Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, January 08, 1994

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press january Canada at a glance cruise tests not pm says from Canadian press prime minister Chretien says the government has not Given the United states permission to resume cruise missile tests Over the Canadian North later this we have not discussed Chretien said yesterday in a spokesman for defence minister David Collenette has confirmed that planning continues for the John Williston declined to say when they would be held because that information cant be released until 48 hours before the actual test 30 years for abuse Man who ran what one lawyer described As a concentration Camp for children and repeatedly abused a number of youngsters Over a period of 16 years has been sentenced to three decades in you Are a evil manifestation of a human being that preys on Little judge Nick Borkovich told James Cooper on thursday As he handed out one of the longest prison terms Ever Given to a child was sentenced to 30 years on 16 counts of sexually and physically abusing five former stepchildren and a neighbors daughter from 1967 to victims Settle of 11 Edmonton men infected with the aids virus through blood product transfusions have agreed to a provincial compensation their lawyer said they accepted it because they said that they realized they would not be around for the end of the said Kevin three of the men have asked for More time to think about the while the other two want to proceed to said bugs in diapers Thunder woman was horrified to discover a collection of some of them in a package of disposable diapers she bought in this Northern Ontario City i found a dead a couple of said Crystal Pento said she found one of the creatures while changing her Fourmont hold son Devon and thought initially that he had a Case of police kill pit Bull Toronto pit Bull ripped at a Gas bar attendants Groin and survived one police Shotgun blast to the head before another blast killed the enraged police the animal was shot when he attacked an officer yesterday in the cites West the dog followed a customers car onto the Gas bar the dog attacked the attendant and bit him in the Groin he Only ripped the said Bob freed on bail Vancouver four Vancouver area men sentenced to prison terms in a major Canadian tax fraud were freed on bail yesterday pending an Appeal of their the four were convicted of stealing million through the failed scientific research tax credit eerie cry stir biologist Canadian press Victoria massive foot prints and a who who whoop Call in the wilderness have a Vancouver Island wildlife biologist hot on the Trail of a Sasquatch on Vancouver John Bindernagel of Courtenay said he found human like footprints in Strathcona provincial Park while on a hiking he said the footprints Are about 40 centimetres Long and very they Are basically like a human footprint in length but you have to see them to appreciate How massive they really he from a Salish word meaning wild Man or hairy is the name of a mysterious ape like creature said to inhabit Remote re Gions of the Pacific Bindernagel other piece of Evi Dence for the existence of the Sasquatch on Vancouver Island is a ape like Call he heard at a friends Cabin near Comox Lake in the gathering the Only thing which i have Ever heard which is similar is a Chimpanzee in Uganda it was sort of a who who Bindernagel said he knows of no other creature in North America which makes such a he said his Friend told him he has heard the cry always in and always at once night arrives the Calls Manitoba jobless rate Falls but labor Force shrinking by Paul Samyn legislature reporter a former United nations is a holds a pad in wildlife biology from the University of Guelph and worked for 20 years in South Asia and the Caribbean doing wildlife re search for the United he works now As a he said he kept his Sasquatch finds to himself for Many years out of fear of being branded a he found the footprints in 1988 and heard the Call in Ian regarded As the father of wildlife biology in British said he has Seri Ous doubts about the existence of a but holds no disrespect for anyone who believes the Crea Ture people believe in these things be cause they like to believe in he and Why not its a Charm ing while Manitoba unemployment rate dipped slightly to per cent in the number of people actually working in the province continued its five month dropping by another since actual employment numbers have decreased each month to from no doubt the trend is on an upswing since but in the past five we have Jim an economist with the Federal employment said the statistical tracking of the provinces recovery from the recession released yesterday shows a marked improvement Over the situation a year in there were More people working than there were at the same time last statistics Canada shows Manitoba seasonally adjusted unemployment which inched Down from per cent in was better than the per cent figure in december the unemployment rate stood at per up from 11 per cent in Treller explained that part of the reason for the improvement in Manitoba employment despite a decrease in the number of people comes from the fact Manitoba labor Force shrunk by last that Means there were fewer people looking for work in the province last education minister Clayton manness chose to focus on the positive Side of the pointing out that Manitoba continues to Lead the nation in Job creation and has the second lowest unemployment behind Saskatchewan per the new Liberal government will have a Tough time delivering on promises to beat Back economists the Economy still int growing fast enough to bring Down the unemployment most economists say the jobless rate will Likely remain Well above 10 per cent in Ottawa admits transport Canada giving 757 More room terrorists entry Canadian press Lydiann Rinehart Canadian press Ottawa a Man described by French police As an islamic jihad terrorist was accepted by Canada As a refugee in the immigration