Blood agency plan gains footing with Ottawa funding
Federal Health Minister Allan Rock announced an $81 million startup grant over two to three years to establish a National Blood Authority in Canada. The body will replace the Red Cross in managing the blood system and aims to begin by April and be in place by September 1998, drawing criticism from AIDS activist Janet Conners.
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Fredericton Dees
Ottawa
Allan Rock
Red Cross
National Blood Authority
Rock
Janet Conners
Conners
Route lengthened for Mother Teresa funeral cortege
The Calcutta route for Mother Teresa's state funeral was extended on Thursday to handle large crowds. Foreign dignitaries, religious leaders, and thousands of mourners are expected at the stadium for the Saturday service. Her body will be carried on the same gun carriage used for Gandhi and Nehru before burial at the Missionaries of Charity complex.
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Calcutta
India
Mother Teresa
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Burden shifts to children in welfare reforms
Edmonton leaders blame rising child welfare caseloads on 1993 welfare reforms that cut benefits and required training. Bechtel notes a 57 percent drop in welfare caseloads and a 45 percent rise in child welfare, while Oberg seeks cost cuts amid higher spending. Barrett calls underfunding criminal for vulnerable children.
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Edmonton
Edmonton Social Planning Council
Brian Bechtel
Bechtel
Social Services
Lyle Oberg
Oberg
New Democrat
Pam Barretti
Barrett
Tongue World's Strongest Ties Cherry Stems on TV Show
Juneau native Al Gliniecki claims the world record for tying 911 maraschino cherry stems into knots in an hour on The Ricki Lake Show. He says his tongue felt sore and needles after about a hundred stems, kept in lukewarm juice for comfort.
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Juneau
Alaska
al Gliniecki
Ricki Lake
Gliniecki
Medicine Hat kitten found decapitated
Laurence Haaf questions the cruelty after his one year old Calico Tin is found missing and later decapitated. A dog was seen with the cat head in its mouth by children near Palliser Way, with the body still missing.
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Haas
Clarence
Hans
Decapitated cat spurs warning in Medicine Hat neighbor dispute
SPCA manager Wally Campbell condemns a decapitated cat found in Parkview as sick vandalism. Police report seven other cats missing with up to twenty feared vanished along Seventh Avenue Northeast. Campbell urges residents to keep cats indoors or harnessed to prevent harm from cars, dogs, or wildlife.
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Fred Crittenden
Medicine Hat
Parkview
Campbell
Seventh Avenue N.E
SPCA
Scotland approves home rule and tax powers in landmark vote
Scotland votes to create a 129 member parliament with tax raising powers and domestic authority after 290 years in the union with England. Turnout 60.1 percent with 74.2 percent in favor of a parliament and 63.4 percent backing tax powers. Prime Minister Tony Blair hails the result. The parliament would open by 2000 and handle domestic affairs while remaining within the United Kingdom under the monarch.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Cots
England
Tony Blair
Labor
New Westminster lawyer questions witness on killer’s hairline
In B C Supreme Court, Glen Orris pressed Misty Cockerill on Misty Cockerill’s first description of the man who attacked Tanya Smith. Cockerill reaffirmed the assailant had a really high receding hairline. Driver faces first degree murder charges in Tanya’s death and attempted murder of Cockerill.
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New Westminster
B.C
Glen Orris
Terry Driver
Misty Cockerill
Tanya Smith
Orris
Cockerill
Driver
Abbotsford
Tanya
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Tia
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