Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wim Mph jump 2001 Japan mourns for innocence lost our Safe society is pm laments Bykens Mihall Japan mourners grasping Buddhist prayer beads filed silently into wakes yesterday for several of the eight children killed in japans worst mass slaying in As the country struggled with questions about How to keep its schools the Wake for six Earold Takahiro the youngest Drew about 300 Blac Clad men and Many buried their faces in some tugged along children in Navy and White school the dead All Between the Ages of 6 and 8 were slain in a knife rampage at an elementary school outside japans second largest by a former janitor with a history of mental the Man walked unimpeded into the school and went from classroom to class room slashing at his victims with a knife until being subdued by two teachers 15 minutes thirteen children and two teachers were and eight of the victims remained in serious condition our Safe society is and this is a significant prime min ister Junichiro Koizumi said on a taped news program to be shown today on National broadcaster promising a review of the criminal several other wakes for victims from the attack were held Media but the number was the attack was japans worst mass killing since a deadly nerve Gas attack on Tokyo subways six years and the latest in a series of fatal slashing in a country that has strict gun Laws and has prided itself on a Low crime fridays attack was especially Shock ing because japanese schools Pride themselves on their openness to the com most Are Busy on weekends and vacations with students taking part in extracurricular and visits by parents Are few schools Post daytime but after the the principal of Ikeda elementary school wondered whether tighter Security would be enough to reassure parents who had seen the blood splattered they cant even imagine sending their children Back to the Prin Cipal Yoshio Yamane said after an Emer Chin Tsukumo associated press an unidentified schoolgirl places Flowers in memory of slain gency meeting with unthinkable Security measures is now though violence in japanese schools is Likely to be debated across the not the need for surveillance cameras and other once associated mss Saskatchewan healthcare workers hit picket lines Regina More than health care workers walked off the Job Early yesterday morning after talks broke off in Saskatchewan healthcare workers ranging from lab technicians and Security guards to Kitchen staff and housekeepers hit the picket lines As the Sun came up in 18 of 32 health districts across the our people Are pretty pumped and pretty said John the Canadian Union of Public employees chief elective surgeries scheduled for Mon Day were As they had been on people in Lon term care Homes were moved and patients who could be discharged were sent the affected communities include Prince Albert and one Northern workers in Moose jaw and Swift current Are rep resented by a different cupe had been in a Legal strike Posi Tion since thursday but waited to see the outcome of Las ditch both sides met with a conciliator for two but talks broke off Friday night after a disagreement Over until saturday morning the Only Job action taken by the Union was a refusal to work about Nova Scotia nurses soundly rejected a proposed con tract creating the possibility of a widespread healthcare workers strike in that the acute care who work at 38 health will take a strike vote june 18 to Canadian press Power with Ca Hajera cube shot digital camera Power Price Mega pixels 6x digital zoom 4mb memory mpg movie Mavica digital q camera 10x zoom uses floppy discs cd Monitor Power Price i 8 my video camera steady Shol digital loom Colour View under nlghlkhol1 0 Lux i 8 my video cd a Cimon hit video record pity and playback nights Hal 0 i 8 my video camera 35 cd screen b99 Tupet laser link Muad Bhut Myhl Shol 0 Lux Low Light record any if Canada Tony Clement could be Fri add instead soaring i per 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