Winnipeg Free Press back issues from August 2006:
Letters to the Editor
Aug 01, 2006 ... Wars coming to Canada Re: Tempers flare at peace rally (July 30). Soon we won't have to go overseas to fight foreign wars -- they'll be happening right here in Canada. TIMOTHY CONNELL Carman Keep groups apart Re: Tempers flare at peace rally (July ...
Double standard
Aug 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Despite tragedies, Israel occupies the moral high groundface=-Bold; ALLAN LEVINE SOMETIMES events are, rightly or wrongly, regarded as black and white. For example, current thinking among a majority of Canadians would likely hold the following to be ...
Editorial - Disarm Hezbollah
Aug 01, 2006 ... THE deaths of civilians in Lebanon from Israeli attacks against Hezbollah terrorists continues to cause concern in Europe and the Arab nations. The deaths of Israeli civilians from an unending barrage of Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and villages seems to cause less concern ....
Problem with teens is they're morons
Aug 01, 2006 ... IN THE DOUG HOUSE / DOUG SPEIRS I'M sure all you Modern Parents will be pleased to hear I've discovered the one thing preventing Modern Teenagers from reaching their full potential. They're morons. Call me a crazy old coot -- and get off my lawn while you're at it -- but ...
Predator delivered a dire warning
Aug 01, 2006 ... TORONTO -- Thirteen years ago, Peter Whitmore delivered a dire warning to authorities in Ontario that his strong sexual desire for young boys could lead to "more serious harm" if he wasn't stopped. Yesterday, the convicted and chronically recidivist pedophile was the focus of a frantic ...
Pause in fighting unlikely to last
Aug 01, 2006 ... Samuel Segev TEL AVIV -- Despite Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's efforts to convey an optimistic note yesterday, the prospects for a lasting ceasefire and the establishment of a new stabilization force are still unclear. At the end of three weeks of fierce fighting, Rice ...
Critical Mass riders block ambulance
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Protesters will be charged in futureface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen AN ambulance rushing a critically ill patient to hospital was delayed up to two minutes Friday because of a Critical Mass bicycle protest, police and ambulance officials said yesterday. Those ...
Death Notices
Aug 01, 2006 ... ASKIN, Arnold Albert, 86, husband of Frances. BARTEL, Len, 75, husband of Bernice. BEVERLEY, Anna Maria, 78. BOCKELMAN, Margaret. DELARGE, Mary Josephine. DUNN, Ruth, widow of Jim. FEE (née MACLEAN), Georgette, widow of Paul. HOSSZU, Joseph ...
First Nations chiefs open gathering at historic fort
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Alexandra Paul FIRST Nations chiefs from Manitoba and Alberta served notice yesterday they want to run their lives the way their ancestors intended when they signed treaties 100 years ago. They want outstanding land claims from their treaties settled and provisions honored for ...
In Brief
Aug 01, 2006 ... Gas rates to drop MANITOBANS will get a brief respite from soaring energy prices for the next few months after the Public Utilities Board ordered Manitoba Hydro to cut its gas rates between one and 9.3 per cent. How much you save depends on what type of customer you are and how ...
Divorced dads face hefty back payments
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Children deserve share of income hikes: courtface=-Bold; By Janice Tibbetts OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada sent a warning to divorced parents yesterday that they better come clean when their income goes up, or they could face sizable retroactive child support ...
Frantic search for missing kids
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Saskatchewan boy, city teen believed taken by pedophileface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre and Bruce Owen WHITEWOOD, Sask. -- Police across Western Canada have launched a frantic ground and air search for two missing young boys -- one from Winnipeg, one from Saskatchewan -- ...
Stop talks until native occupation ends, Tory urges
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Chinta Puxley CALEDONIA, Ont. -- Ontario should break off talks with aboriginals occupying a housing development near Hamilton until the Six Nations members end their occupation of the hotly contested land, provincial Conservative Leader John Tory argued yesterday. The rule of ...
Castro relinquishes powers
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Temporarily turns presidency over to brother following surgeryface=-Bold;By Anita Snow HAVANA -- Fidel Castro temporarily relinquished his presidential powers to his brother, Raul, last night and told Cubans he underwent surgery. The Cuban leader said he ...
Manitoba Liberal eyes party presidency
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Paul Samyn OTTAWA -- Manitoba Liberal Bobbi Ethier is hoping she can duplicate her party's success in Manitoba on the national stage when federal Grits meet in Montreal in December to elect their next president. "There is no question I am the underdog," Ethier said ...
Liberals preparing for snap election
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Juliet O'Neill OTTAWA -- The Liberal party will develop a contingency plan to elect a new leader ahead of a scheduled Dec. 2 convention vote even though a snap fall election is "farfetched," said national party director Steve MacKinnon. "I can't imagine that as trigger-happy ...
