Winnipeg Free Press back issues from February 2008:
WEB EXTRA: Transportation industry looks for ways to go green
Feb 01, 2008; ...They're not the first group you'd expect to go green, but members of the transportation industry in Manitoba met Thursday to hash out ways of making their work more sustainable. The Innovative Freight Practices seminar looked at roughly 40 strategies, including cutting down on idle ...
WEB EXTRA: Province ignoring safety standards for winter roads: chief
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Lindsey Wiebe The chief of Berens River First Nation is accusing the province of ignoring unsafe driving conditions on the east-side winter road, conditions he said led to a woman's death earlier this month. "The winter road system is being totally ignored in terms of safety ...
Billboard
Feb 01, 2008; ... Sir John Franklin Community Centre music night, Feb. 1, 7 to 10 p.m. at 1 Sir John Franklin. Featuring local young bands and musicians. Crescentwood Community Centre 63rd annual winter carnival, Feb. 1-3. Events include: hayride, fireworks display, family karaoke, penny carnival, ...
Crackdown on drugs and driving
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Bill to give police power to charge those suspected of being highface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen HIGH times behind the wheel could soon be over.The Harper government's Bill C-2, currently before the Senate, will give police the power to charge people with ...
Agriculture workers get new rights, benefits
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Rule changes include minimum wage, lunch breakface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen THE Doer government is bringing Manitoba agriculture workers into the 21st century, extending them the same rights as anyone else who works in the province. As of June 30, all but those ...
Bash to mark first cross-border flight
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Northwest landed in city 80 years agoface=-Bold; By Geoff Kirbyson IT'S the carrier that put the 'international' in what is now James Richardson International Airport. It was 80 years ago Friday that Northwest Airlines made the first cross-border flight into ...
Judge orders owner to improve fire safety
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Kevin Rollason A judge has ordered the owner of two controversial rooming houses to increase fire safety as part of his injunction to prevent the city from evicting tenants there. Associate chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant of Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench issued the order on ...
In Brief
Feb 01, 2008; ... RWB losing its COO THE Royal Winnipeg Ballet is losing its top administrator to the business world. The dance company announced Thursday that Judy Murphy, the RWB's chief operating officer for five years, will leave at the end of May to join the accounting firm Meyers Norris ...
Star witness with shady past grilled on stand
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Kevin Rollason GEORGE McIvor sells crack cocaine for a living, stood by while a man assaulted his mother's best friend leading to his death, was accused of a drive-by shooting, and was later convicted of an armed robbery of a cabbie. And -- in return for being granted immunity ...
Winnipeg Free Press Poll
Feb 01, 2008; ... TODAY'S QUESTION: Should religious groups have the right to block advertising billboards near their faciltiies? Previous question: Do you agree with the College of Physicians and Surgeons that the ...
Letter of the day
Feb 01, 2008; ... Arbour an embarrassment Re: Arbour backs Arab charter calling for end to Zionism, Jan. 30. It is difficult to read, as well as embarrassing to note that a Canadian, Louise Arbour, a former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, and presently the United Nations High Commissioner ...
Have Your Say
Feb 01, 2008; ...Worries misplaced Re: A sign church group doesn't want to see, Jan. 30. It is my understanding that we live in a time of free speech; since when is the possibility of potentially conflicting with or maligning someone's core beliefs and values at some unforeseen time in the ...
EDITORIAL - Arbour's flip-flop
Feb 01, 2008; ...WHEN Syria signed the Arab Charter on Human Rights in 2006, it particularly singled out for praise the document's demands for the elimination of "Zionism." Zionism in this context is code, a term used by some Arab and Muslim governments that cannot bring themselves to utter the name of Israel ....
EDITORIAL - Cap school taxes
Feb 01, 2008; ...THE Manitoba government seems to think it has found a way to encourage school divisions to hold the line on property taxes, but the basis of its optimism is not entirely clear. The province is increasing its operating grant by $53.5 million this year to help support the $1.62 billion public ...
Olmert likely to survive damning report
Feb 01, 2008; ... Samuel SegevTEL AVIV -- The long-awaited Winograd Commission report on the failed conduct of the Second Lebanon War has spurred Israeli politicians into doing what they do best -- accusing each other of responsibility for the debacle that humiliated Israel and emboldened Lebanon's ...
A bad week for 'Billary'
Feb 01, 2008; ... William Neville BILL and Hillary Clinton -- "Billary" as they are now somewhat derisively being called -- have had a bad two weeks. Though they are shrewd enough and well organized enough that she remains the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, in the days leading into the ...
Canadians ill-prepared for influenza pandemic
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Jack Aubry OTTAWA -- Despite spending millions of dollars on information campaigns, the federal Public Health Agency is being advised that Canadians are complacent and ill-prepared for an influenza pandemic. For one thing, Canadians rank the importance of having an annual flu ...
