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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Oct 23, 2002
Page
1
City officials note gas price jumping from under 3 to about 5.30 a gigajoule boosts the gas utility despite earlier budget shortfalls. Analysts foresee 5.50 to 6.50 this winter while council previously raised rates and warned of multi million dollar shortfalls across electric and gas utilities.
A man from Regional Health Authority 5 the Oyen to Calgary area contracted West Nile virus after summer travel in Louisiana and Texas. Health officials say Albertans face extremely low risk and no local transmission has been detected. The patient was hospitalized in August and has since recovered.
An Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench judge rejected a challenge by 17 year olds Bryn Fitzgerald and Christine Jairamsingh to lower the voting age. Judge Erik Lefsrud warned that striking down the 18 year old limit could lead to even younger children voting in the future.
A reflective line notes that many men chase pleasure with breathless haste, risking depth and meaning as Kierkegaard would warn about hurried living and prioritizing momentary delight over lasting values.
In Rockville Maryland a roving sniper sent a note promising ten million dollars to halt the killings and again threatened children. Schools closed in Richmond and a Code Blue lockdown covered Washington suburbs as investigators pursued no definite suspect.
Medicine Hat census figures from Statistics Canada show 36.6 per cent of local families are married with children in 2001, down from 39.9 per cent in 1996, with rising common-law and lone-parent shares and 35 same-sex families noted for the first time. Alberta patterns echo national shifts toward diverse family structures.
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