Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 news continued on around Canada three named to Senate Fornier Liberal politician from Prince Edward a renowned medical researcher from Quebec and a s farm activist from Ontario have been named to the Senate by prime minister Jean Elizabeth Libbe served two terms in the legislature Star Tilg in 1989 and put in a stint As Deputy speaker during her second Yves a specialist in internal Medicine and has been chairman of the department of Medicine and Dean of Medicine at Laval University in Quebec Jim of has been a Dairy Farmer for 30 he was a director of the Dairy Farmers of Canada for 18 years and served 12 years As a director of the Ontario milk marketing native loggers guilty provincial court judge found 35 native loggers guilty of illegally harvesting lumber on Crown dismiss ing aboriginal claims they have historic rights to vast tracts of land throughout Nova judge Patrick Curran rejected native arguments they had aboriginal title arid rights spelled out in 18thcentury treaties to Cut and sell Trees on Crown prop gunman assessed Edmonton Crown prosecutors asked yesterday for a psychiatric assessment of a Man who was arrested on the univer sity of Alberta Campus wielding a Fareed of Edmon faces a number of charges including two counts of armed robbery and three weapons he was arrested i a dramatic take Down on Campus wednesday after police got a tip a former student was coming to Settle a helping fight polio Ottawa Canada is contributing million to help eradicate polio the Money from the Canadian International development Agency will support a global polio eradication initiative in developing countries and will be channelled through the world health organization and the Agency said in a statement polio cases have dropped to about worldwide last year from in it air India trial hastened Vancouver two men accused of the worst mass Mur Der in Canadian history will proceed directly to shaving eight months to a year of f the time it will take to Deal with the the Crown announced yester Day there jul be no preliminary inquiry for Ripe Dararan Malik and who Are accused of orchestrating the bombing of an air India flight on june killing 329 Diplomat a fugitive Ottawa a russian Diplomat accused of killing a woman while driving drunk has been declared a fugitive from the Canadian Justice system after failing to appear at court Andrey who returned to Moscow after the a scheduled to appear in remand court we Etc on charges of Cryn Jajnal negligence causing death impaired attorney Hilary move was More symbolic than but said it was March 2001 Canad world b1 business b7 tse listings b9 Mutual funds b10 editor Doug Speirs 6977248 ice Floe game turns deadly by Michael Macdonald Pouch hundreds of people lined the Shore of this tiny coastal Community last night after three teens playing on ice floes were swept into the Ocean and police said four males Between the Ages of 16 and 18 were jumping from ice cake to ice cake about 50 metres from Shore when one of them fell into the frigid water and slipped under the the others tried to Rescue him but two were knocked into the Ocean by a the fourth teen managed to make it Back to we have to assume that All three of leaping Between floating three teens swept into frigid Ocean these Young men Are presumed said Bob Garland of the Royal Newfoundland its a sad Day in Pouch its a sad Day for Hope for the teens faded quickly despite an intensive search that involved a search Andrescu helicopter and with the water temperature a Bon numbing the Chance of anyone surviving for Long was they made it on to the ice somewhere and Well find them when the chopper gets a Light on but i doubt Ewan Jones said earlier in the evening when the search for survivors was at its you last two or three min that about a few hours grimaced officials announced that the search for survivors had been downgraded to a recovery operation for we have exhausted every resource women take the plunge an flew Vaughan Canadian press master Seaman Sophie and Nicole Newell can now serve aboard Crews concerns Navy oks women in subs by John Ward Ottawa the Navy has lifted its ban on female submariners and the first should be at sea next despite a Survey showing that 70 per cent of their male shipmates have reservations about mixed Vic Admiral Greg com Mander of the announced yesterday that women will be allowed to serve on the new Victoria class sub removing the last restriction on females in the Canadian he said the decision came because the navys new subs offer More privacy than the old it was coincidence that the announcement came on International women he in terms of living the Victoria class offers enough improvement in comparison to the retired Oberon to achieve the mini mum level of privacy for for changing clothes and Tak ing he Maddison stressed that sleeping quarters will not be segregated by bunks will be aligned on a functional basis regardless of the first training classes for women will begin in training take four to 14 depending on the Maddison said a Survey showed that 27 per cent of the women in the Navy indicated interest in the submarine for while other services broke Down gender the Navy hesitated Over submarines because of the Lack of privacy aboard the Issue was so Strong that the Canadian human rights in its 1989 decision ordering full female integration in the allowed a