Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 7, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Check your winning numbers on d8 lotto Bonus 10 the weather donations pour in for dying mom u of m sets sights on China Ontario Man eyes Polar ear care native protest handled carefully easter lights up lives Liani zobans find Holiday brings Many kinds of Joy ignorance of science dangerous author Book details political feeding refugee exposes East timers actress Greer Garson Dies o aim Ada escape plotted murderer of 9 didst intend suicide at first wrong teen held Ontario tourists killer May still be free report jets beat flames in a Squeaker ins its olympic flame begin female Cam Neely eyes 98 olympics baseballs Gooden to make Al debut c6 diversions Ann Percy in sports to mainly 30 Chance of wet High Low details on Page c7 sunday free press axes higher in outlying areas april sees the end Job each Day Tim the deck of a of a Road to controversy fixed link Means Prosperity to doom for others by Randy Turner staff reporter Mike Mcaleer can see the dead end to his livelihood rising before his eyes out of the icy Northumberland talk about pier its not Nice to look out the win Dow and see with each pillar going in the water youre closer to Mcaleer its like someone telling you youve got terminal you go through grief and eventually you accept you just didst believe he its starting to sink Mike Mcaleer is a and for the last 22 years Hes the Unity Issue so dominates the National spotlight that we some times lose sight of profoundly important stories Shap ing Canadas far Flung today the free press continues a yearlong rediscovery of our country with a report from Prince Edward made three round trips a shift Between Prince Edward Island and Cape new Bridge Over icy Waters each Day he goes to Mcaleer along with some 600 other ferry workers must wit Ness the erection of the metre fixed link that will soon Render their jobs ferryman gazing at the links piers sprouting out of the Strait must be Akin to an old horse trader watching Henry Ford drive by in a Model their Days Are numbered and they know by next after decades of debate and countless fixed link Prince Edward Island will enter a new age it will liter ally join the rest of the an mar Vel of modern Day is scheduled to be completed by june of almost this rather isolated and quaint province of souls will for All intents and purposes be an Island no this is a Span so Long that Dri vers will actually be employed to steer vehicles of those too leery to make the pass on their stomping Tom Connors made potatoes a part of Canadian folklore hinted after a recent Chai smoking tour of the Meg project that he May pen a tune about the at least one islander has already dubbed it the Span of Green for it is the Bridge to Prosperity an accessible link that will be the Road to a self sustaining their dream hundreds of trucks filled with potatoes headed for the passing carloads of tourists bound for Annes continued please see advocate did kids die top coroners recommendations must be made pcs urged by Ruth Teichroeb social affairs reporter Manitoba child advocate is calling on the province to publicly release recommendations made by the chief medical examiner when children die in the care of child welfare child advocate Wayne Govereau has asked family services minis Ter Bonnie Mitchelson to release such recommendations so the pub Lic knows what went who Are we protecting if we keep it secret asked there has to be More account right everything is swept under the in his annual tabled with family services minister Bonnie Mitchelson several months Govereau asked the minister to release such so there has been no two Manitoba babies have died of abuse related injuries in the care of child welfare agencies in the last three eight Montgold Sophia Schmidt died of massive head injuries in january after being placed in the care of her father by Winnipeg child and family a month 23monthold Nadine Beaulieu died of stomach injuries after being placed in a Fos Ter Home at Pine Creek first nation by West Region child and family in each the chief medical examiners investigation is the Only Independent review that has been done of the agencies actions prior to the chief medical examiner Peter Markesteyn said asked former family services min ister Harold Gilleshammer four years ago to release his recon and has also approached in general it is better for the recommendations to be part of the Public Markesteyn she Mitchelson knows about but its not a High priority for since Markesteyn said the fatalities inquiries act has required him to investigate the Quality of care an Agency provided whenever a child Dies in his office must also investigate if a child who Dies was in care any time in the two years preceding or if a dead Childs guardian or sibling was in by his report and recommendations must be submitted confidentially to the family ser vices Markesteyn said he hired a full time social worker six months ago to provide More expertise in investigating the deaths of children in Mitchelson could not be reached for the father and Stepmother of Sophia Schmidt have been charged with second degree no charges have yet been Laid in the Case of the Beaulieu baby which is under investigation by Winnipegosis Pinawa plagued we ii try sexism for Alex by brain Drain by Randy Turner staff reporter answer Middle class White question who Are most Likely to win at jeopardy that the conclusion of a University of Manitoba English professor who has studied the Content of the popular to game show Over the last three i started to ask what they jeopardy producers privilege and what they dont said John they ask questions that Middle class men in their 30s and 40s would this principle May partly account for the Small number of women Rempel for that jeopardy Host Alex Trebek never cites categories dealing with childbearing or the he consist of the hard facts that Deal with the external the professors jeopardy study got a failing Grade from a spokesman for the syndicated that utterly said the jeopardy employ who didst want to be when reached at the game shows head office in Culver the Guy is talking without any theres so Many holes in this repels conclusions i dont know where to the spokesman noted that repels Assumption that certain categories Are male and others female itself is Rempel admitted that his jeopardy analysis was intended to be but he at least raised the notion that the game shows Structure could be a reflection of society As much As a simple to con repels unscientific study revealed that the show favours head knowledge Over hand for i dont remember Ever seeing a category on hammers or the professor they almost never ask questions about tools in Rempel said the shows technology categories tend to favour the old and the answers in one recent show included the radar and vulcanized by Dan Lett National reporter Rempel lighthearted study in his race against Peter Siemens has just lost another Grain of Sand through the arriving Back at his tiny office at the atomic Energy of Canada White Shell Laboratory near Siemens finds a Small Yel Low note informing him that another scientist from the Manitoba facility has taken a Job with a rival decl facility in Chalk there goes another Siemens says As he stares Long and hard at the they keep it up at this Pace and Well have nothing for chairman of a fed eral task Force charged with find ing a Lon term future for the 800person nuclear this is no Small after has been asked to find ways of breaking the White Shell lab from the decl fam ily by identifying and exploiting anything the lab can sell on the open info Stu some of the labs Best and brightest scientific staff the equity of a science facility Are being slowly lured away to aels largest facility in Chalk the Hub of the nuclear Agency Candy reactor continued please see i the province the super cities for multiple sclerosis Weill stride towards a see today Winnipeg free press for registration 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