Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Canada world May 1997 Patrick Flynn 6977294 b1 More Canada and world news b2b4 c8 around Canada Blacks Shadow Felt Edmonton theres Little evidence Media Baron Conrad Black is using his dominant ownership of Canadas newspapers to further his righting a National gathering of journalists heard but members of the Canadian association of journalists still Wor ried that one Man has too much control of the country whether he overtly uses that Power or Shadow is a big Shadow and were feeling said Karen an editor at the Blackton trolled Edmonton but no help experts Halifax the Atlantic provinces economic Council says the new blended sales tax has had almost no effect on the regions Basing its assessment on data collected in the first month the 15 per cent but was in effect for Nova new Brunswick and the think tank says the pluses and minuses have almost cancelled each other natives see message Vancouver aboriginal Lead ers see a Clear message in the Marathon Gustafsen Lake standoff Case Speed up treaty settlements or risk future i think that in the Long As Long As governments fail to address these longstanding these kinds of situations and Inci dents will continue to says Saul head of the Union of Indian towns worried mayors and civic leaders of More than 30 Van Couver Island towns met on the weekend to come up with strategies to keep their communities economically wracked by shrinking resource coastal communities Are fast becoming ghost he wants to die alone Calgary the family of an Alberta Man who has been sentenced to die in a Texas prison says he has told them not to come to his Joseph Stanley would be the first Canadian executed in the United states since 1952 if he is killed by lethal injection on june compiled from Canadian press around the world six die in plane crash Miami a a skydiver floated safely to the ground As her plane spiralled and crashed in a Sweet potato Field yes killing the Pilot and five other the unidentified woman jumped to safety just As the plane went into its fatal her Parachute canopy still opening As the Cessna went a Pilot who reached the scene of the crash minutes after it happened said the surviving skydiver told him she Felt the plane shaking just As she was about to Summit to proceed Jerusalem Reuters Israel said yesterday a Summit with Egypt would proceed As planned tuesday but gave no sign of softening its position on jewish an Issue that has plunged Middle East peacemaking into deep Constitution okd Warsaw Reuters poles voted in a referendum yesterday to adopt a new Constitution which was backed by the ruling a communists and strongly opposed by the right leaning an exit poll Sug the by or Aconia Badan showed that per cent had voted for the new constr Public television police attack Hospital Albania a members of a special police Force attacked a Tirana military Hospital with armoured vehicles yesterday to avenge the death of a colleague who died at the two staff members were scores of men rampaged through the Hospital after arriving in two armoured personnel Hospi Tal staff members rolling Thunder legions of motorcyclists from across the United states rolled through yesterday during a rally in remembrance of pos and mias in the rolling Thunder ride has become a yearly ritual during the memorial Day major seizes Power in Sierra Leo Ftp coup Reuters App Sierra Al Leone rebellious sol Al diets toppled Sierra leones elected president in a bloody coup and an army major said he was seizing Power because the government had failed to maintain the soldiers led by Johnny Paul Koroma took control of the legislature in this Small West african country after heavy fighting and burned the nation Al prompting presi Dent Ahmed Tejan Kabbah to in the first countrywide state ment since the fighting began Koroma said he had assumed control of Sierra Leone and was inviting an important rebel Leader to join his govern the coup comes six months after the civilian government signed a peace Accord with Kabbah forced to flee ending a five year civil in recent at least some rebel factions had resumed leading to criticism that the governments neglect had helped revive the As custodians of state Secu Rity and defenders of the Constitution we have today decided to overthrow the Sierra Leone Peoples party govern Koroma because of their failure to consolidate the claims achieved by the Bro kers of he invited foday Leader of the revolutionary United front that waged the civil to join his govern Sankoh was being held in a nigerian jail on arms smug gling charges and Koroma appealed to that country to release the coup began As mutinous soldiers launched a prison break that freed soldiers on trial for previous coup Canada does not have an embassy in Sierre How the dozen or so canadians known to be in the mostly in the Freetown were urged to Contact the British High which provides consular ser Sioux Lookout adjusts to water ban Canadian press Sioux a ban on drinking water in this Northwestern Ontario town has prompted mixed reactions from its while some say a parasite in the water Supply is responsible for various illnesses Over the others say there just