Winnipeg Free Press back issues from May 2007:
WEB EXTRA: Northern stabbing death probed
May 01, 2007 ... RCMP in Island Lake are investigating the death of a 23-year-old Wasagamack First Nation man who died of stab wounds early Sunday, RCMP said Monday. Police were called to the Wasagamack nursing station Sunday morning after ...
Appeared to be lots of fuel for flight: pilot
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Tells trial he took every reasonable safety precautionface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre THE pilot of a Keystone Air plane that ran out of fuel and crashed into a busy Winnipeg intersection is speaking publicly about the June 2002 tragedy for the first time. Mark ...
EDITORIAL - Turkey twice-torn
May 01, 2007 ...HUGE rallies in Turkey -- there were 700,000 demonstrators in Istanbul on Sunday and more than 300,000 marched through Ankara two weeks ago -- are immediately about who should be that country's next president. They are, however, rooted in far more fundamental issues than that. They are about ...
Have Your Say
May 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; face=-Bold; John Mayer concert great Re: Jazz-pop sludge, but fans loved it, April 27. Until the Grammies a few months ago, I'd never heard John Mayer perform. But it was his performance on that show that prompted me to buy his CD and subsequently buy ...
Winnipeg Free Press POLL
May 01, 2007 ...Today's Question: Do you think Manitoba judges are too soft on criminals, as Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen claims?Previous ...
WEB EXTRA: Army of enumerators registers voters for May 22 ballot
May 01, 2007; ... By Joe Paraskevas The provincial election is only in its second week and would-be politicians have many days and nights of campaigning still to come. And yet the work is almost over for a small army of enumerators charged with registering Manitobans for the May 22 vote and ...
In Brief
May 01, 2007 ... More than 1,500 people have registered to attend the Indian Residential School Survivors National Conference, which ...
Letter of the day
May 01, 2007 ... An absolute outrage Re: Personal documents dumped, April 30. This is an absolute outrage. How can a business treat its customers' personal information with such carelessness? It is up to us, the consumers, to ask each and every place we do business with to provide us in ...
Wake up to Canada's own apartheid regime
May 01, 2007 ... Ron Evans 'We in South Africa were called all kinds of names. At one time we were called natives. And they had a sign by the road side that said: Drive carefully. Natives cross here. And somebody changed it to read, rather hair-raisingly: Drive carefully. Natives very cross ...
My get-healthy plan: a stroke in a canoe
May 01, 2007 ... In the Doug house / Doug Speirs THIS is the thrilling conclusion of a two-part series I've decided to call The Night of Three Million Blood-sucking Killer Insects From Hell. On Sunday, in part one, I described how my good friend Dan, who teaches outdoor recreation at a college ...
Rain fails to reduce fire threat
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Monday's precipitation too little to have much effect, official saysface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen RAIN over much of the province did little to dampen the forest fire threat in southern Manitoba, a government official said Monday. Tom Mirus, Manitoba Conservation ...
Death Notices
May 01, 2007 ... ANDERSON (nee COULTHARD), Edith Annie. BALDWIN (nee FULLER), Isabel Vera. BIALEK, Edward. CALDER, Agnes Patricia. CLAEYS, Amanda I.R. CUMMING (nee BLAKEMORE), Thelma Delzie. DOBROVOLSKI, Karolina. EDMONDS, Gail. GODIN, Donna ...
It's mayday for Canada's labour movement
May 01, 2007 ... Canadian Dimension MAY Day is a time when workers around the world celebrate their collective strength, solidarity with other movements and their accomplishments in working towards peace, equality and social justice. In Canadian Dimension we also choose to use this as a time to ...
Liberals envision bone care network
May 01, 2007; ... By Joe Paraskevas A Liberal government would organize a province-wide bone and joint health care network to improve patient care quality, shorten surgery wait times and attract medical talent to Manitoba, party leader Jon Gerrard said Monday. The proposed network, the first of ...
Charges for document dump?
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Insurance agent could be suspended, see court actionface=-Bold; By Jen Skerritt A McPhillips Street insurance company could face suspension as an MPI broker and possible legal charges after hundreds of customers' personal documents were discarded in a Dumpster last ...
Ottawa received torture reports
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Officials talked to Afghan prisonersface=-Bold; By Murray Brewster OTTAWA -- The Conservative government conceded Monday that it has received reports from Canadian officials about alleged torture in Afghan jails. After a week of denying knowledge of any ...
Prince Harry to serve in combat unit
May 01, 2007; ... By D'Arcy Doran LONDON -- The head of the British army said Monday that he had personally decided that Prince Harry, the third in line to the throne, will serve with a combat unit in Iraq. Commanders reportedly had reconsidered their decision to allow the prince to fight in Iraq ...
