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I would also remind you that a year ago I recommended an intercepting sewer on de Levis street to drain the northeast part of the city; this report has gone before the Finance committee, but we have heard nothing further. It is necessary that this sewer should be constructed in conjunction with the other sewers, which is included in the estimate made by Mr Brittain herewith attached. In conclusion, in regard to the construction of these works recommended, I would recommend that the Sherbrooke street intercepting sewer and de Levis street sewer be let by contract, and that the St James street sewer be done by day work. The reason why I recommend that the work be done by day on St James street sewer is because the ground is swampy and the sewer will be very shallow and the work must be specially done irrespective of cost. Yours truly, (Signed) Perival W St George, City Surveyor.
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C, March 2, 1 a.m. For New England States: Fair weather, followed by increasing cloudiness and rain, westerly winds, veering to northerly winds, rising, followed by falling barometer, stationary or high temperature. For Lower Lake region: Fair weather, northeast to northwest winds, higher barometer, stationary or lower temperature. The following special bulletin is furnished by chief signal officer: A storm of considerable severity in New York and Central Kentucky. It will probably move northeastward, marked by rain during the day in middle stations and New England, and will be followed by colder, clearing weather in Atlantic States during Saturday night and Sunday. A temperature of 8 degrees below was reported from St. Vincent, Minn., on Friday morning; temperature has fallen very rapidly in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas, 20 degrees since yesterday at Leavenworth, 25 at St. Louis, and 14 at Cairo in past 8 hours. It is now at average below freezing point from New England westward to Missouri Valley. The Lawson-Labouchere case, Lo, Mio, N, March 25.
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It is now at average below freezing point from New England westward to Missouri Valley. The Lawson-Labouchere case, Lo, Mio, N, March 25. The interest in the case of Lawson and Labouchere was revived today by the appearance of Mr. Gladstone, who had been summoned on behalf of Mr. Labouchere as a witness for the defense. Mr. Gladstone appeared in poor health and very feeble. He was invited to a seat on the bench, whence he gave his testimony. He said the telegram published by Mr. Lawson in the Telegraph, alleging that he had entered into correspondence with Greece in reference to the settlement of the Greek frontier question for the purpose of obtaining certain concessions for England in return for his influence, was altogether false. He admitted he had told Mr.
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A 449-450 Western Canada 452 Other Areas 455 Commercial Business Opportunities 460 Businesses for Sale Wanted 465 Commercial Industrial Prop 470 Investment Property 475 Land 480 Office Space 485 Storage Warehouses 490 Stores 495 With Careers & Education Section Office Help 520 Professional Help 505 Restaurant Hotel Help 535 Retail Sales Help 542 Sales Telemarketing 540 Trade Technical Help 525 Auditions Workshops 575 Courses 580 Private Instruction 585 Home Building Materials Supplies 615 Electricians Plumbing 620 Gardening Landscaping 625 Home Improvement 630 Movers 635 Sporting Goods Services 725 TV Video 730 Commercial Machinery Tools, Equip 735 Office Equipment 740 Restaurant Equipment 745 Store Equipment 750 Telephone Equipment 755 Pets & Animals Cats, Supplies & Services 760 Dogs, Supplies & Services 765 Other 770 Lost Found 805 Mediums 810 Meetings & Events 815 Personals 820 Show Tickets 825 Legals Auctions 840 Payments: We ask that ads be pre-paid, and we accept credit cards Business owners may establish an account upon credit approval Esal atfZ3Er f group a ni9 wren eiMLId I www dessources com Oo3 331v y j ji o rfW J r n r 1 L Tgn J a base price less than $45,000 and The Audi A3 3.2 Quattro S-Line may be perfect for the Great White North because it combines the usefulness of a hatchback with power and traction DAVID BOOTH CANWEST NEWS SERVICE Toronto - It was the perfect introduction to Audi's A3 The company's new Canadian public relations team had rented a conference room at Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport and corralled eight of the cute-as-a-bug little A3 S-Lines, complete with a powerful 3.2-litre V6 All I had to do was make my way from the top of North York to enjoy a day of carefree luxury motoring Unfortunately, it was snowing Now, that wouldn't upset the Audi very much, as its quattro system is universally acknowledged as one of the best all-wheel drivetrains around The problem was that I was driving a Dodge Charger - normally an excellent automobile, but next to useless when outfitted with wide performance tires with next to no tread Despite having traction control, the Charger simply refused to make it up the icy incline leading to Highway 404 After a relatively fruitless half hour of trying to coax some traction out of those slimy rear tires, I gave up and parked the Dodge I wasn't making it to the airport today, at least not in the Charger This is where quattro, or, more accurately, Diego Ramos, Audi Canada's new president, driving a snow tire-equipped A8, came to my rescue and braved Toronto's first real snowstorm of the year to chauffeur me to the airport-all so that I might be able to sample his company's latest product 2006 JEEP LIBERTY SPORT ft OUWttJfcS: 3400 SOURCES BLVD S soldier and two passers-by, officials said Details, Page A13 BUSINESS China's clout sparks fear China's clout as an economic superpower has roused protectionist sentiment globally, including among some Canadian manufacturers But analysts warn safeguard measures could do Canadian businesses more harm than good Details, Page B1 Buddha for business When the Western desire to prosper meets Eastern philosophy, an interesting business tenet is born - give in order to get A recent Montreal seminar promotes good business karma Details, Page B1 SPORTS Bourdon anchors defence Luc Bourdon is back in the building he hopes to be playing in full-time next season The burly defenceman makes his return to Vancouver's GM Place tonight when Canada faces Finland in semi-final action at the World Junior Hockey Championship Details, Page C1 Black Monday in NFL Four NFL head coaches were let go on Black Monday, the day after the regular season ends and the traditional day for firing coaches They were head hunting in Green Bay, St. Louis, New Orleans and Houston Details, Page C1 ARTSetlFE Exploring consciousness Science writer Jay Ingram, whose best-selling books have opened our eyes to the everyday wonders of nature, is delving into a mysterious new part of the body - consciousness Ingram talks about the puzzling science behind our thoughts Details, Page D1 Law targets 'stalkerazzi' A new California law that went into effect Jan. 1 increases penalties against overly aggressive photographers dubbed ""stalkerazzi"" who forcefully thrust their cameras into famous faces or crash their car into a celebrity's vehicle They will now be liable for three times the damages they inflict Details, Page D5 jUU y- I I 8 II 6 8 2 5 9 1 T4 5 4 3 8 r6j 4 8 3 1 1 j j 7 1 2 -j 2j j 7 9 5 T 1 I RY I j Yesterday's solution: 1 8 - 6 1 5 9 4 1 3 i 7 2 5; 2 3 187 9U-6 7 9 4 632 5 M 8 2 3, 9 8 5 1 76j4 847 326 1 1 5; 9 6511 7 4 9 21 8l3 4(1 8 9 7 3 6 i 2 i 5 965 2 1 8 437 (- 1- 4 3 7 2 1 4 6 5 8 T 9 1 1 Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 grid contains the digits 1 through 9 No number is repeated in any row, column or box Solutions, tips and computer program are also available at www sudoku com Quotidienne-3 2-9-5 (in order) Quotidienne-4 9-4-5-6 (in order) Banco Extra 3-16-17-19-20-26-27-29-34-386-8-2-0-1-39-40-41-43-44-49-52-53-57-59 (in order) Please recycle this newspaper r A C T y f I I D (XT C Do you think the Habs will make the playoffs this season? You can cast your vote in our daily poll all day long by logging onto montrealgazette.com Your answers will appear in tomorrow's Gazette and on Global TV's evening newscast Yesterday's question was: Are you following the World Junior Hockey Championship? Yes: 46% of votes No: 54% ""We have to make people understand that this is serious business here,"" Liza Frulla, Liberal candidate in Jeanne Le Ber riding m yp th Iws in Queta Pre-Christmas 'just a warm up' Jean Lapierre promises fresh policy position every day PHILIP AUTHIER THE GAZETTE Christmas out of the way the political battle for Quebec resumed with gusto yesterday and this time voters may actually tune in ""The pre-Christmas campaign was really the warmup,"" said Prime Minister Paul Martin's Quebec lieutenant, Jean Lapierre ""After Christmas, you have to get out of the blocks fast"" Lapierre, who said he found the break useful because it allowed him to tinker with Liberal strategies, said now that Canadians are paying attention the party will be pumping out a fresh policy position a day right up to the leaders' final televised debates Jan. 9 and 10 ""We think the moment is now, We're getting the bus out of the garage, We have three weeks of hyper-activity ahead, It's now or never"" Lapierre, who is running in Outremont at the same time as piloting the Quebec campaign, said the order of the day after the debates will be to get the traditional Liberal voters to the polls, preferably sooner than later In the 2004 election campaign the party lost many seats in Quebec simply because federalist voters stayed home The party will not make the same mistake, with extra efforts to get voters to advance polling stations in case of a snowstorm on election day Lapierre said Lapierre made the comments in an interview as party leaders jump-started their campaigns In Quebec, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe was the first to leap back in, zooming in on news that the RCMP have opened a criminal investigation into an information leak from the Finance Department A few hours later, Conservative leader Stephen Harper flew his campaign into Jonquiere, announcing regional details on his party's new defence plan He said the Conservatives plan to station a new rapid-reaction army battalion of 650 regular force personnel at nearby CFB Bagotville The moves come as a new poll shows support for the Bloc steady at 52 per cent in Quebec Lapierre said the current Liberal support of about 30 per cent compares with where the party was at the end of the 2004 campaign-meaning it has not slipped dramatically and the party this time around is much better organized The Bloc, which won 54 of the province's 75 seats in 2004, has targeted key ridings which the Liberals lost or nearly lost in 2004, including Jeanne Le Ber, where star Liberal candidate Liza Frulla narrowly beat Bloc candidate Thierry St-Cyr by 72 votes Yesterday Frulla said she used the Christmas break to attend numerous parties and get together to raise her profile In 2004 she was not as present in the riding because she was working on the national campaign Frulla said that besides standing up for local riding issues, she is reminding voters that by voting Bloc they are hurting federalism in Quebec and that spells trouble for a future referendum ""We have to make people understand that this is serious business here,"" Frulla said ""By weakening us, it weakens the provincial Liberal Party"" pauthier thegazette canwest com Election Harper makes defence an attack with pledge to boost army base CONTINUED FROM Al ""These things are only possible because we paid down the debt and because we delivered eight straight balanced budgets,"" Martin says in one ad ""That's our record, That's what we're running on"" The ads are expected to set the stage for a week of policy announcements that were largely absent in the first month of the election campaign Harper yesterday announced a number of defence initiatives in Bagotville, including stationing a new 650-member rapid reaction army battalion out of CFB Bagotville Harper said the base would also receive an upgrade of the existing fleet of CF-18 jet fighters The Tories say they would increase army personnel levels in Quebec by recruiting an estimated 1,000 regular forces and 750 reserves, the majority at CFB Valcartier Also yesterday, a new Ipsos-Reid poll for CanWest News Service and Global National suggested more Canadians trust the Conservatives to handle the issue of gangs and gun violence The poll asked respondents which party they believe would do the best job responding to violence such as the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto Conservatives received 36 per cent support vs 24 per cent for the Liberals and 19 per cent for the NDP The issue is expected to be pivotal in southern Ontario The poll was conducted Dec 30 to Jan. 2 A total of 8,336 Canadian voters were surveyed via the Internet, yielding results that are accurate to within 1.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20 Harper talked tough on crime yesterday ""On Boxing Day, residents of Toronto watched in horror as the city was ravaged by gunfire in open daylight,"" the Tory leader told a campaign rally in Ottawa ""A Conservative government will crack down on crime, We will act quickly, we will act comprehensively and we will act decisively to fix our criminal justice system"" The highlight of the Tory plan, which has yet to be fully spelled out, is mandatory prison sentences for repeat serious offenders Meanwhile, National Democratic Party leader Jack Layton said during a stop in Ottawa yesterday that laws governing the possession of firearms have to be changed if Canada is to avert new incidents of gun violence-but that such changes won't be enough ""We need more enforcement and the Liberals have been responsible for the decline in the support for the RCMP over the years and of course the auditor-general has called for more investment in enforcement for quite some time,"" Layton said ""We are now hearing there is apparently going to be another announcement during an election"" He said part of the solution is to work with young people to stop them from getting into criminal gangs in the first place ELIZABETH THOMPSON OF THE GAZETTE AND CANADIAN PRESS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT For breaking news during the campaign, as well as blogs, leader profiles, polls, issues and more, visit http:decision canada com FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL The Bloc's not flagging a change DAN DUGAS CANADIAN PRESS Ottawa - The answer, my friend, is not necessarily blowing in the wind Bloc Quebecois organizers say there is no secret message in party literature showing leader Gilles Duceppe with a decidedly Canadian image One of the posters being used by the separatist party shows Duceppe superimposed over a picture of Montreal In the background are the Canadian, Quebec and Montreal flags Bloc organizers say the image was generated by a computer software program Prime Minister Paul Martin should be wary of geeks bearing gifts - he's been in receipt of stolen property without even knowing it The gift in question is a Christmas wreath lifted from the front door of Montreal businessman Vincent Lacroix, whose company is being investigated after $130 million in investors' cash disappeared this summer The wreath was taken by Jean-Rene Dufort, whose nerdy character Infoman is a household name in Quebec Infoman took it to Martin as a gag for his end-of-year show on French-language CBC television As no one in the Prime Minister's Office watched the show, Martin was blissfully unaware of his hot property until he was told about the joke by a reporter yesterday No word on whether the wreath will be returned TO REACH US General inquiries (514) 987-2222 Privacy The Gazette is published daily by CanWest Media Works Publications Inc The CanWest companies collect and use your personal information primarily for the purpose of providing you with the products and services you have requested The CanWest companies may share your personal information with other CanWest companies and with selected third parties who are acting on our behalf as our agents, suppliers or service providers From time to time, we may make our subscription list available to specific 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Employment, Careers: (514) 987-7653 Obituaries: (514) 987-7653 Retail, National: (514) 987-2350 Billing: (514) 987-2250 Newsroom Reader information and copyright permission: Phyllis Beaulieu (514) 987-2610 Editor-in-chief: Andrew Phillips (514) 987-2500 yesterday Duceppe told supporters to brace for an ""intense"" final three weeks of campaigning Montreal gains 'safe' AARON DERFEL THE GAZETTE The tide of two cities couldn't be starker Montreal reported its lowest number of homicides on record Toronto has finally lost its innocence IN FOCUS UN panel seeks to quiz Assad A UN commission is seeking to interview Syrian President Bashar Assad in light of revelations that implicate him in last year's assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri Page A15 Leftover politco MONTREAL TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2006 montrealgazette.com SINCE 1778 SPORTS FINAL N last year Toronto, by comparison, witnessed an explosion in gun violence and gang-related killings In the words of Montreal police chief Yvan Delorme, ""Toronto has finally lost its innocence"" WANT SNOW? MARTHA IRVINE ASSOCIATED PRESS When it comes to conjuring a snowstorm, 8-year-old Taylor Zelman has more than a few tricks aimed at getting the day off from school She wears her pyjamas inside out and backward She runs around the kitchen table five times and flushes ice cubes down the toilet And as she goes to sleep on winter school nights, she faithfully repeats, ""I want it to snow, I want it to snow, I want it to snow"" WEATHER Variably cloudy High -6 Low -12 Page B7 Beyond motto Jifa: OjK'bet City teflon OFFE right-wing policies He made that remark after a 15-year-old girl, Jane Creba, was shot dead in the crossfire of a Boxing Day gun battle on Yonge St. between rival street gangs Please see HOMICIDES, Page A4 ""My teacher told me to throw an ice cube at a tree, but I haven't tried it yet,"" said the third-grader from Leesburg, Va ""I'm sure there's tons more I could do"" Please see RITUALS, Page A4 former Ontario Russian giant pledges to turn on natural gas Russia's state-run gas monopoly said late yesterday it would restore much of the natural gas it withheld from pipes running across neighbouring Ukraine after several European countries complained of shortfalls Gazprom had reduced supplies to Ukraine on Sunday after Kyiv refused to agree to a four-fold price increase But because Europe receives as much as one"
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It takes 6 to 9 kilograms of corn or soy to produce one kilogram of edible pork. And the difference ends up mainly as a whole lot of waste. While past agricultural methods have used manure as a natural soil conditioner, the boom in chemical fertilizers has shifted that balance. Now excess manure is creating pollution problems. In some cases, the waste seeps into local waterways causing not only water pollution but encouraging the growth of algae. This depletes the water's oxygen and reduces or destroys its aquatic life. The problems don't end there. Around the world livestock contribute to deforestation, soil erosion and desertification. Like all environmental issues, EARTHWEEK: A DIARY OF THE PLANET the answers to this problem are not always simple or obvious. The Worldwatch report says the solution lies in different directions including taxing or regulating environmentally destructive farming practices and restructuring development strategies. But it also goes on to say, If livestock are to live in balance with the environment again, First World consumers will have to eat less meat, while Third World citizens will need to keep their meat consumption low. Many of the articles being written on the subject lately state or imply that if you really care about the planet you must become a vegetarian. Durning, a vegetarian himself, doesn't agree. It's not true that to be an environmentalist you have to be a vegetarian. That's like saying to be an environmentalist you must never ride in an automobile. But, he adds, there is a strong environmental argument for reducing meat consumption fairly dramatically in North America and Europe perhaps cutting it in half. The decision to eat meat or not is a very personal one. Nevertheless, there can be little doubt that eating lower on the food chain benefits not only ourselves but the planet. By Steve Newman The warm water ocean phenomenon known as El Nino appears to be producing widespread climatic disruptions that are responsible for unusually severe weather from California to the Caribbean. Three savage storms lashed California, unleashing destructive flooding north of Los Angeles. At least four people drowned and about 20 recreational vehicles were swept away when the Ventura River suddenly surged over its banks. About 160 km of beaches between the Mexican border and Ventura were closed because of a health hazard caused by runoff and sewage spills. El Nino also is being blamed for some of the worst flooding ever to strike Havana. Storms around the Cuban capital whipped up high tides and large waves that flooded many low-lying areas. Government meteorologists predict that cloud cover and rain caused by the phenomenon may stunt crop development across the island through early April. The driest January in 30 years has destroyed at least 75 per cent of South Africa's maize harvest and threatens food supplies across many neighboring countries. Zambia and Zimbabwe also are in the grips of a severe dry spell, but they may not be able to rely on South African farmers to make up for crop losses as in previous poor harvests. The worst drought to affect Ecuador in 30 years has caused a critical shortage of hydroelectric power and forced the government to purchase electricity from neighboring Colombia. The Paute generating plant, which supplies 85 per cent of the electrical power to the national grid, has recently been operating only two of its 10 turbines. It has sometimes been forced to halt operation completely due to the extremely low water level of the Paute River. For the week ending 14 February 1992 A1992 Chronicle Mideast Storms A winter-long string of storms continued to lash the eastern Mediterranean with a variety of destructive weather conditions. Torrential rains caused the Jordan River to flood for the first time in 40 years, and half of the crops in the Jordan Valley have been destroyed by the inundation as well as blizzards, freezing temperatures, and high winds. Transportation, communications and electrical power have been disrupted by the storms from Turkey to the Red Sea. The nearly continuous winter rainfall ended a severe drought across the region by filling reservoirs and replenishing groundwater supplies. A strong earthquake struck the remote Vanuatu Islands, but there were no reports of damage. Earth movements were felt in the Aleutian Islands, Kuril Islands, and Northern California. Tropical cyclone Cliff lashed French Polynesia with winds of 130 km/h and pounding high surf. Forty homes were destroyed on Pukapuka Atoll, while two airfields and a few houses were damaged in the Marquesas Islands. In the Indian Ocean, tropical cyclone Celesta formed briefly east of Mauritius. Villagers living around Indonesia's Mt. Merapi Volcano were warned to be ready to evacuate as the volcano gushed hot lava and burned 10 hectares of forest. Ash fell 30 km away from the 777-metre mountain. Wide areas of New South Wales were deluged by drought-breaking rain that caused serious flooding. Sydney was one of the worst-hit communities, with more than 254 mm of rainfall during a weekend of downpours. Farmers welcomed the rains which should reduce the state's declared drought coverage from 65 per cent to about 20 per cent. Three South Africans who went for an early morning dip in a coastside swimming pool were jolted awake by the realization that they were sharing the water with a visiting shark. The men, splashing around in a tidal pool in False Bay near Cape Town, alerted a nearby lifeguard who used nets and poles to force the 1.5-metre-long shark through a drainage gate, back out to sea. Tidal pools are popular walled-in structures built near the shore along the coast of Cape Province. An especially high wave must have washed in the shark. Additional Source: Meteo Franca, U.A. Sunrise 6:56 Sunset 5:22 Temperatures are given in degrees Celsius High for Montreal Today Skies will be cloudy with occasional periods of light snow. Low for tonight -10. Winds becoming westerly 15 to 25 km/h. Record Max Min 1981 9 1943 -28 Temperature, Yesterday -5 -8 Year ago today -6 -21 Normal this date -5 -12 Regional synopses Abitibi-Temiscamingue High -6 Low near -15 Cloudy with light snow in the morning, clearing this afternoon. Laurentians High -3 Low near -14 A few morning flurries, clearing in the afternoon. Eastern Ontario High -1 Low near -11 Gradual clearing in the morning, sunny in the afternoon. Southern Ontario High 3 Low near -7 A few early morning flurries, followed by gradual clearing. Quebec City High -4 Low near -12 Cloudy with periods of light snow throughout the day. Eastern Townships High -1 Low near -9 Cloudy with periods of light snow throughout the day. Northern New England High 1 Low near -8 Cloudy skies with flurries throughout the day. Gasps High -4 Low near -7 Cloudy with snow and blowing snow. Lower North Shore High -7 Low near -10 Cloudy with snow and blowing snow. A High 1 High 3 Low -7 Low -2 Weather system forecast for 7 p.m. this evening. Temperatures are daytime highs. Canada World Max Min Max Min Iqaluit P Cloudy -30 -36 Amsterdam Cloudy 9 -5 Yellowknife P Cloudy -17 -25 Athens Cloudy 12 6 Whitehorse Showers -13 -17 Beijing Sunny 2 -5 Vancouver Showers 8 4 Berlin Rain 9 6 Victoria Cloudy 8 3 Copenhagen Drizzle 7 -5 Edmonton Sunny -4 -13 Dublin Cloudy 8 5 Calgary Cloudy 5 -8 Hong Kong Cloudy 19 14 Saskatoon Cloudy -4 -14 Jerusalem Sunny 14 4 Regina Cloudy -3 -12 Lisbon P Cloudy 12 7 Winnipeg Cloudy -5 -12 London P Cloudy 10 4 Thunder Bay P Cloudy 0 -8 Madrid Sunny 12 4 Sudbury P Cloudy -3 -14 Mexico City P Cloudy 22 Toronto Flurries 3 -7 Moscow Cloudy 2 -3 Fredericton Rain 4 -2 Nairobi Cloudy 29 15 Halifax Rain 6 2 New Delhi Sunny 22 to Charlottetown Rain 2 -4 Paris Cloudy 10 6 St. John's Snow -4 -12 Rio de Janeiro P Cloudy 30 -21 Rome Cloudy 16 7 United States Sydney P Cloudy 22 16 Max Min Tokyo Cloudy 12 -5 Atlanta Sunny 21 8 Boston Showers 10 1 Chicago P Cloudy 6 1 Dallas P Cloudy 23 9 Acapulco P Cloudy 34 19 Denver Cloudy 12 -3 Barbados P Cloudy 30 -2 Las Vegas Showers 11 6 Bermuda Cloudy 22 15 Los Angeles P Cloudy 14 8 Daytona P Cloudy 24 14 New Orleans P Cloudy 23 15 Honolulu Sunny 27 19 New York Showers 11 2 Kingston P Cloudy 31 22 Phoenix P Cloudy 17 7 Miami P Cloudy 28 19 St. Louis P Cloudy 11 2 Myrtle Beach Sunny 23 8 San Francisco Showers 14 7 Nassau P Cloudy 25 21 Washington P Cloudy 15 3 Tampa P Cloudy 26 17 California slammed again by winter storm ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES Another powerful storm slammed into water-logged California yesterday, dropping heavy snow that lured skiers to mountains and dumping about 25 centimetres of rain an hour. The deluge left rivers bulging and roads flooded anew. It was the third destructive storm system to hit the state in a week. The storms have left at least eight people dead and five missing and caused $23 million in damage. Almost 40 centimetres of rain have fallen in some areas. Yesterday's storm, born in the Gulf of Alaska and fed by tropical El Nino conditions over the South Pacific, did not pack the river-bloating punch that came with storms earlier in the week. Still, it dumped more than 30 centimetres of snow in the northern Sierra Nevada, putting at least a dent in the state's 5-year-old drought and promising a big cash injection for ski resort operators. Surrounded by walls of soggy sandbags, fast-rushing creeks and, in some places, floating furniture, Southern Californians congratulated themselves on facing down the rainstorm.
