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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 2009, Winnipeg, Manitoba C m y k Page a3 by Fred Brick Drexel heritage Gibbard Barrymore Durham Stanley Hancock & Moore Hickory White email bricks its. Net web site wow. Bricksin furniture. Com Fred Brick owns bricks Fine furniture there is no association Between bricks furniture & the Brick warehouse the unfailing Coco diet 111 Lombard ave. 957 1211 wow. Bricksin furniture. Com it was a dark and violent night the Snow came in Waves borne upon powerful winds. My evening walk deteriorated into a desperate attempt to make it Home before expiring from the Bone chilling Winter. In one last distressed attempt i made it to my door and with fumbling frigid Frozen fingers finally founds my keys. I fumbled in confusion a state i woefully am familiar with and at last found the key which opened my heavy outer door. I waddled blindly into the Kitchen. 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Organized by peace Alliance Winnipeg the Canada Palestine support network and Canadian muslims for Palestine the rally was held outside a Federal government building at main Street and water Avenue on saturday afternoon. We Are holding this demonstration in support of the people in Gaza said Glenn Michalchuk chairman of peace Alliance Winnipeg. Israel is the aggressor Here. They have brought a massive military intervention. Before that it blockaded Gaza which caused onerous hardship. It is the responsibility of Israel which began this action to Stop. The protest was held in conjunction with rallies in Ottawa Calgary Fredericton Halifax Vancouver and Victoria. The Winnipeg protesters who called on the Canadian government to ask Israel to Stop its attack or face sanctions carried signs which said no War and Israel Stop killing Ganzans. Nisha Vinnarath protesting with her four children aged six to 16, said she is upset by the images she has seen of the conflict on television. Stop the War. I want peace. No More killing. Stop the crime against humanity. Jackie Hogue with the Canada Palestine support network said she lived in Gaza in the late 1990s and knows what they Are going through. The Issue is the amount of violence Hogue said. Its decades of violent occupation. In Ottawa about 1,500 people protested at parliament Hill. You have sadly moved Canada away from our tradition of being in the forefront of defenders of International Law and human rights said Samah Sabawi Reading from an open letter to the prime minister. We need for you to acknowledge the fact that you represent All canadians All canadians or. Prime minister including Arab canadians including palestinian canadians. We Are All waiting to hear from you. Kevin. Rollason free press. My. Ca with files from the news services talks fail to halt bloodshed a 7 Ottawa four years after the prime minister Jean Chretien helped Israel Asper get the Ball rolling on the Canadian museum for human rights the favour was returned by the Asper family on a pet project in Chretien is own backyard. According to the most recent charitable filings with the Federal government the Back scratching Between a former prime minister and one of Winnipeg Gas most prominent families saw $ 125,000 donated in 2007 to the foundation do Muse it Des archives a loan Vienne alumni Erie Alcan de Shawinigan. Thatus the foundation for a regional Art gallery in Shawinigan que., Chretien is Hometown. Chretien is the president of the Board for the museums foundation and his wife Aline is the vice president. The former Liberal prime minister and Izzy Asper were longtime friends and Asper and his family had Over the years made a number of donations to Chretien is party through various Means. Chretien also was one of the first backers of Aspers dream to build a human rights museum securing a $ 30 million Federal Grant to help build the museum in 2003. That initial $ 30 million was enough to launch a private fundraising Campaign leverage provincial and City Cash and get the project off the ground. But Chretien is support for the project did not end when he left 24 Sussex drive. Last year Chretien helped the museum run a fundraiser in Montreal and according to some reports was the first one to pull out his chequebook and make a donation at the event. A spokeswoman for the Asper foundation said the donation was part of the Asper foundations culture donations in 2007, and was for the general use of the museum not directed to any one particular project or exhibition. The Asper foundation was formed in 1983 As the philanthropic Arm of the Asper family. It is a private foundation and while it has donated in excess of $ 4 million the friends of the museum for human rights it is a separate entity from the museum and the museums fundraising activities. The $ 125,000 donation to the Shawinigan museum foundation represented almost 13 per cent of the donations to that organization in 2007. The museum is housed in an abandoned aluminium smelter that was retrofitted into a museum with Federal Grants Chretien helped secure among the Many Federal financial windfalls for Shawinigan which raised eyebrows during Chretien is decade Long tenure As prime minister. Kevin Gaudet the National director of the Canadian taxpayers federation said there is nothing outwardly improper about the donation from one private foundation to another. But he also said As far As newsworthiness goes it is an interesting glimpse at the Way movers and shakers can work in Canada. Gaudet said its