Ottawa eyes rule to curb student loan bankruptcies
The federal government plans regulations to make student loans undischargeable debts for two years after graduation, preventing bankruptcy to avoid repayment. Manitoba official Russ Krawetz notes hard credit for seven years. courts can still grant unusual hardship. From 1989 to 1995 student bankruptcies rose 250 percent amid rising debts averaging $22,000 for a typical three-year degree.
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Winnipeg
Ottawa
Russ Krawetz
Manitoba
Krawetz
Reform minded Alliance forms in Alberta with Solberg cautious support
MP Monte Solberg reacts to the Alliance Party of Alberta formation noting it could aid the federal Reform Party. He says provincial wings may reflect federal values while warning provinces can become baggage. Alliance proposes policies on health, user fees, clinics, cereal marketing, gun registry opt out, and timber processing.
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Medicine
Monte Solberg
Solberg
Alliance Party of Alberta
Alliance
Innisfail
Reform
Brooks
Canada
Ontario
NDP
Alliance Party
Alberta
Reform Party
Cuddly cure links infant touch to later health
A Montreal study via McGill University shows high newborn contact, including licking and grooming, may reduce later stress related diseases in rats and suggests similar effects in humans. Researchers tracked early caregiving and later stress responses, noting metabolism parallels and potential impacts on human infancy care.
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London
Montreal
McGill University
Israel Rabbi Declares Wig Wearers Doomed in Hell
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef of Shas condemns women who wear wigs as doomed to hell stating that both she and her wig will be burned. The remark follows his other strict rulings including Sabbath penalties and a smoking sin with 40 lashes.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Hell
Ovadia Yosef
Shas
Alberta Growth Summit charts eco nomic path to 2005
Alberta's Growth Summit opens with Treasurer Stockwell Day cautioning that the event is not a spending summit. About 102 representatives from industry agriculture energy government and social agencies will map an economic course for the province to 2005 amid ongoing debate over cuts and spending.
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Edmonton
Iberta
Stockwell Day
Alberta
Day
Klein
Mass burial for unidentified victims of Indonesia plane crash
Grieving relatives in Medan watched as 48 unidentified bodies were buried in a mass grave alongside 62 unidentified victims from a 1979 crash. Investigators seek black boxes from Garuda Indonesia Airbus A300 B4 and probe haze from Sumatra forest fires as possible factors.
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Medan
Indonesia
Sumatra
Garuda Indonesia
Garuda
Strait of Malacca
Quebec Papers Ban Political Squabbles and Names
Montreal’s Ici and Voir vow to stop covering Quebec-Canada disputes and to avoid mentioning Bouchard and Chretien. Editors say tuning out the constitutional debate is a bid to reduce mental pollution and keep coverage nonpartisan.
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Chretien
Bouchard
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