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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
May 26, 2005
Page
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A compact forecast fragment listing temperatures and conditions. Wednesday high 20 low 6, then high 19 low 7, with notes of partly to mostly cloudy skies and a shower chance. An added line shows SHIgh 16 and JCS low 8, indicating conflicting data for the same period.
On May 26 1887 the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway opened for public traffic completing 4700 kilometres of CPR track from Montreal to Vancouver. The City of Saskatoon was incorporated and Jimmie Rodgers died in New York City at 35, noted as country music pioneer. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Canada with a royal train stop in Medicine Hat.
Public donations funded fireworks for a town event as 20,000 people gathered. Lenny Kravitz, born in New York City, rose with Are You Gonna Go My Way and won four straight Grammys by 2002. Also noted is the Montreal bed-in for peace by John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Inuit voters approved Nunatsiavut, a self‑government region in northern Labrador spanning 15,800 sq km over resources, services, justice, education, and health.
A 67 year old Medicine Hat man faces assault causing bodily harm charges after a Tuesday incident at a local lounge. Police say the suspect bit a man’s face and punched another, then was found walking on 13 Ave SE and arrested. He is due in court July 21.
The Alberta Court of Appeal unanimously upheld a year long sentence for Danny James Tate who dunked his girlfriend’s toddler in scalding water. Justice Marina Paperny rejected a bid for a conditional sentence, saying deterrence and denunciation are key in child abuse cases.
The driver’s family in Edmonton asks the public not to assign blame as police investigate a crash that killed six people. They say the driver, a woman in her 50s, remains hospitalized along with four others while six victims died on the day and the next.
Saskatchewan auditor says as much as five hundred thousand dollars may have been misspent in the Environment Department due to weak oversight and improper procedures. RCMP investigation followed disclosure last year as the matter drew opposition attention and public scrutiny. Western Canada oil leaders gather in Weyburn for the eleventh Saskatchewan Oil and Gas Show on June 1 and 2 with seminars, demonstrations, and the Centennial Luncheon and Oilpatch Awards.
Louise Hallos a survivor of residential school abuse leads eight aboriginal grandmothers on a 4500 kilometer march from Kelowna to Ottawa to urge a national day of healing on May 26. NDP officials say a long term Liberal prop up deal could be sought with concessions after caucus discussions next week.
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia that the United States must respond more quickly and decisively to anti American messages in the battle against Islamic extremism, noting global media can spread false information rapidly.
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