Harper defends pollution plan
May 01, 2007; ... By Mike De Souza OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper jumped to the defence of his embattled environment minister Monday to respond to an escalating storm of criticism at home and abroad over his government's new plan to tackle climate change and air pollution. Environment ...
Mayor tackles promises
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Katz expected to announce today his plan to alleviate graffitiface=-Bold; By Bartley Kives A six-month-old policy drought is set to end at city hall today as Mayor Sam Katz resumes the task of whittling down the list of election promises from 2006. Since ...
May stands by comments condemning Tory strategy
May 01, 2007 ... OTTAWA -- Green Leader Elizabeth May is standing by her comments over the weekend that condemn Prime Minister Stephen Harper's stance on climate change, comparing it to "a grievance worse than Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of the Nazis." May said Monday the environment is a "moral" ...
Crown recaps case against Hells Angel as trial wraps up
May 01, 2007; ... By Mike McIntyre The Crown took jurors on a trip down memory lane on Monday with a comprehensive, day-long closing argument recapping the high-profile case against Hells Angel Ian Grant. Lead prosecutor Chris Mainella summed up two months of evidence through a power-point ...
River Rouge relaunched as city's floating nightclub
May 01, 2007; ... By Geoff Kirbyson A Winnipeg boating institution is undergoing a more than $400,000 retrofit to turn it into a nightclub on water. Kyriakos Vogiatzakis, new owner of the River Rouge, the tourist attraction that has cruised up and down the Red River for the last 37 years, will be ...
In politics, the big fix is rarely possible
May 01, 2007 ... THERE are certain phrases that, whenever they are uttered, should immediately raise red flags of concern. "The plain truth." "A simple problem." "You can do it yourself." During elections, you might add the term "we will fix it" to the repertoire of red-flag ...
Around The World
May 01, 2007 ... Suspect loses bid WASHINGTON -- Canadian terrorism suspect Omar Khadr lost his last bid Monday to have the U.S. Supreme Court review his murder case before he faces trial at Guantanamo Bay. The top court issued a one-line decision refusing to hear arguments on Khadr and another ...
Insurance business faces broker shortage
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; And fewer firms due to mergersface=-Bold; By Murray McNeill ADD insurance brokers to the growing list of occupations facing a potential labour crunch as their baby boom members approach retirement age. The chief executive officer of the Insurance Brokers ...
Business Watch
May 01, 2007 ... Boeing turns corner CHICAGO -- Boeing Co. chief executive Jim McNerney said Monday the aerospace company "turned the corner" in 2006 and is on pace to overtake rival Airbus as the world's largest commercial airplane maker within a year. McNerney spoke at the company's annual ...
Robber says he did it for his family
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Tried armed heist to give them a better Christmasface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre POLICE and justice officials are used to hearing all sorts of excuses for why people commit armed robbery -- drug addictions, bad debts or greed are common. Ramsey Ducharme's reason ...
Griffs' Howard roomed with Mac, but they're not buddies right now
May 01, 2007; ... By Gary Lawless A year ago, they were young pups fighting over the same scraps. Tonight, Jimmy Howard expects to take the bone, the yard and anything else he sees, all for himself. The two goalies, teammates last season with the Grand Rapids Griffins, will be staring each other ...
ON 2
May 01, 2007 ... The Boss backs Torre and Cashman, but ... NEW YORK -- George Steinbrenner has spoken: For now, Joe Torre has his backing to turn around the Yankees following a start the owner termed "clearly not acceptable." Torre was joined by general manager Brian Cashman on the team's charter ...
Ground broken for Shields labyrinth
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Construction starts on tribute to authorface=-Bold; By Jen Skerritt SHE spent hours wandering around one with her husband near London, skipped through one with her grandchildren, and wrote an acclaimed novel about a man who designed them. And on Monday, the ...
Seeding in full swing, farmers hope for rain
May 01, 2007; ... By Larry Kusch SEEDING is in full swing in Manitoba, but farmers in many districts are anxious for rain. Warm, windy weather and a lack of April showers have dried out the top layer of soil, making it more difficult to plant small-seeded crops, such as canola, farmers and ...
If you're a Steeler in a classic win, two teeth are worth it
May 01, 2007 ... Paul Wiecek HOW about this for a quintessentially Canadian story: Hockey player loses major portions of his two front teeth during first period of a game. Hockey player rushes to hospital. Hockey player is informed it could be hours before a dentist ...
Canadians grind Norwegians down
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Power-play goals in 3rd do the trickface=-Bold; By Dan Barnes MYTISCHI, Russia -- Canada continues its longstanding tradition of doing things the hard way overseas. The Canadians needed third-period power-play goals by Shane Doan and Justin Williams to fend ...