getting on with the Northwestern health unit issued a boil water advisory april 18 after water samples came Back positive for the parasites commonly known As Beaver and cry both Are known to cause flu like symptoms and can cause death in the elderly and the seriously residents say there adapt ing to the problem by boiling the buying bottled water or installing individual microfilm ters in their sinks at these Are not trivial infect said Pete local medical he said his office decided to Ere on the Side of caution by issuing the water advisory with out any confirmed new attempts to find a new sys tem to filter out the particles Are under but municipal officials said the Cost of Between million and Mil lion will be too High for the town of to officials Are currently negotiating with the province for Moscow streets Are Home to kids by Fred Weir Canadian press if they catch they beat you up and put you on a train Moscow Rustam Kha Liulin looks hard As he wears a tattered leather Chain smokes cheap curses a Blue brags of his capacity for Vodka and claims Hes looked after himself since he was Hes 10 years life is you just have to steer Clear of the says the darkened who makes a living doing this and that in Moscow pave Letsky railway station and sleeps in a nearby construction if they catch they beat you up and put you on a train out of Kha Liulin is one of Moscow Esti mated Street a visible and growing reality in this fast changing some Are orphans whole fallen through the cracks of rus Sias fraying social others have been abandoned by alcoholic or incapable like Are they Are attracted to the throbbing with its millions of nooks and crannies where a child can Moscow booming underground Economy takes them and gives them work As beg Odd jobbers and though Street kids often say they Are Happy with their a recent Survey of 108 children in Petersburg found that 105 of them had experienced violence or sexual abuse on the a few years ago we didst have this or at least never talked about says Valentina head of juvenile affairs for russian ministry of social now its exploding and we cannot Cope with a City of 10 Doest have a single officially supported shelter for homeless advances complicate crime of internet porn Possession Canadian press Hamilton Possession of internet pornography May seem a clearcut but advances in computer technology make it More officers with the Ontario provincial police ant porn unit say Possession occurs when you save an image on the computers hard drive or a but computer experts question the simplicity of that most people have no idea what the software on their computers can says Geffrey a computer Sci ence professor at the University of whatever you see on the screen is in every Pixel of the screen is just a portion of the Essen Shallit the question is when do you physically possess it and i dont think that a question which has been answered in any definitive Way by any court any David an assistant professor in Mcmaster University school of Sci says anyone who takes a peek to satisfy their curiosity May find their computers software has made a copy of the illegal picture and stored it indefinitely on the hard drive of the interest in internet porn was reignited Friday by the arrest of a Hamilton area his wife and a teenager in connection with pornographic images allegedly downloaded from the inter net and saved As computer found images assistant Crown attorney Denis Allan is prosecuting a Case in which a Hamilton Man was charged with pos Sessing child pornography after Tak ing his computer into a shop to be the technician found the images on the hard drive and called Hamilton went Worth a preliminary hear ing is set for june 6 in Ontario Allan Doest believe the courts have addressed the Issue of whether a per son is guilty of possessing child pornography if the images were Down loaded by their software and stored without their there is no specific Law in Canada Banning porn from the but a report prepared for the Federal government says existing Laws on child obscenity and hate literature can be applied to Jones says there Are an estimated 50 million users on the internet its thought about half of one per cent of the internets total Content is pornography both Legal and the risk i see is that parents May get the false impression that the inter net is a Seething cauldron of porno it Jones i get concerned when i hear Rea intelligent parents we dont have a Modem on our per Sonal computer because i wont let my child go on the i think that buyers court Asper to land aussie shares Australia about a dozen potential buyers have been identified for shares of Australia ten television network that Canadas can West global communications has been ordered to can West chairman Izzy Asper said Asper told the nine network program business yesterday that he had already met about half of the interested buyers among the dozen or More individuals who have indicated an interest in buying these shares or part of treasurer Peter costello ordered can West last month to reduce its 76 per cent holding in ten to no More than per cent by the end of september to bring the company in line with Australia foreign investment ;