Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free press january natives divided on Road Eschief says is of Fate press cant hmm from Page 1 we have to have areas where our Young people have the Northeast is the most under developed area of the he said a Road will Spur Timber and mining development and noted mining companies already Are exploring in the Virgin they would not be spending Money if there was no he Joe Guy a former band chief and tory candidate who Heads a Hydro benefits project for North East communities futures commit said natives Are split on the Issue of a i Haven taken a Survey or any but i would say 40 per cent say it will just do harm to the Environ ment there will be Beer cans and Camps All Over the place and they will not have majority opinion the other group its so expensive for food and the buying Power of our dollars could go up to 80 cents from 60 cents and there could be mining and pulp develop the majority of the people think that Everett and Weenusk All agreed that concerns about the Impact on trapping Are not viewed in terms of whether the Impact will but whether compensation will be guaranteed before anything takes Wood said he is not troubled by the Impact the line will have on the aesthetics of the whats ugly he i dont think its ugly and i Haven heard concern about that aspect of it Everett said he Doest believe trapping will be nor does he foresee environmental what do you environment concerns he its a Hydro line 260 feet that All it Pannell said while environmentalists Are sympathetic about the de sires of natives in the preserving it from development is More he said the benefits natives be Lieve will result from a Road Are the area should not be valued because it has potential to be sex but rather because it is he we have to preserve some areas free of that he we have to have places set aside to be a measuring stick to Monitor what is happening in areas that we have Pannell said that although environmental groups Are underfunded and overburdened with a Host of environmental issues ranging from cutting rights for Recap resources to pollution of Shoal they will rally to preserve Eastern it always surprises me that there is enough Energy to take on another but this is very big and the environmental Community will apply he Richard author of a Book about the cancer risks associated with High voltage transmission said in an interview from that the dangers of the direct current line from Conaw Apa to Winnipeg Are unknown because Little research has been conducted on do the alternating current line that will run Kilometres from Winnipeg to Sault is another Brodeur said about 25 scientific studies concluded there is a significant increase in cancers among people who live close to a which create Strong magnetic he said Manitoban must ensure the lines Are built a significant perhaps half a from buildup Hydro chairman Brian Ransom said while the Utility position is that there is no scientific proof link ing magnetic Fields with it nevertheless is aware of growing Public Road real my say continued from Page i to the via rail there Are freight trains going into the i Dobbie adding it May be possible for via to tack a couple of passenger cars on to a freight train that runs on a More acceptable schedule for but Dobbie said any solution com ing from a facet face meeting Between cottage owners and via is a Short term its urgent because 15 is Only a week Dobbie adding the Lon term solution to the problem is a cottagers we need something to protect the investment in Barry Lloyd the Only alter native is a a spokesman for the Winni Peg to Farlane campers and recreation said there Are 500 cottages strewn along 100 Kilometres of rail and their owners have invested too much Money to be in Lloyd said while the old schedule was designed to accommodate cot the transcontinental service wont get them to their retreats on the campers special was opened by in rail in 1911 and serves As the Only link to the cottage communities Between 130 Kilometres and 240 kilo metres East of Between and people regularly take the train during sum Mer in Between 50 and 100 people Board the train on thursday or Friday night and return to Winnipeg sunday the change in service is part of massive cos cutting measures via was forced to implement when Ottawa announced it is reducing funding support for the Crown via will close almost half its routes and Cut More than a third of its workforce next two groups of cottagers have approached via and the Manitoba Parks Branch to build roads to their Mark the White Shell Assis Tant Parks said his staff is collecting data to see if build ing a Road might be Clarke said no decision has been made to build the Road and no route has been right were just gathering Clarke said a about nine to 11 Kilometres is being con senior officials role in scandal blasted continued from Page 1 Weir noted that Security files de scribe Gingras As cooperating with prison authorities to help Cool Down a prison riot in january that reference was blacked out in copies of the report Given to the he recommended that former Warden Sepp now an assistant Deputy commissioner of and Fred coordinator of corrections operations at the be pressed to take Early retirement for their roles in the weirs report portrayed Gingras As a career criminal with a history As an informant in prisons in Central Weir said Many prison staff Mem Bers he interviewed believed Gin gras enjoyed privileged near immunity from