Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Mare Canada and world news by of around Canada inmates get welfare Toronto almost inmates in Ontario jails have drawn welfare during the past three hundreds by cheating the the numbers came to Light after a three month probe by the provincial the Toronto Sun welfare officials Cross checked social assistance computer records in mid april with records kept by Ontario the two lists were updated As new inmates were officials found thames on both lists after three the news paper Clark looks for link Ottawa Premier Glen Clark says linking fish with other issues is the Only Way Canada will win a Salmon treaty with the United talks have faltered Over a new treaty to replace an expired pact that governed How West coast Salmon stocks Are divided Between the Canadian and american Clark maintains that British Columbia is willing to sacrifice the Tanoose Bay defence contract with the americans to add pressure for a new Salmon the contract has allowed submarine tests at Tanoose Bay on Vancouver Island since it was signed in fishermen fume Vancouver reeling from a slump in Sockeye Salmon Are charging that there the victims of John president of the United fishermen and Allied work ers Union held a conference Call with thousands of Canadian fishermen saturday after arbitrator Joe Weiler ruled they will be paid a Pound for Down from a High of last its lower than what the Cost of production he woman saves 8 keeping a Cool head in cold water helped a Calgary woman Rescue an eighty Earold girl from the Bow River a family of four on its first trip with the Bow River water club was part of a group caught in a congested causing five of eight boats to flip in the icy kayaker Marianne Wolters said she heard screams ahead of her and manoeuvred toward a spot where she saw a Young girl clinging to a fallen she yelled for the girl to grab onto the front of her kayak and steered her toward a the girls Fivey Earold brother was also digging draws crowd Sauble pedestrians and cyclists stopped to peer past yellow police tape surrounding a cottage yesterday to watch police excavate the site where human skeletal remains were unearthed earlier in the police cruisers and a Van were parked near the cottage and assorted digging equipment and gear could be seen near neat Mounds of Sand where officers had conducted systematic digging throughout the Neighbours have said the owner of the cottage uncovered the skeletal remains thursday while Clearing land around the rescued patient Dies Toronto an elderly patient pulled by nurses from his Hospital bed during a fire Friday has William suffered second and third degree Burns in the morn ing fire at a Sudbury he died saturday in two nurses fought thick smoke and flames to Rescue Jelly after they noticed smoke pouring out of his the cause of the fire remains under investigation by the fire marshals office will they reconsider Halifax the Nova Scotia government is hoping Bayer will reconsider its decision to pull out of a blood Plant in the even though the company has decided to invest in a Bayer announced saturday that it will invest million to expand its blood fractionation Plant in the company is also buying and renovating a facility in the announcement came u jays after Bayer pulled out of a lion blood fractionation Plant slated for the Halifax suburb of the Bedford Plant was to provide jobs and May have saved taxpayers up to compiled from Canadian press Winnipeg free press Canada july Patrick flynn76977294 b1 explosives found in Ulster Belfast police in nor them Ireland discovered a Large Quan Tity of homemade explosives yesterday As the British province recovered from a week of violence Over protestant police said several Hundred kilo Grams of explosives were found in three plastic bins in a Coal shed at the Back of a House in the Iris National is City the find was announced hours after Gerry president of the iras political sinn appeared to dash Hopes of an immediate Ira cease fire which would admit his party to slow moving Northern Ireland peace sinn fein dashes ceasefire Hopes Adams said in a statement issued after a week of tension Over protes Tant Orange order parades the sur Render of arms held by his guerrilla allies still remains a major difficult was responding to Britain Northern Ireland to who told sinn fein yester Day let the fein make their the Ball is in their Adams was echoing the Ira position that decommissioning should take place at the end of talks on a Settle ment Between pro British unionist and pro Irish not before or during As Britain has he appeared to dash Hopes raised by some politicians that the Ira might declare a new ceasefire after the protestant marching which reached a relatively peaceful Climax the orders cherished Glori Ous 12th of Adams statement followed appeals by Britain new labour government for an end to the guerrilla Irish Republican army War against British Rule which would earn sinn fein a seat at the peace talks within six weeks if it was if people want us to persuade the Ira to end its then they need to be giving us the ability to do Adams he said although Britain is no longer smoke rises at demolition of Canberra Hospital which showered spectators with implosion of old Hospital kills girl and injures others Reuter Canberra a 12yearold girl died and several people were injured yesterday when the demolition of an old Hospital building using explosives went spewing debris Over thou Sands of the implosion of the building had been widely advertised to draw fam ily crowds and a fireworks display was included in the foreign minister Alexander Downers Media Innes was standing in the worst hit area with his there was All this shrapnel rain ing across the Lake in front of he local government chief Kate car who watched the implosion with her family from the top of a nearby said she was horrified by the it appears that something has gone wrong and we i to find out what that she told there was no indication whatsoever that this was even a pos Carnell said the company in charge of the demolition had said debris would be confined to within 50 metres and a 200 metre exclusion zone had been set for added the girl who died was standing in a Park about 400 metres across the Lake from the but witnesses said debris was blasted up to 500 metres from the the dead girl has not been Ridenti but police confirmed her age after speaking with her shocked Par at least nine others were including a 14yearold boy with Seri Ous Chest i was standing next to a he was about 14 or 15 and we saw something skip across the water and then it a woman witness