Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 26, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fui 2001 b7 transit strike takes toll on cold Cal Arians Calgary after a weekend enduring freezing Many Cal Arians Are angry about the reality of another work week without Public one transit rider is demanding that a transit which began last be settled at All its disparaging toward the work ing said Michael there Are no new talks scheduled Between the two sides and they appear to be getting ready for a lengthy like Many Ferguson is caught in the his Job at Tri logic relocation systems is 1 hours away by bus and Light rail Tran we pay our taxes and expect cer Tain amount of he frustrated the talks Are at a stand Ferguson said this strike wont be easily forgotten by Cal Arians at voting time in if the mayor Doest get his act together he be voted Back he this strike is going to be a turning Point for his next term in seniority and wages Are two of the biggest sticking Calgary amalgamated transit Union 583 is demanding per per cent and four per cent Over a three year but the City is offering three per per cent and three per cent consecutively for each year from 2000 to Canadian press Saskatoon Man died of officers misconduct alleged police face suit Over death Saskatoon the Mother of a Saska Toon Man who died of exposure last win Ter has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police Force and two unknown claiming her son was taken from her prematurely because of police Rodney was found Frozen to death near the Queen Elizabeth ii Power station last his Marvina filed a statement of claim against the Saska Toon police and John Andor Jane unidentified members of the Saskatoon police service in court of Queens Bench last Nai Stuss death is under investigation by an ramp task Force formed last year to look into the complaint of Darrell another aboriginal Man who claims two police officers ejected him from their Cruiser near the Power Sta Tion in freezing night came Forward with his Story shortly after the bodies of Nastus and another native Lawrence were found in the same the task Force is also investigating Vegners Saskatoon police constables Dan Hatchen and Ken Munson Are awaiting trial on charges of assault and forcible confinement in the night night is also suing the police the task Force recommended no charges be Laid in the deaths of two other aboriginal Darcy Dean Iron child and Lloyd Joseph Marvina Nai Stuss statement of claim says her son was walking with an unknown companion to a but somewhere along the Way he encountered police the suit alleges the officers put him in the Back of a marked Cruiser without lawful they then drove him to the Remote location South of the City and forced him out of the car in freezing wearing attire that was wholly inadequate for survival in cold although they must have known that leaving him there would cause his the suit neither Timothy the Saskatoon lawyer who represents Marvina Nastus in the nor lawyers for the police could be reached for 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authorities reopened segments of 190 yesterday afternoon As Crews slowed out drifts and removed stalled associated press Footman Mouth disease confirmed again in Farmers burning hundreds of carcasses London British agricultural authorities confirmed new cases of foot and Mouth disease at a cattle and sheep farm in southwestern England amid rising fears of a wider officials in Northern England began the grim task of burning the carcasses of hundreds of animals slaughtered in an Effort to contain the highly infectious livestock More than 800 pigs doused in Oil and placed on pyres of Straw and rail ties were set on fire in North umber in the outbreaks first Massin Cin Britain has been scrambling since 19 to contain the outbreak of foot and Mouth its first in two exports of milk and live animals have been banned and inspectors have been quarantining farms and Slaughter houses suspected of harbouring the Dis the latest confirmed reported by the agriculture were found in at a sheep and cattle farm that is part of a 14farm the 13 other farms Are now being inspected As Large number the new cases brought the number of Sites where the disease has been con firmed to agriculture officials would not spec Ify How Many suspect cases were being checked but said it was a Large num our Hopes that the disease could be contained have been horribly Shat said Ben president of the National Farmers we Are now More determined than Ever to maintain our vigilance and beat this authorities also confirmed prior to last weeks Export sheep from the Devon farm had been sent to buyers in agriculture minister Nick Brown acknowledged there was thus a risk infected sheep could have been exported before the outbreak was Dis veterinary officials cannot say precisely when the British outbreak began but some have speculated the disease could have been pre sent for As Long As three weeks before being so More than animals have been in a disastrous foot and Mouth epidemic continued for months and forced the Slaughter of nearly a Hal million animals in in the More than pigs and Deer were slaughtered As a preventive All from farms that imported animals from officials said no Footman Mouth cases have been Belgium imposed a ban saturday on All transport of sheep and Footman Mouth disease spreads very it spread from one animal to transmitted through contaminated or carried by humans on boots and the outbreak has raised questions about modern farming and whether transport and Slaughter have made animals More vulnerable to officials have not announced the num Ber of confirmed Only places where the disease has been it is presumed wherever the disease is it will so All animals at risk to More than Are being human cases of Footman Mouth Dis ease Are extremely it affects animals with Cloven causing blisters around the hoofs and of fever and vaccines exist but Are quickly rendered ineffective by the development of new strains of the so whole Sale Slaughter is used to contain press ;