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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 27, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Rw Press 9SafiENT (7368) I More Canada and World news; B2-3 and B6 Around the World Referendum on drugs Geneva (AP) �?" Marijuana, cocaine and heroin would all be legal in Switze'rland if a referendum to decriminalize drugs passes this Sunday. The government opposes the plan, fearing it w'ould turn the orderly Alpine nation into a haven for drug tourists and traffickers. Also against it are church groups, police chiefs, social workers, doctors and other professionals w'ho work with addicts. But the left-wing coalition that gathered the necessary 100,000 signatures for the referendum claims its passage w'ould kill the street ma;rket in drugs. Canadian tortured HAMILTON, Bermuda (CP) �?" Rebecca Middleton could have survived any one of the fi've mortal stab 'wounds she suffered, but together the injuries took her life within 30 minutes, one of the world�?Ts forera,ost pathologists testified yesterday at the m,urder trial of Justis S'mith. The teen from Belleville, Ont., was also tortured before she 'was killed, said Dr.. Michael B^aden, director of forensic science services for Ne'W'' York State Police. A,fter examining the forensic report, police reports, photographs and visiting the scene, Baden identified 40 separate injuries on Middleton�?Ts body. Ex-president guilty JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Los Angeles Times) �?" Canaan Banana, the for'm,er president of .Zimbabwe was found guilty 'yesterday of assaulting and sodomizing male subordinates during his presidency in. the 1980s. The 62-year-old. M.ethodist m.inis-ter, how'ever, did. not sho'W' up in court and has left the country, allegedly to avoid imprisonment. His wife told, reporters in Zi.m.bab-'we that she does not know his whereabouts. Around Canada Fire aboard Labrador Halifax �?"A minor fire aboard one of the military�?Ts troubled Labrador helicopters yesterday is another setback for Nova Scotia�?Ts search-and-rescue cre'ws w'ho have been off the job for almost t'W'o months. The fire during a ground check at Canadian Forces B^ase Greenwood, N.S., w'as doused quickly and. no one w'as injured. Angels boss waits MONTR.EAL �?" The jury in the murder trial of a Hells Angels leader spent yesterday pondering Maurice (Mom) Boucher�?Ts fate. The six .m.en and six women must decide whether Boucher ordered the 1997 shooting deaths of two prison guards. Mediator appointed VANCOUVER �?" Labour Minister Dave .LO'Vick appointed a .mediator last night as a nurses�?T strike 'was set to begin at five B.C. hospitals toda'y... The strike could expand to 39 institutions across the province by Monday. Leaving town pays TORONTO �?" Doctors who ag'ree to 'work. in. rural and Northern Ontario will be paid a minimum, guaranteed salary of $128,0'00:20' per cent m.ore than the provincial average. Compiled from Canadian Press Canada EWorld FRIDAY, NOVEMBER ,27', '199.8 Bu8liiies8/B7 Editor, Patrick Ffynn ,/ 69'7'-'7294 B OK to search students, top court says By Nahlah Ayed Canadian Press OTTAWA �?" A vice-principal at a Junior high school w'as vindiot-ed yesterday 'when the S'u.prem.e Court of'Canada. .ru.l.ed he had a 'ii.ght 'to search a. student he believed w-as car-ry'ing dru.gs on school prem.ises.. A Hali.fax-a.rea teenager 'went to the Suprem.e Court to argue that M.ich.a.el 'Cadue violated his right to privacy when he searched him during a school, dance and found marijuana hidden in. his sock. The case threatened to have a chill-in,g effect on the ab'ility of 'tea.chers and principals to do w'hat�?Ts necessary to m.ain.tai.n. order and protect the health and. safety of students in. their ca.'re. The high court, in an. 8-1 decision, said teachers and principals must have flexibility to use reasonable searches to enforce school rules. �?�'�?~I never questioned ho'w I handled it,�?