Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, August 11, 1995

Issue date: Friday, August 11, 1995
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Previous edition: Thursday, August 10, 1995

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 11, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Winnipeg free press August Canada at a glance eliciting yawns Liberal Canadian press Ottawa theres no referendum fever building in Quebec and the Federal government wants to keep it that Quebe cers Are worried about jobs and the Federal referendum minis Ter Lucienne Robillard said yesterday going into a lib eral caucus you dont feel in the regions of Quebec any pre occupation with the referee said who represents a Montreal rid Quebe cers Are already fed up with that lots of weapons Ottawa a Man allegedly tried to commit suicide with a Chainsaw and a knife wednesday after allegedly shooting a woman and running Over her Broth All three were taken to Hospital with injuries described As not life threat hard Rock miners Timmins a dozen Northern Ontario women Are drilling and blasting their Way into one of the last male dominated they Are on their Way to becoming certified hard Rock the women Are members of Ontario first Ever All female group to take the common Core Miner certification program in hotel heist Edmonton about in Cash and jewelry has been stolen from the hotel rooms of a japanese hockey team training in police said the heist happened while 35 skaters with the Okudo bunnies were practising at an ice Eye opening nighttime tour of Toronto seamy sex Trade has persuaded Justice minister Allan Rock of the need to Clamp Down on Street it was Eye opening and very Rock told the Toronto Sun More than a week after he went on patrol with police in downtown its reducing prop erty smelly Landing Toronto a woman broke both legs when she tried to escape a locked room by plunging 18floors Down a garbage Shes awfully Lucky to fall Down 18 floors and live to talk about a police Detec Tive i think its just Laura crawled out of the dumpster at the Bottom of the building in suburban Mississauga and was found by the buildings she was in Good condition in Hospital wednesday with multiple fractures to her novelist dead Toronto Jock car a War Corre speechwriter and died saturday at his Scarborough he was Eastern care Edmonton health authority officials in Calgary Are eyeing nontraditional Eastern forms of alternative Medicine to improve patient care and Cut costs in the the Calgary regional health authority is consid ering new forms of treat ment nutrition and Massage for new Community health Cen tres to open in the next few said Deputy chair woman Phyllis Montreal on Edge As biker War erupts by Rob Bull Canadian press Montreal the cites biker wars took another lethal turn yesterday when a gunman armed with two revolvers strode into a gang owned store on a seedy com Mercial Street and fatally shot one Man and seriously wounded the shootings came a Day after a Man was killed and an 11year old boy suffered Skull fractures and severe brain damage in a Gan related explosion that left him clinging to yesterdays shooting took place in mid afternoon at a motorcycle shop police say is owned by the Rock which is locked in a deadly Battle with the Hells Angels for control of the cites drug he walked into the store with a shot one Man in the head and then fired at the said Montreal police spokesman Pierre Pierre director of the Montreal police forces special investigations said the Type of bomb used wednesday indicates the attack that injured the 11yearold is connected to criminal biker we think its related to drug trafficking and probably related to Santollo but they dont care about whatever they there really barbarians using methods like As he spoke to the shootings at the Bike shop was we dont know whether this is related to wednesdays bomb said Montreal police Claude were still yesterdays shootings occurred on a Street that is also Home to a Massage a Tat too parlor and a body piercing the gang which has claimed at least eight lives since last broke out two years ago up photo morgue workers remove body from motorcycle after the Hells Angels tried to move in on drug turf controlled by the Rock until this there has been limited Public outcry Over the biker As All of the victims have been gang members or but radio talk show callers yesterday expressed out rage that innocent bystanders have now become All i was telling my kids youre not going out of the Back youre not leaving the Back Yard said Josee Daniel the boy who was struck by a piece of Metal from the bomb blast As he was playing on a treeline residential is unlikely to sur said his Mario who per formed three hours of surgery on suggested his chances of survival Are the longer the brain swelling the greater the possibility the compression will affect those parts of the brain controlling breathing and Seguin Marc the 26yearold Man who died wednesday when his jeep was linked by police to drug trafficking and motorcycle police made the same link to a 22yearold Friend of the who suffered minor head injuries when he was standing near the vehicle when it blew fatal error explored faulty altimeter setting May have caused crash by Michael Smyth Canadian press liberals planning lengthy phase in for i reforms slight error in the routine setting of an on Board altimeter May have caused a horrifying air ambulance crash that claimed five lives last newly released Docu ments a report by British columbian Rescue coordination Centre says the instrument that measured Alti tude aboard the doomed Learjet was Likely off by a As a 30yearold Pilot Dan Jorgenson probably thought he was higher in the air As he made his final approach to an unlit coastal Airstrip at Masset on the Queen Charlotte the plane was carrying an infant transport team called from Van Couver to assist a woman having a difficult it crashed into the killing his a doctor and two the obtained by the Canadian press under Freedom of information says the Altime Ter was calibrated at Takeoff for an outside air pressure of Mer Cury inches when the actual pres sure near the Remote destination was the discrepancy would be sufficient to account for descent below instrument flight rules minimum and subsequent Impact with the the report Damien who investigated the crash for the Federal transportation safety said yesterday the altimeter was not found in the but the jets flight path is consistent with an incorrect they thought they were 800 feet higher than they actually he adding the Board has already warned pilots about the necessity to double Check Altime Ter this simple element of flying can really have dire its not something you can discount As triv Lawson said that although the Masset Airstrip does not have an automatic air pressure Jor Genson would have received an updated Reading during the flight from a gauge at about 80 Kilometres to the because the altimeter was not its impossible to Tell whether the Reading was entered incorrectly aboard the Jet or if the altimeter want functioning prop the planes two Black recovered from the sea could not answer the mystery but showed the plane was flying too Low from the moment it took Lawson the circumstances for the Acci Dent were established 200 Miles before they even As the plane approached Masset at on Jorgenson would have been unable to compensate when youre out there in a Black Hole at 2 Oclock in the with no visual clues to Tell you where you its very Lawson More often by Bob Cox and Wendy Cox Canadian press Ottawa the real pain of proposed unemployment insurance cuts wont hit until after the next Federal lib eral maps have been changes that would Force people in High unemployment areas to work longer to qualify for benefits will be phased in Over several starting in the 199798 Fis Cal sources when the cuts were first announced in the february the government said it intended to have them in place by july but the grits have opted for a longer phase in to Cushion the blow from about billion in cuts to unemployment insurance benefits that human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy is the move would also take some heat off Liberal maps seeking re Likely in Axworthy has reportedly pro posed raising the minimum period people must work to qualify for benefits to 455 hours Over 20 weeks instead of 12 weeks at a minimum of 15 hours a the proposal has alarmed some particularly in Atlantic Canada where unemployment is High and Many people depend on unemployment insurance to tide them Over Between season Al but maps were told this week the minimum period needed to qualify for unemployment insurance could be increased sources say Axworthy also assured maps the cuts will not hit any area of the country unduly the changes would hit frequent unemployment insurance users normally seasonal workers the reducing benefits based on How often someone used the program in the previous five frequent users could get full benefits during the first weeks of but would have benefits gradually reduced the longer they stayed on the Axworthy plan also include benefits aimed at getting people to take lower paying jobs rather than staying on unemployment 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