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A wierd courtroom case in Calgary 100 years began when a number of taxi drivers have been charged with illegally promoting liquor. Various plainclothes law enforcement officials had investigated the matter by calling for a taxi after which efficiently asking if the drivers might acquire liquor and promoting it to them. When the case went to courtroom, counsel for the prosecution requested the police chief — who was testifying — if he might say for positive if the bottle that was delivered in a single case was “intoxicating.” The chief mentioned he believed it was, based mostly on what arresting officers had advised him. Counsel then instructed the chief ought to style the liquid in query, however the Justice of the Peace overseeing the case mentioned it wasn’t mandatory. “I don’t wish to have the spectacle right here of getting the chief of police within the witness field taking a drink of whisky out of a bottle. I don’t prefer it all,” Justice of the Peace Sanders mentioned.
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5 taxi drivers have been convicted of illegally promoting liquor, with every being fined $500, in line with the story printed within the Herald 100 years in the past as we speak.
75 Years In the past
Again on Nov. 27, 1948, the Calgary Herald boasted huge sport information: The Calgary Stampeders gained the Gray Cup for the primary time. As Postmedia Calgary’s Todd Saelhof wrote in an in-depth characteristic this week, ignited a franchise of success and soccer competition that lives on as we speak.
50 Years In the past
On Nov. 27, 1973, the Calgary Herald was crammed with tales of the power disaster and courtroom proceedings associated to the Watergate political scandal in the USA. On the Canadian information entrance, then-Northern Affairs Minister Jean Chretien mentioned the nation’s polar bears weren’t in peril of being hunted to extinction.
At present, it’s estimated Canada is residence to about 16,000 polar bears, of the 20,000-25,000 left on this planet. Indigenous individuals can nonetheless hunt polar bears on a restricted foundation. Some use a part of the licence quota to supply guided searching excursions to non-Indigenous hunters and thus generate revenue, noting financial alternatives are severely restricted in distant, northern places. These hunters should additionally use a neighborhood information and meat is meant to be given again to the neighborhood. A bought licence can price round $39,000.
25 Years In the past
A visiting Chinese language dissident felt snubbed when he wasn’t introduced with a white hat, just like how different visiting dignitaries are handled.
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