Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 20, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba March 2001 press appliance world 473 marys 8892701 1797 Portage 8892702 Hoover dishwasher weekly special Bosch Naff i 799 huge selection of usie appliances 989271 1 City wipe he Pfaffl Serif Lee 98927110 Elvis is Back in the building Elvis Stojko proves Hes still a King at world figure skating championships c2 a High tech Success Story Sweden soft Center International now marketed May be coming to Winnipeg b3 the 40 Chanc of morning then High Low 7 t garbage Day 2 school Day 2 inside City tax May silence plans for musicals promoter Sam Katz said yester Day an american promotions company is prepared to bring a whole season of Broadway musicals to Winnipeg next year the City scraps its controversial 10 per cent amusement Tajh Mil rate whammy taxpayers in the deficit plagued Agassi school division Are being hit with a pet cent increase in the school Mill a 911 Brushoff a fort Rouge woman is angry that didst respond quickly after she repeatedly phoned 911 to report a strange Man try ing to enter her car and Home a6 expansion plan mayor Glen Murray wants to double the size of the Winnipeg convention Centre at an Esti mated Cost of million a10 masters of the game therell be partying at the Canadian open masters Curling championships at the fort Garry Curling club this but till be deadly serious on the iced i business loonie languishes theres nothing stopping the Canadian Dollar from continuing its says a v of m economist b4 i maps move to open first nations books by Paul Samyn Ottawa taxpayers should know How billion in Public funds Are spent on first says a Canadian Alliance motion that the governing liberals say the motion to be voted on tonight in the commons demands that the use of any Public funds to first nations be publicly reported and audited acc the government usually rebuffs opposition but the liberals fully intend to support the said Liberal House Leader Don the motion sets no time but its passage would compel government to release first nation audits currently kept confidential under a Federal court Rul ing 12 years we want to make sure there is Public accounting and Public reporting of All financial arrangements with the bands in the use of taxpayer Alliance aboriginal affairs critic Reed Elley said alleys motion won Praise from Manitoba native activist Leona freed of the first nations accountability Coli it is about time that the band audits should be made i am hoping this is one of the first Steps in getting our aboriginal leaders accountable to the band members and to freed continued please see natives a2 people smuggler guilty Leader in cites korean Community faces jail term by Sean Oconnor and Leah Janzen a Winnipeg Man pleaded guilty in a Detroit courtroom yester Day to smuggling More than 100 illegal chinese immigrants into the United states Between february and May last under the plea Hyo Young Peter Park faces a maximum 37 months in a Parks trial in District court was to begin but at the last the prominent member of Winnipeg korean Community entered a guilty plea to a single count of smuggling Gina spokeswoman for the attorneys office in said sentencing is Likely to occur within a Park remains out on Bond until sentencing and is free to travel Between Canada and the United who appeared briefly in court yesterday to plead was Origi Nally charged with both smuggling and bribery and faced a maximum sen tence of 10 to 15 years in prison and Park was arrested last May in a Detroit hotel after a five month sting operation dubbed project squeeze Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press archives thai women Park brought to Winnipeg claimed he exploited them fines of up to Vitrano said the bribery charges were Park is a former president of the korean society of a found ing member of the korean United Church of Winnipeg and owner of an immigrant recruitment and consult ing he was arrested last May in a hotel near the Detroit Airport where hed allegedly agreed to pick up chinese passports that contained entry the arrest came after a five month sting operation dubbed project squeeze he was caught on surveillance videotape handing an air sickness bag containing Cash and 215 Chi Nese passports to an immigration the indictment against Park alleged that he and others bribed an immigration who was pre tending to be to provide them with entry the indictment alleged those visas were then placed in chinese pass ports and used to walk chinese Citi Zens through immigration at the Detroit continued please see Park a2 cube stalking series up for top award Michener nomination thrills up columnist Reynolds Reynolds it was a Story you lost your heart to the Winnipeg free press has been named a finalist for a Michener award for columnist Lindor Reynolds yearlong series on child stalking on the this series was one of those pieces you Start and you lose your heart said whose stories coincided with a commitment by the Feder al government to Amend the criminal code to pre vent paedophiles from stalking children five daily newspapers and a television network yesterday were named finalists for the 2000 Mich ener Canadas highest award for meritorious service starting with a tip from a Reynolds entitled innocence documented cases of where police were unable to take action because no Laws had been Manitoba Justice minister Gord Mackintosh began a Campaign to Amend the criminal which spread across the i believed it was an important Story from the said we will change Canadian Law because of the we will make children safer on the i As a if you can see that sort of result from your it somehow All makes sense what we do Here every this is the first time Reynolds work has been nominated for a were committed to the kind of journalism that makes a difference in the said free press editor Nicholas were delighted to have this continued please see Michener a2 net stalker fined a4 making winners out of Call now Sci Irlvy in Cash Tollfree 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