Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 May 2000 Canad world b1 business b7 editor Doug Speirs 6977294 news continued on 06 ministry told water tainted around Canada Legal Aid a red flags up before disaster in Walkerton Legal Aid system in a shambles Means the women dont have the proper representation in say lawyers and Legal Aid is supposed to pro vide court representation for those unable to afford counsel on their but a Lack of funding Means it is unable to meet Basic say the lawyers who work within the Mother child jail unit Edmonton prison authorities in Edmonton have conceived a plan to allow female inmates to keep their babies and toddlers with them while they serve out their the Edmonton institution for women is seeking permission from the correctional service of Canada to build a special unit at the facility As part of a Mother child deput Warden Danielle Boisvert said the policy could be put into place As Early As next if Federal authorities con Park faces quarantine Halifax Nova Scotia Nat ural resources department will decide today whether to quaran Tine a popular City Park to control the spread of the Brown Spruce longhorn the foreign insect is believed to have arrived in recent years aboard a Container ship from Europe or Asia and has since been devouring the red Spruce Trees in Point pleasant Park in the cites South department officials set tie traps in the Park and nearby areas spokeswoman Susan Mader Zinck said the scientists want to estimate the size of the insect 1 from Canadian press around the world last hostages freed Sierra Leone Sierra leonean rebels yesterday freed what appeared to be the last of some 500 in hostages seized earlier this Sig Naling a positive change of direction among the rebels toward bringing peace to the War torn West african a a spokesman eight five former captives arrived in Freetown last night from the capital of neighbouring said in spokesman David plane crash kills 3 a Small plane crashed on a suburban Street near a shopping mall Here killing Bree peo pie my r Airport when it went Down to Paw parking snapping musician charged London musician was charged yesterday bbl television presenter Jill a killing that shocked Britain More than a year Barry will appear today before a magistrates a police statement Hack right of supported than people marched a mtg million and forced pal Fie for up to eight i Toronto an official from Ontario environment ministry has admitted the province knew the water Supply of was contaminated prior to the towns deadly Coli the Toronto Sun reported spokesman John Steele said saturday the ministry received data from Gap Environ microbial ser vices of that showed the presence of a bacteria naturally present in plants and in the towns Garry an official with said his lab found col form in the towns distribution sys tem on five occasions Between january and each the results were sent to ministry officials in Owen and to Walker tons pub Lic utilities he Ontario environment ministry insisted it was told May 3 the water in Walkerton was in a statement released late the ministry said its Owen sound office received test results in january and april from Gap that showed evidence of col form a sign the water sup ply was being tainted by surface but the towns local Utility assured the ministry by phone april 10 it was taking including increased chlorination of the water Supply and More the statement on May the Walkerton Public utilities com Mission submitted to the ministry office a copy of a lab report which indicated the followup testing showed an absence of any col form bacteria or the statement no further lab reports were it was in april that a private Laboratory based in abandoned the analysis of municipal water because it was no longer another London a and l laboratories Canada took Over the continued please see ministry b2 Susan Brannam Canadian priss followed by a distraught a woman airlifted from Walkerton arrives at a London Hospital Canada buries unknown Soldier Tom Hanson press Saskatchewan first nations grand chief Howard Anderson puts sweetgrass and Eagle Feather in thousands watch solemn funeral for life Cut Short defending nation by John Ward unknown Soldier was buried yesterday in a National funeral fit for a prime minister or an estimated people crowded the Square around the National War memorial in solemn silence As the age old traditions of a military burial played mothers and fathers with soldiers in teens with Eye brow kids on bikes and seniors with walkers mingled on the curbside As the country mourned a life Cut a grave the silence of this crowd during the marvelled Frank a second world War Ive never been so another huge audience watched live to broadcasts of the Muff led Drums the nameless Soldier brought from a grave in France on thursday had lain in state in the Hall of honour in the parliament building for three As thousands of his countrymen and women filed past to pay their they bore him through the streets of Ottawa on a Century old gun Carriage drawn by four Black ramp honour guards with rifles reversed in mourning marched in front to the slow beat of Drums muffled by Black minute guns boomed 21 times As the procession moved Between lines of silent hundreds of veterans stood by the Monument As the air Force and mounties positioned the Silver Maple coffin Over the caledonian Granite Sar it was draped in the Maple Leaf Flag that this Soldier never a Flag without him and his might never have under overcast in a Spring Adrienne Clarkson stood As chief Mourner and delivered a moving for a sol Dier with neither name nor 1 333 of i i 1 Tom press ramp escort the unknown soldiers casket during yesterdays ceremony at the National War every Soldier in All our prime minister Jean Chretien echoed that idea in his Brief although he lost his life on the battlefields of a foreign he is Cana Das lost son no Chretien through we Are bringing Home and laying to rest every one of our friends and relatives who gave their their so that we could live in peace and Murray the roman Catholic con ducted the nondenominational butlers from the Royal Hamilton Light infantry sounded the last after two minutes of a Lone Piper skilled a lament for the unknown Soldier and four cf18 fight a bombers screamed one pulling up and away to leave a Gap in the missing Man Paul a 100yearold first world War vet and Ernest Smoky a Victoria Cross Winner of the second world read the simple words of Laurence Binions act of remembrance they shall not grow As we who Are left grow age shall not weary nor the years at the going Down of the and in the morn we will remember legion members filed past the Tomb with boxes and urns to pour in a bit of soil from each province and ter As Well As soil from Vimy in the unknown will lie in the soil of his Homeland and that of the land where he Canadian press from first world War Veteran Paul son Jean Metivier and second world War Veteran Ernest Smokey the Only certainty about him is that he was she if death is a debt we All must he paid before he owed she mused on what he might have truck Driver Miner teacher did he have Brown eyes did he know what it was to love someone and be loved Back was he a father who had not seen his child did he love hockey did he play defence Clarkson said there will never be answers to such we cannot know she and no honour we do him can give him the future that was destroyed when he was we Are honouring that unacceptable thing a life stopped by doing ones the end of a the death of she said there is a Basic human fear of an Anonymous death and an unmarked the unknown sol Dier surpasses he has become More than one More than one he is an he is a Symbol of All he is ;