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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 14, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba In Brief a14 Canada / world w Winnipeg f ree p Resst thursday pril 14, 2005 Toonie tuesday buy any medium or Large pizza at regular Price and receive second for $ 2.00 please present this Coupon before ordering. Not valid with any other offer. No Cash value. Limit one Coupon per customer per visit. Valid at participating Manitoba locations. Expiry Date april 30, 2005. Palliser rooms is closing and we need to sell everything in the store save up to 70% during the Palliser rooms liquidation. Closeout Sale we have hundreds of top Quality mattresses at liquidation prices. Twin full Queen and King. Fashionable innovative affordable 1000 St. James Street Winnipeg my 204.783.6400 important Public notice Palliser rooms is closing its doors for Good and we need to clearcut All the remaining inventory. As a result we Are offering unheard of savings on everything in the store. This closure is a great Opportunity for you to buy some of our Best product at the lowest prices we can offer. All of our factories Are supporting this Sale and our goal is to sell everything in the store. Dont miss out Stop by our location today by Bob Weber s Tony Plain Alta. She was a Bright Beautiful 13 year old shining Star her family recalled. But Nina Louise Courte patters Star fell from the sky in what police Are calling a chilling premeditated murder. Four people appeared in court yesterday accused of first degree murder for allegedly luring the girl from West Edmonton mall and killing her on a Golf course West of the City. She was taken out misled Given information and then suffered a very violent death said ramp const. Craig Albers. Its disturbing to All our investigators and probably to almost everybody in our communities. Ninaus body was found at the Edmonton Springs resort Golf course on april 4. An autopsy indicated the cause of death was Blunt Force trauma. The girl who was known to hang out at the retail Complex and was familiar to mall Security was last seen by her parents with friends april 1. Nina last spoke with her parents on the phone shortly after Midnight april 2. There was no indication at that time the parents should be concerned said Albers. Police believe Nina knew two of the accused. They also believe she went to the Golf course willingly. Her parents reported her missing two Days after grounds workers found a body. It took several More Days before police released her name. The four accused Michael Erin Briscoe 34, of Edmonton Joseph Laboucane 19, of fort St. John b. C., and a 17 year old youth and girl from Edmonton All appeared in provincial court in Stony Plain yesterday. Relatives of Nina who watched the proceedings struggled to understand what had happened. She was energetic smart Beautiful. Said her sister Tran Dis Arsenault 31. She was a shining Star. Every time i saw her it was great because she was always smiling and laughing and cheerful and outgoing. She was so sensitive and Sweet. Arsenault who lives in Winnipeg Hadnot seen her sister since she was seven but her memories Are vivid. I remember going to her birthday parties bringing her a big cake having her jump up and Down. Shed be smiling and Happy and running around just being a kid. Thatus All gone now. Nina had been offered a local modelling scholarship after entering a Talent show said Arsenault. In court a handcuffed Briscoe appeared agitated and mouthed i did not do it in the direction of his Mother and brother who were in the court. I dont know whats going on said Violet Briscoe who lives North of Edmonton. Brother Darren Briscoe 36, said he was just As shocked As his Mother. I was not aware he was in custody Darren Briscoe said. He said he and his brother were in regular if not frequent Contact although he did not know his friends. He also said his brother drives tractor trailer trucks. A Man who described himself As a Friend of labour ans also expressed Surprise at the charges. I believe hers being pinned for something he did not do said the Man who reveal his name. Laboucane s an easy going caring Guy. The cases of Briscoe and Laboucane were put Over until april 27. The two juveniles Are to appear May 6 in Stony Plain youth court. Canadian press girl found dead on Golf course four charged drug shown to slow alzheimer res Toronto a drug has been shown for the first time to slow the slide into alzheimer res disease in patients with mild cognitive impairment although it does not Stop the devastating condition from occurring u. S. And Canadian researchers say. Furthermore the researchers found that Vitamin e had no effect in holding Back the progression into alzheimer res a disease that affects More than 400,000 canadians Over age 65. The study published online yesterday in the new England journal of Medicine showed that the drug done Ezil kept the symptoms of alzheimer res at Bay for about the first 12 months of treatment. Jewish settlers stockpile in Gaza Neve de Kalim Gaza strip jewish settlers in Gaza have collected hundreds of tents and Are stockpiling food for thousands of supporters they expect to arrive in coming Days to help resist this Summers evacuation. Removal of the 21 settlements from Gaza and four from the West Bank is shaping up As a traumatic social episode in israelis history. Lebanese pm Steps Down Beirut Lebanon is pro syrian prime minister designate stepped Down yesterday saying he was unable to form a new government after nearly seven weeks of deadlock. The move by Omar Karami heightens the country is political turmoil and makes it unlikely crucial elections will be held on time. Hostage pleads for life Baghdad an Indiana Man scared and clutching his passport to his Chest was shown at gunpoint on a videotape aired by Al Nazeera television yesterday two Days after he was kidnapped from a water treatment Plant near Baghdad. The station said he pleaded for his life and urged u. S. Troops to withdraw from Iraq. In Laporte ind., a yellow ribbon was tied around a tree outside Jeffrey Akes one Storey Brick House and an american Flag fluttered on a pole from the Home. From the news services by Helen Branswell Toronto the head of the a hons global influenza program said yesterday that countries which have not already done so should upgrade the Bio safety level applied to the flu Strain that laboratories around the world Are racing to destroy because of its pandemic potential. Now its More than overdue perhaps to review the situation the Bio safety Levels that Are being attached to this virus or. Klaus Stohr of the world health organization told the Canadian press in an interview from Geneva. Or. Julie Gerberding director of the u. S. Centers for disease control suggested authorities in the u. S. Will Speed Forward with deliberations Over a recommendation that the Strain known As h2n2, be upgraded from a level 2 Bio safety Grade to a level 3, As it is in Canada. The scientific director of Canadas National microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg said the u. S. Ought to take that step. Its Clear that this h2n2 virus should be a level 3 virus to me and i think thatus what will happen in the United states or. Frank Plummer said in an interview. The live virus was contained in vials that identified it As a level 2 Pathogen which complies with u. S. Bio safety ratings. But the import permit submitted to Canadian authorities should have identified the virus As a level 3 Pathogen in compliance with Canadian Bio safety regulations. Instead it listed the virus As a level 2 Pathogen of the influenza a Shanghai Strain. Rating Levels determine which pathogens a lab can work with. The higher the rating level 4 is the most secure the greater the number of precautions taken. H2n2 is considered one of the top candidates to Start a pandemic and has a proven track record of transmits ability among humans. Since it a snot circulated in people since 1968, anyone born after that would have no immunity to it. It was sent to More than 5,000 unsuspecting laboratories in 18 countries since last september As part of a proficiency kit labs use to Check How Good their tests Are at detecting unidentified viruses. Twenty Canadian laboratories received the kit All have assured the Public health Agency of Canada that they have destroyed the Sample virus. H2n2 is the influenza Subtype that caused the 1957 asian flu pandemic which killed an estimated one million to four million people around the Globe. The mistake came to Light when a Vancouver area Hospital Laboratory inadvertently contaminated a specimen from a patient who did not have flu symptoms with virus from the test kit. Canadian press family weeps for shining Start handout / Edmonton journal / Canadian press Cou Tepatte 13 lured from mall found dead on Golf course flu Strain scare Sparks warning to up safety level ;