Testing immigrants
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Australian quiz for new arrivals proves controversialface=-Bold; Michael Madigan IS there an emu on the Australian Coat of Arms, what's the national flower and who exactly were Don Bradman and Ned Kelly? Haven't a clue? Then you may not be quite what ...
War unwinnable: Layton
Feb 01, 2008; ... OTTAWA -- NDP Leader Jack Layton says the Taliban cannot be defeated by international troops and there's no point continuing to fight an unwinnable war in Afghanistan. Although his party has long called for a withdrawal of Canadian troops, Layton's emphatic statement about the futility ...
Achieved happiness? That's sad, study finds
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Blythe Bernhard ST. LOUIS -- They say you can't be too rich or too thin, but what about too happy? People who say they are perfectly happy don't do as well in the workplace, in school and in the public arena as their peers who aren't quite as blissful, according to a new ...
U.S. action urged in Afghan war
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Senator praises Canada's 'herculean effort'face=-Bold; By Beth Gorham WASHINGTON -- American senators raised alarms Thursday about the state of the Afghanistan war, saying NATO is in danger of losing, a new strategy is urgently required and the U.S. should provide ...
Group decries handling of child abandonment
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Jered Stuffco TORONTO -- Canada's justice system does little to prevent cases of child abandonment, a child rights advocate said Thursday as police in Toronto pleaded for public help to identify an infant girl who was found face down in a freezing parking garage. Though child ...
MP offers personal, emotional stance on clemency policy
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Randy Boswell OTTAWA -- A predictable House of Commons debate about the federal government's controversial clemency policy took a startling turn Thursday night when NDP MP Wayne Marston gave an emotional account of his own sister's murder and his father's close brush with the death ...
Around Canada
Feb 01, 2008; ... Powerless in P.E.I. HUNTER RIVER, P.E.I. -- The massive campaign to return power to P.E.I. made progress Thursday but it was a race against the clock to get the work done before another weekend freezing rain storm is forecast to hit here. Kim Griffin, a spokeswoman for Maritime ...
Schwarzenegger's nod more steam for McCain
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Sheldon Alberts WASHINGTON -- Senator John McCain may not have the money to match Mitt Romney, his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, but he sure has a lock on momentum. The Arizona senator landed one of his party's biggest political prizes Thursday with ...
State eyes hunter training in schools
Feb 01, 2008; ...CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state's budget. And one legislator thinks he has a solution -- Allow children to receive hunter training in school. Seventh- through ninth-graders could opt for ...
Around The World
Feb 01, 2008; ... Olmert plans to stay JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signalled Thursday that he has no intention of stepping down after an inquiry held his government and the military responsible for the failures of Israel's war against Hezbollah. Polls show most Israelis want ...
Lottery Numbers
Feb 01, 2008; ... In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Thursday was 409. EXTRA Winning number Thursday was 3699343. PAYDAY Winning numbers Thursday for the $1,000 A Week For ...
Post-snowstorm panic on China's railways
Feb 01, 2008; ... GUANGZHOU, China -- Hundreds of thousands of desperate travellers, some hoisting terrified children or baggage over their heads, pushed their way onto trains Thursday as service resumed after the worst winter storms in decades paralyzed China. Piles of suitcases, dirty blankets, duffel ...
Hang in there, hope and heat are on horizon
Feb 01, 2008; ... Unscripted / Janet Stewart CONGRATULATIONS! It's February 1! I know we still have a couple of good solid frozen frigid months left -- but Winter Wimps unite! We've made it through January! January hurts, and it shouldn't. It shouldn't hurt to go outside. That's just wrong ....
Death Notices
Feb 01, 2008; ... COX, Leslie. CYBULKA, Robert Joseph. FLORENTINO, Giuseppina Giovanna. FRIESEN, Peter Alvin. FRYER, William GESSLER, James (Ted) IWASIUK, Joshua Gabriel JOHNSON, Sigmar Eyford. KENDALL, Stephen James. KOZAK, ...
Growing Older
Feb 01, 2008; ... Are you a caregiver for an older family member? Do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by your responsibilities? The role of caregiving often takes a high toll on the emotional, physical and financial well being of the caregiver. You are invited to join a support group for caregivers. The Support ...
No-booze bylaws no easy fix: officials
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Becky Rynor and Danielle Mario In 1992, Brad Kaeding was a fresh-faced, 26-year-old RCMP constable on his second posting in the "dry" Shamattawa reserve in northeastern Manitoba. "Hairspray, deodorants, hair products, mousse, anything that has alcohol in it, I have seen ...
