Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ii b1 november 2000 Winnipeg free press tha Snow to 5 11 its these babies didst have to die by Sean Oconnor at least five baby deaths at Winnipeg health sciences Centre in 1994 were preventable and another four might have been provincial judge Murray Sinclair has found in his Long awaited report on the deaths in the Pedi Atrie cardiac surgery of the 12 children who died after heart surgery at Hsc performed by Jonah Odim Iii Only one death has been acceptably Sinclair wrote in his 516page which was released in the Sinclair paints an alarming Pic Ture of the system under which the surgeries took and offers wide ranging recon the evidence suggests that the Pedi Atrie car Diac surgery program at the health sciences Centre did not provide the Standard of health care that it was mandated to provide and that parents and had a right to that their children would Sinclair says in the while some of the problems that the pro Gram faced related to the abilities and conduct of specific other problems were largely systemic in states the at a news conference later in the officials with the Winnipeg regional health authority and the health sciences Centre extended apologies to the families of the 12 Chil saying they expect the authority and the doer government will consider a financial compensation continued please see baby deaths a5 inside i Hsc admits it fell short1 a4 i doctors judgment questioned a5 i mothers ache never disappears a6 Chretien wins big Paul Canadian press Chretien and his wife Aline take the stage last night in after the liberals captured their third straight majority Day loses looks to future the great Experiment to unite the right despite some slips in the party Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day says hell it is Clear that even with our increased support across the the Mes Sage to us is not not this Day we have increased our seats and we Are the Only party that has increased its popu Lar vote in every Region of the Day said he still believes the Alliance message can unite the he said they remain the Only True alternative to the the birthing process that transformed the Reform party into the Alliance was supposed to scoop up All disenfranchised with them in the the Alliance would Roll to Victory in Ontario and Day would be the next prime minister of that didst the political landscape remains even More fractured with the failure of the Canadian Alliance to make a break through in Ontario and the dismal showing by the Liber als in the but Hal Dan chair Man of the alliances National Cam said he was encouraged by the results for the new we had a party in place for eight months and a Leader in place for 103 Anchilla he said they will Start to crunch the num Bers to see to what extent vote splitting Cost them it was a bitter Pill for the several Hundred supporters who crammed into the pen Tictin Trade and convention hoping to Toast the country next prime they total number of seats party 2000 vote vote Liberal Alliance pc nip bloc quebecois 173 66 12 13 37 41 25 12 9 11 161 15 19 44 38 19 19 11 11 voter turnout 61 voter turnout 67 at dissolution in january the Canadian Alliance replaced the Reform go Stock As they slugged Back Beers and waved above hundreds of Green and White balloons secured in a net were poised to continued please see pm grabs bloc increases majority Shawinigan prime minister Jean Chretien last night earned his place in history by securing a third straight majority government for his Chretien Gutsy Gamble with his Sec Ond Early election Call that no one in his party wanted paid of f big As he captured 173 seat in the commons More than he captured in the 1997 vote that took place during the Manitoba in duplicating the electoral feat of his sir Wilfrid the first French Canadian to become prime Chretien also bought him self time from those in the party eager for finance minister Paul Martin to take Over the but Chretien will govern a land which is even More deeply divided along East West lines than it was East of the liberals dominate and the Atlantic West of the Keystone province sits the reinforced Canadian Alliance which has room for Only 14 the West was the one big disappointment for the where i Jost four including Mani Tobas David i Tody jus Tice minister Anne Mclellan barely managed to keep her Alberta Chretien repeat near sweep of Ontario marked a night of disappoint ment for the repeating the fail ure of its the Reform to make a breakthrough in Canadas most populous despite a full frontal attack on the Alliance delivered a paltry two the other big Winner of the night was tory Leader Joe who not Only sur prised Many by winning a seat in Cal Gary but also appeared to have saved his party from political oblivion by maintaining official party status with the minimum 12 at press time the tories were holding on to the crucial 12th seat in Quebec with a razor thin continued please see Chretien a2 for see a15 r a and 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