Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bieber financial services a titty omit Fri Subt wiry of Stetor Are you managing risk within your financial plan Contact Julie 9460297 or 18002059070 or email news continued on around Canada on the Mark Vancouver Canadian Stu dents scored near the top of the class in International math and science tests involving Grade 8 students from 38 the results of the third International mathematics and science study Timss were released glasses Clink the ceremonial clinking of glasses filled 1 with tap water echoed through a Community Hall yesterday to signify an end to one of the Saddest chapters in Canadas drinking water As about Iso residents key players in six month struggle to make the water in this town Safe to drink took a very Public april hearing set hearing will be held in april to determine whether a 16yearold youth accused of stabbing a fellow Stu Dent to death will be tried in adult j u the who cannot 1 named under the Yurij offend stabbing of 17yearold Samer Jaber at Lester Pearson High school in the accused automatically will be bumped to adult unless his lawyer can convince a judge 1 from Canadian discounted clothing Diers imposes sweatshop conditions and starvation on its a lawsuit filed yester r it t actor shot in Back 4 police off 9w who killed an holding dec Ember 2000 Canada world b1 business 65 tse listings b7 Mutual funds b8 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 crts chairwoman resigns by Jennifer Dutchburn Ottawa Francoise the woman credited with giving the Public a greater say in Broad cast and telecommunications is leaving her Post As Canadas chief regulator to return to the private will leave the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission crts to join Mon trea based corporate management firm Secor consulting on the former Radi Quebec president joined the crts in replacing out spoken chairman Keith she was faced with challenges such As Media mergers and the expanding while some criticized Bertrand for not being a More High profile activist like she was praised by others for opening the crts doors to the Bertrand took the crts on the Road to big and towns across the coun try and in the consulting with the Public on issues like television programming and multicultural in the end they had thousands of interested canadians giving them said Ian spokesman for friends of Canadian the crts used to be per hour lawyers sitting in hearing rooms and it Hast been All that accessible to the con tinned please see crts b2 Nasa to press astronauts Carlos and Joe Tanner enter the shuttle endeavours Airlock after a six hour Canadian Garneau directs shuttles space walking Crew helmet cameras record astronauts six hour repair on endeavour Cape two space walking astronauts ventured outside the space shuttle endeavour yesterday for the second time this week to Complete electrical hookups for the International space stations new Power producing solar directed by Canadian astronaut Marc the camera equipped space walkers also provided flight controllers with closeup pictures of the right which is too perched 27 metres above endear Carlos Noriega used Small to cameras mounted on his helmet to beam Down pictures of Loose tension cables on the right the cables came off their pulleys when the Wing was extended sunday leaving the Blanket of solar cells directing the 6 spacewalk from inside sounded like a film look downward a now hold that for a bit and let the ground have a if you now pan up toward the tension which is Gar Neau the slackness on the Wing could cause the fabric to tear or the Wing to Bend or break during shuttle dockings or other extreme we can put it Back on that one Pul space Walker Joe Tanner called but the other one is going to be a Little Mission control agreed Noriega and Tanner could probably fix the cables during their third and final spacewalk the left Wing stretched out Fine monday during a deliberately slow release and was perfectly the helmet cameras dubbed Carlos am and Joe Cam Are a new space walking feature that came in Handy during yesterdays evaluation of the Slack tanners helmet stopped until yesterdays the electricity generated by the solar wings was not flowing into space Sta Tion Noriega and Tanner hooked up Power cables Between the solar wings and the while station commander Bill Shepherd and his russian Crew attached cables on the inside to Complete the the solar 73 metres from tip to Are capable of producing 65 kilowatts at Peak the additional Power will allow alphas three residents to have full run of the station for the next three Canadian press Tom Hanson Canadian press archives Bertrand took crts to the suspected smuggling wife stay in jail by Greg Joyce Vancouver the suspected Mastermind of a massive chinese smuggling ring and his wife will stay in jail until their refugee claim is Lai changxing his Tsang could disappear if there freed pending an upcoming refugee Daphne Shaw Dyck of the immigration and refugee Board said the after a hearing last reaffirms the boards Origi Nal detention order after the Cou ple was arrested late last i have concluded that Lai and Tsang Are unlikely to appear for removal Given the extremely difficult circumstances and consequences they face in China and their obvious financial Means and Shaw Dyck the who could be deported if their refugee claim is will get another detention review Lai and Tsang face prosecution if returned to which they fled after learning they were to be arrested in that country largest smuggling and corruption scandal in 50 Shaw Dyck said they have demonstrated a willingness and ability to use deception to evade arrest and had obtained false travel documents in the using immigration police arrested Lai in Niagara on the same Day Tsang was arrested in suburban they had been in Canada for about a year and had made refugee Lai has been described As chivas most wanted accused of con trolling a smug gling operation in the coastal province of opposite the smuggling which allegedly skirted import duties on As much As billion us Worth of goods entering was apparently protected by a Phalanx of corrupt press time running out As Gore continues Legal Battles by Robert Russo Washington the Only judges who have Ever Given a sympathetic hearing to Al Gore agreed yesterday to hear his argument for keeping his dimming White House Hopes the Florida supreme court will hear Gores Call tomorrow to Force state elec Tion officials to conduct a hand recount of at least ballots that did not Reg ister on voting a court clerk said the justices have not agreed to take the Case but will hear arguments As to whether they should hold a full with time grinding Down to the 12 deadline when states must choose Electora College there was the whiff of desperation in Gores Legal the democratic Vic president now needs to persuade the Florida court to hold a full overturn a lower court decision blocking a recount and then order a hand recount that must be completed by despite improbable Gore predicted yesterday he could still win the he and his lawyers in Florida still believe they can persuade the states supreme court to order a recount that would erase George Bush 537vote Lead in the Florida High court ordered the states Republican Secretary of Kather Ine to extend the deadline for certification of the states vote 21 to allow for hand since in courtrooms from South Florida to Gore has tasted nothing but defeat after Bush expressed far More sympathy for his rival than some of his Republican colleagues who have stepped up Calls for Gore to he told the lbs program 60 minutes ii he does not View Gores exhaustive Legal Battle As the action of a sore but the Texas governor appeared impervious to the Legal jousting and steamrolled ahead with preparations to become he received his first Cia intelligence briefing and planned to meet advisers who most Likely would become part of a Bush Canadian press ;