REGINA (Staff) – Bob Mitchell resigned as Saskatchewan justice minister Feb. 20, three days after the opposition Progressive Conservatives revealed a radio transcript from an open-line show in which Mitchell partially revealed a young offender’s identity.
Mitchell said Monday that resignation was the only proper course of action because revealing a young offender’s identity is against the law. Ned Shillington has been named the new justice minister. He gives up his position as associate finance minister, a role that now goes to Ed Tchorzewski.
Sawatzky case
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WINNIPEG (Staff) – Anti-wheat board crusader Dave Sawatzky is scheduled to appear in court again March 15 for pre-trial proceedings on two counts of illegally shipping wheat and barley to the U.S.
He was in Winnipeg Provincial Court last week for the second time, but he said his next appearance is “when we start getting into the soup of the matter.”
Sawatzky, who is no longer retaining a lawyer, said he has not yet entered a plea. Once pre-trial proceedings are finished, the Crown has said its case will take about a month. He is charged with failing to provide a CWB licence to customs for shipping wheat across the border between Nov. 30, 1993 and Aug. 12, 1994 and for shipping barley between June 24 and Aug. 5, 1994.
Corrections
The acronym CPIC, mentioned in a photo caption on page 16 of the Feb. 16 issue, stands for Crop Protection Institute of Canada. The wrong title was used in the last issue.
In another photo, on page 29 of the same issue, an incorrect location was provided. The photo was taken near Meath Park, Sask.
An article in the Feb. 9 issue stated there was no sodium increase when waste oil was applied to sandy soil, in an experiment on the Ben Kambeitz farm near Richmound, Sask.
The article should have stated there was a marked increase in sodium, from the oil, sand and salt water in material from Lloydminster’s oil upgrader.
