Alberta towns push for share of VLT and gas tax profits
Medicine Hat and Redcliff United Way leader Clarence Heringer urges reinvestment of VLT profits into communities. Alberta Urban Municipalities Association asks for a portion of VLT and gasoline tax revenue while ministers warn gas tax funds mainly support roads and general revenue.
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Alberta
Medicine Hat
Redcliff United Way
Clarence Heringer
Lund
Heringer
Hat Ald
George Renner
Renner
Walter Paszkowski
British Columbia calls for CPP expansion to fix pension shortfall
B C Finance Minister Andrew Potter proposes lifting the CPP earnings ceiling beyond 35 400 to boost future benefits for middle and high income workers. The plan aims to build a surplus over the next decade, potentially delaying a federal deal set for October and contrasting Ottawa's approach to cut benefits and raise the retirement age. NDP provinces oppose disability cuts and exemption freezes.
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B.C
Winnipeg
Paul Martin
CPP
Ottawa
NDP
Saskatchewan
Urine-soaked fish skin anorak in stone age design shocks Sweden
Swede Ann Kristin Antman from Wuollerim creates a cold climate coat from 20 salmon skins weighing 15 kilograms each. The urine soaked coat sits five litres of family urine, giving a rainproof, hard wearing garment whose smell fades after rinsing.
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Stockholm
Reuter
Ann-Kristin Antman
Antman
Wuollerim
Sweden
Aftonbladet
Hikimos
Alberta manufacturing surpasses oil and gas in tax take
For 1995 96 Alberta corporate income tax from manufacturing rose to 395.4 million while oil wells and mining yielded 309.3 million. Treasurer Jim Dinning calls this shift evidence of a diversification of the economy reducing oil patch volatility. Oil and gas share falls from 65 percent to 23 percent since the 1980s.
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Calgary
Alberta
Treasury Department
Jim Dinning
Dinning
Peter Lougheed
Don Getty
Getty
Yeltsin's Condition Tests Readiness for Surgery
Moscow reports Boris Yeltsin may be too ill for planned triple bypass surgery. Dr Renat Akchurin says postponement is likely as cardiologists convene this week to decide if operation proceeds. Skepticism grows about his June heart attack and liver cirrhosis complicating the procedure.
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Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Kremlin
Renat Akchurin
Chazov Institute
Yeltsin
Akchurin
Kennedy weds Carolyn Bessette on Cumberland Island
John F Kennedy Jr and Carolyn Bessette quietly married on Cumberland Island Georgia, with reports noting a private ceremony after a five year romance. Aides confirmed the bride’s identity and the couple were said to be honeymooning aboard a yacht off Georgia and Florida’s coasts.
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Cumberland Island
Georgia
John F Kennedy Jr
Carolyn Bessette
John
U.S
Patrick Kennedy
R.I
Bessette
Greenwich
Kennedy
National Enquirer
Sharon Stone
Denis Reggie
John F. Kennedy Jr
John F. Kennedy
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