Winnipeg Free Press back issues from March 2008:
Harry's mission halted after secret revealed
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Jill Lawless LONDON -- Prince Harry wanted to be "one of the lads," an ordinary soldier sharing risk and hardship with his men. For 10 weeks, he got his wish, and that may be enough to advance his career in the military. British defence chiefs announced Friday they were ...
Readers panel backs fort plan
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; All ages, genders support project; $75K donatedface=-Bold; By Kevin Rollason THE fight to save the historic Upper Fort Garry site from an apartment developer has the solid support of the majority of the Free Press Insiders Readers Panel. And another $75,000 ...
Natives, allies hail U.S. firm's backing
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Alexandra Paul AN American company's decision to stop using wood products from a northwestern Ontario forest involved in an aboriginal land claim is being hailed as a victory for aboriginals and environmentalists. This week, Idaho Boise Inc. wrote a letter informing ...
Parliament's right to set mandatory sentences upheld
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Judges can no longer grant exemptionsface=-Bold; By Richard Foot The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a landmark ruling defending Parliament's right to create mandatory minimum criminal sentences, and to have those measures enforced by reluctant judges. The ...
PM shows Cadman guilt in tape: MPs
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Says Tories offered 'financial considerations'face=-Bold; By Juliet O'Neill and Norma Greenaway OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper incriminated himself in the alleged bribery attempt of the late Chuck Cadman when he said in a taped interview in 2005 that ...
Teen killer gets break
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Troubled girl sent to intensive rehab for stabbing womanface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre SHE'S 16 and a killer. Mom's a crack addict. Dad's a career criminal when he's not in prison. On Friday, at her sentencing for murder, she got what is likely her ...
Tories accused of knifing Obama
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Is candidate's stand on NAFTA genuine?face=-Bold; By Beth Gorham WASHINGTON -- A fracas over reports that Barack Obama isn't serious about reopening NAFTA has ensnared Canada's Conservative government, which faced accusations Friday of trying to sink the Democrat's ...
Tory bill would cut tax credits to 'offensive' films
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; ACTRA fears plan's 'grave implications'face=-Bold; 'It is not our intention to take a dramatically different approach' -- Heritage spokeswoman Annette Gibbons By Lorrayne Anthony TORONTO -- It's decried as censorship while at the same time being ...
Ricin found in Vegas motel; man critical
Mar 01, 2008; ... LAS VEGAS -- Authorities on Friday confirmed that the deadly toxin ricin was found in a motel room most recently occupied by a man who has been in critical condition at a hospital for more than two weeks. Las Vegas police said there was no apparent link to terrorist activity, and no ...
U.S. efforts fail to help Afghanistan
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Anne Gearan WASHINGTON -- The Taliban have built a huge and profitable drug operation in Afghanistan while provincial governors look the other way, the latest sign of backsliding in a country the United States has spent six years and billions of dollars trying to salvage. A ...
Around the World
Mar 01, 2008; ... Bomb at funeral kills 35 PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A suicide attacker blew himself up among hundreds of mourners at a funeral Friday for a slain police officer in Pakistan's volatile Swat Valley, killing at least 35 people and injuring 62 others. The officer's 16-year-old son who was one of ...
Family shoots down B.C. man's claim he's JFK's lost son
Mar 01, 2008; ... THE family of Jack R. Worthington Jr. told Vanity Fair magazine Friday that his claims of being the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy are "unequivocally false." Worthington Jr. -- who lives near Victoria -- claimed his mother told him he was the murdered U.S. president's ...
Canadians wired to Big Bang 'discovery machine'
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Margaret Munro VANCOUVER -- The "discovery machine" may be half a world away, but Isabel Trigger and her Canadian colleagues are hard-wired into what is perhaps the most ambitious and audacious experiment ever. The $6-billion endeavour aims to recreate the searing conditions ...
