Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba More Canada and a bid news and 36 around Canada danger kept secret Toronto Ontario Hydro had an internal report showing its nuclear Power plants were in terrible shape four months before it alerted the Public about a copy of the obtained by ctr reveals that senior executives at the Crown corporation knew in mid april that they had potentially serious safety the Public want notified until the August release of a Consul Tants report that reached Many of the same conclusions As the Utility own nuclear performance advisory teachers get ready Toronto teachers Are preparing to face off against the Ontario government this but Many school boards still Arent sure How they would react to a threat ened illegal it depends on what David Toronto school Board said a schools principal and its chief caretaker would have to show up to open a he teachers have agreed to meet with education minister John Snobelen this week but say they will strike if he Doest gut Bill which would Cut class preparation dispute goes East British columbian fisheries minister has travelled across the country to meet his Federal counterpart from Victo Ria and discuss a bluer dispute Over West coast Corky Evans finds the scenario a bit especially since he spoke regularly with Federal fisheries minister David Ander sons Fred a the idea you could have such a relationship with a minister on the other Side of the country and not be Able to develop it with literally your neighbor is said adding Anderson ignored several requests for a men survive crash men survived a helicopter crash without injuries and were flown out of the crash site to this North Central town Pilot Clarence Hogan of fort James and passenger Rusty differ of Kamloops were not injured when the Small helicopter in which they were flying crashed in a Remote area about 210 Kilometres North of Smithers late saturday Man electrocuted one Man was electrocuted and another suffered Burns after the raised Box of a dump truck hit a Power line sat urday Graham Cumming of Bridge ramp said the two both employees of Pic Harney trucking of Rocky Mountain were in the process of dumping a Load of gravel on a Road under one of the men was Riding the truck Box to navigate while the Dri ver backed Cumming said the Man dropped to the ground As soon As the truck hit the Power but upon Landing he became grounded and was instantly joins fray Halifax the Nova Scotia government is promising to help fund recommendations designed to ease tensions at a High school closed by racial the safety and Security of Stu teachers and school staff must be the first education minister Robbie Harri son said three students and a teacher were injured thursday in a series of ugly brawls at Cole Harbour District a racially mixed school with a history of violent skirmish classes hive been empty since then and the school is to remain closed until at least a possible clue Flat police Are trying to determine if an engine divers pulled from icy Ocean Waters saturday is linked to the disappear Ance of a Man and his three sons almost u months Gary Obrien of was last seen Obrien disappeared after phoning his wife to say he was leaving with their children who would now be 12 and who would now he also told her he had rigged their House to explode if she tried to Winnipeg free press Canada world october Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 scientists Issue Alert funding cuts in health research putting canadians at risk Brief says Canadian press Toronto some of the coun try top scientists Are emerging from their laboratories to warn the Public that government cuts at health Canada will unnecessarily endanger the lives of 1 think we should be speaking said Bodo who carved out a worldwide reputation for his food research before he left the health Protection Branch last month after More than three somebody can be functional with out one but if you Cut and Cut and the body is there but its not in afraid that is what is happening with health Stavrich told the Toronto the health Protection Branch tests food for studies pcs can cer causing chemicals in the North and does Othef research to guard against emerging health Deborah an internationally known was lured to Ottawa from California 21 years ago because of the innovative work and professional Freedom at health Cana but who has been studying the effects of Lead poisoning on will go Back to the United states this she and several other government scientists feel they Are fighting politicians Bent on eliminating Independent the Star said in a report from according to a Brief they presented to health minister Allan if fund ing cuts and jobs Are not As Many As canadians could die prematurely and As Many As 10 Mil lion could acquire preventable ill to health Canada announced plans to Cut laboratories and programs in the food eliminating 123 positions and saving up to about 30 to 40 scientists have been told they too May be labs closed the inhouse drug research labs were eliminated in ending 68 government funding for the health Protection Branch will be sliced in half from million in 1993 94 to million by scientists say research to protect canadians against food impurities or preemptive work against disease will no longer be they Point to recognized scientists heading South of the Bof def As part of a government spurred brain and they say Canadian food exports will eventually suffer when it becomes widely known that Independent researchers Are no longer