Winnipeg Free Press

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Winnipeg free press wednesday december 12, 2007 a7 Winnipeg repress. Com 625 Pembina Hwy. 1 Block South of Grant 477 6831 Mon. Sat. 10 6 596 Dufferin ave. At Mcgregor 589 3474 Mon. Wed. 9 5 30 thu. 9 6 sat. 9 5 Mastercard subject to availability. Limited quantities. Price guarantees expire december 18, 2007. Email Gimli fish its. 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The allergic reactions have prompted health Canada to warn other provinces and territories not to use several batches of measles mumps and rubella vaccine while officials investigate. Latimer reports ignored Victoria the National parole Board dismissed the findings of a psychiatric assessment and Robert latimers prison Case workers when it decided to deny him Day parole last week the Globe and mail reported tuesday. The newspaper said that in a written explanation of the decision Board members rejected the evaluations and said the corrections system was wrong to allow Latimer to sit in jail without taking counselling. Military gag blasted a crackdown by the Harper government on what members of the Canadian forces can say in Public will Only Hurt the military in the Long run warn defence department officials. The conservatives have put in place a new policy that requires All Media requests of regional and National importance to be cleared in Advance by the Centre according to defence department officials. Get Cut in jeopardy Ottawa Canadian shoppers May not get the Benefit of the get Cut to five per cent on Jan. 1 if the implementation Bill containing the measure is stalled by opposition stalling tactics finance minister Jim Flaherty said tuesday. Flaherty showed apparent frustration at the continuing debate Over the get measure mostly headed by the nip. The finance minister told reporters after question period that the Jan. 1 Date for cutting the get from six per cent to five per cent was in jeopardy. From the news services by Jim Bro skill and sue Bailey o Ottawa the rom pcs Public watchdog will make 10 recommendations wednesday calling for Swift action on How mounties use tasers As an International uproar Over the powerful stun guns continues to reverberate. They re recommendations for immediate implementation said an insider familiar with the report to be handed to Public safety minister Stockwell Day. The report from Paul Kennedy head of the commission for Public complaints against the ramp follows a juror Over the death of polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski. The 40 year old Man died oct. 14 after he was zapped with an ramp Taser and subdued by officers at Vancouver International Airport. Last month Day asked the ramp watchdog to look at How the National police Force uses tasers and to provide him with an interim report by wednesday. The official who had seen a copy said Kennedy would not make Concrete recommendations if everything was Hunky Dory. The head of the National police Force however said tuesday he sees no need for mounties to Holster their tasers. Ramp commissioner William Elliott said a Force wide order to Stop using the electronic guns could Compromise the safety of both officers and the Public. Based on what we now know we do not believe that there is justification for a moratorium the commissioner said after appearing before a commons committee. Elliott noted the Taser is just one method of controlling a suspect but made it Clear he considers the stun gun a potentially valuable option. And if that tools not available then that in and of itself could result in a situation where the individual being apprehended or the officer might Well be injured. He says the mounties Are very interested in seeing Ken Nedys report. But Elliott indicated the police Force has found no glaring deficiencies with respect to Taser policy. Our preliminary assessment and i must stress it is Only preliminary is that our current policies and training Are appropriate. An analysis of 563 incidents by the Canadian press found that three in four suspects tapered by the ramp Between 2002 and 2005 were unarmed. Several reports suggest a pattern of stun gun use As a Handy tool to keep drunk or Rowdy suspects in line rather than to defuse major threats. These Are the kinds of issues that were scanning Kennedy said last month just after being tasked with the interim report to be delivered wednesday. Although its a daunting task in terms of the timelines its one that must be done and which Well do our Best to do he said at the time. This is i think a Welcome Opportunity to have some input on a very significant Issue. Kennedy a former prosecutor and senior Public servant had already begun an investigation into Dzieka Anskis death. He is also probing the rom pcs recent arrest of a Man in Chilliwack b. C., using a Taser Pepper Spray and Batons. As part of the broader review requested by Day Kennedy is looking at exactly where the Taser fits along the spectrum of options that Are available to police. The Canadian press around Canada by Jennifer Ditchburn Ottawa when Brian Mulroney makes his highly charged appearance before a commons committee thursday one Central question will loom Why did he swear he never had any business dealings with arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber the Canadian government paid the former prime minister a $ 2.1 million settlement after he made the assertion under oath in a 1997 hearing related to his defamation suit. The context at the time was allegations of a Kickback scheme involving the government Purchase of Airbus planes. That context has now shifted from planes to armoured vehicles and $ 300,000 the former prime minister now admits taking from Schreiber. Schreiber told the commons ethics committee he met with Mulroney repeatedly to discuss construction of an arms factory by the Thyssen company in Northern Nova Scotia including a meeting at 24 Sussex drive before Mulroney left office and after the prime ministers Eschief of staff had been assured the project was dead. You were dealing with Mulroney and with his government on the question of Thyssen Liberal my Robert Thibault asked Schreiber tuesday. Sure it was my Job Schreiber said. Mulroney testified at the 1997 hearing that he had indeed met with Schreiber to discuss the Bear head project but always in his Ottawa office with government bureaucrats present. Not according to Schreiber. He said former Cabinet minister Elmer Mackay coordinated a meeting with the then prime minister and Schreiber in Early 1993 at a guest House near 24 Sussex to discuss the Bear head project. Meanwhile another chapter in the Legal Saga played out in a courtroom tuesday As lawyers for Mulroney asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit against their client. Mulroney is lawyers were in Toronto tuesday to Challenge Schr Eibers attempt to recoup $ 300,000, plus interest he gave the former pm. The Canadian press Taser report Calls for Swift action insider ramp watchdog to make 10 recommendations for their use flip Flop on Schreiber Mulroney is Challenge Sean Kilpatrick / the Canadian press Media question Karlheinz Schreiber outside committee tuesday ;