Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 8, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Best rate Rice gig 1411 Henderson 9257420 491 Portage 788404ff Rales subject n certain conditions May 1510 marys 9257423 3025 Portage 9257390 Canada world news continued on b2 around Canada Liberal my charged who won a Quebec Cit area rid ing for the liberals in the last fed eral has been charged with drunk driving and hit and police confirmed police said that on a Young woman was struck by a car in the car didst Carignan was charged on the Day of the but the accusations Only came to Light nurses vote on Deal Edmonton Albertas registered nurses will vote today on a Rich contract offer after Las minute agreements with four Small health boards averted the possibility of a Wildcat the new increasing wages Between 17 and 22 per cent Over two will make Alberta nurses among the Best paid in by april a nine year registered nurse with a diploma would be paid More than an or More than a year about a a nurse fresh out of school would receive about an or More than a year about a Ontario politician Dies pal an italian immigrant who made his Fortune Selling cars before being appointed to Ontario died yesterday of a heart attack while vacation ing in the death of the colourful Salesman known for his any Palladini is a pal of mine motto came just weeks after he resigned As the provinces eco nomic development and Trade compiled press around the world blast kills 37 students Beijing were being forced to make firecrackers Dur ing their lunch break for teach ers seeking extra Cash in a Rural elementary school that was ripped apart by an explosion that killed at least 37 children and four teachers witnesses and news reports said at least 27 people were Hurt in the blast set off As third graders inserted fuses and no Money from estate Houston a jury ruled yesterday that former stripper and Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith and the oldest son of her late Texas oilman husband Are entitled to none of his Multi Mil lion Dollar the jury affirmed the Howard Marshall had named his younger Pierce his sole had dropped her claim on her late husbands estate earlier in the after a Federal bankruptcy judge in California awarded million senior officials fired top International administrator has fired the croat president and other senior officials Days after their political party announced plans to abandon an Alliance with try country Ante the member of the country Threeman collective was also barred from holding any other elected according to a statement by the office of Wolfgang who oversees compliance with a 1995 agreement that ended the bosnian Winnipeg repress March 2001 Canada world business b7 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 turn off your by Terry Pedwell Ottawa Federal liberals Are considering whether to License technology that can Block the annoying use of cell phones in restaurants and even corporate Board canadians will get 90 Days to comment on the potential use of so called cell phone silencers starting next fed eral sources Industry Canada will seek the Public View on devices capable of interfering with or blocking Mobile Telephone com Federal government studying technology to silence cells in restaurants according to a govern ment news release to be issued Tomor the three month comment period would end july i think probably the broadest inter est is perhaps in theatres and restau rants where people would like to have their quiet space said David a policy manager at Industry were going to gather the widest pub Lic views possible on the use of cell phone he said in an its to assist the department in its decisions on whether and under what conditions licence applications for these devices should be one in three canadians owns or uses a cell but to Many their annoyance Factor outweighs Many including the United have Blanket bans against any thing that would Block cell phone Sig Canadas policy prohibits the use of jamming technology except by police and Public safety but Warnes Points out the rules vary widely from one country to the Hong Kong stated last week that they Are going to the has banned them Australia and Japan have had some restricted he continued please see phones b2 studies in violence expelled student out to Settle score suspect tackled on University Campus by Bob Weber Edmonton City police tackled a Shotgun wielding Man yesterday at the University of acting on a tip a former student was out to Settle a we have information that he was coming Here to take care of some peo said staff disdained he lost Hope for the he was always lonely father of suspected Shotgun wielding Man Oagley Edmonton Sun an Edmonton police officer takes Wijdan on Campus into Dick we Only have to assume that he was coming Here armed and loaded for that he had a Mission in Fareed of faces a number of charges including two counts of armed robbery and three weapons who was studying to be a mining Engineer