Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Goodhand 6977292 better fewer babies Economy gets credit for lower birth Rote by Carol Sanders fewer babies Are being born in Manitoba because a glowing Economy is creating brighter horizons for says one Winnipeg statistics Canada reported yester Day that the birth rate in 1998 declined by per cent in the province from the National birth rate declined by per the birth rate Falls when economic conditions said University of Manitoba Paul the Best Way to lower the birth rate is to educate he at with plans of getting a com Merce degree and a career in management one Victoria Woodward says having children is not High up on her Todo after in married and financially then ill probably have kids when in 26 or canadians Are waiting until there older to marry and fewer Manitoban Are getting statistics Canada reported this a firs year student at the University of works Par time for a financial management consultant and grew up in she said most of her friends think the same Way As she they want to have a House and stability and give their children every thing they of Many Young aboriginal women have the same says the president of the aboriginal Council of there Are a growing number of opportunities for aboriginal people entering the said Wayne Many Young women Are foregoing the decision to have Chil but while the Overall provincial birth rate is on the Manitoba aboriginal Community is in Manitoba had a population of per cent or of whom were first nations by it is projected to reach or about 17 per cent of our projected population of about Twenty years just 200 to 300 aboriginal youths were in Canadian colleges or universities today there Jeff de body Winnipeg free press for Victoria having children is not births Manitoba 1998 1997 change Canada 1998 1997 change Are More than aboriginal students at the University of Manitoba the u of m said optimism is growing in the aboriginal Community As an eco nomic and that will also Likely slow Down the aboriginal birth while the birth rate slowed in the the number of abortions per formed in Manitoba dropped for the second consecutive five per cent from 1997 to to Sta scan reported Mon when the birth rate Abor Tion will because there Are fewer said u of is abortion is performed most commonly for economic reasons when people cant afford to have More Chil he the antiabortion group league for life said the decline in abortions shows that people Are becoming More educated about the scientific and med ical implications of spokeswoman Rachel Murray in Portage la Prairie says there still needs to be More education on the Why not of teen pregnancy abortions Down in Canada abortions per women Manitoba 1998 1997 change Canada 1998 1997 change 14 source statistics Canada Why you dont want to get pregnant at an Early Why you dont want to be saddled with parenthood so Why you dont want to expose yourself to std sexually transmitted Dis she said sex education programs offer too much of the How tos of they need More of the Why fewer teens Are getting in 1997 there were pregnancies for every women aged 15 to the lowest number in 10 in Manitoba in there were 63 pregnancies for every Down from in Hells Angels use gunplay to instil fear Spike in Gan related violence in Winnipeg typical takeover Quebec police say by Leah Janzen the sudden Spike in Gan related violence gripping Winnipeg is part of a pattern of fear typically used by the Hells Angels when they set up shop in a new they dont like explained Michel Public affairs spokesman for the police if someone Trees to step on their they Are Clear go away or die Martin said the Hells Angels arrived on the Sherbrooke scene nearly 20 years ago and quickly dealt with smaller gangs who were trying to assert them selves in the drug in the first two months of the Angels existence in there were eight murders police attribute directly to once they the gangs quest for of Fth control of bars make Ine and prostitution in presence Small City known and with a population of 9 rid of has the compete the dubious distinction of being Home to mings the largest Hells got quiet Angel chapter in Shurb Moog Canada but Martin q foe said Public displays of criminal activity Are now once they made their presence known and got rid of the things got he in red the Hells Angels absorbed local Street gangs about three years since police have stood warily by while the worlds largest criminal organization hosted two Large gather Ings in the Small the level of violence and drug activity has gone up in red a week there was an individual assaulted and shot in the leg As a result of drugs and the Possession of stolen ramp Dan Doyle since the weve seen More incidents of different types of Vio Lence and were seeing drugs like crack cocaine and ecstasy showing up for the first everything we know Points in their More than a Coin but Martin said that although police Are often certain some crimes Are perpetrated by biker securing an arrest and conviction is we know the he but there the people we arrest Are the people around the Hells Angels set up shop in Winnipeg last summer after absorbing the los bravos motorcycle Martin said its typical to see the Hells Angels use Young members of Small Street gangs to tote the guns and deliver the the Angels use those Street level gangs to recruit new members and As a proving ground for those wanting to gain full membership in the he when the Hells Angels come to it provides local police with a Clear tar get when there dealing with violent drug trafficking and Prostic but the main players can prove Doyle said if and when the Hells Angels take control of Winnipeg drug the police will have their work Cut out for they generally have a More sophisticated he and those who Are victimized Are extremely Hesi Tant to since the beginning of Winnipeg police have had their hands full investigating seven Gan related shootings in the cites police attribute the flurry of violence and gunplay to a turf War Over the cites cocaine which sources maintain is controlled by the Hells Gary Walker of the Winnipeg police service vice division said local police have a Good idea which group is behind the recent spate of but Are facing an upward Battle when it comes to getting people to that the nature of this kind of he adding the police service is focusing on the knowl Edge of the main players Doest make it in with High profile gangs comes intimidation and increased Vio Lence and were seeing that in these but Walker said prolonging a High bloody turf War int something any gang wants to its not Good for Walker the heat that accompanies this level of violence int attractive to the criminal intelligence service of in its 2000 says the Hells Angels remain one of the most powerful and Well structured criminal organizations in they have 18 chapters across Canada and Are currently expanding into editorial keep talking a14 feds stall on year old pledge to help homeless by Paul Samyn Ottawa not a cent from a Pool of Federal funding earmarked to help the provinces homeless and Winnipeg housing crisis has flowed since being announced one year the failure to put action into the much hyped Federal talk on housing and the homeless has left social advocates shaking their Heads in disbelief at the National not a lot has happened actually and that is Munfor said Wayne president of the aboriginal Council of Winnipeg who has been frustrated by difficulties in accessing program in december 1999 at a homeless shelter in Toron Ottawa announced its three year plan to build Low income housing and shelters for the homeless across the country to Deal with a mounting homelessness Manitoba share of the program included million for Community responses to Manitoba also received million under a Spe Cial fund for aboriginals which is part of the Strat but one year after Claudette the 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