UN could help create lasting peace in Mideast: MacKay
Aug 01, 2006 ... CHARLOTTETOWN -- The United Nations could help "pave a path to lasting peace" in the Mideast if the international body approves a proposal to send a large intervention force to southern Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said yesterday. While Canada would welcome such a move, ...
'Flower girl' is back in custody
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Teen arrested, faces new chargesface=-Bold; By David Kuxhaus THERE were no flowers or standing ovations this time for a teenager who is back in custody after being arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer while drunk on the weekend. Just a month ...
Chemicals in cosmetics to get federal review
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Carly Weeks OTTAWA -- Health Canada has announced it will launch a review of 22 chemicals found in cosmetics in Canada that were recently banned by the European Union because they're considered unsafe to humans and may increase the risk of cancer. Several of the chemicals are ...
Around The World
Aug 01, 2006 ... Monks accused of assault JOHNSON CITY, Texas -- Four monks pleaded not guilty to charges alleging a boy was sexually assaulted at a Texas monastery that draws thousands of visitors every year, officials said yesterday. The four monks of the Christ of the Hills Monastery were arrested and ...
July a record dry month
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Farmers' hopes wilt as pools, golf courses keep busyface=-Bold;By Kevin Rollason RAIN rain's gone away, maybe it'll come again some other month. Winnipeggers, especially those trying to keep gardens and lawns alive, know firsthand it has been dry for ...
Virology lab honoured for mad cow, bird flu expertise
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Kevin Rollason WINNIPEG'S federal virology lab has been honoured for its expertise in mad cow disease and bird flu by an international organization. And now samples of both diseases could be coming to Winnipeg from across North and South America. Yesterday, Winnipeg's ...
Dodging death science to some
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Israelis learn attacks' routineface=-Bold; By Aron Heller KIRYAT SHEMONA, Israel -- Yossi Vaknin says he's got rocket-dodging down to a science ever since he's been forced underground by Hezbollah missiles. Sitting outside public shelter 110, in a tank top ...
Canadian ambassador meets with Annan
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Nathanial Gronewold UNITED NATIONS -- The new Canadian ambassador to the United Nations met with Secretary General Kofi Annan for the first time yesterday, but he had little to say publicly about Canada's position on the latest conflict in the Middle East. John McNee visited ...
Doing great... and not so great
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Economy's doing fine, but number of workers fallsface=-Bold; By Murray McNeill TWO new economic reports paint starkly different pictures of how the Manitoba economy is performing. The Conference Board of Canada's latest provincial economic forecast, issued ...
Biovail chairman faces securities allegations
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Gary Norris T'ORONTO -- Eugene Melnyk, chairman of drugmaker Biovail Corp. (TSX:BVF) and owner of the Ottawa Senators NHL team, is facing Ontario Securities Commission allegations over share transactions during the past decade through trusts in the Cayman Islands. The ...
Letter Of The Day
Aug 01, 2006 ... Peace begins in heart Re: Tempers flare at peace rally (July 30). I was very happy to see a front-page photo about a peace rally but was surprised when I looked at it. When the woman in the photo "gestured" at a heckler, both took the first step towards war together. It ...
Youth from abusive homes turn to the streets
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Carol Sanders THE myth of the spoiled, suburban rich kids running away because they don't like having a curfew is just that -- a myth, according to the first Winnipeg survey to look at how kids end up on the street. More than half of Winnipeg's street youth were sexually and ...
Witness wasn't told he had immunity on charge
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Nick Martin MANITOBA'S senior prosecutor ordered police not to tell Ray Zanidean he had immunity on an arson charge before Zanidean gave the key testimony in James Driskell's murder trial, retired Winnipeg police sergeant Albert Paul said yesterday. Paul testified that he ...
Sports world may soon face doping deluge
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Jim Litke TOUR de France winner Floyd Landis and Olympic and world 100-metre champion Justin Gatlin both got pulled over recently for racing under the influence of performance-enhancers. The news may be even worse than it sounds. Because instead of boasting about how ...
Editorial - Fine-tuning support
Aug 01, 2006 ... THE Supreme Court of Canada yesterday refused to make new law over how child-support payments should be set and so parents who pay such support can continue -- at their peril -- to write cheques that do not reflect their income. The court put those parents on notice, ruling that they are ...
Balding was first Canadian to win on tour
Aug 01, 2006 ... LONG before there was a lefty winning the Masters and even ahead of George Knudson's rise to prominence on the PGA Tour, Canadian golf had the Silver Fox. Al Balding was a smooth character with a fluid swing and he was the first golfer from this country to make an impact south of the ...
Lottery Numbers
Aug 01, 2006 ... In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK ...