Canada resumes transfer of detainees
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Afghan prisons OK'd; groups still opposedface=-Bold; By Stephanie Levitz KABUL -- Canada is confident enough with the Afghan prison system that the transfer of detainees to local authorities has resumed, Canadian military and government officials said ...
Editorial - Now win suppoprt
Mar 01, 2008; ... LAST year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper fired a shot across the bow of the Canadian Wheat Board, warning the agency that free-market barley was coming to Western Canada. "I hope the wheat board will start working with the government to make sure this is going to happen. Because it's going to ...
Canadian astronaut lifts off to retirement
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Williams set record for spacewalking in 2007face=-Bold; By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL -- Canadian astronaut Dave Williams is hanging up his space suit. The man who set Canada's record for spacewalks, hovering in the cosmos for 17 hours and 47 minutes, will retire ...
Letters to the Editor
Mar 01, 2008; ... Letter of the day Give cab drivers a break I am the general manager for Unicity Taxi and would like to reply to the articles regarding taxi service in Winnipeg. First, when we are talking about 409 licences and 93 vehicles that carry the disabled, these numbers should be added ...
Editorial - This is police work
Mar 01, 2008; ... THERE is thin evidence in front of the public that Conservative party members, as alleged by a yet-to-be published book, tried to buy a now deceased Independent MP's vote to bring down the government. What exists is an allegation, a serious claim by Chuck Cadman's widow. The allegation must be ...
Recognize Kosovo; it's just so natural
Mar 01, 2008; ... Tom Oleson IT is a very lucky nation that is a natural thing. Most are not, being instead the spawn of political convenience and the diktats of realpolitik, rather than the easy association of people. We can see the result of that today in Kosovo, which issued a unilateral declaration of ...
Lottery Numbers
Mar 01, 2008; ... LOTTERIES In the event of a discrepancy between this list and the official winning numbers, the latter shall prevail. PICK 3 Winning number Friday was ...
Didn't pay gas bill? Hydro can now sap your power
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Geoff Kirbyson ATTENTION deadbeat customers of Manitoba Hydro -- failure to pay your gas bill could leave you almost in the dark. The Public Utilities Board approved a change to Hydro's disconnection policy and procedures Tuesday, giving it the power to install load limiters ...
Boring old Oscar badly in need of a good laugh
Mar 01, 2008; ... Charlene Adam OSCAR is sad this week. The 80th Academy Awards show had its lowest ratings since they started tracking them in 1974. This mediocre result is being blamed on the writers' strike and movie choices that may have been better loved by critics than fans. But I'm not ...
Will Grits topple Tories over CWB?
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Mia Rabson THE future of the Canadian Wheat Board could depend on whether the Liberals are willing to topple the Conservative government over legislation to introduce marketing choice for barley. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz will introduce the legislation Monday to amend ...
Death Notices
Mar 01, 2008; ... DEATHS AHLUWALIA, Gurmukh (Wally). AHOFF, Adele. ALBANESE, Santina. ALIBANGO (née PAGUNSAN), Felicidad. ARMITT, Alfred (Fred). ARNDT, Hedwig. ASKEW, Celia May. BARTA (née KOBZOS), Anna Marie. BARYLSKI, John. BELL, ...
More barley lawsuits likely, Tories told
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Feds to table anti-monopoly bill next weekface=-Bold; By Larry Kusch and Mia Rabson THE Harper government will likely face more legal challenges when it presses ahead next week with legislation to end the Canadian Wheat Board's barley-marketing monopoly, farm and ...
Liberals getting laughs, and that's a bad sign
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Mia Rabson OTTAWA -- It's not easy being red. At least not in the nation's capital at the moment. Since 2004, the federal Liberals have fallen from a party with a seemingly unshakable majority to official Opposition status so unsure what it wants to do it has handed ...
