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Mercantile's troubles follow the failure of two institutions in the oil- rich western province of Alberta: Calgary-based Northland Bank and Edmonton- based Canadian Commercial Bank. Incorporated in the 1970s, the two banks lent millions of dollars to oil and real estate businesses. Then in the early 1980s many of the banks' loans turned sour. Together the two banks controlled only about 1% of all Canadian bank assets, so the fallout from their failures was limited. But investors are anxious about the safety of smaller banks...
Mark K. Benning '86 transferred from the University of Notre Dame this September. Benning, originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, says his experience on the varsity is hockey team has made fitting in to Harvard a bit easier, but still challenging...
...that year, Chalmers returned to his home in Alberta. He continued to play some hockey until he injured his retina while working on an oil rig in western Canada...
...much tar and nicotine as regular cigarettes. They also contain eugenol, a natural anesthetic found in cloves. Although eugenol has long been used by dentists to relieve pain, "no one knows what happens when it is burned," says Dr. Tee Guidotti, professor of occupational medicine at the University of Alberta in Edmonton...
...affectionately known, led several early local crusades for civil rights, including in 1936 an unprecedented-and dangerous-voting-rights march. During a life marked by personal tragedies, he lost, in addition to his namesake assassinated in 1968, another son by drowning in 1969 and his wife of 48 years, Alberta, shot by a crazed gunman...