Bridging the gap with glass
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Fibreglass replaces steel on projectface=-Bold; By Mary Agnes Welch CONCRETE and steel? So last season.This summer, the city is rebuilding the Sherbrook Bridge with glass. The northbound bridge over the Assiniboine River will be among the first ...
Wheat board payments lower than expected
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Larry Kusch THE Canadian Wheat Board yesterday announced initial payments for wheat and barley that are substantially lower than what it expects farmers will eventually receive for these crops in the months ahead. Beginning today, the initial payment farmers will receive at ...
Beach leaving acting to run for chief's job
Aug 01, 2006 ... ADAM BEACH, a Lake Manitoba First Nation movie star, is stepping away from the stage and screen to step behind a podium and campaign to become chief of Dog Creek, the band's office said. The last time the actor was in his band office, near Minnedosa, was to announce his running on July ...
Has chapter already closed on new Fish closer?
Aug 01, 2006 ... Gary Lawless EDMONTON -- Managers make decisions in baseball based on trust, and when the confidence is gone between a skipper and a pitcher, the hurler often follows. Goldeyes manager Rick Forney signed closer Reggie Harris over the weekend and immediately put him into a ...
A small town's innocence is forever taken away
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Mike McIntyre WHITEWOOD, Sask. -- A convicted pedophile didn't just steal a 10-year-old boy from this tight-knit farming community. He also took away their innocence. Locked doors. Parents keeping their children locked inside. A flurry of missing and wanted posters ...
Arniel's new deputy fits like a glove
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Ex-Jet Berry brings defensive knowledge as Moose assistant coachface=-Bold; By Tim Campbell ON his first day on the job, all new Manitoba Moose assistant coach Brad Berry and his new employers could talk about was the perfect fit. The Moose and Vancouver ...
Teck hikes hostile takeover bid for Inco
Aug 01, 2006; ...By Drew Hasselback TORONTO -- Teck Cominco Ltd. has hiked its hostile takeover offer for Inco Ltd. in a move that could smoke out competing bids. Vancouver-based Teck is offering the equivalent of $83.60 for each Inco share, a move that boosts the value of Teck's original bid by ...
Province's declining birth rate sign of times
Aug 01, 2006 ... CANADA'S birth rate edged downward to another record low in 2004. The birth rate -- the number of live births for every 1,000 people in the population -- declined from 10.6 in 2003 to 10.5 in 2004, according to Stats Canada.Since 2000, rates have hovered around 10.5 to 10.7 ...
Fallen star?
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Mel Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade may put his Hollywood future in jeopardyface=-Bold; By Sandy Cohen LOS ANGELES -- A stunned Hollywood is debating the future of one of its biggest stars after an anti-Semitic rant by Mel Gibson. A sheriff's watchdog has ...
1 in 4 Canadians living with HIV doesn't know it
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Mia Rabson CANADA'S public health experts estimate 58,000 Canadians are living with HIV today. And more than one in four of them don't know it. According to a new report on HIV/AIDS prevalence in this country, released yesterday by the Public Health Agency of Canada, ...
On 2
Aug 01, 2006 ... Streaking Utley takes his chase on road PHILADELPHIA -- Chase's chase is still on and he's taking the longest hitting streak in the majors on the road. All-star second baseman Chase Utley extended his hitting streak to 32 games yesterday with a single in the sixth inning of the ...
NFL cuts will pump up CFL
Aug 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Struggling Argos hoping Printers bounces back north of borderface=-Bold; In the Huddle / Ed Tait They are 2-4 and rapidly taking on water. NFL star Ricky Williams did diddly to attract business to the box office, Damon Allen is now a 43-year-old grandpa and the wait ...
Daly's trap: a casino near the golf course
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Bill Beacon MIRABEL, Que. -- If a golf tournament's main sponsor is a casino, who better to invite than John Daly? Golf's favourite long-ball hitter revealed in his best-selling autobiography John Daly, My Life in and Out of the Rough that he has gambled away at least $50 ...
Around Canada
Aug 01, 2006 ... Axe attack injures 2 VANCOUVER -- Two people were sent to hospital yesterday after a 62-year-old man allegedly went after his twentysomething neighbours with an axe in a dispute over noise at a busy Okanagan, B.C., campground. Police were called to Okanagan Falls Provincial Park ...
Red paper clip trader lands book, film deals
Aug 01, 2006 ... KIPLING, Sask. -- A Canadian Internet blogger who set out with a simple red paper clip and the goal to barter it for something "bigger or better" had already exceeded expectations when he ended up with a house in Kipling, Sask. But now Kyle MacDonald has successfully parlayed his ...
Teens addicted to nicotine within months
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Jonathan Montpetit MONTREAL -- The road from those nervous initial puffs of a cigarette to full-fledged addiction is a lot shorter for teenagers than previously thought, Montreal-based researchers say. Dr. Jennifer O'Loughlin, a professor in McGill University's Department of ...