New theory in North's mercury woes
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Global warming, not pollution, likely culpritface=-Bold; 'We don't want to let the industrial polluters off the hook, but we now think climate change is the culprit' -- scientist Gary Stern By Bartley Kives AMUNDSEN GULF, N.W.T. -- Increasing levels of toxic ...
St. B day cares team up for union negotiations
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Mary Agnes Welch MANITOBA'S biggest union is trying to bring underpaid child-care workers to a common bargaining table, part of a move to shake up the way day-care centres are governed. The Manitoba Government Employees Union is hoping the staff and parent boards at 10 day ...
Strategy will leave positive mark on social infrastructure
Mar 01, 2008; ... Marlo Campbell FAMILY Services and Housing Minister Gord Mackintosh promised $2.2 million in renovations for Winnipeg's Gilbert Park public housing complex last week, part of an $84 million initiative that's aimed at revitalizing Manitoba's aging and increasingly unsafe public housing ...
Spirited Energy promotes a boosterism ethos foreign to Manitoba
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Alien sloganface=-Bold; Doug Johnston THE Spirited Energy slogan has been a PR dud pretty much from the get-go. And reported comments from both provincial Economic Advisory Council member Robert Ziegler and Minister of Competitiveness, Training and Trade Andrew Swan ...
Web poll question
Mar 01, 2008; ... What's your preference in beer? * Domestic * Discount * ...
Family wins freedom
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; After 19 months holed up in church, Razas no longer face deportationface=-Bold; By Aldo Santin MEMBERS of Crescent Fort Rouge United Church are celebrating after the Pakistani family they protected from deportation for 19 months won temporary-resident status in ...
High-end beers are hot, discount suds are not
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Young partiers want sophisticated 'badge' brewsface=-Bold; By Geoff Kirbyson For most of us, a frosty-cold beer is the perfect way to quench our thirst on a hot summer day or wind down after a stressful day at work. But beer industry experts say it's becoming a way ...
Too many stop signs... or too little simple respect
Mar 01, 2008; ... Gordon Sinclair Jr. I was writing earlier this week on a topic with a big blowback factor. Where has simple politeness gone? Simple as in saying "please" and "thank you". I made the point that there's a word that sums up the root of all common courtesy, which ...
Magna's losses mount down the home stretch
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Gary Norris TORONTO -- In a more-of-the-same-but-worse result that one observer said was "like (the movie) Groundhog Day," Magna Entertainment Corp. more than tripled its fourth-quarter loss while continuing to promise to sell assets and eliminate debt. However, the effort by ...
Auto parts supplier strike idles 12,000 workers
Mar 01, 2008; ... DETROIT -- A strike at an auto parts supplier has forced General Motors Corp. to shut down three more pickup truck factories including one in Ontario, idling 12,000 workers, the company said Friday. Plants in Flint; Fort Wayne, Ind.; and Oshawa, just east of Toronto, were to close at the ...
Privatizing Biovail a dicey prescription: analysts
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Eric Shackleton TORONTO -- Analysts say it could prove challenging for Eugene Melnyk to take Biovail Corp. private, one of the options he's considering in light of the drugmaker's lacklustre performance, given the volatility of equity and debt markets. "Premiums, given the ...
Business Watch
Mar 01, 2008; ... Breakwater to spend big TORONTO -- Breakwater Resources Ltd. plans to spend $105.3 million on capital for operations in 2008, with nearly half of that going to Langlois mine, where production is expected to double by the fourth quarter. The company said Friday that Langlois' ...
Razas found all doors shut until border-crossing ruse
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Aldo Santin HASSAN and Kausar left their native Pakistan in 1998 with two children, fleeing religious persecution. Hassan is a Shia Muslim and had been beaten and arrested by Sunni officials in his homeland.They moved to the United States, where another two children were ...
Pair gets six years for manslaughter
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Man hit by car and killed after attack by duoface=-Bold; By Mike McIntyre TWO Winnipeg men were sentenced to six years in prison Friday for a "predatory" attack on an innocent victim who was left unconscious on the street and accidentally run over by a passing ...
