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A12 The Ottawa Citizen, Wednesday, December 18, 1996 Canada Ontario plans to cut spending on shelters, leaked report suggests Transition houses could even-be closed if women learn to rely morion neighbors and the use of police-enforced restraining orders to evade abusive husbands, the report says. The Kitchener-Waterloo Record The report says the plan it is proposing "reflects Ontario's realities and the direction of the current government." Stays in rape crisis centres could be limited to 24 or 48 hours, the report suggests. ment report suggests. The report was leaked to the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses and was turned over to Marilyn Churley, the NDP women's issues critic, who made the document public. Southam Newspapers TORONTO The Ontario government has a secret plan to save money by reducing services or even closing women's shelters, a leaked govern i 3c bPi Pjp)o raw osjy 0 Fi tPWM(W aauS.

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What's new: A reclusive former high school teacher was arrested Monday and charged with setting three bombs between 1988 and 1996. What it means: People are relieved that a suspect has been arrested but one observer says the bombs marked a loss of innocence for the province. What's next: Roger Charles Bell is to appear in court Thursday. By Graeme Hamilton Southam Newspapers Retired Charlottetown taxi driver Hassie Acorn says he used to react to news reports of foreign terrorist attacks by thinking: "I'm glad it's not happening around here." That changed in 1988 when the first in a string of mysterious pipe bombs to hit Charlottetown exploded outside the city's courthouse. "All of a sudden it does happen.

Then you wonder, 'What in God is going Acorn said Tuesday He was astounded to learn a man living on the same floor of his apartment building had been charged Monday with three bombings the 1988 explosion, a 1995 blast outside the provincial legislature and a bomb at a propane plant last June. Roger Charles Bell, a 52-year-old reclusive former high school teacher, faces three charges for placing explosive devices "likely to cause serious bodily harm or death," but the arrest can't restore the innocence lost when Prince Edward Islanders realized their tranquil province was not immune to big-city violence. Acorn said after the bombings that he was fearful for his wife as she went to events around the city i "I would think, 'Oh my God. Is the bomber Barbara McKenna, a columnist for the Charlottetown Guardian, said the bombings shook Prince Edward Island in more ways than one. "We used to like to think we were above all that.

Islanders didn't do that to each other," she said. "I guess we look at it as a bit of a loss of our innocence." She was in the legislature the day the bomb exploded, sending politicians diving for cover under their desks and injuring one man sitting on a bench outside. Coming the day after the bombing of a United States government building in Oklahoma City the blast led to increased security at other provincial legislatures. Now, she says she can't walk past the building without thinking of the bomb. "I walked right by that bomb 15 minutes before it went off." McKenna feels another, eerie connection to the bomb Bell, the man arrested, was her high school chemistry teacher.

She remembers him as an eccentric who kept to himself. "A lot of kids made fun of him because he always arrived at school with a lunch pail in one hand and a briefcase in the other," she said. In the 2 years that Acorn and his wife have lived two doors down from him, Bell never even said hello. "He was what you might call a loner," Acorn said Charlottetown police divulged few details about the case Tuesday They said Bell was arrested by members of a joint task force of the RCMP and the Charlottetown police. He is in custody and is due to appear in court Thursday.

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