'There's a lot of guilt and anger here'
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Yellow Quill First Nation reeling after two sisters' freezing deathsface=-Bold; By Janet French and Matt Kruchak YELLOW QUILL FIRST NATION, Sask. -- Christopher Pauchay was so agitated after arriving, hypothermic and frostbitten, at a home 400 metres from his own, it ...
Environment Canada muzzles top scientists
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Experts must stick to 'approved lines,' says Ottawaface=-Bold; By Margaret Munro ENVIRONMENT Canada has "muzzled" its scientists, ordering them to refer all media queries to Ottawa where communications officers will help them respond with "approved ...
Fight leads to assault charge
Feb 01, 2008; ... WINNIPEG police have one man in custody pending charges in an assault. Another man is in hospital in stable condition with a stab wound to his upper body. The injury is not life-threatening. The arrest was made Thursday ...
U.S. warning travellers of new border rules
Feb 01, 2008; ... By David Runk DETROIT -- Tougher identification rules went into effect Thursday along U.S. borders, but there appeared to be little added delay as travellers unprepared for the change were in many cases allowed to cross with a warning. Rather than seeing a bottleneck over the ...
Rock hounds donate finds to U of M
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Cindy and Greg Hasler's latest gift worth $18,000face=-Bold; By Nick Martin WHO knew the Floodway was a treasure trove of minerals? Mineral hunters Cindy and Greg Hasler are keeping the location of their favourite spots to themselves, but one thing is not a ...
Kenora to decide its policing future
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Will it keep local force or contract out to OPP?face=-Bold; By James Turner The town council of Kenora, Ont., will decide today whether to continue to pay for their local police force or contract all policing services out to the Ontario Provincial Police ....
Tasers to pack more power
Feb 01, 2008; ... By James Turner CONTROVERSIAL stun guns packing a bigger punch are coming soon to Manitoba Mounties. RCMP in Manitoba are expected to receive upgraded Tasers this spring as their old ones near the end of their usable life. The new Tasers, called the X26, put out lower ...
'Private faculty' sets up shop at U of M
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Foreign students to be offered ESL, intro courses -- for a big priceface=-Bold; By Aldo Santin FACULTY representatives at the University of Manitoba are questioning the decision by the university administration to sign a deal with an Australian firm, allowing it to ...
Gov't to cover immigrant's medical expenses
Feb 01, 2008; ... By James Wood REGINA -- A military family facing a huge financial burden just days before the birth of their child was thrilled and relieved Thursday as the Saskatchewan government stepped in to ensure they would not be stuck with a medical bill of over $20,000. Master Cpl ....
Councillors reject bid to divide Tuxedo Pointe lot
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Homeowner says he will tear down houseface=-Bold; By Joe Paraskevas FOR the second time in two weeks, residents of a Winnipeg neighbourhood have fended off efforts to subdivide a residential property and build two houses where one has existed for decades. The ...
NDP expect green meeting
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Radical resolutions not on the agendaface=-Bold; By Mary Agnes Welch NEW Democrats will gather this weekend to celebrate their historic third majority and talk policy, especially the environmental kind. Green ideas -- composting, bike paths, saving the east ...
Internet slowdowns harmful to India's outsourcing industry
Feb 01, 2008; ... NEW DELHI -- India's lucrative outsourcing industry struggled Thursday to overcome Internet slowdowns and outages after cuts in two undersea cables sliced the country's bandwidth in half. The disruption -- which has hit a swath of users from Egypt to Bangladesh -- began to affect much of ...
Billboard near school OK: city
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Christian groups' appeal denied at committeeface=-Bold; By Bartley Kives OLD Kildonan Coun. Mike O'Shaughnessy held up the need to separate church and state as he quashed a billboard appeal launched by a Christian school and Baptist church. The veteran city ...
Business Watch
Feb 01, 2008; ... $4.6 billion airwaves bid WASHINGTON -- A bid on the largest portion of U.S. public wireless airwaves, now being auctioned by the federal government, reached US$4.7 billion on Thursday, triggering a provision to allow any device or software to work on that spectrum. While bidding ...
Disabled say boost to benefits is late
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Gabrielle Giroday DISABLED Manitobans and poverty advocates are upset a $25 monthly welfare increase promised by the province last year is kicking in one month later than anticipated. The $25 monthly increase per recipient announced last March in the provincial budget was ...
K9 unit helps police nab teen car thieves
Feb 01, 2008; ... By James Turner WINNIPEG police nabbed several high-level youth car thieves in two separate incidents Wednesday. The arrests include three 16-year-old chronic car thieves who all had outstanding warrants for violating their supervision orders under the Winnipeg Auto Theft ...
