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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 23, 1978
Page
12
Dr. Ben Feingold of Kaiser Permanente says over 4 000 chemical compounds are added to food mainly for appearance, not nutrition. He advocates a synthetic additive free diet and calls for tighter control of additives in light of adverse effects on some children.
Vancouver BC The British Columbia Federation of Labor blasts a redistribution report as partisan and aimed at propping up Social Credit while harming the New Democratic Party. Federation secretary treasurer Dave Macintyre calls Eckardt’s report unworthy and urges shelving the document.
Non striking members of the Retail Store Employees Union voted against a proposal to raise dues and provide extra pay to striking colleagues in a secret ballot among 183 members from Dominion Stores and Westfair. Turnout was low for a 700 member unit amid stalled talks with Canada Safeway Ltd. and planned discussions Friday and resumption Monday. Safeway keeps eight Winnipeg stores and one in Brandon open with crossings.
Frank Hillhouse of Winnipeg, 45, was found guilty of refusing census information but received an absolute discharge. Judge John Enns ruled the Statistics Act removes privacy rights, and the form’s printed request makes compliance compulsory. Hillhouse argued privacy concerns and political patronage, but the court deemed the procedures proper.
Dr. Ernest McCoy of the University of Alberta pediatrics department told reporters at the CMA meeting that four toxicity cases a year from vitamin overdoses occur in Edmonton. He cited a four year old girl given 20,000 units of vitamin A daily for a month, treated in hospital after weight loss and pain, improving after stopping the vitamin. He warned against fat soluble vitamins A and D and against excess vitamin C.
RCMP issued a Canada wide warrant for Dr Saida Qazi an Edmonton general practitioner charged with defrauding the Alberta Hospital Care Insurance Commission of up to 40000 dollars The warrant follows a raid on her home two weeks earlier and she has since left Alberta The Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons suspended her in March after an internal hearing found she overbilled by up to 100 dollars daily between 1974 and 1978.
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