Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 22, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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multimillion Dollar judgment
. Largest medical malpractice for baby a delivery. Obstetrician found negligent foundry mentally delayed and is consid were wrong. My daughter was a two decision. The judge clearly saw through doctor told the court even if the test had by Kevin Rollason ered to be functioning at the level of a month old baby when this began and she the witnesses and believed my client. Come Back positive she would to have year old child. But the child is physical is now a when there was a contest Between done a caesarean Section the Standard a multimillion Dollar judgment ? by quite agile. The woman said while she had to take my client and the doctor the doctor was delivery for a baby of a Mother with her called the largest medical Mal Greenberg said the child a Combina her doctor to court to sue for damages it Pes. The doctor also did to Send the baby practice award Ever Given in this Tion of cognitive delay and mobility Cre done to her daughter she loves her child. A message was left at or. Chows to an infectious disease expert. Province for a baby a delivery and care ates demanding requirements for her she a my child ? she a my life. I can to office but she did to return the Call. Medical experts testified that if the ? has been awarded against a doctor imagine being without court was told that the child was born woman a baby had been treated with who was found negligent in not treat i a so relieved the now 30-year-old the judge dismissed lawsuits against on dec. 17, 1993. Drugs after birth she would not have ing a Newborn for herpes. Mother said on Friday. The free press Villa Rosa a facility for single mothers the Mother testified that it was after contracted herpes. In a 150-Page written decision released is not naming the woman to protect her and Elsie a Esh Ambeault who ran the she broke off with the father of her baby on dec. 30, the child had her first on Friday Madam Justice Shawn Green special needs child. Clinic there. Earlier in the lawsuit a that she contracted herpes during Ungro seizure. Berg of Manitoba court of Queens i just wanted to have a healthy baby. Claim against the Misericordia general tested sex after the male assured her he since then court was told that cur Bench found that or. Chi Ieng Chow an that was my biggest priority. It was a Hospital was dismissed. Did to have a sexually transmitted Dis gently the child has to be locked in her obstetrician was negligent in not sus lot of a Shock when she did get the woman a Lead counsel on the Law ease. Room at night because she will wander. Petting the then 17-year-old woman had As for what she thinks of or. Chow suit Martin Pollock said the damages court was told the woman told both a As Well she requires constant super i herpes and not referring her Newborn the woman would Only say i always assessed which he says will be More staff person at Villa Rosa and or. Chow Sion because she will turn on appliances child to an infectious disease specialist knew she was wrong. I needed someone than $4 million is the largest award in that she later heard the male had herpes and is at risk for swallowing Small or neonatologist. To believe me. The history of Manitoba for this Type of and she wanted to be tested for it. Objects. Because of the doctors negligence the Why did to she just take account Abil Case. The woman was tested for herpes and now 14-year-old child has been left pro Ity for what she did then we know you Justice Greenberg wrote a scholarly the results came Back negative but the. Perquis nation Hopes for Casino North of Selkirk by Alexandra Paul pegu is first nation would like to sink some of its $64.4 million treaty land entitlement settlement into construction of a Casino just North of Selkirk chief Glenn Hudson said Friday. A provincial study this fall found Manitoba is saturated and can to support another big Casino although news reports have at least one Selkirk City councillor Larry Johannson crossing his fingers and wishing for a Casino too. A provincial spokesman said there Haven to been any formal talks so the Issue in to being considered by the doer Cabinet. The province has a limit of two first nation run casinos. They Are South Beach Casino on Hwy 59 at the broke head first nation and ase Nestak Casino in the Pas. It could be months before anything happens and talks Are at an exploratory level an undeterred Hudson said. First nations through the Assembly of Manitoba chiefs share a steering committee on gaming with the province and any talks to get a third Casino have to Start there Hudson said. The $64.4 million owed to pegu is is the largest treaty land entitlement in the provinces history. Its big because the first nation is owed 166,000 acres of land it should have received and did to following the signing of treaty one in 1871. Pegu is already owns land North of Selkirk near Hwy 9 where the City a been going through a growth spurt. There a a new mall with Wal Mart and other big Box stores in that location. The land is related to the fact that pegu is first nation was relocated to its current Interlake lands from Selkirk. If plans get the Green Light from first nation municipal provincial and Federal Levels of government there could be an investment of at least $10 million to build a Casino hotel with a businessman takes on Macc recreation Complex Hudson said. The Complex would include a wellness Centre with gym equip taking in almost a million dollars every year ing the Money Back to bar owners. But Hement and a giant water slide As envisioned by the pegu is chief class action lawsuit from the supplemental fee and they had no said officials told him they did to think theand Council. Right to be charging it Munroe said. Facts in the new Brunswick Case applied the first nation is also in