Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba March 2001 Winnipeg free press Winnipeg subscribers Only the weather d12 mix of Sun and High 15 Low 20 t garbage Day 5 schooldays inside Gillmor predicts the Oscar winners free press film critic Alison Gillmor tears open the Enve Lope and her predictions sunday nights Academy awards d1 car thieves beware Justice minister Gord Mackintosh says the nip will launch a War on car including tougher legislation and use of a global positioning system to catch Crooks in the act a3 witness grilled a key witness in the Barbara Stoppel murder trial who has retracted his testimony against Thomas soph now is lying when he says police coached the a police Union lawyer suggested yesterday a6 sheep destroyed a disease that kills sheep and has put the lives of Sobie southwestern Manitoba Farmers on the Federal government has destroyed animals after a handful found to have died from scrapie a8 in business Tunnel darkens the economic downturn which has spilled into Canada from the United states could last longer and hit harder than first some analysts Are now saying b7 a Mirdeath experience once the Pride of the russian space the aging space station Mir was turned into a fireball Over the Pacific Ocean Early get the full Story on pages 2 teens to get vaccine province set to announce multimillion Dollar Effort to Battle meningitis by Alexandra Paul the province is expected to announce today a multimillion Dollar vaccine Campaign against meningitis targeting Winnipeg senior health officials con firmed last the province will be the second in Canada after Alberta to launch a wide spread Campaign to combat the worst outbreak of Beningo Coucal meningitis since Quebec has administered the vaccine in some schools but has yet to Call for a province wide or citywide the Campaign Here is expected to Cost in the Range of million to senior officials the Manitoba measures follow on the heels of reports last night of two More unconfirmed cases of including the first death this a girl died wednesday night at the childrens hos Pital and her sister was reported to have been admitted to Hospital with suspected in aware of the death but its not confirmed we Are waiting for the autopsy a highly placed Sweet Home Joe free press Hes her hero Kim Lenton gives husband Kevin a passionate kiss As he arrives at Winnipeg Kapyon Barracks yes he is one of about 80 Manitoba soldiers who returned Home after a seven month peacekeeping Mission in Bosnia and got a Joyful greeting from family please see Story on Page a4 source in the health department said last a department spokeswoman also con firmed the saying Public health officials were waiting for autopsy reports to determine the we have no information on the Sib Debbie Mackenzie continued please see meningitis a2 doer mends funding Gaffe campuses get Mph had to cancel by Nick Martin warning cigarette smoking May win you trip to new York by Mia Rabson want a free trip to new York youd better Start antismoking crusaders is the message of a Dumaurier contest advertisement which began appearing in Canadian newspapers yester including the free the which offers a Chance to win one of two trips to manhat Tan including hotel and us spending has Fine print requiring entrants to certify they Are a smoker 19 years of age or several antismoking advocates branded it an inducement for nonsmokers to Iff Light Mark president of physicians for a smoke free said Imperial Dumaurier Par j ent already has nearly 70 per cent of Canadas Market share in cigarettes and he Doest think the company would spend Money to Only target smokers who dont already choose their its a foolish and ridiculous Taylor it would it make any sense to be putting big ads in papers to go after such a minus Cule they Are try ing to encourage people to Start but Michel spokesman for Imperial said the and is completely within limits and his company has a strict policy to communicate Only with the likelihood that someone takes up smoking simply to Register in a contest is he Descoteaux said that the company ran a similar and Campaign last year for a trip to Vancouver and nobody raised a if it had been illegal we have been sued by now Descoteaux do you think we would put out an and like this without being absolutely cer Tain its perfectly Legal but Taylor said the and obviously is going after Young which goes against the intentions of the tobacco continued please see Dumaurier a2 Premier Gary doer tried to Patch up what is quite possibly his governments biggest Gaffe yesterday by handing the University of Winnipeg million to repair crumbling doer also gave Boniface College and is expected to present million to Brandon University we made that announcement a laughing doer told a news conference at the u of we had the right motive the right we just didst get it quite right in terms of How the Public wanted us to fund last Manitoba Public insurance announced at the u of w that it was donating million of its revenues which it had deemed sur plus to the three of four major Post secondary funding announcements made during that week last it was the Only one doer a Public furore forced Mph to Back track and rebate the million to individual motorists government claims that Mph acted on its own initiative stood up for four before it emerged that labour minister Becky Barrett had been involved in the decision for she has since lost responsibility for the Public we recalibrate our in the sense of listening to the doer told reporters declining to discuss the Mph debacle he said the infrastructure repair fund ing is now coming from provincial revenues fuelled by economic and is a firm the Public we recalibrate our announce in the sense of listening to the Public Premier Gary does continued please see universities a4 fam my Friday h5 million ;