Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Winnipeg free press a q january Canada at a glance judges get Back pay from the Canadian press Edmonton one Hundred Alberta judges who took the province to court last year Over a salary Cut received Back pay total Ling but the Alberta government said it will Appeal a ruling that invalidated the five per cent pay Cut it handed provincial court judges last petition delivered Ottawa a Small group of natives delivered a petition to the prime ministers office yesterday demanding that a mediator be to resolve a lingering native tax about 20 natives have been occupying a Toronto tax of fice since 15 in a bid to overturn new rules that re quire status indians to pay in come tax on Money earned off Reserve if their employers have no link to the town cleaning up four teen people were nabbed Dur ing the Christmas period under a new local nuisance by Law designed to discourage swearing in the bylaw grew out of whistlers growing problem with youths who were blocking Peoples urinating in Public and giving the resort Community a Black trial in Toronto Toronto Paul Bernar Dos murder trial will Start in Toronto on May the minis try of the attorney general said Bernardo is charged in the sex slayings of two Southern Ontario schoolgirls Kristen of and Leslie of Canadian he Toronto Ontario liberals would ban All but Canad manmade books from the prov inces Leader Lyn Mcleod said seventy five per cent of textbooks now used in Cana Dian schools Are bought from foreign owned Mcleod sovereignty allies Montreal the Quebec federation of labor will launch a pre Campaign favouring Quebec sovereignty at Montreal palais Des con Gress president Clem ent Godbout said the maintenance of federalism prevents us from doing certain things and keeps us from establishing our own so Cial and economic but the referendum gives us an unparalleled Chance to change the Godbout pair rescued Stdenis Ebrom two missing snowmobiles were rescued suffering Shock and two Days after they went through the ice of a Lake near this Village in que becs Eastern but a third was found dead in the shallow Waters of Brompton Lake while a fourth was presumed the foursome vanished while snowmobiling prompting a major search of the Holiday terror Halifax a Man has been charged in separate car jacking Over the holidays at Halifax area shopping Cen tres that included the holding of a Little girl at William of neigh Boring Dartmouth has been charged with four counts of unlawful two of making threats and one of pos session of a Cable gripes swamp crts by Wendy Mccann Canadian press sitting in the speakers fires at a camera in photo sequence taken off television during 1984 legislature killer hoped to die c Lorti begins life on outside after 10 years in prison cell by Linda Drouin Canadian press Lortie was hoping someone would kill him when he stormed the Quebec legislature in shooting three people dead and injuring 13 in his first interview since he was released on parole this week after serving 10 years in Lortie said he bring himself to commit suicide after his rampage but was hoping police or guards would shoot some people might have killed the former army Corporal said yesterday in a to interview on the Reseau de abcs new French language Al news i but i did everything i could to have myself that was the i handle it any i was afraid of started a new life this week in a Halfway House in near in a modest residential he is free to work during the Day but is confined to the House from 11 every night until 7 the next he has been ordered to stay within a 40kilometre radius of the said Ghyslaine a spokeswoman for correctional service of she said Lortie will get regular psychological testing and will have to meet a parole officer once a he will stay six months at the Halfway which has room for 20 released he will be very strictly like other residents of the Charlebois his parole was condemned by the families of some of his his release puts Oil on the said Helene whose husband Roger was killed in the1 Ive tried to but in the last 10 years nothing has eased the grief i Felt at the loss of my Steve the son of victim George said Lortie should have been executed rather than Lortie inset will spend six months at this Halfway House in he is free to work during the but is confined to the House be tween 11 and 7 i dont think the punishment Here fits the who works in said in an interview with a Montreal radio Lortie said he wants to forget the constantly replayed video images of a crazed Man firing a from the speakers chair in the National i dont understand Why they keep showing those pictures Over and said who answered questions calmly but kept his face partly hidden by dark glasses and a baseball the Man who pulled the trigger was a person completely disconnected from he Lortie said he changed during his 10 years in jail with the help of psychiatrists and others and Doest think he represents any danger to in not the same he that Man was shut up in his Corner and was a time in not so closed i express i can face Lortie said hell be looking for a Job and trying to guard his an Adas broadcast regu Lator is getting an earful from canadians angry Over the Way there being charged for a package of new Cable to there there com they want to know whats Michel the crts manager of said yesterday from his Montre Alarea were being its difficult to Blais says the crts has received Telephone complaints since another 600 disgruntled Ca Nadian to viewers have written let there have been some inquiry he but the majority Are the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commis Sion says most Are complaining about negative a marketing strategy that requires Cable sub scribers to explicitly cancel the new channels or be automatically billed for other viewers say there upset because the new channels Are tied to existing meaning most sub scribers will lose channels such As ten and can if they dont buy the new since the new which feature everything from science and nature to programming for were introduced complaints have also poured in to Ca ble one angry Vancouver Man is Tak ing the country largest Ca ble to and an on Tario my is circulating a petition de manding that the crts reexamine How Cable operators Bill their Cus the crts is taking note of what subscribers Are said who admits the regulator has no rules against negative with the exception of Nova most provincial governments dont restrict the practice Blais mattress factory direct to you foam mat bunk rollaway sofa bed mattress bed 86 sat restore bedding 15 Macdonald ave behind the Kings hotel 2nd great location 1391 James 7637574 Lee denture clinic 274 Smith Street Between Portage Graham Avenue 9434048 9437629 9428930 personalized denture service to the Public since 1955 we accept All dental insurance Plant no get or Post on dentures repairs while you wait free parking at rear dont forget poor in social Bishops caution by Bob Cox Canadian press Ottawa the poor and Dis advantaged have not been heard in the current govern ment review of programs such As unemployment insurance and Wel Catholic Bishops said yester Day in a pastoral somehow we have to make sure that we hear them and they Are Satis fied that they Are said Faber Bishop of grand Macdonald is chairman of the Ca Nadian conference of Catholic Bish Ops social affairs commission which prepared the the most Likely to be affected by Are being forgot ten because the focus of the social program review has become saying Money to reduce the Federal the message said the Reform of Canadian social policy should not be driven by the urgency of cutting the the Bishops the review should focus on Chang ing social programs and taxes to problems such As Lon term unemployment and disparities be tween the Rich and they the message is the Bishops contribution to the review of social pro Grams under Way for almost a it comes late in the review pro a Factor that could reduce its a committee of maps reviewing changes has already wrapped up Public hearings and is expected to make recommendations to human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy next committee hearings were at times disrupted by protesters and marred by complaints that not ail groups wanting to make presentations were Macdonald said the disruptions showed the anxiety and anger about changing social there Are some signals out there that the environment is not All that conducive to objective de he he said such suspicion appears to Stem from the fact that Axworthy and finance minister Paul Martin have framed the review As an exer Cise to Cut billions of dollars in fed eral spending to reduce the receivers Sale by tender assets of rink Ratz sporting goods the remaining inventory of hockey Slicks baseball bats athletic footwear and store fixtures including skate sharpening equipment Are available for Sale by for More information and to View the assets please Contact Bob Riddell at 204 fax 204 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