Winnipeg Free Press back issues from February 2007:
Buble backpedals on Grammy diss
Feb 01, 2007 ...TORONTO -- Michael Buble says he's honoured to be nominated for a Grammy and meant no offence when he disparaged the awards show and said he had no intention of attending. Buble told The Canadian Press in an interview Tuesday "it's absolute crap" that his category is not part of the ...
Around The World
Feb 01, 2007 ... Ex-minister convicted TEL AVIV, Israel -- An Israeli court convicted former justice minister Haim Ramon on Wednesday of forcibly kissing a young female soldier, a stunning censure of a top official that could reshape the Israeli cabinet. Ramon, who faces up to three years in ...
A cork on climate change
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Carbon taxes could stem the flow of dangerous emissionsface=-Bold; Toby A.A. Heaps / Beatrice Olivastri CANADIAN action on climate change is unfocused, ineffective and way too complicated. There is, however, a straightforward mechanism that, with fairness, ...
Altered pigpens planned
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Maple Leaf adopting group stalls for pregnant sowsface=-Bold; By Gabrielle Giroday IT'LL be no more lonely, cramped nights for pregnant pigs. In an effort to please consumers, the largest pork-producing company in Canada is changing the way it stores its female ...
Artists follow Three Musketeers' credo
Feb 01, 2007 ... LORNE ROBERTS NOT so long ago, the majority of Canada's population was made up of farmers and small-town folk. Maybe that's why community life has always been so important, and particularly so on the prairies. Rural people need to be self-sufficient, but they also have to know when to ...
Around Canada
Feb 01, 2007 ... Ontario wage rises TORONTO -- The 25-cent increase coming Thursday to Ontario's minimum wage brings the province in line with British Columbia and several other Canadian jurisdictions, but it's done little to satisfy critics who called Wednesday for a "real living wage." While ...
Auditor on defensive over firing of environment commissioner
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Dennis Bueckert OTTAWA -- Auditor General Sheila Fraser found herself on the defensive Wednesday with few answers to give as MPs demanded an explanation for the mysterious firing of the federal environment commissioner. Time and again in almost two hours of testimony before ...
Barrett buzz has Glenn pumped
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Hopes Blue can land his old boss; 'he's just a flat-out great coach'face=-Bold; By Chris Cariou KEVIN GLENN has one big date coming up March 24 when he gets married. For the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' No. 1 quarterback, it would be another special day if ...
Blue give biggest cash boost ever to grassroots football
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Chris Cariou IT'S a big number, $115,030 -- the biggest single amount the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have ever given to grassroots football in Manitoba. But it's no coincidence that a big guy by the name of Lyle Bauer is the man most responsible for handing out such large chunks of ...
Bombardier says CSeries savings in hand
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Ross Marowits MONTREAL -- Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B) figures it has achieved the operating cost savings needed to launch its CSeries commercial aircraft by 2013 but will continue to nail down launch customers and manufacturing partners for the US$2-billion ...
Business Watch
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; face=-Bold; Rogers and Canoe team up on web portal TORONTO -- Rogers Publishing Ltd. and Canoe Inc. are teaming up to bundle content from 11 magazines on the Internet, in a deal that will create a major online presence by combining stories from some of the ...
BMO's profits can't stop job cuts
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; 1,000 employees will be eliminated to help company reach 2007 financial targetsface=-Bold; By Laura Bobak and John Valorzi TORONTO -- Bank of Montreal is cutting 1,000 jobs as it streamlines operations and refocuses efforts to increase sales, improve customer service ...
Blue cut him, now Ayanbadejo's in the big game
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Ed Tait MIAMI -- The words are cut off and the sentence stops abruptly. In fact, before we can even finish spitting out the name 'Brendon Ayanbadejo' there is a sense the voice on the telephone is cringing ... "We cut him, can you believe that?" began Winnipeg Blue ...
Boeing's Q4 earnings beat forecast
Feb 01, 2007 ... CHICAGO -- Boeing Co. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled, due largely to robust commercial airplane and defence system business. The results beat Wall Street forecasts and sent the stock up nearly five per cent. For the quarter ending Dec. 31, the airplane ...
Brave pal inspires Addai
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Paralyzed in high school match, Moore now a guiding light for Coltface=-Bold; By Chris Harry MIAMI -- When free-agent tailback Edgerrin James took the money and ran to Arizona last off-season, it left a hole in the Indianapolis Colts about 6.85 miles wide. That's how ...
Babies for fun and profit
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Family-friendly policies can boost birth rateface=-Bold; Gwynne Dyer 'THE number of women aged between 15 and 50 is fixed," explained Japanese Health Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa in a speech in Matsue City last Friday. "Because the number of birth-giving machines and ...
