Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate Rice 3 gig May apply 1411 Henderson 9257420 491 Portage 7884040 1510 a rvs Portage 9257390 Canada world news continued on b2 around Canada rare Pictograph sold London a rare native Pictograph of treaties that changed a Way of life for aboriginal peo Ples in Western Canada sold at auction yesterday for the equiv Alent of almost a Canadian dealer specializing in native Art was the successful bidder and said afterwards that the estimated Price of about pounds can was Low Given the rarity and Quality of the Pencil Donald the owner of a gallery in near said he bought the Pictograph on behalf of an Anonymous private Clark issues Challenge Ottawa tory Leader Joe Clark challenged the Liberal government to reconvene Parlia ment and follow through on its reelection promises before the prime minister Jean Chretien has said the House of commons wont return until the new with some officials predicting a february Start its not a vacation for he has a responsibility Clark told reporters yesterday As he entered his first caucus meeting since the elec Tion a week Chretien first item of Busi Ness has been an official visit to which included a round of Golf with president Bill apartment soaked water gushed through hallways and spilled Down elevator shafts in a seven Storey apartment building earlier this forcing 100 people out of their Homes after a fire Hose was left you could have Whitewater rafted Down the Hall on the sixth Trent the City Deputy fire said monday we figure the water was on for 10 to 15 Elyea compiled from Canadian press around the world Mars Rich in lakes Washington photos from a satellite orbiting Mars suggest the red planet was once a water Rich land of boosting the theory that billions of years ago it May have had the conditions needed for the evolution of the taken by the Mars global Surveyor show massive sedimentary with thick layers of Rock stacked one on top of another in Kilometres deep forma White House Busy Washington on inauguration in a frenzied but care fully choreographed four Bill and Hillary Clinton and their household goods Down to toothbrushes will be moved out of the White As the inaugural Parade Rolls by a new presidential family will be moved right up to stocking the pantry with their Favourite photos discovered Germany Ger Man television says it has Dis covered previously unreleased photos of Adolf hitters mis Eva from a private album she gave to a few close friends As a Adf Public which aired some of the pictures said it discovered s copy of the album with about 100 photos and embossed the station said the owner is but gave no from tji9 pews services december 2000 Canad world b1 business b3 tse listings b5 Mutual funds b6 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 Gore recount bid squashed Florida supreme court his Only Hope now by Robert Russo improper coercion or fraud reversed an earlier decision by the Al by Robert Russo Washington Only Flori Das supreme court now stands Between George Bush and the White House after a circuit judge issued a sweeping rejection of Al Gores request for a hand recount of presidential ballots in the unless the democratic Vic president obtains a favourable ruling from the Florida supreme his Hopes for the presidency will be consigned to his the evidence does not establish any Gross improper coercion or fraud in the balloting and counting Leon county circuit court judge Sanders Sauls ruled yesterday in Talla the court finds that the plaintiffs Gore have failed to carry the requisite Burden of the crucial decision marked the first time any court has ruled on the legitimacy of Bush Victory in the certified Florida vote tally a count that found the Texas governor the Winner by 537 Sauls ruling was the second straight blow to the Gore Campaign in a five hours the supreme court reversed an earlier decision by the Florida supreme court that allowed for Man Ual recounts in Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties to Gores lawyers immediately appealed Sauls decision to the Florida supreme but Lead attorney David Boies said the Vic president was running out of Legal the Florida supreme court is going to resolve All these issues within the next Boies continued please see Gore b2 Stephan Savoia associated press Tom Hanson Canadian press Cherry a survivor of the teen sex co wrote the report on exploitation of aboriginal natives bulk of sex Trade report spurs Call for National plan to help exploited children by Stephen Thome want a nation Al strategy on the sexual exploitation of aboriginal youth after a report Esti mated native teens comprise up to 90 per cent of the Street sex Trade in some Canadian aboriginal children Are being forced into the sex said the entitled sacred emotional and sexual abuse contribute to the along with addiction and the report the future of these children and youth is Bleak at said Adrienne director of save the Chil Dren which sponsored the we have to ask ourselves will we let this situation continue do we want to be willing conspirators in the loss of a generation of children the report was written by two native Cherry Kingsley and Melanie who consulted with More than 150 aboriginal youth involved in the sex Trade in 22 com it suggested a four pronged strategy to tackle the problem i a series of National and regional round tables that include i a series of youth driven Pilot projects designed within i a youth network aimed