not surprising that people who know each other Well and move in the same High circles donate Money to one an others causes. If they Are providing some Type of thank you they Are doing it in an appropriate manner said Gaudet. Mia. Rabson free press. My. Ca Aspers return favour donate to Chretien museum by Mia Rabson demonstrators support Ganzans Call for peace by Kevin Rollason Mike Deal / Winnipeg free press Over 100 people gathered for a rally downtown saturday. T pensions Between rival gang members spilled Over inside Stony Mountain Penitentiary saturday night As a Large scale riot broke out that left several inmates with serious injuries and prison officials struggling to regain control. Justice and medical sources told the free press five inmates had been transported to various City hospitals As of 11 30 p. M. One Man was reportedly in critical condition with severe trauma. The condition of the others was unknown. Prison spokesman Guy Langlois said Early this morning inmates were still barricaded inside a unit and negotiations were underway. The prison also sustained some damage he said. Winnipeg hospitals were put on standby to receive patients injured in the fray which sources say began around 9 30 p. M. And involved at least 100 inmates inside the medium Security Federal prison located about 20 Kilometres North of Winnipeg. Medical sources say a code Orange was issued to the hospitals which alerts staff that there is a threat of disaster and that the hospitals disaster plan could possibly be put into effect. One source said they were put on Alert that multiple inmates including some who were stabbed would be sent to health sciences Centre. Several Rural ambulances that had been advised their services might be required were Given the All Clear just before Midnight suggesting order May have been restored. Ramp spokeswoman sgt. Line Harpish told the free press they we rent dispatched to the prison which does have its own in House riot squad to Deal with critical incidents such As this. However a free press photographer spotted several ramp Cruiser cars racing Down Hwy. 7 with lights and sirens shortly after 11 p. M. Two ambulances remained stationed outside the prison around Midnight while corrections officials blocked traffic from entering the grounds off the Highway. Fears of violence have been rising inside Stony and other Manitoba jails due largely to severe overcrowding and the growing number of gang members who Are incarcerated. That place is crazy. The inmates run the prison a Justice source told the free press late saturday night. Last september Manitoba government and Union officials confirmed our jails Are hundreds of inmates Over capacity the highest Levels in the provinces history because judges Are More frequently denying bail and refusing to hand out conditional sentences. Were just jammed throughout the system Paul Peterson acting executive director for adult custody told the Brandon Sun. The institutions have done an unbelievable Job managing this in a Safe Way for everyone. With chronic overcrowding. It does make things difficult. There Are strains and stresses its difficult on staff. Manitoba government and general employees Union corrections staff representative Ken Crawford feared the worst. The system is at the critical Point now. We cant have any More inmates come in Crawford said. Certainly theress an increase in violence against correctional officers and weave been monitoring it very closely. Earlier this week Manitoba Justice officials spoke of an increasing number of attempts by gang members to corrupt their employees after the free press exposed a series of recent incidents including drug smuggling and sexual Contact with inmates that led to the firing of three corrections officers at heading Ley jail. Last month a Man was caught trying to toss a bag of drugs Over the Stony Mountain prison Fence to inmates waiting on the other Side. Prison staff and ramp caught him after a Short foot Chase. There have been numerous other examples of smuggled narcotics and homemade weapons being found inside the facility in recent years. Officials with the correctional service of Canada told the free press last year that throwing condoms or balloons full of drugs Over a six metre Wall into the Stony Mountain institution prison Yard is becoming increasingly common. They cited at least 10 incidents in 2007 and 2008 that had been caught by staff. There have also been a handful of homicides inside the prison. Four former inmates were recently ordered to stand trial for the april 2005 slaying of David Tavares inside Stony Mountain. Manitoba ass worst prison riot in history occurred in 1996 at heading Ley correctional Institute. It began on the evening of april 25 and lasted until mid afternoon on april 26, 1996. Inmates who took Over the buildings ended up causing $ 3.5 million of damage. Eight guards and 31 inmates were injured. The tory government at the time took a major political beating Over the riot faulted for not knowing anything about the pressure cooker building in the jail. Wow. Mikeo crime. Com with files from Jen Skerritt and Joe Bryksa prison riot at Stony Mountain overcrowding gang tensions blamed for outbreak of violence by Mike Mcintyre medical sources say a code Orange was issued to the hospitals which alerts staff there is a threat of disaster Joe Bryksa / Winnipeg free press two ambulances sit outside the Penitentiary in Stony Mountain after riots erupted inside saturday evening. A 03_ Jan 11 09. Ind a3 1/ 11/ 09 1 06 36 am ;