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III. A Early morning house fire claims lives of father, two children tills said the lI.ue broke out at tk2 Caledonia jtLst north of St. Clair Avenue, around I am on Saturday. Investigators said the 7 saui. ine year-old lather, his five-year-old daughter and his four year old son were pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics, jurjnn flubcr, Cunurt Ktvt Srn'ue fire started in a second floor bedroom or bathroom and was contained to one Mississauga Tory's support identical to Joe Clark's woman awaits mM medevac i I ronr Continued from PageA! "Ideally he would of hoped for at least another four or five per cent on top of that Clearly it wasn't low enough for him to throw in the towel, but It was not high enough for him to confidently stride out and say, hat's It," Dr.

Nesbitt-Larkiug said. The result was identical to the 66 support Joe Clark received in a 1983 federal Conservative leadership review. At the time, Mr. Clark decided the support wasn't enough and called a leadership vote which he subsequently lost to Brian Mulroney. The University of Toronto's Nelson Wiseman said Mr.

Tory should learn from Mr. Clark and proceed without a second thought. "Clark was foolish in the decision he made. I believe he regretted it later, and it became apparent that getting two-thirds of the vote is a substantial endorsement," he said yesterday. Mr.

Mulroney himself later questioned Mr. Clark's decision to call for a leadership review after receiving such support. In his recent memoirs, Mr. Mulroney said the move was "lunacy," and would have considered such a vote on his own leadership "wonderful validation." But doubts still remain. i -si- it I mk i T- -it" -i i The Senayahs were riding a scooter through the city when a car drove abruptly in front of them and hit them directly.

Michelle was taken to hospital in a taxi because of a lack of ambulances, said Mr. Parlee. Jonas suffered a broken leg. "If she hadn't been wearing a helmet, she wouldn't have survived," he said. Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed yesterday that it was involved in aiding a Canadian woman but would not give any details of what that help entailed.

"Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada is aware that a Canadian citizen was injured as a result of a traffic accident in Togo," said Eugenie Cormier-Lassonde. Ms. Cormier-Lassonde said "consular assistance" is being provided to the family. However the department, citing privacy laws, refused to say whether Canada was offering financial assistance for Ms. Senayah to be moved.

Mr. Parlee said the government was not offering financial assistance and that the family has had to endure huge costs. They paid Healix $100,000 initially but were then asked to provide an extra 200,000 up front to ensure the family could afford the service. Foreign Affairs also would not comment on whether a visa had been approved for Ms. Senayah's husband so that he could stay in Canada with his wife as she recovers.

Ms. Senayah, an architecture student from the University of Waterloo, was in Africa to help design schools. She met Mr. Senayah, a craftsman, while working in Lome and married him last fall. "Jonas won't leave her bedside even to take calls," Mr.

Parlee said. Canwest News Service Bv Tirt'ANV Crawford The family of a 23-year-old Ontario woman who suffered near-fatal injuries in a traffic accident in Africa is desperately waiting for an air ambulance to be cleared to land so she can be airlifted to a hospital in London, England. Michelle Senayah of Missis-sauga was involved in a scooter crash on Thursday with her new husband and has been in a hospital in Lome, Togo, in a coma after suffering a fractured skull to the left side of her head and swelling of the brain. Ms. Senayah's mother and father, Elizabeth and Ian Smith of Mississauga, flew to London yesterday to await the arrival of their only daughter at the Wellington hospital.

However, a family friend said her departure has been delayed because the private medevac air ambulance they have hired from Healix International can't land for 24 hours because of local red tape. "She is still missing a lot of the medication she needs," said Mark Parlee yesterday, adding that her friends and her African husband, Jonas Senayah, 25, were frantically trying to find medicine from people who lived in the community because of a shortage at the hospital. He said the plane is expected to land this afternoon and transport her to London. It is not possible to take her back to Canada because of the distance and the severity of her injuries. "We're hoping that somebody can speed up the approval to land the plane," Mr.

Parlee said. Mr. Parlee said doctors have told them they believe she has a good chance to recover if she is moved from the hospital in Lome to a Western hospital. "There is a real issue of time," he said. Michelle Senayah and her husband, Jonas, on their wedding day in Togo last September.

Woman charged with killing infant daughter NINTH HOMICIDE er's care and the family is staying with friends. "We talked to the children's aid and they don't have any concerns," Detective-Sergeant Gary Grinton of the homicide squad said. "The dad and the siblings, considering the circumstances, are doing OK." He said the parents were not known to police. The father, 38, was currently looking for work, he added. Neighbours said the family kept mostly to themselves.

Police are continuing to interview extended family members and friends and officers expect to search the home and take forensic specialists inside today. The child is the city's ninth homicide victim of the year. Ms. Zheng is scheduled to re-appear in court March 10. National Post "I don't know if John Tory is going to be able to get people behind him in the way he hopes," said Jeremy Adams, a longtime party member who ran Jim Flaherty's leadership campaign against Mr.

Tory in 2004. "He's got a strong leaning towards indecision and weak leadership. If anyone needed proof they got it (Saturday) night" One party stalwart called on those detractors to bury their swords, however. "It's over," said Guy Giorno, a former chief of staff to Mike Harris. "They fought fair and hard and they lost.

But saying 'Screw this, we don't like the result' and keeping it up that pushes the bounds of what's acceptable in our political family." National Post and Canwest News Service to a 911 call about a baby not breathing at 74 Manning Ave. near Queen and Bathurst streets. When officers and paramedics arrived at the house, they found the 40-day-old baby, Xin Lei Huang, dead. Officers would not comment on the cause of death or about who placed the emergency call. An autopsy is scheduled for today.

The child's parents and her 11- and 4-year-old siblings were taken to the police station and interviewed. Police laid charges against the mother early yesterday morning. The children are in the fath By Melissa Leong Police have charged a 38-year-old Toronto woman with murdering her infant daughter after the baby was found dead in their downtown home on Saturday night. Xiu Zheng, who faces a charge of second-degree murder, appeared briefly in court yesterday and was remanded into custody. Shortly before 9 p.m.

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