Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 2000 m m my Winnipeg free pre flourish with on daily interest savings 9256824 1877achieva Eastern final All knotted up Winger Rick to cohets bid night helps flyers even series with devils 01 Achieva stand tall in Tuxedo the guess who Burton Cummings has his Eye on a new Home in the for Check out the a new free press feature c16 the mainly risk of Frost High 12low2 inside Park Selloff killed plans to sell off Small City Parks and open spaces buried yesterday by City councillors who heeded warnings from Al Golden that the proposal could be political suicide As More Mac fallout the purge at Manitoba lotteries corporation May not be Over As More employees face investigation for improper spending procedures a7 no More Lawn chemicals report 41 i a commons report urging the gradual phasing out of pesticides that help keep grass Gre ii has sparked con Cern among Law management and i Ai v i i the Federal human resources j decided to Delaise its prime rate lion i that Are vulnerable to Canada privacy com missioner said yesterday b1 1 i t f i 1 two classic Dames i j v the Queen bestowed honours in two legendary Mak ing Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Andrews Dame commanders of online Pervert stalking City kids the following online Exchange is representative of conversations described by parents interviewed for this Story Liri u open my attachment7 lid u like a full you saw Jon Hotshot go your a sick mrblue190457 open irn ordering u to open dont u know what happens to bad kids9 Jon Hotshot 1111 telling my dad if u lout Mph like 190457 u Don t a dad u must obey me i know n like looking at pictures of in sending u police unable to take action at least five Trade 6 Winnipeg students have been stalked on line by a parents discovered the which included the transmission of nude lewd let ters and voice begin when the children were in Grade Winnipeg police say theres absolutely nothing they can the Best we can offer is damage said a vice works with child porn theres no investigation because there Are no rules being this int against the the stalking started when one nine year old fort Garry boy signed up his classmates on a highly popular Chat room site frequented by children and almost the who will not be started to get emails from adult the boys Mother discovered some of the pornographic email last weekend and confronted her i blamed the Babysitter at said the boys Hes 19 and i just assumed hed been using my my son finally con he said the first time it happened a Man sent him live video shots of his Penis asking if he liked what he continued please see Pervert a2 discuss the dangers Winnipeg police guidelines for computer safety i talk to your children about their use of computers and discuss the i ask them to teach you How to operate a take a computer course i internet service providers can deliver a filtered or unfiltered this filtered feed will not allow Access to the majority of sex related i learn How to Access the internet service providers Home Page to determine the number of computer hours used per month on your i there Are software packages Avail Able at computer software stores that can Block Access to certain i computers can be limit time allotted on a watch to see if a child is withdrawing from friends and continued please see discuss a2 judge splits gang trial questions raised Over need for new by David Kuxhaus and Mike Mclntyre the largest trial in the history of the province just got a Little smaller yester Day and is in danger of disappearing after hearing nine months of pretrial Madam Justice Ruth Krindle declared that the Case against 15 alleged members of the Manitoba warriors has become making Good on a threat she made ear Lier this the judge announced she is going to split up the 15 say ing that eight is All she and a jury could realistically my concern is simply that there Are so Many accused joined in this indict that the evidence will be so Volu Minous and the Legal issues before the jury will be so that the jury will be unable to properly segregate Evi Dence and to apply that evidence correctly to the multiple issues that it must decide at the end of the wrote Krindle in a 17page she said she was fearful a confused jury May ultimately Deal with the group As a whole rather than As individuals because the task of isolating the Evi Dence would be so the while not entirely petted Given her previous sent lawyers scrambling to sort out what would happen next and raised the Prospect that the trial May never go before a it also brought new questions about the need for the Multi Mil lion Dollar courthouse built to House the i think it is obvious we didst but its government we always waste defence lawyer Dave Phillips said at Only eight accused will be left to stand trial in the already courthouse that was designed to hold the original 35 continued please see Host of entanglements a2 province beefs up gang fight a3 nip axe looms Over worried bureaucrats mass firings leave civil servants scared out of their minds of bureaucratic Carousel by Dan Lett after promising to abstain from politically motivated wrings and the nip government is being accused of just that in a painful retool ing of its senior government sources claimed firings and trans fers of Lon serving senior mandarins have thrown Rankan file staff into chaos because of the uncertainty about who is in control and who is next on the chopping everyone is scared out of their one senior bureaucrat its hard to Tell who is going to get it the retooling continued this week with the removal of Tom Carson As Deputy minister of health he has been moved to the Junior portfolio of culture and Carson oversaw the health department during a period of massive Over spending and including the ill fated Centra Kitchen launch and smart health a technology project that failed most of its goals while costing the government tens of millions of continued please see bureaucrats a2 a list of spine prominent senior bureaucratic firings and transfers i John Carlyle one of the More upfront tory supporters in the ranks of the sen Jar he Lias been replaced by Ben who has already become the subject of a grievance for the improper hiring of 9 new assistant Deputy i David Tomasson natural resources was another Favourite target of the who called for his head in 1996 Over More than in questionable personal expenses charged to continued please see victims a2 o n Sal May u n available at j Ort veto at your ;