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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 11, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba B8 City / District w Winnipeg f ree p pressm Jondaya pril 11, 2005 $ 50.00 off Purchase of custom made Mascot costume. Phone 204 228 3779 email its. Net one Coupon person. Coupon must be presented at time of Purchase. Expires june 30, 2005. High 14 Low 6 tomorrow periods of rain. Mild temperatures. Wednesday High 15 Low 3 sunny skies. Mild temperatures. Thursday High 15 Low 1 sunny skies. Mild temperatures. Friday High 12 Low 2 a mix of Sun and Cloud. Above Normal temperatures. Saturday High 13 Low 3 sunny skies. Above Normal temperatures. Sunday High 16 Low 4 a mix of Sun and Cloud. Milder. Sunrise 6 43 a. Moonrise 7 47 a. Today s weather Sunset 8 16 p. Moonset 11 30 p. Great Falls Denver Saskatoon Regina Winnipeg Milwaukee Memphis Windsor Toronto Ottawa 8 / 6 22 / 10 17 / 7 10 / 2 18 / 4 24 / 14 14 / 3 18 / 2 Las vegas 15 / 4 6 / 3 16 / 1 11 / 4 10 / 4 13 / 6 los Angeles 17 / 9 san Francisco Whitehorse Victoria Portland Minneapolis 11 / 5 10 / 1 6 / 5 Thompson 12 / 3 Iqaluit 5 / 9 24 / 12 Miami 28 / 20 2 / 1 Kansas City 21 / 13 11 / 6 21 / 5 7 / 3 Edmonton Chicago 14 / 0 Vancouver 24 / 11 by weather Tec services map valid for noon april 11, 2005. Honolulu 29 / 22 12 / 4 Calgary 12 / 3 Montreal Churchill 7 / 5 14 / 2 St. Louis Halifax 5 / 2 Fredericton today s ultraviolet Index category Index time to sunburn Low 0 3.9 More than 1 or. Moderate 4.0 6.9 about 30 min. High 7.0 8.9 about 20 min. Extreme Over 9 less than 15 min. Highest Index 1.0 at 1 30 p. Valid for Sunshine or thin Clouds. Index above 3.0 nil. New York City 10 / 2 Boston 7 / 1 St. John s 27 / 13 Phoenix Yellowknife Orlando 24 / 13 Atlanta 17 / 8 Quebec City 5 / 5 4 / 5 Washington Reno 7 / 1 l h sunny Cloudy rain Thunder storm Low pressure High pressure warm front partly showers Cloudy cold front Snow rain Snow Thunder storm 3 / 4 Salt Lake City Thunder Bay 28 / 16 Seattle Albuquerque 21 / 13 san Diego Boise Cool l 14 / 10 l l h h Max. Min. Canadian Victoria. 11 5 Vancouver. 11 6 Yellowknife. 3 4 Whitehorse. 6 5 Edmonton. 14 2 Calgary. 12 3 Saskatoon. 10 4 Regina. 10 1 Thunder Bay. 7 1 Toronto. 10 2 Ottawa. 8 6 Montreal. 7 3 Fredericton. 4 5 Halifax. 5 2 St. Johns. 2 1 u. S. Atlanta. 24 13 Boston. 7 1 Chicago. 17 7 Dallas. 24 9 Denver. 6 3 Detroit. 15 2 los Angeles. 24 12 Minneapolis. 17 8 new Orleans. 25 18 new York. 10 2 san Francisco. 17 9 Seattle. 11 4 world Amsterdam. 14 11 Athens. 21 14 Beijing. 17 10 Dublin. 14 6 Hong Kong. 29 24 Jerusalem. 28 14 Yiv. 10 1 Lisbon. 19 11 London. 17 8 Manila. 33 24 Mexico City. 27 7 Moscow. 7 1 Munich. 8 2 new Delhi. 33 17 Paris. 14 8 Riyadh. 34 20 Rome. 18 7 Stockholm. 14 7 Sydney. 22 18 Tokyo. 13 7 Warsaw. 12 4 resorts Honolulu. 29 22 Las vegas. 24 11 Miami. 28 20 Orlando. 28 16 Phoenix. 27 13 Tampa. 29 19 Acapulco. 31 21 Barbados. 30 25 Havana. 30 19 Montero Bay. 30 24 Mazatlan. 26 14 Nassau. 27 19 a weather system travelling across the Prairies will bring periods of rainfall to Southern Manitoba today and tomorrow. This system will leave the area by wednesday allowing skies to become sunny for a few Days. Temperatures will remain a few degrees above Normal. Today. Periods of rain. Amount 5 to 10 my. Wind Southeast 30 pm h. High 14. Low tonight 10. Tuesday. Periods of rain. High 14. Precipitation april 1 to april 10 4.0 my. 63% of Normal. April 10 to 6 a. A nil. Maximum to 4 p. Minimum 24 hour precipitation to 6 a. Winnipeg. 157nil Thompson. 110nil the Pas. 143. Trace Gimli. 144nil Dauphin. 163nil Brandon. 133nil Portage. 177nil Kenora. 1510nil hot spot Morden 18 cold spot Churchill 10 Southern Manitoba sunny skies wednesday and thursday. Lows 3 to 6. Highs near 15. Normals 3, 9. Northern Manitoba sunny skies wednesday and thursday. Lows 2 to 5. Highs 12 to 13. Normals 10, 4. Northwestern Ontario sunny skies wednesday and thursday. Lows 1 to 4. Highs 13 to 14. Normals 5, 7. Information source environment Canada for the record april 11 Max min mean last year. 4.4 8.4 2.0 Normal. 8.3 3.4 2.5 highest on record. 25.0 in 1968 lowest on record. 22.8 in 1881 � c 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 � f 95 86 77 68 59 50 41 32 23 14 5 4 13 22 31 40 49 Winnipeg area forecast Manitoba conditions yesterday National International temperatures extended forecast More judges needed tory Justice critic Kelvin Goertzen is calling for a review of judges workloads after charges were stayed in Dauphin because they had taken too Long to get to trial. The review should examine the need for More judges in Rural communities he said. A Man charged with failing to Stop at a railway crossing recently had the charges dropped after his lawyer argued the accused had not been tried within a reasonable time. Only one judge has been serving Dauphin for More than a year but a second judge is expected to be appointed this month to fill a vacant position. Manitoba is supposed to have 40 provincial court judges although vacancies often mean a lower numbers of Active judges. Secretary treasurer hired Winnipeg school division has hired Rene appelmans As its new Secretary treasurer school Board chairwoman Joyce Bateman said. No starting Date has been set for appelmans who is currently Secretary treasurer in Louis Riel school division Bateman said. She said current Secretary treasurer David Bell will be leaving april 29. Labour backs Crocus Board the Manitoba federation of labour has full Confidence in its