Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation a3 Canada at a glance deficit maybe lower Canadian press Otta Wathe deficit for the fiscal year just ended could be a lot lower than the Liberal government had warned because More people Are finance minister Paul Martin Mart in con firmed yesterday what Many economists had suspected that the deficit for the 199394 fiscal year ending March 31 could come in below billion instead of the projected Nesses Cousin Victoria Scotland Loch Ness monster is getting some Competition in two University students say they saw a sea monster thursday in Waters off suburban Damian and Ryan said a snorting sea creature swam across Telegraph deadly rampage a Man dumped by his Girlfriend last month broke into her Home Early killing her new Boyfriend and her Mother with a Hunting Rifle before turning the gun on the former Girlfriend escaped harm by hiding under a bed but her father was shot in the shoulder and thigh and was in Hospital in serious but stable strike votes Halifax thousands of workers in Nova including police officers will take strike votes Over the provinces Public sector restraint both the Nova Scotia government employees Union and the police association of Nova with 480 announced yesterday they will seek a mandate to stage an illegal walkout feared newfoundlands nurses and teachers appeared closer than Ever to walking off the Job yesterday Over the provinces plan to Cut Public sector compensation by the teachers will strike monday if any teacher is disciplined for refusing to submit the partial Marks of graduating High school a Union official plea moves Rock Ottaw Justice minister Allan Rock says he will carefully consider allowing judges to Force accused rapists to submit to blood tests after a plea from a woman who was raped while working in a investors suffer Vancouver immigrants who invested million in three Saskatchewan immigrant investor funds Are suffering heavy losses while the fund manager is collecting millions of dollars in says a Vancouver financial statements show two of the three funds managed by first Canadian capital of which account for lost on third of investors capital since they were established three years says the Vancouver a big Facelift Edmonton Alberta communities will get million Worth of new swimming pools and paved main streets in the first stage of a cooperative infrastructure the program is a joint Effort by the Federal and provincial a pattern of brutality murderers conduct a textbook example of parole gone awry we were always worried about when he was coming where he would be going and what was going to speaking of Dean Rodney convicted for taking her daughter Janice hostage in by Alexandra Paul staff reporter described As dangerously mean and Dean Cyr was a Man whose life was consumed by his he is also a textbook Case of a parole gone he had a real hate for women a major said Rob a senior Crown attorney in Finlayson sat on a Board of investigation after then killed his her husband and himself in fort in at the Cyr was on parole from an year sentence for a hostage taking involving a Girlfriend Janice Pestun in in Mary Pestun said the parallels Between her daughters ordeal in Winnipeg and the fort Saskatchewan double murder suicide Are we remind her it could have been Pestun the pattern of violence that ended in fort the door of a barricaded bedroom at Dawn on surfaced in 1981 with a rape conviction when Cyr was notes the report of the Board of investigation that involved released this the report faults the prison system for failing to recognize the threat Cyr represented to Public it also notes officials at the Bowden institution in failed to provide successive parole hearings with damaging information on threats against his Cyr is one of the five convicts who went on to murder at least seven people after a series of parole decisions that have been called Bonehead and Michel chairman of the National parole was fired yesterday after a fou Day controversy regarding the the pattern of cyrs violence was firmly established in in both Cyr reacted against women he had once claimed to love and threatened the difference being in he shot at a police in he did the whole Finlayson Ghislain the controversial Vic chairman of the parole boards Prairie had Little to do with cyrs Bellavancee role was restricted to a single routine approval of cyrs request for a months Extension in a parole hearing held in september Finlayson the report notes cyrs behaviour was linked to his troubled he was sexually assaulted by his father who also committed and watched his Mother repeatedly his behaviour since his Early youth leads compellingly to the conclusion that the most profound characteristic of his offences they represented a logical Extension of his prior criminal the report there is a great Deal of psychological and other evidence to suggest Cyr wanted to exert extraordinary forms of control Over the Many women who passed through his states the Cyr checked