Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba More Canada and world news around Canada strike hits pork Plant Toronto strike at one of the provinces major pork processing plants has left Ontario hog Farmers struggling to find Slaughter facilities for animals a picket lines went up yesterday when 950 employees at Quality meat packers walked off the Job at plants in Toronto and ramp superbug in Hospital so called superbug has been found in notre Dame forcing officials to take measures to prevent its six patients carrying the drug resistant bacteria have been Quad one in the intensive care unit and the others in a cancer the Hospital has temporarily closed its emergency Ward to ambulances and cancelled surgery requiring intensive none of the six has developed an infection related to Van Comy Cin resistant they were in Hospital for other govt boosts funding Federal govern ment is boosting funding by million for research into the effects of toxic chemicals associated with human illnesses such As heart and lung diseases and can a fou year program wont duplicate existing research into the effects of toxic substances but should instead increase under standing of a massive global health and ecological Environ ment minister Christine Stewart said As toxic hot spots will be and that could include the tar Ponds in she workers detect Deal red its Back to the bargaining table at the red Deer advocate after employees at the Central Alberta daily newspaper rejected a proposed fou year Deal about 60 per cent ignored the recommendation of Union leaders and an impassioned plea by their mail room the lowest paid of the locals 175 the employees who have been without a contract since february 28 represent All departments at the top earners Are senior reporters and editors who make to an Back to the red Ink was Back to red Ink for the Federal government in october with a budgetary deficit of but the finance department said yesterday a deficit for the month was expected because of timing factors that affect government expenses and a deficit was recorded in october Ottawa still has an accumulated surplus from april to october in its current fiscal year of that is up from billion at the same Point of the previous fiscal finance said revenues were adversely affected in october by the quarterly payment of the Low income get tax credit and remit Tance procedures for personal income and employment insurance Premium Canad in press Winnipeg press Canada world Pfilf t6r Flyn i 6977294 a photo some say Clinton May have to address the nation Hyde right says censure is under a compelling Case for impeachment Reuter Washington there is a compelling Case to support three articles of impeach ment being readied for a decisive vote this week against president Bill the chairman of the House of representatives judiciary com Mittee said As the White House prepared a today defence that will kick off the committees climactic week of hear Ings Republican Henry Hyde told a news conference he has not ruled out allowing the panel to vote of censure of Clinton As an alternative to its under Hyde said of it int ruled out but its not a dead bang certainty Hyde confirmed the committee is developing three articles of impeach ment for obstruction of jus Tice and abuse of Power stemming from the Monica Lewinsky affair but said the exact wording awaits the presentation from the White weve made a compelling Hyde i think the real void Here is the failure of the democrats to Contra in any Way the Evi we Haven heard one word about evidence repudiating or reject ing the the White House told the commit tee yesterday it wants to Call at least 14 witnesses during the two Days of they will discuss historical precedents and constitutional standards for prose tutorial standards for obstruction and perjury and the abuse Power standards used in the watergate scandal involving Richard Greg White House special will outline Clinton factual with White House counsel Charles Ruff making the closing the Republican controlled panel is expected to approve at least one Arti Cle of impeachment against throwing the controversy to the full House where a special session would be called next week for what is expected to be a Cliffhanger Senate leaders said Over the week end approval by the House of even one article of impeachment against Clinton would Force them to put president on trial next year Only the second time in history a president has faced a Senate Only a two thirds vote of the sen ate could Remote a president from office and even Clinton harshest critics have said they do not expect this to continued please see White House up next the next Steps in the impeach ment process the House judiciary committee hears White House arguments As part of the hearings to determine whether president Bill Clinton conduct merits a majority committee vote in favour of one or More articles of impeach ment would Send the matter to the House the full House reviews any recommended article of impeachment forwarded by the if the House declines the recommend the impeachment Effort if a majority of those present vote to approve one or More the matter moves to the the Senate conducts a trial to determine whether the president should be removed from off the chief Justice presides and managers appointed by the House function like the defendant is permitted to have Legal counsel and has the right to testify and Cross exam Ine is a separate vote for each article of impeach a yes vote by two thirds of the senators present is needed to convict a conviction on even one article is enough to remove the president from survivors lucked River five two missing in Quebec plane crash by Jennifer Patterson a twin engine plane slammed into the icy St Lawrence River shortly after Takeoff killing at least their bodies were found trapped inside the some still strapped Ift thcii4 Canadian forces divers found the corpses of five said Louis a coast guard spokesman in Quebec Blanchette said its feared the bodies of two other people drifted off along the three other people were rescued and taken to ten people were aboard the twin engine the three survivors were taken to Hospital in suffering from fractures to the spine and their injuries Are not life threatening but they were transferred to Quebec City for further the three Francois Roger and Steve All from were conscious when they arrived in Quebec Blanchette was not optimistic the two still missing could have survived after several hours in freezing it would be a Miracle if they were Able to live through he air temperature was 0 celsius at the time of the crash and the water was pretty darn said a search and Rescue the three who spent about an hour in the were found cling ing to the Tail of the a Norman islander which holds 10 they were rescued by a local Heli copter in what Coroner Arnaud Samson described As a heroic its Crew rescued three people in a Flash with no equipment for doing he they didst follow All the rules but they saved three he could not say exactly How they were Quebec provincial police spokesman Richard Gagne also praised the Rescue we have three survivors today because of what they he Samson said its a Miracle the three people plucked from the water sur i think that somebody that can sur Vive an hour in that cold its he you have to be in Good health to go through continued please see Yeltsin emerges to lop off Heads russian president fires then returns to Hospital by Daniel Williams the Washington Post Moscow in an impulsive show of president Boris Yeltsin left the Hospital returned to the Kremlin and fired four top in a familiar show of weakness three hours he was Back in the Hospital to Recu Perate from a prolonged bout of Neu Yeltsin dismissed his chief of Valentin and three deputies on the grounds were lax in fighting the crime and anti semitic outbursts that Are convulsing russian political he named Nikolai who Heads Yeltsin Security to replace Yuma Shev the other posts were left Yeltsin also ordered the Justice ministry and tax police to re Jort directly to him and not just to prime minister Yevgeny the spectacle of the ailing Yeltsin coming out of seclusion to dismiss associates has become a common last he returned from a weeks convalescence to fire prime minister Viktor for opponents of such Ning shakeup raise fears that Yeltsin might try to reassert the influence he has lost during recurrent illnesses and recent political although frequently Laid the 67 year old Leader still seems capable of hot issues to exploit crime and Bate politics have become major particularly after the recent assassination of Galina a democracy activist and the presidents actions Are untre said Valentin a communist party member of Parlia it is to be expected that after some vacation or some less personnel changes will be he could fire the whole yet few in Moscow believe that Ter Days manoeuvres signal Yeltsin return to an Active continued please see 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