Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 10, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday july 10, 2004 City editor Steve Pona 697-7292 family notices b8 City & District b1 slaying probe finds Sun Pathfinder being examined for possible evidence forensic experts for any evidence. Days ago. By Bruce Owen police believe the Pathfinder was he also said police had recently been somehow involved in the disappearance to his family a Island lakes Home to r cup May have moved another and subsequent murder of Tanner 22. Interview the sums owner. Step closer yesterday to Ridenti he was found dead at the end of a the police have been Here but i a flying a suspect in last weekends gravel Road just outside Lockport Short not telling you anything he said. Killing of Trevor Neil Tanner. By after 2 . Sunday. Police have not released the Pat find mountie spokesman sgt. Steve col the Gle Lawn collegiate graduate or owners name and Colwell said he Well said investigators found a Gold had been shot to death apparently in could not comment on whether investi?1993 Nissan Pathfinder yesterday the Back of his head. Gators had identified any persons of morning in the City. It was found unit sources say the Pathfinder is tended in a parking lot in North Kildo tired to a St. Vital Man and had not been Colwell said investigators would now Nan after being reported to police by a reported stolen. Its not known How Long like to speak to anyone who has info newspaper Reader. It had been at the City parking lot. Mation about the movements of the Colwell said the Sun ? mounties the registered owner was Una Vail Pathfinder. Issued a Public plea thursday for its Able yesterday but a family member continued recovery ? will now be examined by said the Sun had been stolen several please see slaying probe b2 native kids off reserves healthy Active report children involved in sports extra curricular activities aboriginal children take part in extra Currick by Carol Sanders Lar activities. In Winnipeg several aboriginal Organiza a new statistics Canada report is painting a tons Are helping to get kids healthy and Active. Picture of healthy Active aboriginal kids living its a pretty big Effort said Michelle off reserves. Boivin communications director for Malawi the 2001 census enumerated close to 227,000 i Chi Itata Centre. It has a government fund aboriginal children 14 years of age and de youth strategy with programs at three Sites younger who lived in non Reserve areas. That for kids throughout the year including sports comprises almost 70 per cent of All aboriginal camping movies scouts powwow clubs and kids in Canada. Children in this age group rep traditional ceremonies. Resented 32 per cent of the non Reserve Abo i think what it does for our children is it original population. Gives them the Opportunity to discover new in Winnipeg 20,000 aboriginal children were talents that maybe they weren to aware of said enumerated and 96 per cent of them were Boivin. They learn new skills and Channel described by their parents or caregivers As their Energy and creativity into positive Active being in Good or excellent health. Cities that build and enhance self esteem she the Survey also found that 57 per cent of said. Aboriginal kids in Winnipeg participated in sports at least once a week. Continued and Canada wide 71 per cent of off Reserve please see aboriginal b2 City taxis seeking 15% fare hike owners blame High Gas prices by Mia Rabson the soaring Cost of fuel is eating into cab company profits and the Industry wants to raise its rates. Winnipeg a taxi companies applied late last month to the City taxicab Board for a 15 per cent increase in its rates to offset the increase in Gas prices. Tom Springman owner of Spring taxi said the company can to continue to make Money with Gas prices the Way they Are today. Its impossible to absorb he said. When it goes up 30 per cent How do you Swallow it he noted the trucking and airline industries have been allowed to pass fuel surcharges on to customers to overcome the hike and said cabs should be Given the same option. Right now the average trip of 10 Kilometres costs $14.80. A 15 per cent increase would take that to $17.02. Statistics Canada shows the average gasoline Price nation wide was 30 per cent higher this May than in May 2003. In May alone prices went up 13.6 per cent. Most Gas stations in the City were Post ing prices yesterday Between 79 and 83 the Board is cents per litre not including pump Dis comparing counts. Rates in other the hike pushed inflation to 2.5 per cent in May compared to 1.6 per cent in april. Cities. Public Jerry Kozubal Secretary of the win hearings on Nipes taxicab Board said the request for the increase came in at the end of last the Issue will month. He said the Board is currently Likely take doing an analysis to compare the current place next rates to the Cost of living and to rates in other cities. Public hearings on the Issue month. Will Likely take place next month and a decision made not too Long after that. on july 1, cab rates went up three per cent the second of a three phase increase approved last year. That increase added 45 cents to the average 10 Kilometre ride. A third annual increase of three per cent is scheduled to take effect july 1, 2005. Kozubal said the 15 per cent hike would be considered independently of the 2005 hike. Kozubal said the current fee increases Are partly used to offset the safety improvements of digital cameras and protective Shields that were installed in All City cabs in 2002. And those improvements Are working Kozubal said. Robberies in cabs dropped from 28 to eight Between 2001 and 2002, the year the safety devices were installed. And in 2003 the number of robberies dropped further to six. Overall robberies which includes assaults have plummeted 83 per cent since 1998. I a very pleased to see it Kozubal said. The safety improvements were mandated following the 2001 murder of cab Driver Pritam Deol. He was the fifth cab Driver to be killed in Winnipeg in a decade. Springman and Kozubal both say the cameras not the Shields Are the biggest deterrent. Most cab Drivers Don to think the Shields do very much Springman said. An optional Side panel to protect the Driver from a front seat passenger has not been installed in a single cab Kozubal said. It was $50 but nobody bought it he said. They complain they want this but nobody did Winnipeg was the first City to install the cameras. Toronto has since followed suit and Vancouver recently set a dead line of february 28, 2005 to have cameras installed in All its cabs. ;