Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weve got news news continued on b5 around Canada feds target diplomats Ottawa Foreit diplomats who drink and drive will lose their licences after one offence and be thrown out of the country after foreign affairs minis Ter John Manley said a first offence could also Merit expulsion if it involves death or conceding a failure of policy in the Case of a Drunken russian Diplomat who struck and killed an Ottawa pedestrian in Manley said from now there will be Zero tolerance toward drunk driving worker hoarded mail Christ Mas Bills and thousands of other pieces of mail Are finally being delivered after they were found stashed in a postal workers Home and the pieces of it was found this week in the Possession of a Relief Carrier who covered routes for sick workers and those on Man has lost his Job but will not be Canada Post Carstairs appointed Ottawa prime minister Jean Chretien announced yester Day that Sharon government Leader in the will take on special responsibility for palliative palliative is for individuals and families who Are living with a life threatening drunk had no licence red a Man who Hast held a valid Drivers licence since 1967 has been sentenced for his 17th drunk Dri ving r Richard Sawyer was sentenced to 18 months in tuesday after pleading guilty to several driving and theft Crown prosecutor Morrey ferries said Mcleod is the Type of Driver everyone in the Public has a right to f veterans get More Ottawa the Chretien government is going to spend another million to compensate merchant Navy says Liberal Senate Leader Sharon pushing the final Bill for compensation to Mil veterans affairs minister Ron Duhamel confirmed yester Day that something in the Range of million was being Dis but was obviously upset that his Cabinet colleague was usurping his that a Ballpark that he adding i dont like it when people assume things that they dont know anything activists go to school Toronto hundreds of activists plan to attend a three Day protest Boot Camp in Toronto this weekend to Leani civil Dis obedience tactics to use at the Summit of the americas in que Bec City next More than 300 bowl be pro testers from across will descend on a Toronto Church for senior offi cers say that so Many resources Are being diverted to provide Security that entire crime fight ing units Are being stripped of their top compiled from Canadian press March 2001 Canada world b1 business b7 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 offshore Money raised to oust Clark Mulroney backers got Cash to attend convention Csc by Jim Brown Ottawa the conservative party past flashed before its eyes yesterday in the form of renewed claims that foreign Money was raised by backers of Brian Mulroney to help under mine Joe Clarks leadership in neither of the key players was anxious to relive the it was a Long time Clark noted outside a tory caucus if i have to comment on that i will in my but i dont consider it a cur rent his onetime adversary was even More Mulroney has no com said an aide at the former prime ministers Montreal Law at Issue was a report by the Csc pro Gram the fifth estate in which two businessmen German born Karlheinz Schreiber and Austria born Walter Wolf confirmed they helped to Chan Nel funds to Mulroney supporters work ing to unseat Clark during his first stint As party i was donating Money for that Wolf told the i want the there were people which were working against Clark at that starting from Mulroney Schreiber acknowledged that Wolf approached and i was collecting Money to support the leadership for hoping that he would the two men indicated the Money they say How much was used to Fly delegates Loyal to Mulroney from Quebec to Winnipeg for a tory Conven Tion that was to vote on Clarks Clark won the Confidence of 68 per cent of the convention but concluded that was not Strong he decided to submit to a full fledged leadership contest and lost to Tannis Toorev Canadian press three year old Seth a healthy mismatch heart transplant reads with his Mother blood Type Matching unneeded in infant heart transplants doctors unwrap a gift of life by Helen Branswell Toronto doctors from the hos Pital for sick children have discovered it is possible to give a baby a heart from a child of another blood a procedure that would Lead to disastrous results in the discovery Means doctors will be Able to use the first available heart for critically ill improving their chances of survival and reducing the number of precious donor hearts wasted because there is no recipient with a Matching blood the Hospital has performed 10 such operations since Lead author Lori West reported today in the new England journal of two of the babies rejection of the heart because of mismatched blood Type was not the cause in either the results of those 10 surgeries were compared with an equal number in which infants were Given a blood Type compatible heart there was no difference in the rates of complications or rejection problems Between the two its so exciting to be Able to have such a Good response in terms of find ing donors for these babies that Are otherwise destined to West said now this is routine at our Hospital More or one child who is alive today because of the discovery is Seth of who celebrated his third birthday this Seth was born with Hyp plastic left heart which meant the left pumping chamber of his heart never doctors initially tried to Correct the defect with but by the time Seth was 11 months it was Clear a heart transplant was his Only for three months Seth languished in intensive waiting for a donor heart that matched his b blood it never eventually doctors at sick kids suggested trying a transplant with a heart from an a blood Type the operation was a Success and he is now a three year if Seth had been older How much no one is 100 per cent sure his body would have formed enough anti bodies to the foreign blood Type to spark a process called hyper cute the antibodies in his blood would just Latch on to the heart and initiate a Vio Lent Cascade of when that its a very dramatic and devastating West Canadian press professor supports Homolka Law by James Mccarten Toronto a proposal to keep Karla Homolka behind bars indefinitely May not be As constitutionally flawed As critics have a University professor the rights of offenders can be cur tailed under the charter of rights if they threaten the principles of fundamental University of Toronto Law pro Fessor Kent Roach denied statutory release ear Lier this week amid fears she could kill is at the Centre of a debate about whether she should walk free when her 12year sentence for her part in the sex killings of two teenage girls ends in critics have been Quick to assail lawyer Tim Dansons proposed sexual predator Law dubbed the Homolka Law that would keep eligible prisoners behind bars As does an exist ing dangerous offender opponents View it As a potential violation of human rights that could see offenders punished twice for the same but Roach said Section 1 of the Char Ter allows for a reasonable limit on other rights when justified by a legitimate Public safety that would be one of the things a court would have to decide does it constitute further punishment or is it something that is fundamentally continued please see Homolka b5 Peter Brevoo Canadian press Clark bows his head in prayer at the Start of the fateful 1983 tory convention in there have Long been rumours that who now does business in Slove Nia but was based in Quebec in 1983 and was considered close to helped raise Money from foreign donors for his continued please see Clark b5 prescribed drugs take big study finds by Helen Branswell Toronto prescription drugs Are taking up an increasing share of health care spending in a report from the Canadian Institute for health information revealed but while the statistics demonstrate the increasing importance of drug therapies in medicines bag of the responsibility for paying for drugs remains in Large measure outside the Universal healthcare meaning ones Access to such treatment depends on ones ability to experts its these two things combined which of led Many people to be quite said healthcare economist Jeremiah Given the increasing role of medi Cines As medically necessary treat and Given the important role of private does this mean that some canadians May have compromised Access to effective and necessary treat ments canadians spent an estimated billion on drugs last that figure represents per cent of Overall health More than was spent on Doc tors per year in the Only item that took a bigger chunk of the country healthcare Dollar was Hospital the Institute the average Canadian spent on drugs in an increase of per cent from the previous the Institute reported that 25 per cent of All drug costs Are being paid for by individuals out of their own a Quarter of All expenditures on pre scribed drugs in Canada Are coming out of a persons personal there not covered by either Public or private said who is with the Centre for health economics and policy analysis at Mcmaster University in when Consumers Are required to pay significant portions out of Many people who need therapies go without the report shows that in per cent of prescription drug costs were picked up by the private sector individuals and insurance while Only 41 per cent was covered on the pub Lic with the downturn in the increasing numbers of people Are losing jobs and with those losing Bene fits such As drug Canadian press ;