Councillors reject gas tax rebate plan for PGRT funds
Aldermen Lyle Flynn Ken Sauer and Bill Bauman argue against refunding any of the $4 million collected as Petroleum and Gas Revenue Tax. They favor placing the money in a depletion reserve to secure a 20 year gas supply for ratepayers and a 10 year supply for industrial customers, with potential modest residential rebates only as an alternative.
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Sheri Murphy-Wright
News
PGRT
Lyle Flynn
Ken Sauer
Bill Bauman
Sauer
Flynn
Bauman
Utilities
Winston Kerr
Bob Nicolay
Nicolay
City moves to switch residents to water meters
City Council unanimously approved converting flat-rate water charges to a meter system. First meters unlikely before late December with gradual rollout over three years. Estimated cost originally 450000 with 65 for materials and 35 for labor per residence, funded from water surplus. No direct resident cost unless old plumbing needs replacement. Flynn questioned potential for older homes and revenue gain.
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Denise Helm
News City Council
Ald
Jim Hirsch
Public Works Committee
Hirsch
Lyle Flynn
Flynn
Public Works
Lorne Thompson
Lubicon Chief Ready to Meet Getty in Land Claim Talks
Lubicon chief Bernard Ominayak offers to meet Premier Don Getty one on one to resolve a land claims dispute and lift blockades on four roads near Little Buffalo Alberta. Alberta chiefs plan emergency meeting in Peace River to discuss support for the blockade amid sustained tensions.
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Hector Whitehead
Lubicon
Peace River
Lubicons
Getty
Little Buffalo
Alta
Bernard Ominayak
Don Getty
Lubicon Lake
Alberta
Ominayak
William Beaver
Big Stone
Little
Heritage Fund assets shrink as Alberta reports 1988 value
Alberta's Heritage Savings Trust Fund shows 1987 88 assets at 12.562 billion Canadian, down from 12.745 billion a year earlier. Provincial Treasurer Dick Johnston says figures reflect cost accounting, not current market value, while noting 2.7 billion invested in capital projects. Opposition chief Ray Martin questions liquidity of deemed assets including Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre and other holdings. Major investments include 401 million in Alberta companies, 244 million in Crown financing agencies, 30 million in Alberta Energy Co., and 129 million in capital projects.
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Johnston
Dick Johnston
Ray Martin
Mackenzie Health Sciences Centre
Edmonton
Alberta Opportunity Co
Alberta Mortgage and Housing Corp
Martin
Alberta
Millar Western Pulp Ltd
Nova Corp
Alberta Energy Co
Nova
Court clears mentally disabled voters in federal election
Ottawa reports Tens of thousands of mentally disabled citizens will be eligible to vote in the November 21 federal election after a Federal Court ruling that struck down the ban on voting for those restrained by mental disease. Chief Electoral Officer Hamel says polling instructions will allow hospital residents to vote in their hospital riding and short term patients to vote by proxy in their home riding.
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Buffalo
Edmonton
Lubicons
RCMP
Little Buffalo
Ottawa
Federal Court of Canada
Barbara Reed
Canadian Disability Rights Council
Jean-Marc Hamel
Edmonton man wins 10 million after $2 lottery purchase
Scott Thatcher 28 a quality assurance worker for Air Canada spent his last two dollars on Lotto 6 49 tickets at Edmonton International Airport. He won a 10 million jackpot with numbers based on his wife Lena and their two-year-old twins birth dates. The couple traveled to Winnipeg to claim the prize and returned home amid police and airline escorts.
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Edmonton
Scott Thatcher
Air Canada
Edmonton International
Thatcher
Lena
Winnipeg
Western Canada Lottery Corp
RCMP
Lottery Corporation
Geraldine Teliske
Scott
Teliske
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