Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba November 2000 Mem Winnipeg free press Sovereign lists flourish with Alliance stronger than really didst run so what Clark Trade barbs Geoff Lambert and Betty Granger got More than votes apiece neither was a candidate As 9256824 1877achieva the Canadian Alliance is winning the Battle to unite the free press editorial writer Gerald flood argues a14 the Canadian Alliance and tory leaders Are pointing their fingers at each other b2 bus lacklustre showing Likely Means no referendum anytime soon c14 the Clearing inthe morning high6 y garbage Day 1 schooldays inside tax Cut in draft for next year features a two a per cent tial property tax the first consecutive reduction in the Levy since uni City was created a3 winning ticket a Winnipeg woman who says she has lotto ticket Worth furious after unsuccessfully try ing to Cash the lottery officials say the ticket was previously cashed a10 aids stats alarming v the magnitude of the aids Epi Demic far exceeded even the worst predictions made a Tion rate in Eastern Europe is a in report says a16 re v closing in on title if the vikes beat the Lions tomorrow and the cowboys upset the bucs on Minnesota clinches its nil division Al title Creutzfeldt Jacpb disease invaded two families in in business Bookstore Chain bids on chapters Heather Reisman and her band Gerry largest shareholders of the privately held indigo Bookstore yesterday announced a hostile bid for a controlling stake in their much bigger rival chapter chapters a unit if ers pm to caucus critics i am the Leader by Paul Samyn Ottawa prime minister Jean Chretien yesterday used his big election win to put an end to those in his caucus and party who want to push him aside As lib eral holding court at a pos Victory press Chretien made it Clear that he sees the 173 seats voters gave him As vindication of his leadership As Well As his vision and i am the Chretien the people of Canada have Given me a Man Date and i intend to work very hard to be meeting their Hopes that they invested in my my party and despite maintaining a sizable Lead throughout the Chretien was constantly dogged by leadership questions on the members of his caucus said publicly that the party would have been better off if finance minister Paul Martin had been Liberal and reporters posed several ques Tion on How Long Chretien will stay on As the country Chretien had Little to say about maps such As Ontario Paul Steckle Huron who called his leadership into we we won big and it is amazing that some who were the most worried got their majority Chretien continued please see Chretien a2 baby death focus shifts to doctors Manitoba licensing body to investigate 17 physicians named in inquest report by Alexandra Paul the College of physicians and surgeons pledged yesterday to investigate every doctor named in the Sinclair report on the baby death inquest with a View to taking disciplinary action against any who Are found guilty of professional the fac finding investigation of the 17 doctors in the report includes both surgeon Jonah Odim and cardiologist Niels As Well As others at health sciences Centre who were in charge of supervising the now defunct program in which 12 mostly died after open heart surgery in for the first time in the colleges his the investigation will step outside its limited role of judging the Tency of doctors at to include doctors behind the to be headed by the investigative chairman at the will also examine the administrative competence of doctors As senior Hospital were ultimately responsible for the the investigation could take Given the number of doctors who worked in the program or oversaw College president Eric Stearns described the tragedy As terrible for the parents whose children the system failed he he offered a general apology to the but also made it Clear the licensing body would await the results of its own continued please see investigation a4 editorial betrayal of Trust a14 Ken Vigliotti Winnipeg free Pei College of physicians and surgeons registrar Bill Pope left and president Eric Stearns answer reporters questions the main players the College of physicians and surgeons will examine the role of doctors and medical and administrative supervisors involved in the variety heart centres open heart surgery pro Gram at health sciences they include Jonah Odim the paediatric cardiac surgeon who operated on a dozen children who died during or after heart surgery during a 10 month Span in 1994 at health sciences he is currently working As a research associate at Urcla medical Winnipeg was his first full time pos operating on childrens Niels Giddins cardiologist who continuously referred patients to Jonah he is currently paediatric cardiologist at the Deborah heart and lung Centre in Brown Brian poll took Over As head of paediatrics at Hsc and head of childrens Hospital after Agnes Bishop he stopped the Postl is now head of the Winnipeg regional health 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