Black's lawyers fear wife
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Say Amiel-Black's spending habits will not help caseface=-Bold; By Barbara Shecter TORONTO-- Conrad Black's lawyers say his wife Barbara Amiel-Black has become "a lightning rod of controversy," and if evidence about her spending habits is introduced in his upcoming ...
Brandy named in wrongful-death suit
Feb 01, 2007 ...LOS ANGELES -- The parents of a woman killed in a crash involving Brandy sued the actress-singer for US$50 million Tuesday. The wrongful-death suit claims Brandy was driving recklessly when her Land Rover struck the back of a Honda driven by Awatef Aboudihaj, 38, The Insider first ...
Burglar told to stay out of houses
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Mike McIntyre A Winnipeg man is going to spend the rest of his life in prison if he doesn't learn to stay out of people's homes, a judge said Wednesday Marlin Keewatincappo, 22, pleaded guilty to six counts of break and enter for a July 2005 crime spree which began just days ...
Chavez granted sweeping powers
Feb 01, 2007 ... CARACAS, Venezuela -- A congress wholly loyal to President Hugo Chavez approved a law Wednesday granting him authority to enact sweeping measures by decree. Meeting at a downtown plaza in a session that resembled a political rally, legislators unanimously approved all four articles of ...
CrimeStat going online
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Deputy chief says program a change in police mindsetface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen and Bartley Kives MAYOR Sam Katz and Winnipeg's finest are about to flick the switch on the city's newest crime-fighting tool, CrimeStat. On Saturday, the Winnipeg Police Service ...
Cartoon caper throws terror scare into Boston
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Ken Maguire BOSTON -- Ten blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. At least one of the devices depicts a character giving the ...
Climate report gets last-minute edit in Paris
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Bureaucrats, scientists work in secrecy to pull together major environmental studyface=-Bold; EXPERTS are falling behind in their task of reaching consensus on the wording of a key environmental report that says humans have already caused so much damage that the effects of ...
Capote actor returns to city in Horsemen
Feb 01, 2007 ...CLIFTON Collins Jr., the actor who played In Cold Blood killer Perry Smith in the 2005 Winnipeg-lensed film Capote will be making a return engagement to the city to star in The Horsemen opposite Dennis Quaid and Ziyi Zhang, according to a report in Variety. Directed by Swedish-born ...
City's housing, commercial developments will create density
Feb 01, 2007 ... Martin Cash About the only bad news in the Winnipeg real estate market these days is the fact that there is dearth of land in desirable locations for housing or commercial development. But the good news on that front is that it means future developments are likely to create more ...
Dishing the dirt with the Queen of Mean
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Lydia Martin MIAMI -- You're at the Catalina Hotel on Collins Avenue, hanging with Perez Hilton and waiting for him to say something vile. He's the catty Cubanito from Miami who is making a splash with his celebrity gossip website, www.PerezHilton.com. (Admit it, you went there to get ...
Don't forget to take your DS if you check into seedy hotel
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Darren Bernhardt FORGET the Bates Motel, if you're looking for true psychos, check into Hotel Dusk. You won't get much sleep but you won't be disappointed as you delve into the mystery surrounding the peculiar folks at this rat-bag roadhouse with the Twilight Zone ...
DVD / video
Feb 01, 2007; ... by Randall King The Marine H IN the real world, when something explodes, deadly shrapnel shoots forth from the exploding entity, shearing or piercing everything in its path. In the action movie, explosions merely have the properties of a really strong wind. They ...
Don't blame me for all the heat
Feb 01, 2007 ... Penni Mitchell I'm getting tired of being asked to take personal responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions that aren't mine. Weighing in at 758 megatonnes (Mt) in 2004, Canada's greenhouse gas emissions have risen 26 per cent since 1990 when the level was 599 Mt, in spite of Canada's ...
EDITORIAL - Price of a quick fix
Feb 01, 2007 ...DIANE MacIver likely was speaking for most Winnipeg motorists this week when she called the dramatic drop in gasoline prices "fantastic" news. The 16-cent drop over a month is worth about $8 a week to average motorists, enough to prompt Ms. MacIver to invest in lottery tickets. In the bigger, ...
Death Notices
Feb 01, 2007 ...BEAUBIEN, Edward George. BRILHANTE, Manuel Antonio. BUUS (née THOGERSEN), Herdis. CHORNEY, Edward John. COLMAN, Robert Donald. DIDUR, William (Bill). DIFFEY, Arthur W. EYOLFSON, Kris. FUCHS (née KOCH), Vera. GALBRAITH (née ...
Don't dream it's over; Crowded House reunite, tour
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Randy Lewis LOS ANGELES -- There's Something So Strong about New Zealand rock band Crowded House after all: The group that disbanded a decade ago is reforming for a new album and tour that will begin at this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, April 27-29 (tickets at ...
