Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba December 2000 Winnipeg free flourish wit i Dynamo on ice eating on the run eighty Earold Winnipeg Ger Maddy stewarts figure skating wows audiences across the country c4 food writer Liana Simon finds out if Frozen and fast can be tasty and healthy increasing afternoon high18 t garbage Day 1 school Day 4 i flood Protection Falls snort report disaster possible this commission warns Tunnel vision if columnist Randy Turner will the Nils m i executives i and coaches succumb to the notion that just Treyve go tit All wrong after just look at Jeff Garcia and Hydro a hot topic yesterdays throne speech said v v Manitoba Hydro rates will be s Ana patrons Irby cigarette smoke would be blowing air in in face stub to t walking on air Garneau played f director for by David Kuxhaus the International joint commis Sion is urging governments to act quickly to avoid the devastation of the 1997 flood that washed Over communities and submerged vast tracts of Farmland in Southern in its final to be released the inc states that such a disaster will occur again its Only a question of heavy Rains this fall caused soil Mois Ture Levels in Southeastern Manitoba to combined with forecasts calling for above Normal precipitation for this win Ter and into the the flood risk barometer is if rain and warm weather spark an Early thaw this a flood could be the red River crested at feet above Normal Winter ice Levels at James Avenue in november and Slushy ice is blocking the dam at an Early thaw could cause ice jams and Back up drainage throughout the the inc says current safeguards Are inadequate and Manitoban remain at undue flood Protection for major Popula Tion centres in the red River Basin needs immediate said the the risk of a failure of win Nipges existing flood Protection Infra Structure is High under flow conditions similar to or greater than those experienced in continued please see great flood a2 set a Ken i Lioni Winnipeg free press Courchene talks to Media he refused to say Why Hes fighting health Canadas efforts to audit treatment facility wont allow health Canada to Transfer patients Sage eng Centre vows fight to keep finances secret by Bill Redekop Sage eng first nation the Sage eng treatment Centre will not open its financial records to health Canada without a fight in the manage ment for the Centre said the treatment Centre also announced it will not allow health Canada to trans Fer out and will keep operating As Long As its funds were not going to Send the clients Centre ceo Ken Courchene said to thunderous applause from about 100 staff and patients gathered in the treat ment centres Media were invited to attend the Courchene said the treatment Cen tre filed papers with the court yester Day challenging health Canadas right to audit its financial records prior to july health Canada announced Friday it has stopped funding the treatment Cen tre because management refuses to allow auditors to see records prior to july health Canada is seeking a court order to enforce its right to audit the treatment court of Queens Bench is expected to set a court Date it was the first interviews granted by Courchene and Board chairman Perry Fontaine since they and about 70 staff went on a we Klong Caribbean cruise seven weeks Fontaine and Courchene denied that employees and patients have become pawns in the standoff Between health Canada and they say Why they refuse to let health Canada conduct a forensic audit on the centres financial except that they believe their Transfer agreement with Ottawa disallows continued please see records a4 the Dufferin Avenue apart ment where teen was Mother rescues raped teen Street gang linked to attack police by Leah Janzen a Winnipeg woman stormed into an intercity gang hangout Early yesterday to Rescue her 13year old daughter from Street gang members who were sexually assaulting i basically walked in on one Guy sexually assaulting said the who cannot be named to protect her daughters i was the woman said she was sur rounded by six men As she tried to get her youngest daughter out of the i was worried and wondered How id get her out of she i just did that what a Mother will do for her once safely away from the the victims Mother called who made a num Ber of the Winnipeg police sex crimes unit con firmed yesterday it is investigating a suspected gang rape of the 13yearold according to the girls the teenage girl and a Friend went out monday evening to visit but the girl haunt returned Home by the wee hours of yesterday her family was getting she called us and said they we rent letting her the woman my son went Over there but the Guys in the House let her leave with him so i went there when she and another Daugh Ter arrived at the apartment in a Dufferin Avenue housing com the woman headed upstairs and was greeted by the night Marish according to the victims 21 year old the apartment where the teen was attacked is an Indian posse gang but the teens Mother said her daughter didst typically hang out with gang continued please see assault a2 ;