Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The nation Winnipeg free press april at a glance death killers from the Canadian press Edmonton Young of fenders who Are convicted of murder in adult court should face the death Alberta Premier Ralph Klein the perpetrator should pay the ultimate he said Klein also said More Young especially those who Are 16 and should be tried in adult pair faces charge couple who concocted an elaborate kidnapping hoax in new York City to cover up the death of their 10weekold baby will be Quebec provincial police said police were not specific but said Joseph and Helene will be charged at the very least with illegal disposal of a food mail to Fly Otta Wathe government will continue to spend about million a year to subsidize food flown to isolated communities in the Indian and Northern affairs minister Ron Irwin announced the Northern air stage also known As helps Cut the Cost of flying food into the products such As canned milk and flour Are flown by Canada Post into about 125 his letters sent Hospital is sending registered letters to on Quarter of its patients who received transfusions or blood products before testing for his was the notification is being sent to but the hospitals chief operating officer said yesterday about patients actually received blood or blood products Between to kid Pusher wary eighty Earold girl caught Selling heroin feared being beaten if she did not cooperate with her a social worker Kellie a child Protection worker with the ministry of social told a custody hearing the child did not want to sell the White powder in the hat spat dropped student who took school trustees to court Over his right to Wear a hat in class has dropped out of the Jonathan now said the unwritten ban on hats limited his Freedom of but he withdrew his Appeal last week As the Case was due to go before divisional thanks be to tree University student who fell from a fifth floor window while celebrating the end of exams can thank a perfectly placed Maple tree for saving his the unnamed student broke two ribs and punctured a lung in the 15metre fall onto the tree monday Taj mahal taters if Robert Norrish latest idea had got off the he could have been the proud owner of the worlds most expensive French Fry Norrish dreamed of buying former prime minister Brian Mulroney Airbus but the government turned Down his bid of Cash plus his 1988 which he values at up photo and Claude twin computer beat Odds of billion to Jackpot twice in a Row Brainy better defies Odds Byerly sibling Canadian press Daniel Corriveau How he beat staggering Odds to win at the Montreal Casino and hell talk about a Butterfly flapping its wings in after the computer consultant hit a Jackpot twice in a Row playing electronic Keno 10 Days the Casino promptly shut Down the popular lottery Type game and started an he has yet to collect his in confident i will get the Corriveau said yesterday on his Way out of a to its a Normal process for the Casino to be celebrated by Quebe cers As a Mil mannered Genius who beat the Quebec latest hero is a computer nerd who claims to have used chaos theory to defy mind numbing Odds at the Casino two sundays the arcane mathematical which the 40yearold Corriveau found himself expounding on is based on the notion that random looking data int so one of the theory axioms is that if a Butterfly flaps its wings in it will have an effect on the weather system in new York the rules of Keno Are less placing bets of Between and gamblers try to pick some of the 20 numbers that Are drawn from an 80number Pool in the computerized on april Corriveau managed to select 19 of 20 numbers twice in a a feat that haunt been pulled off even once since the Casino opened its doors last but Corriveau said he discovered a Bug in the system that made the Keno Odds More teamed up with his twin brother his Girlfriend and another Corriveau visited the Casino about a dozen times Over four writing Down the winning sequences of at his suburban Terrebonne the Brainy bettor plugged the data into his computer and put on his thinking we looked at the mathematical he explained in an i found the same 19number sequence twice in 240 that proved the weakness in the it should have been one Chance in six billion to get the same sequence set to create Trade rift import quotas on wheat loom by John Douglas Ottawa reporter Ottawa the United states will impose import quotas on Canadian wheat hitting shipments above a certain level with punitive agriculture Secretary Mike Espy said but Canadian Farmers will not feel the sting until Espy said the using a provi Sion of the general agreement on tariffs and would change its wheat Tariff to create what is in effect an import quota and a certain Tariff rate imposed on All imports above that quota Canadian officials immediately countered by suggesting the could be the real loser if Washington escalates the wheat dispute into a full fledged Trade the Federal government has said it would Retali ate against restrictive and punitive measures by imposing tariffs of its own on american baked goods and they Are fully aware of what could be said Trade minis Ter Roy Espy wrote Congress yesterday signalling the administration will go before Gatt on Friday seeking an article 28 action against Canadian wheat the provision allows Washington to establish a maximum level of Canadian wheat allowed into the before punitive duties be the action cannot take place until after a 90day Consulta Tion during that the must negotiate an adequate compensation package with Canada which could take the form of lower tariffs on other imports or restrict quotas in Canada on some the effect is that to protect one the must expose other industries to punitive Mea Maclaren said Washington already knows what Canada would go after if the fight they will have to take into account the total Impact of an article 28 Light of the Vari Ous interests at play in a dispute of this he said outside the com undercut claims our View is that weve indicated our View quite clearly and we Hope the United states recognizes there is More to be obtained by talking fur ther in those 90 but Trade sources said yesterday the americans will undercut Cana Das claims by awarding a quota so Large it will allow record Levels of Canadian wheat into the on an annual by setting a quota of million the could argue it is giving Canada More Access than it has enjoyed inthe last 10 years and that Canada is not entitled to any retaliatory action or compel in the last three Canadian exports of wheat into the have averaged million this year they Are expected to Rise above million Aid to fishery workers Cut billion program unveiled Canadian press some hard pressed fishery workers in this Remote Cape Breton town question whether a lifeline is enough to Rescue them and others rendered jobless by Federal fishing unemployed Plant workers Are finding it Tough enough to get by on what were getting said Union spokeswoman Juanita under the existing Laid off workers in Louisbourg get be tween and she now they will get even the new five year package announced in yester Day by fisheries minister Brian to bin and human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy cuts by about six per cent the weekly payments to those thrown put of work by the col lapse of Atlantic ground ish it also ties Aid to Community work or Job Mackeigan said people want training with a they need to bring some jobs she this training just for the Sake of training is in an unemployed Plant worker interrupted Tobin and Axworthy news conference with an impassioned plea to let new found Landers have a say in their fun we Are stakeholders in this said Carol her voice filled with we will not stand by and let our families and our towns be newfound Landers Are also tired of seeing retraining Money go Down the she Over the past two million has been spent on retrain Mulrooney it would be interesting to know How Many peo ple have gotten yesterdays announcement was made before about 200 most of them sceptical fishermen and Plant workers in hockey jackets and Ottawa old Aid program expires May it was announced in 1992 As the previous tory government imposed a two year ban on fishing for Northern cod off Eastern newfound the ban has been extended in the new Aid package covers about 80 per cent of them in bus travel running out of Gas As recession hit Industry Canadian press Montreal canadians have been getting off the bus in droves Over the past decade with Only 12 million people travelling on intercity routes last year compared with 25 million peo ple in those sobering figures were re leased yesterday at the annual meet ing of the Canadian bus association which is made up of Over 100 bus of coach manufacturers and tourism Canadas bus Industry generally caters to Lowe income people and we always thought we were races Sion proof because of our Low said David executive director of the bus but the fact of the matter is that bus travel was in a slow decline throughout the whole and when the 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