Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 7368 More Canada and world news around Canada very disgusting a local hockey association his neonatal nurse wife and a teenager Are caught up in a child pornography scandal after police raided a Home and found hundreds of computer files depicting children in sex police said about files contained images of children As Young As four involved in explicit sex including with other Chil Dren and the children were also pictured these in my very disgusting and sick images that portrayed children in almost every sex act you can said Provin Cial police staff Bob who leads the ant porn cod quota reached Gill net fishermen in this Community pulled their nets from the water yesterday after reaching their 333tonne quota of cod just three Days after the open ing of a limited but All sides say its impossible to gauge what that Means to the tonne limit in the sharply reduced ground fishery that opened monday off Southern a lobster potboiler the depart ment of fisheries and oceans is probing allegations that coastguard staff hauled full lobster traps and ate undersized the also looking into possible misuse of departmental was initiated by fisheries minister Fred Mifflin on referral from the prime ministers exc own charged Thunder former Crown prosecutor Agnew Johnston has been charged with assault and breaching court order after allegedly throwing a woman to the ground and putting her in a Headlock while was arrested Early yesterday after a Thunder Bay woman complained to police she had been assaulted in her police Dave Black said the victim was not Johnstons just Call him Dopey last he was convicted robber Vincent Mccormack is Likely feeling a Little Dopey and was arrested last november after police responded to an alarm at an automated Bank officers found the machines front panel missing and started dusting for that prompted a sneeze from who was hiding inside the Mccormack was sentenced to nine months in jail Grinch relents Calgary a Calgary couple who were facing a possible Fine for Selling items for Chanty at their annual Christmas lights display had the charge against them Wayne and Colleen known for putting up thousands of Christ Mas lights around their Southwest Calgary had been charged with failing to comply with a development authority order barring them from Selling commercial items at the the couple were charged after Selling Peanut Brittle and postcards outside their Home last Christmas to raise Money for the salvation fraud derailed Toronto a new York City resident faces charges after a Man tried to open a Bank account by depositing a forged russian promis Sory note for compiled from Canadian press Canada world May 1997 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 Mother Teresa not amused by nun Bun associated press a Cinna Mon Bun bearing the likeness of Mother Teresa May be a Mira Cle for the local coffeehouse merchandising but the worlds most famous nun finds it in poor in a personally signed letter from Mother Teresa asked Bongo Java coffeehouse to Stop merchandising its no famous nun my Legal has written asking you to and now i am personally asking you to she wrote in a letter dated March 25 and received just this week by coffeehouse owner Bob but Bernstein said that he has no plans to Shelve the i dont think were doing anything in bad he if she saw the fun and Good spirit in which were doing i think shed appreciate the Bun is on display at the Coffee which also Sells prayer cards and mugs with the buns the Only Concession the shop made is to remove Mother Teresa name from the the episode began in october when a customer was preparing to bite into a cinnamon Bun and recognized a like Ness of the Nobel peace prizewinning nun in the folds of the Flaky nun Bun poor taste v a tug positions near the Hibernia platform As it is prepared for Hibernia Tow out begins Canadian press Bull officials transport ing the massive Hibernia Oil platform to her Well site on the grand Banks off Newfoundland had a simple solution for any icebergs that May threaten the operation Lasso some is to 20 Large icebergs were floating in Trinity Bay yesterday As Hibernia divers began cutting the 150kilogram Chain links mooring the floating platform to the Bedrock in Bull the Tow out was to begin Early norwegian the company responsible for the said a support vessel will move any icebergs headed into the platforms path and Tow them out of the the Canadian coast guard sent its two flagship the Ann Harvey and sir Wilfred to help enforce transport Canadas 50squarekilometre exclusionary zone around the the Federal regulation prohibits any ves Sels from approaching the platform or even from leaving docks in most area commune four coastguard Rescue Craft and a ship Board helicopter were also along with at least eight fast Rescue Craft from the the platform is being pulled by six of the worlds largest Ocean each fanning out in three others will act As pulling in the opposite direction to control the the