Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 2, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a19 pm i Smi i u Mhz ii 2000 results show discontent with nip Saskatoon the Federal election results in Saskatchewan indicate a Dis Content with the governing provincial nip As much As they show a dislike for Jean Chretien of the provinces 14 Only two went to the two to the and 10 to the Canadian an example of the displeasure with the provincial government can Best be illustrated in a seat where the incumbent Alliance candidate was a runaway Deanna Herman Gerry Ritz was reelected in the Battleford Lloydman Ster Riding by More than a Farmer before he became a was not surprised that he won nearly every poll by an even wider margin than he did in those votes were drained away from the nip agriculture he told reporters its the agriculture situation that the Federal liberals ignored and the provincial nip forgot we saw it there in the provincial election and now we see it even in Ridings where the nip thought it could sell the farm message with a farm voters Dis in a Riding that includes part of Saskatoon and Rural areas South of the firs time Cana Dian Alliance candidate Lynne Yelich won by a wide margin Over Farmer Noreen Yelich vowed to push for improve ments to farm Aid there Are a lot of desperate people out there who Are frustrated with the system and Are waiting for that Money to make their she said on election those Are the same concerns that were expressed by the but voters obviously didst think the party could influence government enough to make a incumbent nip my Dennis Gruendl also in a lost very narrowly to the Alliance a while the results May be the preliminary poll poll results nonetheless show Gruending does not have the support of Rural Vot even where the nip Hung onto a Rural Riding represented by Dick Proctor it was Only by a few Hundred Proctor won the seat in 1997 by a comfortable although no one in the Saskatchewan nip has commented publicly on the link Between the Federal party losses and the perceived failures in Provin Cial agricultural clearly the party must take the election results As a sobering Rural Saskatchewan is not Happy and it refuses to be placated by the promises of the government in in the provincial nip will choose a new a number of candidates Are including several from within the party one person who comes from outside is Nettie a former president of the National Farmers some party insiders do not consider her a serious contender because she is too far they feel that if Wiebe were to win the the Dps coalition with the liberals would Oisin Saskatchewan would then be facing an and Given the out come of the Federal it seems Clear the righting Saskatchewan party headed by a former Reform my would win rebuild although its Likely that the Saskatchewan party will win the next provincial election no matter who leads the most of the party sup porters would rather rebuild the party during another three years in govern instead of during four years in Wiebe is the Only Leader ship candidate with anything interest ing to say about the farm she contends that the provinces Farmers must try to create alternatives to the trend toward globalization in Agricula she argues that if globalization is squeezing Farmers through Evernard rowing profit perhaps it is time to look further so to a trend running counter to globalization is the consumer desire for organic products and the concern about Chemi Cal enhancements and genetic alterations in supplying these new consumer demands can offer Farmers some convincing Farmers to oppose the trend toward globalization would not be but Wiebe is the Only Leader ship candidate to offer anything con Crete on agriculture that Doest amount to ask Ottawa for More nil fighters like Mcsorley should abandon rink for ring by Barney Sneiderman in the dying moments of an nil game Between Boston and Van the Bruins Tough Marty clubbed Donald Brashear on the Side of the head with his hockey the two handed slash knocked the Canuck player unconscious and left him with a third degree As Mcsorley would learn to his acts of violence committed in the hockey Arena can have criminal Law the criminal code defines an assault As the intentional application of Force without and when Mcsorley stood trial in Van Couver on a charge of assault with a weapon his hockey the ques Tion was whether Brashear had in effect consented to the act because of his participation in a Contact sport that by definition involves the application of it was the Contention of the Crown that the head blow was deliberate whereas the High profile defence William insisted that his client was aiming at the this was the Crux of the Mcsorley was guilty if he intentionally applied Force to the but he was not guilty if his intent was to apply Force to the shoulder and he accidentally struck the scope of consent this was the Issue before the court because of the so called scope of the consent the Rule is illustrated by the 1972 Mctavish Case in which two teenage schoolboys had agreed to a fist fight to Settle their when the complainant was knocked to the the accused proceeded to kick him repeatedly in the Frac Turing his in convicting him of the court ruled the complainant agreed to a fair kick ing involves bodily injury As a probable consequence and is a kind of act that reasonably cannot have been contemplated when they agreed to engage in a schoolboys in other the scope of his consent was to being not being kicked in the Chuck Stoody Canadian press Mcsorley makes his Way to provincial court in the Rule was applied in the 1989 Ciccarelli in which an nil player struck an opponent on the head with his stick after the whistle had although no injury the accused was convicted of assault on the grounds that his violent act exceeded the scope of the victims implied in his the judge quoted from an earlier Case in which it was held that there Are some actions in the course of a sport ing conflict that Are so violent it would be perverse to find that anyone taking part in a sporting activity had implicitly consented to subject him self to As the Ciccarelli Case the very nature of Contact sports has obliged the courts to fashion rules that clarify when players Are deemed to consent to the application of players consent to physical Impact in accordance with the rules of the but beyond they Are deemed to consent to Force although in breach of the Falls within an unwritten code of conduct agreed to by players and for the rules of hockey prohibit slashing with the but As the judge in the Mcsorley Case the unwritten code says that slashing is permissible As Long As it happens during play and is not directed to the a penalty is called if the act is seen by the referee but it is no assault in As the judge also it is a legitimate game strategy to fight another consenting player but the offenders Are kept off the ice for a period of time deter mined by the As smart argued that the blow to