Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Wijma mpg free january fatality curbs festive mood from Page l the at stops in Ottawa and they carried signs Masting prime minister Mulroney government for the most passengers were either tour or rail sympathetic to the protesters by the time the train left a group of demonstrators at Pembroke Sta Tion hot before 3 the mood on Board was becoming it re mumbled an Irish Many spoke of the Romance of the railway As they toasted the passing of the then came the terrifying whats that whispered one within a the train had come to a the passenger cars were no one knew yet that a truck had been dragged along the rails the word spread slowly at i think we hit a someone lets Hope its an other passenger shouted Back in there was muffled laughter until the passengers realized it was the train stood motionless for 90 minutes while ambulance and fire officials removed the bodies from on and tried to free the truck beneath the there was a reverent hush Guy president of the Quebec Branch of the pro transport tation lobby group transport was when the train left he had brought out a coffin As a prop for the mob of but it seemed somehow inappropriate now to continue the despite protests across the coun try and Las minute court challenges trains whistled their Way along 17 of via rails 38 routes for the final when they screeched to a More than employees about 38 per cent of Vias workforce of were out of canadians Are left with reduced passenger rail increased fares and severely Cut discounts for students and senior the train originated in another part of the Canadian left Toronto yesterday afternoon and was scheduled to join the Montreal train in before continuing to beginning the Canadian will be rerouted and run Only three times a in a spokesman for via workers said the fight to save Pas pickup in which two people died lies mangled in front of locomotive on the canadians last the unions Cerilli said demonstrations would be held this this afternoon and again tomorrow end ing with the arrival of the last Senger rail service in Canada will continue through the next Federal Al regional Vic president of the Canadian brotherhood of transport and general said the five year plan for via Calls for cuts of million a year for five years enough to de stroy passenger rail service in the Cerilli a Federal election will be held before those five years Are and Union members and sup porters will continue demonstrating and presenting briefs to committees right through the about 50 via workers and sup porters showed up at the main Street station yesterday afternoon to once again display signs and encourage motorists to honk their support for passenger train from All across history was made As trains made their final runs and people responded with actions that were sometimes sometimes angry and sometimes even in the last passenger train to Halifax want a train at All it was a four of the 300 people protesting the loss of train service to the Cape Breton Island Community chained and padlocked themselves to the front of the forcing via to Call in buses to take travellers to Moscow i soviet Caspian sea i 1 Union violence in the Azerbaijan Armenia area at least 30 dead in ethnic rioting axe attack triggers Azerbaijan armenian Battle i soviet Union disputed Magorno Karabash territory Turkey Nash Chevan 160krtib autonomous Azerbaijan Republic of Nash Chevan Caspian sea Tate continued from Page 1 republics have Long the armenian legislature enraged azerbaijanis recently by approving a measure to treat the mountainous Region of people As if it were part of a report on soviet state television last night said the new violence began in Baku saturday when two azerbaijani nationalists were at tacked As they were trying to Force ethnic armenians to leave their one of the azerbaijanis was killed by an armenian wielding an and the other was the report journalists in Baku said that when the axe attack was announced at a massive nationalist Street Demon stration saturday armed gangs of azerbaijanis broke away from the rally and headed for the armenian District of the Caspian port according to soviet they ransacked 53 apart killing 22 people and seriously injuring 26 most armenians had fled Baku following anti armenian rioting in the nearby City of sum Ait in february 1988 in which 32 people were but at least armenians Are believed still living in the shifting violence a War has begun Down said Alexander an official at the armenian information Center in who described the renewed fighting As the most serious in two years Between the Arzu Yanan said that since saturdays outbreak the Vio Lence had shifted to the Shaumyan Region of Azerbaijan North of Nagor where bands of azerbaijanis were attacking armenian villages near the towns of adz hiked and Tass reported late last night that there were tens of dead and wounded from both nationalities in the communications with the Region have been making inde pendent confirmation of claims and counterclaims by armenians and azerbaijanis virtually in a gather ing of More than armenians shouted Down politburo member Nikolai sly nov and Deputy prime minister Ivan is Laver As they tried to explain what Moscow was doing to restore rally organizers set up an emergency committee to sign up volunteers to defend armenians in while the soviet Mili tary newspaper Krasnaya zvezda said a similar mobilization of Citi Zens was under Way in a number of roads leading to Armenia inhabited villages North of Magorno Karabash were reported blocked by azerbaijani militants to prevent the army from getting and sly nov told the crowd in Yerevan that Interior ministry troops had been ferried to the Region by leaders of the armenian Community in the Shaumyan Region said they had sent telegrams to Gorba Chev warning that open War could break out receivership led to safeguard demands in place promenade development from Page 1 insure the Marc mortgage and also gave the developers a