes consumed about 20 percent of income, up from 15 percent a decade earlier, with after tax payments totaling 10199 versus 7684 in 1980. Barriers to labor disputes persist as Alberta law minister declines arbitration and calls on Ken Albertini to mediate between teachers and trustees in a Battle River strike.
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Ottawa
Statistics Canada
Battle River
Alberta
Elaine McCoy
McCoy
Rita Hutzul
Ken Albertini
Albertini
Reform directors back Solberg as Medicine Hat candidate
Reform Party directors met in secrecy for four hours and voted overwhelmingly to back Monte Solberg in the Medicine Hat riding. Several directors questioned the vote process, but national officials said no rules were broken and Solberg hailed the united backing.
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Reform Party
Monte Solberg
Medicine Hat
Terri Witzke
Witzke
Solberg
Brooks
Preston Manning
Neil Morrison
Morrison
Virgil Anderson
Calgary
Len Parker
Westray Mine Rescue Reaches Deepest Point Yet
Elaine Flaherty reports from Plymouth Nova Scotia as rescue crews push to within 140 metres of the Westray mine deep place where 15 miners remain missing after a methane explosion. Eleven of the 26 underground workers died, with several rock falls and a smoldering coal area blocking access as air and power lines are restored.
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Elaine Flaherty Southam
Plymouth
N.S
Westray
Colin Benner
Benner
Alberta
Calgary student killed in school stabbing on soccer field
Ryan Garrioch 13, an honors student, died two hours after being stabbed in the abdomen on a Calgary junior high field. A 15-year-old boy faces first degree murder charges. police say it was a one on one incident and not gang related.
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Calgary
Ryan Garrioch
Garrioch
Thomas B. Riley
Keith Hawkins
Foothills Hospital
Hawkins
Quebec Excluded Delegates at Talks on Division of Powers
Canada wide constitutional talks focus on Ottawa provincial powers while Quebec presses for recognition of its demands. Aboriginal groups back self government and potential overrides of the Charter creating a new order of government through negotiated powers. Analysts warn the negotiations may be lengthy.
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Vancouver
Quebec
Joe Clark
Clark
Ottawa
Canada
Jim Horsman
Alberta
Medicine Hat
Alberta green bill faces opposition over ministerial power
Critics call the Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act too weak and give the minister excessive control. The bill sets fines up to 1 million daily and six month jail terms for officers, with public reviews for major projects and ministerial discretion over appeal board decisions.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Ralph Klein
NDP
John McInnis
Grant Mitchell
New Natural Resource Conservation Board
Environmental Review Appeal Board
McInnis
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