Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada May free press a o Canada at a glance mm6mmm9mrnmrmhmmmmmhi taboos taunt Green group Canadian press local yahoos torched a sign and taunted Mem Bers of an environmental group meeting an Earth first organizer Michelle Stewart of Victoria said the Earth first sign on the Road outside the Camp was set ablaze saturday night and someone with a megaphone taunted the group with threats of end to secrecy Toronto former tory finance minister Michael Wilson is calling for an end to the secrecy surrounding fed eral details should be released in Advance to allow the Public to the markets to pass judgment and the government to make changes before it pre sents a final Wilson deadly crash Montreal a Headon collision that killed four peo ple yesterday was so violent that police were still trying to determine which of the two vehicles was travelling in the wrong direction on Highway simply someone was driving toward trois rivieras in the lanes for traffic headed for said Quebec provincial police mat Thias Tough customer Hamilton a 66year old Man who stumbled into a convenience store robbery narrowly dodged a Bullet As he wrestled the Bandit to the Philip a retired steel walked into the store monday morning to pay for the robber put a gun to tas Sis demanded his Wallet and ordered him to lie on the while he was on the ground wrestling with the masked 5 165pound a shot was the robber was subdued and held for to trucks collide Thunder a pickup truck crashed Headon with a transport leaving a Man dead and his wife Harvey of ver was killed and his wife was in stable condition in this Northern on Tario the Driver of the Ingemar of Winni want save the shark Halifax the depart ment of aiming to prevent a fishing frenzy Over is moving to limit shark fishing As More Atlantic fishermen look to the Stock following cuts to ground fish continued caution should be exercised in the shark fish said Barry director of resource manage ment for the gun Bill targeted a Union local is threatening to Stop supporting the nip unless the government opposes the Federal gun control almost All the 600 members of the United steelworkers of America local 651 Here have signed a petition opposing the a spokesman fund saves Day Halifax the Nova Scotia teachers Union has opted to dip into its strike fund to cover a projected deficit of we didst want to Cut pro Grams and services and certainly we did not want to raise president John Mac Donald said at the unions an Nual Christopher Marquardt rushed to Hospital with bitten Python puts Teeth into former pm Canadian press mans passion for pythons has cooled after his pet put the squeeze on him and chomped repeatedly on his he wants it said Adam after his brother was rushed to Hospital sunday after being bitten by Winston the burmese said his brother was carrying Winston into the bathroom to clean his Cage when the Snake Winston coiled himself around Christophers left Arm and then bit his Adam said his first indication the housecleaning was taking a turn for the worse was when he heard his sibling Yelling from the second floor All i heard was so i ran there and i didst know what to he was biting on his hand and it was wrapped around his i was before Adam could offer a helping his brother had ripped the Slithery attacker off his Arm and yanked his hand out of the snakes Christophers hand was badly chewed in the Adam his hand is swollen up and its All the Brothers locked the which int in the bathroom and called Christopher was taken to Hospital to be treated for six or seven bites to his were not sure if there Are still Teeth in his said fire department Dave its a serious its like a dog Adam said this is the first time Winston has turned on his although he did try to put the bite on their Mother about five years Christopher bought the Snake it was less than half its current seven years ago As a birthday present for his the Brothers have been taking care of it for the last few Shoal Lake student earns spot in National Challenge David Menzies Doest have any problem telling you where to in the Grade 9 student from Shoal Lake is so proficient at giving out directions Hes earned a spot in the finals of the first great Canadian geography in pretty said the articulate 15yearold from his Ottawa hotel room last and so he should Menzies and the 10 other finalists beat out More than kids from 900 schools across the the three top students will win scholarships and earn the right to represent Canada at the International geography olympiad in Dis Ney hosting today final will be Cana Das own Alex Star of the to quiz show who never misses an got a Chance to meet his hero at a dress rehearsal it was so he i Al ways watch the show so i feel like i already know him but of course he didst know poking through atlases and scour ing maps has been a passion for Menzies since Grade i remember our teacher taught us the provinces and i thought that was really but simply memorizing names wont