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Tainted-blood compensation incomplete as deadline nears Canada Day 2010 is a bittersweet occasion for victims of the tainted blood tragedy: The final deadline to apply for compensation is midnight Wednesday and, despite some $2.7-billion invested in making amends, there are growing fears the money is running out.oney cannot be shifted around without an actuarial analysis and the approval of the courts. I believe this is going to get fixed; everybody will be compensated, Mr. Roy said. The tainted blood tragedy is Canada's worst-ever public-health disaster.
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Franceâs Lactalis says will pay damages as CEO admits 83 countries affected by tainted baby milk scare The recall risks damaging Lactalis in China, a fast-growing market for baby food and dairy products where scares after melamine-tainted baby milk led to the deaths of six children in 2008 A salmonella scandal at French dairy group Lactalis has affected 83 countries, where 12 million boxes of powdered baby milk are being recalled, the company’s CEO said.... Skip to main content
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Hallmark Movie Updates! White Hot, A Time to Dance, Hearts of Spring, and More!!! White Hot, A Time to Dance, Hearts of Spring, and More!!! 1  There has been a lot of Hallmark movie news floating around, lately... so I thought I would share some of the latest updates... 2  Karen Kingsbury’s A Time To Dance: News has finally been released on the Karen Kingsbury book, A Time to Dance, becoming a Hallmark movie.
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Ron Mattson, fired senior health ministry employee, settles case Ron Mattson, fired senior health ministry employee, settles case A man who sued the province for wrongful dismissal and defamation over the alleged misuse of confidential data provided to UBC and UVic, has come to a settlement with the government. In a statement released Monday, the B.C. Ministry of Health said that its decision to terminate Ron Mattson had been a regrettable mistake.. At the time of his termination — he was one of seven disciplined over the alleged data breach — Mattson was a senior manager who had been employed at the ministry for 28 years. TIMELINE B.C. health researcher firing scandal
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RARE DISEASE PROPOSED AS CAUSE FOR 'VAMPIRES' David H. Dolphin, a biochemist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, suggested that the effects of the porphyria diseases, which involve a malfunctioning in the body's manufacture of crucial chemicals, could have left victims grotesquely disfigured, turned them into creatures of the night and caused them to suck the blood of their brothers and sisters.
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A timeline on the FIFA scandal A rundown of some of the notable events in the FIFA soccer scandal. A rundown of some of the notable events that led to Tuesday's announcement that FIFA President Sepp Blatter will resign: December 2010: FIFA, soccer's governing body, awards Russia the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 World Cup. June 2011: Former FIFA executive committee member Mohamed bin Hammam is found guilty of bribery and banned from international football activity for life by FIFA's ethics committee.
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Black-market economics: Why traffickers will risk everything to smuggle drugs into Canada When the U.S. ringleader, Jacob Saul Stuart, 39, from a Seattle suburb, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said: “His lust for drug money disregarded the harm he spread throughout communities in the U.S. and Canada, and enriched a violent criminal gang.”.he role of borders in the economics of drug trafficking has long been a key factor in the trade, no less so in the Washington-British Columbia border region. A large drug network in the area was targeted by authorities in 2011 with seizures, raids and the arrest of 12 people in Canada and the United States.
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Pike River Mine disaster In July 2013, Pike River Coal was ordered to pay $110,000 to each of the victims' families and fined $760,000. In the end it did not pay the fine and only paid $5000 to each family, saying it did not have the money. In December 2013, charges were dropped against ex-Pike River boss Peter Whittall.ccording to the new mine owner, Solid Energy, the bodies of the 29 miners who died there may never be recovered. The Pike River Mine incident ranks as New Zealand's worst mining disaster since 43 men died at Ralph's Mine in Huntly in 1914.
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World's most expensive drug â which costs up to $700,000 per year â too expensive, Canada says All provincial drug plans now cover the cost of Soliris for the 90 or so patients in Canada with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), a rare disorder that destroys red blood cells, threatening organ damage, heart attacks, stroke and blood clots.
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A mass funeral then a watery grave: Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea 'The wild Atlantic may rage and toss but far below in the calm untroubled depth they rest in peace'. Reverend Hind, Mackay Bennett's priest. The Mackay Bennet was a Canadian cable laying ship and the owners of the Titanic, White Star Line, contracted it at a rate of £300 a day to recover the bodies.
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Mike Duffy trial: Taxpayers billed for non-Senate business, court hears The Crown has contended that the contracts with Donohue were effectively a clearinghouse for Duffy to hand out money as he saw fit, and a reserve pool over which there was no possibility of financial oversight.. Donohue was hired by Duffy as an independent contractor and is expected to be a witness at the trial.he RCMP have said that $65,000 was paid to Donohue for little or no apparent work.. The Crown is attempting to show that payments earmarked for those contracts were expensed by Duffy for non-Senate business.
