22 Oct 1997
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 22, 1997
Page
1
A bomb threat prompted evacuation of Medicine Hat Wal-Mart on Dunmore Road near the Trans-Canada Highway. Police and explosives experts searched a suspicious box. it contained stock and the store reopened at 8:30 p.m. Investigators are reviewing the incident.
An Angus Reid poll shows nine percent of Canadians forgive Preston Manning for ridiculing the $2 million Stornoway mansion and moving in. Forty five percent say it is not right for the Reform leader to use Stornoway while six percent are unsure. Manning says the controversy may fade. The Mannings have furnished the mansion at $111,390, far above prior estimates, hosting up to 22 guests.
About 650 mourners, including 600 plus cadets and friends, attended Amber Dickson's funeral at Patterson Armoury in Calgary. The service featured army cadet rites, eulogies by Miles Johnson and Pastor John Patterson, and a bagpiper with Dickson's beret and flag draped casket. Police say she was found dead October 14. her father Gerald Mayhew, 38, faces a first degree charge and returns to court November 4.
Alberta Environment Minister Ty Lund threatens to reject any legally binding greenhouse gas reductions while federal counterpart Christine Stewart aims for Canada's pledge at the Kyoto conference December 1-10 in Japan. Scotland: none
Prime Minister Jean Chretien aims to use Boris Yeltsin's support for the Ottawa backed treaty banning anti personnel land mines to win over Commonwealth holdouts. He plans talks with Australian PM John Howard in London and will meet China’s leader at the APEC gathering next month. Australia opposes the Canadian initiative preferring broader talks on conventional weapons.
The Canadian Army adopts an emergency plan to defer maintenance, delay vehicle purchases, and cut training to save 134.3 million dollars. It asks commanders to shift 14 million from this year to next, cuts the emergency reserve, halves the family support program, and signals possible frontline troop cuts up to 3,000 as a lasting spending squeeze. The 1997 98 budget totals 3 billion dollars amid ongoing duties in Manitoba floods and Bosnia.
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