Campaign stunts and birthday cheers mark Canadian leadership talk
Elusive Stockwell Day protesters blocked his motorcade at Carleton University forcing a hasty exit with a bodyguard. Jennifer Breakspear condemned Day for avoiding dialogue on education policy while Joe Clark celebrated his daughter Catherine’s 24th birthday with supporters in Kanata. Chretien later cited 1995 firearms act pride as he criticized Day over a staged gun photo op, a claim Day had purchased the gun earlier and a corrected statement followed.
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Canadian Alliance
Stockwell Day
Day
Carleton University
Public Policy
Jennifer Breakspear
Joe Clark
Catherine
Clark
Kanata
Jean Chretien
Ottawa
Commons
Chretien
Crop circle creator testifies in Devizes court
Matthew Williams admitted he and a friend made a seven point crop circle in western England to disprove alien claims. A farmer valued crop damages at 450 Canadian dollars, and Williams was fined 225. The case sits within a wider debate over crop circles seen since 1980.
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Devizes
England
Matthew Williams
Williams
Britain
United States
Four in Hat race to Ottawa
In Medicine Hat four candidates enter the federal race as nominations close. Incumbent Monte Solberg of the Canadian Alliance and Liberal Trevor Butts face Progressive Conservative Gordon Musgrove and NDP hopeful Luke Lacasse with campaigns already active across the riding.
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Medicine Hat
Elections Canada
Canadian Alliance
Monte Solberg
Trevor Butts
Gordon Musgrove
NDP
Luke Lacasse
Lacasse
Seventh St. N.E
Butts
Third St. S
E. Butts
Musgrove
United States
Patricia-area
Hat
Bill Grady
Solberg
Cypress Grasslands
Saskatchewan
Frontier-area
David Anderson
Lancer-area
Keith Murch
Eastend
William Caton
Marlin Belt
Frontier
Regina
Lethbridge and Macleod Riding Candidates Listed
After the nomination deadline on Monday November 6 the Lethbridge riding shows candidates from Canadian Alliance Liberal New Democrat Green and Progressive Conservative parties with incumbents Rick Casson and Grant Hill. The Macleod riding lists Alliance candidate Grant Hill as incumbent with no confirmation of other submissions.
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Lethbridge
Macleod
Delvin Chatterson
Alliance
Grant Hill
Health warning over cold medicines and diet drug uses
U S FDA warns to stop using many over the counter cold remedies and appetite suppressants due to phenyl propanolamine linked to possible hemorrhagic strokes among young women. Health Canada notes PPA in about 63 cough and cold products though Dexatrim Canada lacks it. Consumers are urged to check labels and use pseudoephedrine products or nasal sprays instead.
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Canada
Roslyn Tremblay
Health Canada
U.S
FDA
U S picks president today as campaigns sprint to finish
The presidential race narrows to a photo finish with Al Gore and George W. Bush rallying in key battleground states. Gore campaigns around the clock including Waterloo Iowa and stump stops in Missouri Michigan and Florida while Bush tours Tennessee Wisconsin Iowa and Arkansas before voting day.
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Orlando
Fla
al Gore
George W. Bush
Bush
Gore
Waterloo
Iowa
John Deere
George Bush
Missouri
Michigan
Florida
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Austin
Tex
Karl Rove
Illinois
Rove
Senate
House of Representatives
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Zooo
Elusive Stockwell
Barbara Johnson
Murphy’s Laws
Ann Landers
John Sheehan
Jaclyn Smyth
Seventh Street
S.W
Associated Press
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