� said. Cadue, 48, w''ho�?Ts been work-^ ing in the school system, for 23 years. �?oWe have to be given that latitude to p'rotect those other students. And if we�?Tre not, w'e�?Tre in. serious trouble. So I feel, great.�?� The decision 'was w'elco'm.ed by school boards and advocacy groups 'wto isay ;sc:hool officials .are often reluc-tan.t to e'x.erci,se their' authority, fearing legal, .action or school board scrutin'y. It 'Will also help teachers and principals deal 'with the grow'ing number of incidents involving weapons and drugs on school grounds, said. S'tua'it' Aut'y, president of the Canadian Sa'fe School .Network. �?oWhat the Suprem.e Court has done no'w is provide a tool to those 'W'ho a're involved di'rectly d.ay to day in. the front lines of this,�?� he said from. Mississauga, Ont. The decision effectively m^eans students should not e:xpect the sam.e privacy they 'might enjoy outside sc.h.ool premises. The high court' went a step farther by defining so'me guides for a rea.son-able search., such as having reason-.able and probable grounds to belie've the stadent broke school rules .and. that a search 'would prove the v'iolation. Co.n'.fin.u'ed �-��-� Please see NATIONAL ./B2 Scanning train wreckage for survivors R'e.sc'u.ers S'carch. the w'reckage of a train, crash in Khanna, India, 'which killed at least 97 people and injured more than 2.50' early' yesterday. Please see story B6. Canada�?Ts dirty laundry aired at no-nonsense UN hearing N.W.T. leader accused of numerous conflicts of interest Report prompts premier to resign By Helen Br'.a.nis.'W'ell Canadian Press_ GE.NEVA �?" IT w.as as if someone had strung a clothesline'weighed down 'With. 'Canada�?Ts dirty u..nd.erwear across a United .Nations com.m.ittee .roo.m yes-terda'y. One after another, m.e.mbers of the UN Co.m.m.ittee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights peeled aw'ay Canada�?Ts reputation as the best place in. the world, in which to live. One m.ember of the committee, Mahm.oud Ahmed of Egypt, accused Canadian a.uthorit.ies of .fighting the deficit on. the backs of the poor. '�?o'It is unbeco.ming a democratic society,�?� he said. C.anadian officials 'were asked a barrage of e.mbarra.ss-ing questions as part of a periodic revie'w of 'Canada�?Ts adherence to the intern.atio.n..al covenant on. economic, social and cultural rights, w.hich came into force .in 1976. Signatory countries such as Canada pledged to respect their citizens�?T right to 'work, social security, adequate stan-dards of living �?" including housing �?" and the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and m.en.tai health. Rep'O'rt c.ard. Countries that signed the covenant have to present a report card on how' they are doing every five years to the U.N com..m.ittee.. Clearly, the questions indicated the co.mmittee felt Canada hadn�?Tt earned top marks. Why do Canadian governments allow' �?~"�?~'S'ubhu.m.a..n�?� conditions to persist on. first nations reserves, asked one com.mittee m.embe.r. Wh'y, in a �?orich and apparently liberal�?� country experiencing .an economic recovery, is the incidence of poverty among 'women on the rise, asked another. Why has the rate of children living in poverty increased, queried .Ah.med., 'who also w'anted to kno'w w'hy some 'Canadian students had to resort to food banks. �?oIt�?Ts one thing to beat the budget deficit, but not at the expense of bringing about a very har'mful, a very in.hu-m.ane social and econom.ic revolution that is taking place no'w,�?� he said. '�?oA country that is considered one of the richest countries in. the 'world, a. country 'which is one of the 'G-7 countries: Why go through .all this enormous, suffering needlessly?�?� Com.mittee .mem.bers asked, probing questions about w'hy domestic la'W's are allowed, to violate the cov'e.nant and what the federal governm.ent can do when the rules of provincial program.s such as 'welfare viola'*�?