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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 21, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba Around c Anada a18 Canada Winnipeg repress. Com Winnipeg free press Friday december 21, 2007 change Winnipeg. Ca 2150 people to change Winnipeg forever. If 2150 Winni Eggers each pledge $ 24 a week to United Way right now10 prominent Community members have promised an extra Quarter of a million dollars towards proven poverty reduction strategies. 1771 Winni Eggers just like you have already stepped up to meet the leadership Challenge. A great City needs great leaders. This is your invitation to Lead. Were looking for by Chris Wattie Toronto the Ontario government has promised to hand Over a provincial Park where a native protester was fatally shot by police 12 years ago to the Indian band that has claimed the land for decades. However aboriginal affairs minister Michael Bryant said that Ippe Wash provincial Park will Only be handed Over to the chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point after an undefined period of co management by the band the provincial government and non native residents of the area. Today is a very Good Day. Its a moment of really historic action Bryant told a news conference thursday. Today ism announcing the Transfer of Ippe Wash provincial Park lands Back to the chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point Over a period of time. Bryant would not say what the terms of the co management arrangement would be How the land will be used during that period and How Long it will be until title for the 44 hectare Park is formally handed Over to the Chippewa band. How Long is it going to take. Thatus what everybody is going to get together to negotiate he said. Chief Tom Bressett said he was pleased that the Long standing claim to the Park land is moving toward Resolution and said he is looking Forward to the co management Deal. Ism glad the War is finally Over and were moving into a better future he said. Dudley George was taking part in a native occupation of the Park when he was killed by a police sniper on sept. 6, 1995, during a raid to break up the protest. Sgt. Kenneth Deane the officer who fired the fatal Bullet was convicted two years later of criminal negligence causing death after a court ruled he did not have a reasonable belief George was armed. Sam George brother of the slain protester said the plan to return the land is a tribute to his Brothers memory. Its been a Long and hard journey to get to this Point but i feel that we Are now getting some place he said. It shows that we can be friends. But without his Brothers death George said that a Resolution of the 60 year old claim might have taken decades longer. He gave his life for the burial grounds for the people of our communities. Can West news service by Gregory Bonnell s t. Thomas ont. No length of time behind bars could erase the damage done when her husband sexually abused their four year old daughter live on the internet for the gratification of another Man the girls Mother said thursday after the Man was sentenced to another 20 months in jail. In a Case described by police and prosecutors As the first time a Man has been caught abusing his child in real time online Ontario Superior court Justice John Mcgarry said the mans expressions of remorse had a hollow ring. The 35 year old Man from St. Thomas ont., was arrested on oct. 29, 2006, just hours after he used a Webcam to expose his daughter to a Man who was actually an undercover police officer during a Chat room conversation. It did not matter what the sentence outcome would have been there is no amount More or less that could change what has happened to my family the girls Mother said outside court. Ism just glad that now i can move on with my family and Lead happier lives and hopefully have a very merry Christmas. The four year sentence handed Down thursday takes into account time already served which Means the Man will serve another 20 months and will then be on probation for three years. The Man who cant be identified to protect the identity of his daughter pleaded guilty in october to seven criminal charges. In handing Down the sentence Mcgarry called it a Gross Case a sickening Case of breach of Trust. The victim will have this Cloud Over her head for the rest of her life. The images will always be out there he said. Words cannot describe what is found in those pictures. They Are of a three and four year old girl being used by her father for his own sexual gratification. Crown lawyers had been seeking a sentence of five years in prison in addition to time served while the defence had called for just two More months. Several conditions were imposed on the Man including a no Contact order with his daughter having his name added to the sex offender registry for 20 years surrendering a Sample of his Dan and an order prohibiting him from Contact with children under 14. In a victim Impact statement read by the Crown prosecutor the mans wife called him a cruel person and said she would rather have Learned her husband was dead than discover the truth about his despicable behaviour. The Canadian press passport requirement delayed the u. S. Congress on thursday gave final approval to legislation forcing the Bush administration to delay contentious requirements for passports at the Canada u. S. Land Border until at least the summer of 2009. The measure included in a broader u. S. Budget Bill will prevent the department of Homeland Security from implementing the passport Rule As Early As next summer said Vermont senator Patrick Leahy the provisions author. This buys breathing room to try to find better and More sensible answers for Border Security especially on the Northern Border Leahy said in a statement. Girl pleads guilty to aggravated assault Halifax a 15 year old girl accused of beating another teen beyond recognition pleaded guilty thursday to aggravated assault and breaching a probation order. The girl is due Back in court feb. 4 for a hearing to decide whether she will be sentenced As an adult or youth. The victim in the attack Kathie Lee Bennet was kicked punched and had the inside of her ears burned with cigarettes during the assault on sept. 20. Police focus on five suspects trois rivieras que. Nearly five months after a Young Quebec girl went missing in trois rivieras provincial police say they Are focusing their attention on five possible suspects who May have been in the area at the time. Hedrika Provencher whose 10th birthday was celebrated in her absence was last seen on july 31 after telling people she was helping a Man look for a lost dog near her Home about 110 Kilometres Northeast of Montreal. More canadians driving drunk poll Ottawa an increasing number of Canadian motorists Are driving Over the Legal drinking limit a poll suggests. The poll commissioned by the National traffic injury research foundation suggests the Progress made throughout the 1990s to reduce drunk driving has stalled with drinkers taking 6.6 million drunk driving trips last year. Silver Bells booted from concert Ottawa Christmas Carol Silver Bells was to be dropped from thursdays school concert at an Ottawa school after an attempt to remove the word Christmas from the song ignited a controversy that spread across the country. Frosty the snowman will now replace Silver Bells in the musical program that will be Sung by Grade 2 and 3 students at Elmdale Public school said an Ottawa Carleton District school Board official thursday. From the news service dad gets four years for online sex abuse daughter victimized in sickening cases Battle of Ippe Wash finally Over Derek Ruttan / the Canadian press Bryant stands Between Sam George left and Tom Bressette right ;