restriction for the roomier which have a Crew of 48 compared with 6570 for the will allow separate change washrooms and Shower there Are doubts about the a study conducted by Lynn Bradley in 1999 found that while a majority of women supported mixed 67 per cent of submariners Dis agreed or strongly disagreed that women should serve in younger personnel who were opposed tended to cite concerns about their wives about harassment about sexual temptation or privacy Bradley report older personnel seemed More Likely to be opposed to women in sub marines and More Likely to cite reasons such As too dirty an Environ ment for discomfort for both men and women and having to change the Way we do Canadian press we could deploy for search and Sean a constabulary said shortly after informing the families of the Ryan said Hes endured some terrible things during his police career but none worse than advising parents out live their a Labrador search Andrescu Heli copter flew Over the darkened playing its Searchlight on ice that rolled and heaved like a badly Laid carpet stretching to the lights on Shore also scoured the con stantly moving whiteness for any sign of life while flares burned High in the continued please see Ocean b2 Homolka must serve her full sentence by Nahlah Ayed Ottawa Karla convicted in the sex slayings of two Ontario teenage has been denied Early statutory release because of fears she May kill the National parole Board released its ruling on a review of the Case ordering that Homolka remain detained past her july release eligibility the Board is satisfied if you Are Likely to commit an offence causing the death of or serious harm to another person before the expiration of the sentence you Are now serv said the the families of her schoolgirl victims Are delighted Karla Homolka will be behind bars until the last Day of her sen tence in july Tim their said Homolka mandatory release Date had been set for july the two thirds Point in a sentence at which Many offenders Are allowed to leave who goes by the name Karla Teale in is serving a 12year sen tence for her role in the sex killings of Kristen 15 and Leslie her Paul is serving life for the same Homolka agreed to testify against her husband in return for a manslaughter plea in the horrendous details of the torture and murder of the two Young women in port a suburb of shocked the the Gravity of the crimes is part of the reason she was according to the Board Homolka lawyer had previously said his client wont fight corrections attempt to have her detained and that she that intends to stay in prison until her sentence according to her Homolka reasoned that if she gets out this sum she would have to live in Canada for five where people Are threat ening to kill a number of internet death pools popped up last projecting her death would come in the if she Waits five More she could leave the Homolka reportedly told her she is being held at the Pinel a psychiatric Hospital in recent reports indicate she has refused any ther apy or psychiatric evaluations since she was moved there at the end of Canadian press China lying on school blast parents Tyjohn Leicester officials blame mad bomber Beijing it should have been just their it became their children who died when their school exploded in Southeast China were forced to make fireworks in their parents said the father of an 11year old victim said he was among the first to arrive at the scene and saw dead Chil Dren in the rubble still clutching fuses in their state Media said 42 people were killed and 27 parents said Many bodies were parts of one boy were in a nearby said the father of a Niney Earold who chinese Premier Zhu Rongji blamed a Man with mental problems for tues Days which reduced the school in Fang Lin Jiang i to a pile of books and the official Xinhua news Agency identified him As a 33yearold fireworks i and said he was known in the Village As it said police found a notebook and papers in his Home containing the con fused sentence ill sacrifice myself with 100 pounds of Silver blast Burn killing dozens of them at the very but parents said government officials were Zhang Chen Gen said his 11 year old who and other third and fourth graders had since 1998 been forced to assemble firecrackers in normally working a profits subsidized school expenses and went to school Zhang the father of another 11yearold Vic Tim said children were Rushing to com plete orders for chivas traditional grave sweeping festival on april when families honour deceased everybody knows it is caused by the Zhang said by the government is trying to cover the please do not believe the explosion was not the first to kill children in chivas fireworks last 17 children the youngest aged eight were among 35 people killed when a fireworks factory exploded in another Jiang i the Chil Dren earned the equivalent of about 20 cents can a Day for fitting fuses to fire the state run newspaper Southern weekend Zhang whose 11yearold son was killed in tuesdays said teach ers distributed the work to and pupils who refused to do it or told their parents were banned from classes or made to Kneel on the classroom children and parents had Little Choice it was the villages Only primary thousands of people demonstrated wednesday and again yesterday outside the demanding an he the government gave the family of each dead child about can for funeral said the other Zhang associated press ;