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A Motor Homes 10 Snowmobiles 15 www you can't sue city the garage on the corner of the street They would send out a tow truck and reel in the poor fish who got stuck The average repair would cost a few hundred dollars This wasn't high enough to be over most insurance deductibles so the repair price had to come out of the poor driver's pocket Since the problem was caused by the city's failure to keep the city streets safe to drive on one might think that these drivers would be able to sue the city for the damage to their vehicles Ordinarily you'd be right Unfortunately a few years ago the Quebec government passed a law making it illegal to sue any city or municipality for damage caused to your car by potholes The law removed what should be a clear-cut right of compensation In general we're allowed to claim from and collect damages from those who caused us harm The city is responsible for keeping its sidewalks and streets safe for those who use them If you slipped and fell on icy sidewalks you'd be allowed to sue the city for compensation for any physical damage that you have suffered Of course the city could defend itself by claiming that at the time you fell it was impossible to keep the sidewalk perfectly clean This would mean that if you fell during a snowstorm you'd have little hope of collecting anything since it's not reasonable to expect a clean sidewalk in that type of weather The rule used to be the same with streets The municipalities still have a duty to provide you with a safe street to drive on but they are now excused from paying for damages caused by their potholes It's interesting to note that the various communities seem to have varying levels of success in dealing with the annual spring pothole problem The smaller municipalities tend to fix their potholes quicker and better than a larger city on the island of Montreal o policy 2001 CHAMP KLF CHIROKII LARIPQ 4 01 pnW CasVCtH f i futty Kabd V 1 I I ,M""W if MamtMl BO SS2S $2,993 PAYMENT We ask that ads be pre-paid and accept credit cards Business owners may establish an account upon credit approval American Express also accepted gf i Western Canada Other Areas 452 455 COMMERCIAL Business Opportunities 460 Businesses for Sale wanted 465 Commercial Industrial Prop 470 Investment Property 475 Land 480 Office space 485 Storage warehouses 490 Stores 495 Employment Courses Please see careers & Education section on Saturdays Computer Help Domestic Help wanted Domestic Jobs Wanted Employment Services Employment Wanted General Help Medical Dental Help Model Agencies Needletrade Office Help Professional Help Restaurant Hotel Help Retail Sales Help 510 560 565 500 570 530 515 555 545 520 505 535 542 Sales Telemarketing Help 540 Technical Help 525 443 446-448 449-450 Auditions Workshops Courses Private instruction 575 580 585 for pothole damage It'll be interesting to see what one island one city will mean to a place that is famous for having potholes all over the island Who knows if there will be enough money to make all the necessary repairs and if it will be a high priority for the mayor of the new megacity Private-property potholes Even though the province has made it illegal for you to sue and collect for potholes that exist on public streets this doesn't mean that every single pothole remains a threat to your wallet The law only applies to public property If a pothole in the parking lot of a shopping centre mangles your suspension you'd still be able to sue the owners of the shopping centre for the damage that was caused The same theory would apply to any other type of private property such as driveways and private roads In all those cases the basic rule of damages ""If you caused it you pay for it"" would allow you to collect The property owner could however defend himself by proving that you were not authorized to be on his property or that he had done everything possible to provide you with a safe and secure place to drive your car Montreal lawyer Jordan Oiarness is a partner in the firm Oiarness Oiarness & Oiarness Please send your letters to STEERING YOU RICI IT AutoHus Section The Gazette 250 St Antoine St West Montreal QC H2Y 3R7 9(101 DODCt 13U va loot poww w""KXwslockl aw conditioning carclick com x i Monthly Cl n S369 HSCZ Please check your ad the first day it runs to ensure it is correct and call us if an error has occurred The Gazette's responsibility if any for errors of any kind is limited to the charge for the space of the first day your ad appears CLASSIFIED Services Hobbies Collections Household Goods Machinery Tools Miscellaneous Musical Photography Sporting Goods Services TV video BUSINESS Business Services 600 internet Services 605 Money to Lend Wanted 610 HOME Building Materials Supplies 615 Electricians Plumbing 620 Gardening Landscaping 625 Home improvement 630 Movers 635 COMMERCIAL Machinery Equipment Office Equipment 740 Restaurant Equipment 745 Store Equipment 750 Telephone Equipment 755 PETS & ANIMALS Cats Supplies & Services 760 Dogs Supplies & Services 765 Other 770 Miscellaneous ADULTS ONLY Companions 778 Escorts 780 introduction Services 785 Massages 790 Phone Lines 796 ETC Entertainment 800 Lost Found 805 Mediums 810 Meetings & Events 815 Personals 820 Show Tickets 825 Legals Auctions 840 RSVP flues Fri Sat Merchandise HOUSEHOLD Antiques 450 Appliances 655 Art China Jewels 660 Articles Wanted 665 Audio Equipment 670 Children's Articles 675 Clothing Dressmakers 680 Computers 685 Garage Sales 691 9-millionth m DAVID BOOTH Southam Automotive Group Chrysler the company that invented the minivan 18 years ago recently celebrated the construction of its 9-millionth minivan Built at its European manufacturing facility in Graz Austria the minivan was but one of the 115 the company builds every hour at its three manufacturing plants (minivans are also built in Windsor Ont and St Louis Mo) ""We sell nearly 600,000 minivans a year in more than 70 countries throughout the world"" said Frank J Ewasyshyn executive vice-president of advance manufacturing and general manager of minivan operations A team of business students from McGill University's faculty of management has won third place in Saturn Canada's Business School Project The four-member team received an award of $5,000 for a marketing plan developed to introduce the new Saturn VUE sport-utility vehicle in the university market For their plans University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management was awarded $15,000 University of Alberta $6,000 and University of British Columbia's faculty of commerce and business administration $4,000 ""The plans were outstanding"" Eric LeBlanc Saturn Canada's advertising and promotions manager said in a press release announcing the awards CARAVAN St 7f a - N-N-y trs '1 Tiofj exactly what sort and more Montrealers do every time they advertise Gazette Classified You see Gazette Classified happens to be Montreal's largest classified So whether you're selling a car looking for an apartment or hunting for a job there's no better or bigger place to be than right here Thirl big TM Gazette Classified 695 700 705 710 715 720 725 730 735 Bargain Wheels Cars under $2000 Ad limited to a single vehicle We ask that the price of the vehicle appear in your ad These ads are not refundable Taxes not included For details please call 987-2311 imvan Windsor assembly plant when the first minivan was built ""The minivan market (for vehicles like the 2001 Grand Caravan below) continues to be vibrant Just last year the segment climbed to an all-time high of more than 2 million sales worldwide"" Introduced in November 1983 the original ""Magicwagon"" was the first garageable people-transporter and a design that forever changed the automotive industry It offered easy entry and exit chair-height seating second-seat access low flat floor removable seats and front-wheel drive That might not sound like much today but 18 years ago it was nothing short of revolutionary ""Very innovative extremely well thought out developed and prepared It's exciting to see what these young creative minds have to share"" Those participating in the Saturn Business School project had five months to conduct market research and create a marketing plan for the Saturn VUE the company's first sport-utility vehicle Each team was given a virtual budget of $2 million to develop its marketing plan ""We thought the best way to use the budget effectively was to combine sponsorships promotions direct marketing and online advertising through national on-campus direct and online campaigns"" said Elisabeth Antlair business student and a member of McGill's team"
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The killers were believed to have waited in a car for O'Hara to return to the house. No one claimed responsibility for the shooting but the stolen car was later found abandoned in the Protestant district of the city. More than 3,000 people have been killed in more than 20 years of political and sectarian fighting in BELFAST Masked gunmen shot and killed a Roman Catholic teenager in front of his screaming mother at their home in Northern Ireland yesterday. Bridie O'Hara begged the gunmen who burst into her house in a REUTERS MONTREAL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1992 A woman passes two cars that flooding threw into a wall in Pollestres, southern France. New flash floods leave 3 dead in France REUTER PARIS Torrential rains caused flash floods in southern France and the Mediterranean island of Corsica, killing three people and wrecking homes and bridges, officials said yesterday. Six people were also missing after the storms, days after disastrous floods surged through the southeast killing at least 38 people and leaving 30 missing.
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"We are very, very proud of the work that we did," said Pierre Ducharme, head of meteorology at Environment Canada's Montreal office. "It would be hard to get more accurate predictions than what we had." The agency reviewed its weekend procedures to see how it handled predicting the heavy rainfall that battered the Saguenay area. The Montreal office has a severe-weather team that watches for heavy rains, tornados and other extreme weather conditions. It sent out a first warning of heavy rain at 2:10 p.m. Thursday, saying there could be accumulations of more than 50 mm of rain. A second warning was issued on Friday. "The warnings we sent out almost perfectly match the areas hit by heavy rainfall," Ducharme said. But Environment Canada didn't warn anyone about flooding because "that's not our job," he said. "Once we predict heavy rains, it's up to the dam-owner or a homeowner to make sure they can deal with it."
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Darryl Strawberry said yesterday that he has not fallen off the wagon and that the N.S. ROTHMAN-BEMIAIM Cote St. Luc Have we gone mad? What with all the hunger in the world, and the worry over pollution, acid rain, the ozone layer, the Middle East crisis, destruction of our rain forests, women-bashing and Canadian instability, we should concern ourselves with whether or not cheerleading is sexist (Gazette, Oct. 21)? Have we gone mad? If Janet Ouellette, principal at the Roman Catholic F.S. educated engineer, who was a top official of General Efrain Rios Montt's military regime in 1982, had been placed third by most pre-election public-opinion polls. "These results are very preliminary," Asturias said. "But these elections could result in a surprise." Carpio, a publishing magnate who had run the best-financed campaign, had been leading by a narrow margin in pre-election polls.
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Mix Min 33 25 31 24 31 26 33 22 32 21 34 26 33 25 34 24 32 23 32 24 Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Daytona Beach Honolulu Kingston Miami Myrtle Beach Nassau Tampa Pcloudy Pcloudy Pcloudy Tstorm Sunny Cloudy Pcloudy Pcloudy Fair Tstorm. GAZETTE MARIE-FRANCE COALUER two deaths. Finals go today at 11 a.m. Lake Placid, N. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1991. RELATIONSHIPS Cheryl PSOS Lavin PSH 6ATING PgjPl i-Biggest fights often take place out of ring. Have you ever said too much? Have you ever gone too far? Were words spoken and deeds done that made it impossible to go back? Here are some fights that didn't take place in a boxing ring, but maybe they should have. Ted: It was September 1984, the beginning of my senior year of college.
