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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 2015, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A5 winnipegfreepress. com TOP NEWS WINNIPEG FREE PRESS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 2015 A 5 Hours: M, Tu, F: 10 - 5 W, Th: 10 - 7 Sat: 9 - 5 JANUARY FACTORY INCENTIVES ON ALL MODELS Just 2 blocks North of our old location. YYS ELS 1512 St. James St. COME IN AND SEE OUR NEW LARGER SHOWROOM LCL SPAS NEW Showroom NOW OPEN AT 1512 ST. JAMES ST. 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C H A P T E R 3 HUTS, CUBES AND TOWERS OF HOPE 83 A NTOINE Predock kept craning his head skyward. " Look up," he implored. " Look up." Predock was perched on the white translucent alabaster ramps that criss- cross up the Hall of Hope, his signature artistic brush strokes of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. When lit, the ramps illuminate - a metaphor for the museum itself - and lead visitors up the spiral staircase to the observation deck overlooking the skyline in the historic heart of Winnipeg. It's a journey to the Tower of Hope that begins in an entranceway slightly beneath ground level; from earth to sky. Or, in the description of Predock, " a cloud wrapping a mountain." OUR RENAISSANCE ANTOINE PREDOCK The translucent alabaster ramps that criss- cross up the Hall of Hope are among the signature designs by CMHR architect Antoine Predock. COMING OF AGE FUNCTION, FACADES AND FADING FAIRY TALES 39 T HEY called it the Gingerbread City Hall. Actually, they called it a lot of things: ugly; amusing; majestic; a monstrosity; a " Victorian fantasy." Winnipeg's second city hall, a storybook structure erected in 1886, was the pride of a fledgling Prairie metropolis wannabe. Designed by brothers Charles A. and Earl W. Barber, the building design culminated with a central clock tower that rose above four surrounding turrets, with an outer coating of red brick with cream stone and terracotta trim. The eclectic nature of the building, according to descriptions, was Romanesque, slightly Islamic, with a flavour of Eastern European. " It was built at a time when artistic taste all over the world reached an unbelievable low." - British architectural historian Alec Clifton- Taylor Reviews were mixed - Winnipeg's Gingerbread City Hall was either a ' Victorian fantasy' or a monstrosity. By the 1950s, most agreed it was a tottering eyesore that needed to be demolished. GREAT EXPECTATIOONNSS W INNIPEG, April 1911: Michael Hrushka had $ 42 in his pocket when the train pulled into the Canadian Pacific Railroad Station on Higgins Avenue. He was 16 years old, with no waiting friends, no family and no concept of the English language. A 16,000- kilometre journey from his home in a Ukrainian village had left Hrushka at the dusty doorstep of a place called Winnipeg. Along with his teenage friend, Wasyl, they departed the station and stepped into a new world, near the corner of Higgins and Main Street, with full hearts and empty bellies. Confused. Scared. Wondering if he should have heeded his mother's pleas to postpone leaving home until he was older, Hrushka sat down on a street corner to get his bearings. Famished from a four- day train ride from northern Ontario, they shared their meagre fare: stale bread, kovbasa and the last hunk of " budz," a cheese made from sheep's milk. C I T Y B E A U T I F U L .. C H A P T E R 1 BRICK, STEEL, HEART AND SOUL AVAILABLE AT - MCNALLY ROBINSON BOOKSELLERS, CHAPTERS, COLES, INDIGO AND THE WINNIPEG FREE PRESS To order your copy sent to you: winnipegfreepress. com/ order OR CALL LINDA AT 204- 697- 7510 MANITOBA ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS Celebrating 100 years 144- page hard cover coffee table book Are you Painfully Shy? Are you bothered by: Blushing Sweating Dry Mouth Racing heart Do you have difficulty: Eating in public Writing in public Maintaining eye contact We can help. Call 925- 0600 or 1( 800) 805- 8885 www. adam. mb. ca T HE killing of a toddler who had been in the care of a child- welfare agency will be the subject of at least two reviews, the provincial government said Thursday. The child was killed last July on Peguis First Nation. RCMP major crime services and the Peguis RCMP detachment arrested the victim's parents and stepsister Tuesday in relation to her death. A court- imposed publication ban prohibits the reporting of any information that might identify the young victim. Police said the toddler was brought July 17 to Percy E. Moore Hospital in Hodgson, where she died of trauma- related injuries. An RCMP spokeswoman said she could say little else about how the girl was killed, except she was neither stabbed nor shot. RCMP determined last July the little girl had been murdered, but it took months to make arrests. " We make an arrest when we have the evidence to support it," said the spokeswoman. Mounties said the little girl's 36- year- old mother has been charged with second- degree murder and failure to provide the necessities of life. Her 33- year- old father and 20- year- old stepsister have been charged with manslaughter and failure to provide the necessities of life. All of the accused are from Peguis First Nation and were remanded in custody and made brief appearances in Winnipeg Provincial Court on Thursday. " The death of the little girl in Peguis is shocking, and our hearts and thoughts are with the community," said Rachel Morgan, spokeswoman for Family Services Minister Kerri Irvin- Ross. Last summer, Irvin- Ross confirmed Child and Family Services had a file on the toddler. Irvin- Ross was not available for an interview Thursday. Morgan said in a statement there are two reviews underway. The first is being done by the agency involved, believed to be Peguis Child and Family Services. It will conduct an internal review of the events and circumstances leading to the death. The Office of the Children's Advocate will also investigate, as mandated by provincial law whenever a child dies while in the care of, or within 12 months of receiving services from, the child- welfare system. The chief medical examiner will also look at the case to determine if an inquest should be called. There is no timeline for when any of those reports will be done, nor would Morgan provide any additional information about how CFS was involved in the child's life. Some sources said the child was in foster care until briefly before her death, but that has not been confirmed by officials. Conservative Family Services critic Ian Wishart said the province should be far more transparent in its involvement in the child's life. " This looks very similar to Phoenix Sinclair in many ways," he said. " We hoped we had moved beyond this." Phoenix Sinclair was murdered in 2005 just a few months after her child- welfare file was closed. She became the poster child for trouble in the system and fears kids were falling between the cracks of overworked social workers, poor record- keeping and jurisdictional battles as the province handed over responsibility for aboriginal child welfare to aboriginal agencies. Phoenix was five years old when she was murdered, but nobody even knew she was missing for more than nine months. Her mother and stepfather were convicted of murdering her, and a provincial inquest uncovered myriad problems and made more than five dozen recommendations. The Peguis toddler is the seventh Manitoba child in four years to be killed while in care or while receiving services from CFS. One of the key recommendations to come from the Phoenix Sinclair inquiry was to make the Office of the Children's Advocate truly independent and give it the autonomy to make more information public. The agency is restricted by law from revealing any information when a child dies in care. - with files from Jason Bell mia. rabson@ freepress. mb. ca By Mia Rabson Two probes loom into Peguis toddler's death Had been in the care of CFS prior to slaying ' This looks very similar to Phoenix Sinclair in many ways. We hoped we had moved beyond this' BORIS MINKEVICH / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Off the rails Workers deal with the aftermath of a train derailment downtown near The Forks Thursday. Nine cars of a westbound CN freight train derailed around 5 p. m. Wednesday, CN reported. CN said the cars remained upright and there were no leaks or injuries. A_ 07_ Jan- 23- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A5 1/ 22/ 15 10: 37: 14 PM ;