Father of slain soldier fights for full answer on Suffield death
Bernard MacKinnon, father of Cpl. Neil MacKinnon, demands a complete inquiry into his son’s 1995 death at CFB Suffield after learning a bullet killed him instead of a grenade. He says the shooter’s identity is known but the army has not absolved anyone and reports remain incomplete.
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Edmonton
Bernard MacKinnon
Cpl
Neil MacKinnon
Alberta
Armed Forces
MacKinnon
Sydney River
N.S
Cfb Suffield
Calgary
Princess Patricia’s
Canadian Light Infantry
Kevin Weidlich
Army
Department of National Defence Staff
Ottawa
Tripped switch triggers city wide power outage
A faulty insulator during a feeder transfer caused a 11 40 a m blackout affecting most of the Hat area and downtown. Crews restored Briar Industrial Estate power in 30 minutes and the rest within an hour while Dairy Queen and River Heights School adapted to the outage and continued routines.
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Tobi Brekko
Crescent Heights
John John
John
Briar
Greg Berker
Dairy Queen
Brekka
River Heights
Bob Townsend
Peter Mah
Dunmore Road
Southview Drive
No-fly zone actions strike Iraqi radar site
U S defense officials report a jet strike knocked out an Iraqi radar site after Iraqi radar tracked a U S aircraft. The incident followed back-to-back cruise missile attacks on southern Iraq while Gen Ralston noted Kurdish forces near Irbil and Prime Minister Chretien called the move a measured response to protect civilians.
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Washington
Jaq
U.S
Defence
William Perry
Perry
Iraq
Pentagon
Air Force
Joseph Ralston
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Saddam
Irbil
Ottawa
Jean Chretien
Stowaway witness refuses to testify in Halifax extradition case
A key Crown witness in the extradition of seven officers over alleged murders aboard the Maersk Dubai refuses to testify after reporting death threats to his family in Manila. Rodolfo Miguel, a Philippines crew member, cites threats to his 11 year old daughter and wife as the reason for delaying sworn testimony. He says he will testify only when his family is safe.
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Halifax
Rodolfo Miguel
Miguel
Philippines
Manila
Maersk
Dubai
Philippine National Police
Iowa man leaps from motel window in Sioux Falls nightmare
An unidentified Iowa man, sleeping in a Sioux Falls motel, woke from a nightmare of an intruder and jumped from a second floor window. He hit an air conditioner before landing on the pavement, ran a block, and then woke. Police say drug and alcohol tests were negative.
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Sioux Falls
S.D
Iowa
Shoe Cam Used to Spy on Women at Ex Exhibition
Toronto police charged George Walter Campbell 62 of Cornwall with sexual assault and mischief after a man used a hidden lens in a shoe to photograph about 20 women at the Canadian National Exhibition. Police seized a shoe camera with a seven hour video.
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Toronto
Mike Beauparlant
George Walter Campbell
Cornwall
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