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inside p f letters sports i classified 5 6 17 19 i t winters noshow is killing the ice fishing season says sports editor mike hayakawa arts cuiture calendar event fifth annual skate with the spirit when nbon2pfn sunday where stoimviue arena whitchurch public librae at the school package features the first teacher-otthe- month honour c v s serving whitchurghswuffville since 1888 50 cents including gst 36 pages saturday jan 26 2002 to reach us 905 2942200 fedbashing over health ipilp ever premier signed deal says wilfert i by lisa queen 7 staff writer a york region liberal mp is accusing premiers of misleading canadians as they charge federal underfunding is behind their threats to dismantle medicare oak ridges mp bryon wilfert whose riding includes whitchurchstouffville and the northern half of markham is disappointed premiers who met last week in vancouver are fright ening canadians by warning they are ready to cut health services because they are tired of begging ottawa for money i dont think its helpful i drinkits unfortunate mr wilfert said of the tone of the premiers discussions i dont think anybody bene fits when there is bashing going on or finger pointing despite the premiers accusa tions that chronic federal under- funding is to blame for canadas medicare woes mr wilfert point- ed out they all signed an agree ment on health care with ottawa in september 2000 the pact saw the federal gov ernment contribute an addition al 212 billion in healthcare funding to the provinces over five years i guess they have short mem ories every premier sighed it there was no gun to their heads mr wilfert said see premiers page 11 stouffville man not sure his coworkers bought weekly 649 ticket winner by carol cooper special last weekend eugene heath had a worrisome wait it was worth it hundreds of thousands of dol- lars of worth it the stouffville man and six of his coworkers at a scarborough steel fabricating plant held a win ning ticket worth 166 millionin saturdays lotto 649 draw- but mr heath put in some tense time before he found out late sunday afternoon that his dream had come true i just about died all day sunday the 43yearold spray- painter said i when checking the toronto t suns lottery website on sunday morning mr heath saw the group of sevens regular sevendigit num ber listed as a winner but another spot oh the same site said that there were no winners not knowing the phone num bers of his fellow ticketholders and after telephone tag with a co worker mrjheath came to a con clusion v in mysituation im thinking the guy fofgottqbuythe ticket it the website says no winners so obviously if theres no winners the guy didnt buy the ticket he said although members of the group can take turns buying the weekly ticket as they have for the past threeandahalf years it gen erally falls on one person 1- in fact that personhad bought the ticket at 202 on saturday after- noon and watched the draw on tv see stouffville page 8 if vscsit j r ijjirir 1 fijj v r hjjyjvftwfl ia r j w 4 1 down she comes the old barn in front of the stouffville country market started coming down this week as a worker with g mcquaid contracting ltd looks on its business as usual at the stouffville institution with venders moving into the new building behind the current structure demolition is slated to continue into next week staff photorob alary 4 i betz pools stouffville 90516401424 town and country realty ltd 6400888