Love Me to Death, Mother
Mar 01, 2008; ... Alison Preston Chapter 15 -- Denouement DREAM, thought Crystal, I'm in a dream. But no dream could hurt like this. The pain woke her up again in time to watch her boss topple her captor into the vat of sulfuric acid. Joe's going to be in trouble for that, she ...
Winnipeg still in running for Monopoly board spot
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Kevin Rollason WINNIPEG is in fifth place with San Francisco nipping at our heels for a chance to be immortalized on a Monopoly board. But while fifth is nice, it doesn't count for anything because only the top two cities will get placed in the game. That's why Marisa ...
$3M for spinal cord injury research
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Province signs onto Hansen's national networkface=-Bold; By Bruce Owen IF Brad Boisselle were about 10 years old he'd still be in a wheelchair. Instead, he's got almost complete use of his legs and stands taller than just about everyone else in the ...
Police bust marjiuana grow op
Mar 01, 2008; ... THREE people are facing charges after the raid of a marijuana grow operation in the Inkster Garden area. Police said Friday they entered a home near McInnes Place and Rosehill Way and seized 773 pot plants worth nearly $900,000, along with $7,000 of grow-op equipment. A ...
Seniors get tips on coping with crises
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Workshop focuses on preparing for disastersface=-Bold; By Erin Madden IT can make the difference between being self-reliant and being unable to care for yourself in the case of an emergency, but most people still do not have emergency-preparedness plans for ...
On Prairies, women want a house: poll
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Murray McNeill PRAIRIE women tend to prefer houses over condominiums, according to a new survey released Friday. TD Canada Trust said a recent national survey of 713 single female homeowners found 64 per cent of respondents from Winnipeg, Regina and Saskatoon said their most ...
Volunteers Needed
Mar 01, 2008; ... The following is a list of volunteer opportunities advertised in the Winnipeg area. For more information about these listings, please contact the person/organization directly; you may call Volunteer Manitoba at 477-5180, ext. 225, e-mail vmreferral@mts.net, or visit ...
Province fifth in mining world
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; High metal prices spurring explorationface=-Bold; By Martin Cash MANITOBA fell from its lofty perch as the best mining jurisdiction in the world last year -- but it still ranked as fifth best. The Fraser Institute's annual Survey of Mining Companies has only ...
Gloomy news for the economy
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; $1-million loss could cause Nightmare on Wall Streetface=-Bold; International derivatives expert Satyajit Das was in Winnipeg recently giving a gloomy prediction for world financial markets in the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown in the United States. Das, a consultant ...
Credit crisis spooks markets
Mar 01, 2008; ... TORONTO -- Stock markets racked up steep losses Friday on increased uneasiness about the credit crisis and more bad U.S. economic news. U.S. insurance giant American International Group posted a loss of US$5.29 billion in the fourth quarter. Also unnerving investors was an estimate by ...
Bank CEO says the party's over
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Royal posts 17% profit drop due to subprime 'hangover'face=-Bold; By Romina Maurino TORONTO -- Canada's biggest bank is suffering through the "hangover" of the U.S. subprime mortgage meltdown, Royal Bank CEO Gord Nixon said Friday, adding that he anticipates an ...
TONIGHT ONTV
Mar 01, 2008; ... Curling The Strauss Canada Cup, which airs today and tomorrow from Kamloops, B.C., sees 20 of the country's top men's and women's teams vying for a purse of $150,000. CBC, 10:30 a.m. Radio Days Woody Allen narrates this 1987 comedy-drama focusing on radio's golden age ...
MTC on a roll heading into next season
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; Mainstage, warehouse hit all-time-high subscriptionsface=-Bold; By Kevin Prokosh THE Manitoba Theatre Centre's golden anniversary season has struck gold at the box office. With its 2007-08 playbill, Manitoba' s flagship theatre attracted more subscribers ...