up on the women he phoning their workplaces to make sure they were the report intensely he reacted to perceived grievances with violence and the report perhaps most Cyr continually blamed the for initiating violence against parole Boss fired amid ire Over decisions minister vows to tighten system Nyji Sheppard Canadian press Ottawa Michel chairman of the National parole was fired yesterday amid a growing controversy Over paroled convicts who kill and commit other violent solicitor general Herb Gray said in a terse statement the government has concluded the Board needs new he reiterated promises to soon bring in legislation to tighten the parole system to better protect the the firing Caps two or three years of growing controversy Over dangerous convicts who rape or commit other violent crimes while on Gray later told a news conference the Fate of a second prominent parole Board Ghislain Gil is under Vic chairman of the boards Prairie was at the Centre of a heated controversy this week Over his involvement in the release of five convicts who killed seven a 53yearold Montreal is a member of the Ritz Canton club of prominent Quebec conservatives close to former prime minister Brian Mulroney appointed him Vic chairman of the parole Board in then named him to a 10year term As chairman last the chairman earns Between year Dagenais will remain an Ordinary Board member but will see his pay Cut to a Range of to the firing of Dagenais was hailed by bloc quebecois and Reform maps who had been calling for the departure of top Board direction officials since a heated meeting tuesday of the commons Justice the committee had grilled Dagenais on several controversial cases involving parolees who commit violent they also accused Dagenais of lying to them about these cases and several other events of the last two or three years have indicated there is a major need for change and new direction in the National parole said Liberal Derek a Justice committee Lee accused the Board of a Lack of attention to the Issue of Public bloc quebecois my Michel Bellehumeur and Reform Paul who Are also committee theres a malaise at the said there should be other other chants Forseth said the Public not have Confidence in the parole Board because they dont believe in the of Board Gray said Nancy the boards has been promoted to interim chairman to replace Winnipeg police enter the Bay after Cyr took his a Girlfriend hostage in Cyr showed contempt for hate for women cyrs criminal history was arrested for uttering threats against sex Girlfriend Janice Pestun after several threatening j armed with a knife and a Cyr went to the fourth floor of the Bays downtown store vaulted a counter and pointed a gun at Pestun j in a hostage taking that lasted 3 Cyr vowed to kill himself in a bid to prove his j before the hostage taking ended in his Cyr fired his narrowly missing a police j March in handing Down an 8 provincial judge Arnold Connor noted this should deter Cyr from any further threatening or violent behaviour toward Saskatchewan 19901992 j within months of marrying kit Telou Cyr then on full parole was charged june 1990 with assault while she was he was his parole sus Pended and he was sentenced to 15 Days to be served consecutively to the remainder of his j beginning in february Cyr began making harassing and threat ening phone Calls from Bowden institution to during monitored phone Calls to his sister he asked her to Send a single Black Rose and a threatening note to he also told Gina Shell get j in a report by Kittylou to Edmonton police Cyr strode the Range inside Bowden displaying pictures of her and her Cyr re fers to them As the Kittye six and states he wants All of them to be the Board of investigation re port j the parole Board never heard about the j March Cyr is released on Day parole with instructions to have no Contact with j 6 ramp take Calls from neighbors who hear shots at the Home of Kittylou and Murray her former husband whom she remained after divorcing j at ramp find the Bod ies of Murray and Cyr be Hind the door of a barricaded bed Kittye was shot in the Mur Ray in the Chest and Cyr in the Chest with a self inflicted Kittye Lous and cyrs Twoy Earold son was found in the bedroom with the millions flee As warfare engulfs the country of Rwanda violence and bloodshed have escalated As innocent people escape to neighbouring an estimated people have John Schenk a world vision communicator reports after his journey 80 pm into and Angola were but nothing beats this your help is needed today for those who survive the treacherous journey of there is world vision is there operating in Uganda and Zaire moving their Relief teams to the partnering with in world vision is meeting immediate needs by providing temporary Basic household items and vital health care to the hundreds of thousands of innocent displaced we must act heres How you can help for your gift of will provide 3 will Supply 5 cooking 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