lie million mortgage is interest free for 15 he negotiations Between North por Tage and the Developer Cam Bridge Imperial developments started in but before the Deal was compleat several companies related to Cambridge within the Winnipeg based Imperial group were put into a receivership involving almost million in assets in May that prompted a macs demands for stronger financial guarantees from the who by then had set up a separate company called Village at Portage place housing to build and operate the As an additional Chc also asked North Portage to sign an agreement forfeiting reve Nues from a ground lease and Park ing garage agreement it had with Village should the developers de fault on the we we rent prepared to be saddled with additional payments to North Portage if the loan didst work Nichol but Issie executive director of North said Chc forced North Portage to sign the agreement before it would insure the Marc that was the Price we had to Coop said in an interview with the free that was done at a macs Isis if they had refused a macs Condi the Complex would not have gone ahead and North Portage would not have fulfilled its he the first stage of housing was absolutely Coop Al though he admitted there was no Legal requirement for the housing to be it was the trigger for the develop but Village at Portage place housing defaulted on mortgage payments last March just months after the building was documents the developers blamed High downtown vacancy rates for their financial saying the build ing was Only 80percent North Portage stepped in last May and took Over management of the building until the crisis could be then last month Chc ordered Marc to auction off the Complex on if the Sale goes Coop has said the Trievel government corporation will forfeit its rights to future revenues and lose its million investment in the the corporation gave the developers a no repayable loan to build the lower level of underground a government lenders have prior claim on furniture continued from Page 1 As it has because mortgages total Ling More than million provided by Federal and provincial authorities had a prior North Portage took Over manage ment of place promenade last May after the developers defaulted on mortgage the building has been ordered to Public auction the million loan was made to offset costs associated with building the upper level of the two level parking in North Portage agreed to pay the entire million Cost of building the lower level of the Park ing Issie executive director of North said while the development agreement called for the developers to own the North Portage was going to collect All the revenues and it had to pay for its they were really doing us a Coop we paid them to build it for the lawyers said this was the Best Way to because the developers technically own the North Portage stands a Chance of losing the parking revenues if the building is sold at auction later this Canada mortgage and housing which insured an million mortgage Given to the developers to build the 376unit apartment com has the right to waive the parking Revenue when the building is sold at North Portage gave the developers a loan to develop Commer Cial space and Grants totalling 000 to help pay for the pedestrian Walkway and onsite North Portage owns the land on which place promenade is the Developer signed a 49year lease in july a provision of the lease allowed it to be renewed five but limited the total life of the lease to 77 the lease was Worth a year to North with a percentage of the payments would have increased As the rents were the lease agreement places restrictions on the Type of retail outlets that the developers can open in place including Tattoo and body rub Flea amusement topless restau and the Sale of pornographic mortgage to pay for part of the upper level underground parking and a mortgage for improvements to retail space in the but if the building is auctioned Money owed to North Portage would Only be paid after both Chc and Marc mortgages had been re if the auction local developers say the Best Price Chc would get for the Complex is Only to rather than lose its Coop said North Portage will As sume payment of the mortgage to protect its Lon term the corporation would also have to pay the arrears left by the developers and pay an estimated Short fall until the rental Market in he fishermen blame Birds for woes coot toured from Page i nip Gosis Are attacked by fishermen each Koonz says the number of Cor Morants has nevertheless tripled in the last ten but not because they Are eating More he believes Silt run off from farms around the Lake is forcing the Birds main Staples like Perch and suckers to the making them easier the Birds eat Only about one per cent of the commercially exploited fish like he lot of fish the president of the Lake Winnipegosis fishermen association says even that Small percentage is cause for with the number of Crow ducks and Peli cans even one per cent is a lot of said Ray in 68 and Ive never in All my years seen Crow ducks this Fleming admits that 90 per cent of the Birds diet Are Perch and other noncommercial fish but adds its my belief they Are also eating a lot of Fleming blames both the Birds and the Fairford control on the Southeastern Shore of the for the drastic decline in Walleye stocks in the last the dam is keeping the fish he but a spokesman for the depart ment of natural Don says overfishing is the reason behind the depletion of the fish stocks in Lake our studies indicate that the population of Walleye is Only 15 per cent of what it was ten years ago and we think this drop is due mainly to Over Keith the department of natural re sources closed Lake winnipegosis1 summer commercial fishery be cause of critically Low fish the summer fishery was just re opened last they dont know what there talking said Fleming bluntly of biologists who believe overfishing has caused the there Are Only 225 fishing 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