Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 9, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local october 1997 John Douglas 6977292 features Buzz Currle email a3 chiropractors sue doctors society by bin Redekop staff reporter to tic Manitoba chiropractors association is suing the College of physicians and surgeons for defamation for articles it says wrongly imply chiropractors overcharge and needlessly extend according to a statement of the articles also suggest chiropractors educations Are and that a med ical doctor should supervise chiropractic j the claim follows an article that appeared in the College journal from the and other recent the article wrongly implied that there were a significant number of chiropractors who were incompetent or did not follow competent articles in medical journal group says the statement of claims it objects to the article being placed on the colleges web site on the world wide thereby publishing its defamatory language to the world at the chiropractors association filed the statement of claim in court of Queens Bench the latest Volley in the ongoing dispute Between the two the Long and Short of it is for the last is years weve been consistently trying to develop a working relationship with physicians through the attacks on College registrar Ken Brown took a dim View of the my first reaction was f was sur prised and somewhat he said in an adding he thought chiropractors were being so Sensi if you want to be involved in health you should be prepared to under go some scrutiny from time to Brown said of the chiropractors also object to the College including comment on chiropractors in the recent paediatric death Oil past president review even though none of of the chiropractors said in the babies who died an and they just ally and consistently increase their were under chiropractic Why do they include us in the report no such should have Ever been Bohemier the province followed by proposing that perhaps chiropractic treatment of children be publicly fund something it later Bohemier Brown said the reports concern was with some chiropractors who hold the extreme View that All babies have spinal injuries from their delivery through the birth they should not be manipulating a baby spine unless there is a Clear health he the article in from the College on How to choose a scientific chiropractor implies some chiropractors Are Bohemier hog plan raises stink residents show rage at project by Bud Robertson staff reporter Anne vocal Resi dents pushed into a tiny Council chamber and overflowed into the Street yesterday to protest a hog operation that was quietly Given the Green Light to in the crowd got so big that the meeting had to be moved to a local Bingo Hall to accommodate the More than 150 who showed up including eight local doctors who added their concerns about the health effects of hog we Are not Happy with fumed Laurie a former Liberal la and resident of Anne who lives near the proposed hog the decision that you to put it very was a very Unin formed said his voice rising in i dont think you spent the time that was Neces sary to really understand the implications of this Anne municipal Council passed a motion 10 approving Menlow Nursery plan to build a hog Jeff free press Aurele Boisvert left and Evans speak out against proposed hog operation in Anne operation in the close to the Boundary with and that has sparked an angry out burst from residents in that Munici As who also sent their own delegation to yesterdays meet the two areas have gathered a petition with More than 400 names on unlike Anne has no Zon ing bylaw to regulate Large livestock we feel that there should have been consultation by the said Evans amid whoops of should have been consultation by in addition to fears of water Conta odour and lower property common concern of Resi dents near hog operations people Here say the land on which the operation is to be built floods regularly and the dirty water flows into the Seine these concerns should not be swept under the said Anne resident Aurele the trend is toward cleaning up our not polluting beleaguered Anne Reeve Lee who won a by election late last month after the motion was said he shares the Public concern Over hog operations even though Hes not opposed to them under the right he without a zoning bylaw we have no Guttre is looking for a Way out of the under the municipality develop ment Public notice is required before projects can be said and that want done in this As Council has also passed a Resolution to bring the proposal before a provincial technical advisory committee for its a councillor also served notice yesterday he will file a motion at the next Council meeting 16 to rescind councils approval of the hog spokesmen for the proposed hog operation could not be reached yes growing at an unprecedented rate in hog operations Are increasingly coming under fire by concerned the province is planning production of five million hogs a year by up two million from current Pukatawagan put on evacuation Alert Sybil Redekop staff reporter the residents of Pukatawagan have been put on evacuation Alert in Case the Churchill River floods its water treatment River Waters have crept to within two metres of the said chief Pas Cal of the Mathias colomb residents would Likely evacuate to the he chief big Hetty stressed the evacuation Alert is a elders Are saying the water is to reach the pump and Here 60 to 70 there Are no sandbags in the Unity to protect the and it would be difficult to sandbag because its on downward sloping he but sandbags could be brought in by he a provincial officer will arrive in Pukatawagan today to assess the Situ a fish Plant in a Lowling area East of Pukatawagan could also be threat Rains and wet Snow fell on the Community Roost of but Provin Cial flood forecaster Alf Warkentin said a rain of Leps than an Inch wont make a big difference to River an environment Canada report on How much precipitation fell is expected the Community also got some Good news Warkentin now expects the River to Rise just another two instead of three feet forecast that because Churchill River lev Els in Saskatchewan Are coming in a foot lower than Saskatchewan fore casters Homes along the Churchill except for a handful in Lowling should stay High and Warkentin Pukatawagan is about 20 Kilometres inside the Manitoba Homes in Leaf further Down the should out of Dan Warkentin Silt is being reported in the drinking water at Leaf the High Waters Vul Churchill Are from recent heavy Rains in Northern Manitoba and Warkentin said the High water will also disrupt f in the As fish ing nets and docks May have to be As water will cause other types of damage for there could be Road and some Cabins May suffer Warkentin the Churchill is expected to Peak at Pukatawagan in seven to 10 were just getting fed up with All this Over is per cent of the population of Manitoba annually utilizes chiropractic he the article in Pimm the College was meant As a guideline for physicians to improve relations with Brown the previous position of the College was that physicians should not have any association with he Bohemier said patients come to him against their doctors and ask him not to Tell their that Means doctors and chiropractors cant share information to help that he we cant get anywhere with them in a gentlemanly so were going to sue Bohemier Fine largest Ever in province for contempt drug firm to Appeal historic penalty by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter the company hit with the Hefti est contempt court Fine in Manitoba perhaps the highest Ever in Canada will Appeal the a lawyer for the firm said Yude who acts for nov pharm said he believes there Are significant grounds for Appeal on All aspects of the ing the which set a Manitoba record and is perhaps the highest in Canadian Legal annals at million Justice Jeffrey Oliphant of Manitoba court of Queens Bench levied the contempt of court Fine on in nov pharm was ordered to pay million to its chief Over the development of an ant cholesterol the compensation resulted from a 1995 court decision in which a judge ruled that a former Apo Tex employee stole samples and technology from the Winnipeg the material was then sent to a nov pharm Plant in in a subsequent nov pharm was found in contempt of two court orders by withholding documents and breaching an injunction that banned it from working on the drug while the matter was before the highest Fine the drug could generate worldwide sales of up to billion a Karen executive assistant to the chief justices and chief judge in said she believes the highest Fine for contempt Ever levied in Ito a before was about although she didst know what that was Dean Arthur braid of the University of Manitoba Law faculty said neither he nor anyone he talked to at the faculty had heard of such a High con Tempto court Fine in but braid also said he want sur prised it was that considering the amount of Money drug firms when youre looking at a 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