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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Fin i Jim digest Index local the Bac Page b20 editorials a18 Faith c8 focus a19 letters to the editor a19 business stocks b14 social notices c6 family notices in memorial c9 classified c11 Jumble d14 diversions Ann Landers b3 comics b2 sports record entertainment b1 movies b7 prime time to c20 weather c20 deaths Iii Murdock husband of lil Lian of husband of Joyce Kenneth George husband of Ida widow of Mike George husband of Agatha Gert Murray Beatrice wife of Jack Gerald Hoggins Horatio Orville Rufus husband of Elizabeth Katherine widow of Arthur Kolenich Eleata widow of William Bill of Campbell Hus band of Annie Thomas Keith husband of Susan David widow of Henry widow of Joseph Francis Xavier husband of of widow of Paul widow of Albert Bill Herbert of husband of Elaine Rose of Sault wife of Bruce widow of Martin widow of Saul Shil Kows Malcom of husband of Audrey widower of Marthe St Robert Howard husband of of 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resources Don Dufort 6977358 director of operations and technology Glenn Williams 6977045 Canada Post sales agreement no 0563595 recycled newsprint is used in the production of this please heritage continued from Page a1 the heritage advocates said they expect to focus their defence of the building on an environmental review that the True North group will have to do on the Arena project before they can get Ottawa contribution of Federal and provincial officials informed True North in a meeting last month that have to hold a Public meeting and submit an environmental assessment on the which will also consider the Impact the project will have on the cites building none of this has taken us by sur said True North spokesman Jim we knew this was part of the process All Murray said the City and the buildings owner spent the last two years trying to find uses for the building but could not find a viable what Are they proposing to do with it Murray asked the buildings defend Murray said the monumental size of the building combined with its structural problems make saving it taking the building Down was not our first Murray what we dont want is a building that exhausted its practical life and is too Large and too expensive to Christine a political science professor at the University of said there Are Many people in the City who dont believe Eaton should be demolished and who feel betrayed by Murray role in the downtown Arena its not that were opposed to the common Singh there Are Many other Sites where it could be common Singh said the Campaign will include heritage proponents from across the country putting pressure on politicians and intervening in a Federal environmental review of the Arena Federal heritage minister Sheila Copps said in Winnipeg yesterday she want about to get involved in the controversy Over the buildings As much Asim a believer in saving heritage its up to the Community to Copps said in an inter Anthony said emails condemning the demolition Are crisscrossing the coun All Large projects that receive Federal funding must be screened through the Federal environmental assessment the True North group was officially informed last week that the review will assess the projects suitability and Impact on the Impact on the cites heritage is just one of the criteria with which the Arena project will be True North will have to explain Why they picked the Eaton what other Sites were considered and Why they were True North will also have to hold Public meetings to get Community All documents filed by True North As part of the assessment will be available to the probably at the Centennial Public True North secured almost million in funding from the three Levels of government to offset the Cost of construct the plan Calls to demolish the Eaton building this fall and construct a seat facility that will be connected to the cites skywalk Anthony said he was disappointed that Federal infrastructure funds Are being used for the Arena adding that Ottawa Only recently agreed to use fed eral Money to save heritage now there proposing to use those funds to destroy a heritage Anthony its sadly Millican said True North has hired a consultant to prepare the assessment and will hold a Public meeting later this d Hep continued from Page a1 she noted that the 95 per cent match rate was the highest in the Fol Lowed by at 88 per last Manitoba became the fifth province after British Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia to Trace blood Transf Sion recipients and advise them to be tested for hepatitis also known As the province expects the testing will Cost the blood borne virus is known to Lead to liver cirrhosis in 20 to 30 per cent of while Many patients go on to develop liver the disease can be dormant for 15 to 20 years before symptoms donated blood has been screened for Rcv since Renner said just because a person int on the list and didst get a letter Doest mean they Arent covered by the notification but Chomiak disagrees with advocates of Universal we cant screen and test for every single the health minister that Why we encourage primary health for everyone to have a fam ily Chomiak pointed to the recent Menin gitis vaccination when Many people wanted vaccination to extend beyond Winnipeg As an exam ple of a program where it didst make medical or economic sense to vaccinate Kelly a hepatitis c researcher and director of the viral hepatitis unit at the University of Man also disagrees that All Manitoban need to be wed be checking 100 people to find one Kaita that a waste of but if you have a known risk you should be Kaita said those risk factors include intravenous drug having family members with hepatitis c and being a dialysis but Buckels says the provinces own figures Back up his push for Universal there Are Manitoban diagnosed with hepatitis while National statistics indicate a further people May have the disease and Are Doc tors say 75 per cent of hepatitis c Vic Tims were intravenous drug while the remainder were infected by tainted Winnipeg Ger Lester Landry Doest know if Hes one of those Landry had surgery and recently Dis covered there Are no records indicating whether he received there might be thousands of people who dont he its pretty Landry was 23 when he was admitted to the the Misericordia general hos Pital for emergency surgery after his appendix Landry said he didst know whether he received but after giving his new address to Manitoba health to ensure he was he was called by a woman from the health she said they dont have a record for me because All the Misericordia Hospital records Arent he if it turns out i do have hepatitis How am i going to get the in compensation its a pretty lame wish said Landry should ask to be tested if Hes anyone concerned should be she fewer than 25 people have tested positive for hepatitis c since the province launched a massive notification program in health department officials in the past two Manito bans have had their blood a special information 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