Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 14, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wolffi Peg free october 1997 isolationism growing in Congress Axworthy by Neman Ayed Canadian press Ottawa the Congress is becoming increasingly Isola foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy said and he warned that go Talone mentality threatens International sneaking at a meeting on said new demands in the new world order require cooperation among countries he said Canada and the United states should be working closely on issues ranging from human fights to the but one thing gets in the Way of that new kind of and that is what t see As an increasingly isolationist trend taking place in the Axworthy told members of the Centre of the study of the presi Dency meeting in does not recognize this increasing need to work in partnership according to a Broa based International set of an said was the cooperative basis on which the land mines agreement was we worked together in a new Coli we found a new Way of developing a Broa based International policy for the world that can now be built but Axworthy said Congress seems to be working in the opposite in that it tends More and More to want to go it instances in which the United states has chosen to follow its own path include issues ranging from relations with Cuba to paying Long accumulate de dues to the United Axworthy said any powerful country resorting to unilaterally changing International Law introduces a virus that erodes the established the foreign minister also said Long time convergence in Canadian and policy should not mean that the two countries will continue to agree on everything in a world where new issues Are issues such As the human humanitarian internal crime and drug now we have to look at what happens when there is far More diversity in the sys tem and far More opportunities for Niche we understand there has to be a degree of understand and at times areas where we can agree to to the Case of sanctions against Axworthy we believe we have a right to relate to Cuba the Way we want to Axworthy left chats with Gordon Hole of presidency he added that Canada has a different role to play than the United a brokerage role that the cannot play because of its Many responsibilities As a if the United states is the Indis sensible then Canada is the report faults Oil Sands development by Bob Weber Canadian press 1dmontonmassive development already approved for Albertas Oil Sands is overwhelming pro measures taken to protect wildlife and air qual says environment Canada increased acid higher greenhouse Gas emissions and the destruction of thou Sands of hectares of Forest habitat Are Likely results of the billions of dollars in expansion already approved by the Federal and Alberta and the june 1997 obtained by the Canadian press under Access to information says that study ing the cumulative effects of the projects none of which have come before Public becom ing environment Canada believes it is critical that consideration of any future Oil Sands development be done on a regional the report mitigation strategies for specific projects May no longer be atmospheric chemist Karen Mcdonald says the Environ mental Impact of the Oil Sands could surpass the Impact of the Nickel mines in the Sudbury area and we know what happened at we dont want to see that even if it is in far Northern the Athabasca Oil Sands Are a massive Deposit of Oil impregnated Sand in North Ern Alberta near fort sync rude Canada and Sun the two biggest Oil Sands plan to spend about billion Over the next decade to increase product their plans Are already in other Compa Nies including Shell and Mobil Oil have announced plans that would bring Oil Sands expansion to an aver age billion a year for the next 25 but sync rude and Sun Cor Are already a says environment on a Tant each emission species has been Well the report on a cumulative and Inte grated description of the linkages Between chemical the environment and human health Are the report predicts that even at current emission one in five of the lakes within 35 Kilometres of sync rude and Sun Cor will Start to suffer from acid expansions will Only increase that there Are going to be lakes that says Mcdonald As although Oil Sands production is increasingly the report Points out that in about a decade sync rude alone will be pumping out 71 per cent More Carbon one of the gasses believed responsible for global warming and which Canada has pledged to increases of that size Are noticeable on a National says sync Rudes mine alone will directly affect about hectares of size of nearly football when this disturbance is viewed with the context of other existing and proposed it raises questions about the capability of the Region to sustain proposed Levels of resource the report it says the total amount of land considered for development equals although the report praises current efforts to repair it says they Are unlikely to fix Lon term loss of some of the richest Bird Breeding habitat in North value added this should not be seen in any Way As but simply the Opportunity to do it our own Independent the indispensable nation and the value added nation working together Are a pretty Good Axworthy ready to make up with Israel by Nahlah Ayed Canadian press advantage Jet hmm for hts into i 888 6673200 Low Long distance rates Are just the beginning for Boyd Auto body we were with another Long distance its contacted me with a telecommunications solution that worked harder for my advantage gave us unique cos saving like identification now we can automatically control our Long distance we also subscribe to the it helps me Analyse Billing where Calls Are being How Long there being made who making if there Are any ill see them right switching Back has worked out very Well for gift poulenc of from Tollfree numbers to High Speed data its