Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Goodhand 6977292 the wearing Blue by David Kuxhaus its the time of year for Fellowship and warm of youre a member of the Manitoba then youre getting ready for today the fall session will begin and that Means the return of question period a normally hour Long debate punctuated with desk pounding and fingerprinting that leaves spectators shaking their but this a couple of Las Are promising to take the High consumer and corporate affairs min ister Ron Lemieux said Hes been speak Rookie tory Leader plans to pick his spots to make noise ing with trying to instil a More respectful the said was when his former Grade 7 class came Down to watch and likened the politicians to kids bickering in a Lemieux admits it will probably be tougher for some Veteran Las to adopt a gentler particularly those who were around for Battles such As the privatization of Manitoba Tele phone tory Leader Stuart Murray said he int interested in getting in not looking to get into personal Murray i think the role of the opposition is to ensure Mani to bans get Good Murray said make noise when the doer government Steps out of such As its attempt to use surplus funds from Manitoba Public insurance to fix crumbling Murray said he will also go hard on the nursing shortage and the Lack of assistance for flood ravaged but he said he wont criticize the government for partisan for the tories have declared they will work with the nip to ensure legislation extending maternal and parental leave is passed before the new we just think its the right thing to Murray the legislation will Mirror Federal changes that increased the period of leave covered by employment insurance to 50 Murray admitted yester Day that Hes a Little bit nervous in his new aside from the pomp and cer Emony surrounding today throne which includes a 15gun artillery Murray will be sworn in As the la for Kirkfield and for the first he will assume his rightful position in the chamber As Leader of the official was formerly the head of Domo while he has never held pub Lic he worked on provincial campaigns and was a tour manager for former prime minister Brian for its going to be a huge learning he Murray said Hes been Busy boning up on policy and reviewing videotapes of question to help ease the Murray said hell Start his Day like he always does with a brisk five Kilometre province Selling commemorative birth certificates by Helen falling Manitoba millennium baby got another moment in the Sun yesterday when she accepted one of the commemorative birth certificates now available anyone born in the Delaney Rose born a minute after mid night at Victoria general Hospital on new years was presented with a year 2000 special edition birth certificate by consumer and corporate affairs minister Ron Manitoban born in other years can choose from three designs featuring baby the Manitoba Flag or historical the province officially released the commemorative birth certificates yesterday at the vital statistics office on Portage a similar set of marriage certificates suitable for framing Are scheduled to be offered in the Lemieux said the families of newborns have been asking the province for something fancier than the Little Blue official birth certificates people carry in their designed by Manitoba artist fran the certificates will sell for if ordered when a birth or marriage is registered and if ordered at another they Are not Legal regular birth and marriage certificates Cost vital statistics is working with a private Sec Tor marketer and gift shops to sell the certify Manitoban can Only order their own birth certificates or those of their but other Well wishers can Purchase gift certify vital statistics manager of finance Rudy Ger Ling said the government will break even if More than a couple of thousand commemorative certificates Are sold each about babies Are born each year in Manitoba and about marriages Are Reg Jeff de body Winnipeg free press millennium baby Delaney Rose Jost with her commemorative birth sides Square off Over penned Hunting by Tracy Tjaden Hunt preserve operators and animal welfare advocates squared off in a heated debate last night As the provincial government held its final Public hearing into regulations Banning penned in one the Winnipeg humane society and the Otta abased Canadian federation of humane societies called for an immediate ban on penned with Little compensation to be paid out to existing they said the business of penned Hunts is cruel and devalues the life of wild in the other Hunt preserve operators and the Farmers who rely on raising their Ani Mals said raising animals for Harvest in an enclosed Hunt is no More evil than sending live Stock to the by Banning Hunt the Manitoba government will be delivering a Strong blow to the provinces already struggling farm proponents i love my animals but they have to make Money for like any other said Randy who raises animals near Stonewall and runs a 160acre Hunt preserve near Lac Dubon i would never let an animal Hunt preserve operators say their business is no different than that of other Farmers who raise livestock for Slaughter its simply another form of agricultural this is a direct assault on the family said Mervin who Sells a Quarter of the Elk he raises near Stonewall to Hunt preserve killing the animal within a Reserve is More proponents because theres no Chance the animal will be wounded and left to but during the meeting held at place Louis Riel last John Youngman of the Ottawa based Canadian federation of humane societies showed the group a video captured with a hid Den camera of a penned Hunt near Pennsylvania showing the Savage demise of a wild Youngman said a recent study showed 82 per cent of Manitoban oppose penned and while Hunters at the meeting said the video portrayed a distorted View of Hunting in Many spoke out against penned saying it takes the sport and spirit out of last nights was the last Public meeting to be held on the regulations of Bill the wildlife amendments the doer government promised to ban enclosed Hunt farms and is hold ing Public meetings to gather input on regulations which will put the ban into animals currently in use on Hunt preserves in Manitoba include White tailed fallow wild boar and the stipulation is that they must be exotic or animals which Are wild by nature but not native to anglican priest guilty of fondling Young boys court hears Surprise confession by Mike Mclntyre a former anglican priest made a Surprise confession in court moments after pleading guilty to fondling three Young boys while working at a Winnipeg Parish in the Early Reading from a prepared James Townley urged his now grown not to blame themselves for the acts which sent shockwave through the local Church i was someone you and i abused that i am profoundly sorry for All the Hurt and suffering i brought in to your said you must not carry any blame for what the responsibility was i failed my my most of i failed Crown attorney Sheila Linburd jumped to her feet and objected to Townle Smiths saying they rang hollow because the victims and their families we rent in Linburd had Only expected Ibsh Neysmith to enter his pleas As sentencing was put Over until the new she told the victims they miss any thing by not coming to court until the defence lawyer Wanda Garrick said her client plans to formally apologize in front of his she requested sentencing be delayed while she obtains several expert guilty plea who has lived in Toronto for the past 25 was supposed to begin his trial yesterday in Winnipeg but chose to plead which spares his victims from having to in just glad he had the sensitivity to make the plea of i have to commend him for but in not sure that going to bring an end to the tremendous amount of Patrick the retired former Bishop of the diocese of Ruperts said forgiveness comes when repentance is we would Hope in this Case it Townle Smith admitted yesterday to three counts of indecent stemming from incidents which occurred Between january 1971 and december while working at Georges anglican Church in he gained unsupervised Access to a pair of 11 year old boys and boy with cerebral palsy by visiting the Homes of families in his in one parents caught him fondling their Townle Smith was arrested after one of the victims emerged from years of his Lone complaint to police about events More than two decades old quickly Snow balled into a widespread police a priest without a left Winnipeg in the mid1970s and went to where he worked As a Mechanic with air Canada and did Par time work in prior to leaving Townle Smith was also a master at Johns Cathedral boys school in Selkirk for about two years in the Early Townle Smith will remain free on pending his sen i ;