told local we heard him scream out As it hit another woman came out of the crowd with blood on her hands and she said that she was behind a girl who was killed by a police and government investigations have begun and a counselling was set up for the tens of thousands of tourists and locals who packed the Lakeshore and surround ing Parks and Bridges to watch the afternoon the main construction Union called on Carnell to stand aside Pend ing a government inquiry into the including the awarding of the contract and the decision to implode rather than tear Down the dealing with explosives is always a dangerous affair and there was no need to implode the said Union spokesman George the Hospital was closed in 1991 and was being demolished to Clear the site for a new National Coffee shop manager charged in Thailand hotel fire associated press Bangkok police have charged a Coffee shop manager with negligence in the explosion that started Thailand worst hotel a newspaper reported reports also said Rescue workers discovered More bodies saturday when they reentered the ruins of the Royal Jom Tien resort in Battaya after relatives insisted loved ones were still the death toll Rose to survivors also alleged that Rescue workers employed by private Compa Nies had looted valuables from rooms and victims allegation the Rescue companies the which started Friday morn ing with a first floor Gas consumed the 17storey luxury hotel in the Beach resort of 110 Kilometres South of it burned for More than 12 hours As people screamed for help from upper the Post reported that police had arrested and charged Coffee shop supervisor Chamnien photo with neg alleging he mistakenly opened a Gas causing the Chamnien denied the police said Many died because Emer gency exit doors had been chained shut to prevent guests from leaving without and the hotel had no smoke sprinklers or fire demanding the Ira disarm to earn sinn fein a seat at the proposals it surrender weapons during the talks retain the potential to Block Progress during the head of Northern Ireland biggest pro British the Ulster unionist said talk of an Ira truce is Wishful the reality is that sinn Are committed to violence in order to achieve objectives that no Democrat can David Trimble Trimble said Britain should abandon Hopes of involving sinn fein in the which resume tomorrow after some of the worst homing the province has seen and a landmark climbdown by the Orange order Over its annual new Premier sinks Teeth into plate full of gripes by Katherine Bell Canadian press Halifax Russell Maclellan wont be taking any time out to celebrate his gruelling three month climb to the Nova Scotia pre Miers his Agenda is already crammed with meetings to find promised fixes to gripes ranging from a toll Highway that has residents hopping mad to the hugely unpopular blended sales the new Liberal Leader must deliver on pledges to revisit Many unsavoury decisions taken by his predecessor and put a new Sheen on a tarnished government before an election that must be called by next these Are irritants with the people of Nova he said the Only Way we can win is if we Deal with these first things Maclellan has to unite disgruntled liberals to fight a Campaign that began saturday with his second ballot win Over Cabinet insider Bernie former my Roseanne Skoke and provincial Back Bencher Bruce the fact of the matter is that liberals Are said a former they feel Treyve been left out of the decision making of the that the government has not listened to Maclellan also walks a Fine line on the eve present maritime Issue of Many liberals Are smart ing from Savages Stony rejection of political it depends what you mean by Maclellan the problem with patronage is what does it mean to some it Means any Liberal who gets a i dont consider it a dirty but id rather use the word fairness in the Federal liberals lost All 11 Nova Scotia seats on june and a recent Public opinion poll put the nip out in front provincially for the first the liberals cant expect a Honey Moon from voters despite their new says political scientist Agar he compares the Nova Scotia Sce Nario to that of Prince Edward where Keith Milligan took Over from Catherine Callbeck As Liberal Leader and Premier to boost the party but lost last years election to the the polls showed the liberals were unpopular and it didst change with a new says who teaches at Acadia University in its an Uphill Battle for Maclellan has to win a legislature seat of his own and will Likely run in a by election this although nothing Safe is yet open in his Cape Breton stomping hell also have to prepare for a National premiers con Ference in three Gates leads the list of top billionaires associated press new York Microsoft chairman Bui Gates topped Forbes magazines list of the worlds top billionaires for the third straight year and Hes pulling away from the pack As his software Empire rides the Stock markets record setting Gates net Worth doubled to Bil lion us Over the last Yea that put him nearly billion ahead of the second place Walton the heirs to the Walmart Forbes said in its nth annual released yesterday three Canadian individuals or fam Ilies were on the list of Kenneth Thomson at 16 had Bulion from real estate and retailing the Irving at 84 on the had billion and Charles Bronfman of sea Gram was 98th with Gates personal wealth has swelled As investors More than doubled the Stock Price of whose win Dows operating system is the most popular for running personal compute or Forbes said in its july 28 Issue it limited the list of billionaires this year to the top 200 because the rapid Rise of the global Economy and Stock markets has produced nearly so Wall streets Bull Market also helped billionaires double their spots in the at last asians made up on half the top 10 list but this year Only two were members Hong Kong real estate magnates Lee Shau no4 with and the Kwok 8 at of the investor Warren Buffett was 3 at billion and Microsoft Paf under Paul alien stood at s with the other nationals in the top 10 were the Haas family of Levi seventh with and the Mars Candy at 9 with in fifth place were the Hoff Man and Sacher families of Switzer heirs of the Swiss pharmaceutical group with billion round ing out the top 10 was the Quandt fam ily of which owns on half of Bow and is Worth Forbes provided a separate ranking of dictators and excluding them from the global billionaires since they have no direct role in Man aging the Sultan of Worth Heads the cuban president Fidel Castro is 10 with the Queen is Worth either Mil lion or depending on whether the Royal the Crown Forbes Gates Worth billion ;