Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 december 2000 Canad world b1 business b7 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 Canada world news continued on around Canada tamoxifen touted Toronto women who have had cancer in one breast and who carry a genetic mutation for the disease Are at a much reduced risk of developing can cer in their other breast if they Are treated with a Toronto research team reported the findings Are published in the prestigious British medical journal the Unity prevails Montreal the federalist no Side woul9 have won a sovereignty referendum in october if que Beers had been asked the same question As in suggests a crop poll released floating in Cash Vancouver the government is floating in unexpected Cash but says much of the surplus has already been the nip government said yesterday its surplus now is projected at More than thanks partly to higher Energy child hookers targeted Toronto the Ontario government is planning to legislation to give police the Power to get child prostitutes off the police now estimate there Are More than children work ing As prostitutes in cities across compiled from Canadian press around the world 60 killed in Gas fire Nigeria gasoline leaking from a pipeline ignited and turned parts of a Village near Lagos into an inferno yes killing at least 60 Many of the victims were fish Ermen in wooden canoes who were engulfed by the flaming residents said fishermen from Akoko had been scooping up gasoline from the leaking pipeline for Days and storing it in cans in wooden radioactive discovery Yiv at the chernobyl nuclear Plant found a highly radioactive fuel fragment last week atop the sarcophagus that covers a reactor ruined in the worlds worst recorded nuclear experts Are now determining How the 20centimetre fragment ended up on the sarcophagus roof and How to remove it condoms forbidden Vatican City the Vatican reaffirmed its total opposition to the use of condoms quashing speculation it might change its position to help Battle the worldwide aids Vatican officials also told a news conference it was no secret that some priests had contracted aids through sexual conduct but described the news medias interest in the subject As morbid compiled from the news services missile facility Burns workers flee but nobody Hurt and nuclear weapons Safe and secure Minot air Force fire destroyed a army nuclear missile support facility in North Dakota forcing 13 workers to flee and two missile Crew members to Seal themselves in a protective chamber army officials no one was injured because of the which broke out about 5 and the 10 minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in the area were Safe and said Tabetha the fire poses no threat to the mis which Are located several Miles from the Cohen the located about 375 kilo metres Southwest of were being monitored by the underground two member who closed their blast doors and continued their duties in a self contained operation As the fire raged this is a facility built to protect peo ple from nuclear blasts and so it has food and water and air and other things they need in there to survive for a considerable length of Penta gon spokesman Ken Bacon said in Wash the on Storey Missil Alert facility that burned Down provided sleeping and eating accommodation As Well As equip ment storage for missile maintenance the fire apparently began in a room containing diesel but investigators have not yet determined How the fire Toronto mayor admits affair after in lawsuits filed Ken Sun with his wife admits to Long affair at a Toronto news conference Elover says Lastman fathered now by James Stevenson Mel no stranger to dropping Shook Canadas largest City yesterday by admitting to a longstanding affair with a married woman that allegedly produced two the flamboyant mayor said he decided to come Forward at a hastily convened news conference because of lawsuits filed by his former Grace and two of her Todd and the civil claims that have been issued purport that i am the father of two of louies four Lastman Reading from a pre pared statement As his stood by his and that their lifestyle Over the last 40 years contrasted adversely with Lastman neither confirmed nor denied fathering the boys in his state Kim and Todd Louie refused comment when contacted at their Homes North of the mayor said he was approached years ago by the woman and her who made it Clear that unless i paid them Many Mil Lions of they would com Mence a lawsuit and make this the suit seeking Mil lion in damages caused by his alleged failure to pay child support and intentional or Reck less infliction of impoverishment is just the latest chapter in the Wacky world of mayor despite a 25year political career and Kim Louie a spot in the guinness Book of records for 10 straight terms As mayor of the Toronto suburb of North Lastman is Best known for his Zany the consummate attention Lastman was the Brunt of jokes across Canada when he wrote a letter to British pop diva Ginger plead ing that she reconsider her decision to split with the spice the ridicule started again when he called in the Canadian army to help Toronto dig out from a particularly heavy Winter the filed in Ontario Superior alleges last Man possesses another Side the pub Lic int familiar the two statements of claim by the Louie sons and their Mother accuse Lastman of lavishing the boys with attention when they were but harshly rejecting them years later when they were told he was their continued please see Lastman b4 Cohen there Are 15 minuteman Missil Alert facilities at the Minot air Force base and each controls 10 the air Force has been dismantling and imploding Many missile silos along the Northern Border of the United states As part of the 1991 strategic arms reduction but the facilities that burned yesterday were Active and not in the process of Reuter Bernardo videotapes at Centre of Case charges dismissed against author by James Mccarten Toronto the Prospect of another Public airing of Paul Bernardos sex and torture videotapes has forced authorities to abandon charges against an author who allegedly viewed their Grue some the seven year Legal tumult Over the tapes ended abruptly yesterday As Crown officials gave up their efforts to prosecute Stephen author of a detailed True crime account of the Case called invisible strutted defiantly out of a Toronto courtroom after Ontario court Justice David Fairgrieve dismissed the a trial would have required that the searing videotapes of Bernardo and a wife Karla Homolka raping and Tor Turing teens Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French be played in open said Crown attorney Paul we Are now at the stage where these tapes will have to be and More people will have to see Taylor told it is the crowns position that it is not in the Public interest to cause the Vic Tims families further Williams was charged nearly two years ago with breaching a court after police detectives concluded that details in his Book must have come from viewing the banned Williams also allegedly told a Toronto Sun reporter that he had viewed the tapes while researching his the question of the tapes and their contents had obscured the larger Issue of journalistic said Edward Williamss at the Centre of this Case was the risk that for the very first time in our Long and great a writer could face going to jail for the crime of merely writ Greenspan it is not something we should Ever tolerate in a free and democratic Sci Taylor said the Mahaffy and French families were told of the crowns Deci Sion and Are understanding of our Posi during Bernardos 1995 Justice Patrick Lesage allowed the Public and the Media to hear the audio on the tapes but not see the Williams said he was disappointed that the rights of victims won out Over the need for journalists to protect their these Are not my he i didst kill their i Only wrote about the people who the Issue of Vic Tims rights is their its not 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