internal discipline and unparalleled private Access to senior the likelihood of Gingras escaping on the pass was so obvious that sentence administrator Mary Ann Birk offered to bet the wardens Marlene that he would not Young soared her opinion and declined the the Story of the bet was Cut from the portion of the report made from his to his one had to be Blind not to recognize his serious Weir the question is Why would the Warden an Intelli gent fail to see this and act As he did it had to be a conscious decision by the Warden to recommend the Eta escorted temporary absence in spite of the negative features of Gingras record and con when releasing the report last John Deputy com missioner of said the Warden failed to exercise proper the recommendation of Early retirement for Perring and Tschie Schwitz is under consider Weir also said a number of potentially embarrassing documents about Gingras have disappeared and concluded that someone at the Edmonton institution probably Des troyed Weir also told of an occasion in which Gingras was placed in solitary confinement after three Drill bits were found in his Schiersch Witz released him two Days later without holding a disciplinary hear Weir the Drill bit Story is blacked out in weirs re port improvising routine Kat Russia aged improvises her routine during a ukrainian Christmas show at the the Nursery school children performed traditional Black Market pegged at billion continued from Page 1 according to our figures no fewer than 30 million people Are tied up in the Shadow Economy and the turnover involved approaches 100 billion roubles billion she said unmasking and prosecuting Black marketeers is complicated by the fact that Large groups involved have a reliable a Legal their own Man in the police or in local or senior Levels of Kosyagina has gained wide at Tention for her exposes of Black Market operations in the she regularly cites figures for various malpractices connected with the country chronic Short age of Basic in she told a newspaper in the Baltic Republic of lat via that conservatives in senior positions were hatching a plot to overthrow president Mikhail Gor in her Kosyagina said most of the Money accumulated in Black Market deals is kept in Gold cars or Anc demands rights before talks Johannesburg a South Africa main Black guerrilla move ment said today it would enter talks with South Africa White rulers Only if granted the same political free Dom As the governing National until that the outlawed african National Congress will seek to intensify its guerrilla the organization said in a statement issued to Mark its 78th Annivera president de since taking office in has eased restrictions on Black opposition freed several jailed leaders of the african National con and offered to negotiate a new Constitution that would extend Politi Cal rights to Blacks while protecting White the african National Congress said de Klerk still has a Long Way to go before he could claim to have ended u activists arrest planned continued i Viii 1 systems were never in pander Loughead is a member of Winni pegs project a Church sponsored he is expected to make a court appearance Lou Heads father John was told by a newspaper reporter that his son was in jail last that was plan adding he supports his sons plan a was to draw attention to the nuclear weapons Down the elder a department store said Jason didst expect to be in jail More than a couple of Jason plans to com plete his Grade 12 studies in Winni Peg at the beginning of Loughead Lysa Ringquist of witnessed the demonstration at the the five All had blood drawn from themselves on saturday so they could dump it on the missile she in an interview Jason Loughead said he was nervous about taking part in the but id rather pay the penalty with a bit of time in jail than see Winnipeg he emphasize threat Loughead said the action was to emphasize the nuclear threat and environmental degradation that comes from the mining and shipping of the demonstrators face possible jail terms of Between six months and two project peacemakers spokesman Pauline Nadler said nine including travelled to North Dakota for the Demontra the defendants Are expected to argue in their own defence without a she said about 100 people from the Midwest United Manitoba and Saskatchewan turned up to sup port Loughead and the other Nadler said the incident is the first time a Canadian has been involved in such action at a nuclear another project peacemakers Kevin said the group tried to talk Loughead out of participating in the demonstration but Loughead said he had been arrested three times previously for various acts of civil disobedience in Cana Jardine said project peacemakers and other groups want to put pressure on the United states to Start cutting Back on its it is estimated there Are Over 300 intercontinental ballistic missiles throughout North Dakota in under ground Loughead said he didst think hed get a jail sentence As a result of the most i will be deported from the United states and barred from entry for five he said he was prepared to face the possibility of draw Date january 1990 celebrate a new decade of Prosperity Celebration the newest lottery Coo sup a feast of prizes a grand prize of million 6 prizes of 5 exclusive round the world trips via private Worth 5 porsche 944 s2 5 Mercedes Benz 190 500 prizes of plus millions in subsidiary now that a lot of cake celebrate Early Well whet your 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