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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 27, 2024, Winnipeg, Manitoba “Subject to Additions & Deletions” Everything Sold As Is, Where Is With no warranties implied or expressed KAYE’S AUCTIONS 204-668-0183 (Wpg) www.kayesauctions.com Terms: Cash, Visa, Mastercard, Debit & e-transfer Paid in Full Buyers Fee: Though all description and commentary are believed to be correct, neither Auctioneer nor Consignor makes any warranties or representations of any kind with respect to the property, and in no event shall be held responsible for having made or implied any warranty of description, genuineness, authorship, attribution, provenance, period, culture, source, origin, condition, etc. Notice is hereby given, that In order to Satisfy outstanding accounts for Rent and Parking charges , there will be offered for sale by PUBLIC ONLINE AUCTION on April 5, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. until Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. for Thorwin Properties, Winnipeg, Manitoba. The following vehicle will be sold by KAYE’S AUCTIONS under Section #76.1 of the Residential Tenancies Act. All vehicles are sold “As Is, Where Is” with No Guarantee as to year or Condition. Serial Number & Year are only a guideline. “They’re not necessarily always correct, but are listed here to the best of our knowledge. ” ***NOTE*** It’s up to the purchaser to check out the status of the vehicle (example: Carfax, MPI, etc.) All vehicles are sold “AS IS, WHERE IS”. UNRESERVED ONLINE VEHICLE AUCTION SALE “UNDER THE RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT” Bidding starts Friday, April 5, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. and closes Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. Viewing: by appt. only Ph. 204-771-6470 2015 Honda Civic LX (no keys) GO TO: www.kayesauctions.com TO VIEW & BID ONLINE A2 ● WINNIPEGFREEPRESS.COM NEWS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2024 VOL 153 NO 116 Winnipeg Free Press est 1872 / Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 2023 Winnipeg Free Press, a division of FP Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership. 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Call or email before 10 a.m. weekdays or 11 a.m. Saturday City: 204-697-7001 Outside Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 press 1 6:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.; 7 a.m. - noon Saturday; Closed Sunday TO SUBSCRIBE: 204-697-7001 Out of Winnipeg: 1-800-542-8900 The Free Press receives support from the Local Journalism Initiative funded by the Government of Canada Clarification Interim Tory Leader Wayne Ewasko said he believes if a poll were taken now, his party would be in a better position than reported in a Free Press-Probe Research poll, because of his party’s recent criticism of the government. Incorrect informa- tion was attributed to Ewasko in a March 26 story. There has been no pollution, the ship’s manager, Synergy Marine Group, said. Wallace said authorities had not con- firmed if any fuel spilled into the water, but said there had been an odour of “diesel fuel.” The National Data Buoy Center re- ported water temperatures in that area of the Patapsco were about 9 C at 4 a.m. The air temperature was 5 C and winds were light. Chadonne Grant, an overnight secur- ity officer at the University of Mary- land Shock Trauma Center in Balti- more, said Tuesday morning that the hospital had admitted several patients involved with the collapse. She didn’t know how many — “not a lot” — but said they were brought in by helicopter about 2:30 a.m. or 3 a.m. On X, the site formerly known as Twitter, U.S. Secretary of Transpor- tation Pete Buttigieg said he’d been in contact with Moore and Scott and had offered the U.S. Department of Trans- portation’s “support following the ves- sel strike and collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge.” The Maryland Department of Emer- gency Management has staff on-site, and is co-ordinating with the governor’s office, the state police and the traffic authority in response to the bridge col- lapse. Agency spokesman Travis Brown said the department has raised its emergency operation centre’s status to advanced and that the state joint oper- ations center is “in full swing.” The Maryland Transportation Au- thority noted on social media that Interstate 95 and I-895 tunnels are al- ternative ways to travel across the har- bour. Vehicles transporting hazardous materials, however, are prohibited in tunnels and “should use the western section of I-695 around tunnels,” the authority posted. A White House official said in a state- ment to The Baltimore Sun that “there is no indication of any nefarious intent.” “Our hearts go out to the families of those who remain missing as a result of this horrific incident,” the statement said, in part. