Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 14, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 2001 Winnipeg i flourish wish 5 9256824 18t7achieva ache Eva the weather c14 40 Chance of wind n 20 t garbage Day 3 school Day 4 inside officer faces charge Grant Butch already awaiting disciplinary proceedings Over allegations he punches a suspect in has been charged after a woman alleged she was threatened at a kids hockey game parental leave costly trustees fear that paid parental leave for Force school boards throughout Mani Toba to Jack up already High school taxes or slash jobs and programs a7 growing and greying statistics edicts steady growth in Manitoba and Canadas population in the next 25 years and an increasing proportion of seniors a10 livestock ban Canada has banned imports of some european Union livestock products As the Footman Mouth has devastated Britai Tias turned up in France consumer cutback economists agree the massive 1 Lois spa wealth in the North Stock Market plunge will slake consumer Confidence and Jwuc but there sure How much p3 Tkachuk sings for blues coyotes Star sent to Louis As nil Trade deadline passes c12 National local plays Mac to dish up local Canadian to Star Cynthia Dale d1 keeping Ufa front Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press engineers inspect Bawlf Block part of new red River College old facades need costly support by David Obrien pretty faces can be hard to particularly when there Only skin contractors Are spending an additional to rebuild the foundations beneath the facades of five heritage buildings to keep them from collapsing in what has been described As the most costly and complicated restoration project Ever undertaken in the the Princess Street buildings will be the Centrepiece of red River colleges new downtown Campus when it opens in the fall of the reconstruction plan Calls for the entire site to be except for the precious facades on the which Date Back to the in addition to foundation technicians have found other headaches in the upper portions of the buildings that have required additional work and a project official continued please see facades a2 Farmers taking anger to streets Parade of tractors could tie up traffic for hours by Helen falling hundreds or even thousands of desperate Farmers Are expected to descend on the Manitoba legislature today As part of a National Day of protest Over inadequate farm grassroots organizer Joe Dusik of Oak Bluff Hopes to see up to of his Peers March ing through the streets of Down town Winnipeg alongside slow moving tractors that could tie up traffic for agriculture in this province is not going to survive if some thing Doest he said everybody is fed the demonstration is not officially endorsed by any of Man Tobas farm but it has struck a chord with producers who Are reaching the breaking Point after years of dismal Grain nip Cabinet ministers called two news conferences yester Day to demonstrate their commitment to Farmers before the agriculture minister Rosann Wowchuk announced Cabinet approval for the provinces share of a farm Aid package detailed this month by Federal agriculture minis Ter Lyle Ottawa contribution amounts to another million for Manitoba Wowchuk also announced that the province has commit Ted an extra million to a sep Arate ongoing income disaster the need driven Canadian farm income pro Gram is expected to require More funds than originally budgeted following heavy losses last government services minis Ter Steve Ashton told reporters he met monday in Ottawa with Federal Cabinet minister Art Eggleton to make a final plea for million in disaster fund ing for southwestern Manitoba communities there Are still struggling to recover after a million acres were too wet to seed in continued please see first step a4 farm protest route leaves the legislative building at 12 noon speeches at legislative building mid afternoon Linda stilkow8ki Winnipeg free press wheels of Justice turning Terrry slowly accused waiting for up to a year for their Day in Manitoba courts by Paul my alb the gears in the slow turning wheels of Justice have become so badly clogged with cases that accused have to wait As Long As a year before getting their Day in Veteran defence lawyer Stan Nozick said that he Hast seen the backlog this bad in the 30 years Hes been its As bad As its Ever said Noz Ive never seen it like it is last month Nozick set a court Date for an impaired driving Case he said other lawyers Are setting dates for March of next youth court matters Are almost As bad with first available dates coming up in said the Bottom line is All of the courts Are backed Don acting Deputy director of confirmed the he said no overriding reason has caused the cur rent crunch but that backlogs were Cycle continued please see backlog a2 wednesday s2 million c ;