Electronic tax filings up ten per cent
May 01, 2007 ... TORONTO -- Now that the deadline for income tax filings has passed, at least one thing is apparent -- electronic filing is increasingly the way most Canadians submit their taxes. According to data released by the Canada Revenue Agency, the number of filings submitted electronically ...
Today on TV
May 01, 2007 ...NCIS A blind man (guest star John Billingsley) inadvertently takes a photo of a petty officer's murder and helps Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his team recreate the crime scene. CBS, 7 p.m. House Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) has a 14-year-old patient with leukemia ...
Carson's 'Mr. Excitement' Tommy Newsom dead at 78
May 01, 2007 ... PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- Tommy Newsom, the former backup bandleader on The Tonight Show whose "Mr. Excitement" nickname was a running joke for Johnny Carson, has died. He was 78. Newsom died of cancer at his Portsmouth home Saturday, according to his nephew, Jim Newsom. Newsom, who ...
MacIntyre happy for opportunity to make more believers tonight
May 01, 2007; ... By Tim Campbell WHEN Wade Flaherty, a former playoff MVP, got hurt in the post-season a year ago, the Manitoba Moose had no winning answers, no winning options. When Flaherty suffered two serious injuries this season, the Moose played like nothing ever happened. The ...
Love selling off Cobain's belongings
May 01, 2007 ...NEW YORK -- Courtney Love, widow of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain, says she plans to sell most of his belongings. "I'm going to have a Christie's auction," Love, 42, tells AOL music website Spinner.com. "(My house) is like a mausoleum." Love and Cobain wed in 1992 and had a ...
Investors cash in after month of gains
May 01, 2007 ... What the brokers say TORONTO -- The Toronto stock market sold off Monday afternoon despite signs of strong economic growth, tumbling more than 200 points as investors opted to take profits from a solid month's worth of gains, even as earnings weakened. "On a 12-month trailing ...
Audience the star in interactive theatre
May 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; U of W grads start new companyface=-Bold; Stage Door / Kevin Prokosh A new Winnipeg theatre company is planning to share the stage with the audience. Act Now! is the idea of Daniel Thau-Eleff and Loc Lu, two 26-year-old University of Winnipeg graduates who ...
Canucks' power play flabby
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; They know it needs some muscle if they hope to make Ducks quackface=-Bold; By Jim Morris VANCOUVER -- Their power play has been a bit of a joke in the playoffs, but the Vancouver Canucks weren't laughing Monday. The Canucks know they need to solve the riddle ...
Showbits
May 01, 2007 ...Today in music history In 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. The wedding cake alone cost $3,500. Priscilla was the teenaged daughter of a U.S. army officer whom Elvis had met in Germany. She had lived at Presley's Graceland Mansion since ...
Reinforcements helping prepare road to Beijing
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; National second-team tryouts beginface=-Bold; By Ashley Prest THE 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing are still more than a year away, but the selection process for Canada's national men's volleyball team begins today. Head coach Glenn Hoag and his staff are ...
Quest for Lord Stanley's Mug
May 01, 2007 ... Tuesday's results * New Jersey at Ottawa (-- leads Eastern Conference semifinal series 2-1) * Detroit at San Jose (late) (Wastern Conference semifinal series tied 1-1 heading into Tuesday's game) Today's games * Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m ....
WEB EXTRA: Small meth lab just tip of iceberg: RCMP
May 01, 2007 ...A small methamphetamine lab discovered at a Gardenton-area residence Saturday is likely just the tip of the iceberg of what's being produced in Manitoba, RCMP said Monday. "We venture to say there's more out there," RCMP drug section Sgt. Kevin Lamontange said. "They are just very hard ...
Rescuers daring night jump saves sick teen
May 01, 2007; ...By Alexandra Paul WITH the light of a full moon and a bonfire, two search and rescue technicians from the Winnipeg-based 435 Squadron parachuted 4,500 feet into the darkness at 3 a.m. Monday to rescue a 15-year-old girl in a remote part of the northwestern Ontario bush. They ...
Choose your own adventure
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Organized events from bowling to hang-gliding give singles an active way to meet their matchface=-Bold;By Carolin Vesely 'I'm sick of the bar scene." It's a common refrain sung by people who are well-versed in the dating blues -- namely, anyone over the ...
Shoes made for walking, floors made for walking on
May 01, 2007 ... Ask Rhona / Rhona Raskin DEAR RHONA: I disagree with the shoe advice. We take our shoes off at the door and expect our guests to do the same. It might be embarrassing to reveal a hole in your socks, but a heck of a lot more embarrassing to track some mud or doggie-do onto somebody's ...