separate talks with Ottawa Over Munroe said the court action is patterned Here. The illegal surrender in 1907 of the bands first Home the former Over purchasing fees after a similar court Case launched in new so they think Munroe said. Then just St. Peters Reserve in East Selkirk when it lost 60,000 acres. Brunswick that went All the Way to the recently they announced they re eliminate supreme court of Canada which ruled last ing the fee in the new year ? which i think. by Aldo Santin january that a similar fee imposed there was Only supports our unconstitutional. New Brunswick was lawyer Keith Ferber said class action a local businessman has begun a class action ordered to pay More than $1 million to the suits Are rare in Manitoba adding he on lawsuit against the Manitoba liquor control business operators. Behalf of Munroe still has to convince the commission and the Manitoba government after the supreme court ruling on the new courts the Case should be accepted As a class for what he says Are unconstitutional fees Brunswick Case several provincial liquor action suit. The commission charges on All liquor Pur control commissions dropped their supple the statement of claim filed dec. 14, seeks chases. Centary fee. Manitoba continued to impose a ruling from the court that the supplement Patrick Munroe said the supplementary the fee but announced dec. 11 that it would tary fee is unconstitutional and restitution fee that a been charged to liquor licence hold be eliminated april 1, 2008. To every individual or business that paid the ers by the Macc ? a percentage that a Munroe said when he read the supreme fee. Ranged Between 2 per cent and 12 per cent on court ruling earlier this year he saw the Sim Ferber said the suit does task for a Spe every Purchase ? for More than 50 years Ilari ties. In fact the government of Manito civic Dollar amount adding that would be was a tax that it did to have the authority to a had standing at the Case and argued determined later. Impose adding he wants the courts to order against the government of new Brunswick Macc spokesman Diana Soroka said the the commission and the province to pay Resti having to make restitution. Commission plans to file a statement of tuition to every business that has been Munroe said he approached the Macc Dur defence but will not comment on the suit. Charged the fee. Ing the summer with his intentions to sue and. the liquor control commission has been asked them to drop the fee and consider give u of m grads Riding High on prestigious business list an education that has served me exceedingly Well by Geoff Kirbyson throughout my career with Scotia Bank he said. U of m president Emoke Szathmary admits to not being a fan of surveys ranking universities the University of Manitoba placed third in Cana but this one is different she said. A in an International Survey of Post secondary they re explicit and upfront in their criteria. Institutions for its ability to produce top business they be selected the ceo in a global Fortune 500leaders. Company. They re not looking at general Educa the study which was conducted by Cole Des Tion they re looking specifically at the business mines de Paris ranked the u of m 84th out of 338 world. The Survey is Good recognition of the Cal universities around the world tied with the uni Ibre of students we produce end of Story Shever sity of Toronto and trailed Only Concordia uni said. Varsity in Montreal and Queens University in Glenn Feltham Dean of the Asper school of Busi Kingston ont., which tied for 34th. Ness at the u of a said he was thrilled by the the u of m beat an Ivy league school Cornell surveys results. Ithaca . And other higher profile colleges like one of the things the Asper school and the u of Baltimore a Johns Hopkins University Atlanta a m have done remarkably Well is turn out leaders Emory University and the London business school at the very highest level he said. In great Britain. Feltham singled out contrarian investor David the Survey examined the performance of Edu Dreman who manages a portfolio Worth billions of factional training programs based on the business dollars As a prime example. And career accomplishments of their graduates. Other grads have stayed closer to Home but Haveit then compared the number of graduates holding also had an important Impact he said. A chief executive officer position in a leading glob what they have in common is they received anal Fortune 500 company As listed by Fortune mag education that allowed them to think broadly Annazine in 2006. Encouraged them to take risks and think big the u of m alumni on the list Are Rick Waugh thoughts he said. Ceo of Scotia Bank and Gerry Schwartz ceo of the top three schools in the Survey were har Onex corp. Vard Tokyo University and Stanford. Waugh said it was great to see that the u of m Szathmary said the u of is performance in the continues to be recognized for the Standard of Survey could be used As a recruiting tool. Excellence it sets in equipping business students to its a very practical area. Who does to want Totake on the challenges of an increasingly global produce graduates who would Rise in the business business world. World she said. I received a first rate business education right in my Hometown at the University of Manitoba. the bosons of business there Are Many University of Manitoba graduates who Are at the Helm of major corporations. Scotia Bank a Rick Waugh and Onex a Gerry Schwartz Are two notable ones but add these names to the list
Hartley Richardson James Richardson & sons limited Murray Taylor Ign financial Gilles Chaput do Dunwoody Timothy Hearn Imperial Oil Exxon Mobil Ltd Clayton Riddell Paramount resources Phyllis Yaffe Alliance Atlantis Charlie Spring Wellington West capital Bob Brennan Manitoba Hydro Jamie Brown frantic films John Langstaff Cangene corp Nick Logan National leasing group.
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