Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 2, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 Canada world news continued on around Canada Hospital workers walk Fredericton thousands of new Brunswick Hospital work ers were expected to go on strike Early today after mediated talks failed to come up with a Las minute Danny spokesman for the Canadian Union of Public said nonessential workers would the Job by Early the Union represents about maintenance clerical registered nursing assistants and lab integrity guru resigns Toronto Ontario integrity commissioner resigned under a Cloud yesterday after admitting earlier that a Friend had helped him write a key judg ment exonerating Premier Mike Harris of alleged conflict in promoting a plan proposed by some of his friends to have Toronto garbage dumped in a Northern Ontario asked Why he didst write the maybe its because in getting doctor negligent Yukon a local doctor who is a former president of the Canadian med ical association has been found negligent in the death of a teenage Allon Reddoch was cited in Yukon supreme court for not providing an acceptable Stan Dard of care to 16yearold Mary Ann who died of botulism on her april Reddoch seemed to be so sure that Grennan symptoms were that he failed to consider any differential judge Howard Irving said in awarding to the Grennan importers have beef Ottawa a week after Canada lifted a ban on brazilian beef thousands of tins of brazilian corned beef remain in Legal and importers Are getting the health department has not rescinded a product recall issued a month ago when Brazil Ian beef imports were suspended due to an alleged risk of mad cow yet brazilian corned beef is being freely sold in the other Naftal said Ralph Sams of Creighton a food broker based in if this Naftal Rule is so strict and How come the americans and mexicans can sell theirs on the shelf teacher guilty Toronto an Ontario teacher has been found guilty of professional misconduct for a relationship with a 14yearold boy that involved sexual do and Clandestine the Ontario College of teach ers ruled yesterday that Annie Mary behaved inappropriately when she engaged in the relationship with the Grade 8 student in the sum Mer of the three member disciplinary panel will not impose a penalty until compiled from Canadian press March 2001 Canad world b1 business b5 tse listings 87 Mutual funds b8 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 world shudders As tanks aimed at masterpieces Afghanistan defying an International Taliban soldiers yesterday began destroying All statues in even targeting two soar ancient statues of Buddha carved into the face of a the ruling islamic militia said they sought to purge the country of idolatrous but their closest said the action could be a backlash against Afghanistan International Iso including unas troops fanned out with everything from rocket launchers to tanks to destroy cultural leaders world wide expressed the head of Enesco asked other islamic countries to pressure the Tal iban to while the director of the metropolitan museum in new York pleaded with afghan officials to give the artefacts to foreign in they Are destroying statues that the entire world considers to be said Koichiro mat director general of the in Edu scientific and cultural or this iconoclastic determination shocks All including the ministry of vice and have been Given the godhead to destroy the the Tal bans information Quadrat us Lah said All the statues All Over the country will be it was impossible to confirm what Tal iban troops had destroyed so particularly whether they had begun demolishing two huge Buddha statues carved into a Cliff at one of the statues is 53 metres High and dates to the fifth Century the other is almost 37 metres tall and dates to the third religious leaders in Pakistan said they understood the Taliban hundreds of people Are Afghanistan has been destroyed by War and the West imposes Fazle or head of Pakistan Jamiat or party of islamic told Western countries dont have any respect for the maybe that is Why they have taken this press Siphie Nibeko associated press disastrous deluge soldiers Rescue a child from floodwaters in the Caia District of Central Mozambique where tens of thousands of people have been although heavy rain and a Lack of helicopters and Large boats were hampering new floods in this Southern african country have killed at least 52 people since the beginning of the flin flon pot sought by aids victim Toronto Man wants Ottawa to Supply him with Weed by Ross Marowitz Toronto Jim Wake Ford is tired of buying drugs on the Street when the Federal government is growing a Safe Supply of pot in a Manitoba the Toronto aids patient is heading Back to court today in an attempt to Force Ottawa to Supply him with a drug he says helps combat stimulate appetite and relieve one of the first canadians Given an exemption to grow and smoke medicinal wants the Ontario court of Appeal to overturn a lower court ruling that the fed eral government does not have to Supply him with the 56yearold says he have to buy marijuana of unknown Quality from a network of confidential contacts when the government is spend ing millions of dollars to grow the Plant in a Prairie Prairie Plant systems of Saskatoon won a million contract from the government to Supply marijuana for medical and research Pur the growing operation in flin flon must produce standardized Weed within a but Wakeford says he cant wait for clinical trials to be com there is no right without to give someone an exemption allowing them to use and cultivate marijuana but no Legal Access to it and no that is not a very kind or courteous let alone compassionate to treat sick and dying and disabled he since when Wakeford gained the right to cultivate and use health Canada has Given put More than 140 other in addition to a Safe he wants caregivers who Supply the drug to be immune from Wakeford added that Medici Nal marijuana should be funded through provincial healthcare plans like traditional i know in a dreamer but they should be he continued j please see marijuana b2 Clark out of Loop on meeting Thatcher beats Leader not consulted on pc Alliance Parley by Jennifer Dutchburn Ottawa As hard As Stockwell Day and Joe Clark try to stay on top of talks Between Canadian Alliance Mem Bers and the conservatives Are pro Gressing without their Clark revealed yesterday he want consulted in Advance about a meeting monday that involved Alliance Campaign co chairman Peter White and Jacques conservative party Day was kept out of the Loop about a private meeting tuesday Between some members of the Alliance and tory Cau and youth members of the two parties have joined forces without Sanction to Dis cuss How they can cooperate Clark reacted with disappointment to legers lunch with i do think we need to have a Clear Clark Enghouse that works better than in the Case of legers meeting with Peter Clark said Ive told Leger that and i think he will in the future try to consult with me in the same manner that members of my caucus Day continued to be slightly out of step with his maps saying he would it put his leadership out on a limb in the event that the two parties wanted to asked whether hed throw his hat into the ring if there was a leadership race for a new conservative Day said Ive already done the new party is the Canadian Alliance and my leadership is endorsed by the he that How the Canadian Alliance very different from other Feder Al and were going to continue to continue to not just to tories but to people right across the Alliance caucus whip John Reynolds had a very different View of obviously if things were to Progress to that somewhere along the line there would probably be demands on both sides that there be a founding convention and we All get Reynolds Stockwell Day has always said quite publicly if that the direction his party wants to go that Hes prepared to be a candidate in that earlier in the Day said he had actively encouraged his maps to meet informally with tory but several Alliance maps said it was the first they had heard of such Day meets today with a group of conservative youth in the Young tories have extended a similar invitation to Canadian press threat charge Moose Colin the former Saskatchewan Cabinet minister serving a life sentence for Mur Dering his was acquitted yesterday of threatening an ramp in a Case that amounted to the officers word against provincial court judge Marty Irwin ruled in favour of the Thatcher was charged with uttering a threat against Laura Cluney last year at a hear ing his application for Early parole Cluney testified he threatened to Hurt or hit her after she directed him to sit Back Down in the prisoners Box during a break in the Thatcher testified yesterday he made no direct threat to continued please see Thatcher b2 show hours fruit noon it lotto u i to Sito Iwko Rikimu All 3 floors filled with exciting summer gear featuring the latest in fishing gear and travel destinations plus 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