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Laforte suffered a single Stab wound to the heart following a dispute with Meek is Over use of a pay phone outside a North end Gas bar at Mountain Avenue and Salter Street. Meek is would have had a difficult time claiming total innocence As the immediate aftermath of the killing was captured by a surveillance camera. Crown attorney Brian Wilford played the tape in court monday. Although the actual stabbing occurred off camera Meek is is seen holding a knife As Laforte stumbles through the parking lot clutching his Chest. The two men were strangers having crossed paths for the first time Only moments earlier. La Fortes Cousin Larry was buying a drink inside the Gas station convenience store when Laforte came inside blood Welling up the front of his shirt. I cant breathe Laforte said before collapsing. The Cousin claims Meek is threatened to Stab him before fleeing the scene. Meek is was arrested by police about 90 minutes later after police spot checked a vehicle near the scene. Laforte was the father of 16 Mont hold son Isiah and was preparing to Start a new Job at Weston bakeries. He had graduated the previous Spring from St. John s High school with his twin sister Shannon. The trial is set to last one week. It is being heard by a judge alone with the Only Issue being whether Meek is had the necessary intent needed to prove murder. Wow. Mikeo crime. Co by Bartley Kives s t. Boniface coun. Dan Vandal is calling for an audit into the increasingly costly chief pegu is Trail Extension As Council votes to approve the $ 64 million link Between Henderson Highway and Lagimodiere Boulevard. City Council meets this morning to debate the 2008 capital budget a blueprint for $ 2.1 billion in spending on roads Bridges buildings and water treatment Over the next six years. The second largest Road construction project in the budget is the chief pegu is Trail Extension with a projected Cost that ballooned from $ 34 million to $ 64 million in less than a year. In november mayor Sam Katz decried the faulty calculations that led to the initial Low Ball of the chief pegu is estimate and complained that Winnipeg routinely gets nailed by construction inflation rates that far exceed those that plague the private sector. Katz pledged to Reform in the Way Winnipeg tenders projects but Vandal now says he wants the City auditor to dissect the chief pegu is planning process right away. In the meantime the St. Boniface councillor will attempt to strike the chief pegu is Trail Extension from the capital budget. We could finance the additional $ 30 million or we could get the real Story and find out what went wrong. If this was the private sector Heads would Roll and people would lose their jobs Vandal said. Council needs to regain the Public cos Confidence and the Only Way to do that is an audit. As far As ism concerned the whole project is out of control. However City auditor Shannon Hunt is already in the midst of reviewing the Way Winnipeg plans major construction projects. Back in the Spring the auditors office identified capital projects As an area of significant risk Given the rapid rate of construction inflation in Western Canada. Deputy auditor Brian Whiteside said his office is reviewing How the City selects and approves capital projects and will also review eight completed projects from the Cradle to the grave. This audit process began Well before september when the Cit yes chief financial officer and acting chief administrator placed a freeze on capital spending and conducted a review that found the City already faced a $ 50 million shortfall on construction projects that had not even started thanks to inflation. That review led City number crunchers to build inflationary pressures into the 2008 capital budget and also led the City to explore new ways to tender major projects partly with the help of a new infrastructure specialist Henry Hunter. I can emphatically Tell you our staff has acknowledged the problem said Katz claiming the Cost overruns on chief pegu is Trail were Only discovered As a result of the capital spending freeze and subsequent review. If we Hadnot already been fixing the system coun. Vandal even know there was a problem the mayor continued. I Welcome his sudden interest in capital Cost overruns but he should know from documents passed by Council the City auditor is looking into capital budgets. Sheds been doing so Long before coun. Vandal sought to make it an Issue or seek press coverage. Katz surmised vandals real Issue with the chief pegu is Trail Extension May be that the City plans to finance the project through a Public private partnership a mechanism unpopular with left leaning members of Council. Vandal however said Winni Eggers Are simply being left in the dark. When the mayor of the City does not have an answer theress usually something wrong he said. Bartley. Kives free press. My. Ca councillor demands audit Vandal trains his sights on chief pegu is Extension Crown rejects lesser plea presses ahead with murder charge Shaun Lloyd Laforte stabbed to death in fight Over pay phone. Dark line shows route $ 64 million Extension will take ;