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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Get moving on infrastructure feds Toronto if cities want to alleviate traffic jams they should Stop the rhetoric and Finger pointing Over funding and co operate with other Levels of government and the private sector to improve infrastructure transport minister Lawrence Cannon said Friday. In a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade Cannon also said the onus is on municipalities to Start breaking ground before $ 33 billion in Federal funds earmarked for infrastructure can Start flowing into municipal coffers. Schreiber Mulroney affair hurts tories Ottawa the Mulroney Schreiber affair is dragging Down support for the Harper government especially in Quebec and Ontario a new National poll reveals. Conducted by Itsos Reid for can West news service and global National the poll showed the spread Between the tories 35 per cent and liberals 29 per cent has been reduced by four percentage Points in the past week and now stands at Only six Points. In Early november the conservatives held a 14 Point Lead. Nip support Rose one Point to 16 per cent and the Green party was up one Point to nine per cent. Anti terror Bill bars evidence by torture Montreal pending legislation to rewrite the secretive Security certificate process used against terrorist suspects has been amended to bar the use of evidence that could be the result of torture the opposition Liberal party announced Friday. The legislation continues to allow indefinite detention without charge secret hearings without the Detainee present House arrest and the Prospect of deportation to torture. From the news services around can Ada Canada Winnipeg free press saturday december 8, 2007 Winnipeg repress. 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Polo Park shopping Centre customers 915 Empress St. Corner of Ellice & Empress 204 774 3232 Rougeau Plaza 1522 Regent ave. West 204 661 2767 730 St. Anness re. South of Bishop Grandin 204 255 2276 he May Well have been aiming to break either my glasses or nose but he did neither. My nose sort of bloodied briefly internally but nothing serious former prime minister Joe Clark by Glen Mcgregor o Ottawa Joe Clark was assaulted on a downtown Montreal Street last month by a Man who asked if he was the past prime minister before punching him in the face and leaving him with a bloody nose. Clark says he was walking Down Sherbrooke Street on the evening of nov. 20 on his Way to a speech by former u. S. Secretary of state Madeleine Albright when he heard someone Call out to him. A fellow called my name and said Are you Joe Clark the former prime minister a Clark told can West news service Friday. My initial response was to say his and off i went. He then came along beside me and repeated it. And i said yes. And he then hit me once on the face. He then swivelled and was away quickly. Clark was left shocked but not seriously Hurt he said. He May Well have been aiming to break either my glasses or nose but he did neither. My nose sort of bloodied briefly internally but nothing serious he said. I was stunned. It a snot happened to me before. Like All former prime ministers Clark is entitled to Protection from the Royal Canadian mounted police should he or the police feel he needs it. But he says he a snot had an ramp bodyguard in some time. The arrangement Ive had with the police for some time is that if either they or i think theress a need then we trigger something. Clark 68, says he notified the ramp and they referred the incident to the Montreal police who interviewed him in detail. The assailant was in his 40s or 50s, Clark said. He was a White Anglo Saxon. He was unaccented in his speech to me. Clark has been in touch with both the ramp and Montreal police Over the past week but he says they a vent made an arrest in the Case. My impression from the mounted police is that As a result of this incident they re going to conduct a fresh assessment. In an e mail ramp spokesperson const. Pat flood said the ramp determines the level of Protection to be provided to its prote tees by evaluating the threat and determining the most appropriate measure to take. For Security reasons specific details cannot be discussed she wrote. Clark served As prime minister for nine months in 1979 80 before his government fell in a non Confidence motion. He later served As external affairs minister under Brian Mulroney is government and returned As progressive conservative party Leader in 1998. While some prime ministers Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau among them continued to evoke Strong negative reactions Long after they left office Clark was not a particularly controversial figure. His Low profile earned him the nickname Joe who and he got off to a bad Start after first winning the progressive conservative leadership in 1976 by losing his Luggage on a trip around the world intended to boost his profile. Can West news service Clark can take a punch former pm assaulted in Montreal John Mahoney / the Gazette archives former prime minister Joe Clark punch caused nosebleed Ottawa the Ontario provincial police intend to charge Ottawa mayor Larry Obrien following an exhaustive bribery probe into allegations that he offered an opponent up to $ 30,000 and help to get a Federal appointment if he dropped out of the 2006 mayoral race according to the Ottawa citizen. The charges under Section 121 of the criminal code of Canada could be Laid As Early As monday morning. Obrien remained defiant Friday insisting he did nothing wrong. At the end of a Council meeting Obrien 58, said the Case was a great source of water cooler gossip and branded newspaper headlines As sensational and hilarious. The Oppus anti rackets Section launched a bribery probe following an investigative report in the citizen which documented two meetings Between Obrien and mayoral candidate Terry Kilrea including a 2006 meeting in the parking lot behind a Tim Horton. It was in that Back parking lot that Kilrea swears he turned Down the alleged offer. At the request and expense of the Citize Kilrea swore his allegations in an affidavit and later passed a polygraph about its contents. None of the allegations have been proven in court. However if the allegations Are proven in court they Are violations of the criminal code and the municipal elections act and on conviction they constitute grounds to remove a person from office. Can West news service Ottawa mayor faces charges in bribery probe ;