at equip Ping youth with skills to address the problems that Lead to sexual exploit i creation of a National awareness Campaign aimed at eradicating sexual exploitation of aboriginal our children Are not for Sale and they should not have to barter for their Basic said who was involved in the sex Trade As a continued please see exploitation b2 Bush a thumbs up kind of Day safety Board wants More fire detectors on planes by Alison Auld shackling woman to cell reasonable judge Toronto a judge has ruled that is was reasonable for police to strip a woman naked and shackle her to an overhead bar in a cold cell for nearly three hours to prevent her from harming the ruling is being greeted with incredulity and anger by the woman and her i was Hung like a piece of meat in a said Lynda the 42yearold woman who sued the Halton regional police because of the incident at an police station in Euteneier was arrested for failing to appear in court on charges stemming from bounced cheques that totalled Justice William Feste Ryga of the Ontario Superior court ruled on 22 that police officers abide by rules when they handcuffed Euteneier to her in his 35page Feste Ryga concluded that the police actions were reasonable because Euteneier hid from the surveillance camera in the police acknowledged that More than an hour of which would show Euteneier being went miss Suzan Euteneier insists that the police actions were any thing but reasonable or just following rules has been an excuse for a lot of injustice in this world and its not an answer in this she said in an Euteneier says she intends to Appeal the Canadian press Halifax the transportation safety Board recommended yesterday that planes have More fire detectors on Board and that pilots land immediately if they smell the Agency released five proposals stemming from its investigation of the Swissair which focus on the Crews inability to detect fires due largely to a shortage of equipment and smoke sensors on in Many Crews simply rely on their noses to detect it seems strange to us that in order to ensure Public in a time of rapid technological we rely so much on the human sense organs to detect smoke or Board chairman Benoit Bouchard said at a news conference at Canadian forces base out Side one of the which came after a investigation into the crash of flight 111 off the Nova Scotia says planes Are ill equipped to detect fires and require More fire Many planes have no Means of track ing fire in areas that Are known to have flammable such As metallized mylar insulation and wiring that has been found to firefighting equipment the Tab also says planes need to be equipped with More firefighting equip ment since Many of these such As inaccessible spaces in the dont have the Means to extinguish a these areas had been considered by the Industry to be said Vic Ger chief investigator for the we have seen that this is not the Bouchard could not say whether the 229 people killed in the 1998 crash would have survived if these Mea sures had been in but he suggested the Crew would have had a much better Chance of dealing with prob Lem if they could have pinpointed the fires the Board also said the checklists that cockpit Crew consult when smoke is detected can take up critical time and should be the doomed planes Pilot and who detected the fire by smelling spent 20 minutes in a smoke filled cock pit going through two checklists intended to help them isolate the location of the As a the Pilot May delay Cru Cial decisions such As whether to set up for an emergency Bouchard Canadian press Walkerton poised to turn the taps Back on by Colin Perkel almost seven months after residents of this South Western Ontario farming town were advised to boil their authorities were to Tell them today it is Safe again to turn on their a source at the Public health unit told the Canadian press yesterday the Long awaited announcement was to be made at a noon meeting in the town where an inquiry into the tainted water scandal is currently being Walkerton mayor Dave representatives of Ontario environment ministry and Murray Mcquigge were to be in medical officer of health for the sound health issued the boil water advisory on May after hundreds of people began falling ill from a lethal Strain of Coli bacteria in the seven people died from drinking the water and More fell the inquiry into the disaster has heard heavy Rains washed bacteria Laden cattle manure into one of the towns the water was then pumped to taps around the since the Ontario clean water Agency has spent More than million repairing and replacing parts of the water it has also installed a state theart filtration the outbreak is also the subject of a proposed class action suit by residents have described the hardship of living without clean running some have been forced to drive nightly to the Home of relatives and friends in neighbouring communities to Bathe their some have said they will never Trust the water others have left the Community too fearful of another deadly outbreak to the manager of the towns water sys tem May be too emotionally fragile to Tell his Story to the judicial lawyers for Stan Koebel plan to ask that their client be excused from Testi inquiry counsel Paul Cavalluzzo said we understand that an application will be made that he should not testify because of his medical Cavalluzzo told the to verify the opinion of his Psychia Trist and will undergo an Independent assessment on Canadian press ;