Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Is Bieber financial services a Otto Ltd Subic fairy or bit bar Surwit inc Are you minimizing taxes within your financial plan con tet Julie member of Cap at 9460297 or18002059070 or email news continued on around Canada genomics funding Ottawa Canada is making major efforts to become a player in genomics the study of the genetic code even though it missed out on the crucial map Ping Industry minister Brian Tobin was to announce new funding for genomics research today at a news conference in the Money will Likely be channelled through genome a Federal Agency set up last feb officials say the funding will be in addition to million announced for the Agency last air Canada cuts Back Toronto air Canada is cancelling grounding planes and slashing capacity on certain routes As it struggles to Deal with the slowing Over the next air Canada is eliminating nonstop flights Between Ottawa and Montreal and and Montreal and air Canada has also scaled Back frequency on various service Between Toronto and new York la for is Down to 13 daily flights from Clark turns up heat Ottawa conservative Leader Joe Clark turned the heat up another notch on Jean Chretien suggesting the prime minister May have been More deeply involved in a loan to a hotel in his Riding than he has a letter obtained by the tories indicates Yvon owner of the Auberge wrote Chretien seeking help with a Bank loan in Spring of the letter was dated april less than a week before Chretien called a general elec training for activists Ottawa historic railway room will be used to train ant free Trade activists in civil disobedience for the upcoming Summit of the Ameri George a Philadelphia based coach of nonviolent protest will be the key speaker during april 1 meetings coordinated by the Solidarity action sober chief urges Ottawa native leaders who abuse alcohol and other sub stances must sober up before they can truly help their says Canadas most powerful aboriginal our people smoke too much and drink too Matthew Coon National chief of the Assembly of first told an an health conference yes aboriginal health is in what we have is a medical Emer gency that is sweeping across first Are not responding As we must in an compiled from Canadian press february 2001 Canada world b1 business b6 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 culture of secrecy decried by Bruce Cheadle Ottawa after a decade audit ing Canadas auditor Gen eral Denis Desautels says the fiscal House May be in order but the role of parliament is the civil service is a mess and theres a Cul Ture of secrecy that could take years to the Federal record is far from said whose 10 year appointment ends 31 he called his final tabled yes a useful summary of the offices main messages taken from several Hun auditors 10year review finds Federal record is far from perfect dred audit it is key that the government make meaningful accountability a improve the management of its employees and its and initiate a continual review of he the auditor did Praise Ottawa for turn ing around the budget deficits of the Early 1990s and for giving canadians better information on the state of fed eral but he said Overly pessimistic Revenue projections that helped carve Down the deficit Are today being used to create big pots of Money that sit until the end of the then there is a mad scramble to spend while he was careful not Lay Many of Desautels criticisms land at the door of the prime ministers one of the yearned spending sprees he cited was the billion millennium scholarship the pet project of prime minister Jean the same fund was also singled out among a troubling trend of the Liber als to create new agencies just outside the governments which the auditor general is not permitted to there still spending Public Money and they should receive the same scrutiny As government Desautels told the standing committee on Public continued please see criticisms b3 mom recalls finding Tot Frozen stiff Edmonton woman questioned at police station for four hours by Kim Mcleod Mother of a toddler who almost died of hypothermia recalled the excruciating moment she discovered her daughters Frozen body lying face Down in the Leyla had run through the House in a panic when she realized Oney Earold Erika was her heart Sank when she realized the Back door was then something caught her Eye in the Snow and she ran towards realizing it was her Childs crumpled it was the worst feeling she was stiff in my said whose words were barely audible As she struggled to speak Between the mothers comments yesterday were her first since her daughters ordeal and miraculous the Little girl had wandered outside undetected in c temperatures sometime before Dawn and succumbed to the bitter her heart had her icy toes could not be separated and her Mouth was Frozen shut when her Mother picked up her and ran into the the toddler was eating and babbling away at medical staff As she rested in her Hospital bed and waited to move from intensive care to a general she has severe frostbite on her hands and feet but does it appear to have suffered immediate brain Nordby gently stroked Erikas Cheeks As she recalled How paramedics worked on her they took her from me and took her onto the table and they were working so fast on All of a sudden one of them said we got a lets move continued please see Frozen Tot b3 an Jackson Canadian press Leyla Nordby cuddles her 13monthold daughter Erika in Edmonton president faces first test with Call for Large and retroactive tax Cut Bush asks Congress for refund George Bush beckoned the Congress yesterday to support a Large and retroactive tax declaring in a nationally televised the people of Amer Ica have been and on their i am Here to ask for a on the 39th Day of his Bush vowed to set the United states on a different path by slashing Federal debt while increasing spending for pop ular government should be Active but Lim engaged but not he republicans cheered with democrats without As Bush made his Way Down the Centre aisle of the House of representatives chamber to begin his not even the pageantry of the moment both houses of diplomats and Cabinet officials assembled could extinguish All echoes of last Falls con tested presidential election i know Congress had to formally invite and it could have been a close said while referring to the even split Between democrats and republicans in the so vice president i appreciate you being Here to break the with the government awash in budget the country 43rd president offered something for everybody Over the next decade trillion in tax including reductions in every income bracket trillion in debt reduction increased spending for conservation and other programs and protections for social Security and if it sounds too Good to be maybe it House minority Leader Dick we think we should be More More in approaching this tax Bush announced the outlines of a Bud get approaching it favours Law enforcement and other popular while curbing growth in freezing the Federal contributions to the arts and humanities and jeopardizing assistance to the though not referring to either Mexico or Canada by Bush did allude to the benefits of free Trade Between the United states and its two North Ameri can free Trade brings greater political and personal Bush each of the previous five presidents has had the ability to negotiate far reaching Trade tonight i ask you to give me the Strong hand of presidential Trade pro motion and to do so the new president wants Congress to fast track Trade negotiations that Are aimed at eventually creating a free Trade zone throughout the in the first test of his Bush was trying to convince the american associated press Bush a different path Public that cutting taxes would boost the sluggish Economy and ensure Congress Doest squander the budget suggest voters Are lukewarm to Bush tax Cut which he presented on the Campaign Trail 14 months 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