Winnipeg Free Press

Friday, March 23, 2001

Issue date: Friday, March 23, 2001
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Previous edition: Thursday, March 22, 2001

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba 958rent 7368 Winnipeg repress March 2001 Canada world business b7 tse listings by Mutual funds b9 editor Doug Speirs 6977218 Canada news continued on around Canada Dan please Toronto police officers will be Able to conduct Roadside Dan tests in the notto Distant delegates at a forensics seminar were told within the next offi cers will carry portable Dan processing drug wipes to determine ingested substances and products to test intoxication by measuring Eye flutter delegates were also told that a minuscule Dan Sample could soon reveal not Only physical characteristics such As hair and Eye Colour but sexual preferences and behavioural incline take on world Landry Quebec Only Independence can help Quebec culture sur Vive a global Economy and now is the time to fund further study of Premier Bernard Landry said the sovereignty of Quebec becomes even More necessary in today Landry said in his first official address to the legislature since becoming pre the people of Quebec must not risk their culture and economic interests by being absent from International Deci Sion making cant reach ship fire High winds and rough seas were hindering efforts late yesterday to get Mil itary firefighters on to a Japan Ese ship that had burning containers on the 288metre my with 22 people on was in route to Halifax from new York when the Crew reported a fire in a cargo at least three others were soon ecu catastrophe Whitehorse a climate change expert says time is run Ning out and an eco catastrophe train wreck is in store unless drastic Steps Are weve got about 10 years to turn this around or were said Rob macintosh of the Pem Bina Institute during a panel Dis Cussion at the circumpolar climate change Summit no get please Montreal sales taxes Are no laughing matter for Quebec Premier Bernard Ilene owner of the Maestro sep Oyster has replaced the get designation on customers Bills with the word Chretien and the provincial sales tax part with the name of the Quebec one report said Landry reacted to seeing the Bill by banging on the table and Nav can aids Russia Ottawa Canadas National air navigation service is coordinating financing to equip and train russians for Polar flights that should save Asi abound travellers plenty of time and about million us in financing from 10 North Ameri can and asian airlines including air Canada will pay for technological and language training As Well As Communia display and Dat process ing systems Over about four compiled from Canadian press provided by Nasa the aging space station seen in this 1996 photo taken from the space turned into a fireball Over the Pacific Ocean Early All systems go for Safe plunge into the Pacific Russia after 15 years in the the Russ Ian space station Mir started its return Home its cargo ship engines putting the aging space Sta Tion on course for a fiery plunge into the South the engines fired twice once As Mir circled the Globe just below the Equator Over the Indian Ocean and then again an hour and a half the aim was to slow Mir and put it in an elliptical with these firings of the Progress cargo ship the Mirs demise was a final scheduled around 8 Moscow time and mid night Eastern was to hurl the Sta Tion into the Waters Between Australia and everything is going on its sched said Nikolai Deputy mis Sion control chief of after the first the engines worked As the parameters of orbit correspond to our the orbit has been formed so that its lowest Point is positioned Over the dumping if All went Mir would fall harm Lessly into the if the consequences of 25 tonnes of blazing debris tumbling from the sky were frighten it was the first time that Progress engines had been fired for such a Long period and tension was palpable As the de orbit entered its critical but the chief of Mission Vladimir put the chances that every thing will be All right at 9899 per the death of Mir marked the end of a proud chapter in the russian space pro Gram it proved Long duration space flight is its passing came with much wistfulness and some about 15 demonstrators briefly rallied thursday outside Mission hold ing up a portrait of Yuri the soviet who was the first Man in dont give up the russian space the sign but Mir was the impoverished russian government could not afford to keep it in orbit and in Good repair while Ful filling its obligations to the construction of the International space inside Mission control near the mood was strictly controllers bottled up regrets Over Mirs demise As they pored Over charts and figures in preparation for crucial commands that would Power the final descent Early All the emotions we we will Only be Able to express them Tomor Row after the sinking of the said Andrei the shift director at Mission continued please see Mir b2 opposition turns up heat on Fry Over Cross burning allegations by Nahlah Ayed Ottawa opposition maps demanded the resignation of Junior minister Hedy Fry yesterday for accusing some Resi dents of Prince of being racist and falsely attributing her information to the towns but they were rebuffed by prime min ister Jean who said her apology was Secretary of state responsible for told the commons on wednesday that residents of Prince George burned crosses on their she tried to put the matter to rest yesterday with a Short apology that Many later said want nearly she ended her workday in the rain chased by a throng of hav ing touched off a noisy protest in the commons and setting tongues wagging in the Northern City she Shes supposed to be a Champion of tolerance and acceptance and of inclusiveness she continues to drive divisiveness everywhere she Canadian Alliance House Leader Chuck Strahl said outside the Shes not fit to be a parliamentary Secretary and certainly she is not fit to hold that particular the ruckus originated in a question put to Fry by a fellow Liberal my on wednesday about the significance of March 21 As the anniversary of the 1960 Sharleville massacre in South Fry responded that one look far to see examples of we can just go to British Columbia in Prince where crosses Are being burned on lawns As we she later explained that she heard about hateful activity from the mayor of the Colin Prince George officials flatly denied that the mayor Ever spoke to Fry about Cross thinks that he must have been confused with another said acting mayor Don burning simply was not an activity that has taken place in Prince George and it certainly was not part of a conversation or letter that Kinsley had authored to that revelation sent the opposition into a accusing Fry of lying about the frys comments set off a storm of protest from Prince George the local the mayor and Richard the Canadian Alliance my for Prince Georg Bulkley who went after the minister in the Harris said frys apology didst go far in her Fry said Hedy Fry apologized for remarks i mistakenly linked the City of Prince George with a specific hate i regret and i apologize to the 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