AIDS activists protest Chretien no show at Vancouver AIDS conference
In Vancouver the XI International AIDS Conference opened amid high emotion and protest. Activists condemned Ottawa's funding stance while Health Minister Dingwall faced boos and a backturned crowd. Organizers and scientists urged cautious optimism about advances.
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Down‘town
Vancouver
Jean Chretien
David Dingwall
Ottawa
Chretien
Dingwall
Martin Schechter
Canadians view natives harshly in new national poll
An Insight Canada survey for the federal government finds 40 percent of Canadians blame aboriginal peoples for their problems and 47 percent say natives have equal or higher living standards than the average citizen. The poll, conducted for Indian Affairs, shows attitudes hardening since two years earlier and hints at support for more radical AFN goals.
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Ottawa Doe
Insight Canada
Assembly of First Nations
Parti
Irwin
Reform Party
Peters
Canada
Commons Committee
Duncan McKie
Department of Indian Affairs
Divorce ushers in era of vanishing fathers
A Canada wide study led by Anne Marie Ambert at York University finds that one in five families with children is headed by a single mother and 30 to 50 percent of fathers disappear from their children's lives. The absentee father phenomenon hurts children, with many fathers paying no support and others remarrying, creating competing households.
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Canada
Toronto
Jeffrey Wilson
Ambert
Fulton's health deputy probe hides resume details
The Alberta government refused access to most of Jane Fulton’s documents amid a probe into whether she inflated credentials. Only brief bios used for speaking engagements were released, while a 160 page packet including her disputed resume was withheld as personal information. Fulton, 48, was fired after Halvar Jonson became health minister.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Jane Fulton
Public Service
Access and Privacy
Geoff Hanowski
Fulton
Canada
Halvar Jonson
Shirley McClellan
Jonson
Misleading Title Claims Calibrated by Limited Mayo Presentations
A scholar described herself as Mayo Foundation faculty and spoke at several U.S. universities. She asserts medal honors from multiple groups, yet in several engagements she gave speeches without receiving medals.
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U.S
Mayo Foundation
Finnish couple wins first world wife carrying title in Helsinki
In Sonkajarvi the Finnish pair Jouni and Tiina Jussila claimed the inaugural world wife carrying championship, finishing 236 metre course in 1 06.2. Thirty-one couples from Norway Sweden Switzerland and Spain competed as four teams were disqualified for role swapping.
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Helsinki
Jouni Jussila
Tiina
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Spain
Sonkajarvi
Ronkainen
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Aids Centre
Canadian Centre For Hiv Research
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United States
Cochair
Michael O’shaughnessy
Nows
Sandberg
Kevin Taylor
Medicine Hat
Saskatchewan
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En Sn
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