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E. FAIRCLOUGH, of the Royal College of Music, London, Associate of the College of Organists, London, and Organist and Choirmaster of St. George's Church, Montreal, will receive pupils for instruction in organ and piano playing, singing, harmony. Mr. Fairclough is kindly permitted to refer to eminent English musicians. Residence - 10 PHILLIPS SQUARE, Montreal. CHILDREN'S PICTURES IN SNOW mis-a specialty. Cantleman, a passenger conductor employed on the Grand Trunk Railway, yesterday morning was in charge of a snowplough employed in clearing the track between the city and Rouse's Point. The plough, with Cast Icm in charge and three working hands, left at 4 o'clock in the morning. About 5 o'clock, at Krosseau, it became stuck in the snow. Castleman leaped off with the intention of warning the trains which would shortly be passing. Before he had got clear of the plough, the latter took upon him, struck him on the head and killed him almost instantly. The remains were conveyed to St. John, Que., where an inquest was held yesterday forenoon, and the remains were brought back to the city in the afternoon. The deceased was about 35 years of age and lived at 62 Charron Street. He had been in the employ of the Grand Trunk for several years, and was a steady, hard-working man. He leaves a wife and two children, for whom great sympathy is manifested in their sudden affliction. THE SNOW BLOCKADE. The inconvenience caused by the snowstorm of Saturday and Sunday is now becoming painfully palpable. Mails are delayed and trains are run with such an utter disregard of timetables as would be charming were they not so ambiguous. With the exception of the Canadian Pacific Railway, all outgoing trains started on time last night, but how they succeeded has yet to be learned. The only arrivals of incoming trains during yesterday were the Central Vermont from New York, and the Grand Trunk Railway from the West. The Canadian Pacific Railway promised to send out their trains about 2 o'clock this morning. To the light receipts, only 138 head having been received during the whole week, on account of the heavy snowstorm which has blocked the roads. Indeed there was not a single bullock on the market this morning, but prices may be quoted steady at 8c to 10c for choice, 3c to 4c for good, and 2c to 3c for inferior to common per lb, live weight. Sheep were steady at 4c per lb, live weight, hogs 4c to 5c per lb, live weight. The New York Mercantile Bulletin says: ""In quinine no business of any consequence has transpired the past few days. There are holders of good foreign brands who are yet prepared to accept 60c for quantities, though for the most popular makes up to 57c is asked, but large buyers are indifferent to the offers made, hence important trading is at a standstill. The domestic makers continue to report a fair movement into consumptive channels, and maintain former prices steadily."" For quinine there has continued a quiet market, but holders manifest no anxiety to sell, quoting $3.70 for single cases, $3.70 to $4.80 for jobbing lots, and $4.50. Huntingdon, of Nipissing, who said that one thing that struck him was the contrast between the treatment accorded to missionaries only four years ago and the kindly consideration they now received. Four years ago when attending conference he found it exceedingly difficult to interest leading men in the subject of missions, especially in the missions of the district of Nipissing. Four years ago the country which he represented was almost an unbroken wilderness, its wealth of timber, mineral and other resources being unknown until the advent of the Canadian Pacific Railway, some few years ago. When first he took charge of his present mission he was staggered by the tremendousness of the work, and he asked himself can we ever evangelize this race, but he remembered that there was one who had said ""Go ye into all the world, and lo, I am with you always."" The speaker then detailed the difficulties which the missionaries encountered at the outset of their work, principal among which was the utter demoralization of the people through contact with the white men. He wondered how it was that men coming from Canadian lands and Christian homes could ever sink to such a depth of degradation as do some of those young men, the sons of pious parents, well educated and fully equipped for the battle of life, when removed from the restraints of home and society. The speaker strongly denounced the system of licensing now prevailing in the Northwest, and gave some amusing descriptions of the dodges resorted to get whiskey into the country surreptitiously. Another difficulty was the great distances in his territory, the only means of travel being by bark canoes in summer and on snowshoes in winter, it never being safe at either time to travel without a compass in one's pocket. He then spoke of the successes which had been accomplished. Four years ago there was but one missionary in the field, today there are three ordained men and four others, making a total of seven, while at intervals throughout the country there are mission churches. After a lengthy description of the scenes in which he worked, the work done and the successes attendant upon his efforts, in which was included a number of remarkable and sudden conversions, the speaker concluded with an urgent appeal to liberal-minded Christians to give of their means abundantly and so help along the Lord's work. Rev. Dr. Douglas being called upon, said that at such a late hour he would not detain the audience. He would merely express the pleasure he had experienced at listening to the excellent practical addresses from which he had gathered quite an amount of new information. The Rev. Doctor then pronounced the benediction and the meeting dispersed. STANSTEAD. To believe our adversaries, a terrible defeat awaited Mr. Colby in Stanstead, but there, as elsewhere in the Eastern Townships, the electors showed their good sense and their recognition of faithful service. The following is the vote: Majority for Colby, Majorities in the following: 87 Barnston, 9 Stanstead, 27 Compton, 60 K 1. THREE RIVERS. The following was the state of the polls at the close of the Three Rivers election, according to Le Journal de Trois-Rivières: Langevin, 640; Premier, 610. Majority for Sir Hector Langevin, 30. Le Journal says that the majority would have been 200 or 300 but for the despicable means to which the opponents of Sir Hector resorted to injure his cause. All the foes of the Government had concentrated their efforts, the provincial authorities lending their aid to prevent the return of Sir John Macdonald's colleague. Of the 900 who signed the requisition to Sir Hector, less than 700 registered their votes in his favor, so rancorous was the influence brought to bear on the electorate. MR. COTTIHAN SNOWED UP. The following telegram was received from Hon. Mr. Costigan at the Inland Revenue Department: ""Grand Falls, N.B., February 20. Roads and highways completely blocked by a tremendous snowstorm. Will start on snowshoes today."" This will give the millinter twenty-six miles of snowshoeing to reach the nearest railway. H. I. V. Yundicutt telegraphed to the Secretary of State to say that he would be happy to meet him, but the roads were impassable owing to the storm. The gentleman left for Ottawa last evening. EMIGRATION OPENED IN THE NORTHWEST. The snow has done farmers will soon begin work. Winnipeg, February 28. One hundred and thirty-one emigrants arrived last week. Most of them were well-to-do farmers from the old country who intend going into farming on an extensive scale. The Manitoba Government emigration agency opens tomorrow. The thermometer registers 50 above zero in the Northwest Territories and the snow has almost disappeared. Farming operations will probably be in full blush in a few days. THE FIRE. The fire in the club building at 83 Wellington Street. The furniture and personal effects of the club were damaged to the extent of about $1,000, covered by insurance. The building, which is owned by ex-Mayor Manning, is damaged to the extent of about $4,000, covered by a policy of $4,000 in the Northern. There was only the steward and his assistant in the club at the time, but it is supposed that they must have been smouldering for hours before it broke out. How it originated is at present a mystery. CLOUDY WITH COLD. And High Temperature Promised for Election Day. Toronto, Ont., March 1, 1 a.m. - The pressure has increased in Eastern Canada with fair decidedly colder weather and decreasing winds. High pressure also prevails eastward to the Lakes, but is decreasing again west of Ontario. The weather is fair and cold in Quebec and eastern Ontario, but is moderating in western Ontario, where light snow is falling. Lawrence, Upper. Moderate winds, partly cloudy weather with light local snow falls; rising temperatures. B. Hocher, whose commission has been revoked. There have been no mails since Saturday from the West, all the roads being blocked. Maurice Grau's opera troupe, en route for Quebec, is snowbound near Acton, on the Grand Trunk Railway. THE DOMINION CAPITAL. New Northwest Judges appointed. Rumored New Military Reserves - The Snow Blockade. Ottawa, February 28. The Canada Gazette, issued today, contains the proclamation dividing the Northwest into judicial districts and the appointment as judges of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories of Messrs. It is understood that the Government will ask Parliament at the coming session to vote $75,000 in the military estimates to be devoted to the purpose of establishing a permanent company of infantry at Lorne, N.B., and a battery of artillery at Victoria, B.C. The battery, as it will probably be called, will be devoted to garrison purposes, the barracks will probably be erected at Esquimalt, where the celebrated dry dock is located, and where the British naval squadron in the Northern Pacific calls for coal. Not a train has left or arrived in Ottawa all day, both the Canada Atlantic and Canadian Pacific railway lines being blocked. The Canada Atlantic was cleared this afternoon, but just afterwards an engine and snowplough ran off the track, renewing the blockade. The city council this evening appointed a deputation to wait upon the Ontario Government concerning the school of practical science, which it is asked, should be established in this city in connection with the Provincial Normal School.
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federal meteorologists said there's no direct proof that this particular Asia would echo with Suharto's crash JONATHAN MANTHORPE Vancouver Sun The 32-year dictatorship of Indonesia's President Suharto appears close to collapse, raising a dark spectre that civil chaos in the world's fourth most populous country, a pillar of regional politics, will seriously complicate Asia's economic woes In trading this week, the Indonesian rupiah plummeted again, losing as much as 12 per cent against the U.S. dollar.
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Bonnell's kids son Mark, 24, a member of the Canadian and other because nobody will notice if you eat as many as 20 lunches per day. Plus you have no incentive to take showers, which results in personal growths in your armpits, which tends to limit your social life. If you have dogs, which I do, you find yourself talking to them a lot, not in a condescending manner, but as equals. Eventually you abandon personal hygiene altogether and degenerate into a primitive life form, living in your underwear and licking Cheez Whiz directly out of the jar. When delivery people come, you bark and try to sniff their privates. But you can get a lot done at home. The key for me, in terms of productivity, has been my personal computer, which can be linked electronically via telephone lines to the newspaper.
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R. JACOBS, Proprietor & Manager, Resort for Ladies and Children, Performance every Afternoon and Evening, Change of Programme Every Week, HOP O' MY THUMB has arrived, also the ROYAL MIDORI 8, the three most accomplished Little Puilans in the world, Baron Little Finger, Count Rosebud and Miss Jennie Lingley, with new faces and new programme, Better than ever, Admission free, Two Hours of Lacrosse Royal Caughnaga -- in (SHAMROCK LACROSSE) Shamrock Lacrosse Grounds, SATURDAY 25th ISSTA, Ball faced at 110, Two hours play, Admission as usual, Play rain or shine, IRON WORKS (Iron, etc.), Rail Plates (for Umbrels, Cr Axles & etc.), MUX Small proper management of the boats and formation of crews, Sir Hector Lefeuvre will leave for Quebec on Saturday 1st, where he will remain for a few days, as he has abandoned, for the present, his trip to the Northwest, The Exhibition, another celebration Victoria, Toronto, September 13, The third day of the great exposition has been a dreary one for visitors, About noon rain commenced to fall and there has been a steady downpour all afternoon, Notwithstanding this fact a large gathering of visitors were on the grounds, As outdoor amusements were out of question visitors had to confine themselves to the buildings, His Excellency the Marquis of Lorne, accompanied by Prince George and several city gentlemen, visited the various buildings and showed great interest in different exhibits, The electric railway is in full swing and passengers are carried the round trip for five cents a head, The judges have completed their duties and are the awards on all exhibits of the first value, The buckthorn fencing exhibit is attracting a good deal of attention and is fair to be very largely used here, This evening the grounds are almost deserted, The visitors are mostly from a distance who cannot remain over another day, The electric light was working in fine form this evening and the grounds were brilliantly illuminated, Should the weather be fine tomorrow a good day's sport is anticipated, as a number of attractions set down for today will take place tomorrow in addition to the regular programme, The Viceroy's party this morning visited the Infant's Hospital and Home of Providence, The farewell address by the corporation was presented by Mayor Boss in the greens park this afternoon in the presence of about 5,000 citizens, On the platform were the leading political, clerical and civic managers and a large number of others, Rain commenced to fall about one o'clock and continued during the whole afternoon, but, notwithstanding, the avenues leading to the park were lined with spectators, His Excellency was accompanied by the Prince, Prince George and others, by the arrival of the Philharmonic Society who sang Save the Queen, After the War Office read the address His Excellency replied in a feeling speech, saying that it would be the wish of his life to further the interests of Canadians, The Philharmonic Society then sang 'Auld Lang Syne' which terminated the proceedings, The party returned practically unchanged and met with a great reception, It was announced that the 25th of October is the date fixed for their Excellency's return to the Old Country, The congregation of the German Lutheran Church have appointed a committee of businessmen to take a share also of the West Indian and Newfoundland trades, it was proposed to build the mill in proximity to the elevator, as a suitable site could there be obtained, It was proposed to start with a mill of about 300 barrels capacity and increase the size as the demand required, An establishment of this size could be built and thoroughly equipped for operation in less than six months, and a company with $10,000 capital could so start and safely inaugurate the business, Meal as well as flour could be ground, The details of the scheme were freely canvassed and talked over, and the greatest unanimity of feeling prevailed, The Quebec express train for Gambo ran into this morning just on the eve of Londonderry by the coal train special, Both engines were completely wrecked, and the express, baggage car and one or two coal cars badly damaged, others slightly, No one was injured, as the engineers and firemen jumped, they claim that they had a clear right of way from the last station they each left, and were consequently unaware of the other's approach, Resignation of the Superintendent of Education, Fredericton, N.B., September 13 Theodore N. Rand, A.M., D.M., A Man Pullman Car, Can., Pac Sterling Ex., Money, 181 41 741 211 41 6 1, 11 100 1M 8 l, Wt 81 i 101 1 83 HI 041 iwJ ml Mil 811 1161 l'ii, 22 128 125 Ki u 51)1 5:if Sept, 11 81 11)2 83? 30j 1261 148 1041 81 811 1164 122 1221 127) 125i 201 Bli Sept, 10 6fiJ 25 16, (At, 274 41 li 731 22j, 41 'it 601 244 10l 108 '67J 4, 6 811 a 'i' 127J 14K4 106 121, 84J 81! 117 mi low: Weather warm and pleasant, light rain in Iowa, Corn very active, large speculative business, closing rather irregular; there is no decrease in the estimate of damage by frost; indication of a slight decrease in receipts, Wheat more active; receipts today lighter than expected and caused some covering by shorts; market sensitive, advances easily and looks as if it would pay to buy, Oats firmer at present prices; supply not equal to demand, Considerable corn and oat shipping to Michigan; Provisions moderately active and irregular; closed steady; fluctuations largely in sympathy with corn, The Chicago wheat market was irregular, closing 2c higher October at $1.00, and 1c off November and December at $1.00, It will not be any day before the first arrivals of Labrador berries will reach this port, the Greenland having started for Dead Island to load about twelve days ago, The Sir Commodore followed a few days afterward for Labrador, Advance to state that the catch is good, THE STATE of TRADE, Although the volume of wholesale trade during the week under review has not been at all extensive, as was expected, against the feeling of cheerfulness and confidence coming to prevail in the commercial atmosphere owing probably to the caution excited in the upcountry and the almost entire neglect of trade, Among the most important features of the week, we note a decided improvement in dry goods, especially in the presence of a large number of Western customers, It is reported there to be 11 5c, and currents are very firm at 6c to 8c, Advice from Greece report that heavy rains poured all over the Peloponnesus on the 21st and 22nd nit, damaging the crop seriously and bringing about a real catastrophe, the currant crop there being the chief product, Half the crop was said to be exposed on the drying grounds, not more than 10,000 tons being housed prior to the rain, Since then telegrams report that after a short period of fine weather, heavy rain again set in and now we understand there is nothing to be had but ruin damaged fruit, the finest qualities going to other markets at high prices, The bulk of the rain-damaged crop will probably find its way to the French brandy districts, Valencia raisins are undoubtedly a large and fine crop, secured in splendid condition, but the influence of the currant maker has already been felt in Denmark where prices are thinning, recent cable quoting an advance of 1c per quintal, The first shipment of new Valencia have reached London and New York and the quality is highly spoken of, New crop Malaga have also been received in the same markets, The opening price of new lesson' prune was 20f, Bordeaux, the quality being one and got up in good condition, The tea trade has shown some improvement, owing to the fear of the Franco-Chinese trouble stopping the supply, Already several lots offered on English account have been withdrawn from this market, Small parcels of green have changed hands, and about 800 packages Japan dust at 8c to 9c, A lot of fine basket-fired Japan was also sold at 33c, Other sales were reported of Japan at prices ranging from 10c to 15c, There is a good enquiry for low grade, Coffee is quiet but prices are unchanged, Java are held steadily, owing to the damage of the crop to the Dutch East Indies, In tobacco there has been a rise of 1c to 2c per lb in block and bright, owing to the firm market at higher prices for leaf tobacco in the South, Spices are firm, white pepper being quoted at 4c to 25c, black do at 11c, pimento at 8c to 9c; unbleached ginger firm at 14c to 14.5c, and Cochin do at 11c, Rice, in sympathy with the advance in England and the prospective advance in freight which usually takes place at this season, is very stiff here and values are hardening, $1.00 to $1.41 now being the ruling rate at this quality, In canned goods the market is firm and advancing, and we quote prices at $1.75 to $1.80 per case for herring, and at $4.00 to $4.79 per case for mackerel, sardines are steady at 25c each for quarters, The sales of brandy have not been large during the past week as those reported for the week previous, although in a jobbing way they have been fairly satisfactory, Our buyers have also met with fair enquiry, the ordinary jobbing demand for sherry, champagne, and other wines being favorable, Reports from the French vineyards concerning the vintage expected during the past month indicate that the greater part of the demand done by the cold has been met, In fact, in many districts rain would be exceedingly beneficial, In B—, it is stated that the village on the Medoc will take steps to build, out of which one is already disposed of about $10,000 worth of goods, There is no change in prices, which are likely to remain steady, It is noted that some manufacturers report a steady business, while others find orders coming in rather slowly, Those manufacturers who supply the jobbing trade are still running on full time, Prices are steady, but there is a general complaint of small profits, We quote: Men's thick boots, waxed, $2.50 to $4; do split boots $1.50 to $2.25; do kip boots, $2.50 to $3.25; do calf boots, pegged, $3 to $4; do buff and pebbled Balmorals, $1.75 to $3; do split do, $1.26 to $1.65; short shoe packs, $1.00 to $1.25; long do, $1.25 to $2.25; women's buff Balmorals, $1.00 to $1.60; do split do, 85c to $1.00; do prunella do, 50c to $1.00; do congress do, 61c to $1.25; buckskins, 60c to 75c; misses' pebbled and buff Balmorals, 60c to $1.21; do split do, 70c to 80c; do prunella do, 80c to $1.00; do congress do, 60c to 70c; children's pebbled and buff Balmorals, 60c to 90c; do split do, 55c to 60c; prunella do, 50c to 76c; infant's sacks, per dozen, $1.75 to $6.50; women's summer button and tie shoes, 80c to $1.25; men's shoes, 70c to 90c; children's do, 60c to 80c, leather, With the exception of choice plump B.A., sole and the best line of black leather, which are scarce and firm, prices are generally low and unsatisfactory, The volume of business still keeps limited, We quote: Spanish sole, No. 1, B.A., 25c to 27c; do No. 2 B.A., 22c to 24c; China, No. 1, 22c to 25c; do No. 2, 19c to 21c; Buffalo, No. 1, 21c to 22c; do No. 2, 19c to 20c; slaughter, No. 1, 25c to 27c; rough (light) 12c to 15c; harness, 10c to 12c; waxed upper, light, 36c to 37c; do do, medium and heavy, 33c to 36c; grained upper, long, 35c to 37c; Scotch grained upper, 35c to 40c; buff, 15c to 16c; pebbled cow, 12c to 15c; split, medium, 22c to 37c; do, junior, 19c to 21c; calfskin, light, 61c to 75c; do, heavy, 75c to 80c; French calfskin, $1.15 to $1.30; English kidskin, 6c to 7c; patent cow, 12c to 16c.
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to 6 a.m. Monday to Thursday for two weeks, for repairs to the road surface Winning numbers Monday, 900618 La Quotidienne-4 7-1-6-2 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 7-9-0 (in order) Banco 1-5-17-19 21-22 23 25-28-33-37-38 42 45-46 54-55 64 66 68 Author happy with Bradbury north drove how Canadians film his TV series GWEN DAMBROFSKY CANADIAN PRESS Ray Bradbury Toronto company shooting episodes in Alberta BANFF, Alta In plotting his return to series television, Ray Bradbury was determined that what happened to Alfred Hitchcock would never happen to him I was afraid, says Bradbury, who was a writer on the famed director's anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents I had seen how TV treated Hitchcock He didn't get the budgets he wanted, he didn't get anything he wanted I thought, My God! This is my hero; look how they're treating him! If Hitchcock couldn't get it, how would I get it?
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"however, the tremendous efforts put forth by the telegraph companies resulted in communication with the Eastern world True, not many wires were working, but there were enough to transmit the absolutely necessary and momentous messages On Coney Island, New York, August 29 The storm at Coney Island was very severe and did much damage to property along the beach The shore of Gravesend Bay is littered with wrecks of yachts and small boats Along the lower Hudson it was the worst storm experienced for many years Two canal boats' tows are reported to be totally wrecked near Rockland Lake and several lives lost At Canadian Points Shockville, Ont, August 29 The heaviest storm of the season passed over here last night and today The wind blew a gale and the rain fell in torrents for about eighteen hours without a let up No heavy damage was done, but shade trees, sheds and small outbuildings suffered considerably The river presented one of the wildest scenes ever witnessed on the St Lawrence The wind was from a direction that gave the water its fullest sway, and the waves ran high, at some times reaching a majestic height So heavy was the sea that the big ferryboat, the Transit, had to abandon one of her regular trips The Spartan,
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Iqaluit Sunny 12 6 Yellowknife Pcloudy 16 9 Whitehorse Pcloudy 22 8 Vancouver Sunny 24 14 Victoria Sunny 24 12 Edmonton Pcloudy 18 11 Calgary Pcloudy 18 11 Saskatoon Pcloudy 21 11 Regina Pcloudy 21 11 Winnipeg Pcloudy 20 9 Thunder Bay Pcloudy 24 10 Sudbury Pcloudy 26 15 Toronto Sunny 33 24 Fredericton Showers 24 16 Halifax Cloudy 22 15 Charlottetown Showers 23 14 St. John's Cloudy 18 8 United States. Atlanta Pcloudy 33 22 Boston Sunny 31 21 Chicago Pcloudy 33 21 Dallas Pcloudy 36 24 Denver Pcloudy 30 14 Las Vegas Pcloudy 41 27 Los Angeles Pcloudy 28 18 New Orleans Tstorm 30 23 New York Fair 35 25 Phoenix Pcloudy 41 28 St.