checking those Doug a toxicologist originally from predicted an exodus of the Best and we used to do science now we do he for the past 10 years our main Job has been to make the minister of the Day look a photo algerian soldiers take shelter outside sued which has been under siege for 11 algerian terrorists kill 16 Childr ii associated press a Algiers armed men a attacked a school bus yester in a Region hardhat by algerian islamic killing 16 schoolchildren and their Hospital sources the bus rolling onto its when the Driver apparently tried to run a Roadblock set up by the the Hospital who spoke on Condi Tion of some of the children died from gun shots to the the sources the attack took place in near about so Kilometres South of the Garrison town is in the heart of a Region targeted by the armed islamic a militant organization suspected in repeated massacres of on a rocket barrage on Blida killed 10 people and injured the latest bloodshed in a nearly six Eavold conflict Between islamic insurgents and algerian Security which has killed an estimated the rockets were reported fired from the nearby Chorea used As a base for attacks on the Iso lated villages of the Miti Dja an army offensive on a stronghold of the armed islamic group moved into its Lith Day with tanks and bulldozers advancing and helicopters circling a Village a Gen eral said guerrillas had mined and webbed with escape several algerian journalists allowed Access to sued 20 Kilometres South of the said Security forces were closing in and appeared to be readying for an the armed islamic group was reported to have taken Over sued allele in 1994 after most of the Vil Lages inhabitants women mourn relatives killed in fighting outside pigs playing video games Canadian press Vancouver pigs Are turning their Trotters to video games and Loving and a University researcher who has plugged in his pigs says the happier they the better they personal computers in the pens would push up the Price of but Stan Ley Curtis says that the Cost of keeping tomorrows pigs they beg to play video they beg to be the first ones out of their then they Trot up the ramp to he of Pennsylvania state univer also Hopes to use computers to help develop pig English so he can ask the animals what keeps them Curtis introduced his hogs named Hamlet and Omelette to the information generation in january after test ing their eyes to make sure they could see the game designing the pig pc want too diff but the Small Joystick had to in its place Curtis put a tractor gear shift within weeks the pigs had Learned to pucker up and use their supple snouts and Teeth to make the Joystick move the cursor around the if they sent it to the right place they got a Sweet leaving them squealing in when Curtis changed the rules for getting the Reward the pigs quickly caught on and kept who believes people have a moral responsibility to keep farm Ani Mals said he can see a Day in the notto Distant future where video games Are part of every pig Curtis has already taught pigs to turn the heat in the barn up or and he Hopes he can soon ask them questions like which design of pen do you like which flooring material do you prefer How Many pigs do you prefer to be in your group military transfers tear families apart and says moving part of life in the army in Dean Beeby Canadian press Halifax frequent transfers Are tear ing some military families says a defence department study that recommends longer postings and the right to refuse a but top brass have so far rejected the saying a nomadic life is unavoidable in the Cana Dian i didst know a soul Here and i was eight months pregnant and l get a one military wife told i went to a doctors office and sat in a chair and cried until he started taking care of my husband left Here two weeks after i got Here so i had to have my baby All by dozens of similar stories about traumatic transfers spilled out from 261 members of Mili tary families who were asked in focus groups about How to make the Canadian forces More another u5 written submissions from across the country added to a catalogue of contemplated teen marriage breakups and big lasses on forced House linked to frequent my eighty Earold son has had five three changes of school and countless acquaint said one Petty a father of he has not had the Opportunity to develop a Long lasting Friendship with the completed last year and obtained under the Access to information highlighted frequent transfers As the heaviest Burden for the author of the called on the military to try to give families at least six months notice of a move to make postings longer than the typical Threet five years to Tell families the Likely next posting and to allow them to refuse a but Headquarters has so far rejected those rec the suggestion that members be permitted to indicate a desire not to be moved was not considered says a May 1997 response to the the Canadian forces is too for such a policy to be adopted except at the expense of members who would thus spend More than their fair share in stressful or less desirable Field and operations other key recommendations were nixed As too including Low interest Loans to help make Dow payments on houses and the Previ Sion of Quality but the forces says it will try to get financial institutions to give members interest rate on final decisions on the reports recommendations Are expected next May or an Fin Nejal a la me la Lite being a drug addict have a the so Majja attain Navy left a and individuals in need of revival and study ;