Weather Outlook Rain Likely Wednesday
A weather index notes a 90 percent chance of precipitation on Wednesday with a high around 6 and a low near 3. Map on page B4.
30 Sep 1986
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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Sep 30, 1986
Page
1
A weather index notes a 90 percent chance of precipitation on Wednesday with a high around 6 and a low near 3. Map on page B4.
Conception Bay fishermen seek 1 million dollars in foreign aid calling Newfoundland a "Third World province." Pat Layman cites 60 local fishermen after failed Ottawa wharf talks. Consul General Lawrence Raicht replies no financial assistance, expressing sympathy amid regional fishing industry strain.
Walter Van De Walle edged Ivor Dent by 232 votes in the Pembina byelection, preserving a Conservative federal foothold in Alberta. Dent’s near upset followed campaigning on grain, oil, and job fears amid low turnout, with Liberal Seiersen and Reform candidate Christie trailing. Final tally showed Van De Walle 16 524, Dent 16 292, Seiersen 6 505, Christie 2 814.
Nicholas Daniloff left Frankfurt for Washington after being freed in a Soviet U S swap. Tass said Gennadiy Zakharov, a Soviet UN employee, is returning home after pleading no contest to spying counts. The accord coincides with Reagan Gorbachev Reykjavik talks showing a broader U S Soviet exchange.
Liberal Gilles Grondin captured the St Maurice seat, defeating Tory Robert Leclerc by 12 857 votes as 221 polls reported. Grondin won 58.8 percent, matching Jean Chretien’s 1984 share, in a district centered on Shawinigan Sud and surrounding pulp mills and aluminum refineries.
President Reagan failed to stop Congress from overriding his veto on apartheid sanctions. The House approved tougher measures 313 to 83, while the Senate had already backed sanctions 84 to 14. Reagan's alternative plan proposed bans on South African iron and steel imports and new U S investments while denying government accounts.
MPs begin selecting a new Speaker by secret ballot with 39 candidates including Erik Nielsen and Marcel Danis. Ballots will drop the lowest vote each round. the winner requires a simple majority as debate and ballots stretch into the next day.
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