Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba If Bieber securities k my for in tet Mumm pm Blue Chip Trust is Ftp for witty 946426 or 18002059070 news cont Miod on b3 May 2000 Canad world by business b5 tse listings b7 Mutual fuhdsb8 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 doug.speirs@freepr6ss.mb.ca Semuh phes8 from the government Loyal Kama or militia carries rocket propelled grenade while on patrol near Sierra Leone town of peacekeepers flown to safety after release local soldiers to join Sierra Leone in Force Liberia about 100 in peacekeepers were flown to safety in the liberian capital Monrovia yesterday after being freed by Sierra Leone and some former hostages were reported to be suffer ing from Bullet liberian president Charles who helped negotiate sundays release of 139 said 30 to 40 of them were shot during a clash with rebels before their Cap Ture two weeks were in serious Between 30 and 40 of the person Nel Are some Are in a Seri Ous Taylor told a news conference in there was Little word on negotiations to secure the release of 347 peacekeepers still held by revolutionary United front Ruf rebels in rugged Jungles of Eastern Sierra near the Border with the group of some 100 peace keep also ailing from dehydration and were airlifted by Heli copter to Monrovia after an initial group of around 40 were flown out All had been initially deposited in the liberian Border town of in in spokesman David Wimhurst said All the freed hostages would be formally handed Over to the United nations for airlifting to the Sierra Leone continued please see peacekeepers b3 watch out Ottawa has a file on you human resources database open to misuse privacy Cammish by Nahlah Ayed Ottawa theres a massive government database that tracks the lives of Ordinary canadians a big brother that want supposed to the Federal privacy commissioner revealed Bruce Phillips sounded an alarm Bell in his annual report to warn ing canadians that the human resources department database is tantamount to a citizen profile and vulnerable to s the extraordinarily detailed data base holds a dossier on almost every person in Canada with As Many As pieces of information about each per sons marital ethnic income employment and social assistance his its All in a permanent database that tracks canadians from Cradle to successive privacy commissioners have assured canadians that there was no single Federal government file or pro file about Phillips said in his we were wrong or not right enough for the information on million peo dead and is taken from income tax child tax Immi Gratin and welfare the National training Canadian Job Strate employment employment Job records and the social insurance master strict Laws the Only government department that gathers such comprehensive information statistics Canada operates under strict Laws with penalties for those who misuse there Are no similar Laws regulating the use of the human resources data base and that poses significant risks to our Phillips the database is always open to misuse or abuse unless there Are Legal restraints on its he while the privacy act allows collect ing personal information for this database raises concerns because its so if the information was divided there would be lower risk of Indis Criminate unrelated uses and improper Phillips said in the watchdogs proposals recommendations from the Federal privacy commissioner on the govern ments personal information database i fixed retention time for i strict controls and safeguards on personal data collection and i canadians should be told Why information is How it will be How Long it will be kept and to whom it will be penalties and sanctions for misuse of the i assurances that research data int used for program i change in legislation to incorporate research the which has been attacked for months in the commons for mismanaging says its not break ing the Law and it relies on staff professionalism to prevent misuse of the created in 1985 and continually All the information is its said human resources min ister Jane k Phillips is recommending a fixed shelf life for penalties for strict control on collection and Legisla Tive changes to set out the research Man Date of the Pippa Lawson of the Public interest advocacy Centre is worried that per Sonal information could be history has shown governments can go off the she theres a huge Market out there for personal for marketing Pur poses in weve already seen municipal and provincial governments Selling earlier this reports indicated Ontario transportation ministry sold personal information to private a research database could also be retrieved in unforeseen ways to the detriment of individual said who noted the information is never without an the temptation is to subject everyone to unrelenting information this database needs the database is virtually although its on a government database list and the human resources web Canadian press ecstacy May harm study says London even Light weekend use of the party drug ecstasy harm Intel a new study German scientists report that weeks after those who used ecstasy along with marijuana performed worse on intelligence tests than people who just smoked pot or took no drugs at their results Are reported this week in the journal of neurosurgery and chemically known As has been popular among Young club go ers in Europe for years but recently has become increasingly widespread in the United states and several ecstasy related deaths in Canada have Ted to crackdowns on rave parties in some including where councillors recently voted to ban such events on City proper previous studies have suggested the drug can cause a Lon term decrease in a brain chemical involved with thought and other research has indicated ecstasy can impair brain but mostly investigated people who used it More often or with other the latest by scientists at the University of Aachen in also assessed a broader Range of cognitive functions than any other study to Alan director of the National Institute on drug said the study provides the first Clear Demon stration of what was predicted from ear Lier studies linking the drug to changes in the if your brain is getting then you ought to have some kind of deficit in cognitive and Here it Leschner there is this misconception that its a fun and its the study involved 28 ecstasy users in their mid20s recruited from the dance floor of a they also were pot but did not get drunk often and did not regularly take other because almost every ecstasy user smokes it was impossible to recruit a reasonable number of exclusive ecstasy the study the researchers therefore compared the group to two others of the same age Range and education one con sisting of drug free people and another of people who smoked about As much pot As the ecstasy group but did not take any other the ecstasy group performed just As Well As the other two on simple tests of but worse in More Complex tasks of in memory and learn ing and in tasks reflecting aspects of general the More ecstasy they the worse they performed on the but their scores still were in the Normal those who Only smoked pot per formed no differently than those who were press take part in the first preferred share Issue 7842583 ;