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which opened in March 1977 after five years of construction and cost an estimated $110 million, is named for the writer of The Star-Spangled Banner. The bridge is located within eyesight of Fort Mc- Henry, scene of the War of 1812 battle that inspired Scott Key to write what would become the American national anthem. The bridge carried more than 12.4 million commercial and passenger ve- hicles in 2023 — roughly 34,000 a day — according to a Maryland state gov- ernment report issued last November. Tuesday morning before daybreak, 50-year-old Lupe Lucas and her son stood along the water’s edge in Dundalk, gazing at the area the Key Bridge once spanned. The centre of the bridge had dis- appeared, save for a section collapsed on top of the large ship. “When the sun rises, and there’s nothing there, that’s going to be heartbreaking for a lot of people,” she said. — Baltimore Sun The Winnipeg Police Service con- firmed it had received the report, but declined to elaborate on the potential cause. The Manitoba ombudsman — which is tasked with overseeing privacy legislation and investigating serious information breaches — would not say whether it had received reports of the incident. Advanced Education Minister Renée Cable has been briefed on the incident, her office confirmed. The university was able to restore campus internet services Monday night after establishing a temporary network. Campus phones, electronic doors and a suite of Microsoft 365 programs were operational, but access to the printers and the Nexus, Colleague, VPN and Web Advisor systems re- mained unavailable Tuesday. Attendance was noticeably low, said student Ian Gawletz, who arrived to find only four other students in his first class of the day. The geography major, who is in his final semester, said he is anxiously awaiting updates from the university. “I just hope the university is honest about what happened. Maybe they really don’t know the extent of what’s going on, but especially with your financial and personal information… if that gets out in a data leak, that’s obviously very important,” he said. He pointed to the Web Advisor sys- tem as an area of particular concern, saying it is used to pay for courses and, if breached, hackers may be able to access sensitive financial information. He was not alone in his fears; numer- ous students chatting in the hallways, cafeteria and elevators inside the var- ious faculty buildings were overheard discussing the potential fallout from the incident and speculating on its cause. Educational institutions, business- es and non-profit organizations are increasingly becoming targets of crim- inals who hold digital infrastructure and data at ransom in exchange for money, said Hernan Popper, founder of Popp3r Cybersecurity Consulting Inc. “Anywhere they can find an attack vector to exploit, they will,” he told the Free Press, speaking generally on cyber security. All organizations are vulnerable to cyber attacks, Popper said, pointing to data from the 2022 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report which found up to 82 per cent of information breaches are caused by human error. Such crimes are typically perpetrat- ed by criminal organizations that use sophisticated methods to trick people into clicking on a suspicious link or downloading corrupt files. Once inside a network, they may steal data or lock the organization out of its own systems. Often, the crime is not discovered until up to eight months after the initial breach. Criminals then threaten to destroy, hold indefinitely or leak the captured data. Sometimes, they will use the information to attack other businesses or individuals connected to the victim, Popper said. According to a 2021 report from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, the estimated average cost of a data breach that includes ransomware is $6.35 million. Popper said he has worked with several Winnipeg businesses and organizations that have fallen victim to the crime. He encouraged all organizations, regardless of their size or the sensi- tivity of their data, to review their cyber-security measures and consider purchasing additional insurance. “I’ve heard the pain and I’ve felt the pain of people going through an event,” he said. St. Amant, a health-care organiza- tion that supports children and adults living with disabilities, was targeted by criminals who demanded ransom after a cyber attack in 2022. A subsequent investigation did not find any evidence that information was downloaded or saved by the hacker. However, private information was po- tentially leaked, St. Amant said later. Exams for U of W’s winter term officially begin April 11. — with files from Nicole Buffie tyler.searle@freepress.mb.ca Early in the interview, the woman said she had suffered a serious brain injury in 2007 that left her in a coma for three weeks. A clinical psychol- ogist has testified the woman has an IQ of 54, with a very low verbal comprehension level and extremely limited ability to understand abstract concepts. As the interview progressed, the investigator “became increasingly aggressive and insistent” that the woman provide an explanation for the child’s injuries, at times yelling at her and