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1I1K FROZEN FISH INDUSTRY - The result of this is being seen in the new impetus given to the freezing establishments, which are extending their business very much, and frozen fish is just becoming one of the leading articles of export from British Columbia. Not only is it sent in large quantities to San Francisco and other Pacific ports, but is also sent to Australia and even around Cape Horn. The process of freezing is very simple. The fish immediately after being taken from the water are placed in a room where the temperature is twenty degrees below zero. Here they are allowed to remain for six or seven hours, and are then removed to a larger room where the temperature is thirty degrees below freezing. In this room they are kept for two or three weeks, and are then placed in hermetically sealed cases and are ready for shipment. It is claimed that so long as the air is excluded from them they will keep in this condition for years, and when opened will be as good and fresh as newly caught fish.
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Shipments for week ending 7th September, 339,861 bushels. Total shipments from 1st January to 7th September, 3,737,763 bushels, against 6,737,763 bushels at corresponding date in 1880, being a decrease of 2,773,198 bushels. A considerable decline in prices during the week has been followed by a decidedly stiffer market and better values; yesterday $1.39 was bid for Canada white winter, which is an improvement of 10c on the day previous. Red winter wheat is quotable at $1.41-$1.43. Corn There have been bids of 71c to arrive, but 72c and 73c are asked. Rye There was a sale of 5,000 bushels on the call board at $1.02 for September delivery. Latest Western Advices: By Telegraph Chicago, Chicago, September 8th Close No. 2 spring wheat, $1.27 for October; No. 2 corn, 64c for October. Milwaukee, September 8th Close No.
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5 E. McEachran's Return, July viewed by a Gazette reporter on his trip through the Northwest. I note of the wheat crop of the Territories. The ranches present new developments in horse breeding. Since the Northwest Territories have become the granary of the Dominion, all experienced men arriving in Montreal from beyond the lakes are closely questioned by Montreal merchants and capitalists as to the condition of the crops at this critical period of their growth. Dr. McEachran, chief veterinary inspector for the Dominion, who has just gone over Manitoba and a large portion of Alberta and the other territories, was seen by a Gazette reporter on this subject, and spoke as follows: "In Manitoba the crops are very promising, and although the straw may be a little shorter than usual, the wheat will probably mature earlier on this account." I spent a day in Brandon, drove about the country considerably, and from the splendid outlook in that section I take it for granted that everything there is all right. They are now favored with beautiful weather and have had plenty of rain. The doctor then described the large immigrant trains he met with and the number of well-to-do English gentlemen who were going over the country selecting suitable farms for their sons. "He, in fact, was much pleased at the quality of this year's influx into Western Canada." The reporter questioned the doctor as to the condition of the ranches in Alberta this year, and he replied that the April blizzard had caused considerable losses, more particularly along Willow Creek and the level country east of the rolling foothills. The large ranches, such as Cochran's and Walrond's, escaped with comparatively little loss, as was evidenced by both of those ranches branding a very small number less than last year. The season, however, was dry, especially in the McLeod district, yet the stock never looked in better condition than at the present time. Ranching, however, continued Dr. McEachran, "is in an uncertain and unsettled condition pending the decision of the Department of the Interior with reference to the lands leased to the different companies nine years ago." While I was in Alberta several meetings were held by the ranchmen for the purpose of laying their views before the Government. One memorial in particular asked the Ottawa authorities to appoint a commission to report upon the whole question before deciding upon a policy which might possibly lead to the closing out of the whole ranch business and the withdrawal of from six to eight million dollars of capital which has been invested in that business in Alberta. "Horse breeding," said Dr. McEachran, "is going on in a most satisfactory manner. I visited Quorn Ranch, which has 1,000 horses, High River 900, Cross Ranch 800, Winder 800 and our own ranch, which breeds 700 heavy horses such as Clydes and Shires. I met Mr. Gordon Cuthbert and Mr. Polkes, who were visiting the different ranches selecting horses to the extent of 100 for an experimental shipment to Great Britain. These gentlemen purpose taking the horses, which are principally carriage, saddle and hunters, to Seary's farm in Bothwell, Ont., where they will be broken and mannered, preparatory to their shipment from Montreal towards the end of September. I also visited the Pagan Indians as they were preparing for a sun dance at Fort McLeod and found the tribe making most satisfactory progress in agriculture. The agent said the Indians worked well in the fields, and the leaders of the tribe added that they were quite contented with their lot. The doctor also stated that the Calgary and Edmonton railway construction party had reached the new town site of Fort McLeod and, were it not for a slight delay caused in getting the sleepers down from the mountains, the road would be finished by the middle of August. It is from this point that the proposed Canadian Pacific extension through the Crow's Seat Pass will start. THE FIRE RECORD, Towns in the United States Matter Minor Canadian Blasts, Syracuse, N.
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Louis Sun 15 2 San Francisco Pcloud 21 12 Washington Pcloud 10 0 World Amsterdam Athens Beijing Berlin Copenhagen Dublin Hong Kong Jerusalem Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Nairobi New Delhi Paris Rio de Janeiro Sun Roma Sun Sydney Sun Tokyo Cloud Rain Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Sun Sun Cloud Cloud Sun Cloud 4 5 8 1 7 10 16 7 9 5 11 21 18 15 10 20 12 10 6 18 9 22 11 4 -3 23 14 30 13 14 10 38 25 16 1 27 14 16 9 Resorts Acapulco Fair 33 25 Barbados Pcloud 30 24 Bermuda Fair 24 19 Daytona Beach Pcloud 23 12 Honolulu Sun 31 20 Kingston Fair 32 25 Miami Pcloud 25 17 Myrtle Beach Sun 17 1 Nassau Cloud 31 25 Tampa Sun 24 11 All-Stars end Japan tour with no-hitter Chuck Finley and former Expo Randy Johnson combined on a no-hitter and Greg Olson blasted a three-run homer yesterday,
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too He gave as an example an escape two years ago from the Laval penitentiary during which the convicts took a female employee hostage The guards decided not to shoot because of the hostage and both were suspended for 30 days Guards don't shoot at prisoners as if they're pigeons They know they are dealing with human beings We'll be the first ones ready to testify if there's a public inquiry Both the Surete du Quebec and Correctional Service Canada have begun investigations of the shooting Provincial police also are investigating the slaying of another prisoner about the same time at the Donnacona penitentiary west of Quebec City Andre Talbot, 39, former head of the Pacific Rebels motorcycle gang who was serving a 15-year sentence for manslaughter, was found sprawled across a picnic table in the exercise yard He had been struck in the back with a homemade pick We have 49 witnesses and at least one of them is guilty but we don't know which one,
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Hoarding of sugar, cooking oil and mealie meal is rife in Zimbabwe and the black market price of a 20-kilogram bag of meal has doubled beyond the reach of rural people. There are confirmed reports of customs officials at both the Beit-bridge crossing to South Africa and the Plumtree crossing to Botswana taking mealie meal from trucks entering Zimbabwe. In both cases, the officials claimed the trucks were overloaded. Zimbabwe's Grain Marketing Board and the country's National Railway are blaming each other for the slow distribution of maize being shipped in through South Africa. "The shame of it is what we are seeing here is a tremendous amount of fighting among departments to take the lead," a source said. "They seem to be more interested in taking the lead than in keeping people alive." The 1992 Trans Sport The other high-performance vehicle There are other high-performance passenger vehicles that look like ours. Some shapes just seem to take off better than others. Add an available 3.8L, V-6, fuel injection engine with 165 HP, and you need a performance package that can handle it. The 1992 Pontiac Trans Sport (it's the one on the left).
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- -- :mmtmu ", ' \'Mummmm 29 \'30 jij ,wwt)i mi mini vhm tOTinii i mmamm "" " Pin 31 1 ! II I I I I t I I 1 1 By Steve Newman 74 V Vostok, (U R) Antarctica and threatened several villages Graveyard Strike A lightning bolt struck a mausoleum wall in one of New Orleans' old cemeteries, scattering bricks and the contents of tombs across a Garden District sidewalk The storm knocked out a 10-metre stretch of plastered wall in Lafayette Cemetery No 1, across the street from Commander's Palace, one of New Orleans' premier restaurants A clutter of bricks, skulls, bones, and coffin pieces cascaded 3 to 4 metres into the street, said Bret Clesi of Save Our Cemeteries, a volunteer group that gives tours to raise money to restore the city's cemeteries The most recent burial date was 1914; the others were all in the middle to late 19th century New Orleans, which is below sea level, buries its dead above ground Additional Sound: U C, to help the government"
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Prairie village must have suffered terribly though no detailed advices have been received as to the exact character of the damage done. It is said that over the low land between that village and St. Johns the whole country is covered. The water flows over the district south of the canal, the banks of which have heretofore formed a sort of safeguard to the section north of it. But this year, so high is the flood, that the water in the neighborhood of the sugar refinery flows over the walls into the canal itself, and then over the upper bank into William Street, down which it pours. In the city itself the water extends to districts never before affected. Craig Street and St. Antoine Street from St. Henri Street to St. Urbain Street is covered. Victoria Square is a lake. The low part of Vitre Street in rear of the drill shed is flooded, and the cellars of the houses in the neighborhood filled. Chenneville and St. George Streets are in the same position where they run into Craig Street.
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Northern Exposure (WCAX-3 at 10): Chris gets a visit from his doppelganger. Fuji prime-time schedule, Page C7. Mother with core of steel When it comes to her children, Mia Farrow "eats bullets for breakfast." BOB KAPPSTATTER NEW YORK DAILY NEWS NEW YORK She was born into the Hollywood swirl. She came of age as a precocious young girl barely out of her teens, strutting across a movie set in a negligee to catch the eye of Frank Sinatra, 30 years her senior. She evolved into a kind of Earth Mother with 11 biological and adopted children. Now Maria de Lourdes Villiers Farrow, Mia, a woman and a mother, is fighting with a toughness belied by her soft appearance. Appearances, though, are often deceiving. Mia's friends say she's as tough as steel, devoted to her children as a bear to her cubs. When actor George Segal first heard Woody Allen was involved with Farrow, he reportedly told a friend: "Tell Woody she eats bullets for breakfast." "Tough underneath." And Farrow would concur.
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5-door hatchback, auto, 35,000 kms, Evenings, 426-4620, Private SUZUKI Swift GLX '89, 22,000 kms, 4-door, 4 year guarantee, cassette, $7,750, 276-6279 private TAURUS L '86, V-6, A-1, air, 80,000 kms, $6,350, 381-2082 private TAURUS 1966 Wagon, 6 cylinder, air, 85,000 kms, 4 new tires, excellent condition, $7,200, 630-4303 privat"
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Plunkett, who is now gone a fortnight, is said to be in Boston. The number of his creditors is not large, but the goods left in his shop will hardly cover the liabilities. The bonds for the construction of the Pontiac Pacific Junction Railway have been successfully floated on the English market. This insures the construction of the entire road between Hull and Pembroke. Work will commence immediately on the disappearance of the snow. FROM QUEBEC. Personal chatters here rally around. Grimsby, March 20. Mr. Graham of the Montreal & Toronto Railway. The snowstorm of last night and this morning has interrupted railway communication. Two mail trains are fast in the sand at Three Rivers. The English mail per S.S. Circassian, at Halifax, and the western mails per Grand Trunk were delivered here at 4:30 p.m. The storm is said to be the worst of the season. The Lower Town Street Railway Company carried more passengers last year than in any year since they have been running. The Quebec Chess Club meets tonight for the purpose of arranging a return match with the Toronto Chess Club. Mr.
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The woman died in the western city of Osaka after about 10 days of bloody diarrhea, a key symptom of infection with E. coli 0157 bacteria, said Satoshi Nakamura of the Osaka prefectural Environmental Health Division. Nose drops with lidocaine found to ease migraines for short time RIDGELY OCHS NEWSDAY NEW YORK - Nose drops that contain lidocaine, a common anesthetic, appear to help temporarily relieve migraine headaches, according to a study to be published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association. In a study of 81 people suffering from migraine headaches, doctors at Southern California Permanente Medical Group in Los Angeles gave 53 patients nose drops containing lidocaine. The other 28 were given nose drops without the anesthetic. Of those who received the lidocaine, 55 percent said their headaches were reduced, by half usually - most within five minutes - compared with 21 percent who received the placebo drops. But 42 percent of those who said the lidocaine helped said their headaches had returned within an hour.
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Miami Thunderstorms 32 24 Myrtle Beach Cloudy 28 20 Nassau Sunny 31 24 Old Orchard Sunny 22 8 Virginia Beach Cloudy 26 19 Soviet threat now worries JIM MANN and SAM JAMESON LOS ANGELES TIMES TOKYO For decades, Japan has deployed the bulk of its Self-Defence Forces on the northern island of Hokkaido, because the principal threat to its security seemed to be the Soviet Union. But Japanese defence officials now acknowledge that they are thinking about a significant redeployment of these forces concentrating them more heavily in the westernmost regions of Japan to guard against possible attack by North Korea or China. With the end of the Cold War, the nature of the potential military threat to Japan is changing. Japanese defence officials worry less about an attack from Russian territory and more about the dangers posed by their Asian neighbors. The Defence Agency, in a recent white paper, for the first time cited a potential threat posed to Osaka and Kyoto by new missiles being developed by North Korea, which is also suspected of creating a nuclear arsenal.
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that's a welcome situation You can increase the power that goes downtown" The Boucherville-Duvernay line should be reconnected by Jan 21 Once Hydro repairs that line, electricity will be able to flow from Boucherville to the blacked-out Monteregie - the so-called "triangle of darkness" Medium-voltage lines in that region are still down, however, and it could take at least two more weeks to repair them Authorities refused yesterday to provide a dollar figure on the damage to the power grid "I have not received any evaluation of the damage to Hydro-Quebec," Caille told reporters Ghannoum estimated that Hydro has lost up to 600 transmission towers and about 30,000 poles The average cost of a tower is $100,000 So it would cost at least $60 million to replace the collapsed towers, not counting the wires and labour involved And Ghannoum suggested that the worst might not be over "Believe it or not, they are patrolling some lines in some parts of the network to check for more damage," he said Caille confirmed the utility is studying some measures to strengthen the grid in the long term "I have a few answers," he said,
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PRICE TWO CENTS WE MISSED IT New York and Boston Struck by a Blizzard TRAFFIC IS BLOCKED Street Railways of Both Cities Are Tied Up THE RAILWAYS BLOCKADED New York Has to Go Back Ten Years for a Storm as Big and Boston to 1881 for a Comparison New York, November 27 When the people of New York awoke this morning they found the blizzard that raged when they retired was still in progress The storm, which had begun with the soft, sleety snow on Saturday, at noon had increased greatly, and with the heavier snowfall, the wind was blowing gale at midnight There was a slight abatement of the wind this morning, but the snow still fell, and drifted high, and the temperature dropped rapidly It looked this morning as though the blizzard would continue all day, but at 10 o'clock there was a breaking away in the west, a brightening of the light, and finally the storm ceased altogether, and the greatest blizzard since the memorable one of March, 1888, came to an end With the brightening of the skies in this city this morning, came an increase in the velocity of the wind, and the loose dry snow was sent swirling and eddying everywhere Nearly a foot of snow had fallen, but in places it had drifted to four and five feet Broadway and all the great thoroughfares of the city presented a fantastic appearance There were drifts on the sidewalks through which the early morning wayfarer ploughed to his waist In some of the streets great drifts formed barriers across them, and in many instances filled up the trenches that were dug by the street railroads for the transforming of the motive power from cable to electricity As soon as there were signs of abatement in the fall of snow, the street cleaning department went to work But there was very little progress made The street railroad ploughs had thrown up huge banks of snow on either side of the rails, forming an almost impassable barrier to anything but sleighs, very few of which were out The street cleaning department, with its limited resources, removed a few thousand loads from the principal thoroughfares, but this made an impression on the banks that was scarcely noticeable THE WEATHER The recent comparatively mild weather which has prevailed in Great Britain has been interrupted by a thorough blizzard in many parts of the country, especially in the North, where the snowdrifts have been several feet deep Three men perished in the snow in the Highlands, a train was blown off the rails near Tralee, Ireland, numbers of fishing boats have been lost, many fishermen have perished and the Irish mail boats and cross-channel mail services were interrupted or seriously delayed The Belfast mail boat was twenty hours in making a trip which is usually a short one Acute Rheumatism Pain In the Foot and Limb - A Complete Cure Accomplished by Hood's Sarsaparilla For a number of years I was afflicted with acute rheumatism in my left leg and all the way down my limb into my foot I live five blocks from my work and had to stop and rest several times in going and coming I could get no relief from my trouble and was on the point of giving up my job when I happened to hear of Hood's Sarsaparilla I purchased a bottle of this medicine and a vial of Hood's Pills and began taking them Before I had half finished them I was relieved and it was not long before I was completely cured I never lose an opportunity to praise Hood's Sarsaparilla, for my cure meant a great deal to me, as I have a family and must always be at my post WILMAK RUSKETT, yardman, Grand Trunk Railroad depot, Brantford, Ontario Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best - in fact the One True Blood Purifier Sold by all druggists $1 for 15 doses Bte sriF !
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As the storm moved southeast into Maine, all parts of Montreal were affected to some degree by power outages. About 78,000 households on Montreal Island were without electricity for periods ranging from a few minutes to several hours. The power outages were mainly the result of heavy winds, Hydro-Quebec spokesperson Marc-Brian Chamberland said. As branches toppled, lines would automatically shut off power to protect the system, he explained. Winds gusted to 100 kilometres an hour in parts of Montreal last night, causing trees to topple in several neighbourhoods, police said. Quebec's Public Security Department reported a small tornado near Lac Megantic, about 200 kilometres east of Montreal. Two men were slightly injured and there was heavy property damage, officials said. In the eastern United States, the National Weather Service issued excessive heat warnings and said the heat index - how hot it feels when the humidity is combined with the air temperature - was due to hit 46 in New York today. Scorching heat can put people - especially seniors - at risk of heat-related illnesses like heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
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Allan, Murray, Torrance and other shipping firms, are moving in the matter of obtaining an increase of the Harbour Police, and a memorial to that effect will be prepared and forwarded at an early date to the Minister of Marine. The merchants claim that there is an evident necessity for increased protection this year, as, aside from the announced intention of the ship laborers to hold out for higher wages and their determination not to give in to their demands, which may result in trouble, the accommodation of the harbour is being increased and the force at its present strength is not adequate to the protection of the shipping along the extended line of wharves. Trains Delayed. The heavy snowstorms of the last day or two have seriously impeded the train service, and most of the trains have been greatly delayed. The Western yesterday morning was six hours late, and the New York trains on the Vermont Central and Delaware & Hudson, about three hours. The Ottawa train on the Canada Atlantic, due at 8:55 on Monday evening, did not arrive until 8 o'clock yesterday morning. The North Shore line was reported clear last night, and the service will be on time today.
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Just before the trip to Back River he had a $100 cheque cashed in one of the city banks. Today at convocation he was to receive the doctor's degree. The case is a very sad one, causing great anxiety and consternation both among the students and the faculty. The opinion of some is that he has taken the wrong train, while others think that he has met with an accident, or been the victim of foul play. Chief Detective Cullen and Detective Lapointe have a search warrant and are searching all the neighboring houses. THE NEW BOARDER Attempts to Relieve the Others of Some of Their Belongings. There is a very respectable boarding house on St. Constant street, kept by a French-Canadian, in which resides six lodgers, who have all been there for several years and who get on well together. About a month ago another boarder took up his quarters there who, for some reason or other, did not get on well with the others. Yesterday afternoon one of the boarders came home early and was considerably astonished to find the new man going through a trunk belonging to one of the others.