~e Canada�?Ts treaty obligations Please see CANADIAN /B2 Ca.nadia.fT Press'__ YELLOWKN.IFE. �?" .AN unrepentant Don M.orin 'resigned as premier of the North'west 'Territories yesterda'y, prom.ising to fight a scathing report that .found he violated confl.ict of interest guidelines seven times. '�?oIn. order to focus the debate on the report & as of five o�?Tclock today I 'will resign,�?� Morin announced in the G'reat Hall of the territorial legislature. "I do look forw'ard to debatieg^ this iss'ue next week in. the legislative assembly, and the fight i,s never over until it�?Ts over,�?� said .M.orin, 'who has filed a court action against conflict of interest com.missioner Anne Cra'W'ford�?Ts report. .Mo:rin 'will keep M.s seat as the representative of the Tli Nedhe constituency. Deputy Prem.ier 'Goo Arlooktoo 'Will take over as acting premier until the legislature can choose a new' one. The territorial legislature does not have political parties. Members govern, by consensus, and choose the pre.mier .from, among themselves. Most of Morin�?Ts seven, violations cited by Cra'wford revolve .aro'und a set of property deals in w'hich. he or his wife Gladys were involved. '�?oWhen a member uses his or her office to put cash into their O'wn pockets, then. I w'ould take the position that the trust of the people had been, betrayed to the point where the seat should be declared vacant,�?� C'raw'ford W'rote. In all the deals, 'CrawTord found Morin failed, to excuse h.i.msel.f fro.m gov-ern..men.t discuss'ions concerning p.roperty he owned, or business people he dealt w'ith. .He guided the government to'ward. decisions that benefited, him. He also, Craw'ford w'rote, gave the legislature '�?odocuments W'hich he knew to be untrue or to contain untruths.�?� Morin was not asked to resign, Arlooktoo said. '�?o'The & & & premier had informed us that he�?Td m.ade this decision early this morning. By the ti.m.e 'we had our first discussion he had made his decision.�?� Crawford�?Ts repo'rt' has yet to be accepted by the legislature an.d. Arloo'ktoo' e.mpha-sized that Morin�?Ts resignation shouldn�?Tt be seen as censure. �?oWhat it has to do with is Mr. .Mo:rin�?Ts desire to rem.ove hi.m.self so the business of govern.m.ent can. continue.�?� Morin, W'ho has led. the governm.ent since 1995, has 'requested a. judicial review of the report. He accused Craw'ford of bias against him based on. com.:ni.ents she made to Morin�?Ts sister and on her involvement in an eastern Arctic group that has been critical of Morin�?Ts government. Crawford led a. previous conflict of interest investigation into Morin, in. 1'995. That inquiry found, no w'rongdoing. But in an affidavit filed 'With the territorial Supreme Cou.rt, Morin�?Ts sister Vera testi.fies that Craw'ford told her that �?oDon may not be guilt'y, but he certainly isn�?Tt innocent.�?� As 'well, Crawford is the law'yer for the Nunavut 'Hm.-egavik Inc., the organization, that looks after the business end of the Nunavut land claim. Th.nngavik has appointed a shado'w cabinet that has often been sharply critical of the M.o.rin-led government in Yellowknife. Robert Dunseith., lawyer for the com.m.issi.on, said those accusations were brought up early on in. the hearings... �?oThe com.missioner asked for more information and none '«'as forth.com.ing, so she dism.issed the accusation. The allegation, of bias on the part of the co.m.mis-sioner is 'wdthout foundation.�?� Jane Groenewegen, the legislative m.em.ber w'ho laid, the comp.laint against M.o.rin, said cronyism, has become com.mon. in. the North. '�?oI think it has become a w'ay of doing business in. the N..W..'T,�?� she said. �?oIt�?Ts become a. political culture here.�?� .Arlook.t'00 .sai.d .M.orin.�?Ts resignation 'won�?Tt delay legis.la-tion. and budgets to prepare for division of the .Noit'hwest 'Territories in April. fof S H E L Ml E R D I N E N U IR£ P' R I E S && G A IR D E IN 'C E. IN T R IE A T 7 8 0 '0 R 'O' B L. I N B L 'V ID C.HILD'1E.N""S 'CRAFT CORNER. 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