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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 2022, Winnipeg, Manitoba C M Y K PAGE A1 winnipeg.ca/foodwaste Reduce your food waste. Save money. Combat climate change. March 7 to 13 is Food Waste Action Week! Space provided through a partnership between industry and Manitoba communities to support waste diversion programs. MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2022 FOR MANITOBA. FOR 150 YEARS. FOREVER WITH YOUR SUPPORT. SERVING WINNIPEG AND THE WEST SINCE 1872 The ® INSIDE COCKERILL SHINES Manitoba’s Aaron Cockerill had his best showing in professional golf, winning $180,000 as the Kenya Open runner-up / C1 PROMISE DASHED Shopping malls were envisioned as a way to reduce the use of cars, but instead spawned urban sprawl: a look at Polo Park / D1 JETS LOSE AGAIN The Winnipeg Jets lost to the New York Ran- gers 4-1 to weaken the team’s odds of making the post-season / D1 WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGH -6 — LOW -7 THOMAS Barnett looked to the dark sky and prayed. He prayed for wood and to stay awake despite signs of hy- pothermia creeping through his body. He prayed to see the morning sun and feel its heat. He prayed for a snow- mobile or helicopter to rescue him and his two cousins stranded on a northern Saskatchewan lake. “I prayed more that night than I probably did since I was 10 years old,” Barnett told The Canadian Press. About two days earlier, Barnett, a 33-year-old lawyer based in Prince Ru- pert, B.C., had flown to Saskatchewan to visit his family’s traditional trapline with his cousins. He is from the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. Ron Hyggen, 43, lives in Saskatoon but grew up learning to live on the land at a cabin on the northern end of Triveet Lake, north of La Ronge. Julian Herman, 33, who lives in Prince Albert, Sask., completed the trio. The three cousins had the right gear to stay warm and fed for the long week- end in February. They had a satellite communication device to call for help in case of danger. They left a cabin owned by anoth- er cousin, Henry Ratt, early on the Friday. The lake ice was thick as Hyggen led the way on one snowmobile and Barnett and Herman followed on another. Hyggen noticed the change in the snow first. It was turning into deep slush. He sped up and barely made it through. His cousins weren’t so lucky. Hyggen turned around to help them, but his snowmobile got stuck, too. The men tried for more than an hour to pack down snow to give the sleds traction. No success. But they weren’t too worried. Hyggen activated his emergency device around 10:30 a.m. and the cousins walked to shore to make camp. They were wet but got a fire going. They used a chainsaw to make benches and settled in to dry off. About 4:30 p.m., cosy near the heat, they started to watch a movie on an iPad. Soon after, four Canadian Rangers used by the Armed Forces to search and rescue in remote areas, arrived on their snowmobiles. Almost immediate- ly, they got stuck in the slush. The cousins and the Rangers tried for hours to get all the machines mov- ing. Hyggen’s sled was freed about 10 p.m. That, he said, is when there was a lapse in judgment. He said the Rangers decided Hyggen should leave his emergency gear be- hind and go alone to the cabin to warm it. Between life and death on a frozen northern lake KELLY GERALDINE MALONE Cousins use outdoor savvy to survive being stranded in slush ● LAKE, CONTINUED ON A4 L VIV, Ukraine — Russian forces stepped up shelling of cities in Ukraine’s centre, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, as a second attempt to evacuate besieged civilians collapsed. With the Ukrain- ian leader urging his people to take to the streets and fight, Russian Presi- dent Vladimir Putin shifted blame for the war to Ukraine, saying Moscow’s invasion could be halted “only if Kyiv ceases hostilities.” The outskirts of Kyiv, Chernihiv in the north, Mykolaiv in the south, and Kharkiv, the country’s second-larg- est city, faced intense shelling late Sunday, presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said. Heavy artillery hit residential areas in Kharkiv and shelling damaged a television tower, according to local officials. The attacks dashed hopes that more people could escape the fighting in Ukraine, where Russia’s plan to quickly overrun the country has been stymied by fierce resistance. Rus- sia has made significant advances in southern Ukraine and along the coast, but many of its efforts have become stalled, including an immense military convoy that has been almost motionless for days north of Kyiv. Food, water, medicine and almost all other supplies were in desperate- ly short supply in the southern port city of Mariupol, where Russian and Ukrainian forces had agreed to an 11- hour ceasefire that would allow civil- ians and the wounded to be evacuated. But Russian attacks quickly closed the humanitarian corridor, Ukrainian officials said. “There can be no ‘green corridors’ because only the sick brain of the Russians decides when to start shoot- ing and at whom,“ Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said on Telegram. Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zel- enskyy rallied his people to remain defiant, especially those in cities occupied by Russians. Russia steps up shelling in residential areas YURAS KARMANAU Humanitarian ceasefire collapses for a second day A SEA of blue and yellow packed the grounds of the Manitoba Legislative Building Sunday afternoon amid calls for more help to Ukraine. Alex Polishchuk was one of the hundreds — possibly more than 1,000 — of people to participate. “We’re asking NATO countries to close the sky over Ukraine,” Polish- chuk, who has family in the embattled country, said. “Every day, it’s more difficult for Ukrainians to defend (themselves) because there’s more heavy artillery, more Russian air defence systems.” His calls align with those of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, whose volunteers organized the weekend rally. The congress is also asking Ottawa to remove visa requirements for Ukrainians, impose tougher sanc- tions against Russian oligarchs and increase lethal and humanitarian aid to Ukraine. Currently, the federal government is expediting temporary visas for Ukrainians seeking safe haven. Canada has also placed sanctions on Russia. “This isn’t just a war in Ukraine — this is a war that can potentially affect all of Europe, and we feel that other countries need to put in more effort,” Polishchuk said. Anna Shypilova is experiencing the war through her loved ones’ phone calls. The 19-year-old wore a Ukrainian flag over her coat while helping in Sunday’s event’s kids’ booth. She moved to Canada last year to study microbiology at the University of Manitoba. Her parents are still near Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital. “Today’s the first day where they’re staying calm,” Shypilova said. “I’m trying to call them as much as possi- ble… I’m so worried about them.” A friend’s house she used to stay at after school is destroyed, she said. Another friend is in the hospital with a broken spine and two broken legs — Russian shelling hit his 18th floor flat. “(This is) the only way I can sup- port Ukraine right now,” she said at the legislative building. GABRIELLE PICHÉ WAR IN UKRAINE ● SHELLING, CONTINUED ON A2 ● SUPPORTERS, CONTINUED ON A2 Ukraine supporters pack legislature JOHN WOODS / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Hundreds of people gathered at a rally in support of Ukraine and against the Russian invasion at the Manitoba legislature Sunday. Press NATO to shut airspace over country A_01_Mar-07-22_FP_01.indd 1 2022-03-06 9:56 PM ;