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Ca 54 years of Comfort fit & Quality relaxed style designer Comfort even on the go All Day youll have a Spring in your step thanks to soft leather uppers Bounce Back cushioning Strong steel Shank and a supportive Rocker sole. And theress a removable inlay so you can fit your custom orthotic. I know two of the three people and i know them to be very committed to the file Anita Neville by Meghan Hurley the province asked the Winnipeg clinic to ship a Container of isotopes used to test for cancer and other diseases to Brandon in an Effort to help ease the nationwide shortage. The shortage has resulted from the extended shutdown of a federally owned reactor in Chalk River ont. The reactor provides isotopes needed to help diagnose hundreds of thousands of patients every week in Canada and around the world. We informed them of the situation and asked if they would be willing to collaborate with us to ensure All emergent and urgent patients would have Access to the diagnostics that Are done with radioisotopes Arlene Wilgosh Deputy minister of health said monday. They were More than willing to participate. The clinic receives one Container of isotopes per week and agreed to Send this weeks shipment to Brandon. The situation will be assessed again next week to determine if More will be needed Wilgosh said. The Winnipeg clinic will inevitably have a shortage of isotopes after sending this weeks Supply to Brandon chief executive officer Tom Malone said. But he still agreed to help out. In having a shortage that no one planned for we have to work together to help out those patients Malone said. Health sciences Centre will take the overflow of the Winnipeg clinics More serious patients who cannot be accommodated Malone said. The clinic will have no Choice but to cancel or reschedule the appointments of patients with less serious conditions he added. The province Manitoba ass regional health authorities and the Winnipeg clinic coming together during a crisis is an example of exceptional teamwork Wilgosh said. The most important thing is that we Are pulling together for Manitoban she said. Our system works together. Despite the National shortage of isotopes Manitoba Isnit doing too badly. In some respects Manitoba May be in a better position than some other provinces because we had Access to Supply from Tyco Wilgosh said. Manitoban have been Able to get the radioisotopes but not the same Quantity. The province receives medical isotopes from both Chalk River 180 Kilometres Northwest of Ottawa and from Tyco in the Netherlands Malone said. There Are no plans in the works for sharing Manitoba ass Supply with other provinces. If other provinces Send their patients to Manitoba thatus another Story Wilgosh said. Meghan. Hurley free press. My. Ca clinic asked to share isotopes nationwide shortage beginning to Hurt in having a shortage that no one planned for we have to work together to help out those patients by Mia Rabson t free top bureaucrats at Indian and Northern affairs Canadas regional office in Manitoba were put on paid administrative leave monday amid an ongoing audit of the offices operations and finances. The affected employees Are regional director general Mary Blais associate director Martin Egan and associate director of funding services operations Fred Mills. This decision has been taken to ensure the Independence of the audit said inac spokeswoman Patricia Valladao. She would not give any More details about the reason for putting the three on paid leave but said that status would remain in place until the external audit is completed. The audit is being done to ensure the office is using Public funds efficiently Valladao said. Inac Manitoba oversees delivery of in acts programs and services to aboriginal people mostly on Reserve including health care education and housing. The office also works with chiefs and councils on treaty land entitlement and economic development. Assembly of Manitoba chiefs grand chief Ron Evans is in Ottawa this week for a special chiefs meeting of the Assembly of first nations. Evans spokeswoman Nakina Sankar said while the grand chief is there he is seeking a meeting with Indian and Northern affairs minister Chuck Strahl. He wants to discuss whats going on Sankar said. An interim management team has been appointed to ensure programs and services continue to be delivered Valladao said. The audit is being done by an Independent firm. It was ordered in october in the Wake of Anonymous complaints As Well As the results of an internal management review. Inac set up a confidential whistle Blower phone line hoping to coax information from employees who May have been afraid to talk. Anne Scotton the chief audit and evaluation executive for inac informed Manitoba inac employees of the audit on oct. 3. She told them the audit was looking at the regional offices financial practices and the formal and informal relationships of the people involved. Two specific files Manitoba Hydro and the governance House project were singled out for specific scrutiny. But Scotton would not divulge any details about the allegations that led to the review or what those two files Are about. She said All the inac regional offices were going to be audited and the Manitoba Region was the first. Winnipeg Centre nip my Pat Martin said he thinks it is unprecedented that three High ranking bureaucrats including the regional director and associate director Are escorted out of their office. Clearly the auditor is on to something Martin said. However he said Strahl told him in an informal conversation monday that none of the three people is directly implicated but that to get at what was really going on the three needed to be moved out of the Way. This is really huge Martin said. He said he has also been told that while All in acts regional offices Are going to be looked at Winnipeg was chosen to be first because it had the most complaints. Winnipeg South Centre my Anita Neville the Liberal part yes Indian affairs critic said she wants to know More about what is happening with the inac offices before commenting. It certainly is unusual Neville said. I know two of the three people and i know them to be very committed to the file. Valladao said there is no deadline for the audit to be completed. Mia. Rabson free press. My. Ca top Indian affairs officials put on administrative leave three Manitoba employees to be off Job while audit takes place Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press Assembly of Manitoba chiefs grand chief Ron Evans shown with regional director general Mary Blais is in Ottawa and plans to seek information about the situation at Indian and Northern affairs Canadas regional office in Manitoba. Blais and associate director Martin Egan above have been put on administrative leave ;