Tobacco ad decision stuns Medicine Hat health officials
Health advocates in Medicine Hat fear a Supreme Court ruling striking down the ban on tobacco advertising will push more youths toward smoking. Dr. David Swann notes that most smokers begin in adolescence and warns of heightened exposure. Local activists vow to push for hazardous product status to maintain advertising bans.
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Medicine Hat
Supreme Court
David Swann
Palliser Health Authority
Reg Thibault
Medicine Hat Tobacco Coalition
Calgary
Canada
Les Hagen
Action On
Alberta Lung Association
Alberta
Alberta doctors consider direct patient billing
Alberta doctors may begin direct patient billing as a response to proposed cuts of 100 million to doctors fees. Dr. Bill Ruzicki and Dr. Gregory Baker indicate readiness to bill patients upfront while Alberta Health and the AMA clash over settlements.
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Healt Medicine Hat
Calgary
Bill Ruzicki
Palliser Medical Staff Association
Alberta Medical Association
Alberta Health
Gregory Baker
Baker
Ralph Klein
Alberta
Ruzicki
Youth wellness survey flags stress and self harm risk in Alberta teens
A southeastern Alberta study of about 1,200 junior and senior high students finds nearly one third have considered death by own action with higher risk among those facing family violence. Alcohol use is widespread, and 60 percent of female students are seen as high risk.
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Alberta
Craig Wood
C.S. Wood Consultants
Youth Wellness Coalition
Frank Sali
Families First Foundation
Medicine Hat
Sali
David Swann
Palliser Health Authority
Wood
Heather Roberts
Swann
Health Canada
Oyen
Brooks
Bow Island
Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
Interact Theatre
Danish convict seeks return after jail break
A Danish escapee, Kim Steven Kyed, 27, who fled a month earlier when a bulldozer broke through a prison wall rang the main sentry bell at Vridsloeselille state jail at 2 a.m. asking to be let back in. Guards granted the unusual request as he voiced homesickness for jail life. Twelve convicts fled on August 27 during a prison yard barbecue.
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Copenhagen
Reuter
Kim Steven Kyed
Vridsloeselille
Kai Hermann
Judge weighs Thurston letters in murder case
Justice Laurie MacLean hears whether five letters Thurston left last December and statements to police can be admitted in his Court of Queen’s Bench trial. Thurston, 21, faces first degree murder kidnapping armed robbery and sexual assault charges after Eileen McCoy vanished November 7 and was found dead two days later. A publication ban remains on Thurston’s statements pending ruling.
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Lethbridgeeffrey Thurston
Court of Queen’s Bench
Thurston
Eileen McCoy
Taber
Laurie MacLean
MacLean
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