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"signs blown down, and streets in many portions of the city badly cut up by the raging floods Sewers have been choked and some telephone and telegraph wires are down A plate-glass window in King's drug store was destroyed No marine disasters have been reported as yet By noon today the storm had abated Ottawa, August 29 Last night's storm was one of the most severe known in this section for years and did considerable damage to standing crops At the Experimental Farm four inches of rain fell and the high wind seriously damaged the big field of sunflowers now very nearly ripe Qikdkr, August 29 The storm reported previously south and east reached here today, and ever since morning there has been a strong east gale, with rain in torrents flooding the streets On Lake Ontario Toronto, August 29 The storm today in this region was one of the worst for years The rain was heavy and in the morning the wind was so strong that trees were blown down in many places A good many of the excursion boats abandoned their trips altogether, but the Niagara and Hamilton lines each ran two trips each way The yacht Escape, of Toronto, owned by O Chalis,
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Caledonia Springs, Passengers leave Montreal by Pacific railway at 6 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. By boat at 7:45 a.m. from Bonaventure station. Through season return tickets $1; to go one way and return the other $4.50. Saturday to Tuesday return tickets by Pacific railway $3. Threatening the League, It is stated that a meeting has been held by certain doubtful characters at which it was resolved to run down all the detectives of the Law and Order League. Dr. Hamin, president of the league, states that a certain saloon keeper in the city had warned him of propositions which had been made, as they termed it, to "teach him a lesson," and which they would probably have carried out had not the saloon keeper discouraged them. Struck by Lightning, Mrs. Gravel, aged 35, residing in the parish of St. Vincent de Paul, was struck by lightning during a thunderstorm on Tuesday last and instantaneously killed.
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"Dad enjoyed counting so much he would have been quite happy doing it for a living." Instead, the Quebec City youth was talked into a legal career. Too poor to send him to Montreal to study accounting, his parents enrolled him in the faculty of law at Universit茅 Laval. That decision was to change the course of Quebec's history. When Lesage's 脡quipe de l'Action (Thunder Team) of Liberals won power on June 22, 1960, it spelled the end of a stifling 16-year reign by Premier Maurice Duplessis, whose tenure was referred to as La Grande Noirceur (the Great Darkness). Reminiscing over the momentous June 22 vote, Jules Lesage recalled that much of the Quiet Revolution was fashioned in his father's house on Bougainville St. in Quebec City. "I'd say the big decisions were hammered out on our dining-room table," he said. "That's where his father and a handful of cabinet ministers and advisers hatched their most daring plot to seize Quebec's education system from the clergy. "I maintain that my father's biggest battles weren't with political opponents," Jules said.
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Here are some fights that didn't take place in a boxing ring, but maybe they should have. Ted: It was September 1984, the beginning of my senior year of college. One evening I was returning to my apartment with a young lady I had recently met. By sheer chance, we passed Nancy, whom I had dated junior year and corresponded with all summer. I said hi, but received no reply. Although we had never discussed whether we were dating each other exclusively, I realized she felt betrayed. Meanwhile, the young lady I was with and I went to my apartment, to my room, to listen to Japes. We had only been there several moments when the door came flying open, breaking the chain in the process. It was Nancy. She stormed over to my dresser and slammed down a note, the contents of which I will probably never forget. It contained a lot of four-letter words. Then she stormed out. Our paths crossed several times during that year and she refused to even look at me, let alone talk about what happened.
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A Novel Excursion A novel kind of excursion struck town this evening and crowded the galleries of the House while the divisions on the second reading of the Redistribution bill were taking place. It was got up by the North Lanark Farmers' Institute and comprised about 1,000 farmers and their wives, families and sweethearts, who have come here for the purpose of seeing the Experimental Farm, which they will visit tomorrow morning. This is a good practical move, which other farmers' institutes would do well to follow. It appears that Mr. Gordon's bill, amending the Chinese Immigration Act, is not to die on the order paper in the annual ""Blinghtor of the Innocents,"" as Hon. Mr. Chapleau gives notice tonight that he will move that it be removed from the private bills and order to Government orders, which means that it will come up for discussion, but it by no means follows that the Government will not oppose it. In an interview with an intimate friend today Sir John Thompson, in answer to a question whether he intended to reply to the attack of Dr.
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Corn, bush: 5,445,915, 4,006,461, 6,281,500. Oats, bush: 1,636,401, 1,628,468, 62,980. Rye, bush: 772. The Buffalo Courier on Canadian Annexation. Fauk 8 Parliament of Canada; Legislature of Quebec. EPITOME OF THE LATEST NEWS. Mayne (Parnellite) has been elected to Parliament from Tipperary. Bismarck threatens to increase the duty on German goods by 60 percent. The autopsy on the body of Gortschakoff showed that he had not been poisoned. A New York despatch says detectives are scouring that city in search of No. 1. The Home Cabinet is said to be divided in opinion on the Channel Tunnel question. Hurley鈥檚 troubles between union and non-union workers are reported at Limerick, N.B. Over two hundred arrests of suspected Nihilists have been made in St. Petersburg within a week.
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A necktie for you; that was 60 cents. A perfectly lovely tie worth twice that; it isn't the right color, and I don't suppose you will wear it; but it was such a bargain. And then I got you two new collars for a quarter, and a pair of nice, warm gloves for you only 30 cents just think! And a pair of socks for the baby, they were $2; and a dear little necktie for little Dick, that was $1.50; and a rattle for the baby, that was 40 cents; and such a cute, cunning little hood for the little cherub, only $7; and a winter cap for you, for stormy weather, you know, that was 80 cents; and that was all, except a winter wrap for me, that was $8.50." Philadelphia Record
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Secure your future, remember your seat belt. ACURA PRESIDENT 4648, boul. St. Jean, Dollard-des-Ormeaux Tel: 696-2991 PRESTIGE ACURA 3700, Autoroute 440, Laval Tel: 745-1234 ACURA RIVE-SUD 820, boul. Taschereau, Greenfield Park Tel: 443-6555 ACURA PLUS 255, boul. Seigneurie, Blainville Tel: PURSE: 15,900 4-8 B Laf IG Lamv) 5 30 3 90 3 00 6 Unescorted Cue'le'l 15 60 8 30 6-Omaha Station IM BaiU'teon) 580 Trifecta: 4-B-6, 1328 20, Exacta: 4-8, 159 20 Also Ran: Elite Performer, Carleen Legrand, Fly Limite, Magnum A L, Bvrd Action, Times: 0:27.4, 0:59.2, 1:28.2, 1:59 Attendance 4,952;
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U Itoud lilp'k;Mlil-llfMvy drifla Trains delayed, Corswall, February 21 A terrible snowstorm from the northeast has raged all day! The roads in all directions are piled full of drifts. Trains late, Kingston, Ont, February 21 The trains on the K R were late today in consequence of the heavy snowstorm last night. Toronto, February 21 The snowstorm early this morning did great damage. The wires of the Toronto Telephone Company were blown down from the JO ail building. Their losses alone will amount to $1,000. Thorold, Ont, February 21 A storm of rain and sleet set in at midnight last night, covering the ground about three inches thick. Travel not impeded. St Catharines, Ont, February 21 Snow fell last night and this morning to the depth of four inches. A snowstorm set in at three o'clock this afternoon. Sleighing good; travel unimpeded. Brampton, Ont, February 21 A wild storm set in last night. The roads in the country are said to never have been worse. Chatham, Ont, February 21 Weather very stormy today. Heavy northwest wind, with snow. Roads muddy and almost impassable. Grimsby, February 21 The most violent storm of the season is now prevailing here. Ottawa, Ont, February 21 The severe northeast blizzard passed over this city today. About a foot of snow has fallen. The drifts are great, the country roads being almost impassable in many places. Plattsburgh, February 21 The sleet and rain storm has been succeeded tonight by snow. Telegraph poles between Middleton and Boston Corners are broken down by heavy loads of ice. Chicago, February 21 Snowing since early this morning. At Rock Island the storm raged so violently last night that part of the great Government Bridge was blown down. At Vandalia, Ill, the river is out of its banks; the bottom lands, comprising an area of four miles square, are inundated. An immense amount of livestock and lumber is swept away. At Carlinville, bridges and houses have been swept away and great damage done to farms. A sleet and wind storm extended all over Iowa, Missouri, western and southern Illinois, southern Indiana, Ohio and Canada. Telegraph lines are greatly damaged. KAN REVOLT An Austrian reverse Fort Ustipolina captured by the Herzegovinians. Raousa, February 21 It is reported that the Herzegovinians, after four days' siege, captured Fort Ustipolina, a commanding fort of the Upper Drina, between Footcha and Gorasso. The Austrian garrison was pursued with loss to Gorasso. Two cannon were captured. The whole population on the Upper Drina have joined the insurrection. Footcha is surrounded by three insurgent divisions. The commandant of the place is treating for a surrender. Vienna, February 21 Insurgents or robbers attacked Mottla on Friday night and Saturday and burned a number of houses. Ten women and six children were killed. Ultimately the villagers defeated the aggressors. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT Bradlaugh's constituency, London, February 20 In the House of Commons, Mr. Labouchere (Liberal) moved that a new writ be issued for an election in T, 7, disqualified by the resolution of the House. Lord Randolph Churchill (Conservative) moved in amendment that Bradlaugh was legally disqualified. The Attorney-General advised the House to vote neither for the motion nor for the amendment, but, as Mr. Gladstone had already advised, to permit Bradlaugh to swear, subject to subsequent legal liabilities. The motion and amendment were rejected, the former 307 to 189. Bradlaugh then took the oath, signed it without waiting for the clerk and declared, having taken the oath that he would take his seat. The Speaker told him he would obey, but would claim his seat. Midnight Despatches, a-aOBABIXLITEM; WASHINGTON, February 22 Lower Lakes: Cloudy, light snow, westerly winds, stationary or lower temperature, higher pressure. METEOROLOGICAL Toronto, February 21 Meteorological Office: Drums ordered up at Halifax, Liverpool, Yarmouth, N. 403 4405 NOTRE DAME ST, Corner of St. Patrick. Our respected neighbor the Laccman expects too much. With some people dollars and cents have first place and Temperance issues have to play second fiddle, and generally those who profess most are those who are found wanting when temptation comes in the way. The Chairman said that he regretted the thin attendance; no doubt the snowstorm was the cause, but he was of the opinion that if a dividend was payable they would all be there in crowds. However, he said that each shareholder would be supplied before the next gathering with a pair of snowshoes, and then no excuse would be taken for absence. He said that the last meeting left off where they began at the first meeting, so he asked them to proceed. The Secretary read a circular, which stated that the Society started for the purpose of buying and selling for cash; that they had taken all the cash they could get and also all the goods people would give them, and although things were a little mixed, still on the whole they had been remarkably successful in filling up their shelves, but that the till was empty. The thing appeared paradoxical that they should claim success, and yet be in such a mess, but it was so. A shareholder here asked what they meant by paradoxical? Several voices: It means just the other way. Another shareholder said that he had nothing to say. He wanted cheap goods and he did not care a straw who paid the loss. He went in for cheap goods. (This remark brought out loud and prolonged applause.) A telegram was read from the Ottawa man, stating that the Montreal men were getting a reference; that they got their drinks for nothing. This was denied, and several shareholders remarked that they always paid for what they got at list prices, which were less than half of Freeman's. The Chairman stated that it was contrary to law to drink on the premises, unless in the way of sampling. After a good deal of wrangling, the conclusion arrived at was that a few samples had a good effect in getting new stock, and they would in the meantime shut one eye and say nothing. A shareholder wanted to know if in the assets anything was deducted for bad stock. The man was refused an answer, and some even hinted that he was a spy, sent there by a well-known Dry Goods firm on Notre Dame Street. No other business offering, the meeting ended where it began, seven new shares ($35) having been subscribed for conditionally. The Largest and Best Assorted Stock of Fine Groceries, Wines & Liquors in the city to choose from at 221 St. James Street. COMMERCIAL Gazette Office, Tuesday Evening Inactivity still continues a prominent feature in the English wheat markets for cargoes in all positions, while spot offerings in Liverpool are quiet and steady. Maize was inactive for futures and firm for spot offerings. A later despatch, dated 2:30 p.m., quoted breadstuffs dull, except for corn which is firmer. The receipts of wheat in Liverpool during the past three days were 399,000 centals, 283,000 of which were from America. Beerbohm's Corn Trade List, dated January 27th, says: The annual reports received from Odessa and Nicolaieff this week show that the exports of wheat during 1881 have been very little larger than in 1880; the reason for this unexpected paucity of the shipments was the delay of about five weeks in the harvesting and thrashing operations, and the want of available means for transport. The stocks in the ports of Odessa and Nicolaieff do not show the increase over last year that might have been expected, as the following figures show: 1881, 1882. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS Taken at the McGill College Observatory, Height above sea level, 1,000 feet February 21, 1882 Weather 6:30 a.m., 7:13 overcast snow 8:13 p.m., 7:13 11:13 Barometer reduced to sea level, 29.40 inches, temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit, humidity relative, saturation being 100%. Inflammatory temperature at the station was 32 degrees; minimum do, 12 degrees. St. Martin's Church Ash Wednesday- Service at 11 a.m. and 8 p.m. Acknowledgment: The Bishop of Montreal acknowledges with many thanks the receipt of $5 for the Mission Fund of the Diocese of Montreal, being a thank offering from A Friend. The funeral of the unfortunate man Patrick Cooney, the victim of the Custom House scalding accident, took place yesterday, and was attended by the Collector and several officers of Customs and a large number of friends. March Weather Parties who wish to have Vennor's Weather Bulletin for March will do well to leave their names at their bookseller's at once, as the demand is very large, and the issue will be bought up as fast as placed on the counter. Zion Church, Quebec's Hall We are asked to announce that on account of unavoidable circumstances, Mr. Bray is compelled to postpone his address on a trip to the Northwest, until next week. There will consequently be no meeting this evening. Recorder's Court Yesterday was rather a dull day at the Recorder's Court, where but few cases were brought before the notice of the Court. Horace Laramoe was sentenced to $5 or 8 days for vagrancy. Hildcvort Germain, drunk, was also given $5 or 10 days, and Hannah McCreary was given $10 or three months for the same offence. There is nothing more nourishing and warming in cold weather than a cup of really good Cocoa, but the difficulty has been to obtain it pure. This may be secured at a cost of one cent for a large breakfast cup by using Cadbury's Cocoa Essence, which goes three times as far as the adulterated and starchy compounds ordinarily sold, the smallest packet making fourteen breakfast cups of strong Cocoa. A Sad Event Yesterday morning the western train bound to Montreal contained a priest from Winnipeg, named the Rev. Father Petitot, who was suffering from mental disease, another priest and an attendant. Soon after the train left Belleville Father Petitot was missed from the car, and could not be found. It is supposed that he leaped from the cars into the snow, and up to last night nothing had been seen or heard of him. Police Court At the Police Court yesterday, Etienne Jagny, aged 20, a clerk in the employ of Mr. BY THE WAY, Vennor's ""coming storm"" has come. The case of Dr. Thayer vs. Foley, for alleged abusive language, was dismissed by the Recorder yesterday. Fairbanks & Co. took out an action yesterday for $620 against the Montreal Abattoir Company for alleged debt. There was quite a respectable ""blizzard"" in the city yesterday, and by night many of the roads were covered with snow to a great depth. There was a meeting of the Provincial Cabinet in the city yesterday, when all the members were present excepting the Hon. K.R., and a party of fourteen gentlemen from Boston and Saratoga arrived at the Windsor last evening for the purpose of enjoying our winter sports, and there is no doubt but that they were received by a good Canadian snowstorm. When undertaking a long journey, we advise you to take along a good supply of St. Jacob's Oil in case of an attack of acute rheumatism or other painful ailments. In this connection, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relates the following: Under the title of ""Old Probabilities,"" one of the most useful and valuable officers of the United States Government is most widely known. But quite as well known is Prof.
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S is trying to restore Florida's wetlands THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, APRIL 22 1990 DISCOVER- JOHN LANCASTER WASHINGTON POST EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla In the sunshine and sawgrass of the world's largest freshwater marsh, man is trying to fix what man has broken Spurred by evidence that the Everglades is on the brink of ecological collapse, scientists and politicians are laying the groundwork for an environmental salvage job of epic proportions At the centre of the effort is South Florida's vast network of canals and levees, one of America's largest flood-control projects and the result of a century-long effort to drain the swamp for farms and cities The project will involve manipulating the water system in a variety of ways, from breaching levees to creating huge artificial marshes to absorb polluted wastewater from sugar cane farms It has the potential to affect hundreds of square kilometres of marsh and croplands Bird population falling The project represents a new mission for the Army Corps of Engineers: after decades of building canals and levees to benefit farmers and city dwellers,
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Furthermore, a lunatic like Marc Lepine will always find a way to commit his bloody mayhem. As further evidence of my argument, one need only look at the harsh gun-control laws in both New York City and Washington. A THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1992 Georgia vows no mercy for hostage-takers JULIET O'NEILL SOUTHAM NEWS MOSCOW Georgian authorities pledged no mercy, no negotiations yesterday in an ultimatum to anti-government rebels holding a cabinet minister and 10 other officials hostage. Georgia's leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, paved the way for a potentially bloody showdown in a TV address that was an about-face on pledges against government use of force against opponents. No mercy will be given to anyone, David Zeikidze, deputy interior minister, told the Interfax news agency as the government met to plot an attack on the rebels if the hostages were not voluntarily released today. Neither will there be any talk about negotiations.
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on Wednesday, July 3, will star the legendary Cuban expatriate Celia Cruz, plus Oscar D'Leon and other leading salsa exponents As the jazz festival swings into its second day, Reggae Sunsplash 1990 will roll into the city for a marathon concert at the University de Montreal's Centre Sportif on June 30 The show will star reggae veterans Freddie McGregor, Burning Spear and Marcia Griffiths (a member of the I-Threes, the late Bob Marley's backup singers), plus original toaster U-Roy and the newer reggae-hiphop sensations Shelly Thunder and Shinehead Then, before the jazz festival even ends, the Nuits d'Afrique worldbeat festival begins on July 5 with the highly influential Super Rail Band from Mali (Both Salif Keita and Mory Kante were one-time members of the group) Watch as well for the great Zairean hero Papa Wemba, Algerian rai star Cheb Tati and the thrilling Fatala from Guinea But it doesn't end there This year's Rythme du Monde festival, from Aug 14 to 19, will star Brazilian carnival group Loremil Macado, Boukman Ex-Peryans from Haiti,
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It's nearly September, and here we are enjoying what seems like the first prolonged hot spell of summer. For some of you, in fact, it may actually be dare I say it, autumn. You've got the air conditioner running full blast, you're wearing your shorts and T-shirt and sipping iced tea. And you're still hot. If all else fails, try sending yourself into deep freeze by plopping a movie in the VCR and transporting yourself to another time and another, much cooler, place. Here's your pick of icy videos: The first Norwegian film in 70 mm and stereo (and the first made in the Lapp language) obviously will lose a lot of its impact on TV but that won't stop you from enjoying this rousing, suspenseful movie based on a 1,000-year-old Lapp folk tale. It begins with the savage murder of a nomadic clan, which leaves only one 16-year-old boy alive. Not only must he survive, he also has to warn others in his tribe of the warriors who are chasing him.
