Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Automotive showcase in our classified Section 010015 prime time loonie interest rates jump 14 Shes a hero girl honoured for saving grandmother b1 48 pages vol 123 no 43 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get p3t get pc s3 5 153 05 20 Post in w Ira 30 s3 09 1 Psi c january most dude the mayor and Goddaughter Joan Carson arrive at Reeves draws raves for opening night Hamlet performance by Bud Robertson and Brad Oswald staff reporters Keanu Reeve most excellent adventure As Hamlet left opening night theatregoers thrilled with his performance As a serious shakespearean and it gave Winnipeg a midwinter glimpse of opening night Glamor As International visitors and Manitoba notables and unknowns jammed into the foldout Manitoba theatre Hes absolutely beamed Winnipeg Ger Anne Viegas As she and her brother Mario joined the crowd during last nights first i want sure at first what to she adding she was waiting for Reeves to blurt out dude somewhere along the first act there was an excellent in there said what she got was a Fine performance by Reeves and the other its she Reeves most dedicated fans might have been Yuka and Mariko they made the arduous Toyko new journey last we just want to see Keanu were big fans of said a flight attendant from Tokyo who will see two More performances in the next Glamor in River City International event watch for theatre critic Kevin pro Koshys review of Hamlet in tomorrows free the pair said the premiere was the second thrill of their having met Reeves wednesday evening outside we told him we came from Tokyo to see this Yoshimura and he youre mayor Susan Thompson was among the first of several local dignitaries to accompanied by 16yearold Goddaughter and huge Reeves fan Joan its wonderful that this is happening in said i really do wish him All the i was quite said Denise also from i didst know quite what to think of him Reeves As a film the 30yearold heartthrob spent six weeks rehearsing his lines for the Lead role of the Prince of and it appeared that the hard work had paid especially for fans like 16yearold Heather he was really i she i was really she have while Reeves is known for his roles in such films As Bram stokers Dracula and Bill and teds photographs by Phil free press excited opening night audience members pour into theatre one ticket Holder came prepared to follow the excellent this int his first foray into live among he played mercutio in a Toronto production of Romeo and Juliet in directed by Lewis Baumander who is also directing this production of season ticket Holder Doug Skoog said Reeves is doing Mac proud with his Hes doing a wonderful said Skoog As he inched his Way Back into the theatre for the second Hes quite the curtains will come Down on Reevess Hamlet for the last time february Book closed on death it want assisted judge rules by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter helping a patient die with dignity Doest amount to assisting a an inquest judge ruled yesterday in a decision critical of the provinces chief medical provincial court judge Howard Collerman said a 49yearold who cannot be identified be cause of a court died of respiratory failure from a natural progression of Amy trophic lat eral sclerosis Lou Gehrig disease and not Tor and adminis not Worth living b3 tired mans death occurred Coller Man said in his decision made Public the morphine injections were administered in order to prevent the Man from experiencing anxiety and discomfort upon the disconnection of his and to permit him to die with throughout the 86page Collerman criticized the conclusion by Peter the provinces chief medical that the mans death was by assisted by one or More the does not in any Way Accord with the and the conclusion that death resulted from suicide runs contrary to the substantial medical and Legal Opin ions presented to this the inquest was called last year after Markesteyn filed an official report stating the mans death at King George Hospital on april was a questions raised the Man had been disconnected from a Respirator and injected with he died a few minutes Markesteyn investigated the Case after sources at the Hospital raised questions about whether there had been a doctor assisted after an the provinces Justice department ruled out criminal but Markesteyn ordered an none of the physicians who testified at the in quest agreed with Markesteyn opinion that the death was due to anything other than natural Markesteyn defended his determination of the cause of saying the judge used a higher Standard of proof than he he said in future if he hears allegations of eur he will Contact the police instead of investigating it our office is not a crime investigation unit were a death investigation Markesteyn i should have got a crime quote of the Day this is a True Miracle from god t colombian civil aviation director Alvaro Raad Gomez is amazed that Niney Earold Erika Delgadp emerged alive from a plane crash that killed her parents and 50 other people wednesday retail on Page a9 the weather today Cloudy with occasional Snow High Low tonight tomorrow mainly Sun a Lett Sitf Moon s inside comics diversions rubes and Ann in sports c16 w University pulls off enrolling Thompson students by Gerald flood and Linda Quattrin staff reporters s when a Thompson social services Agency wanted a University to teach graduate courses to its it went British Gerrard executive director of the Wasis child welfare said hed had informal discussions about hiring the University of Manitoba to run the program in but it was generally understood they we rent he turned to the University of which this week began de livering masters degree courses to 17 Wasis Victoria was ready and Wasis was Bellefeuille under the University of Victoria professors will Fly to Thompson to teach the bulk of the two More will Likely be taught from Victoria via satellite Frances one of the univer sity of Victoria said when she met u of m they were upset an outside institution was moving in on their it was this is our what Are you doing1 so i go ahead and do it but can you do it Tomor u of m officials were taken Aback by the universities As a whole Are get Ting quite entrepreneurial maybe they were faster on the Mark or they knew the right said Ruth Dean of the u of is faculty of human but i think with education being a provincial re there should be some education minister Clay ton manness said the univer sity of Victorias coup under lines the message he has been giving universities that they have to aggressively compete for students or lose them to some say the threat to universities is government i say the threat will be the deliverers of programs from outside the province or the competitive Model is the in so to it is not the govern manness the three year Pilot project is be ing funded with from Awa Sis and about in tuition Ricks she said who had taken courses through Victorias distance education asked the University 14 months ago if it could design and deliver a masters course tailored to Wasis who provide social services to 25 Northern their families and children younger than she said it was ironic the Wasis contract was announced this when the free press is publishing a series of articles about Manitoba universities failing to meet local ;