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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 31, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A5 WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2015 A 5 www. waa. ca The WAA Board of Directors is comprised of thirteen members. Of those thirteen, ten are nominated by local and private sector agencies. Members nominated by the City of Winnipeg D. Greg Doyle Don Price Kimberley Gilson Member nominated by the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce BJ Reid, Vice Chair Member nominated by Economic Development Winnipeg Paul Soubry Member nominated by the Assiniboia Chamber of Commerce Gerry Glatz Member nominated by the RM of Rosser Thomas Payne Jr., Chair Members nominated by the Government of Canada Ross Robinson Don Boitson Member nominated by the Province of Manitoba Eugene Kostyra Members nominated by the WAA Board Janice Filmon David Friesen Gord Peters 2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mr. Thomas Payne Jr. is the President and CEO of Payne Transportation LP, located in the Rural ........................ .... .............. ...... .... ........ .... .......... .................. .......... ............ .......... ...... ........ .................. .... Fund Services of Investors Group Inc. NEW BOARD MEMBERS On behalf of the Board of Directors at Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc., Chair Thomas Payne Jr. is pleased to welcome two new members: Ms. Kimberley Gilson .. .................. .... ...... ........ .... .................. .... .. .............. ........ .......... .............. Haight and Schacter Law Corporation; and Mr. Gord Peters , nominated by the WAA Board, is the President of Cando Rail Services Ltd. Winnipeg Airports Authority Inc. ( WAA) is pleased to announce the election of Mr. Thomas Payne Jr. as Chair ( left) and Ms. BJ Reid as Vice Chair ( right) of the Board of Directors. ........ ........................ .... .......... .............................................................................. .... ...... ................ .............. ........ ............ ........ .. .................... .... .............. ...................... .......... ............ ...... ...... ........ ................ .................. .... .............. .................... .................... .... ........ .. ............ .............. ...... .... ................ .................. .............. .. ............................ european SHOE SHOP 436 Academy Road | 204- 487- 4193 www. europeanshoeshop. com Clearance $ 49 Great Deals on Selected Merchandise and up Clearance Prices T HE son of the province's conservation minister is blaming side- effects of medication treating his anxiety and depression for causing him to rob a credit union while claiming he had a bomb. Gordon Mackintosh, 24, has also pleaded not guilty to wearing a disguise during the robbery. Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench Justice Rick Saull said he will deliver his judgment next month. Defence counsel Josh Weinstein said psychiatrists have concluded Mackintosh was in a state of " delirium," suffering from the side- effects of weaning him off a drug he was using to control his anxiety and depression. Shortly before the robbery, the dose had been halved and he began taking it every other day. " Mr. Mackintosh Jr. is not criminally responsible at the time of this incident," Weinstein said on Friday. " The issue simply is to his state of mind... he would also have been deprived of the capacity to know that his actions were legally and morally wrong." Court was told Mackintosh, the son of Gord Mackintosh, who is also a former provincial justice minister, walked into the Assiniboine Credit Union at 2211 McPhillips St. on April 20, 2012, wearing a baseball cap, sunglasses and a fake moustache and carrying a briefcase. When Mackintosh approached a teller, he passed her a letter demanding money and saying he had a bomb in the briefcase. When Mackintosh put the briefcase on the counter and opened it, the teller saw a white box with red- and- black wires coming from it. The teller put a $ 100 dollar bill into the briefcase and Mackintosh left, driving off in his mother's car. When Mackintosh testified, he said he remembered little about the incident and only turned himself in to police after his mother first recognized his photograph in the most- wanted section of a local newspaper. Margaret Mackintosh, his mother, testified that when her son picked her up on the day of the robbery " he wasn't himself." " He just looked at me. Gordie wasn't saying anything. He was quiet. Extremely quiet. He was pale - almost ghost- like. " His eyes were glazed." She said when she leafed through a newspaper a few weeks later, and saw a photograph of a disguised bank robber police were looking for, " I thought it couldn't be ( her son). " I took it to the washroom because I was just sick inside." But when she, and later her husband, confronted their son, he said it wasn't him even though the baseball cap, sunglasses and fake moustache were on his dresser. Later, she said, her son broke down saying " It couldn't be me. I wouldn't do anything like that." A few weeks later, after Manitoba's Justice Department appointed an out- of- province Crown attorney to deal with the matter, Macintosh Jr. turned himself in to police. kevin. rollason@ freepress. mb. ca Bizarre bank robbery blamed on ' delirium' By Kevin Rollason A_ 05_ Jan- 31- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A5 1/ 30/ 15 6: 09: 06 PM ;