Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 2001 local a province will face Freshwater crisis prof Wayne Lowacki Winnipeg free press j t to second lieutenant Nick wan butter of Royal Winnipeg rifles bears remains of Manitoba senator Gil Mol Gat Down the honour guard after Mol Gat remembered As military Man an affectionate Farewell by David Kuxhaus senator Gil Mol Gat was remembered yesterday As a politician and Mili tary but perhaps his greatest role was As a his family in a touching his two grown Anne and Mathurin shared their personal memo Ries at a memorial service in Boni face there were the pickup hockey games on the ice of Windsor Park Community cycling trips in Europe and the verbal jousts Over politics and other issues of the for my there were few sins greater than not having an said who works with non profit agencies in More than mourners crammed into the historic with several Hundred More watching from the they came from every Corner of the country among them judges and politicians to pay their last Mol Gat died last week after suffer ing a stroke during a flight to Ottawa from the Liberal senator was a former Manitoba Liberal Leader and National Liberal party had just completed two terms As Senate speaker in january and was in his final year As As speaker from 1994 until 26 this he occupied the fourth highest ranked political position in the Wayne Lowacki Winnipeg free press Adrienne Clarks ii with Mol Gat recalled senators discriminating Wayne free press a folded Canadian Flag covers the cremated remains of senator Gildas Mol Gat at Boniface he was also the second longest serving having been named to the upper chamber in 1970 by Pierre Mol Gat Cut his Teeth As an la in serving from 1953 to his daughter Anne recalled How the family visited every country fair in Rural Manitoba looking for it looks like he she for everyone wound up being a a musician who lives in new joked about trips to while he pedalled up Steep his father would wait at the top in a Reading a on a More serious he spoke of the measure of a persons life and How the world is a better place because of his among the dignitaries in Atten dance yesterday were Peter Liba and Adrienne Clark he was a Man of great of great discrimination in terms of his ability to look at said he also had a wonderful sense of Humour and he was a very elegant nip finance minister and Boni face la Greg Selinger described Mol Gat As a Bridge builder who was it bound by party that was echoed by David Char president of the Manitoba Metis who said Mol Gat was supportive of Metis i was very pleased with the Way he would address us As Metis peo said Mol Gat is to be buried today in his Rose do by Carol Sanders the scientist whose experimental lakes project made Waves around the world is Back in Winnipeg to warn a tsunami sized Freshwater crisis is on its were going to see some pretty dire said University of Alberta professor David the former head of the Freshwater Institute at the University of scheduled to lecture last night at the University of want weve seen a few said whose research about the Impact of phosphorous Over the last 32 years has taken him to both Lake Winnipeg and Lake of the cottagers at Lake of the Woods and the Interlake Are in for a rude Awakening Over the next several he one thing i predict is big increases in the incidence and the problems Cre ated by algal he we thought we solved the problem 30 years ago by putting in phosphorous removal since the populations of those basins have these things have been creeping Back farming operations Are using More livestock operations Are Boom climates Are warming and forestry and cottage development have altered Lake shores and said the former the extent of the crisis hit the professor Between the eyes when he sat Down to write a piece for the 100th anniversary edition of the Canadian journal of fisheries and aquatic he was asked to cast ahead to the next i started thinking about All the things Ive studied and put them in an orderly he that when the magnitude of the problem struck his paper is titled the cumulative effects of climate warming and other human stresses on Canadian fresh a in general weve seen a decline in water Lake Winnipeg this is already there Are huge changes increases in nutrients and algal blooms with analogous things Hap pening on Lake of the algae pro Duce some of which have been linked to liver he officers acquittal of Road assault is being appealed a Winnipeg police officer who was found not guilty last month in a Road rage Inci Dent will have to fight her Case again before the Manitoba court of the Crown has appealed the acquittal of Marianne Sheard on assault Sheard was found not guilty last month of assault and dangerous driving Aris ing from an incident in february Sheard was alleged to have caused three minor collisions with another vehicle and then dragged the Driver out of the car by her the Crown is Only appealing the 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