Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Winnipeg ree press a q january 1995 january 1995 Canada at a glance native report from Canadian press Halifax the fed eral Royal commission on aboriginal Peoples wont Complete its report until next december or Early 1996 one year late a commis Sion member from Nova Scotia the delay has been the extensive amount of research that was done and the compilation of All the evidence that was said Viola Robin a no status micmac who resigned As president of the native Council of Canada to join the fumes Force exit Vancouver possibly toxic fumes forced workers and a few patients out of a Sec Tion of Vancouver Hospital for a couple of hours Hospital spokeswoman sue Okerstrom said workers be Gan smelling chemical fumes in the laundry area of the hospitals Laurel Pavilion at about 7 and officials ordered the area historic Deal history was made at the Sydney steel but chair Man Joe Shannon doubts most Cape Bretones will notice any change for a chivas min metals became a partner in the steel marking the Start of a three year agreement with the Nova Scotia ship fire put out fire fighters yesterday put out a fire in a bulk freighter docked at the base metals smelter in this northeastern new Brun Swick the 180metre of had been unloading phosphate Rock at the Brunswick mining and smelt ing the ships huge conveyor system caught fire saturday for Freedom Toronto a Mere can help pry Canada from the grip of says a new group aimed at ousting the the Alliance for a Republic of Canada wants to make the country a Republic with a pres ident instead of a prime minis Ray the groups executive asked canadians Friday to pull out their chequebook and buy a lock Down ended ended the lock Down of in mates at a medium Security prison in the Fraser Valley triggered after a convict was prisoners spent new years eve in their cells after one in mate was knifed in the the victim was taken to Hospi Tal with a suspected punctured charges Are expected to be Laid petition to pm Toronto prime minis Ter Chretien can expect a Peti Tion tomorrow with More than 800 signatures protesting changes to income tax exemptions for some status the petition was organized by 27 native protesters who have occupied a floor of a Rev Enue Canada building since 15 and their Cash cow fed up Calgary fed up with being attacked by members of the Debbie Dallison is cashing it in As the Cash Dallison says she no longer feels Safe dressed up As the Mascot of Calgary radio Sta Tion cry after she was assaulted by a a Man who also works As the stations Mascot says he has been at tacked by the same woman while in i Rock tackling child support problems Ottawa plans to help the kids by Marlene Orton Canadian press Ottawa children of divorced parents threatened by poverty and constant Battles Over child support payments will have a tougher Warden looking out for them in in the next few Ottawa plans to announce a package to improve the system of enforcing and taxing child support payments after Justice minister Allan Rock has already hinted what the package will include a to be included in the Federal divorce to guide judges setting child support measures to help the provinces crack Down on parents mostly dads who default on support pay modified tax parents collecting the Money must pay income in 40 per cent of new marriages end in there were divorces in 1991 and some children were involved in custody in nearly custody was granted to the the provincial and territorial governments have worked for five years on a family Law commit tee to solve child support their third and final report will be reviewed and discussed by Justice ministers at the end of and Rock has already promised to Amend the divorce act if everyone poverty hounds divorce victims Ottawa children of forced parents Are often threat ened by some facts 81 per cent of children under age seven with a single Mother lived in poverty in 1991 48 per cent of single mothers held Jobson 1993 compared with s4 per Jeff Len 20per cent of families Are headed by single mostly is the poverty line for a family of three a Mother and two children living in a Large the Mother was granted custody after divorce in a total of dependent children in 1991 custody parents were granted joint Cus Tody for children in v the territories and Ottawa want a fair formula to cover the Cost of raising children and generally remove the discretion of judges to set awards based on per Sonal the judge is usually tempted to reduce the amount of support be cause he or she believes that it re ally cannot Cost that much for two crime problem int As menacing As you think study by Alanna Mitchell the Globe and mail widely reported shocking acts of random violence in 1994 form the main reason for misperception on How much criminal activity there is in Canada and How strictly it is dealt says the author of a federally sponsored the study for the Justice conducted by University of Ottawa criminologist Julian compared results from several years Worth of opinion polls with trends in reported crimes and victimization because of Public pressure on politicians to toughen sentences and parole crime has become a key Issue on the Federal Agenda and on Many provincial and municipal Roberts Public knowledge of crime and Justice an inventory of Canadian has not been publicly released but May be this according to sources in the Justice among the findings Are these although two thirds of canadians believe crime rates have risen during the past five such rates generally have remained most canadians believe homicides Are increasing More quickly than any other in the rate has remained relatively stable for 30 years and actually has begun especially since the abolition of capital in the year after it was per by the rate was per although most canadians believe that breaking and entering is on the this too is a in 1980 there were such incidents reported to police for every in 1990 the rate was per a recent Survey conducted by statistics Canada also showed that rates of such crimes had fallen seven per cent Between 1988 and the widespread View that gun use is becoming More common in crimes is also thirty seven per cent of All robberies committed in 1978 involved a but by 1990 this had fallen to 26 per the proportion of homicides involving a gun has risen from 32 per cent in 1980 to 34 per cent in a growing proportion of canadians 85 per cent in 1992 feel that sentences Are not harsh when they consistently underestimated the proportion of convicted criminals sent to canadians Are highly anxious about what they perceive to be lax parole but again this is based on a they tend to believe that More than half of prisoners get parole and that More parole than Ever is being in the Federal parole granting rate stands at 34 per roughly where it has been for a children or because the payer Sim ply should not pay so Rock said in a recent the family Law committee is also developing a National Strat egy to enforce child support collect measures would include More Grants to help track debtors and improved coordination to catch parents who skip a in Nova Scotia Deadbeat dads owed nearly million in the third move is for fairer tax rules once the supreme court of Canada decides on the Case of Susan Shes the divorced so Cial worker from who fought the Way her sup port payments Are the Federal court of Appeal ruled in May the Law is discriminatory and the Federal government went to the supreme court for a final ruling be fore making Raymond Quinto hug firstborn baby in baby Jessica heralds new arriving one second into 1995 t i he ultimate objective that must guide us is the need to get As much Money As possible into the hands of Chil Dren who need without unfairly taxing or burdening any one Rock said and poverty is no stranger to Many children whose parents have the Standard of living for women and children drops dramatically after divorce while men often make financial in some employers can deduct payments from a workers Send it to the attorney which sends the Money Back to the by Steve Mertl Canadian press thousands of new years revellers filled the streets and squares of Canadian cities but the real excitement was in Hospital delivery rooms across the officially booze free first night celebrations went off largely without a although police were forced to Deal with rowdies at some big private one gathering in Quebec broke up Early after a prankster spiced up festivities with Pepper at least a half dozen babies were born with the first verse of Auld Lang syne still echoing at the Winner of the Tran Canada 94 babies of the new years baby sweepstakes was Jessica just one second into 1995 with nurses at the metropolitan Hospital in counting the i didst really Maria Teresa giving birth to her first said i was focused on the the As Long As the baby was that was my main Jessica weighed in at six two she edged lexus Bergman Leduc of into the 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