Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 26, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 Canada news continued on around Canada students get shots about students and staff at a High school Are to be vaccinated against meningitis today and Given antibiotics to prevent the spread of the potentially deadly four female students at Massey Vanier High school in Cowarts Ville have been diag nosed with the latest Case was discovered drug court planned Vancouver by so drug offenders at a time could be routed through a separate drug treatment court in the drug addicts facing nonviolent charges prop erty and prostitution offences could avoid jail time by agreeing to treatment and pot crop discovered Montreal two armed men who forced their Way into an apartment in a desperate bid for Cash ended up helping police find an illegal marijuana grow ing when the tenant said he had no the bandits ordered him to open the apartment the Man went to see his the owner of the to get the keys and opened the upper apartment to the the father called who found the would be thieves and 100 marijuana plants in the compiled from Canadian press around the world thousands protest Kyle several thousand pro testers marched through Ukraine capital yesterday with burning torches and an effigy of president Leonid Kuchma in a demanding his the demonstration was the lat est of dozens of Street protests in recent months against who opposition leaders accuse of evolvement in the disappear Ance arid apparent murder of a mass grave found military officials promised yesterday to a grave containing a number of bodies found near a russian military base outside the chechen but they made it Clear they already believed its corpses had been killed by chechen rebels Andi not by russian a rebel spokesman denied violence quelled in riot gear used Pepper rubber bullets and concussion grenades to break up Mardi gras festivities Early yesterday in the second Day of violence tied to the reputed mobster Dies Anthony rept Etc to the Detroit gangster and believed by some to know the Fate of former teamsters Boss James Hoff died on Fri Day at Jato Hospital in Detroit he was the news services february 2001 Canada world b1 business b4 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 inuit help russian Brethren find old ways Ottawa Canadian inuit Are spend ing to buy ammunition and other Hunting gear to help the impoverished inuit of Russia return to traditional ways of feeding Irina Appa of the Otta abased inuit circumpolar conference says the inuit who live in along the russian coast across the Bering Strait from have been badly Hurt by the collapsed russian most of the Chu Kotkan inuit live in six isolated communities where the Only jobs depend on the people in those jobs Haven received pay cheques in said who left the Chu Kotkan Community of nov Ochap Lino about five years last the Canadian government contributed million for an emergency Airlift of warm clothing and med ical supplies for stranded Northern communities after the August 1998 financial collapse in Moscow virtually destroyed their soviet Era Supply the Aid was needed and said but the Chu Kotkan inuit cant count on it always being it cant be done All the she the Best Way is to go Back to the traditional ways to the inuit will use the equipment to Hunt walruses and seals along the sea just As their ancestors did before the soviet government gathered Many of them into giant whale Hunting or fur processing collective some of the gear will be purchased in Canada and shipped Over to the rest of the Aid will be sent in to buy guns and ammunition living conditions remain harsh in said some schools have been closed Over the Winter because they Lack a heating Homes Are heated with some of the communities have electricity Only for a few hours a she says and even that an its got just a Little bit its palestinians gain ally against siege Powell wants Israel to end curbs on Gaza and West Bank by Barry Schweid West Bank Secretary of state Colin pow Ell backed palestinian demands that Israel ease its economic curbs on the West Bank and in using palestinian terminology after a two hour meeting with Leader Yasser Powell said yesterday it was time to lift the earlier in the Day in Powell was evidently unable to per Suade israels prime minister elect Ariel Sharon to alleviate the economic pressure that has been applied to palestinian held areas in an Effort to deter attacks on Powell said the economic pressure does nothing to improve the Security he blamed both sides for violence and promised that when it president George Bush would play a leadership role in trying to negotiate an agreement Between Israel and the for his Arafat insisted peace making must begin where it broke off last outgoing prime minister Ehud Barak had offered the palestini ans most of the West Bank and control Over parts of East Arafat rejected the offer and Barak called it dead after his landslide loss to Arafat said no government can basically erase the moves of pre