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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 13, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Canada / world w Winnipeg f ree p Pressw wednesday pril 13, 2005 if this is your press card number Call 697 7435 to claim a $ 50 gift certificate to Cork & Dock 126012 april 13, 2005 prize must be claimed within 5 Days of publication. Restaurant and lounge 925 Lagimodiere blvd. At Marion 233 4000 liquidation Sale extended and Sale ends at 4 p. M. Saturday april 16/ 05 Canada one re has just been notified that As of May 1, one of our auxiliary compounds May not be available for storage. Over 100 new & used campers trailers 5ths, and motor Homes will be affected. Management and re manufacturers have ordered the sales department to bring these new and used re s into the showroom for immediate liquidation. Instead of finding a new compound we will slash prices and liquidate this weekend we also have Over 50 Quality used re s at liquidation prices first come first served. No rain checks. 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The sentence for second degree murder is life in prison but Ellard could be eligible for parole in five to seven years. The jury made no recommendation to the judge on parole eligibility. Ellard who will be sentenced on april 25, has already spent about 2 1/ 2 years in prison. Suman Virk said the murder of her daughter has left her family and the Ellard changed forever. There is no Victory Here today there Are no winners we Are All losers she said outside the court. I lost a child my parents lost a grandchild and the Ellard lost their daughter. None of our lives will Ever be the same again. After the verdict the two families sat alone in the court but Virk said they did not speak. We took some time to let the emotion of the moment subside she added. Suman Virk said the three trials had taken an emotional toll on the family. We continue to Grieve every Day of our lives. Crown prosecutor Catherine Murray called Virkus death a tragedy and said witnesses who returned to testify at the third trial were courageous. This is also about a very Good police investigation a very Strong police investigation and finally this is about our jury system Murray said. This jury deliberated Long and hard and reached a verdict. Peter Wilson Al Lardis lawyer did not speak after the verdict. Ellard was found guilty by a jury in her first trial in 2000 but the verdict was overturned and a new trial ordered because an Appeal court found she had been improperly Cross examined. In the second trial last summer the jury was unable to reach a verdict after five Days of deliberations. Court heard that Ellard now 22, participated in an initial swarming in which Virk was beaten punched and stomped under the Craig Flower Bridge in suburban Victoria on nov. 14, 1997. Witnesses said Virk was left bloody mangled and curled in a Ball but that she managed to stagger slowly away and Cross the Bridge after the beating. Some witnesses testified that Ellard and Warren Glowatski who has already been convicted of killing Virk followed the girl and inflicted a second beating before she was dragged into a Saltwater Inlet known As the Gorge waterway and drowned. Glowatski testified that Ellard had a Devilish smile and looked mischievous when she asked him after the initial beating to follow Virk across the Bridge to see if she was All right. Ellard did not testify in the third trial. But the Short Brunette who has sat mostly emotionless in the prisoners Box through three trials predicted she would be found guilty when she faced a withering Cross examination from Murray. Canadian press Ottawa a scientist and former inspector for the u. S agriculture department says hers willing to take a lie Detector test to Back his claim that his government is covering up mad cow disease. Lester Friedlander now a consumer advocate was fired from his Job As head of inspections at a Large meat packing Plant in Philadelphia in 1995 after criticizing what he called unsafe practices. Friedlander said he knows u. S. Agriculture department veterinarians who sent suspect cow brains to private laboratories that confirmed mad cow infection but samples from the same animals were cleared by government labs. Its several veterinarians that have Given me similar stories about sending cow brains in he said in an interview yesterday. It might be shocking for canadians but it be shocking for veterinarians that have worked for the us a. Ism willing to Back this up with a voice stress analysis test or even a lie Detector test. The department has denied Fried Landers allegations which were first reported last week. Rob Mcnabb a spokesman for the Canadian cattle menus association said it does seem puzzling that four mad cow cases have been detected in Canad Anborn cattle but none in u. S. Born cattle. Its True that the risk. Is very similar and it is surprising he said. There Are 120 million cattle in the United states 15 million in Canada. Canadian press by Alexander Panetta Ottawa the House of commons supported a non binding Call for a Public inquiry into the air India disaster after a debate tinged with charges of racism. The 172 124 vote came hours after a bitter Exchange in the commons that included conservative Leader Stephen Harper wondering aloud whether an inquiry would have come sooner if More of the victims were White. Prime minister Paul Martin countered angrily any notions of racism Are odious and any accusations of such Are simply not acceptable. More than 200 canadians were among 329 people killed in 1985 when a bomb blew apart an air India plane off the coast of Ireland. Martin said that Deputy prime minister Anne Mclellan is working with the families of victims on a course of action. She is seeking the questions that the families want to have answered. Unequivocally the government will take action in an appropriate Way. The Liberal government which has brushed aside increasingly insistent Calls for an inquiry does not have to follow the conservative led recommendation adopted yesterday. Still Harper warned the liberals should pay heed to the will of parliament. If this minority government ignores this vote it does so at its peril he said in a statement. Calls for a probe began soon after the plane crash and a related bombing that killed two baggage handlers at Tokyo is Narita Airport. They grew louder in March when two b. C. Men were acquitted of All charges after a lengthy investigation and trial. Mclellan met yesterday in Toronto with about 20 relatives of air India victims a commitment she had made after the acquittal incensed families of victims and advocates of an inquiry. But an association representing about 70 families boycotted saying Mclellan Isnit serious about getting to the Bottom of the disaster. Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri were found not guilty of murder and conspiracy charges on March 16, prompting renewal of longstanding Calls for a Public inquiry. Canadian press by Grant Robertson Ottawa some of Canadas largest greenhouse Gas emitters Arentt taking the Federal governments Long awaited Kyoto plan seriously saying political upheaval in Ottawa May Render the climate change document worthless. As the government prepares to unveil its Kyoto strategy in Ottawa today companies most affected by the plan Arentt Rushing to put Money behind the Liberal framework for reducing greenhouse gases fearing it could be scrapped in a matter of months. With a potential election hanging in the air As the government Battles criticism Over the inquiry into the sponsorship scandal greenhouse Gas emitters say the controversial plan is clouded with questions. Theress two sets of uncertainties. One is the overlying political uncertainty and theress nothing we can do about that said Bob Page vice president of sustainable development at tra Salta corp., Canadas second largest emitter of greenhouse gases. On the other hand theress a whole series of uncertainties relating to the policy which Are a matter of serious concern for us. Federal Industry minister David Emerson warned companies May be playing a dangerous game if they shrug off the Kyoto protocol since Canada has committed to the International Effort to reduce global Carbon dioxide output. That assumes that they believe that an alternative to a Liberal government would be a government that would not be committed to environmental improvement Emerson said yesterday. And i cannot believe that they would believe that. A key member of Canadas Energy sector speaking on the condition of anonymity yesterday said the Kyoto plan lacks credibility if the liberals Arentt Able to see it through. The question in my mind is the document going to be Worth the paper its printed on Given the state of this government the source said. Under the Kyoto Accord Canada must reduce its greenhouse Gas output by 270 million tonnes a year by 2012. A key part of the Liberal strategy which has filtered out Over the past week will be the creation of a technology fund to which Industry will contribute Cash to fund environmental innovation in Exchange for credits against their greenhouse Gas output. Can West news service Ottawa concerns Are rising Over the health of Brian Mulroney who is being treated at a Montreal Hospital for what aides and friends of the former prime minister say is acute pancreatitis. Despite the chatter circulating in Ottawa Mulroney is longtime associate conservative senator Marjory Lebreton said yesterday that although Mulroney has been seriously ill he is making a slow recovery. I talked to him yesterday monday she said and he sounded hopeful. The former progressive conservative prime minister underwent surgery in March for a benign lung lesion that was discovered during a routine examination. Can West news service slow recovery for Mulroney pm lashes out at racism accusation House votes for inquiry in air India disaster Toronto Ontario Ops Deal with the Devil will ensure Karla Homolka escapes prosecution in the drug rape death of her sister when Sheds released from prison this summer the Ontario government admitted yesterday. Ism not going to go Back and second guess the decision thatus for sure said Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant. That was something that was looked at some years ago and it was reviewed As Well by a Public inquiry. The decision was made. At the time to leave things As they were. Homolka secured a 12 year prison sentence for manslaughter in 1993 after entering into a plea bargain with Ontario Crown officials. While she was never charged in the 1990 Christmas eve death of 15 year old Tammy Homolka her sentence took the incident into account. Two years later Homolka testified against her former husband Paul Bernardo. He was found guilty of All charges against him including the sex slayings of two Ontario schoolgirls and the death of Tammy Homolka. Between Homolka striking her Deal and Bernardos trial videotapes documenting the couples crimes were handed Over to authorities. The tapes emboldened critics who accused Ontario of signing a Deal with the Devil. An inquiry into Homol kans plea bargain ensued but the agreement stood. Instead the government vows to pursue what it Calls its Best Legal recourse to protect the Public from Homolka. In june an application will be made before a Quebec provincial court judge to limit Homol kans freedoms under the criminal code but theress no guarantee it will be granted. Despite that the lawyer representing the families of slain Ontario schoolgirls Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy agrees the criminal code is their last available defence against Homolka. At the time of the plea bargain they agreed that the facts relating to Tammy Homolka would be read into the record and form part of the reasons for the sentence said Tim Danson. I dont doubt for a moment that legally if there was a Way they would charge her Tammy is death aside Danson believes the government officials passed up their Chance to quash the Deal with the Devil Long ago. Before Bernardos 1995 trial Homolka told authorities about a sexual assault on a woman known Only As Jane Doe. That information a snot offered earlier As part of her plea bargain. I advocated that she had breached her plea bargain because she Hadnot disclosed it said Danson. But the Powers to be Felt that was part of the battered wife syndrome and repressed memory syndrome and she got off. They did not charge her. Thatus the Opportunity that we missed. Canadian press scientist willing to put mad cow claims to lie test Ontario rejects prosecuting Homolka once Sheds out of jail Ellard convicted in third trial for beating death could be eligible for parole in 5 years Kelly Ellard pictured arriving at b. C. Supreme court in Vancouver on March 28, 2000, was found guilty of second degree murder yesterday in her third trial for the 1997 beating and drowning of 14 year old Reena Virk above. Mulroney has been seriously ill but is making a slow recovery. Adrian Wyld / Canadian press Rattan Singh Kalsi who met with Mclellan shows picture of daughter Indira killed on air India flight. Canadian press archives liberals shaky status puts Kyoto in question ;