Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 11, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 news continued on around Canada cons get rebate Edmonton Alberta Ivea sury officials will investigate How hundreds of inmates received Energy rebate cheques from the a government spokesman said he was surprised to learn inmates received the recently mailed which Are supposed to be aimed at helping Alberta residents by offsetting the High costs of electricity two for Price of one Ottawa obese airline Pas sengers who cannot comfortably squeeze into a single seat should be provided a second at no extra a Canadian transportation recon the report says obese Passen Gers should disabled and airlines required to accommodate their special Eye surgery warning Toronto the food and drug administration has posted a web site warning people of the risks of laser and cautioning them against Slick and campaigns promising the site describes Adverse effects including blinding com permanent vision loss that cannot be corrected by glasses or and reduced night the Fra site can be found at compiled from Canadian press around the world moment of truth France a Marathon european Union Summit hit its moment of truth late last with smaller countries rejecting proposals to redraw Power lines in the 15country bloc in Prepa ration for Success or failure at the sum called to streamline Deci Sion making in time for the bloc to take in up to 12 new hinges on a Deal on the Way votes Are weighted among the 15 countries in the policymaking Council of past president wins Romania sex communist and past president Ion Iliescu won Romanias presidential elections with 70 per cent of the exit polls showed Ultra nationalist Corneliu Vadini Tudor trailed with about 30 per the polls Ivory coast votes Ivory coast Ivory coast held a largely peaceful parliamentary election yester Day after a week dominated by bloody political and ethnic clash but a protest Boycott prevented polling in Many parts of the Muslim North compiled from the news services dec Ember 2000 Canada world b1 business b4 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 presidency up to High court by Robert Russo Washington a divided supreme court is set to take Over from a fractured electorate today and essentially decide who will be the next a definitive ruling would end 34 Days of political tumult arising from the closest election in modern Histo Al who trailed George Bush by fewer than 200 votes out of six million cast in wanted a recount of if justices forbid Florida its Over for his lawyer says about disputed ballots through out the that re tabulation had begun Only to be abruptly ended by the supreme court after an Appeal by since the 7 election ended in a virtual predicting the outcome has proven the positions of the two candidates since then have flipped faster than a breakfast voters exasperation with the political circus the deadlock has created has been tempered by the Aston Ishing reversals of fortunes the spectacle has but supporters of the democratic Vic president suggested yesterday unless the supreme court orders a Andre press protesters fill the streets of Montreal during noisy anti amalgamation demonstration tens of thousands March in opposition to governments amalgamation plans no Meg cities protesters by Idella Sturino Montreal tens of thousands of angry residents from Montreal and surrounding municipalities took to the streets yesterday to reject Quebec plan to Force their cities to the noisy but peaceful demonstration was the latest in a series of events aimed at forcing the province to Retreat from plan to meld Mon trials 26 boroughs into one Mega the parti quebecois government also Hopes to Force amalgamations in the Hull and Quebec City opponents say the plan is undemocratic because residents were not con they also fear higher taxes and scaled Back local including garbage removal and Community if the mergers go the services we get now will be restricted a lot More than what were used said Bernie a resident of suburban Cote several critics have challenged pre Mier Lucien Bouchard to hold a referendum on the question of other residents argue their sense of Community will disappear in a Mega we will lose that if we Are taken Over by said longtime out remont resident Sylvie Many people from Montreal say they cant Access their City Canadian press pressure up dont spar with spouse marital unhappiness can make hypertension researchers say by Helen Branswell Toronto got a bad marriage and High blood pressure you might do Well to stay away from your a study by Toronto researchers has found that people with hypertension who Are in Good marriages Benefit from doing things with their but togetherness int a Good health for those who dont get in that Case it was better to avoid your spouse if you had a bad said Lead author Brian a psychiatrist at the Toronto Western Hospital of the University health about one in five canadians has High blood if left it can Lead to heart stroke and heart Dis Baker and his team studied 103 peo ple in the Early to mid1990s who had mild hypertension but were not on med participants wore monitors that checked their blood pressure every 15 minutes through the Day and hourly participants were also asked to assess the Quality of their marriage using a the findings that marital happiness can help keep blood pressure Down received wide Media attention last these findings come from a followup study on the who were again asked to Wear the ambulatory blood pressure monitors three years after the initial researchers found the subjects in bad marriages had thicker heart Walls a sign that their hypertension had wors the findings Point to the need to help couples learn to Deal with Baker Canadian press resumption in the Florida Gores quest for the presidency will be if no votes Are then i think that the end of the said Gores lawyer David who made the rounds of network political talk shows he will argue the Case in the High court for the supreme court ordered a stay in the Florida recount by a 54 continued please see presidency b2 pm takes his time shaping new government by Jim Brown Ottawa prime minister Jean care More noted for action than contemplation through three decades in has been taking More time than usual deciding the shape of his new gov most liberals had expected Chretien to give his ministerial team a vigorous shake and announce a new Cabinet with in 10 Days of the 27 election roughly the timetable he followed after his previous victories in 1993 and leisurely Pace he is setting a leisurely Pace As he prepares for some policy brain storming and pos Campaign glad hand ing this first with his ministers and then with his backbench Hes taking advantage of one of those time honoured prime ministerial pre said one Liberal Hes thinking about election Day produced Only three cab inet vacancies that the prime minister is under any pressure to fill immediately the latest betting is that he May move on those fronts before the week is but postpone More sweeping changes until the new Nova Scotia was left without a seat at the Cabinet table when Bernie the former government Leader in the failed in his bid to win a com Mons seat in Geoff son of former Premier Gerald and Robert an acadian businessman and firs time Are considered contenders for that Boudreaus former Post in the Senate could go to a Westerner to buttress the relatively thin Cabinet contingent from that where the liberals fared worse at the polls than in any other part of the Ross Fitzpatrick of British a longtime Chretien and Sharon a former Liberal Leader in Are in the the Only other vacancy is Secretary of state for Asi Pacific a Junior Post held by Raymond Chan before he lost his Vancouver area Winnipeg Ger Rey a Winnipeg physician of filipino origin and former parliamentary Secretary to is said to have the inside Cabinet is scheduled to meet All Day tomorrow to Start debating policy priorities and themes for the throne speech that will open a new parliament in Jan 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