Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday november 3, 2006 Canada a13 Bronze bust Soldier reviled in . History honoured Here supermarket was thursday after the around grocery store revoked the eviction. Tom Mullin a korean War vet whose brother died in the War was told wednesday there Canada was no longer room for his poppy table in the proviso grocery store. He was asked to leave Quebec overhaul needed the premises in the Montreal neighbourhood of Verdun. Ottawa ? prime minister Stephen harpers office has conceded internally that its communications strategy in Quebec needs an Over Man charged in 3 murders haul and is working with Cabinet ministers to bolster the party a reputation there say sever Edmonton ? police have charged a Man Al senior conservative sources. With three counts of second degree murder in the re think comes amid growing behind a shooting at a downtown Edmonton nightclub the scenes grumbling about the Low profile of Early sunday that sent patrons screaming Quebec Cabinet ministers and the message from the dance floor. Control exerted by harpers office. Dwayne Anthony Nelson 22, of Edmonton is we need better visibility for our minis also charged with two counts of aggravated ters said a senior Quebec conservative. Assault and assault causing bodily harm. Police spokesman Jeff Wuite said Nelson was not known to police but did to know guard of honour supported whether he had a link to the victims. Ottawa ? a majority of canadians support the idea of posting a full time guard of honour officer drank at police party around the National War memorial and Tomb of the unknown Soldier according to an inter West Vancouver . ? a police consta Nal poll conducted for the Harper government ble in West Vancouver ., had attended a and obtained by can West news service. Police department party before she was six-in-10 canadians polled by prime minis arrested for drunk driving her chief consta Ter Stephen harpers top bureaucratic advis ble said thursday. Ers said they supported the idea of a the Day after it was brought to my Atten round the clock sentry at the site ? and Tion i published a standing order that forbade defence minister Gordon Oconnor has not the consumption of alcoholic beverages in our ruled out moving ahead on the plan according building Scott Armstrong said. To a spokesman. There has been criticism of the police because const. Lisa Alford recently won a department Competition to become next in poppy eviction revoked line for a promotion despite her drunk Dri ving conviction. Montreal ? a 76-year-old War Veteran barred from Selling poppies at a Quebec ? compiled from wire services arming guards at Border could Cost $1 billion Ottawa ? it could Cost $1 billion Over the next decade to All the guards at Canadas land Border Points train them in How to use their weapons and hire hundreds of new officers to beef up the current contingent says Public safety minister Stockwell Day. We re looking at what could be $100 million a year for the next several years Day said thursday. He admitted the Price tag is a hefty one but said its necessary to ensure the safety of the guards and the Security of the Border itself. Day commented on what he called preliminary spending plans in an inter View with the Canadian press after an official of the Canada Border services Agency let the $1-billion figure drop at a parliamentary committee hearing. That testimony sparked a heated reaction from Liberal my Mark Holland who immediately called for further hearings on alternatives to arming the guards. This government decided in the heat of an election Campaign that it wanted to Border guards and it never consid ered the costs said Holland. The conservatives in their budget last Spring set aside $101 million Over two years to Start arming and training the guards who have Long insisted they need sidearms to Deal with potentially violent people at the Border. ? Canadian press by John Ward o Ottawa ? a Man american history books revile As a Colo Nial Era War criminal who coldly slaughtered civilians and prisoners is about to be honoured with a life size Bronze bust beside the National War memorial. . John Butler Leader of butlers rangers during the american revolutionary War is among 14 people Cho sen from 400 years of Cana Dian military history who Are portrayed in bronzes to be unveiled sunday by gov. Gen. Micha Lle Jean. The 14, known As the variants will be commemorated in life size statues and busts As part of a $1.1-million project financed by the fed eral government and private donations. While he gets a statue Here Butler gets a bad rap South of the Border where history blames him and his son Wal Ter one of his officers for two brutal massacres on the Frontier. Butler was a loyalist living in new York state who stuck with the British Crown when the revolution broke out. After the War he moved to the Niagara Region where he died in 1796. Butler raised his regiment of raiders and set about terrorizing the enemy in the tradition of the time. By All accounts he was a hard Man and his Indian allies were harder. They get the blame for the actual killings Butler the other heroes. Louis comte de Frontenac the legendary governor of new France who withstood a British siege at Quebec in 1690. Pierre Lemoyne Diberville who fought the British in Hudson a Bay in the 1690s. Joseph Brant a Mohawk chief and Warrior who sided with the British in the revolutionary War. Sir Isaac Brock the general who staved off an american invasion in the War of 1812. Charles Michel a Iru Berry de Salaberry who also blocked an american invasion at Chateauguay in 1813. Laura second who brought word of an impending american attack to British forces in 1813. Georgina Pope a pioneering Canadian army nurse who served in both the Boer War and the first world War. Sir Arthur Currie the general who was the first Canadian is fingered for doing nothing about it. When he would come across revolutionary troops he would Slaughter without much mercy said Arthur Sheps a historian at the University of Toronto. Sheps added however there were atrocities on both sides and that More sophisticated american University textbooks make that Point without heaping All the blame on Butler. But popular history has branded him As a killer Sheps said. It goes to show that our heroes Are other Peoples Vil Lains he said. David Bercuson a univer sity of Calgary historian and author who was on the com Mittee that helped select the 14, says Butler fought in a style that arose from what americans Call the French and Indian War. They took no prisoners when they raided he said. It was a brutal tradition of striking terror into the heart of the enemy burning shoot ing turning prisoners Over to the the 14 run the Gamut of four centuries of military heroics. They include Frontenac the legendary Gover nor of new France War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord Gen. Sir Arthur Currie com Mander of the Canadian corps in the first world War and it. Hampton Gray a Sec Ond world War Pilot killed in the attack that won him the Victoria Cross. ? Canadian press commander of the first world War Canadian corps and who led it to some of its greatest triumphs. Cpl. Joseph Kaeble who won a posthumous Victoria Cross for valour in 1918. It. Hampton Gray a flier with the Royal Navy Fleet air who was the last Canadian to win a Victoria Cross. Capt. John Wallace Thomas a Newfoundland merchant Mariner and Captain of the liner Empress of Scotland who saved his vessel and the Load of troops she carried with skillful manoeuvres under air attack in 1940. Maj. Paul Triquet who won a Victoria Cross in Italy in 1943. Pilot officer Andy Mynarski who won a Victoria Cross posthumously for trying to save a Comrade trapped in a burning bomber Over France. ? Canadian press automotive auction saturday nov. 4, 10 am this Sale approx. 150 vehicles some subject to Reserve Many safety certified. 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