Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 26, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2001 u Andry rival drops out of pm race pane la Quebec its ail hut official Bernard Landry will avoid a Bat the to head the Farsi quebecois and be crowned Leader at a convention next the official end of the Lucien Bouchard Era would come a few Days later when the finance minister is sworn in As Landry will be the third consecutive pm Leader to be named without under going a leadership his Only declared Jean backed out of the race yesterday when he met privately with Landry at a hotel in where Landry was to speak As a part of his province wide Campaign a Las minute entry is the deadline for other contenders to step for Ward is 5 today and they must fur Nish the signatures of at least party members from 40 different a former Quebec Green party Leader who has never been elected to the needed 300 More signatures to reach As of last a month after announcing his Candi Dacy by symbolically climbing the Frozen Montmorency waterfalls outside Quebec Ouimet says he worked out an honourable exit with i wanted my candidacy to strengthen the rally the Sovereign lists and make the possibility of sovereignty for que Bec More said Ouimet As he left his meeting with i did not want this to be seen As a rup Ture in the but rather a step to gather the progressive forces in by dropping Ouimet saved his party from a monthlong leadership race that would have Cost the pm about Landry invited Ouimet to become More involved in the but the degree of his involvement will not be Clear until Landry takes his ascension to the pm leadership Marks the fulfilment of a longstanding a passionate Landry made no secret of his ambitions earlier in his he has been a Loyal second i command since when he returned to the legislature after embark ing on teaching stints in universities around the world when the Quebec liberals gained Power in who turns 64 next helped to found the party with Rene Levesque in 1968 and dropped out of a leadership race against Pierre Marc Johnson in politics is a world of he said before Landry commitment to sovereignty had lost its Appeal at a time when the party was straying from its separatist anyone who claims not to have any either got into the wrong business or just int telling the in capable of reaching the top he has served in the Cabinet of every pm Premier Jacques Parizeau and who announced his retirement from politics on the Ruddy faced Deputy Premier is a gifted orator with a velvet smooth his fiery attacks on Federal ism often make him the Centre of con Landry outraged English Canada when he compared the Maple Leaf to a red rag in Canadian press Jacques Boi Sinot Canadian press Bernard Landry Only declared pm rival has backed out of the Nesbitt Burns of the of soup of tempt Natl Hill Erie the free press were there for you next entry form in february 28th paper Cornerstone International violent storms Batter twister kills 5 in Mississippi Snow doses highways in North a 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their Home was ripped apart around they survived but his 36 year old a sister and a Nephew were killed in houses Only metres we had been watching the news and they were tornadoes were coming through our area and my Soninlaw called us and told us to be aware that it might be in the Randolph Community Seale said in a Tele phone on the colder Side of the about 420 Kilometres of interstate 90 were closed overnight until yesterday after noon from East to Blue stretches of 194 in Minnesota and North Dakota and parts of 135 in South Ern Minnesota and Iowa also were authorities Minnesota Highway department closed All state highways in seven South Western counties because Snow lows keep up with the Drifting were just losing ground All said Renard Minnesota state patrol dispatcher in Detroit northeastern Minnesota collected More than 50 centimetres of including 60 at South Dakota authorities reopened segments of 190 yesterday afternoon As Crews slowed out drifts and removed stalled press Footman Mouth disease confirmed again in Farmers burning hundreds of carcasses London British agricultural authorities confirmed new cases of foot and Mouth disease at a cattle and sheep farm in southwestern England amid rising fears of a wider officials in Northern England began the grim task of burning the carcasses of hundreds of animals slaughtered in an Effort to contain the highly infectious livestock More than 800 pigs doused in Oil and placed on pyres of Straw and rail ties were set on fire in North umber in the outbreaks first Massin Cin Britain has been scrambling since 19 to contain the outbreak of foot and Mouth its Firstin exports of milk live Anion is have been banned and inspectors been and Slaughter houses suspected of the Dis the latest confirmed reported by the agriculture were found in at a sheep and cattle farm that is part of a 14farm the 13 other farms Are now being inspected As Large number the new cases brought the number of Sites where the disease has been con firmed to agriculture officials would not spec Ify How Many suspect cases were being checked but said it was a Large num our Hopes that the disease could be contained have been horribly Shat said Ben president of the National Farmers we Are now More determined than Ever to maintain our vigilance and beat this authorities also confirmed prior to last weeks Export sheep from the Devon farm had been sent to buyers in agriculture minister Nick Brown acknowledged there was thus a risk infected sheep could have been exported before the outbreak was Dis veterinary officials cannot say precisely when the British outbreak began but some have speculated the disease could have been pre sent for As Long As three weeks before being so More than animals have been in a disastrous foot and Mouth epidemic continued for months and forced the Slaughter of nearly a Hal million animals in in the More than pigs and Deer were slaughtered As a preventive All from farms that imported animals from officials said no Footman Mouth cases have been Belgium imposed a ban saturday on All transport of sheep and Footman Mouth disease spreads very it can be spread from one through or carried by boots and the outbreak has raised questions about Jno Dern farming and whether transport and Slaughter animals More Vul officials have not announced the num Ber of confirmed Only places where the disease has been it is presumed wherever the disease is it will so All animals at risk to More than Are being human cases of Footman Mouth Dis ease Are extremely it affects animals with Cloven causing blisters around the hoofs and loss of fever and vaccines but Are quickly rendered ineffective by the development of new strains of the so whole Sale Slaughter is used to contain associated press ;