Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation w a Nippy Rop sir lev Mavil i jul Canada at a glance senior officer on trial from Canadian press the military trials of four enlisted men charged in the death of a teenager in Somalia have produced mixed jail an acquittal and a finding of now its the turn of a senior officer to face the Anthony who was commanding officer of 2 commando of the Canadian airborne regiment in Somalia in goes on trial Seward is charged with unlawfully causing bodily harm and negligent performance of duty in the death of 16yearold Shidanah Abukar Arone in March standoff ends paroled Man wanted in a series of minor robberies finally gave himself up to police yesterday after a 21hour negotiators were Able to establish phone Contact with the 30yearold Man about 3 12 hours after the standoff said Quebec municipal police director Michel girl mourned than 300 including 18 Young gathered at a memorial service yesterday to try to understand Why a popular eighty Earold girl was brutally slain last Stephanie was killed after disappearing from the family Home just outside this Kootenay mining town 520 Kilometres East of no snap vote pm Montre Althe parti quebecois has backed away from the idea of calling a snap referendum to separate from Canada after winning this years provincial party Leader Jacques Parizeau said Parizeau said he has decided against a so called Shotgun referendum immediately following an election Victory because of a Public outcry when he floated the plan earlier this merger stirs fight Yellowknife handful of disgruntled workers at Yellowknife giant Gold mine Are trying to topple the Union executive and Stop a merger with the Canadian Auto the group passed around petitions urging support for their position during a meeting in Yellowknife Friday harsher penalties would support harsher penalties for the most violent categories of Young solicitor general David Christopherson said Union fights Cut Charlottetown Prince Edward islands largest Public sector Union is going to possibly the United fight the per cent wage Cut the province intends to impose on its the Union of Public sector employees voted Friday night to reject the wage some members showed up and voted 96 per cent for sex charges who was a Foster Parent and a big brother has been charged with sex crimes against 10boys Over the past 20 getting around the pole Canadian press Vancouver a group of German adventurers Manning an old North sea fishing Cutter is attempting the first circumnavigation of the North pole in the same the Crew of the Dagmar Aaen has brought the Gaff rigged sailing ship into Vancouver and moored at the maritime museums heritage skipper arved Fuchs said Friday he expects the voyage to resume this we Are Here to do some maintenance after spending the Winter in said whose idea was to sail around the North stuck in the ice the voyage began in Hamburg in april for two the Crew sailed to Many of the North european islands above the Arctic then Over to Greenland and into Canadian in the vessel made it through the Northwest passage and into the Pacific Ocean becoming the smallest wooden vessel to Force the passage without the assistance of an Fuchs at times it was a bit we were stuck in the ice for a while of you never know How things will turn you might spend a year like that but we got free after a few Fuchs is preparing for second leg of Arctic Fuchs is a professional adventurer who has skied to the North and South poles and has taken part in Polar he finances his trips by writing books arid filming his getting through the Northwest passage was the first leg of the journey to Complete the to Fuchs will have to take the Dagmar Aaen through the Northeast passage and return Home by Way of so the vessel has logged nautical Miles in its wanderings and Fuchs estimates it will take another before it reaches lobbyist sounds alarm Salmon run threatened Bryan Coary Thomson news St St High seas fishing outside Canadas 200 mile economic zone and Drift netting in French Waters off the is lands of Stpierre Miquelon May be doing irreparable damage to the dwindling Atlantic Salmon a conservationist at risk is the entire Salmon run destined for Rivers in Southern new the maritime and the Eastern the Bottom line is there Are some huge obstacles facing said Tom president of the Salmon id Council of Newfoundland and two of them Are hit Ting us right in the Large Atlantic Salmon spend late fall in Waters off some head to european Rivers in most Migrate South to overwinter and feed in the Northwest while Salmon tend to stick to warm Waters near Humphrey noted extreme cold water tempera Tures May have forced the fish to shallow Waters outside Canadas 200mile where they Are susceptible to High seas fishing then theres the Stpier Emique Lon Salmon migrating to Rivers South of Newfoundland must pass through a Gateway extending 200 Miles South of the French there is evidence to Humphrey that driftnet which float near the surface with the tide and Range from two to 10 Miles Long line the corridor and intercept the the Sale of wild Atlantic Salmon in French markets has been the Only increase in Salmon returns last year was re ported in Rivers along the Northeast coast of Newfoundland and the la Brador no quotas Salmon numbers were Down in All Rivers South of which the fish had to reach via the French France is a member of the North Atlantic Salmon conservation Orga which oversees Salmon but Stpierre Miquelon and is not subject to quotas or obligated to report Nash laments deterioration of w news by Kathy ten Martens Thomson news service Brandon Knowlton Nash is tabloid Cheque Book the 500channel the future of the there is much to wrinkle the brow of the Veteran journalist these i worry about there being too much emphasis on the scooper and snooper of the supermarket Tab the Flash Andrash journalism and bubblegum news of the so called infotainment shows on Televik which masquerade As journal he told the 20th annual mosaic Massey youth conference in this southwestern Manitoba City there cheap and there dam aging and they can be infectious As journalists basically Are teach ers were not not pan deters Selling cheap the theme of the today Confer sponsored by Brandon Vin cent Massey High was find ing a Happy medium in a Multi Mes Sage who is Best known As the former Anchor of abcs flagship the said its get Ting harder to find Happy Messen i worry about the cynicism of Many he said during his keynote by nature and quite must be but i is a maligned i that we too often Are looking for Good Guys and bad Guys in Blacka Edwhite simplicity in our stories and ignore important Subtle ties and nuances in complicated Sto television in seems to emphasize theatricality Over said who be Gan his career Selling newspapers on a Toronto Street and it be that he the greater the the bigger the responsibility to be More than chewing gum for the satellite Era but saying it is one thing and doing it in the satellite Era will be quite an broadcasting As weve known it is going to Nash narrow casting is going to be Tak ing the general television Channel offering something for everybody probably is going to be gone and in its place will be All the specialized this May sound but Nash said it will present not the least of which will be diminishing the National sense of shared expert people wont so often gather around the office water cooler to share their impressions of the Previ Ous nights big television and that inevitably is going to eat into our sense of the which has been a unify ing Force in Canadian society since it was founded in is reexamining where it fits in the Brave new television said who hosts new worlds sense of history and news in Rae prepared to of Cne Casino paper Canadian press Toronto Premier Bob Rae has assured the Federal government he would approve building a Casino Here if plans to turn the Canadian National exhibition grounds into a gambling com plex get the Green says the Toronto citing unnamed fed eral sources in Hes said privately the province would of a Casino for a fed eral government insider told the the proposal to turn the Cne grounds into a theme Park and Ca sino already has the support of some prominent Toronto politicians including metro Toronto chairman Alan tonks and waterfront commissioner David a key adviser to Rae on developing Toronto local politicians have said Steve a High profile Las vegas Ca sino is interested in bring ing a 2billion Casino Complex to the exhibition grounds but he needs the permission of Toronto Council and the Ontario whose new Democrat government legalized Casino gambling in Ontario last has stated publicly no new casinos will be approved until the first Casino project in has been tonks has said Toronto will begin accepting proposals for the theme Park and Casino development at the site along Lake Ontario Early next Toronto Council has voted against allowing casinos in but 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