Fresh records set on markets
Feb 01, 2007 ... What the brokers say TORONTO -- North American stock markets closed higher -- and fresh records were set in Toronto and New York -- after the U.S. Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent while indicating that the U.S. economy remains healthy and that ...
Girls get a turn in spotlight
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Youngsters will play and learn at Nine Nations festival in Selkirkface=-Bold; By Ashley Prest KRISTEN GAGNON has listened for years to her older brothers' exciting tales of hockey experiences, but the 11-year-old forward is about to have one of her ...
Flu season officially arrives here
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Jen Skerritt Grab your cough drops and stock up on Kleenex, flu season has arrived in Manitoba. Health officials confirmed Wednesday seven cases of influenza A virus were reported over the last two weeks -- the first official cases to hit the province this winter. Dr ....
Lottery Numbers
Feb 01, 2007 ... In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number yesterday was 772. EXTRA Winning number yesterday for top prize of $250,000 was ...
Trains to join planes at airport?
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Rail cargo terminal an idea to considerface=-Bold; By Joe Paraskevas WINNIPEG Airports Authority Inc. is considering an idea to build a rail cargo terminal on Richardson Airport's western fringe to create the country's first direct link of air and rail ...
Wheat board taking Tories to court
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Fighting cabinet order to pay Arason's salaryface=-Bold; By Paul Samyn OTTAWA -- The Canadian Wheat Board will take the Harper government to court over a cabinet order forcing it to pay the salary of the interim president the Tories appointed. The legal ...
theatre / arts
Feb 01, 2007 ... Theatre Better Living A family deals with the return of an abusive patriarch 10 years after they tried to kill him, U of W's department of theatre & film, opens Tuesday, Gas Station Theatre, to Feb.10, 8 p.m. nightly with a matinée Saturday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m.; free but ...
Harper warms to summit
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Canada would attend any UN climate meetingface=-Bold; By Alexander Panetta OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his support for a UN summit on global warming Wednesday as past musings about climate change came back to haunt him. His explicit ...
Lies to Pickton were within law: officer
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Denies fabricating evidence against serial-killing suspectface=-Bold; By Greg Joyce and Terri Theodore NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. -- The police officer who spent most of the time in an interrogation with Robert Pickton the day after he was arrested for murder admits he ...
League-best Predators overlooked even at home
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Pierre LeBrun THE Nashville Predators have been first overall in the NHL for the better part of two weeks. But has anyone noticed? "Nationally and internationally, it's been a slow process to get recognition," Predators GM David Poile said Wednesday. It starts in his ...
Journalist emphasizes importance of history
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Patrick Martin addresses audience at University of Winnipegface=-Bold; By Joe Paraskevas KNOWLEDGE of history, Patrick Martin told an audience at the University of Winnipeg Wednesday, is essential to being a good journalist in the powder keg that is the Middle ...
Goren Bridge / Omar Sharif and Tannah Hirsch
Feb 01, 2007 ... Both vulnerable. South deals. NORTH 8 3 © A K 6 2 ® K Q 9 6 4 3 ß 5 WEST EASTK 10 7 6 A J 4 © J 9 7 4 © 8 5 ® 10 ® J 7 5 2 ß K 10 7 6 ß Q 9 8 2 SOUTH Q 9 5 2 © Q 10 3 ...
Google's Q4 profit triples with huge burst in growth
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Michael Liedtke SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit nearly tripled amid another burst of breathtaking growth that enabled the online search leader to sprint past analyst expectations -- a habit that has helped propel its stock price above US$500. The Mountain ...
Giants-Bonds pact iffy
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Voiding proviso unenforceable, his agent saysface=-Bold; By Ronald Blum NEW YORK -- Even after signing a contract, Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants might not agree on what it means. Bonds' US$15.8-million, one-year agreement contains a provision ...
paparazzi
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; with Dinah Clarksonface=-Bold; Electra crushworthy at Lachey's high school INTERESTING piece of trivia: Carmen Electra and Nick Lachey attended the same high school, the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati. Hilariously, Electra doesn't remember ...
top 7
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; by Rob Williamsface=-Bold; Chubby Checker Tonight, McPhillips Street Station Casino. He invented dances for the Pony, the Fly and the Hucklebuck, but Checker's career has been overshadowed by his 1960 cover of the Hank Ballard song The Twist, which got couples ...
top 10
Feb 01, 2007 ... Weekend movies 1. Epic Movie, $18.6 million. 2. Smokin' Aces, $14.6 million. 3. Night at the Museum, $9.6 million. 4. Stomp the Yard, $7.8 million. 5. Catch and Release, $7.7 million. 6. Dreamgirls, $6.7 million. 7. The Pursuit of ...
Family marks anniversary of Dumas' death
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Teen fatally shot by police officerface=-Bold; By Gabrielle Giroday THE crowd is smaller than last year. The temperatures are colder. And hand-scrawled graffiti bearing his name on a nearby abandoned Stella Avenue home was recently blanketed over in red spray ...