Vious powells meetings with Arafat at the palestinian leaders Headquarters on the West Bank came on the second Day of a fou Day visit to the Middle persian Gulf and Powell acknowledged that the bomb ing of Iraq by and British War associated press Arafat leave their meeting in West Bank town Ramallal planes had stirred a surprising outcry in the Arab although Powell said he had no apologies to offer for retaliating for iraqi harassment of at a news conference after meeting with Powell said the attack could have been coordinated better in order not to inflame Arab senti our action was a Little More aggressive than usual and got a Little More Powell but i have no three iraqis were killed and 25 oth ers were wounded in the 16 mis Sile attack on air defence and radar Sites South of apparently made no headway with or on saturday night with on persuading Israel to ease its economic continued please see Powell b3 math teachers political Angle angers parents by Ross Marowitz Ontario teachers Deci Sion to hang Premier Mike Harris in an Effort to demonstrate geometry has renewed concern about teachers introducing politics to their Donald a math teacher in asked Grade 13 students How hard voters would have to kick har Ris to move him to a 60degree Angle if the Premier was hanging from a in another the Saunders secondary school teacher allegedly referred to an old Rumour Harris has 11 toes by stating that the Premier had to grow an extra toe so that he could count to these questions outraged who wanted Mountain to be disciplined by the thames Valley District school supporters countered that the teacher frequently uses Public figures of All and even to make math fun for the fusion of politics and teaching is nothing in the Issue peaked in 1999 when teachers conducted illegal strikes to fight proposed changes to their work teachers sported but tons and bumper some circled coffins around schools in a symbolic comment about the declining education similar frustrations have surfaced British Columbia teachers were agitated in the late 1980s by for Mer Premier Bill Vander Palms efforts at educational despite their professional fru Stra educators must suppress their personal political views around Stu said Kris who teaches professionalism in the classroom at Brock University teachers continued please see Humour b3 the was raised from Canadian inuit communities As Well As groups such As the inv Iqaluit regional the fundraising target was set at but Appa says that goal be at least its it will help to get some Hunting the former soviet Union moved Mil Lions of people to the North in a grand bid to populate and industrialize the Tun Russia has half a dozen Arctic cities of up to a Quarter million each built on Concrete piles rammed into the Canadian press mannings warning haunts Alliance leadership under Day comes under attack by Jennifer Ditchburn Ottawa candidates should be care Ful about what they say to avoid that May sound like something out of a political Fortune cookie but it came from the lips of failed Canadian Alliance leadership contestant Preston Manning made the remark during a heated debate with Stockwell the Man who would go on to take the Helm of the Alliance less than a year mannings warning that the new party had no time for a learning curve seems uncannily since Day took the leadership of the Alliance eight months a few things have popped up i the Federal liberals successfully suggest during the election Campaign that Day and the Alliance have a hidden Agenda to Cut Back everything from pen Sions to health i the party has a disappointing elec adding Only two seats East of Manitoba and failing to Dent the Liberal some Rankan file members grumble about Days i Day settles out of court in a High pro file defamation Alberta taxpayers foot the nearly for their Cabinet minister while Day refuses to express regret Over the remarks that landed him in i Alberta Premier Ralph a for Mer Day distances himself from his former treasurer and suggests on More than one occasion that Day pay the province Back for at least some of the lawsuit i a donation is made to the Canadian Alliance by a lawyer at the same firm that received the Lions share of Legal fees from Days Day initially refuses to answer detailed questions about the recycled Media images of a dynamic Day kickboxing and jogging have been replaced by footage of the Leader entering an empty news Confer ence or evading questions by frustrated some Alliance members believe the donation Issue is no More than a tempest in a Teapot that will blow including members of the party nation Al expressed concern that the matter be dealt with professionally and with the greatest still other observers fear that Days court settlement is the one Issue that has inflicted permanent damage on the Day was accused of defamation after he criticized a red Deer lawyer for defending a drawing a link Between the two men in a letter to a local continued please see Day woes b3 a custom window 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