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1991 uses famine as weapon in war on rebels UN and Red Cross won't enter rebel-held areas with food aid XL B-6 Khartoum JONATHAN MANTHORPE SOUTHAM NEWS YIROL, Sudan As Michael Mabor displays his pitifully inadequate stores of bandages and medicines in his grotesquely dilapidated hospital, he remarks with a casualness from beyond despair that he is the only doctor for 1.2 million people in the area. The 42-year-old Mabor and a handful of assistants see at least 1,000 patients a month, all with serious illnesses such as malaria, meningitis or wounds from the eight-year-old civil war. Those are the ones who manage to make their way over the blistering, thorn-covered plains of south-central Sudan to his hospital, a relic of British occupation at the turn of the century. How many thousands of sick people cannot make or do not attempt the journey, Mabor has no idea. Neither does he know how many people are dying. There is, he said, no point in traveling to find out. The 60 beds in the hospital are under lock. Mabor cannot accept inpatients. He has no food for them. He would need 600 90-kilogram bags of maize for six months to look after the patients. And there is no immediate prospect of that. The sick cluster around the hospital in the dust or creep home to recover or die. In a macabre parody of reality, a line of vultures fidget on a roof in the old hospital compound that Mabor uses as a clinic. This town, 125 kilometres west of the White Nile River, has, in Mabor's words, ""fallen through the gap"" of relief efforts for war and famine-ravaged southern Sudan. Yirol's plight is the result of the refusal of major international aid agencies, especially the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to confront the Khartoum government's policy of using famine as a weapon in the civil war. Khartoum plays on the international organizations' reverence for the sanctity of legal governments and forbids them to travel in rebel territory. The situation in Yirol is also due, in part, to territorial competition among the aid agencies that are defying Khartoum to operate here. And it is in part, too, a result of faulty communications in the provisional rebel government that now controls most of southern Sudan. On March 7, Egil Hagen of Norwegian People's Aid brought Mabor the hopeful news that his group will operate a barge from Bor on the Nile, bringing about 60 tonnes of food and supplies a week to staging posts on the river. Mabor was skeptical about how much relief would get to Yirol. ""We feel we are nowhere,"" he said. The two loads delivered in February were snatched up in Shambe and Adok with some going to the inland village of Ler. ""I wouldn't say too much support is going to Ler,"" he said, but added: ""I think there is some measure of bypassing us somewhere."" He knew, he said, that high-energy biscuits, perfect food for sick people, had gone to Ler. Why couldn't he have some? From the back of the room, Johan Hesselink of the medical agency working in Ler piped up: ""But those are our biscuits, not part of the food relief."" Asked later about the apparent territorial protection, Hesselink said: ""Those are our cookies. I think he understands. We are looking out after our own programs here. That's the way it has to be."" Yirol has received no food relief since November, when the Red Cross pulled out. The aid group has left southern Sudan entirely out of frustration with Khartoum. The group's much-vaunted code: Civilians are main casualties as Sudanese air force bombs relief agencies, food supplies and hospitals BOR, Sudan Government planes bombed this rebel-held town last Saturday, injuring 17 civilians and damaging a hospital building. According to officials of the rebel administration, which controls almost all southern Sudan except a handful of garrison towns, air raids against civilian targets are an almost daily occurrence. The bombing is extremely inaccurate but in most cases the targets appear to be installations of relief agencies attempting to bring food and medical aid to Sudanese threatened by disease and famine. On the same day the hospital was hit, there was an air raid on the town of Yirol, 125 kilometres to the west. A rebel official told Southam News the bombs hit a river bank and there were no injuries. Faced with the secession of southern Sudan, populated by black Christian and animist people mostly of the Dinka and Nuer tribes, the fundamentalist Islamic Arab regime in Khartoum has turned to unconventional and terror warfare. It is using legalities to hinder the international relief efforts to the 2 million southerners threatened by drought and famine. Khartoum is also using its air superiority to bomb civilian targets. But because of the limitations of the Khartoum air force, the military significance of the raids is minimal. The real effect is on civilians. The Khartoum government has no bombers. Instead it uses Soviet-built Antonov transport planes and crews simply push bombs out of the rear loading door as the plane passes over target areas. There is little attempt at aiming. Last September an attempt was made to bomb a barge on the River Nile at Bor. The barge was to take relief supplies to settlements down river. But the bombs fell in the town and killed a dozen people. The Sudanese have adapted to the daily threat of bombing, but there are signs that some relief workers are more intimidated than local people by the bombing. The broader picture is that the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army controls almost all the historic homeland of the country's blacks south of the Bahr el Ghazal and Sobat river tributaries of the Nile. In an offensive last November, the rebels captured several government garrison towns. Government territory is now largely confined to the towns of Juba, Yei, Wau and Rumbek. These are all under siege and are cut off. Military sources in Nairobi say the SPLA has little difficulty in getting arms, which are donated by a number of African countries. SPLA leader John Garang is popular with heads of state in his war for secession and against the imposition of fundamentalist Islamic law. D Jonathan Manthorpe cannon fire in Saudi Arabia starts holy month of Ramadan REUTER DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia A cannon was fired in eastern Saudi Arabia last night to signal the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. Several muffled cannon booms, traditionally fired after sunset each day of Ramadan, indicated fasting would begin yesterday, Information Ministry officials said. While Muslims observe a total fast, non-Muslims are banned from eating, drinking or smoking in public places during daylight hours. ""On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia threatened to deport non-Muslims who failed to observe the strictures of Ramadan. It did not mention the 500,000 mainly western troops still in the kingdom following the Persian Gulf war victory over Iraq. New moon ""Those who do not abide by the law will have measures taken against them, including deportation,"" a statement said. Normally the sighting of the new moon by a committee of religious authorities signals the start of Ramadan. The moon has not yet been sighted but the termination of 30 days for the previous month, Sha'ban, meant Ramadan would begin today, the Information Ministry officials said. Muslims normally rise early to eat before sunrise during the month and stay up late at night for traditional Ramadan meals. Working hours are shortened. In Saudi Arabia government offices will be open only between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Iraq absent The Saudi press agency said King Fahd sent cables of congratulations to about 30 Muslim leaders on the start of Ramadan. They included Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi. There was no mention of Iraq and its sympathizers, among them King Hussein of Jordan, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat and Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Tunisian President Zineal-Abidine Ben Ali was also absent from the list. The Iraqi news agency INA, monitored by the BBC, said members of Iraq's ruling Revolutionary Command Council and Baath party Regional Command met Iraqi President Saddam Hussein yesterday night and congratulated him on the beginning of Ramadan. 7 members of singer's band die in crash of private plane ASSOCIATED PRESS OTAY, Calif. Nine people, including seven members of country singer Reba McEntire's band, were killed when their private plane crashed in a mountain area near the Mexican border early yesterday, officials said. The crash occurred about 1:45 a.m., shortly after the Hawker Siddeley aircraft had taken off from Brown Field, a private airfield about 25 kilometres southeast of San Diego and about 6.5 km north of the Mexican border. McEntire was not aboard, said her spokeswoman, Jenny Bohler. There were no survivors. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Elly Brekke said. Bohler said seven band members and a road manager were on the plane. Two other band members and several of McEntire's road crew were on another flight that left before the one that crashed, she said. Bohler said McEntire and her band had performed in San Diego on Friday night. The singer stayed behind in San Diego and was going to take another flight yesterday. McEntire, 35, is the only singer ever voted female vocalist of the year four times by the Country Music Association, from 1984 through 1987. Her hit records include Whoever's in New England, Little Rock, Walk On and Rumor Has It. She is scheduled to play a nine-date Canadian tour between April 9 and 21, including stops in Moncton, Halifax, Fredericton, Ottawa, and Toronto. There was no word last night on the fate of the tour. Lighthearted Everyday Cooking Anne Lindsay New Release! Softcover $19.95 ANNE LINDSAY suggested everyday COOKING The perfect guide to a healthy lifestyle Anne Lindsay, the bestselling author of Smart Cooking and The Lighthearted Cookbook, is back with another mouth-watering collection of quick, easy and nutritionally balanced recipes for the whole family. Lindsay's new book focuses on recipes that are low in fat and high in fibre, carbohydrates and nutrients. Containing lots of varied menus - including a month's worth of healthy dinners - The Lighthearted Everyday Cookbook has something for everyone to enjoy. Each recipe has been analyzed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, and the analyses are included in the book. Also look for special sections on shopping and stocking food, and detailed chapters on vegetarian and ethnic cooking! Available at The Gazette lobby, 245 St. Jacques, or at The Gazette boutique in Fairview Pointe-Claire. Mail Order Mail this ad together with a cheque or money order for $23.49 per book to the address below. Visa, MasterCard and American Express accepted. Please allow 3 weeks for delivery. Include: $19.95 for the book, $3.00 postage and taxes, $1.54 GST, $1.00 OST discount ($1.88). Quantity Name: Address: Tel: Postal code: Visa MasterCard American Express Card: Exp. date: Signature: Mail to: The Gazette, Community Relations, 245 St. Jacques Street West, Montreal, Quebec H2Y 1M6 of neutrality allows it to work on both sides of a civil war, but it needs agreement from both sides. This Khartoum refused to give as part of its policy of starving the rebel south into submission. A great deal of bitterness toward the Red Cross is evident throughout rebel-held southern Sudan, a measure of the importance of the group's contribution to relief efforts before its withdrawal. Mabor talks about the messages he has sent to the rebel's provisional administration headquarters in Ka-poeta down near the border with Kenya. The plight of Yirol should be considered a priority, he said. But the message does not seem to have got through. ""When the (Red Cross) left we fell into a gap,"" Mabor said. ""No one has been supporting us and we have nearly run out of supplies."" Even the good news that the barge is now running on the Nile brings its own problems. Yirol has no workable truck to carry relief supplies from the river port of Shambe. There is one truck that can be repaired but there is no gas, oil or hydraulic fluid. Hagen asked for a list of what is needed and promised to fly it in. He also promised new trucks. But that will take two months. How many lost lives two months represents is anyone's guess. free information on your touch-tone phone Note: To reach The Gazette Info-Line, you must call 521-8600 and listen to the message before choosing a four-digit code in this list. Code HOW TO USE THIS SERVICE THE GAZETTE CLUB MED CONTEST Gazette Phone Numbers Question of the Week Your Editorial Comments Home Delivery Information Classified Advertising Facts 9930 1234 2000 2010 2011 2012 2013 Code 1991 CALL IN YOUR QUESTIONS 3000 TODAY IN BUSINESS 6800 WEATHER 6849 HOROSCOPE 6850 Aquarius 6851 Aries 6852 Taurus 6853 Gemini 6854 Cancer 6855 Leo 6856 Virgo 6857 Libra 6858 Scorpio 6859 Sagittarius 6860 Capricorn 6861 Pisces 6872 6873 6874 6875 6876 6877 7669 7670 7671 7672 6862 Your Birthday Today MONTREAL HISTORY Sulpician Seminary Chateau Ramezay Notre-Dame de Bonsecours Chapel Rue de la Commune Old Port History of The Gazette Old Montreal Heritage Network SKI CONDITIONS (V Ski directory Downhill (Alpine) Cross-country Western Canada & U.R. Chanting ""Freedom! Freedom!"" thousands of Ukrainians rallied for independence yesterday, the eve of a countrywide referendum on preserving the Soviet Union. ""Our people have been on their knees for 300 years. It's time to stand up,"" said Anatoly Met, a 23-year-old radio technician listening to the anti-Communist speeches and Ukrainian folk songs. Leaders of Rukh, the Ukrainian independence movement, urged the crowd to give President Mikhail Gorbachev a humiliating rebuke by voting ""no"" to the first question on today's ballot. It asks voters whether they favor preservation of the Soviet Union ""as a renewed federation of equal, sovereign republics."" Movement split The crowd, estimated by police at 3,000 to 5,000 people, filled the square in front of the main stadium in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev. Despite the apparent unanimity at the rally, the independence movement has split on how to answer the ballot's second question, added by the Ukrainian legislature. ""Do you agree that Ukraine should participate in the Union of Sovereign States on the basis of the declaration of Ukraine's state sovereignty?"" it asks. Ivan Drach, a poet and filmmaker who is Rukh's chairman, said he wished the second question were worded more clearly, asking voters whether they simply wanted Ukraine to be independent from the Soviet Union. But he still called for a ""yes"" vote, which he said would make the ""no"" vote on the first question stand out in contrast. Yes vote seen But leaders of the radical Ukrainian Republic Party, which had been closely allied with Rukh, called for a ""no"" vote on both questions. Dmitro Pavlychko, a Rukh leader and member of the Ukrainian legislature, said the split in the pro-independence camp would make the results of the referendum impossible to interpret. Although the independence movement has been growing in Ukraine, the republic of 50 million people is expected to vote for maintaining the union. Israel charges newsman with helping Arabs NEW YORK TIMES GAZA, Israeli-Occupied Gaza Strip A Palestinian journalist recently released from prison under international pressure has been indicted on charges of aiding an illegal Arab group, principally because of his work as a journalist. The journalist, Taher Shriteh, complained in an interview of being held in prison under harsh conditions before he was charged. A charge sheet accuses Shriteh of ""failing to prevent a crime"" by not reporting to the authorities a news source they suspected of leading an illegal Arab group. Shriteh is also charged with aiding the group by giving them the publicly listed phone number of the Reuters news agency in Jerusalem. Under military law, Shriteh also faces a charge of holding a fax machine for the same contact. Shriteh said he was taken from his home by the Shin Bet, Israel's secret internal security force, in January and held for five weeks without charge while investigators questioned him about his news contacts, his associations with Gaza Palestinian leaders and the fax machine. Fax machines are illegal in Gaza under a law regulating telephone and telegraph equipment. He was freed on $5,000 bail early this month. Famine darkens Sudan's war-torn horizon A quarter the size of Canada with about the same population (25 million), Sudan is Africa's largest country. Civil war, floods, droughts and economic mismanagement have kept it one of the world's poorest countries. Africa crosses Egypt Libya Khartoum El Obeid Sudan's Sobat Bahr el Ghazal Abwong Ethiopia patrol Wau Adok Ayod Central Shambe African Republic Bor White Nile River Juba Torit Kapoeta Yei Uganda kilometres Kenya Source: World Bank, CIA, Canadian World Almanac, World Resources Institute Population: Four in five people live in rural areas. Almost half of the population is 14 or younger. Almost half of the population are women of childbearing age. Ethnic composition: 52 per cent black (mostly in south), 39 per cent Arab (mostly in north). Religion: 70 per cent Sunni Moslem (in north), 25 per cent animist and Christian (in south). Government: Military government led by Prime Minister General Omar al-Bashir since he seized power in a coup on June 30, 1989. Political parties are banned. Geography: The Nile River runs up the middle of a flat plain with mountains in the east and the west. The climate is tropical in the south, arid desert in the north. Average annual inflation: 70 per cent (1989). Natural resources: Modest reserves of crude oil, iron ore, chrome and other metals. Exports: $500 million U.S. (1988), or $39 per capita. Total external debt: $12.3 billion U.S. (1989), 75 per cent of GDP. Life expectancy at birth: 50 years (1988). Infant mortality: 108 per 1,000 live births (1990). Literacy: 31 per cent (1986). TREVOR JOHNSTON Southam News Graphics Ugly barge on Nile River carries only lifeline for starving Sudanese JONATHAN MANTHORPE SOUTHAM NEWS BOR, Sudan The blunt, ugly barge moored against the reeds on the murky, swirling waters of the White Nile River seems an unlikely messenger of hope in this war- and famine-ravished land. But for hundreds of thousands of people facing starvation and riddled with disease on the endless arid plains spreading from the river north of here, the barge is the only lifeline they have. Rebel-held region The story of the barge is an extraordinary tale of the failure of international aid agencies to bring relief to this rebel-held region in the face of the Khartoum government's determination to use the weapon of starvation where its military have been useless. And it is the story of how one man and one organization, Egil Hagen and the Norwegian People's Aid, defied obstacles, to the point of piracy, to get the barge running. The barge was loaded on March 6 for its third 250-kilometre trip down the Nile to the staging posts of Shambe and Adok, with 60 tonnes of food and medical supplies. The town of Bor also presents a bleak picture of how relief efforts can become a failure. About 15 km inland, at the town's airstrip a short slashed clearing in the landscape of thorn bushes and low scrub stands a United Nations World Food Program tent warehouse stacked with 300 tonnes of maize. The food has been abandoned there for more than six months because of a bureaucratic foul-up and is now rotten. The sustaining of life for the 22 million people of the vast, sun-hammered bleakness of Sudan has always been a perilous business. And for hundreds of years there has also been sporadic fighting in the area. The latest civil war began in Bor in 1983 when a Sudanese colonel, John Garang, led a mutiny. Garang's rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) now controls almost all southern Sudan. To the rigors of war was added a massive famine in 1985. When another drought loomed three years later, a number of aid agencies and non-governmental organizations jumped in. The UN tried to bring some order to the relief effort by setting up an umbrella organization, Operation Lifeline Sudan, early in 1989. It was at this point that the Khartoum government started expressing fears that the massive transportation of relief into the rebel-held territory would not only provide food for the SPLA, but also become a conduit for military supplies. Hagen has always been singled out by Khartoum, which fosters rumors that he runs arms for the rebels, something he hotly denies. Khartoum began the periodic banning of relief organization flights and setting rules for truck convoy transportation soon after Operation Lifeline started. ""Khartoum,"" said Hagen, a former major in Norway's Special Air Services, ""is accomplishing more of its political and military ends by simply depriving the people of food than it could ever do with guns."" 19 agencies involved The UN, because of the reverence for the sanctity of legal national governments written into its charter, has been reluctant to defy Khartoum's edicts. Of the 19 agencies involved in Operation Lifeline, 17 signed a letter dictated by Khartoum, tying themselves to the government's transportation bans. Hagen's NPA and the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres did not. They have defied them. After days of negotiations in Khartoum and New York, UN officials succeeded last week in persuading the government of General Omar Hassan Bashir to allow limited relief flights. But the 46-year-old Hagen is scornful of the way the UN and other international agencies, especially the International Committee of the Red Cross, have bowed to Khartoum. Around Ler there are perhaps 250,000 Nuer tribesmen under threat of starvation or death from an epidemic of the AIDS-like disease kala azar. The barge's six-day runs from Bor two down and four back against the current now offers them hope. Until the barge's first trip at the end of January, Ler had been isolated for six months. The saga of the barge began last year when the Norwegian Red Cross decided to supply the vessel for its mother organization, the ICRC. The boat was built in sections in Britain and flown to Nairobi, Kenya, in July. The segments were then trucked overland to Bor, where the barge was assembled. Troops and tanks The Khartoum government became immediately outraged by the move, saying the barge could be used for the movement of SPLA troops, supplies and tanks. They forbade the ICRC to use it. So for six months the barge lay idle in the Nile. But this did not stop Khartoum from trying to destroy it. Last September the government tried to bomb it, but only succeeded in killing some dozen civilians. Raids have continued regularly since then. In growing frustration at Khartoum's intransigence, and the refusal of the UN and ICRC to defy the ban, Sudanese rebels and Hagen took over the barge in January. They obtained the keys for one of the boat's two engines and hotwired the other and camouflaged it with Nile mud. But even then, Hagen claims, there were attempts by the UN to stop the barge from operating. He says pressure was put on the UN to intervene. In an interview fiddlers, dancers and dance callers to determine how this old Gaelic fiddling style has survived to this day. A little farther afield, the adventurous and those interested in agriculture might opt to travel to the Himalayas with anthropologist Daniel Early, to study the Sherpa people and their diet. Early wants to study what role amaranth, a high-protein grain, plays in the life of the Sherpas. Growing methods will be explored and it is hoped that field workers will find new strains of amaranth that could feed people around the world. Amateur archaeologists might choose to travel to Cumbria in England to help Tom Clare study Hadrian's Wall, the greatest achievement of the Roman Empire in Britain. Today, 1,850 years after its completion, the wall is still plainly visible but the small forts built to help protect the area from invaders are hidden. Team members will excavate one of these forts and try to discover what the lifestyle was like of the Roman soldiers stationed there. By far, the most popular session of the Earthwatch meeting was one dealing with rainforests. This year, there are seven different rainforest projects studying everything from insects, to plants, to wildlife and how they interact with their co-inhabitants. Shortly after noon on March 8, the Department of Energy announced the blast had a relatively weak force of less than 20 kilotonnes. This type of small explosion has been known to be used to test devices such as X-ray lasers and other weapons associated with the Star Wars program. Tropical Storms Tropical storm Sharon packed winds of 70 km/h as it passed over Mindanao Island but caused no significant damage or any injuries. The out-of-season tropical storm brought needed relief to parts of the southern Philippines that were in their fourth month of drought, and were facing an invasion of locusts. Earthquakes A sharp quake broke windows and knocked items off shelves in the Australian gold-mining town of Kalgoorlie. Earth movements were also felt in the region. B-5 DIGEST Swallows of Capistrano are moving out to the 'burbs KEITH STONE LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS Buildings and parking lots are replacing insect-rich fields and mud necessary for nest-building is becoming scarce. The swallows, which are not endangered, are thriving under bridges along the coast, on eaves in