Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 28, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A10 Canada / world Winnipeg free press monday june 28, 2004 Canada life a renowned breathing Wall stifled palestinians set off bomb under israeli army base at least 5 soldiers wounded in attack by Ibrahim Barzak g Aza City Gaza strip ? pales Tinian militants dug a Tunnel under an israeli army outpost in the heart of Gaza and exploded a huge bomb there yesterday collapsing a Concrete building and wound ing at least five soldiers. The army refused to comment on reports that soldiers were also killed in the attack for which Hamas and the Al Asa martyrs brigades claimed responsibility. The groups said they were avenging Israel Skilling of Mili Tants in recent weeks including seven shot dead saturday in the West Bank. Hours after the bombing an israeli helicopter fired three missiles at a Metal workshop in Gaza City causing some damage but no major injuries. The missiles hit a workshop in the wounded yesterday palestinian Mili taped claim of responsibility Al Asa Zeitoun neighbourhood setting off a Tants kept firing at the outpost draw said it used 1,500 kilograms of expo Small fire. One bystander was slightly ing heavy israeli fire from Sives though in an earlier Telephone Hurt. Machine guns and tanks witnesses Call to the associated press it said 150the carefully orchestrated pales said. In a nearby palestinian Village kilograms were used. Tinian attack came As Egypt was trying a police officer and a 15-year-old boy this is a message to Sharon that. To broker a ceasefire Between Israel were killed by israeli fire medics said. Our fighters will continue the holy and militant groups ahead of a planned the blast went off shortly before 10 struggle until we uproot the israeli withdrawal from Gaza. It p.m., at an army outpost at the gush israelis from our land said an a seemed unlikely the blast would Dis Katie Junction near Gaza a largest bloc Asa spokesman who Only gave disrupt a pullback. Israeli prime minister of israeli settlements. The outpost is name As Abu Mohammed. Ariel Sharon has said he a determined protected by reinforced Concrete. To go ahead with a plan he believes is militants said they dug a 300-metre crucial for Israel a Security. ? associated press Tunnel to reach the outpost. In a video As israeli ambulances evacuated the by Sarah Staples dignitaries from Prince Philip to Canadian prime ministers have toured the Wall Over its extraordinary 11 years of existence. The chairman of Moody a once famously told a reporter who inquired about Canadas credit rating if wed met in any other room than this one it would have been but now the worlds first and longest surviving indoor biological filter a Liv ing breathing Wall of plants animals and bugs designed by Canadian space scientists to sweeten the air of the for Mer Toronto Headquarters of Canada life Assurance co., is being considered for demolition according to Michael Dixon chair of environmental biology at the University of Guelph who was one of the original architects. Housed within the ground floor Board room of one of Canada life a office Tow ers on Simcoe Street downtown the Wall was acquired when the insurer was sold to Winnipeg rival great West life co inc. In a $7.3 billion Deal last summer. It has become a maintenance headache for the new owner Dixon said. To be fair they great West life probably Haven to realized the possibilities of it and they re not sort of caught up in its history. This was pretty ground breaking stuff he said. Forty foot High hardened fibreglass coated with lava Rock frames three sides of the boardroom. Draped with 250 species of ferns and mosses and con stantly doused with fresh water the porous Wall with the help of fans acts like a charcoal filter. It sucks in air Laden with formaldehyde from carpets and glues benzene from Industrial cleaners and trichloroethylene emitted by dry cleaned clothes or Toner purifies it through a complicated artificial ecosystem that includes an aquarium filled with 40 aquatic species and countless greenhouse insects and Micro Organ isms then recirculated the purified result under the boardroom floor and throughout the buildings ventilation sys tem. Studies Over the years have proven that the ecosystem stuck to the Board room Wall leaves volatile organics virtually undetectable. Bio filtration had been used before to treat Industrial sewage bringing the technology inside to address air Quality in a sealed commercial office building was a world first said Dixon. David House up of development for great West life realty advisors a wholly owned real estate subsidiary con firmed the breathing Wall May or May not survive in its current the company is in the midst of a review of its newly acquired properties and considers that the Canada life office Tower downtown May be surplus for the insurance company a needs in the not too Distant future eight or nine months Down the Road House said. Among several prospective new ten ants for the building the archives of Ontario is considering relocating there but fears the Wall might harm old books and manuscripts. Sir Sanford Fleming University East of Toronto has proposed acquiring parts of the room though a decision in to firm he said. There Are various proposals for future use and depending on what kind of a Deal is struck things will or wont happen to the environmental room. The plan is not simply to discard ? can West news service i Brief drug charges bring death Beijing ? chinese authorities executed 17 people on drug charges to Mark International anti drugs Day state news Media said yesterday. The executions were carried out sat urday in Shanghai and Chongqing and came a Day after authorities announced 11 other executions scheduled to Mark the Day. Among those executed saturday Lin Chengfu was convicted of smuggling 1.8 kilograms of heroin from Myanmar to Shanghai in 2003, Xinhua news Agency said. Alderwoman Scase closing Calgary ? Dar Heatherington a Brush with notoriety is expected to come to a close tuesday As a judge rules on whether the Southern Alberta alderwoman fabricated a stalker. Heatherington a City Council Mem Ber in Lethbridge alta., made International headlines in May 2003 after vanishing in great Falls mont., spark ing a frantic search that ended three Days later in Las vegas. Killer being released new York ? a Man who killed his six year old adopted daughter Lisa in l987 is being released from prison wednesday. Joel Steinberg now 63, will exit the Southport correctional facility with his Public perception As a monster reinforced by his repeated denials of any role in Lisa a death. Steinbergs former Lover Hedda Nussbaum recently announced she would flee new York rather than face him again. Hermits body found Earlton . ? Nova Scotia police believe they May have found the remains of the shy Recluse known As the Hermit of Gully Lake. The body of an elderly Man was found yesterday afternoon As More than 100 volunteers combed the Woods in the Gully Lake area of Colchester country. The searchers were hoping to find out conclusively what had happened to 87?year-old Willard Kitchener Macdonald. Mountain lion mauls woman los Angeles ? a woman was attacked by an emaciated Mountain lion while hiking in Central California but was rescued when her friends stabbed the animal with a knife and threw rocks at it officials said. Shannon Parker lost her right Eye was injured in her other Eye and suffered deep lacerations to her right thigh during the attack saturday officials with the California department of fish and game said. Serbian reformer wins Belgrade Serbia Montenegro ? a pro Western reformer won Serbia a presidential run off election yesterday defeating a Hartline nationalist ally of former autocrat Slobodan Milosevic. Boris Tadic received 54 per cent of the vote to become Serbia a first democratically elected president since the second world War. Nationalist Tomis Lav Nikolic got 45 per cent the state electoral commission said. Turnout was 48 per cent. ? from the news services ;