Teens take kick at provincial title
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Allan Besson WHILE they're not the only team moving up a year in age to the Under-16 Division as the first week of Manitoba Soccer Association provincials swing into action, Winnipeg South End United's 15-year-old girls would seem to be behind the eight ball right from the start. Five ...
Goren Bridge / Omar Sharif and Tannah Hirsch
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Iran given nuclear deadline
Aug 01, 2006; ...By Steven Edwards UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations Security Council yesterday set an Aug. 31 deadline for Iran to roll back its nuclear program or face possible sanctions, marking a significant step in U.S.-led Western efforts to deny the Islamic republic the ability to build a ...
Blue's Renaissance man
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; 'Utility man' Bell has lined up at just about every offensive positionface=-Bold; By Avi Saper The term 'utility man' is usually reserved for baseball players who can help their team at several positions on the diamond. But with each position on a football team ...
Civilians flee war zone
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Lebanese stream north during halt in air strikesface=-Bold; By Hamza Hendawi QANA, Lebanon -- Thousands of civilians trapped for nearly three weeks in south Lebanon's war zone streamed north yesterday by truck, car and on foot, seizing the chance to flee during a ...
Actor's rant no surprise, Winnipeg Jews suggest
Aug 01, 2006; ... By Carolin Vesely MEL Gibson's anti-Semitic tirade is more Freudian slip than drunken blurt, but he'll likely emerge from it unscathed, say members of Winnipeg's Jewish community. "I guess the guy showed his true stripes," Bernie Bellan, business manager of the Jewish Post & ...
What kind of beast does this?
Aug 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Brazen thieves stealing beautyface=-Bold; Gordon Sinclair Jr. LAST week, I received a rash of complaints about the strangest of heists. The theft of beauty. The reports came from St. Vital, and Linden Woods and West Kildonan where people are stealing ...
Locals get Bad Religion opening honours
Aug 01, 2006 ... WINNIPEG hardcore band Comeback Kid has been chosen to open for political punk pioneers Bad Religion on their upcoming cross-Canada tour. The tour will stop at the MTS Centre Sept. 25. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday for $27.50 and $36.50 at Ticketmaster. Boston Celtic punks ...
511 hotline to give Canadians weather info
Aug 01, 2006 ... OTTAWA -- After 911 for emergencies and 411 for directory assistance, Canadians could soon have the three-digit 511 hotline to give them local weather or travel information at their fingertips. Environment Canada is hoping to have the toll-free system up and running by 2007 so Canadians ...
Today's Horoscope / Georgia Nicols
Aug 01, 2006 ... ALL SIGNS MOON ALERT We have the all clear to shop or make important decisions today. The moon is in Scorpio. ARIES (March 21-April 19)Today and tomorrow you'll feel more intense about everything. In fact, you might attract unusually intense or powerful people to you ....
Low-income farmers get $550-M boost
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; New program offers cash, business adviceface=-Bold; By Larry Kusch LOW-INCOME Canadian farmers -- some of whom "can barely afford to feed themselves and their families" -- stand to benefit from a new federal program that will provide them with cash and some business ...
Market ends on flat note
Aug 01, 2006 ... What the brokers say ... TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market ended flat yesterday, as stocks traded in a tight range after Statistics Canada's latest gross domestic product snapshot suggested economic activity was essentially unchanged in May. Bay Street traders also took in news ...
New tests undermine Landis
Aug 01, 2006 ... face=+Bold; Tour de France champ's testosterone shown to be synthetic, report saysface=-Bold; NEW YORK -- Tests show that some of the testosterone in Floyd Landis' system at the Tour de France was synthetic and not naturally produced by his body as he claimed, according to a newspaper ...
Cubs send Maddux to Dodgers
Aug 01, 2006 ... NEW YORK -- Greg Maddux was dealt to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the biggest deal before baseball's non-waiver trade deadline yesterday, while the Washington Nationals surprised some teams by holding onto Alfonso Soriano. A 327-game winner and four-time Cy Young Award winner, Maddux ...
Win or lose, North's the boss
Aug 01, 2006; ... face=+Bold; Defending champ throws self into new duties as head proface=-Bold; By Tim Campbell DEAN North is the defending champion of the Manitoba zone Titleist/Footjoy PGA Championship, but it was a different Dean North that showed up for the first round at St. Boniface Golf ...
Snotty Steeltown attitude a tad confusing
Aug 01, 2006 ... DOUG BROWN THEY say to never kick a man when he's down. Good advice, but in this instance you have to call 'em like you see 'em, and on Friday morning before the game at breakfast time, I saw a two-page insert in the Hamilton Spectator that advertised "I'D RATHER BE 1 AND 5 THAN FROM ...