suburban Mission Viejo, on buildings at Pepperdine University in Malibu, on the coast northwest of Los Angeles, and at College of the Canyons in suburban Valencia. ""Probably 100 years ago there were clouds of these birds returning to the mission,"" said Robin Smith of the San Juan Capistrano Chamber of Commerce. But not any more at least not March 19. Perhaps part of the problem is that swallows are not always that punctual. ""March 19 is no red letter day on their calendar,"" Garrett said. ""It doesn't make any difference to them."" But town boosters and swallow watchers work hard to preserve the legend. ""They return to the mission on March 19,"" Smith said. ""That is what people want to hear and that is what we tell them."" In 1939, the migration of swallows to Capistrano became a phenomenon of popular culture when Leon Rene wrote the song When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano. Three million copies were sold forever linking swallows with the town. But legend has no place in science for retired zoology professor Henry Childs, who has spent decades trying to correct the record. As far as he's concerned, there is only one reason for perpetuating the legend: ""It is a business-oriented, promotional activity."" In his scientific paper titled The Capistrano Caper: A Biological Myth, Childs says the swallows' arrival and departure depends largely upon the seasonal resurgence of insects. ""Perhaps,"" he wrote, ""we should celebrate the return of the insects."" UNITED STATES History Museum of Los Angeles County In fact, the thousands of swallow watchers sometimes outnumber the swallows, especially on March 19, when custom says the birds always return to Capistrano from their winter hiatus in Argentina. The shrinking flock is partly caused by fewer swallows everywhere. ""There is a general decline,"" said Ken Fortune of the Audubon Society. ""You've got to understand, the birds come here for a certain kind of habitat."" LOS ANGELES The swallows will come back to Capistrano this year and Malibu and Mission Viejo and Santa Ynez and Valencia. San Juan Capistrano, about 80 kilometres south of Los Angeles, never has held a monopoly on cliff swallows, but now fewer are nesting at its mission church, the victims of development and drought. ""Probably the bulk of those birds moved elsewhere,"" said Kimball Garrett, ornithological collection manager for the Natural THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1991 WORLD No ordinary outlaws: Aquino's big problem is a military run amok BEN TIERNEY SOUTHAM NEWS MANILA They rob banks, they deal in drugs, and now and then they murder a peasant or two. Or a mayor, or a journalist. But these are no ordinary outlaws. They are the officers and men of the armed forces of the Philippines, the soldiers who helped bring Cory Aquino to power five years ago, swore to uphold the law and defend her new constitution and then became her biggest problem. ""They have done enormous economic damage with their coup attempts and now they are factionalized to the point where there is an almost complete breakdown in military discipline,"" said Francisco Nemenzo, chancellor of the University of the Philippines. ""These days the biggest and boldest holdups involve either the military or their agents. The people have lost faith in both the military and the police as their protectors."" The headlines in Manila newspapers tell a large part of the story. One headline last July told of what police described as a drug bust. The police moved in on three suspected dealers doing a drop in a parking lot of the crowded Makati business district, killing all three. Two of the dead men were subsequently identified as army officers, one a colonel, the other a major. Another headline in January told of an incident in the sugarcane region of Negros in which police responded to complaints that several men were terrifying residents of a small town by firing their rifles indiscriminately in the marketplace. The men turned out to be soldiers, a confrontation resulted and five civilians died in the crossfire. ""The corruption is all over,"" Manuel Flores, a retired general who heads an anti-graft board investigating the military's officer corps, told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. ""It is unabated."" The man in charge of the Philippine military, Defence Secretary Fi del Ramos, insists things are not as bad as they have been made out to be in the newspapers. In a December speech, he said: ""In any organization as large as the armed forces there will always be some misfits and scalawags."" But evidence continues to mount that more than just a few Filipino soldiers are involved in crime. During recent hearings in Manila, a former police captain facing murder charges arising from the July drug killings in Makati placed before members of the Senate the names of no fewer than 90 police officers and soldiers he said were involved in the drug trade. Not two or three, or half a dozen, but 90 two of them generals. The criminal activity is believed to be largely for personal gain, just as most of the human-rights violations in the Philippines are linked to power struggles aimed at controlling wealth in the country. ""Military leaders and the landowners build up their own private armies and they harass those who speak out in opposition to them,"" Nemenzo said. Nemenzo and many others say Aquino has contributed to the lawlessness within the military by not being tougher on rebel ranks in the early days of her presidency, when her enormous popularity ruled out a military uprising against her. Gerry Barican, president of the Partido Pilipino, a new opposition group, said: ""She did not really reach out to some people she should have reached out to, and on the other hand she was not tough enough when she should have been tough enough."" But many others also point the finger at Ramos, credited with saving Aquino from being overthrown on several occasions, but also responsible for imposing the light sentence of pushups on those who took part in the first coup. A man dressed in traditional Serbian clothing holds a candle during an anti-communist demonstration in Belgrade. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have demonstrated over the past week to demand the resignation of the Serbian government. Study in Contrast A woman clad in traditional clothing sits beside trash resulting from both looting during the Iraqi occupation and the lack of garbage collection since the liberation of Kuwait. Goodbye Leif, hello Columbus of Norway ASSOCIATED PRESS OSLO Norwegians have been miffed for centuries about Christopher Columbus stealing credit from Leif Ericsson for discovering the New World. But a Norwegian maritime history writer says it really makes no difference because Columbus may have been Norwegian. Tor Busch Sannes doesn't claim to have definitive proof. Instead, he cites a series of coincidences, historical fact and imaginative interpretation he hopes historians will investigate further. His book, Christopher Columbus A European From Norway? suggests Columbus was a Norwegian nobleman named Christopher Bonde who discovered America in 1477, not in 1492. Columbus undertook a voyage north of Iceland in 1477, the World Book Encyclopedia said. Sannes argues that voyage could have reached Canada or New England 15 years before Columbus laid anchor in the West Indies in 1492. ""America is getting ready to celebrate the 500th anniversary (of Columbus's discovery) 15 years too late,"" Sannes said. The book has generated considerable news coverage, skepticism and amusement in Norway. Some see it as belated revenge for overlooking the Viking seafarer Ericsson's discovery of North America nearly 500 years earlier. Many Norwegians believe Ericsson Move to free market no laughing matter Even humor museum's budget gets cut to the funny bone CHUCK SUDETIC NEW YORK TIMES GABROVO, Bulgaria According to the local folklore, the residents of this town are renowned for their self-effacing humor and their tightfistedness. One typical story has it that Gabrovians are so cheap that it is not unusual for married couples to make do with a single wedding band, with the husband wearing it one day and the wife the next. Another tale of Gabrovian economy contends that townsfolk snip the tails off housecats to cut down on the heat loss each time they open the door to let their pets out during the winter. But the high-voltage ""shock therapy"" of freely rising prices that Bulgaria's government has introduced to revive the foundering economy is testing even the Gabrovians' sense of parsimonious humor. ""You won't find new jokes in Gabrovo now,"" said Galina Boneva, a curator at the town's showcase, the House of Humor, a government-operated shrine to world joviality that faces staff cuts because of a slashed budget. ""People are very tense. It's not the time for jokes. They are doing everything they can just to survive."" In late January, Bulgaria's government loosened price controls, increased interest rates and took other measures to prepare groundwork for a free-market system. A new land ownership law is already on the books, and parliament is debating proposals for banking and tax reforms and privatization of state-owned enterprises. Long accustomed to a Soviet-style planned economy that, however unproductive, maintained an illusion of security, kept apparent prices low and forced people to leave decision-making up to a stifling, bumbling bureaucracy, the Gabrovians have yet to get over the shock the changes have brought. The town's shop windows and market stands, once nearly empty, have begun filling up, but prices have soared so high that the locals are having no trouble heeding government advice to delay buying even essentials until prices return from the stratosphere. A kilogram of coffee costs more than a quarter of an average Gabrovian's monthly income. Medicines, fertilizers and pesticides, toilet paper, petroleum products and other basics remain scarce, because trade agreements with the former Soviet-bloc states and Iraq have collapsed and Bulgaria does not have enough hard currency to buy them at world prices. Cuban sugar once so expensive that Gabrovians used to joke, ""Would you like sugar in your coffee or the money transferred directly into your account?"" has also disappeared. Once guaranteed a job, if not constructive work, many of Bulgaria's 9 million people now face layoffs. African women and they don't see anything wrong with it. So far, Africa has produced few publicly known feminists, a word barely in the lexicon. In some countries, such as Zimbabwe and Uganda, women appointed to senior positions in government have found themselves free to express the need for an improved status for women. But those women tread a difficult path. Male chauvinism is ingrained and indeed, codified, in much of African culture. For example, Kenya is one of the few African countries to have a law, passed in 1981, that allows women to inherit and own property, said Kaduru, one of the minority of women in her law class to marry. But so few women knew about the law that many persisted in their beliefs that they didn't have property and inheritance rights."
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It is claimed that so long as the air is excluded from them they will keep in this condition for years, and when opened will be as good and fresh as newly caught fish. SALMON ONE CENT A POUND - The price of fresh salmon on the Pacific coast seems ridiculously low to Eastern eyes, the ordinary price of the sockeye at the canning factories being about ten cents each or one cent per pound, and when the "run" is very heavy the price sometimes drops as low as one or two cents per fish. At this low price one would naturally expect that large quantities of the frozen fish could be sent to the cities in Eastern Canada, but so far this has not been the case. Those engaged in the business say that the railway rates for freight are too high, and that the cost of freezing and transportation is so great that there would be no money in sending carloads of frozen salmon to Toronto, Montreal or other eastern cities; while the market in these cities is so limited that the risk of accumulating large quantities of unsaleable fish is greater than the probable amount of business would warrant.
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However, I find that the said municipality have extended their drainage system so as to take in the whole of the water from the little mountain, as it is called, above Sherbrooke street, running lateral sewers away up into the mountain, carrying the drainage from that mountain too rapidly into the city sewers, and I therefore think that it is just that the municipality of Westmount should be charged a portion of the cost of the intercepting sewer which is rendered necessary by their action. 2. In regard to the duplicate sewer in St James street, from McGill street to the western city limits, the necessity of building this sewer has been caused entirely by the action of the municipality of Lachine and the municipality of St Henri, diverting a natural water course which used to drain into the little St Pierre river into their sewers which empty into the St James street sewer.
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C. Frick The intended assassin is the Anarchist, Aaronstam, of New York, who is a close friend of Bergmann and Emma Goldman. Aaronstam has been in the city for several days and it is claimed has been waiting for a favorable opportunity to kill his victim. He is said to resemble Bergmann very much and is armed with a revolver in one pocket and a dynamite bomb in the other. The plot was hatched in Vienna and was given to the New York police by Vice-Consul Eberhardt of Austria. Secretary Lovejoy has been warned that he has only until the 10th to live. Other officials of the Carnegie company have also received threatening letters. The police are satisfied, however, that they can frustrate the plans of the Anarchists. A Girl's Terrible Crime Fall River, Mass, August 11 Miss Lizzie Borden is under arrest charged with murdering her father and stepmother last Thursday morning at their home on Second Street. She was brought into the district court room about 3 o'clock this afternoon presumably to give further evidence at the inquest. Miss Borden was accompanied by her sister and Mrs. Brigham. As was the case yesterday, all the proceedings were private. When Miss Lizzie returned from the third inquiry she was a mental and physical wreck and was conducted to the matron's room, where she was arrested at six o'clock. The prisoner will be arraigned in the district court room tomorrow morning. Had Not Rained for Three Years San Antonio, Tex, August 11 Heavy general rains have continued for several days over Southwestern Texas, covering the drought region on the Lower Rio Grande and extending into Northern Mexico, where it has not rained for three years, and where much suffering existed. The Rio Grande is in a boom for the first time for several years. Washouts on the railroads are numerous, and bridges have been swept away at many places. Twelve miles from here a waterspout washed out the track of the Southern Pacific railway and stranded several farmhouses. This downpour is invaluable, breaking an extensive drought and ending much misery. Five Were Crushed to Death Hartford City, Ind, August 11 This afternoon, at 4:45 o'clock, a heavy stone wall in the tank room of the Hartford City Glass Works caved in, killing five men and badly injuring two others. The falling of the wall was caused by the pressure of a heavy dirt filling placed behind the wall and defective masonry. At the time of the accident the men were attempting to prop the wall. The killed are: W
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M. S. Lonigan and Bell in for the railway company, September 10. Special trains from Montreal to Wilmington direct station, 2 p.m. Return fare, 10c. AN ALDERMAN'S COMPLAINT About the Blockades of Bleury Street. Alderman Jean D. Villeneuve Ward. The Alderman and the Foreman, The Road Committee met yesterday afternoon, there being present Ald. Prefontaine (chairman), W. Kennedy, P. Kennedy, J. B. Dufresne, Brunet, and Dubuc. After the usual routine business had been transacted, Ald. Jannotte introduced a deputation of St. Catherine Street property owners and stated their grievances. They had to complain that the sewer on St. Catherine Street, between Panet and Papineau Streets, was in bad order. It was made twenty-two years ago, and was insufficient for present purposes, as whenever there was a heavy rain the water flooded the cellars along the street, causing great damage. Ald. Dubuc spoke in favor of action being taken in this matter, and pointed out that a similar condition of affairs existed on Ontario Street, but he thought the Health Department should take the initiative. Ald. Jannotte pointed out that, as the new pavement was being laid on St. Catherine Street, this matter required immediate attention, so as to prevent the necessity of having to tear up the new pavement to build the sewer. On motion of the chairman, the affair was left to a subcommittee, consisting of Ald. Brunet, Dubuc, Wilson, and Mr. St. George, the city surveyor, who were to have authority to act in the matter. Then the aldermen engaged in a desultory chat, and as there was no sign of business, Alderman P. Kennedy made the suggestion that they adjourn and go to see the lacrosse match. Business was then temporarily resumed and Alderman Thompson was given a hearing, as he wanted to make a suggestion. He dwelt upon the unsatisfactory condition of the drains generally, and suggested that the committee recommend to the council that all matters relating thereto be left to a standing committee on drainage. In his opinion, not until this was done would the present unsatisfactory state of affairs be remedied. The Chairman, however, was of the opinion that there were too many committees who had to do with the streets and, as most of the aldermen agreed with him, no action on Ald. Thompson's suggestion was taken. A COMPLAINT. Aid. Cunningham was then allowed to speak with reference to the grievances of the business men on Bleury Street in regard to the drain now being made on that thoroughfare. He pointed out that last year the water pipes were laid on Bleury Street, thus blocking traffic and interfering with business; this year a drain was being made from St. Jacques Street to Dorchester and he understood that next year it was their intention to extend this to St. Catherine Street. He did not see, nor did the business men he had come there to represent, why the whole could not be completed this year, thus having the nuisance over and done with at once. No one saw any objections, and instructions were given for action accordingly. A CHARGE OF INCIVILITY. Aid. Villeneuve also had a complaint to make. He complained about the incivility of Foreman Rousseau, who had charge of the street improvements in St. Jean Baptiste Ward. He, himself, had only recommended one man to be taken on the works, but the foreman had returned his letter unopened. He had treated Dr. Germain most uncivilly, and whenever he (Aid. Villeneuve) met the foreman he turned his head and looked the other way, for fear he might be spoken to about some much-needed improvements. The sidewalks were in a most disgraceful condition; in fact, they had never been worse when the ward was a small village; and when Mr. Rousseau was spoken to about the matter he promised to do something, but never did it. No attention was paid to their remonstrances. Aid. Dubuc and Aid. Wilson defended Mr. Rousseau. Everybody spoke at once. Mr. St. George tried to obtain a hearing to defend Mr. Rousseau and explain to Aid. Villeneuve, but could not. The Chairman said there were grounds for complaint in regard to the condition of the sidewalks in St. Jean Baptiste Ward, but not more than in any other. This was not the question, however. Mr. St. George, being allowed to speak, said the sidewalks were in a bad condition, but they had no money to better them. Whenever Aid. Villeneuve asked for anything he put it down to compute the cost. He defended Mr. Rousseau, saying that he could not lay a sidewalk or repair one without coming to him (Mr. St. George) for instructions. Aid. Villeneuve: Let me interrupt you to let you know how matters stand. Mr. Rousseau stated to one of the assessors that St. Jean Baptiste should never have been annexed. Mr. St. George had stated the same thing himself, for the reason that when it was annexed the streets were in a very bad order and they had not since had the money for repairs. When Mr. Villeneuve saw the official statement he would be satisfied that the best possible had been done. Aid. Villeneuve with some animus reiterated his statements about Mr. Rousseau. ""I know,"" he said, ""that he is the enemy of St. Jean Baptiste Ward."" Mr. St. George warmly defended his foreman, saying he was a most efficient workman and it was most unfair to so abuse a man who had no chance of defending himself, and who, in doing as he did, had only acted under his (Mr. St. George's) orders. Aid. Villeneuve: He does not obey his orders. I would like Aid. Brunet, who lives near, to give me half an hour and I would convince him of the truth of my statements about the bad order of the sidewalks. Aid. Brunet was willing to make the examination and report to the Road Committee and let it report to the council. Aid. Villeneuve: We have been annexed five years and not a cent has been spent on seven streets. Then after all this talk had been talked and nothing done, Mr. St. George was instructed to inquire into Aid. Villeneuve's complaints. The Market Committee. A meeting of the Market Committee was held yesterday morning, Aid. M alone in the chair. Messrs. LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIP, TORONTO vs SHAMROCK Shamrock Lacrosse Grounds SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13th, Ball Fared at 3:30 p.m. Six Hours' Play, Rain or Shine, Henry McLaughlin, Hon. Sec'y. TICKETS for sale by Jno. Lewis, Victoria Square; Brault & McGoldrick, Bleury Street; U. Y., September 10. The highest flood which has been known in this section since 1850, with one exception, visited the valley of the Canisteo this morning. After a night of unusually hard rain at 8 o'clock this morning a third of the city was inundated. Crosby Creek was sweeping down Canisteo Street and covering the Erie yard. Canacadea Creek was overflowing, as was the river. The fire department was called out and did good work in securing bridges and buildings. The Erie is completely tied up, no through trains running since midnight, when train No. 6 went up the western division, but that has been stopped at Andover all day, unable to go either way. Three through trains have been lying at this city all day, one is at Addison and a fifth at Cameron, with no prospect of an opening before morning. It is now raining heavily and the streams are rapidly rising again, and unless it stops within an hour disastrous results will follow. Advices from Canisteo report that the village is completely under water and at the mercy of the stream. Almond and Alfred Centre are badly flooded and much damage has been done. Advices from Wellsville say that the water is unusually high at that place and all the bridges in that section are gone. At Corning many houses are surrounded and much damage done. The Northern Central has trouble at Watkins, where the tracks are flooded and washed out. ANOTHER RAILWAY HORROR. Albany, September 10. The passengers on the train known as the Steamboat Express, leaving Lake George at 4:50 p.m., had a narrow escape from a frightful catastrophe at the Lumber Street crossing on the Delaware & Hudson Railroad at 8 o'clock tonight. The engineer on the train noticed the danger signals and stopped his engine about 300 feet from the crossing. Shortly afterwards he was given the signal to go ahead and obeyed. At the crossing, however, owing to a misplaced switch, the passenger train was sent onto a track on which was standing an engine with steam up attached to a loaded freight train of thirteen cars. The passenger train clashed into the freight train, but beyond a general shaking up of the passengers no one was injured. The Steamboat Express always passes the Lumber Street crossing at a high rate of speed and had the train been stopped for some reason or other above the crossing, it would have run into the freight train with terrific force and a number of the passengers would have undoubtedly been killed. TRAIN WRECKERS IN COURT. Troy, September 10. John Kiernan and John Cordial, two of the Knights of Labor charged with wrecking the Montreal Express last Monday night on the Central Hudson Railroad, were arraigned before County Judge Gilfiith this morning. The prisoners pleaded not guilty to a charge of placing obstructions on the track and the examination was adjourned till Saturday at 11 a.m. Lee gave each of the prisoners money. They were taken back to the Troy jail. Reed was not arraigned and it was stated that he is still a prisoner in Albany. The affidavit of A. Harrington, assistant superintendent of the Central Hudson Railroad, charges five men with the offense: John Reed, John Cordial, John Kiernan, Thomas Cain, and Arthur Buett. It is said Buett fled the next morning after the wreck. His right name is said to be Buell. Troy, N.Y. ESTABLISHED - 1880. Capital, $100,000. JOHN G. GRANT, Stock Broker, Auditor and Accountant, Member Montreal Stock Exchange. 1 HOMB'AL, STREET I. Telephone No. 100. P.O. Box 100. Chicago Correspondent Norton & West. Union, rain or provision bought for cash or on margin.