Resolution dissolution? Here's the solution
Mar 01, 2008; ... face=+Bold; It's not hard to rescue your forgotten-about new year's fitness goalsface=-Bold; Healthy Living / Shamona Harnett TWO months ago, you poured a glass of champagne and toasted to your resolution to get fit, eat better, lose weight and make 2008 your healthiest year ...
Jacko late on payments for family's L.A. home
Mar 01, 2008; ... LOS ANGELES -- Public documents show Michael Jackson has repeatedly failed to make mortgage payments on a Los Angeles home that has been used for years by his family. Documents filed with the Los Angeles County Recorder's Office indicate the reclusive pop star was most recently in ...
Missing model Katoucha's body found in Seine
Mar 01, 2008; ... PARIS -- The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to attain international stardom as a model and a vocal opponent of female genital mutilation, was found in the Seine River, police said Friday. Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and ...
Kanye to glow at MTS Centre
Mar 01, 2008; ... KANYE West will light up the city again only eight months after his last appearance in Winnipeg, The Grammy-winning rapper will bring his Glow in the Dark Tour to the MTS Centre May 26. Tickets go on sale March 8 for $53.50, $73.50 and $93.50 at Ticketmaster. Rihanna, N.E.R.D. and Lupe ...
Showbits
Mar 01, 2008; ... Today in music history In 1972, country star Merle Haggard was pardoned by California Governor Ronald Reagan. Haggard had served time in San Quentin in the late 1950s for attempted burglary. Born this day * Glenn Miller, 1904 * David Niven, 1910 * Dinah ...
Police clear Winehouse in tampering investigation
Mar 01, 2008; ... LONDON -- Police are no longer investigating singer Amy Winehouse on suspicion of attempting to interfere with a court case involving her husband, her spokesman said Friday. Winehouse is no longer required to return to a police station for further questioning, her spokesman Chris Goodman ...
Oprah's version of TV reality has big heart, soul
Mar 01, 2008; ... Brad Oswald - Watching tv Watching TV / SHE has spoken. Stop reading. Start giving. OK, so maybe it's not that simple or cynical, but the premiere of Oprah's Big Give (Sunday at 8 p.m. on ABC and CTV) finds TV's most influential female figure shifting her focus from daytime to prime ...
New Music
Mar 01, 2008; ... HIDE your sons: Janet Jackson is back and she wants to get it on real bad. She wants to be strummed like a guitar. She wants to be tied up, blindfolded and punished. She's soaking wet. She wants it 2Nite. On her 10th album, Jackson again plays the nympho card, which she has ...
Ben Chapman known for Black Lagoon role
Mar 01, 2008; ... THE man who starred as the land-creature in The Creature From the Black Lagoon from 1954 died last week at 79. Actor Ben Chapman's Gill Man, while on land, was the quintessential 1950s monster in that black-and-white 3-D film. Another actor played Gill Man in the water ....
Dave Clark Five singer dies
Mar 01, 2008; ... LONDON -- Dave Clark Five lead singer Mike Smith died of pneumonia Thursday, less than two weeks before the band was to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith, 64, died at a hospital outside London, his agent Margo Lewis said. He was admitted to the intensive-care ...
'Too sexy' Victoria's Secret will become 'more relevant'
Mar 01, 2008; ... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Victoria's Secret, the lingerie company that introduced the Very Sexy bra, the Fantasy Bra, and the Internet server-crashing fashion show, has become "too sexy" for its own good, its top executive said. "We've so much gotten off our heritage ... too sexy, and we use the ...
Composer Turner named artist of distinction
Mar 01, 2008; ... By Morley Walker CLASSICAL music composer Robert Turner has been named Manitoba's artist of distinction. The annual $30,000 prize was announced Friday morning by the Manitoba Arts Council (MAC). It is the province's richest award to an artist or entertainer. Turner will ...