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Recounts `Edmonton Journal' ombudsman John Brown's explanation on why his paper did not report on a story that Safeway allegedly lowered prices to mislead a consumer price checker's survey, then raised them afterwards. Charge the `Journal' was caving in to advertiser's wishes; Brown's explanation on his inability to confirm the story.

Cites a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa, which found Toronto's C.D. Howe Institute, the `Financial Post,' the `Globe and Mail,' Bank of Canada Governor John Crow and the Bank of International Settlements, Basel, Switzerland, are all part of a plot to oppress Canada's working class. CCPA argument that high interest rates caused the country's public debt; CCPA paper filled with assertions posing as facts; Statistical contentions subject to challenge.

States Grande Prairie tradesman Reg Allcock, 55, launched the newspaper `Peace Regional News,' a pro-family tabloid that brings a Christian perspective to events in the Peace. The non-denominational paper is distributed through churches to readers throughout the Peace River watershed in Alberta and British Columbia and has proved an overnight hit.

States that Edmonton gun collector and long-time Conservative voter Stan Beaumont rebelled when his own MP Edmonton Strathcona first-termer Scott Thorkelson announced he was supporting gun control architect Kim Campbell's bid for Tory leadership. Beaumont filed papers challenging Thorkelson's nomination; Background on Beaumont; Bill C-17; Comments from Thorkelson; More.

Announces Calgary's Timothy Anderson won the inaugural Alberta Theatre Projects-Chevron 24-Hour Playwright Competition with his play `Papers.' Anderson won a laptop computer and a reading of the play at next year's PlayWrites festival in Calgary. The rapid-fire writer parlayed victory in a similar contest in 1988 into a job as writer-in-residence for the Canadian Opera Company.

States that another battle is shaping up over trees in a large block south of Grande Prairie. Giant US-based Louisiana Pacific Corporation's plans to build $60-million oriented strand board (OSB) plant; Trees committed to Grand Alberta Paper (GAP) project; Three other companies with tree interests; Companies' plans in jeopardy; Comments from New Democrat forestry critic John McInnis; Province as having poor information on actual tree inventory; More.

Discusses how last month the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta (ICAA) released a paper calling for liquidation of the Heritage Fund, to help get rid of Alberta's estimated $14 billion provincial debt. ICAA's warning last year on Alberta's debt load; ICAA's proposed plan of action offered to premier Ralph Klein; Balancing the budget over three to five years; ICAA recommendations as Reform Party thinking; Details.

Profiles Cochrane ornithologist Peter Sherrington who watched flight after flight of golden eagles glide on air currents from Mount Lorette to Mount MacDougall. Helping scientists know migratory route of birds; Plans to write paper on findings; More.

Reports that the livestock industry in Alberta, Canada wants a province-wide code for intensive livestock operations. Groups that pushed for the instituting of a code; Discussion paper circulated by the government; Definition of an intensive livestock operation; Bill being worked on by the government.

Focuses on Mark Ladd, a Grade 11 advanced forestry school teacher at Peace River High School in Alberta. How his students are tapping 50 paper birch trees on his farm for the sap needed to make birch syrup; The class's hope to tap into the industry in Alberta; How Ladd describes the students' inaugural syrup-making.

Looks at the attempted robbery of the Bank of Nova Scotia in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada by two teenagers. The weapon being a box of tissue paper; Description of the teenagers attempting to rob the bank; How they were caught by police; Comments from Kelly Gordon, Edmonton police spokesman.

Provides excerpts from the personal papers of former Alberta premier Peter Lougheed, presenting his version of events in Canadian politics in the 1980s which led to the Constitution Act of 1982. Negotiations between the provinces and prime minister Pierre Trudeau; Premier Rene Levesque and Quebec nationalism; The meeting of premiers in 1981, the so-called Night of the Long Knives, that Levesque missed.

Presents the author's view of Tom Kent's solution for Canada's medicare problem, as put forth in a paper he prepared for the Caledon Institute of Social Policy. Kent's call for the medical care and social needs of children under the age of ten to be handled by the federal government; Kent's career in Canadian journalism; The author's unsuccessful career with Kent at the `Free Press'; Kent's political appointments; Assertions that the federal government would ruin any programs for children.

Forecasts success for stationery stores in Canada in the 1997 Christmas season based on the success the industry saw during the back-to-school season of 1997. Possible double digit increases in sales; How the vibrant economy has impacted sales; The role of government cutbacks in education on sales; The changing buyer preferences.

Discusses the efforts of Willson Stationers Ltd., the last Canadian-owned stationery chain, to compete with foreign-owned businesses like Corporate Express. Comments from Douglas Lawson, president of the company; How Lawson became president; What he plans to offer to customers as an attraction away from stores like Staples and Office Depot; Outlook.