Alberta abortion funding debate stirs Tory ranks
Alberta moves to fund only doctor approved abortions with medical necessity guidelines. Lorne Taylor says definitions needed. Shirley McClellan notes doctors will define medical necessity. Tory backbench rebels and critic David Taras see political motives amid deficit cuts and looming elections.
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Alberta
Lorne Taylor
Cypress Medicine Hat
Taylor
Shirley McClellan
Rob Renner
Medicine Hat
Ralph Klein
David Taras
University of Calgary
Klein
Tories
Ernment
Taras
Training Mines at Suffield Base Spark Debate Over Policy
Lt Col Chuck Watson defends the use of blueprinted dummy anti personnel mines at Canadian Forces Base Suffield as training devices that look real but pose no danger. A leaked Defence Department report discusses Canada retaining the right to manufacture and import a limited number of undetectable mines for training.
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Defence
Canadian Forces Base
Suffield
Chuck Watson
Defence Department
Canada
United Nations
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Watson
Cambodia
Vietnam
Middle East
International Committee of the Red Cross
Oxfam Canada
Mines Action Canada
Montreal Gazette
Vienna
United States
Rodney Moore
Foreign Affairs
Moore
Nursing home strike stalls over wage cuts at Central Park Lodge
Labor pickets outside Central Park Lodge protest a seven percent pay cut and loss of benefits after a prior six percent reduction. Staff and residents' families express support while management claims care remains steady and talks resume when the union makes a new proposal.
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Joe Kiamar
Central Park Lodge
Helen Carruthers
Lodge
Central Park
Jack Foley
Contro
Dean Roy
Alberta
Joanne Hole
Albert Johnson
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
Israel PLO land for talks pact caps decades of occupation
The 1993 peace treaty phase allows Palestinian self rule in 30 percent of the West Bank with elections and a staged Israeli pullout from occupied lands since 1967. Arafat faces hardliners as he presents the accord to his cabinet. settlers warn they will try to scuttle it.
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Taba
Egypt
PLO
West Bank
Yasser Arafat
Arafat
Amman
Hebron
Mustafa Natche
Natche
Associated Press
Moose in well rescued after fall in Newfoundland
In a Newfoundland community west of St. Johns a moose fell to the bottom of a well. The moose was uninjured and later rescued after low water pressure prompted an investigation by Hilda Hayle and her son.
Milk drinking Ganesh idol draws Hindu faithful to Ottawa home
In Nepean Ottawa area a small statue of Lord Ganesh attracts hundreds of worshippers as they offer milk with spoons. Mamta Deecker says over 500 visitors have come since Thursday. The foot tall metal idol sits on a simple altar in a cleared living room with many watching as milk appears to be consumed.
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Ottawa
Nepean
Manta
Gordon Deecker
Ganesh
Mamta Deecker
Deecker
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