Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 30, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lop Rule conditions May 1277kmknm fat out 1510 is mm1 9257420 78mmo 92573w 9257423 Canada news continued on b2 f around Canada i exploitation sentence j a 30yearold i High school teacher convicted of i sexual exploitation will spend the next ten months under House i arrest in the Home she shares with her victim in this commune t to North of Ive Learned a lot about j my self and a lot about our Sci Ingram said in a i Brief statement As her 18year i old Lover warned to cameramen to Back in a stronger i person and have a stronger rela j affair with her student ended Ingrams 12year common Law marriage and Cost her her Senate stacked Ottawa prime minister Jean Chretien made it Clear yesterday he intends to push his Quebec referendum legislation through the Senate and into in spite of misgivings voiced by some liberals in the upper it will pass the Chretien Well make sure that its his bold words prompted speculation that Chretien May have to pack the chamber with new appointees to ensure the Bills concern Over Caribou chief and Council of the Vun Tut Witchin first nation have asked band members not to shoot cow Caribou during the annual Spring Harvest because of fears the animals population May be William director of ural resources for the Witchin said the request was made because of an unusual deviation in the herds Spring migratory pattern that May put the animals at compiled from Canadian press around the world Suharto to stand trial prosecutors placed former president Suharto under House arrest ter Day and promised that the former strongman will stand i trial within the next two months for allegedly embezzling Lions of a spokesman for the attorney generals office said the move was needed to ensure questioning of Suharto could proceed Peres chosen to run i Jerusalem Fprmer israeli prime minister Shimon Peres i was chosen by his party yester Day to run for president and sue i Power transferred i beast Britain transferred governing authority Back to Northern Ireland at Midnight f offering new Hope for peace to the i we Hope these institutions i will take Ulster unionist party David Trimble said atlant i returns May 2000 Canada world b1 business b3 tse listings b5 Mutual funds b6 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 plug pulled on big brother by Paul Samyn Ottawa the Federal govern ment will no longer be playing big brother with the lives of after enduring constant attacks for the Way a massive computer database was tracking intimate details about Mil Lions of human resources minister Jane Stewart suddenly and surprisingly pulled the plug the the prudent and the right thing to do is to take the file Stewart embattled Stewart dismantles massive database on canadians stewarts move comes after repeatedly defending the data collected from million both dead and not Only was the practice clearly within the Stewart had but the information had been Stewart clearly had a change of announcing instead the Meg files dismantling and a new policy which will keep analysis and research data secure and along with the privacy commission we understand that the privacy of canadians has to be she said in the together we looked at the future of this we saw it coming to its rather than add More the prudent thing to do is to take it apart and create a a protocol so that we can continue to Access the information As As and As reviewed with the inclusion of a review by the privacy privacy commissioner Bruce Phillips gave the new regime and its protective protocols his but the opposition was not continued please see nationwide b2 outbreak in Ontario Ontario sets new water rules critics say changes Are window dressing by Colin Perkel Kevin Fraver Canadian press archives Fivey Earold Tamara Smiths spirits were lifted when she saw this photo of herself in newspapers suffering girl feels like a Star photograph that put a human face on the suffering of a Small Ontario town plagued by Poi soned water lifted the spirits of the frightened Little girl it captured Gri Macing in the heart wrenching image of five year old Tamara Smith clutching a Teddy Bear As she awaited Airlift to hos landed on the front pages of major Canadian daily newspapers last when she saw the shot and distributed by the Canadian in the Tamara Felt rejuvenate despite the severity of her Condi said her Brad she feels like a he since the Little girl infected with the deadly Coli bacteria after drinking water at her Home in Walker spirits boosted by photo in newspapers has by her condition at the childrens Hospital of Western Ontario was described As Sta ble and her kidneys had recovered some of their the doctor said she is one of the stronger said who works at a car Plant in the Southwest Ern Ontario City of Tai Nara was flown to a childrens hos Pital in last thursday after tests showed her blood count was severely Coli releases a toxin which destroys blood Lowers platelet Levels in severe causes kidney four adults and a Twoy Earold girl have died from the believed to have been caused by fees tinged Runoff from Farmers Fields flowing into the towns water up to people have fallen ill with diarrhoea and but the news is not All Good for the Little girl so frightened that she begged her father to accompany her in the air Smith said his daughter is now afraid of water and refuses to drink Hes furious town residents we rent told sooner about the contaminated water local health officials say the water Utility knew the water was tainted and should have warned Resi dents earlier not to drink Canadian press Ontario government announced new rules yesterday to protect the provinces drinking water As critics argued that environment ministry cuts and a decision to turn testing Over to private labs is at the heart of the tainted water tragedy in the changes which will include requiring municipalities to use accredited laboratories to test their drinking water Are simply window dressing without government staff and resources behind critics the ministry of the environment will have to hire Back the very Scien the very the very inspectors that this government Laid said Howard Leader of the new democratic environment minister Dan Newman also said the government would clarify the obligation of laboratories to report problems they uncover amid the admission his ministry was warned of prob lems with Walker tons water in information that the water contained traces of focal col form not As Seri Ous As the deadly Coli never passed on to the regions med ical officer of we want notification requirements to be absolutely and unequivocally Newman adding that All labs must now immediately report questionable test results to the environment and health As Well As the municipal water in Murray the chief medical officer of said the government is essentially admit Ting it was wrong in 1996 to free testing labs of an obligation to Tell the ministry if they uncover tainted continued please see disaster b2 Alliance tries to stay together As knives come out for debate officials anxious to ensure recognition before next election by Jennifer Dutchburn Ottawa hair was carefully shirts pressed and knives sharpened As Canadian Alliance leadership candidates prepared to kick off a final month of campaigning yesterday with their first major the an evening town Hall meeting at covers italian cultural was billed As the first real Opportunity for the Public to catch the rivals in action As they work toward the june 24 leadership there Are still a number of members or people who Are thinking of joining the who Are really looking at and it will give them a Chance to compare an4 said Alliance my Diane a Campaign organizer for Preston Man you can hear people one at a but you dont see them As How they stack up against each in the debate Manning touted is Sta Tus As founder of the Reform party and his record As a tax Cut advocate to portray himself As the Leader for the new there is a word for being a trailblazer and set not just the he said in his opening that word is there Are to be five More including another today in two in the Toronto one in Montreal and one in Why so Many Alliance officials Are anxious for canadians to get to know the party not just the candidates to ensure some recognition before the next Federal the leadership particularly Ontario tory strategist Tom need the venues to Appeal to potential party members who will cast votes for them later in june Long has never held unlike his main com Manning and former Alberta treasurer in the last two competitors have started to dispense with their customary politeness and get Down to the brass tacks of Why each is belter than the candidates roust walk a Fine line Between attacking their opponents and weakening the fledgling party by creating Long Manning modifying Gene jumps from canola to bees Berlin a top German zoologist has found that genes used to modify crops can jump the species Barrier and cause bacteria to but he stressed yesterday that the potential risk to human health was Jena University professor Han Shin Rich whose fou year study found that the alien Gene used to modify canola could contaminate bacteria in the guts of declined to comment in depth on his research before publication this but who fears a backlash from the scientific Community on the contentious topic of genetically modified confirmed that Gene Transfer had taken albeit to the greatest possible we can Rule out danger to the he advising against Overin ter preying a which has yet to be reviewed by his although Kaatz recognized his and Fel Low researcher Stefan Woells findings were he said he was not surprised and added that while there May be implications for bacteria in the human there were no grounds for Reuters ;