six appointees to the Board of the Crocus investment fund federation president Darlene Dziewit said yesterday. In a prepared statement Dziewit reacted to comments from tory Industry critic John Loewen who said wednesday that All eight Crocus directors who Are the subject of allegations from the Manitoba securities commission should resign. In Brief a musical review has been produced to help people with cancer see How the illness and its treatment can affect their sex lives. Called sex cancer and All that jazz the musical review has been produced by cancer care Manitoba and the Manitoba prostate cancer support group with the help of a Grant from the Winnipeg foundation. It took my breath away i laughed i cried it was wonderful said Anne Katz a sexuality counsellor with the Manitoba prostate Centre after seeing a rehearsal on the weekend. Health care providers dont always ask their patients about this because they dont want to pry into their private lives while patients wait for them to ask so theress a silence. This musical is a Way of raising consciousness of this Issue. The review features a professional cast and it was written produced and choreographed by Winni Eggers. Patients and partners can see the production on april 22, 7 p. M., at the Forrest Nickerson theatre in the deaf Centre at 285 Pembina Hwy. Health care professionals can go to the theatre in the Isobel m. Stewart building at the health sciences Centre on april 25 at noon or the Samuel n. Cohen auditorium at the St. Boniface Hospital research Centre on april 28 at noon. Admission is free. The production is followed by a question and answer period. People Are being warned the production is not suitable for children under the age of 18. For More information Call 787 4119. Musical soft shoes cancer sex Ken Gigliotti / Winnipeg free press Robert Bailey from left David Friedman Shirley Brown and Sandra Benum rehearse musical. By Paul Samyn o Ottawa the Federal government was warned in focus group testing of its offer to abuse victims of Indian residential schools that its plan was too complicated and costly. The Alert issued in october 2003 As Ottawa was finalizing its alternate dispute Resolution add system turned out to be accurate As the out of court compensation scheme is under fire for both a Lack of simplicity and the Way tax dollars have been swallowed by the bureaucracy and lawyers. The results of the focus group tests released to the free press by the office of Indian residential schools Resolution shows the Public had big concerns Over the amount of paperwork involved for victims and what it was going to Cost to break the Legal log Jam Over compensation for sexual and physical abuse. In fact Many of those in the focus groups were calling on Ottawa to accept a simplified approach that the Assembly of first nations and Canadian bar association Are now advocating. Many just wanted to get it Over with and pay everyone a payment to everyone who self identifies would Complete the work very quickly and avoid the costs of bureaucracy says the analysis handed to Ottawa from the groups. That is they would rather in a mass payout pay someone who does not Merit it than miss someone who does Merit it because they pass the credibility test required. At the same time the focus group warned Ottawa its compensation documents were too Long and not simple enough with some people unable to finish Reading it in the time allowed. Other findings from the focus group testing of the governments planned Roll out of its add program included such comments As it is time to fix and then walk away. Just write everyone a Cheque and save All the administrative costs and the lawyers fees. If they had the $ 1 billion wasted on the gun registry they could have written everyone a Cheque and it would All be finished. Why not Divide up the Money and Send out the cheques and avoid the costs of bureaucracy. The Martin government is now facing Calls from the opposition and native leaders to radically revamp its add plan which has run up $ 125 million in costs and paid Only a fraction out in compensation. According to the an a Lump sum payment to every student who attended the schools would ensure compensation is completed within five years and put Money in the hands of victims instead of the pockets of lawyers and bureaucrats. The an estimates it would save taxpayers $ 2 billion Over the current approach. The an warns that the current Pace of claims processing under the government Model Means it will take 40 53 years to Complete. Nicole Dauz spokeswoman for the Indian residential schools office said the government used the focus group testing to help simplify the documents victims Are using to apply for add. Dauz said the government believes its evolving process to compensate abuse victims is gaining both Speed and support among native claimants. Of Tawas add plan which allows a panel of former judges and lawyers to confidentially hear the stories of abuse was initially rolled out with a Promise that it could resolve All the claims in As Little As seven years. An Leader Phil Fontaine said he is not surprised Ottawa ignored the warnings from the focus group. I think there is a particular school of thought in government that remains committed to a process which will never achieve a fair and just Resolution to this Issue said Fontaine who himself was abused in a Catholic run residential school. Paul. Samyn free press. My. Ca feds ignored focus groups concerns govt. Told system for compensating victims of abuse too complicated ;