advantage service has telecommunications products that will give your company the competitive Ottawa foreign affairs min ister Lloyd Axworthy says its time to move on after almost three weeks of uneasy relations with the government of Israel Over forged Canadian passports used by Mossad Axworthy says theres no reason to draw out Canadas anger Over an Issue he was promised will be i want to go from i dont think its something that needs to be a Lin Gering Axworthy said yesterday at a meeting of the Centre for the study of the presidency in i think weve received what weve asked now what we have to do is try to use the occasion which in its own paradoxical Way seems to have done a lot for the peace Canada had voiced outrage Over the use of forged Canadian passports in a bungled Mossad attempt on the life of a Hamas political Leader in last Axworthy ordered the ambassador to David to return Home a serious step in protest Over the he also said he wanted to take other measures to Deal with israels use of Canadian a practice he called absolutely but Axworthy said yesterday that Berger will return to Israel As soon As Likely today or to follow up on the Issue and resume his Israel had promised in the past to Stop using Canadian passports for undercover work but has never Fol Lowed through on that last Axworthy received a let Ter from israeli foreign minister David Levy including what Axworthy says was an apology and assurances that measures will be taken to ensure Canadian passports Are not used by israeli agents he would not release the contents of the it cant be As we All Axworthy but i think the message has gone through very i think its been put to Axworthy said he will visit Israel in a months Libs join forces against child abductions Gan Adlan press rep Liberal and Reform maps have joined forces to examine How to fight child abductions by parents who flee with their offspring to another red Beer Renorra Mabob Mills has minister Lloyd Axworthy to form a subcommittee to look at Why about 400 Canadian children a year Are abducted by one of their parents and spirited away to a foreign ifs a situation for the who has a Legal right to the Zhuoren but no Way of get so Only 48 countries have signed the 1983 convention that requires the custodial Laws of one country to be respected by Aneth Mills notes Many children Are taken by an estranged Parent to jurisdictions in Asia and the mid dle which Are not those countries have different cultural and religious beliefs and May not feel obligated to return children who have been removed from other Mills he suggested Canada should threaten to pull foreign Aid to pressure poor foreign Saffas i was getting More and More Calls about but nothing was being said who notes the main stumbling Block is that Many foreign countries dont recognize Canadian Mills wants Ottawa to persuade More countries to sign the Hague convention on civil aspects of International child abduction once they Mills the International convention should ride religion and what we want is whats Best for the a Calgary lawyer is trying to get Canadian govern ments to crack Down on inter provincial Max Bettt recently told an Alberta legislative subcommittee theres no uniform legislation Between provinces on reciprocal enforce canadians Excel at cloning enthusiastic participation of families seen As unique advantage by Bueckert Canadian press All in the when it comes to tracking Down the genes that cause Canadian researchers Are hot and much of the credit goes to Canuck fam Ilies who have offered up the inner most secrets of their in the past decade or Canadian scientists have been authors or co authors in the discovery of genes responsible for More than 20 the list includes cystic alzheimer breast spinal muscular Huntington disease and juvenile locating and cloning a Gene copying it so it can be studied is considered a i to treatment and says Montreal researcher Thomas ifs a Good place to do genetics in Cana says who is affiliated with the Montreal general a cup University and the Witehead Institute in theres a great participation by to do genetics we have to identify people with disease and have them participate in studies and canadians Nave traditionally been very enthusiastic about participating in genetic scientists Are really world leaders in this no question about said Michael Hayden of the University of British this is a Story that the Canadian Public is oat aware roughly per cent of the disease genes discovered by positional cloning up to 1986 were identified in Canadian labs of by canadians working finding which among the to human genes causes a disease has been compared to finding a Bouse without knowing its address or even what continent its on in positional researchers find the address by comparing the genes of people who a specific trait to those of close relatives who it requires close study of fam Ilies with a history of the in some genetic research is regarded with deep suspicion and people often refuse to participate in studies of their hereditary in Canaan for some Ream people medicare says Alex Maekenzie of the childrens Hospital of East Ern Ontario and co discoverer of the Gene that causes spinal muscular Aero a devastating childrens when Mackenzie and his colleagues enlisted More than 200 families for who paid for the ing and clinical assessment was not an As it Likely would have been in the United Nave a special fondness for Quebec positional cloning is easier with big and of seven or eight children were common in Quebec just a generation because of Quebec distinct Cul there was less mixing with other neat sociological Angle is that detailed Church records can be matched with genetic analysis to Trace genealogy Back say Maekenzie the founding couple for dystrophy has been traced to a mar Ria Gein toe late one thing Canadian geneticists have not enjoyed is a atm agencies like the ;