WEB EXTRA: Power failure hits Birds Hill, East St. Paul
Feb 01, 2007 ... A hydro outage in the Birds Hill/East St. Paul region left just over 2,000 customers briefly without power Wednesday morning. The outage happened at roughly 9:30 a.m. Some of the affected customers were without power for up to an hour and a half, while roughly half of the customers had ...
Hossa turns into Thrashers' big threat
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Kara Yorio MARIAN HOSSA was part of the talented core that made the Senators a regular-season powerhouse year after year. On Aug. 23, 2005, he signed a three-year, $18-million deal with Ottawa. Later that same day, the right-winger was gone. Traded to Atlanta. New coach. New ...
Falun Gong prisoners killed for organs?
Feb 01, 2007 ... OTTAWA -- A former member of Parliament and a high-profile immigration lawyer are calling on the Foreign Affairs Department to issue an advisory warning Canadians off of travelling to China for organ transplants. Former Liberal MP David Kilgour and David Matas, an immigration lawyer and ...
Face value
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Since their invention in 1982, emoticons, or smileys, have been helping e-mailers get the jokeface=-Bold; By David Sanderson CHER Seamus's tongue is planted permanently in the vicinity of her cheek. Seamus, a Winnipeg writer with a sardonic wit, says that ...
His parents are his stars
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; 'They've dedicated their lives to helping people,' humble Idonije saysface=-Bold; Ed Tait MIAMI -- There will be no paparazzi there to greet them upon their arrival. And in an event that is as much about star power as about the big game on Sunday, there's little ...
Have Your Say
Feb 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; face=-Bold; Rebel finds his cause Looks like our favourite rebel without a cause, NDP Leader Jack Layton finally found one -- excessive ATM fees charged by the banking industry. But instead of waylaying banks and credit unions for overcharging individuals for ...
Growing U.S. strength good news for Canada
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA -- The Canadian economy was much weaker than expected as last year was drawing to a close, but there was evidence of surprising strength south of the border, which is good news for Canada. The report cards on Canadian and U.S. growth were released ...
Literacy is a fundamental economic necessity
Feb 01, 2007 ...Todd Hirsch MIKE was among the thousands of machinists in Alberta churning out specialized industrial equipment used in the oil sands. The pay was great and jobs were plentiful. One day, a new piece of machinery landed on the shop floor. His supervisor tossed him the ...
Truscott case televised
Feb 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; First time TV used in top Ontario courtface=-Bold; By Tobi Cohen TORONTO -- New and previously undisclosed evidence will prove that Steven Truscott's 1959 murder conviction was based on "fallacies" and that he's innocent of the rape and murder of Lynne Harper, the ...
cover / working girl
Feb 01, 2007; ... BY BRAD OSWALD IT should come as no surprise that Jane Black is conflicted and confused. She speaks with two different voices, and she has two distinct and completely different personalities careening around inside her head. Jane Black, as some followers of Canadian TV ...
clubs
Feb 01, 2007 ... ROCK ALIVE (140 Bannatyne, 989-8080): Dance club in former Au Bar space. Thursday to Saturday: Cheap Drinks. CAVERN (112 Osborne, downstairs): Basement rock room at Toad in the Hole pub. Saturday: The Unwanted, Afterbeat, Knockarounds, Perpetrators, Sean Brown ...
concerts
Feb 01, 2007 ... Chubby Checker Feb. 1, McPhillips Street Station, 8 p.m. King of The Twist. Tickets $30 at Ticketmaster. Music 'N Mavens: When Bialystock Came to Montreal Feb. 1, Rady Jewish Community Centre, 2 p.m. Original folk stories by Solomon Ary. Admission $7. Joël Fafard ...
Laptops distracting, study finds
Feb 01, 2007; ... By Sarah Schmidt OTTAWA -- Parents who buy their children laptops as a send-off gift to university aren't doing them any favours, suggests a new study showing portable computers distract students and detract from learning in lecture halls. Instead of zeroing in on the lecture, ...
Innovation fund would generate big cash
Feb 01, 2007 ... ONTARIO Power Generation's (OPG) Nanticoke Generating Station is Canada's No. 1 source of greenhouse gases (GHGs), emitting 17,629,437 tonnes in 2005. At $30 per tonne, Nanticoke would be sending $528,883,110 to a proposed Carbon Innovation Fund this year alone. After three years, ...
Hockey boss comes to town with no gift in hand
Feb 01, 2007 ... Gary Lawless IT should be a sight to see: Bob Nicholson -- a hockey man forced to often swim in political waters -- offering up his very best in diplomacy. Nicholson is coming to town today to talk about the upcoming Women's World Hockey Championship, hoping no doubt to boost ...