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Burger King Horsemeat Scandal: Chain Admits That Food May Have Been Tainted 01/31/2013 04:54 pm ET | Updated Feb 01, 2013. 2.8k. Burger King has admitted that it is possible some of its burgers sold in the U.K. and Ireland were, in fact, tainted with horsemeat. This is just the latest chapter in an ongoing scandal in the U.K. and Ireland involving beef burger patties tainted with meat from horses and pigs.
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- The Federal Police of Brazil have made the decision to indict Ryan Lochte and James Feigen on charges of false reporting of a crime. The news comes on the heels of a video depicting one or more U.S. Olympic swimmers vandalizing a gas station in Rio this past Sunday.
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How HBO Makes Money A season of True Blood costs an estimated $50 million to $60 million, which works out to around $5 million per episode. Time Warner doesn't break out the details of its network financials individually, but the company does lay out how it makes money through its programming. Last year, Time Warner reported more than $13 billion in revenue from its networks. Subscription fees accounted for more than half of the total.
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- Graves, who received $1.45 million under Texas' wrongful conviction compensation statute 6 months after his release, says states should not only offer money to the wrongfully convicted, but also free healthcare and much-needed counseling. That's the biggest disappointment.magine serving years, even decades in prison for a crime you didn't commit and then-when you're finally exonerated and released-you're not guaranteed any form of compensation under the law. In at least 21 states, that's the case.
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Victims bill of rights would compel spouses to testify 'Victims deserve fair and equal treatment by the justice system and they need to be assured that the system itself doesn't re-victimize' — Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player. Crime victims would have more say as their cases wind their way through the justice system under a newly proposed victims bill of rights.The long-awaited legislation, part of the government's law-and-order agenda, aims to fix what Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday was a broken part of the justice system.Victims deserve fair and equal treatment by the justice system and they need to be assured that the system itself doesn't re-victimize' — Sheldon Kennedy, former NHL player. Crime victims would have more say as their cases wind their way through the justice system under a newly proposed victims bill of rights.
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Ontario vows to shut private clinics that pay people for blood plasma donations Canadian Plasma Services was told it would not be given a licence by the province to open clinics in Toronto and Hamilton that would pay people $25 to donate plasma, said Matthews.aying people to donate plasma would threaten Canada's voluntary blood donation system, said Matthews, who noted that 30,000 Canadians were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from contaminated blood and plasma purchased from blood brokers in the 1990s.
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Personal Injury Settlements 1 Pure comparative negligence: You get compensation in proportion to the amount of the accident that was not your fault. 2  So, if your injuries totaled $60,000 and you were considered 50% at fault for the accident, your damages will be reduced by 50%, so you’ll receive $30,000.
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- He spent 9 years in prison but was given a Royal Pardon and was released and awarded $1 million compensation for wrongful convictions. A Royal Commission in 1980 found that the prosecution cases were flawed and that after firing Thomas' impounded rifle, police had planted a cartridge case in the Crewes' garden to incriminate him, and ignored evidence that pointed to another suspect.
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Doctors Cleared in John Ritter Wrongful Death Lawsuit People Celebrity. Celebrity. Doctors Cleared in John Ritter Wrongful Death Lawsuit. The family of John Ritter has lost its $67-million wrongful death lawsuit against a cardiologist and a radiologist, after a California jury on Friday cleared the doctors of negligence in the diagnosis and treatment of the late actor.
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Q&A: News of the World phone-hacking scandal On 24 July, the Crown Prosecution Service announced it would be charging eight people with phone hacking. The group includes Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor and, more recently, David Cameron's former spokesman.
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- The archdiocese paid $10 million in settlements with 86 of his victims and their relatives as Law clung to his job. —
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Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation Compensation programs for individuals with HIV or Hepatitis C have been set up over the past few years by the federal government, the provinces and the territories, as well as by the Red Cross, to financially compensate victims of the tainted blood scandal.he Pre-1986/Post-1990 Hepatitis C Settlement Agreement is for the benefit of people infected with Hepatitis C through the blood system in Canada prior to January 1, 1986 or between July 2, 1990, and September 28, 1998, and certain members of their families.
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Federal judge approves NFL concussion settlement A federal judge on Monday granted preliminary approval to a landmark deal that would compensate thousands of former NFL players for concussion-related claims. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia came about two weeks after the NFL agreed to remove a $675 million cap on damages.he NFL would also pay an additional $112 million to the players' lawyers, for a total payout of more than $870 million. The revised settlement eliminates the cap on overall damage claims but retains a payout formula for individual retirees that considers their age and illness.
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RocketSwag.com This was like a respect given for the outstanding discovery of the virus, and the development of screening methods. This incredible work resulted in decreasing the number of cases of hepatitis caused by tainted blood transfusion from 30 percent in 1970 to almost zero in 2000.
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- Blood Doping. Blood doping is defined by WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) as the misuse of techniques and/or substances to increases ones red blood cell count.Most commonly this involves the removal of two units (approximately 2 pints!) of the athletes blood several weeks prior to competition.he blood is then frozen until 1-2 days before the competition, when it is thawed and injected back into the athlete. This is known as autologous blood doping. Homologous doping is the injection of fresh blood, removed from a second person, straight into the athlete.