accusing her of throwing another of the child’s siblings “under the bus,” Slough said. Left alone in the interview room, the woman at one point can be seen on vid- eo rocking back and forth in her chair, tapping her head on the wall, saying: “I can’t take it anymore. I know I didn’t do it.” Later, the investigator leaves the interview room again and the woman is seen crying and saying: “My brain doesn’t process things.” Seven hours into the interview, the woman continued to insist she hadn’t harmed the child. “You can ask me a million questions and it’s going to be the same. I did not do this.” After nine hours, the woman asks how long she is going to be held in custody. “As long as it takes, to be honest,” the investigator tells her. “We really don’t have a time frame… it’s about getting to the truth and the complete story… you have control over how long it takes.” Late in the interview, a second investigator took over and suggested the woman shook the child and caused his death. The woman denied shaking the boy and told the investigator she was over- whelmed by caring for four children — and dropped him. When the investiga- tor told her dropping the child could not explain his catastrophic injuries, she said she threw him. “At this point,” the investigator “terminates the interview, telling (the accused) that she will not be going home,” Slough said. The lengthy and aggressive inter- view and numerous suggestions the questioning would only stop when the woman gave an acceptable explanation for the child’s injuries “resulted in (the accused’s) emotional breakdown,” Slough said. “She has been told that the only way the questioning will cease is if she adopts some version of the facts suggested by the police,” he said. Slough also found police had breached the accused’s Charter rights when, after suggesting she intended to kill the child, an investigator denied her request to speak to a lawyer. The woman pleaded guilty to man- slaughter in 2021, but was later allowed to withdraw the plea after arguing she had been pressured by police to con- fess and that her lawyers at the time had not properly informed her about the ramifications of her decision. “I just wanted to get out of (the police interrogation),” the woman testified at a 2022 hearing to withdraw her guilty plea. “I was so scared and anxious. An officer told me he just wanted to hear anything. I assumed it would get me out of there,” she said. The woman’s trial resumes April 8. dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca CYBER ● FROM A1 COLLAPSE ● FROM A1 CONFESSION ● FROM A1 Canadian bridges are safe, officials say M ONTREAL — Canadian author- ities tried to reassure the public about the safety of bridges in the country following the collapse of a bridge in Baltimore, Md., after it was rammed by a container ship. Halifax Harbour Bridges, which operates the two spans between Hali- fax and Dartmouth, said it has taken steps to mitigate the risks of collisions between ships and bridges. The Crown corporation says it is notified by the port authority every time a commercial vessel is scheduled to pass underneath the spans. “Bridge patrol staff provide physical lookouts on the bridges as ships pass and a complex series of cameras mon- itor and record the transit,” the corpor- ation said in a news release. It noted that rock islands built around the piers of the bridges in 1983 offer further protection. Rock islands or other protective structures appear to have been missing from the piers of Francis Scott Key Bridge, said Bruno Massicotte, an en- gineering professor at Polytechnique Montréal. The bridge was struck around 1:30 a.m. by a container ship that lost power and rammed into one of the piers, send- ing vehicles plunging into the water. Six people are missing and presumed dead. Massicotte said he is surprised the bridge’s piers weren’t protected to ab- sorb the energy from a ship strike. The easiest way is to surround a pier with concrete, steel or rocks, which can all absorb the energy and block a vessel from hitting the bridge itself. Canada’s bridge code requires piers to be simi- larly protected if they are considered to be vulnerable to ship strikes. Elena Dragomirescu, an engineering professor at the University of Ottawa, said any bridge, regardless of its age, could collapse if it is struck by a large cargo ship. “Bridges need all the components to work together. If one of the components is damaged, or collapsed in this case, then the entire bridge is at risk,” she said in an interview Tuesday. But it is rare that bridges collapse because they are struck by ships, she said. Dragomirescu said she’s more worried about the structural integrity of decaying spans across Canada that could come down because of poor main- tenance — like in 2006 in Laval, Que., when a highway overpass collapsed and killed five people. — The Caxnadian Press, with files from The Associ- ated Press JACOB SEREBRIN KIM HAIRSTON / THE BALTIMORE SUN FILES The Francis Scott Key Bridge, seen in a file photo, opened in 1977 and is used by more than 12 million vehicles a year. ;