Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Have a hot timer not on the old town tonight c1 Canada death wish killer hoped to die when he stormed Quebec legislature a3 44 pages vol 123 no 35 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Jim Winnipeg free press get Post Ost Post outside City 75c in Ontario weekly Home delivery 5 Why 05 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 09 Post outside City january hundreds of jobs in jeopardy if nil season cancelled this weekend lives Are on thin ice by Randy Turner sports reporter their Christmas cheques have already been lost and their aut Opac Money is pretty much so Kim Carswell is waiting and wondering if her Par time Job and the nil season will be iced for Good this Shes not if people Are being they should realize theres an awful lot of people out there losing Money because of the current nil said super visor of attendants for jets Home they fans Are caught up with the big but they forget about the Little there Are hundreds of people connected to jets Home games who have already seen half of their potential income go Down the tubes awaiting the outcome of the nil labor they will soon know As Early As this weekend if the entire nil season will be that includes everyone from who makes a to a business entrepreneur like Stan who last summer in vested million into two Winni Peg sports in just hoping they get this set said who runs two boogies diner sports hockey is major to the Mauro report determined that the jets pumped up to Mil lion into the Manitoba Economy in 1992 and created Between 900 and most of these jobs might be part from restaurant waiters to ticket but they add up to big for Carswell says about 55 game attendants receive Joe free press Ken Christie has lots of time to work on Arena scoreboard and about portion must continue to operate and Market the Winnipeg along with its other perhaps the most uncertainty surrounds the 30 to 35 full time staff employed by the jets a cancellation of the season will certainly Lead to layoffs pay jets spokesman Mike Ohearn the teams assistant general manager said the deadline imposed by nil commissioner Gary the season must be started by 16 at least had one positive aspect for Winni Eggers who rely on spinoff in come from professional one Way or another it will be Good because the waiting will be he that been the hardest facing eliminate with Only Days left for the nil and its players to Salvage whats left of the 199495 the free press talks to the people outside the game who will be affected if there is no hockey this Wec plays waiting d1 about for the regular or about a and the attendants represent Only a fraction of wages generated on game the combination of staff from the Winnipeg enterprises the nil and private contractors totals about the lockout has already Cost the Wec about million in Gross Rev spokesman Larry Neufeld said the Wec has no plans yet to Lay off staff because the Cor is police work going to pot tax court time tied up prosecuting cannabis Possession cases Babii Redekop staff reporter when Winnipeg Jet Shel Don Kennedy was arrested he became one of More than 630 Manitoban charged every year with cannabis posses its an average of nearly two peo ple a is it taxpayers Money Well spent Kennedy Case cant be before the but in the Case of Rob you be the has been convicted five times in 11 years for what Many lawyers Call the lowest priority on the court docket Possession of in Wagner most recent bust the fifth time police had obtained a special report inside Story drug War going up in smoke search warrant to raid his premises police found something More Seri Ous than but their Case collapsed in court because the search warrant was too a frequent occurrence with drug according to defence lawyer Saul the charge was reduced to what was involved in making the bust there was the with officers building enough of a Case to obtain a search at least four officers showed up at Wagner door to make the a police interviews with Wagner and two friends carried on through the night at the police Wagner had his court appear ances remanded four he eventually made three court appearances for a preliminary in a and an he is still pursuing a complaint of undue Force against one of the claiming the officer pointed a gun at his for each court the four officers had to be close not knowing when they would be called to officers Are often paid overtime while waiting to testify in an expensive chemical analysis was done on the seized the Cost of the whole operation various studies in the United states put the average Cost per pos session charge at More than Neil Simon Fraser univer sity is More conserva estimating the average cannabis Possession charge in Canada costs taxpayers Between and but Wagner costs would be significantly with All his Legal his prosecution could Cost the Justice system upwards of Boyd estimates of the Cost to catch and prosecute him for his five posses Sion charges Range from to with police investigation and surveillance it could be much in Wagner has been fined for his five quote of the Day 7w not the mme who stormed the Quebec legislature in killed three people and injured 13 says he changed during his 1q years in the weather Teddy sunny with Cloudy High tomorrow mainly 1 o sati inside diversions ergs sword rubes Miltor Lyls in d7 01 lotto Bonus students question air safety traffic control instructor slept on former trainees say by Doug Nairne staff reporter a Winnipeg air traffic control instructor routinely violated safety regulations and fell asleep on the leaving a student with aircraft to direct on his former trainees the which also include failure to maintain the proper amount of distance and course separation Between raise serious concerns about the safety of air traffic Over the area controlled from the students Richard one of the former said he was removed from the training program for his refusal to Bend the rules when it came to there were several times that the instructor told me to do things that could have endangered Peoples lives by causing a midair Lesiuk when i questioned what he was doing his answer was chances Are they Arent going to hit each other so dont worry about cutting Corners two other students in Lesiuk class Back up his saying be sinks instructor has a reputation for cutting Corners and being a poor in we All saw what was happening with Richard and his said one trainee who asked not to be Richard paid a lot of at Tention to detail but his instructor would just get mad and Tell him to hurry up and not bother with what the manual has filed a lawsuit against the instructor and two of the instructors asking for unspecified damages and his Job he was released from the pro Gram in september after completing All but 45 Days of the two year in the suit he outlines 10 in stances where his instructor negligently and recklessly end an lives and safety of the travelling Lesiuk said the Man fell asleep at least three times while supervising him on he said the like Many of the air traffic control got fatigued after working eight Days in a Row with Only one Day there i was with 12 aircraft com ing out of Thunder Bay and this Guy was sitting beside me with his feet up sawing logs because he was so he Lesiuk said the instructor Al Lowed aircraft to travel on con verging paths a violation of separation regulations because there was Only a minute Chance they would Lesiuk said he complained several times to supervisors and at least two internal reviews were but the instructor was kept the instructor refused to com ment when called by the free press last officials with transport Canada also refused to comment because of the they maintained that their safety standards Are very High and always adhered other students who trained with Lesiuk describe him As a who was among the most talented people to attempt the challenging my instructor said Richard is one of the Best students he has Ever said one who asked not to be he knows the manual of operations inside out so he was always in conflict with the instructor who got mad when Rich Ard corrected Phil free press Lesiuk suing were instructors bending rates air traffic control students allege these incidents took place during their training in Winnipeg last Spring and although none of the situations put lives in jeep they created the potential for disaster and violated Strin gent air traffic control Regula on March an instructor told a trainee to ignore regulations in the operations manual that state a plane must be 10 minutes flying time behind another plane on the same the student was Over ruled when he tried to Correct an aircraft headed to Winnipeg from Thunder Bay that was closing in on a plane on the same although the possibility was the planes could have on two april 5 and june a student was directed to attempt to control aircraft departing from the uncontrolled airports at Marathon and it would have been against regulations to do so because inadequate radar coverage and poor navigation aids leave the controller unable to Monitor the on june june 26 and at least one other an instructor fell asleep while supervising a student who was controlling Lousy airspace Over Thunder the instructor must be Able to assume control from the student at any on july two planes were headed towards each one travelling West towards one heading East to Thunder an instructor placed the westbound plane under the control of the Dryden air traffic control sector while the eastbound plane remained under control of the Winnipeg the two planes were on converging courses with one climbing and one yet no one had control Over both to ensure they did not on another a Stu Dent was criticized for not main Taining adequate distance Between a plane circling the air port and preparing to and other aircraft in the the student correctly maintained five Miles about eight Kilometres was sufficient separation while the instructor showed he did not know the regulations by main Taining that More than five Miles was ;