Boy George gives 'hooking up' a whole new meaning
May 01, 2007 ...FORMER pop star Boy George has been arrested for allegedly chaining a man to a wall. The singer, whose real name is George O'Dowd, is accused of assault and false imprisonment after escort Auden Carlsen told police he was grabbed and chained to a wall inside O'Dowd's East London ...
Olmert's dicey future
May 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Lebanon war report hits Israel's leadersface=-Bold; Samuel Segev TEL AVIV -- Israel began its countdown Monday for selecting a new national leadership capable of meeting the challenges that Israel is facing in the aftermath of the Second Lebanon War. Despite ...
EDITORIAL - Testing schools
May 01, 2007 ... WHY does Manitoba have the highest dropout rate in Canada? This is a question none of the provincial party leaders has been able to answer, and one that Premier Gary Doer has purposely avoided in the provincial election. Thankfully, the leaders of the opposition parties have made schools a ...
'Arrow' position top mode with sleepers
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Survey details bed preferences of Canadiansface=-Bold; By Misty Harris A new nationwide survey offers a snapshot of Canadians' favourite positions in bed, but there's no need to break out the Kama Sutra: The results shed light only on the ways in which people's ...
Many happy returns
May 01, 2007 ... face=+Bold; Prairie-friendly perennials bring early colour to the garden before annuals can go in the groundface=-Bold;Linda Stilkowski / The Prairie Gardener TULIPS may be stealing the show in the early spring prairie garden, but there are dozens of perennials that arrive ...
Today's Horoscope / Georgia Nicols
May 01, 2007 ... MOON ALERT Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 3 a.m. until 6 a.m. The moon is in Scorpio.ARIES (March 21-April 19)May Day! May Day! Tomorrow's full moon in Scorpio will likely create tension today (and tomorrow) with finances, money, your cash flow, or your ...
Firefighters, paramedics pleased with new chief
May 01, 2007; ... By Bartley Kives A soft-spoken paramedic who once carried stretchers in the mean streets of 1970s Belfast is the City of Winnipeg's new fire-paramedic chief. Jim Brennan, a 30-year veteran of Winnipeg's emergency services, has been promoted to the top job in the Winnipeg ...
Lottery Numbers
May 01, 2007 ...In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the official numbers shall prevail. PICK 3: ...
McFadyen vows big shakeup of province's justice system
May 01, 2007; ... By Mia Rabson TORY Leader Hugh McFadyen plans a massive overhaul of the Manitoba justice system if he is elected premier, with a brand-new government department for public safety and a plan to force provincial judges to get public approval before they can be appointed to the ...
Agents missed link in U.K. terror plot
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Probed future subway bombersface=-Bold; By David Stringer LONDON -- London's subway bombers were trailed by security agents spying on a separate British terror cell more than a year before the 2005 attack -- but officials failed to piece together the links and ...
Politicians should take a ride
May 01, 2007 ... Gordon Sinclair Jr. A provincial election is the perfect time to put politicians in the hot seat. Especially the one normally occupied by bicycle riders. I mean, given cyclists in this city built for green-house-gas belching motor vehicles are risking their lives every ...
Around Canada
May 01, 2007 ... New payday loan rules TORONTO -- Payday loan companies will now have to inform customers how much it costs to borrow cash under new rules announced by the Ontario government. Companies will have to hang a prominent poster in their office, outlining how much it costs to borrow ...
Gala aims to create drug education fund
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Son murdered, parents help others whose children have been slainface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre FLOYD and Karen Wiebe know the horror of losing a child to drugs -- and then to violence. And now they are doing everything in their power to prevent more families ...
Cost of pay phone calls will rise to 50 cents
May 01, 2007 ... OTTAWA -- The price of placing a call from pay phones will go up for the first time in years as part of new CRTC guidelines that will give Canada's major phone companies more flexibility. The new rules, to go into effect on June 1, will ensure that residential customers in urban areas ...
Buck soars over 90-cent mark
May 01, 2007; ... face=+Bold; Strong economic forecast, sluggishness in U.S. citedface=-Bold; By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA -- The Canadian dollar soared above 90.5 cents US Monday on news of a stronger-than-expected Canadian economy and further evidence of economic weakness in the U.S. The ...
CRTC grills CTV on $1.4-B CHUM purchase
May 01, 2007; ... By Julian Beltrame GATINEAU, Que. -- CTVglobemedia was challenged to defend its $1.4-billion purchase of CHUM's network of television and radio stations as being in the best interest of the country and diversity at hearings before the federal regulator Monday. CTV president and ...
Such good boys, training so early, but is it an Als end run on cap?
May 01, 2007 ... Doug Brown SO the Montreal Alouettes have some 30-odd players working out "voluntarily" at a neutral facility three times a week right now -- a month from camp -- and it's such a feel-good story the CFL has decided to post it on their website for all of us to witness. The story, ...