Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ato Winnipeg foe october Monkey Colony precious resource Buetter Canadian press Ottawa the health depart ments Colony of research Mon keys is unique in the world and a precious resource for says a study done for the departments health Protection the government should consider National Public health Security before deciding to privatize the Colony of some 750 Cut Topolgus says the study obtained under the Access to information the Ottawa Colony is described As unique because it is free from infection and because its genetic history has been known for two a closed largely disease free Pri mate facility is a precious resource for says the study by staff of the health Protection Branch working with an external expert advisory the Monkey which costs some has become an irritation for Federal the animals Are no longer needed within the health whose research activities have been sharply the Bureau of drug which formerly used the monkeys to test has been shut but suggestions the animals might be killed brought an animal rights activists oppose any plan to sell the animals for the study by the health Protection Branch suggests the animals nay be needed in the for example in research toward an aids to says most industrialized coun Quebec Deal offloads expenses Canadian press 2ljebec a tentative Deal was reached yesterday to Transfer about million in expenses to Quebec i parities from the provincial govern ment in the name of deficit the offloading of expenses to Quebec municipalities was announced in the parti quebecois governments budget last everybody has to do their said municipal affairs minister Remy adding that healthcare teachers and civil servants have already made con the government won concessions earlier this year from nurses and civil servants to Cut its payroll by More than billion and help reduce the now at about Public sector employees left the payroll under buyouts or Early retire ment Quebec plans to eliminate its deficit by the fiscal year Premier Lucien Bouchard has said the provinces improved financial health will give Quebe cers the Confidence to leave Canada when they Are asked to vote in the next sovereignty ref mayors and councillors protest the offloading of wow tries Are seeking to ensure that Ade quate supplies of nonhuman Pri mates Are available within their the difficulty of obtaining an Ani Mal Model of this Quality has prompted the to strive Over the past 10 years to produce a similar source of domestically bred animals just weeks after the health department received the study by the health Protection it commissioned a new Deal ing with Many of the same environment Protection vowed Jasper Coal mine okayed Canadian press Ottawa a controversial open pit Coal mine near Jasper National Park can go the Federal government announced this decision maintains a balance Between protecting the integrity of the environment and the need for economic fisheries and oceans minister David Ander son said in a press the Federal and Alberta govern ments will work together to reduce any Adverse effects the mine May have on the the release my goal is to ensure that the environment is protected to the highest standards eco nomic activities which Impact on the environment have to be carefully monitored and mitigation measures must be Eastern Boundary the mine will skirt the Parks Eastern environmentalists oppose it because of the potential Impact on fish and other Anderson said that to address con Cerns Over the mines effects on grizzly Bear Alberta and Ottawa will work on a plan to restore the landscape to maintain proper habitat and travel corridors for the a Federal provincial panel recommended in june the pro posed by Cardinal River coals be approved and the authorization allowing the project to proceed be granted under the fisheries there is a requirement that the Federal government and Cardinal River coals assess the Environ mental Impact of each mine pit As it is dug and use this information in the mining of the next the release the Federal government said it will consult with two aboriginal groups the Small boy Camp and the Alexis first nation to mini Mize and Monitor environmental around Canada testimony differs a police officers testimony at the trial of two aboriginal men charged in connection with a protest at Type Flash provincial Park conflicted with state ments he gave after the 1995 court heard under Mike does agreed the sequence of events he testified to wednesday varied from the information contained in two statements Given to 1 have adjusted a couple orders of does tax cheats targeted Montreal the Quebec government will spend million this year in an Effort to uncover Mil lion in unpaid income taxes and con Vince Quebe cers they cheat at tax Rita Quebec Junior Revenue said wednes Day thousands of extra tax Bills will be sent out As part of the Hare appearance the Liberal who shows up in the Senate about once every two years just enough to keep his put in a rare since the Senate began keeping attendance in june Thompson has been to 12 sittings out of 459 in the last two senators Are paid a year plus a tax free allowance of though the Senate has financial ties for excessive Thomp has never been fined because he has claimed sickness since at least trial ordered Murrlen has been ordered to stand trial for the first degree murder of Mindy the eighty Earold girl was killed in Kelowna in August her disappearance sparked a huge search that ended when her body was found in a Park two months a trial Date will be set 4 in Vancou postal workers walk services in Nova Scotia capital City have been shut Down by a dispute Over suspensions handed employees at the regions main sorting about 650 Canada Post staff were not reporting to work today pending the outcome of a meeting with the Canada labour relations Board and much of metro Halifax had no mail delivery yesterday after a dispute Between a worker and a supervisor on the overnight shift Esca lated into a candidate convicted Thunder a woman who ran for the nip in the june 2 fed eral election pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting her husband with a Christine received a conditional drug Potency rises three fatal overdoses in Kamloops in the last week have officials worried High Potency heroin has found its Way to local Tim head of the Kam loops ramps special projects said three deaths in a Short time is a pretty Good indication that drug purity is Mariner Neptune fish Luci Merritt 4770500 ;