Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 19, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday August 19, 2006 Canada a11 around Canada baby Gorilla Dies Calgary for eight Days Zuri the Gorilla was the perfect Mother to her Newborn baby. But her inexperience As a mom and her inability to Stop her half Sis Ter from trying to nurse the new born left Zuri unable to keep her Young daughter alive. So just after 5 . On thursday she walked away from her first child and left it to die. The first eight Days were very very Good. Zuri was showing Good nursing behaviour said an emotional Les Stegenga one of the Cal Gary zoos Gorilla keepers. But then other events bugs go Joy Riding Saskatoon in an experience paralleling an amusement Park ride the insects in or. Jack Gray slab Are going on wild sensory Voy Ages in the name of science. The University of Saskatchewan biologist wants to know How fast Fly ing migratory locusts known for munching through crops blast along in tight swarms while avoiding predators and sniffing out mates. That a Why he built an insect flight simulation chamber that allows his team to put bugs in a Vir Tual reality world where the insects reactions can be monitored. Priests face de rocking London ont. ? in an unprecedented move the London diocese in Ontario will consider asking the Vatican to de frock All eight of its convicted paedophile priests. The statement came yesterday on the heels of a press conference by London Law firm Ledroit Beckett demanding the diocese de frock priests Barry Glendinning Konnie Przybylski and John Harper. Cartier settlement found Quebec ? an archaeologist called in to look for anything interesting in the path of a development commemorating Samuel de Champlain a 1608 founding of Quebec City has stumbled on an even older site. Archaeologist Yves Chretien has uncovered Jacques Cartier a Long lost 1541-1543 settlement. It is of major importance Chretien added. It is the first French settlement in the Quebec to pay abortions Montreal ? a court judgment has ordered the Quebec govern ment to give More than $13 million to nearly 45,000 women who had to pay for abortions. Justice Nicole Benard of Quebec Superior court ruled the province misinterpreted its own medicare Law by paying Only a portion of the Cost of abortions performed in cer Tain women a health centres and Pri vate clinics. The judgment in the class action lawsuit covers abortions performed Between 1999 and 2005. Owls left unprotected Ottawa ? environmentalists Are accusing the Federal conservative government of hammering the Nail into the coffin of the spotted owl. The Sierra club of Canada held a Brief ceremony on parliament Hill yesterday to mourn what it says is the impending loss of the spotted owl from Canada. The group says environment minister Rona Ambrose is refusing to use the species at risk act to protect the owls habitat from log Ging in British Columbia. ? from the news services lord drops writ in . After promises sparring Premier takes Ultra thin tory majority to the polls by Chris Morris f Fredericton ? after weeks of government spending announce ments opposition promises and political sniping the Campaign for the sept. 18 election in new Brunswick is truly underway. Premier Bernard lord called the elec Tion yesterday after visiting the provinces lieutenant governor to Dis solve the legislature. Our government has achieved great Success for the people families and communities of new Brunswick lord said in a statement announcing the election Date. We have tabled successive balanced budgets All while making record invest ments in what matters health and senior care education helping those in need lower taxes for families and businesses affordable Energy and fostering Job creation and economic development in All regions of our great the election announcement came As no Surprise since lord said Over a week ago he had decided on the sept. 18 Date giving everyone lots of Advance warn ing. The election became inevitable when a Bac Bencher told lord he was resign ing his seat to return to private life a move that would have plunged lords fragile conservative government into minority status. Lord 40, has said that rather than hold a by election this late in his mandate it is better to go to the people. Standings at dissolution in the Legisla Ture were 28 tories 26 liberals and one Independent. Facing Liberal Leader lord will be facing Liberal Leader Shawn Graham 38, for the second time in an election Campaign. Earlier yesterday Graham announced a major Plank of the Liberal platform promising to lower taxes on gasoline by 3.8 cents a litre and review the newly introduced Gas regulation system which has had a Rocky Start. The lord government has Given new Brunswicker Gas tax hikes and failed regulation said Graham. Its time for a lord one upped Graham during a rally later by promising to Cut the gasoline tax by 4.5 cents a litre ? two cents upon re election and the remainder Over the course of his mandate. This will be the first Campaign for Rookie nip Leader Allison Brewer 52, who Hopes to at least win a seat for her self in the legislature. Brewer spoke to lord at the lieu tenant governors mansion following the election announcement. Good Luck Bon Chance and May the Best woman win she said shaking lords hand. So far there is no single overriding Issue that will define the four week Campaign. Rising Energy costs education senior care and economic development Are All expected to be major debating topics for the tories liberals and the nip. But nothing stands out As a dominant Issue. ? Canadian press elderly men May lose citizenship by Gordon Kent Edmonton ? two elderly men accused of working As nazi guards Dur ing the second world War lost their Case in Federal court yesterday morning. The ministry of citizenship and Immi Gration had accused the men ? Josef Furman 87, of Edmonton and Jura so Matchuk 85, of St. Catharines ont. ? of being nazi guards and falsely representing their pasts when they arrived in Canada and applied to be Canadian Citi Zens. Justice Judith Snider agreed yester Day with the government after weeks of testimony. Immigration minister Monte Solberg must now decide whether to recommend that Cabinet revoke the citizenship of both men. Furman a lawyer Eric Hafemann said further action would be purely Snider concluded Furman is the same Man As is guardsman Josef fur Dantschuk a soviet prisoner of War who worked at the concentration Camp in floss Enburg Germany for at least six months in 1943-44. Integrated into the is deaths head guard units he was also deployed to help Clear jewish ghettos in Warsaw and Bialystok the judge decided. She said the ukrainian born Furman falsely told Canadian immigration officials he performed forced farm labour As a German prisoner in 1942-45, and obtained citizenship in 1957 by false representation or fraud. Meanwhile a Komarchuk of St. Catharines ont., had a hearing at the same time to Deal with accusations he also hid his work with the German is when he moved to Canada. Snider found the 85-year-old retired mining worker had been a guard at Ger Man concentration Camps and at a nazi labour Camp in Poland where he was born. David Matas Legal counsel for a Nai brith Canada was pleased to see both men taken to court. But he called on the Federal govern ment to move faster to strip of their citizenship people who falsely represented themselves upon entry to Canada and Deport them. Four people in similar cases have been waiting As much As seven years for this next step and another eight have died during the proceedings against them he said from Winnipeg. ? can West news service ;