Don't confuse shyness with mental illness
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Carol Sanders NEVER mind drug company ads, shyness or social anxiety isn't a disease that should be treated with a pill, a Winnipeg psychologist says in the Jan. 31 edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. Brian Cox, a professor in psychiatry, psychology and community ...
Six abused siblings stay at foster home for now
Feb 01, 2008; ... Lindor Reynolds SIX Winnipeg siblings who have been in the care of Child and Family Services since their mother was arrested and accused of running a child-prostitution ring are in no immediate danger of being taken from their foster family and sent to live on a reserve. As I ...
Boeing opens new Winnipeg plant
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Employment rate rising drasticallyface=-Bold; By Martin Cash WINNIPEG'S Boeing Canada Technology has opened a new production plant in North Winnipeg that will become home to 200 workers and a new parts assembly line. A company official said the 112,000 square ...
Consumer spending 'set for a fall', report warns
Feb 01, 2008; ...By Eric Beauchesne OTTAWA -- There are fears that a bulwark of the Canadian economy, the consumer, is about to retreat. Those concerns were expressed Thursday in the wake of new evidence and warnings of an economic slowdown, which helped clip the wings of the high-flying loonie ...
Comical cry of exotic eagle caught on tape
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Lindsey Wiebe THE sound is a cross between the squawk of a gull and the hee-haw of a donkey, says zoo curator Dr. Bob Wrigley. Now the comical cry of the Steller's sea eagle has been captured on tape for what may be the first time, thanks to some diligent researchers and ...
Students disciplined for cyber-bullying
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Meghan Hurley and Nick Martin THE University of Manitoba has disciplined nearly three dozen students for cyber-bullying a fellow business student as the so-called Commerce Creeper a year ago on Facebook. U of M says it's one of the university's largest discipline incidents in ...
Airport sets traffic records
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Winnipeg outperforms North American counterpartsface=-Bold; By Larry Kusch WINNIPEG'S airport set new freight and passenger traffic records last year -- bucking a North American trend that saw volumes fall, the Winnipeg Airports Authority (WAA) said ...
AOL deletes Internet pioneer and dot-com bubble survivor
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Roberto Rocha NETSCAPE Navigator, the web browser that launched the consumer Internet and changed the way humanity seeks information, will be euthanized today. After years of neglect since it was mortally wounded by Microsoft Corp., parent company AOL decided it's not worth ...
Google records disappointing Q4 profits
Feb 01, 2008; ... SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s fourth-quarter profit missed analyst expectations, signaling the crumbling U.S. economy has dented the Internet search leader's moneymaking machine. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said Thursday it earned US$1.21 billion, or $3.79 per share, during ...
Online course teaches kids to manage money
Feb 01, 2008; ...Dollars and Sense / David Christianson ARTHUR is a good money manager. He faithfully puts 10 per cent of his net income away into savings for long-term goals. He also immediately puts away 10 per cent into a fund from which he will make his annual charitable donations. For ...
Dell to close call centre, 900 Edmonton jobs lost
Feb 01, 2008; ... By John Cotter EDMONTON -- Computer retailer Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is closing a call centre in Edmonton this spring less than four years after it opened, a move that will cost 900 employees their jobs. The Texas-based company, which is the world's No. 2 personal computer maker, said ...
Jolina takes offer to Tembec bondholders
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Ross Marowits MONTREAL -- Tembec's largest shareholder Jolina Capital Inc. said it met Thursday with the company's bondholders to present its $620.8 million recapitalization offer that was rejected by the troubled lumber producer. Under terms of the proposal announced after ...
Stocks erase early losses
Feb 01, 2008; ... What the brokers say TORONTO -- Stock markets staged a strong runup Thursday as early worries about the bond insurance sector receded and investors hoped that Wednesday's half-point cut in the U.S. Federal Reserve's key funds rate would help the U.S. skirt a ...
Home Depot cuts jobs as housing market slows
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Michael E. Kanell ATLANTA -- The Home Depot announced Thursday a 10 per cent layoff at its headquarters. Roughly 500 of the 5,000 employees in Atlanta were told by their managers that they would be let go as the company responds to the national chill in home-building and a ...
BlackBerry taking on iPhone
Feb 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; RIM to unveil music plug-in; 'pivotal' time for franchiseface=-Bold; By David George-Cosh TORONTO --The revelation of a new BlackBerry accessory is the first concrete evidence Research In Motion Ltd. will soon mount a long-awaited campaign targeting the lucrative ...
Report seeks tax dollars for Canada's oil industry
Feb 01, 2008; ... By Mike De Souza OTTAWA -- The Harper and Stelmach governments have expressed their enthusiasm after quietly releasing a report which calls for a $2-billion investment from taxpayers to help the oil and gas industry bury its greenhouse gas pollution underground. The report, ...