clarinews@clarinet.com (Bird/Standard Broadcast News) (02/02/90)
(Farmers) The Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a decision in a case involving farm loans. The court has ruled banks don't have to give notice to farmers before taking equipment that's been put up as collateral. The case involved a Saskatchewan farmer who took the Bank of Montreal to court for seizing one of his farm machines. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal had ruled that banks must notify farmers... but today, the Supreme Court has overturned that decision. (Porno) A group of five-thousand people wants the Manitoba government to clean up the province's video stores. Spokesperson Carolyn Keith is attacking porno video outlets... saying that kind of trash should be swept out of our society. (Police) The head of the police force in Winnipeg is moving to the Toronto area to run the Peel Region force. Fifty-six-year-old Robert Lunney will take over in Peel Region in April. He moved to Winnipeg in 1987. (Teachers) Fifteen-hundred teachers in Regina's public school system could launch strike action any time, now. The teachers have voted in favour of job action and they're holding a strategy meeting today. Class preparation time and extra-supervision duties are at the centre of the dispute.
clarinews@clarinet.com (Bird/Standard Broadcast News) (02/03/90)
(Youth) A 13-year-old boy who murdered an elderly Winnipeg woman and her daughter has been given a three-year sentence... the harshest penalty allowed under the Young Offenders Act. But Ken Shimizu doesn't think that's enough. He's still trying to cope with the frenzied stabbing of his mother and sister. (Language) An executive member with Manitoba's Conservatives believes Sault Ste. Marie is justified in declaring itself English-only. Grant Russell says English-speaking people across Canada are getting fed up with demands for more and more French services. (Teachers) Regina is waiting to see what its public school teachers are going to do. They could walk off the job at any time. The 15-hundred teachers have voted for job action to back their demands over class preparation time and extra-supervision duties. (Murder) A Winnipeg woman appears in court in Fort Frances today... charged in the death of a man from the Couchiching (KOO-chih-ching) Indian reserve... in northwestern Ontario. Twenty-one-year-old Norma Catherine Vaillancourt (VIE-en-court) is charged. with second-degree murder.