Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Why not pay your rent by phone please Call 958rent Apex realty 7368 Ruth Teichroeb dedicated judge deserves better Many months a judge gave an unusually candid interview about How family violence scarred his childhood and shaped his the reporter sought him curious about the judges longstanding commitment to improving the courts handling of Domestic after a career in family violence court is hardly the goal of most on the but during the interview it became Clear that for this it was a Way of giving having watched his father abuse his having seen How violence can tear a family he Felt he had a contribution to instead of following in his fathers some who grow up witnessing he vowed to live his life in not on a he hastened to add at the i always distrust people with a the judge in question was Ron the first Manitoba judge to specialize in hearing spousal assault cases Over a decade in he helped organize Canadas first family violence where he worked almost full time until last until two Days after the article about him appeared in the free that no sooner did the Story run than new chief provincial judge Judith Webster abruptly yanked Meyers from family violence court and banished him to the Rural to add insult to Meyers Hast been allowed to hear spousal assault cases on the Rural circuit the official reason Given by Webster was that it was a routine the closest she came to acknowledging what really happened was this comment i agree that the timing is int it in not going to get into but theres no doubt that some believed Meyers had broken a Cardinal Rule of the he stepped out from behind the Black Robes and Down from the he let the Public know he was human and had like everybody some defence lawyers muttered privately that suspected abusers would now assume they get a fair hearing because Meyers was biased against but his past record Speaks for a study of sentencing patterns in the family violence court found Meyers was not the toughest in the intervening letters from women groups in Manitoba and across Canada have asked Webster to reconsider her Treyve asked whether political interference played a role in Meyers Transfer because of his outspoken criticism of backlogs in the Treyve out that punishing a judge for acknowledging the painful personal Impact of family violence is every judge on the Bench has a past that has shaped him or that Doest mean they cant be fair and take associate chief provincial judge Murray for he has spoken often about How his ojibway roots influenced his understanding of does that mean Sinclair should be banned from hearing cases involving aboriginals the Public no longer buys the hallowed image judges have cultivated Over the there Legal professionals with a Tough Job to there not with the overloaded family violence court in need of dedicated the and Winnipeg free press local january 1995 Section Brian Cole 6977292 email b1 computer hacking Sparks police arrest by Bud Robertson staff reporter Winnipeg police have made what they believe is Canadas first arrest for breaking into the the worldwide computer a 31yearold Man was arrested at his North end Home wednesday Fol lowing an eight month police investigation into illegal Access to the in ternet computer system at the University of the Man was later released and is to be charged following a court appearance Early next John head of Winnipeg police services Commer Cial crime said police believe a Man used a called crack to decrypt the Access codes of legitimate internet users before roaming the system and download ing both commercial software pro Grams and pornographic Ormondroyd said the department began tracing the Man after the u of m complained its computers were being illegally the u of m is the main provider of internet Access in Manitoba through a computer called after the University took Steps to change users Access the Man then allegedly tapped into the provincial education departments i net internet which also connects through the u of the decoding program was downloaded from the internet by the while the arrest May be the crime is far from says Gerry director of computer ser vices at the u of were attacked All the said adding he has full time staff monitoring the system for both on and off we Are constantly putting in More and More Security Protection As it becomes he noted that most attacks Are not internet users pay about for the first 30 hours of roaming the in and an hour after even without the Crackerjack program which the University uses to see if a password is hackers can crack Access codes through other said while the Man is expected to be charged with two counts of unauthorized use of a computer police Are still investigating and fur ther such As could said Joe free press Trail of ice Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Rodger Croteau of the Forks works on the River skating rink which is expected to be completed in about two the skating Trail on the Assiniboine River will stretch from the Forks to the Osborne Street Miller says an arrest is but computer crime is student slashed in school knife attack at Daniel Mclntyre linked to dispute Over gossip by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent a Daniel Mclntyre student armed with a Utility knife slashed another students neck yesterday in an argument Over a 20yearold Man was arrested and a 17yearold youth was taken to one was thinking the other was talking behind the others principal Vailla Hoggan the incident happened about 1 in the hallway just outside the school cafeteria and the wound didst appear to be Hoggan adding she thought the boy might require serious both students and staff said fights Are rare at the this three people have received on Day suspensions for Winnipeg school division chief superintendent Jack Smyth said both students would be suspended and the one with the knife could be were viewing it As a very serious he its just Hoggan said the 20yearold with the who was taking courses in grades 11 and will not return to Daniel Mclntyre and it is up to the school Board whether he can attend any other school in the Hoggan and a guidance counsellor took the 17yearold a grades 10 and 11 to the health sciences the student with the knife took but was arrested later by Winnipeg Hoggan said the two boys had fought but staff we rent aware of the fight picked up again yesterday and resulted in the she said the victim was thinking the fight was Over he didst seem to think it would go any Hoggan he thought it was a minor disagree some students were not even aware of the slashing and others had heard it happened with a most said fights were uncommon at the it seems to be calming former student Pedro Lopes its a Little bit stricter Vic principal Jill Tardiff said students didst seem concerned about the there More concerned 20 Hamlet tickets Are on Sale tomorrow she Karen a member of the Daniel Mclntyre Parent said it was an isolated incident and the Council had been notified imme As a member of the Parent coun i was very Active in the Zero tolerance the Mother of two Daniel Mclntyre students i think its necessary in All warm hearts melt moms worries donations help family during life Eddeath trial by Tony Davis staff reporter Cheryl Furlong came to Winnipeg for the first time from new Brunswick so her deathly ill infant daughter could get a Bon marrow in recent Days Shes seen just How cold temperatures in this City can with five cheques Worth each in her hands and another in the she also knows How warmhearted it can late last month the free press chronicled How furlongs plucky son will soon endure As Many As 100 Needles so marrow can be sucked from his Pelvis and injected into his sister the 10monthold suffers from Nez Elofs a rare Condi Tion in which a child is born with virtually no immune it Means a simple cold could kill doctors at the health sciences centres paediatric Bon marrow transplant unit Hope once cells in Christophers marrow Are injected into they will multiply and pro vide her with an immune the Story of the family struggle touched Bruce Mcl Vors i sleep the night after i read the said the Gruff voiced the owner of Park Side a Winnipeg car dealer it touched a nerve in me when i read that Christopher said there going to stick Needles in my Milvor made photocopies of the newspaper article and wrote a Short note on each saying do you think you could find it in your heart to help support this family while they Are Here Surprise he then couriered the copies to Winnipeg other five Ford and Mer Cury the response was they All came said reluctant at first to identify himself and the other yesterday a free press reporter delivered the totalling not including the still to come to in not very Good with but this kindness is very greatly a said a single Mother since her husband died in a boating Accident two years she gave up a Job at a laundromat in John in order to bring her daughter and son to the family May have to stay in an apartment close to the Hospital for As Long As five months after the transplant while Kates immunity builds Furlong said the Money will go a Long Way towards offsetting expenses like rent and now we wont have to worry too much about we can just concentrate on she add ing that its really a Surprise that people would be so generous to total some Winni Eggers even called after the free press Story to offer free room and Board in their Homes to the on the advice of who want to mini Mize both Kate and Christophers exposure to other Furlong had to gratefully Kate has been getting chemotherapy since 1 to completely kill her remaining immune system be fore the that will help prevent her body from rejecting Christophers once the therapy is the Bon marrow transplant can take barring that should Hap peat Ken Winnipeg free press Stopher Furlong with some of their ;