Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 15, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Goodhand 6977292 Joe free press a fire investigator inspects debris on the second floor of the fire scene at 2091 Portage no need for naked brides Jay Kim Guttormson brides in danger of being left naked at the altar after a fire destroyed their wedding gowns Are being rescued by another bridal a Blaze wednesday evening destroyed scoters bridal boarders Anonymous and underworld scuba and sport at 2091 Portage the fire was caused when dresses in the salons front window were ignited by a nearby Halogen said Ken fire investigator with the cites arson strike Carol of labelled wedding said they will be making sure anyone getting married this weekend or next will be decked out in White when they walk Down the we want the brides to be there probably still crying right Labelle said yesterday after adding Only one had been in touch with two women with wed dings this weekend had dresses gowns destroyed in fire replaced by rival shop burned in the i called my seamstress and told her to be ready with Needle and Labelle were telling brides to get in have their Choice of the owner of who owns the entire building that called Labelle first thing yesterday morning to ask for her one woman getting married next weekend went in yesterday afternoon and left with a new dress and Joanne assistant manager of said her phone was ringing off the Hook with brides calling about what they could told anyone getting mar ried in december or january to Call its just mental in Andrianopoulos said from the Home the Salon number had been forwarded everyone fire Crews battled the flames until about 2 yesterday and then were called Back at 5 when the fire re acting Deputy fire chief Wayne Mcdonald said Crews battled the fires second life until about he said while Crews would have checked to see whether the fire was out when they left at 2 smouldering areas can be difficult to detect and can reignite if there is material around to Mcdon Ald said checking under the rubble becomes More difficult when the water used to put out the fire turns to at the Peak of the first 28 fire fighters were on the changing Crews every hour to Rescue them from the bitter with files from Holli Moncriet nip unveils Lon term Quick fix still to come my shortage wont end soon by Sean Oconnor the nip unveiled its Lon term cure for doctor shortages but provided no Quick fix to Manitoba imme Diate said health minister Dave Cho is still to the province is creating is new spaces for medical students starting next year and 53 new residency positions Over the next five and announced a program to attract More Rural students to medical but it will be at least six years before any of the new students and 2 years before new residents take up a practice of their Chomiak said discussions Are under Way with groups such As the Manitoba medical association and the College of physicians and surgeons to provide Shorter term which May include incentives to attract doctors to the province and Steps to simplify certification of foreign for the past decade we Haven done a Good Job of maintaining our doctors and Ive said for some time we have to change that whole system said were working on a plan for foreign were working with the College and All of the parties to put together a were not quite ready there will be further initiatives which you will hear about in the new he Peter medical director of family Medicine with the Winnipeg regional health has said at least 100 family doctors Are needed in Winnipeg to ensure every resident has Access to Chomiak said while the situation is rough in the its worse in Rural and Northern where there can be one doctor for every of 15 residency positions opening under the governments plan this nine will be dedicated to train family doctors to work in Rural another five new residency positions will be opened to allow existing Rural doctors to Advance their and a massive Effort will be made to lure More Rural students to medical including offering scholarships and and the creation of a Rural and Northern health Gary a consultant who helped develop the said medical students from Rural areas Are three or four times More Likely to go Back to work in Rural Gary a third year medical student and president of a Manitoba medical students Rural interest called yesterdays announcement a step in the right i guess we have to Start its Pur Best bet for Lon term sustain ability of Rural he in recent two thirds of new Doc tors trained in Manitoba have left the province after the Mma Manitoba is offering up to to help specialists locate in the fund was established about two years the Mma would like to see that extended to All family though other jurisdictions in Canada and the offer Cash incentives to attract doctors to particular University of Manitoba president Emoke Szathmary said such efforts Are often a waste of it just Doest in our society we dont hold a gun to a persons head and say thou Shalt practise in that area because at some Point you signed an agreement that you were going to do if you know How to do that youd probably win the Nobel said were going through a rough and the reality is were playing catch up with a decision that was made nearly 10 years ago to reduce and so now were trying to rectify Monetta Bareto Thelwall Sale All present Stock to be cleared before the year end to make room for incoming 2001 inventory pay set lawyer warns claims will clog Justice inquiry into compensation told by Leah Janzen a potentially Large and expensive number of claims might overwhelm provincial Justice depart ments if Thomas soph now is awarded a substantial amount of an inquiry was told Bill lawyer for the province of said studies estimate that upwards of one per cent of the people incarcerated every year in Canada Are wrongfully he noted that could result in More than 800 people seeking financial compensation every but Sheilah tort Law professor at the University of Calgary who pre pared a report on compensation for the said the number of wrongly convicted people in the country who have also been Able to prove their innocence is relatively even if soph now is provided with a substantial compensation there is no need to fear an onslaught of similar she throughout his Cross examination of Olson tried to Chip away at the possible Bill the province will be forced to he tried to get Martin to agree that should soph now be awarded a Large sum of a troublesome precedent will be set for provincial governments who would be faced with an increasing number of claims from wrongly convicted but Martin maintained that while Sopho nows Case might increase aware Ness of wrongful conviction the number of people who would be eligible for compensation would remain its a limited class of potential she i classify it As a floodgate of Martin spent a second Day on the stand yesterday in the inquiry into the wrong Ful conviction of who spent nearly five years behind bars for the 1981 murder of Barbara which he did not police briefs rape suspect arrested a Man suspected of taking part in the gang rape of a 13yearold girl has been arrested and Winnipeg police said Christopher Lee was located yesterday afternoon and charged with sexual he is the fifth Man to be charged in connection with the Gan related attack that occurred at a Dufferin Avenue Home during the Early morning hours of one other Man has been charged with sexual assault and sexual inter the other three were arrested on unrelated according to the victims this inquiry headed by retired supreme court of Canada Justice Peter Cory Marks the first time an inquiry has been charged with determining the eligibility and amount of compensation to be provided to a wrongly convicted Olson argued that As in personal injury compensation cases the Vic Tims conduct should be considered when determining How much they should in earlier soph now accepted some of the blame for his predicament and admitted he lied to police officers who originally questioned him in the murder and declined to provide them with his Alibi until much when Martin said the amount of time an innocent person spends behind bars should affect the amount of Money they Olson noted soph now could be held responsible for some of the jail time he Olson said the Manitoba court of Appeal considered Sopho nows prior criminal record when it ruled he should not be freed on bail pending a third trial in he suggested that had soph now had a clean record prior to Stoppels he would have been granted Martin argued that despite olsons suggestions that Sopho nows prior Crim Inal record and Lack of cooperation with the police should reduce the compensation he soph now still deserves a person who has been demonstrated to be factually has suffered gone through three trials and two appeals is the kind of person who should be granted she the compensation phase of the inquiry into Sopho nows wrongful conviction wraps up Cory will determine How if compensation to award soph now Early in the new the second phase of the inquiry aimed at determining what went wrong with the police investigation and prosecution of soph now is scheduled to get under Way in 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 attempted murder charge a 35yearold Winnipeg woman will be charged with attempted murder after stabbing her Boyfriend eight times yesterday police the 31yearold Man was taken to health sciences Centre and treated for wounds in his Torso after the Stab Bing at suite Marion he was listed in condition last night and is expected to said duty Rick we believe the woman is his com Mon Law but we Haven con firmed that he Manitoba families for effective autism treatment 204 4884987 r i jackets Monetta warehouse 1109 Winnipeg Darne area 16th 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