Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free August memory fails Boyle stay away from the helicopter training flights told lawyer grills general Over inability to recall signing documents Canadian press Ottawa if senior bureaucrats were expected to remember every document they even a few months the Bureau Cracy in this town would grind to a Jean Boyle said the chief of the defence staff spent most of the Day his sixth before the Somalia inquiry under Cross examination that began with fireworks and ended with formal lawyer David who represents one of Boyles Doug questioned Boyle pointedly about his failure in May 1994 to remember that he signed certain Public affairs documents three months in Boyle signed a letter that said this class of documents haunt been used since the end of in hed signed one of the documents in i did not Boyle Bright observed dryly that i did not recall is a poor who at the time was associate assistant Deputy minister for policy and said his staff should have told him about the Docu adms cannot be expected to recall everything that Treyve signed six months a year the general Justice Gilles Letourneau noted that the time lapse in this Case was Only three Bright put Boyle on the defensive within seconds of opening his Cross the purpose of my Cross examination is to test the credibility of your he said Caie was a senior Public affairs offi cer when Boyle ran the policy and communications the inquiry is looking into a Docu men tampering scandal involving Mil itary Public affairs papers which were sought by a journalist under the Access to information act in Caie was involved in editing the Bright attacked Boyle for insulting Caie with a remark about his staff lacking integrity and moral Boyle said he had been Hurt when Caie failed to inform him of the Docu ment Canadian press Halifax Crews aboard Labrador helicopters have been told to avoid training flights Over Trees until the military can fix the fleets troublesome were still experiencing quite a few Engin control it Keith Gathercole at Canadian forces base said yes Engin related safety problems have plagued the 13aircraft Labrador used in about 500 search Andrescu missions each one of the twin Rotor aircraft crashed near Bella in killing one Man and injuring 10 dont just getaway for the Fly away there Back starting september leave saturday and return on the following monday or tuesday to take advantage of these great getaway fares until december return fares from Winnipeg Regina Saskatoon Thunder Bay Toronto Ottawa Calgary Edmonton Chicago Vancouver Halifax Montreal Quebec City Victoria Johns Call Canadian at 18006651177 or Call your travel agent now prices Are for travel Between september 1996 and december for new Book Ings 3 Day Advance Purchase required other rules and conditions May prices do not include tickets Are 100 travel blackout october 1996 and november seats Are subject to can adj is a registered trademark of Canadian airlines International Canad in engine problems felled two labradors last investigations into those incidents highlighted chronic Engin related safety problems that crop up almost twice a month and have spooked Gathercole said a revamped Engin control system is to be installed on one aircraft 3 and if successful on the rest of the Fleet beginning in and this the defence department agreed to increase the engine Power to horsepower from Ottawa plans to seek bids this autumn for a contract to provide up to 15 replacements for the a project expected to Cost around Canada squad targeted Toronto Toronto sex assault squad needs a major overhaul to ensure mistakes out lined in a report critical of the Paul Bernardo investigation Arent repeat says a review released the police services Board said its incredible there want a better sys tem in 1987 to Deal with its ask ing police chief David Boothby to answer by 17 to More than 20 problems and recommendations out lined in a june report from Justice Archie blame premature too Early to blame the Quebec government for last months flooding in the Saguenay even though it was responsible for managing two faulty the head of a commission examining the disaster said yesterday a report prepared for environment minister David cliche said two dams which Are managed by his department and which controlled the level of water in the regions Lac Kenogami had Seri Ous technical problems which helped Lead to the july if it is established Down the Road that the problems indeed Are related to the obviously the govern ment would be said Roger chairman of a scientific com Mission set up by Premier Lucien Bouchard to review the operation of All dams in the pot bust a High mounties were High in the sky this week to keep mar Ijuana users from getting High on the the ramp used three helicopters one of their own and two Canadian forces choppers from Alberta to spot pot from the air in a search that netted them plants they said were Worth talk about Lazy Toronto gunmen fleeing after robbing a jewelry store apparently did it feel like running half Block to their getaway so they stole another car and drove it to their Pete Lacey called the car theft which followed a Well planned Rob Bery of jewels Worth tens of thousands of dollars a spontaneous the bandits eventually got away in a car with its licence plate during the wednesday afternoon the robbers herded seven workers into the Back of the tied up one and emptied the cod poachers warned conservation officials have stepped up their War on illegal cod fishing with High tech detection More seizures and stiff but they say their toughest fight is convincing those who Are reeled in that whats Long been a Way of life is now a this should he a concern to every says Bruce Atkinson of the department of fisheries science the resource is without a doubt in trouble and if people want to see a sustained fishery Back again there has to be a change in attitude and percept in recent at least 24 people have been convicted or charged with poaching cod in the Johns area fines across the province have ranged from to Farmer tractor Hurt Farmer Calvin Christman want Hurt but hell be looking for a new tractor after a 100 car train sliced the machine in half but left him was inside the cab of the tractor and crossing railway tracks when he saw a westbound in rail freight train barrelling toward he panicked and get the trac Tor into Wendy Hanna of ramp in nearby Mayer Thorpe said the train hit the tractor and Cut it in half but the cab remained intact and she said Christman didst jump from the compiled from Canadian press i ;