Brashears head was Accident he claimed that his client had intended to slash him on the upper part of his shoulder in order to pro Voke a All of which Falls within the unwritten code of that players consent to an intentional slash to the body but not to the counsel had stated the Law so the sole question before the court was the target of Mcsorley application of alas for the judge ruled that he was guilty As charged because the blow was he was assisted to that result by his detailed study of the videotape of the As he the accused had an impulse to strike him in the his always tuned to permitted he slashed for the a swinging As at a tee would not a housekeeper swinging a carpet eater would not a nil player would Ever Brashear was struck As intend no consent what explains the verdict is that by no stretch of the imagination could the judge find that Brashear had consented to the kind of Force inflicted upon on the other there is a Contact sport boxing in which blows to the head Are acceptable because the Point of it All is to Batter ones opponent into All too Many nil players such As Marty Mcsorley act As if that is their game As Well and that Mike Tyson is a role per haps the lesson to learn from his conviction is that hockey players who prefer fighting to skating should abandon the rink for the yet maybe because in that event their opponents would be on Foft flip pass vhf the free press letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email Many heroes in baby death Case now that the report on the baby deaths at the childrens Hospital is i believe that something has to be said regarding individuals Over the past 20 have become heroes in this first it was shown that the surgeon in the late 70s and Early 80s had very High mortality that under de la closed Down twice by the first gumming in 1979 and the pro Gram closed a third time in 1983 when the next the anaesthetists under de la Rocha refused to take any More the next sur Geon in the late had a group of parents who stood up to say that their children would be going out of the province no matter what the Cost to them and they car ried this threat All these children Are still including my daughter All these parents were also heroes As they fought the establish during the last time there were Many heroes from the or nurses who documented All the incidents to the anaesthetists who were Able to temporarily slow the program Down and to Seshiah and Casino who refused to refer patients to him or take patients from finally on becoming the new head of childrens listened and shut the pro Gram Down without medical reporter Alexan dra Paul and the free the Testi Mony would never have reached the Public and they Hung in when the other Media lost last but not least there was Saul Simmonds with his persistent revealed so much i would personally like to thank these heroes and will the yet heart babies of Manitoba and their Susan Shallcross Winnipeg Sage eng Case bad example in response to the Sage eng i must say once again some of our peo ple just dont get being an Sborigi i can say i am disgusted with the behaviour of the Sage eng treatment Centre staff those in position to be scrutinized in its response to allegations of misappropriation of their funding its not the fact they took some time off to relax on a Caribbean cruise maybe they deserved it for their hard work with the mandate the treatment Centre operates what disgusts me is the harm they Are doing by playing this catch me if you can game with the Federal government and the we dont need to be accountable to no one but ourselves first of this is not your it belongs in the everyday treatment of your at second of if there is nothing to then Why Are they so maybe its the principal of the thing in their that they must stand up to health minister Allan Rock and show the White Man they Are defiant and self Sage eng is accountable to All aboriginal people across the they Are doing More harm than Good by once again setting the example that we Are ingrates and spoiled and the monies they attain from Public coffers Are theirs to do with As they this treatment Centre must employ a lot of Good hardworking people who value their jobs and believe in what they its too bad a few bad apples get a Little Power hungry and spoil it for the Mark Anabess Winnipeg soph now treatment astounding i find it astounding and utterly appalling that the inquiry should Force Thomas his his a fellow former inmate and his among to testify How he has this completely innocent Man has been to hell and Back and this is a total understate the inquiry needs to focus on what went wrong and needs to take Steps to prevent such grave miscarriages of Justice in the just How was it possible that our former chief of police would say to the Public after two separate trials did not condemn him he got away with murder and my men did a Good Job of the investigation too bad the courts did not do what was the climate of thought that existed within the police depart ment that would Harbour such Tunnel vision lets get to the Root of the i agree with Crook of Sandy Hook when he an apology is due soph now and it is due the next thing is to ask soph now How much he wants and pay Al Nickel Beausejour abuse of workers int Revenue Stream the free press has extensively Cov ered the actions of Winnipeg Aero space firm Standard Aero Over the week of the real Issue Here is a form of protectionism by the United states that politically is trying to Stop the flow of millions of dollars in aerospace work out of the american senators and congressman want this work to stay in their own this is a prob Lem that will require a political Solu Tion by governments committed to the growth of the Industry in the suggestion that the renouncing of ones cultural history May result in Standard winning More business is nothing Short of Here at Bristol we have collectively bargained against such racist tactics As Well As being protected by the Manitoba human rights sometimes workers do not have such easy Access to human rights information with respect to their workplace have the courage to address the problem Headon Standard the abuse of your workers with respect to their cultural heritage int a new Rev Enue Stream for you to Thomas Henderson Canadian Auto workers Union local 3005 Bristol aerospace Winnipeg Gillmor the Grinch this season or perhaps in spite Alison Gillmore brutal review of How the Grinch stole Christmas three words for Grinch stunk 17 i saw this allegedly Stinky movie opening night with two As the end credits the Audi ence at Grant Park Cinema did some thing All too rare in today movie going world and we enjoyed the despite a few Jim Carrey is absolutely perfect for the role who else could mimic in life Chuck Jones insane animated facial contortions and body language Ive read far too Many Nasty reviews by is Bradley Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Wugman w and Sipe Wking 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