before he was expelled last was the victim of months of teasing on said his he gradually lost his health under the said the who spoke on condition his name not be people suited i dont know Wijdan is father said his son was a successful student until last when what his father called a misunderstanding Over a textbook led to his expulsion for the father said his son told him that for the previous six he had being taunted by a group on he also believed he was being people disdained he lost Hope for the he was always he didst talk to the Wijdan had been seeing a Psychia Trist and had been prescribed Medica his father two plainclothes officers tackled a Man Between the science and Engi Neering buildings shortly after noon on a Campus packed with they confiscated a loaded semiautomatic extra ammunition and a Hunting no one was they had to do this take Down right away rather than confronting said Doug the University vice president of said he could it discuss the specifics of Wijdan is exclusion occurs when there is a concern about violence on the part of the police said the drama began around when a Man got into a cab in the cites North end and asked to be taken to the which is located just across the River from the cites As the cab approached the universe the Man changed his mind and asked to be taken when he got out of the the cab Bie noticed he had a Shotgun and called the Man then used the Shotgun to commandeer a car and drove to the uni police got another phone tip from an acquaintance who said the Man had a score to possibly with another student on Canadian press threats plague schools across a 14yearold girl shot a female classmate in the shoulder yesterday in the cafeteria of their parochial school but dropped the gun at the urging of another authorities the shooting came amid a spate of arrests of students across California and the United after the Stu dents were accused of making the 15yearold suspect in mondays shooting spree at Santana High school in was charged with two counts of murder As hundreds of his fellow classmates returned to school to find freshly patched Bullet holes and grief counsellors in every Charles Andrew accused of killing two and wounding 13 in the California remained silent throughout the nationally Tele Vised in yesterdays Pennsylvania shoot two witnesses said the girl fired at the floor and the Bullet ricocheted into the police said they could not confirm that police said the shooter and the victim had feuded in the the shooting happened around noon during lunch at Bishop Neumann Junior senior a roman Catholic the girl was charged As a juvenile with attempted aggravated assault and other she was being held at a juvenile authorities in California arrested eight students at three schools for allegedly making threats that included a plot to put a bomb on a teachers desk and the creation of a hit among the in the desert town of Twenty nine Palms two 17 year old boys were arrested at their Homes tuesday night on suspicion of conspiracy to commit continued please see school arrests 82 wuss Williams sits in court during his arraignment Alliance Mutiny has begun against Day Ottawa the chorus of Dis sent facing Stockwell Day continued to grow yesterday even As the embattled Canadian Alliance Leader vowed to fight on in Hopes of leading a new coalition of the in a week in which Day has already been called upon to resign by a for Mer Alliance one of his Candi dates from the Federal election resurfaced to publicly declare that his leadership is All but Paul Rainyn Stockwell Day had been blindsided so viciously by his own Shadow Cabinet that he could barely fathom it had actually Michael a Quebec Alliance wrote in an opinion piece for the Ottawa citizen published yes the Mutiny has in an Geisterfer said Day lacks caucus support and he doubts Days leadership can recover from numerous gaffes and i think it looks grave at this Geisterfer Day has tried to turn around his for tunes this week by apologizing to the Alberta lawyer he defamed and mortgaging his Home to repay to albertan who were stuck with a Legal Day also appeared tuesday night in Toronto before the Blue an influential group of former tories turned Alliance to answer their concerns and pledge to fight if there is to be some ongoing Coli then in in for the Long term Day said tuesday it is clearly my intent to stay on and take the responsibility of leadership and to take it through to the next the latest soap opera involving Days leadership comes As momentum builds toward greater cooperation if not an outright merger involving the Alliance and tory Leader Joe Clark weighed into the debate tuesday by saying Day lacks the authority to Lead the Alliance in any merger but Clayton the alliances said Clarks shot was another example of old party com he Clark is doing great disservice to those who Are trying for a Merg said a former Manitoba Cabinet there Are people in every Corner of the land who Are talk ing about continued please see Alliance b2 ;