Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 31, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 56 pages vol 123 no 31 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get 4 Post Ger Post Noin Chi s3 25 is 05 20pst n w s110m 21 Post City december against All of provinces gamblers fighting losing Battle by Gerald flood staff reporter it was 2 closing time at the provincial gambling Emporium on Mcphillips and Carol was slouching against a Wall under a canopy out of the falling she was waiting for a ride Home and wrestling with her i cant quit she her eyes her Chin every Day i go Home and i to never going back1 and the next Day i i fight myself every Day not to come Here to but i think about it All the i think about it at i think about it at i should be i have to go to work in the its its its not even fun any a winning real estate agent by a loser by Carol is one of thousands of Manitoba gamblers voted new makers of the year 1994 by a panel of free press Ordinary Manitoban looking for a thrill have caused gambling to grow bigger and faster than anyone schemed the Filmon government opened the floodgates by building two gambling palaces and licensing thousands of volts in hundreds of armless than two years profit from gambling is expected to reach million in up 43 per cent in one the provinces of Are made up from the losses of its per or for each of the men and women aged 18 or for gambling is simply a modestly expensive but concern is growing for the Many people like Carol who do without the things they need for the thing they the illusion of getting something for Sandy a social work student and former employee of the Mcphillips Street Joe Bryksa photo illustration Winnipeg free press the thrill of Victory proves irresistible for thousands of As the province rakes in their said she quit working there because she could no longer stand watching the misery on the faces of or having to Call social workers to care for children left alone in cars while their mothers went inside to Gamble she said she got tired of worrying that senior citizens who mob the place most afternoons were squandering their retirement savings a Nickel at a she said she came to dread the regular surge in traffic on Days when welfare cheques Are the who can afford to plug the Money dont do she the poor Carol said she has friends who miss mortgage payments because of and she has had two real estate deals go sour when the buyers were forced to Back out after blowing their Down payments on on armed one Guy you wont believe but i lost the she said when she first started it was exciting and the crowd in the Emporium seemed to have she an awful silence permeates the place even when its the faces Are the same every they Are unhappy in the last eight has slipped through her As she her husband drove up to take her he said he has come to hate he said he loves Carol and is trying to help i feel it is something she has to get out of her she has to realize she is not going to Larry Security chief at the the Media is not allowed to interview our he its the the year that was with a new year about to its time to sit Back and take Stock of the last 365 to help refresh your we offer a feast of yearned features up political cartoonist Dale Cummings offers his unique View of 1994 on Page the year is captured in pictures on Page on up editors dish up 94s top 10 local news for a look a Wacky year in please see Page to test your current events try taking our 1994 news quiz on Page in the strike bound world of it was a wild Check out Page to Cap your look take a Stab at our sports quiz on Page no paper tomorrow the free press will not publish new years the display advertising and circulation departments will be regular office hours in All departments resume those customers who usually receive sunday Home delivery As part of the delivery package will receive Home delivery on in lieu of the free press and its employees wish you a Safe and Happy new the weather today mainly Clearing in the High now new years Day mainly sunny Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page p14 inside diversions far and Ann in angry gunman kills two at Boston abortion clinics App a Man in Black pulled out a Rifle and opened fire at an abortion clinic in a Boston suburb yesterday and minutes later a nearly identical at tack took place at a clinic Down the two people were killed and five a enforcement source in Boston told the associated press police Are trying to find a 23yearold Man named John whose last known address was the source said a some ammunition and a store receipt found in a Duffel bag left at the second clinic Jed police to witnesses at both scenes gave similar descriptions of the he just started shooting and shooting and said Debbie who had accompanied a Friend to Preterre health he was very the dead were identified As Shannon of and Leanne of each was a receptionist at one of the the wounded were All clinic employees or yesterdays bloodshed began at a planned parenthood clinic and spread to preterm health services about 10 minutes Natalya an electrolysis technician in preterm said a Man fitting the description had protested against abortion Over the last several he was he wanted to Tell every body what happens she the planned parenthood clinic was participating in a trial of the French abortion Piu workers have received death threats at the clinic lately and yesterday began with the usual gathering of protesters outside the where about abortions Are per formed said Nicki presi Story men sue report ignored or suppressed in sex Case a Friend of one shooting victim leaves planned parenthood clinic clinic shootings 1 Law int stopping the violence a4 Dent of planned parenthood of Boston mayor Tom Menino ordered police to guard All clinics and hospitals in the William Weld promised state police Protection to workers at planned parenthood said the clinics door is locked and operated on a in March a doctor was shot and killed outside a Michael grif Fin is serving a life in a doctor and his bodyguard were shot to death outside another Pensacola the Paul has been sentenced to the electric a doctor was shot and wounded last year at a clinic in a Vancouver doctor who performed abortions was wounded in the leg by a Rifle Bullet fired by an unknown assailant at his Home Hilda Thomas of the coalition for abortion clinics said the violence gives her a terrible in people on both sides of the abortion debate said they were by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter four Southeast Manitoba men faced criminal charges of sexual abuse for nearly six months after authorities knew the charges could not be a medical report proved their accuser was still a the men Are now suing Winnipeg child and family services and two ramp officers for suppressing the they also charge that a cos social worker induced the then to accuse her Uncle and two cousins of haying frequent sexual Intercourse with cos and the ramp refused to comment yester citing the the mens Tony a Almyna said yesterday the medical report might have remained unknown but for an Independent lawyer hired by who found it in the files and told defence and Crown my clients Are shocked and Dis Palmyn i think there too shocked to be malice lawsuits against the police Are rare because you have to show Mal with the medical we have the documented evidence it was suppressed or Palmyn said the men had their criminal charges stayed by the Crown in june 1993 months after an ramp officer and a cos social worker knew the medi Cal exam showed the girl was a Vir Palmyn said the girl has since reconciled with her in their statement of claim filed in court of Queens Bench last the family claims both a cos social worker and one of the ramp offi cers investigating the matter knew about the medical report but conspired with one another to suppress and conceal they also claim that All four men charged have lost their jobs and Haven been Able to get new the family says their then15 year old daughter who had been rebelling against parental discipline falsely complained to school authorities and Winnipeg cos in sep tember 1992 that she had been physically father charged cos began an re moved the daughter and placed her in a Foster in her father was charged with assaulting the family alleges a cos social worker then induced the girl to make the sex charges by suggesting she would be returned Home against her wishes if she didst have a better after the sexual abuse charges were cos seized the girls eighty Earold sister from the family the social worker and two ramp officers investigating the Case continued to question the older Daugh who then alleged she was having frequent sexual Intercourse with the the social worker and cos also continued child Protection proceedings in family court against the girls an Independent lawyer hired by Winnipeg cos discovered the medi Cal report and showed it to the Fame Lys lawyer in april later that cos dropped its family court in the Crown counsel prosecuting the criminal 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