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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg free october consumer watch pulled Ottawa up health Canada is pulling laxatives containing a suspected cancer causing chemical off the Market and is advising con Sumers who have been using the products on a regular basis to con tact their the called Phe Nolph has been used in Over the counter laxatives for More than 90 recent studies found that rats and mice developed a variety of Tumours after they were fed significantly higher doses of the com Pound than the recommended dose for even though the product has never been linked to cancer in the consensus is that the potential says a health Canada More than so laxatives contain most manufacturers have already withdrawn their products from the others or Are in the process reformulating their despite the health Canada is allowing pharmacists to sell what Ever Stock might remain on their about Worth of Phe laxatives Are sold in Canada each deaths Olive of wife 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Community you will need a personal a Modem telecommunications use the following settings data bits 8 Stop bits 1 parity n Termi Nal my Fatiori at the Login Type guest or your Blue sky your Modem 9871234 Canada Post sales agreement 563395 cites aerospace Industry enjoys expansion beings Winnipeg division has been awash in work since its Seattle based Parent company announced last year that it is boosting its production to 43 planes a month from 18 by Early the company has hired 350 new workers this year and plans to add at least another 100 Over the next couple of years in order to keep up with the increased that could push the divisions workforce to the highest level Ever about Standard has bolstered its presence in the lucrative aerospace Market with the August acquisition of an engine overhaul Facil Ity in Tennessee Alliance and in june it positioned itself to make further inroads into the european Market after Landing a new engine maintenance contract with one of that continents largest regional although Bristol had Long been considered Manitoba Premier aerospace its status has been tarnished somewhat in recent years As a drop in military work forced the company to slash its Winnipeg workforce from a Peak of nearly workers in Early 1990 to its current level of about this new Boeing contract will help Bristol regain some of that lost aft enable the firms new owners Toronto based Magellan aerospace to further grow tale commercial aviation Side of Bristol that was one of the main goals mag Ellan set last june when it acquired Bristol from Roll Royce industries Canada for abusers manipulate system with ease continued from a1 among the abuses noted Over a three year period was that More than claimants went to three or More pharmacies to obtain prescription nearly clients obtained More than 15 different prescriptions and More than 700 got 50 or More in the number of clients going to three or More pharmacies was while 129 got More than 15 different a total of 37 Manitoba natives got at least 50 to underscore the seriousness of the the report said Between there were 42 prescription drug related deaths in Alberta first nations we have documented cases of people dying and suffering from a free press series in february 1995 first exposed the chronicling the ease with which a local native Man was Able in a oneyear period to get 97 drug from narcotic painkillers to sedatives from 20 local with the Federal government picking up his Tab because he is a status the Man had no major medical problems at the time and either abused or sold most of the drugs he the series sparked four separate inquiries which resulted in 12 pharmacists and three doctors being reprimanded and their respective governing Bod ies issuing directives to be More vigilant against such Federal officials also pledged at the time to beef up their monitoring of the drug program for natives including doing More audits and the province promised to improve its drug computer system which is supposed to Stop just such cases of but Lewis said some natives continue to Manip ulate the system with he said the Man the free press featured two years ago dubbed Leon continues to get prescriptions in Large quantities from various doctors and fills them at various he told me last week that he got three prescriptions from three different doctors in one Lewis sue associate Deputy minister of said the provincial drug computer system is sup posed to automatically Send up red flags to pharmacists in such but added status natives who have their prescriptions paid for by the fed eral government Arent necessarily on the Hicks explained the Federal government Hast signed on to the provincial drug computer system dubbed dp1n and individual unlike everyone can still get a prescription filled at a Manitoba pharmacy without giving a pin num in the Leon did give out his pin number to pharmacists and Hicks conceded the system int the system is at least 95 per cent she but any system has some flaws in Stu registrar of the Manitoba pharmaceutical said one study found that even though they can opt almost 85 per cent of prescriptions filled for status indians do end up on the pin the larger Wilcox is that some doctors continue to be too willing to give out pre we keep seeing the same names com ing Wilcox some doctors Are More lax than Robert Deputy registrar of the col lege of physicians and said pharmacists must also shoulder the blame for ignoring the com Puter red flags that come up when the computer suspects i Call it Walker said but that not How the system is supposed to Wilcox confirmed at least six pharmacists in the province Are currently under investigation by the Mpa after the problem was brought to their Atten Tion by the some pharmacists have questioned the reliability of the computer Wilcox and Are wary about challenging a customer if there not sure the warning is a provincial spokesman denied the warnings Are the warnings the spokesman a Federal government official said yesterday that Steps have been taken since the Leon series to identify suspected drug abusers who As status indians have their drugs paid for by the medical services Branch of health assistant Deputy minister Paul Cochrane also said that by the end of the the Federal government will have its own drug computer system in place in every pharmacy in Manitoba that will operate similar to Manitoba pin system and spit out warnings of suspected Cochrane that even that sys tem will if warnings Are the Chain is Only As Strong As its weakest he Canadian seniors favoured prof continued from a1 officials Are already predicting a 50 per cent increase in 1997 As complaints top they attribute some of the increase to greater Public awareness about such things As sexual harass and a new streamlined process that is making it easier for Manitoban to have disputes resolved quickly without lodging a formal com statistics Canadas 1996 figures show Manitoba has the second largest percentage of seniors in the some per cent of the provinces population is 65 or Only Saskatchewan has More with per cent of its population Over by Manitoba population of seniors will have expanded to that when the bulk of baby Boomers those born Between 1947 and 1966 begin to hit retirement the number of Manitoba seniors is expected to jump another 30 per cent to by according to the next wave of older Manitoban is expected to be better educated and More financially secure than seniors have Ever As a they will be much More assertive about the things they want and and will possess the clout to get Derek an economics professor at the University of says elderly canadians Are definitely not being discriminated if he the Bias is turning in their governments have Long spent the bulk of anti poverty dollars on programs for the the Assumption being that because they Are no longer they dont have much hum the he is very although there Are still elderly people living in Many have set aside comfortable nest eggs through pensions and other investment he and As a Many companies Are focusing their attention on the needs of elderly rather than being a Bias that favours one age group Over its simply a smart Market ing ploy based on hum but Mary president of the Manitoba society of says not All seniors Are living High on the most of the people i know can hardly make it from pay Cheque to she adding that even those who can afford to retire should it be forced to do so by their employers just because Treyve reached a certain i dont feel that is fair for auctions Ltd reminder Princess Auto unreserved auction pm today 481 scrap Iron welders hoists Drill presses More fax list 8782415 Brian petition the grand prize Winner of our vacation restart draw Manitoba largest selection of party rental supplies China flatware glassware tables Champagne fountains a smart idea for parties of All sizes a rent and party two great one great location 657 Century Street North of Ellice pals supermarket laser Eye surgery a l v u 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