department confirmed but Mahdi Ahmed Abdullahi disappeared after immigration officials asked him to come in for Finger printing when the French issued an International Alert on said spokesman Andre some Canadian officials believe he fled to the United Abdullahi is wanted in connection with the bombing of a sidewalk cafe in the former French Colony of Djibouti in the bomb killed a six year old and injured 14 his stay in Canada was made pub Lic Only this in a report by a the French network of Labelle confirmed that Abdullahi entered Canada under a false Bel Gian passport in May 1991 and later claimed refugee status at a Mont real immigration admitting that he had entered the country with false the immigration department started an investigation and issued a conditional removal order in Case the Man was denied refugee but the immigration and refugee Board approved Abdilla his claim for refugee status in february the Board says it was unaware that the French were looking for be cause an International Alert was not issued by France until april at his hearing in november Abdullahi had claimed refugee Sta Tus on the basis that he was a known opponent of the ruling regime in Dpi said Robert Monserrat of the refugee Toronto transport Canada is taking action after concerns that the Boeing 757 a Jet flown commonly through Canadian airports causes unusually dangerous Wake the change comes after the deaths of 13 people in two plane crashes in the United states believed linked to the violent currents of air that Trail from the 757s effective air traffic controllers will class the 757 As a heavy Jet during requiring in creased separation for aircraft following department spokesman Bruce Reid smaller planes Landing after a 757 will be spaced a minimum of eight Kilometres an increase of the Federal aviation administration in the is investigating several incidents involving the 757 until the results Are transport Canada decided to err on the Side of Reid like a boat travelling through planes leave a in visible Trail of disturbed air in their horizontal cyclones that spin out from the end of the the currents Ofair generated by Large passenger jets can be so violent that they can upset other aircraft Fol lowing satellite dish owners can com decoders in Stock no More losing sound no More codes Canadian american Legal programming m available today order now antennae main 44 7574559 advertising misleading electronics store fined by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter the Manitoba Branch of a National retail electronics Chain has been fined for misleading Justice Albert Clearwater of court of Queens Bench said yesterday he had to slap Multi tech warehouse direct Manitoba with the stiff for every charge it was found guilty deter other at the end of the Day the Public and All persons in business must realize this kind of conduct cannot be Clearwater it was a plan of the corporate accused to dont sell the advertised item unless actually forced Clearwater also tacked on a 10 per cent amounting to on top of the last in finding Multi tech Clearwater said that on several occasions the electronics store had purposely had too few Sale items in their store after advertising them at huge discounts in the Winnipeg free pres Sand the Winnipeg Sun Between to the charges against the electronics Chain were Laid in 1989 after a fou year investigation of alleged Baitman switch Clearwater acquitted Michael a Multi tech Vic president in charge of saying he was not sure Mckenna had knowledge of the Multi tech lawyer Thomas Dunne said after court the company is considering this is an isolated he Jason urology has moved to Markham professional Centre suite 108 2265 Pembina Highway phone 2613030 24 hrs if ill i l hark i Diskau Amilca i in i to Limski Mann Pinix h c i Flim ii c Kathy main italia Fin tin i Campbell Albesia Juli Dillum i Lent i i inulin Balmoral Hall school a Manitoba school with a National attraction Llali Nipral Silione is a Clay Anil Loi a Jurls from Winnipeg Ami from across ii offers a to University Burnil in a secure and Happy school environment where traditional values and disc a Onci residence houses a Happy Balim family of up to weekly Anil Canadian Anil International to riling Balmoral Viall school 630 Westminster Manitoba r3c 3s1 Tel 7841600 fax 7745534 1994 Winter programs for children adults at the University of Manitoba space still available in childrens programs dance gymnastics 23 years educational gymnastics 46 years classes begin 15 adult programs use of u of m facilities through membership family or individual fitness testing counselling including pro Post Natal Back shakeup including line women weight martial arts clubs and much More for brochures or information Call adult programs 4748234 programs 4749142 executive policy committee City of Winnipeg Public hearing on frontage levies City Council has requested the provincial government to Amend the City of Winnipeg act providing Council the option of introducing frontage Levy charges to fund future residential Street renewals thus decreasing the Reliance on Long term the executive policy committee of the City of Winnipeg will be holding a Public hearing to hear general viewpoints on this january 1994 Winnipeg convention Centre 2nd 375 York Avenue an informational presentation will be held from to Oral presentations will be limited to 10 with 10 minutes allowed for questions by the executive policy simultaneous translation will be available if individuals or organizations wishing to appear Are asked to Register with the clerk by Telephone or in writing before on january no registrations will be accepted beyond the deadline briefs May be Oral written submissions should be forwarded to the clerk by january Bonnie Greschuk clerk of executive policy committee City clerks department 510 main Street Manitoba r3b ib9 9862430 Telephone 1 9473452 fax Comite exec Tif Ville de Winnipeg audience pub Lique sur Limpet base sur la 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