tugs Are tethered to the Struc Ture by 300metre Cable for the Bull Arm por Tion of the to take 36 will move off a Kilometre for the eight to 10day Tow to the grand the platform is expected to average Kilometres an antibody brew saving lives new treatment cuts mortality rate of flesh eating diseases by 50 by Reg Curren Canadian press Calgary team of Toronto doctors has completed a study showing an antibody brew they developed could have wide application in helping people survive the horrific infection known As flesh eating Bing Siang Gan told the Canadian society of plastic surgeons annual meeting yesterday that a study on the new treatment shows it has reduced the mortality rate of streptococcal diseases by As much As so per the mortality rate for flesh eating disease was Between 70 and 90 per cent before the new treatment its a very significant said this is the first study that shows such an increased Benefit in a Large series of researchers have blended naturally occurring anti known As from Sev eral different blood donors to create the new we obtain these antibodies that naturally occur in Peoples we extract them from blood donors and Pool them in a Little bottle and give them Back intravenously to the people who have this Dis we Are combining the immunity of a score of peo ple and put it in one Gan said the new treat ment that he has collaborated on with Don Low of Toronto mount Sinai hos Pital Doest replace surgery or but is an additional Way to attack the flesh eating one of the first people to Benefit from what is known As iving intravenous Immunoglobulin treatment was Quebec Premier Lucien who contracted flesh eating disease in late Bouchard Doc tors turned to the procedure when traditional antibiotics and surgical methods we rent working and Bouchard was near the disease comes from streptococcus the most common Bug to invade the human body and the one responsible for illnesses such As Strep it is easily treated but in a Small number of cases the organism can bring on deadly severe infections can Lead to streptococcal toxic Shock which leads to Organ failure and the flesh eating the number of cases of the dramatic disease is Ris but it remains relatively rare with about 100 cases a year in Gan said researchers Are puzzled As to Why the Dis ease is on the Rise and they Are now trying to under stand its reemergence and How it enters the very often the people who attract attention Are the patients who die after a very trivial he pms son faces Regina assault charge corrections officials deny special treatment in incident by Jay Branch Canadian press Regina police and corrections officials say prime minis Ter Jean Chretien son got no special treatment Over an assault charge last february that came to Light this week when he was Michel Chretien was charged with assaulting his Girlfriend and her son nine Days after he had been released from custody on a previous conviction for sexual he was not returned to custody at the nor did he make a court appear he was also not returned to custody this week when he was charged with breaching the terms of his Michel Chretien were treating Michel Chretien just like we would treat any other offend said Andy District director of Saskatchewan parole for correctional service of Chretien served two thirds of a three year sentence for sexual assault before the most recent the february assault charge did not come to Light until wednesday when appeared in court charged with breaching conditions of his release on that charge by Contact ing the woman and her son to take them to a Chretien appeared before a Justice of the peace at the police station after being arrested in so his name never appeared on a court he was released on an undertaking to keep the peace and stay away from the woman and her Regina police staff Hal Zorn said this is common procedure for anyone who arrested for a violent like an if its not considered that he be a danger to the pub and that usually the Case with the common Rolo said Chretien was allowed to remain out of custody because Hes not considered a risk to the having had a disciplinary interview with the gentleman in question we decided there was no increased that with the condition of the fact that Hes not going or be attending the girlfriends Home and or seeing any of the we Felt that that would be Chris a University of Calgary Law said it is though not unheard for parole authorities to allow someone on statutory release from a prison term to remain free while facing a new criminal c t n shop in organized greenhouse comport As you select your bedding vegetable plants perennials from Over 1000 Vam Tiei on of fun Shelmerdine is known for Homegrown annuals bursting out of their our bedding Plant perennial have decades of gardening experience to share with you Lux one year warranty on All Trees and shrubs on May from every Geranium sold will go toward the flood Relief Effort of Manitoba get going keep 4em growing Start your 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