Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Orff May 2000 local As Jeff de Idor Winnipeg free press preparing the Field City naturalist Cheryl Heming and Winnipeg firefighter Terry using a Container filled with a Gas diesel Start a controlled Burn yesterday at the living Prairie museum to Clear the Way for this years crop of Prairie confronts burglar by Leah Janzen Marjorie Stephanson got the scare of her life tuesday afternoon when she came face to face with a burglar in her the 65yearold Charleswood resident was alone tuesday and had gone Down to her basement to do some laundry when she heard a i thought they called for Thunder so i looked she said then i heard thumping on the floor above my head and i knew it want i came up the stairs and saw a Man bounding from the hallway to the she he yelled at me to get out of his he had his arms full with my before Stephanson could the thief slammed the base ment door in her face and fled out the front shaken but Stephanson was Able to run to the door in time to see the Man jump into a sports Utility vehicle with a second Man in the passenger seat and take Stephanson got her identification and purse but a Small amount of Cash and her jewelry Are her said he arrived Home tuesday to find police cars in his driveway and his wife an emotional patrol Gordon Hudson said even when at people should keep their doors and windows locked especially when out in the Yard or downstairs where doorbells might not be Monitor hog production report citizens commission Calls for inquiry by Helen fall lip Brandon a citizens commis Sion on hog production called yesterday for a Public inquiry into Industrial scale farming in the six commissioners also want workers compensation for hog barn a ban on sow crates and a moratorium on industries dumping phosphorus into Southern Manitoba in a 32page report based on testimony at a three Day hearing in Brandon last the group lists dozens of policy rec Many aimed at the provincial i think this is a very important Docu ment for the whole said com missioner Christine noting that Quebec has been struggling with the ecological Impact of hog farm ing for the hearing was funded by the Sierra club and the North american fund for environmental but the commissioners insist they reached their conclusions Independent of any environmental the commission was chaired by Winnipeg lawyer Yude Henteleff f and included former Parkland medical officer of health Kay two members of the Manitoba environmental a hog production recommendations key recommendations of the citizens commission on hog production i Manitoba should follow Britain Lead in Banning gestation crates that confine sows in an area too Small for them to turn i the use of antibiotics to promote hog growth should be i human health should be incorporated into the environmental assessment i government deals to subsidize Indus try should be publicly disclosed and debated before any commitments Are i governments should not take responsibility for pollution i licensing of new plants that increase the phosphorus Load in the Assiniboine red River and Lake Winnipeg watersheds should be postponed until their Impact can be i Large scale corporate hog and Chicken barns should no longer be exempt from workplace health and safety standards and workers i the province should help municipalities develop risk maps showing where hog barns can be located without contaminating i the province should collect Baseline water Quality data so the Impact of new barns can be More accurately Farmer and a retired geography proves the commission was established after Manitoba environment refused to hold Public hearings on Brandon giant new Maple Leaf pork since the Schneider Plant in Winnipeg has announced a major in com the two plants could Lead Man Tobas hog production to double to about 10 million pigs a presentations to the commission were dominated by environmental groups and researchers after most representatives of the pork Industry refused to Par citing fears the commission would be some of the Industry people said to us we should have been Saskatchewan lawyer Roderick Macdonald the Manitoba pork Council submitted a Brief after the Council chairman Marcel Hacault said the pork Council agrees with some of the groups including concerns about the health of hog barn we realize that that an emerging Hacault said the report showed a distinct rather than just sit Back and close everything our solution is to acknowledge the prob see How we can address them and move rights tribunal looks at tax on deaf students disability Grant the Canadian human rights commis Sion is going to look into the Case of a deaf University of Manitoba student who says he was discriminated against because his disability Grant was Scott Wignall says he received a Spe Cial Grant for students with but the Canada customs and Revenue Agency taxed it As a the commission asked that a human rights tribunal look into Wignall argument 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