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A-5 THE PKOWiftSCE Montreal, Tuesday, July 1 1, 1989 TV job helps her run a newspaper Second convent nun dies in food-poisoning outbreak rv 4 A second nun who ate contaminated tapioca pudding at the convent of the Petites Soeurs de la Salnte-Fa-mille in Sherbrooke has died. Sister Marie-Ange Slmard, 89, died at the convent last Friday. Three days after a salmonella outbreak occurred at the convent June 27, Sister Theese Bergeron died in hospital of poisoning. Two other nuns, Sister Aurore Laurin, 78, and Sister Alice Giroux, 91, died Sunday, but their cases may not be related to the food poisoning, said Sister Marguerite Bourdon, a senior nurse at the convent, in an interview yesterday. Since the contaminated dessert was served, the food poisoning, linked to salmonella bacteria, has af fected 130 of this 360-member religious community.

While medical authorities haven't released the cause of death of the first three nuns, Bourdon said Si-mard was among nuns who ate the tainted pudding. Traces of salmonella Type bacteria were also found in samples of Simard's feces, said Bourdon, head nurse at the convent's Infirmary for older nuns. The three sisters were among 50 patients at the infirmary. Bourdon said Laurin and Giroux hadn't consumed the tainted food and had been at the infirmary for nearly seven years, suffering from chronic heart diseases. About 40 of the 130 nuns affected by the poisoning are still sick.

n- vtj, I LOS Journalist discovers mixed media works QUEBEC (CP) Appearing on television five days a week has helped reporter Karen Macdonald's career in another news medium as managing editor of the Chronicle-Telegraph, Quebec City's only English newspaper. Macdonald is the host of Inside Quebec, a news program on MI-5 TV, the city's English-language station. "I think I like the newspaper better, but right now, for me the TV is a really good vehicle to help the paper," the enthusiastic Macdonald, who is also the paper's only reporter, said in an interview. "I have a lot of contacts through the TV." Strong roots in community Macdonald, 28, rejoined the Chronicle-Telegraph last January after leaving the weekly in 1985 to go to MI-5. Why the return to print? "They were going to close the paper and I didn't want that," the Quebec City native said as she sat in the paper's small newsroom atop the city's wax museum, just a stone's throw from the historic Chateau Frontenac Hotel.

"I have really strong roots and feelings about the paper and about the English-speaking community in Quebec City. "I figured it would be worth a try to see if I could stabilize it a bit and build it up slowly." View paper as stepping stone Macdonald believes the Chronicle-Telegraph, which is owned by Quebec City lawyer David Cannon and has a paid circulation of about 2,200, needed a reporter who realized the importance of the bottom line. "People who have been interested in working here mostly tend to be young people out of journalism school who see this as a stepping stone and who have really noble ideals about journalism and who aren't interested by the financial aspects," she said. Macdonald works up to 60 hours a week at MI-5 and between 12 and 15 hours at the Chronicle-Telegraph. Still, she has no plans to change the demand- vv K2 Departure July 12 for 1 week 5CS CP Laserphoto Karen Macdonald checks a recent issue of the Chronicle-Telegraph.

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"I wouldn't give up the television to come to the paper full time right now because there are too many people watching the show, and I get too much feedback from it to want to give it up," she said. Statistics Canada figures indicate there are about 16,000 anglophones in the Quebec City area, while recent Bureau of Broadcast Measurement ratings suggest that about 5,000 people 'Isadora' carpeting with colors to complement any room. Sears reg. $49.99 yd2. yd2 ($32.28 'Sybil' our premium heavy-weight polyester plush carpeting.

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$66.99 Now. yd2 ($41 .84 m2) Lawyers snub latest offer to raise pay for legal aid Private-practice lawyers who accept legal-aid cases in Quebec have voted heavily against a government offer that would have increased by $1.7 million the fees paid to them for legal-aifl work. The lawyers, who say they haven't had a pay raise in eight years, are asking for retroactive increases and payments of an average of 8.6 per cent for every year since 1986. Quebec's offer, however, was for ah average increase of about one per cent per year and excluded the possi-' bility of any retroactive payments. Of 950 lawyers taking part in the mail-in vote, 942 rejected the government's offer, said Pierre Gagnon, chief negotiator for the Quebec Bar.

1 -About 3,000 Quebec lawyers roughly a third of the province's lawyers take legal-aid cases. Pressure tactics mulled In a telephone interview from Quebec City, Gagnon vowed that if the province does not come up with an acceptable offer by the fall, his group will probably resort to some kind of pressure tactics. "We recommended it be rejected," Gagnon said. 1 "It should be a pretty clear signal that the government better come up with a serious of fer now." Anne LeBel, an aide to provincial Justice Minister Gil Rimillard, said talks with the lawyers' group are continuing. She also criticized the group for making its grievances public.

Legal aid in Quebec is provided by 360 salaried lawyers working for the Legal Aid Commission or by lawyers in private practice who agree to accept legal-aid cases. Paid more in Ontario Gagnon complained that the government offer does not substantially change the fee scale paid to lawyers in private practice, which has not changed since 1981 for criminal cases and 1984 for other services covered by the program. Lawyers in Ontario make between 44 per cent and 1,285 per cent more per service, the Quebec Bar says. For instance, a lawyer whose client pleads guilty to a minor offence in Ontario youth court makes $277. His Quebec counterpart makes only $20, About 20 per cent of Quebecers are eligible for legal aid.

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