Cut it at this says men competitors Are often Given Only a few clues to figure out the an for name a Northern country where fishing is the main Industry and the Homes Are heated with geothermal the answer cheering Menzies on Are his Par grandmother and two siblings who also made the trip to his epidemic out of control in Vancouver Canadian press Vancouver an his Epi Demic is raging through Van covers drug spreading from downtown junkies to casual intravenous drug a doctor its out of says Stan Ley de who runs a clinic in Gast Pwns blood Alley that caters to the cites in seeing two to three new cases a some say the spread of the virus that causes aids has the potential to break the healthcare the average Cost of caring for an aids patient is half As much again if the patient is a drug user because of their additional Vancouver second largest Hospi already spends 20 per cent of its budget on aids dirty Needles have infected More than 700 people More than one third in the last according to provincial exact numbers Are hard to Nail Down because the High risk group is still in still it wont happen to de Vlaming que said it is Only a Small step for More Westray fees see Light of Day lost documents May Sway mining officials trial Canadian press Halifax More Lon lost labor department files have surfaced on the eve of a Cru Cial hearing that could end the we stray a stack of Westra related Docu ments was retrieved last week from a locked file Cabinet in a vacant government office in a few Kilometres from the Coal mine in the material apparently collected by min Rescue officer Fred who is now retired includes a file folder labelled original Westray do not destroy or Al the discovery was revealed in court papers filed Friday As part of a defence motion for a stay of charges against former Westray managers Gerald Phillips and Roger they Are accused of mans laugh his to spread from the estimated hardcore drug users to the people who use heroin and co Caine occasionally and then to the general health officials spotted the begin Ning of an epidemic in August and asked de Vlaming for proposals on How to Deal with the i submitted my first proposal six months de Vlaming i still Haven heard de Vlaming proposed methadone treatment and a hard hitting coun Selling he asked to meet health minister Paul Ramsey six weeks ago and last week wrote Premier Mike Harcourt who represents the downtown East Side in the legislature asking him to Michael Oshaughnessy of the Centre for excellence in aids and his said programs to provide clean Needles to drug users Haven were doing a study Oshaughnessy we need that hard data from studies if were going to persuade government to fund projects that will he said the programs will Cost millions but the Cost of not acting would be in the Ter and criminal negligence causing the deaths of 26 miners killed in the May 1992 Justice Robert Anderson will hear testimony and Legal arguments on the motion today in the misplaced documents bolster claims by defence lawyers that they have been denied Access to prosecution labor who were responsible for enforcing mine safety have been criticized for not taking Steps to prevent the expo the ramp investigated the departments role in the but Laid no All the departments Westray files were supposed to be in the hands of the but trial evidence showed some documents were photocopies and others were after Justice Anderson ordered All documents labor officials spent Days scouring offices around the last they pried open a file Cabinet in Doucette former office in the mines building in besides the file folder marked original Westray they discovered a stash of Handwritten reports pertaining to the Westray no other details have been re it is not Clear whether the documents were prepared before or after the Doucette took part in several inspections of the including a tour just 10 Days before the that the department ordered Westray to take immediate Steps to Ward off a co Aldust Doucette later took part in the departments investigation of the i he also trained two ramp officers who were sent under ground to search for York factory first nation important notice for members of York factory first nation concerning the implementation of the Northern flood agreement in aprim994 the York factory first nation signed an agreement in principle with Manitoba Hydro and Canada to implement the Northern flood negotiations have been taking place since that time to reach a final under this Manitoba and Canada agree to provide land Money and various continuing arrangements for the York factory first in return for an undertaking from the York factory first nation to release them from most of their obligations under the Northern flood including arbitration claims which have not otherwise been this will enable the York factory first nation to control and direct implementation of the Northern flood agreement for the Benefit of present and future Public 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