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Police with riot shields remained on guard as a mainly young crowd gathered again yesterday outside the hostel, one of hundreds that have been the target of racist violence by neo-Nazis and other hooligans since last year. Hooligans hurling firebombs and stones clashed with police wielding clubs for eight hours until authorities used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd early in the day. Twelve police officers were injured and two police cars were rolled over and set ablaze by attackers in their teens and 20s. Eight hooligans were arrested. About 1,000 bystanders, apparently residents of the drab apartment buildings in the area, cheered the gangs of youths. The Rostock hostel, often crowded beyond its 200-person capacity, is to be shut down Sept. 1 after repeated protests from locals complaining about noise and dirt. CAREERS IN THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY Is it difficult to break into the trave"
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Although Moscow does not recognize the Dniester Republic's self-proclaimed independence, the Russian Foreign Ministry in response called on Moldova to "act strictly in accordance with the norms of international law, legality and respect for the rights of the individual and ethnic minorities." The Dniester crisis, more than two years in the making, poses a serious challenge for Moscow, which has recognized Moldova's borders as those of another member of the Commonwealth of Independent States but which sympathizes with the 600,000 Russians and Ukrainians who live on the eastern bank of Dniester River and fear the republic's reunification with neighboring Romania. "Two-thirds of Moldova's population are ethnic Romanians, and if they want unification with Romania that is the right of the majority," a senior Yeltsin adviser said yesterday. "But if the move is forced, rushed or bloody, if Russians, our people, are killed, I doubt that we could stand by idly."
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said Andre Barsalou, chief of operations for Division 12 of the Montreal fire department "The ice broke and one couple got separated from the other and were swept out into the lake by the wind," Barsalou said The couple were floating on a chunk of ice that was about the size of a large house, he said Their companions, on ice still attached to the shore, called 911 Barsalou sent out two teams of firefighters in rowboats They fought winds that gusted up to 80 kilometres an hour (Environment Canada issued a high-wind warning yesterday) "I also asked the Surete du Quebec to dispatch a helicopter from Trois-Rivieres as well as the Coast Guard to fly from the Canadian Forces base in Trenton (Ont.)" he said Once rescued, the woman was "shook up" but her male companion was very calm, Barsalou said About a half-hour after the rescue, all the ice broke away from the shore and drifted out into the St.
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"Weather takes shine off Britain's grouse hunt LONDON Disease, predators and bad weather meant a less than glorious start yesterday to the annual grouse-shooting season in Scotland and northern England. Prospects on the Glorious Twelfth of August a high spot on the sporting calendar for Britain's landowners and aristocrats were dimmed by storms last month, which weakened grouse chicks. Wealthy people pay up to $2,000 a day for the privilege of shooting grouse on the best of the 460 grouse moors in Britain. Fires burn near Chernobyl nuclear plant KIEV, Ukraine Forest fires raging near the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine have caused a small rise in radiation, officials said yesterday. But they said there was no danger that the blazes would spread to Chernobyl itself. Inna Zimina, an engineer at the plant, said that woods, fields and peat bogs were on fire in and around six villages within a 35-kilometre radius of Chernobyl. The nearest fire was just 10 km away.
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"All the mighty ruling fire smoldering in the wicked old king finds vent in Keene's glorious eyes. His face is a study worthy of Rembrandt. Querulous age and sly suspicion lie in furrows over his cheeks and every curve is harsh with stubborn ambition and every angle sharpened by servile superstition. The hollow, fearful eyes, full of token tell-tale of physical suffering, make a stirring picture of the king who was such a great monarch and so small a man."" Philharmonic Society: Next month the Philharmonic Society will come before their patrons with a grand programme. On March 23rd will be performed, for the first time in Canada, Baint Baens' masterpiece, ""The Deluge."" On the same evening Gade's ""Erl King's Daughter"" will be given for the first time by the society. On 24th March Dvorak's ""Spare's Bride"" will be heard for the second time in Montreal, the society having performed the work once before, about six years ago. This work was a revelation of the vast resources of modern instrumentation, and its repetition will produce a crowded house.
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A4 CRVR D5 PETER McCABE THE GAZETTE A tractor-trailer lies between the lanes on Highway 40 in Vaudreuil, off the western tip of Montreal Island, early yesterday. Why didn't they see it coming? EXPERTS BLINDSIDED 'Very unusual pattern' came from east ANNE SUTHERLAND GAZETTE WEATHER REPORTER The first snowstorm of the season caught everyone - including weather forecasters - with their snow pants down around their ankles. The four centimetres of snow called for Monday had turned into an unexpected 20 centimetres by yesterday morning, compounded by wicked, gale-force winds. Another 10 centimetres fell during the day, until - at 5:24 p.m. - Environment Canada ended its snowfall warning for Montreal and Laval. Overnight, though, a further two centimetres were expected in the form of light flurries - bringing the accumulated grand total by this morning to roughly 32 centimetres. Plea from the city: Big cleanup push starts this morning CATHERINE WILTON THE GAZETTE The city of Montreal is pleading with motorists to make a switch to public transit over the next several days - with winter's first snowstorm expected by this morning to have dumped about 32 centimetres overall of the white stuff since the flakes began piling up Monday. ""We want people to leave their cars at home - that will help us get rid of the snow more quickly,"" said Yves Girard, the city's chief of snow-clearing operations. Girard said blowing snow and gusting winds created havoc for city workers who began plowing city streets Monday night, after the city was unexpectedly walloped with far more than the four centimetres Environment Canada had forecast Monday afternoon. ""The conditions were difficult. The visibility was bad and workers would clear a street and then have to come back and do it again and again,"" Girard said. For the second day, about 1,000 workers yesterday plowed snow from major roads, sidewalks, bus lanes and outside of hospitals and Quebec communities POSTMEDIA NEWS Rimouski - A combination of high tides, rain and gusting winds prompted officials to evacuate hundreds of homes in eastern Quebec this week as the safety of residents was threatened by floods and damaged foundations. THE GAZETTE montrealgazette.com A f V A Jl G The city is going to close the road for up to two years to allow workers to install a new sewer system and facilitate the construction of the McGill University Health Centre's superhospital. However, the city went ahead yesterday with plans to close the Girouard Ave access ramp onto Highway 15 southbound. kwiltonmontrealgazette.com seasonal high tides - measuring three to 4.5 metres - were less likely to be accompanied by 80-90-kilometre-per-hour winds that together formed a potent combination along Quebec's coast. Bad weather plagued much of the country yesterday. AMT promises nightmare year won't be replayed Measures put in place to improve communication with commuters fail ANDY RIGA GAZETTE TRANSPORTATION REPORTER Long delays on some suburban train lines during the season's first snowstorm don't foreshadow another winter of discontent for commuters, the Agence métropolitaine de transport insisted yesterday. The afternoon rush-hour scene at downtown Montreal's Lucien L'Allier train station Monday: Late and cancelled trains, a chaotic atmosphere and poor communication with hundreds of commuters - some of whom waited two hours for trains home to the West Island and points beyond. Vaudreuil-Hudson, the AMT's second-busiest line, used by 15,000 people daily, was the hardest hit; train service was down from 5 p.m. ""We were waiting in the station like cattle,"" Michelle Lessard said until about 6:45 p.m. There were also delays on the Blainville-St. Jerome and Delson lines. For AMT users, it looked a lot like the miserable winter of 2008-09, when the AMT was pilloried for poor service and its inability to inform commuters. The transit authority apologized, offered refunds and promised to do better. Last night, two of the 34 rush-hour commuter-train runs departing downtown were tardy, said AMT official Brigitte Leonard. The 5:40 p.m. to Vaudreuil-Hudson was delayed 29 minutes ""by a mechanical problem,"" she said. The 6 p.m. train for Mont-Saint-Hilaire was held immobile on the Victoria Bridge for 12 minutes by a signalling problem. On Monday, measures put in place to improve communication with commuters utterly failed. Screens that were supposed to display information about delays provided no data. Technology that was supposed to alert users via cellphone and email failed. Public-address systems that were supposed to give passengers accurate info about trains offered no help. Commuters, many of whom had no alternate ways to reach far-flung suburbs, got little help from the few AMT employees around, who often provided contradictory information. Leonard attributed all those failures to a single ""technical bug,"" which she said was found and fixed in time for last night's rush hour. ""I would have liked to have been informed about what the heck was going on,"" said SNOWSTORM BLUES Gazette readers weigh in on the storm and its aftermath: stuck commuter trains, unplowed sidewalks, a late start to clearing the streets. Letters, Pag A26 and montrealgazette.com There was no let-up in sight for the residents of London, Ont., where 30 centimetres fell on top of the previous metre of snow, forcing businesses to close early and shutting down transit services altogether. From Western Canada - where 100 to 180 millimetres of rain was forecast for parts of British Columbia - to the Maritimes, where residents are cleaning up after high winds and heavy rain caused major flooding Monday, Canada is waking up to a reminder that winter is here - even if the calendar says it's two weeks away. A26 EDITORIAL THE GAZETTE montrealgazette.com WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2010 FOUNDED JUNE 5, 1778 BY FIEURV MFSPLET ALAN ALLNUTT PUBLISHER & EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KATHERINE SEDGWICK DEPUTY EDITOR RAYMOND BRASSARD EXECUTIVE EDITOR CATHERINE WALLACE, MANAGING EDITOR ASMAA MALIK, DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR MICHAEL SHENKER ROSS TEAGUE ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITORS MARIO BELLUSCIO, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE WENDY DESMARTEAUX VICE-PRESIDENT, OPERATIONS STEPHANELE GAL VICE-PRESIDENT, SALES AND MARKETING LETTERS Singing the snowstorm blues lie Q5u efte I kmmx 1 1 i i ' 1 1"" "" iHnMiiwmirii tLXmmA if, , 1 1 I AISLINetMONTREALGAZETTE.COM I I )l JORIAl, Students have to pay their fair share Quebec university students can throw all the tantrums they like, as they did at Monday's forum in Quebec City on the topic of university tuition, but fees will surely go up and should quite rightly do so. If students want a quality education, which will handsomely profit them through their working lives, they should pay a fairer share of the cost than they are now. There is no question that Quebec universities are underfunded in large part because tuition fees in the province are ridiculously low - less than half the Canadian average. Overall funding for Quebec universities is 20 per cent less per student than the national average, a difference that is felt in overcrowded classrooms and a comparative shortage of full-fledged professors. University heads are pressing for a fee increase spread over the coming four years that would bring tuition in Quebec to $3,680 per year, an increase of more than 70 per cent from the current $2,075, but still leaving tuition here well below the current national undergrad average of $5,138. The rationale advanced by the provincial student federation and its union backers in the cause for keeping tuition at rock bottom is that it favours greater access to university education, particularly for the financially strapped. If that were so, Quebec would be leading the country in university enrolment, but in fact university attendance among Quebecers aged 18 to 25 is second lowest among Canadian provinces. As such, the effect of the Quebec system is that it subsidizes the relatively affluent more than it aids the unfortunate. The argument that students are hit with crippling debt upon graduation is negated by a respectable recent study that shows holders of bachelor's degrees alone will earn on average $600,000 more over their careers than will high-school grads. For most of those who venture it, a university education is the best investment they'll have made in their lives. Of course raising tuition is not the only improvement that needs to be made to bolster Quebec's universities. Along with the fee increase there should be an improvement in the loan and bursary system to ensure the deserving needy have access. Rather than an across-the-board undergraduate fee, a tuition scale might be set based on the cost of programs. Universities might also be held to better accounting and performance measurement; ill-considered spending on expansion projects has in some cases sorely aggravated the university funding shortage. As well, private enterprise should step up its contribution to the university system since, along with the grads themselves and the governments that will tax them, it is a prime beneficiary of a well-educated workforce. Yes, fees should rise, but students alone shouldn't have to bear the cost of improving the system. Whistleblowers need better protection Without whistleblowers, Canadians might not have found out that the Canadian military was handing over Afghan detainees to possible torture. And Quebecers might have remained in the dark for much longer than they did about corruption in the construction industry - at their considerable cost. But if the public is grateful that previously hidden facts are dragged into the light of day, governments are not always so appreciative. Last year, Richard Colvin, an intelligence officer at the Canadian embassy in Washington, told a parliamentary committee that senior government officials knew Canadian Forces were handing Afghan detainees over to probable torture by Afghan authorities in 2006-2007. He immediately found himself under attack from Defence Minister Peter MacKay. That was one of the big cases. Whistleblowers who try to warn their employers of less high-profile violations are even more vulnerable to reprisals. That's why whistleblower protection is so important. It is in the best interests of taxpayers that public employees be free to reveal wrongdoing. For that to happen, they need a designated authority with the power and tools to investigate and at the same time protect the whistleblower. Yet in Montreal and Ottawa, whistleblower protection is under real pressure. In Ottawa, the ""hear-no-evil"" attitude of Canada's first public-sector integrity commissioner was so outrageous, federal auditor general Sheila Fraser has had to investigate. Fifty-eight whistleblowers complained to the commissioner that they suffered reprisals after alleging wrongdoing. Four complaints were investigated. The two that have been completed were both rejected: Hardly encouragement to future whistleblowers. Here in Montreal, the city set up a hotline last year for city employees and suppliers to report any wrongdoing they witness. To date, 128 reports have been made. Did that number come as a nasty surprise to the Tremblay administration? Is that why the city has decided to take the hotline away from the city's auditor general and give it to the city comptroller instead? It is a shameful and transparent ploy to take control of the complaints system. That hotline must remain under the auditor-general. Only his office is completely independent. He alone can launch an inquiry independently of civic authorities. Taxpayers need to know that someone independent is in their corner. The federal government has to get serious about protecting whistleblowers. The city should leave the hotline with the auditor-general. Good transit; lousy clearing I commend the Société de transport de Montreal for its bus service over the last couple of days. While my Monday evening commute took two hours and the Tuesday morning commute was almost as long, the bus drivers I saw were doing the best they could. On the other hand, once again, there was no attempt anywhere to shovel access to the bus stops or the sidewalks at Lionel-Groulx metro station. I witnessed hundreds of people struggling over snow banks to board buses and get to the metro. Instead of wasting money to hire people in the summer to pick up cigarette butts on the street, why not have them shovel bus stops and metro entrances? Douglas O'Shaughnessy Beaconsfield AMT fouls up again The first snowstorm; the Agence métropolitaine de transport's West Island trains die. Surprise, surprise! One hour sitting on the tracks in nowhere land. There was a lady on the train visiting from Nova Scotia. Could one word of explanation be in English? Of course not! Donna Ekins Dorval Gross incompetence I am again amazed at the gross incompetence of our city at clearing snow. They want people to take public transit, and yet there I was at 1 p.m. yesterday - 24 hours after snow started to fall, and city crews had yet to clear the sidewalk that leads to our local train station. Pedestrians are expected to fight with cars for the right of way on the road. Gee, I wonder why people insist on driving their cars. Every year it is the same thing. Every year the same excuses are provided. When will our city officials do their jobs properly? The plows should have been out yesterday afternoon so people could get home at the end of the day, not waited till the middle of the night. Simple incompetence! Daniel Plneault Pointe Claire Montrealers were frustrated by the Island's snow-clearing efforts. It's not just the weather Here we go again, with the snow from driveways dumped into the street and onto the sidewalk. The city is doing a fairly good job of making sure people can walk on a half-decently cleared sidewalk, but some contractors do a much better job making sure the sidewalks are full of snow from the driveways. If the city is looking for extra revenues, instead of taxing us to death maybe they should find a way to tax these contractors. Alain Houle Notre Dame de Grace Do these people know winter? Remind me again why the anti-Montreal Mayor Gerald Tremblay is raising taxes? It snowed all day and all night Monday and at 8 a.m. Tuesday the sidewalks were still not cleared. I have to assume the people in charge have never gone through a Canadian winter, or else they are totally ineffective. Diann Whittaker Montreal Missed treat Yesterday morning's Gazette delivery was delayed by Monday's snowfall. Entirely understandable. So I read the ""paper"" online. Entirely unsatisfactory, but there's still nothing like spreading the paper out over the breakfast table with a cup of fresh morning coffee. Maybe I'm too old-fashioned but I'll keep my subscription to the real newspaper. Paul Shubin Montreal Fair play for 'burbs Re: ""Suburbs cry foul over budget"" (Gazette, Dec. 3), The suburbs are being asked to help to fund not only transportation and infrastructure projects, but to prop up the city of Montreal's employee pension plan. The cheek of this move is beyond belief. I don't object to paying my fair share of taxes, but the notion that ""the more a suburb's commercial and industrial base grows, the more that suburb has to pay in transfer payments"" really gets my goat. Dorval Mayor Edgar Rouleau is justified in being annoyed at, in effect, being penalized for providing a sound economic base for his municipality. Will the tax burden for Dorval, for instance, be reduced if it is left to stagnate? Lilian Hart Dorval Snakes? Yuck! Re: ""Turcot work means snakes will have to move"" (Gazette, Dec. 6), At least $50,000 to save the snakes at Turcot? I can't believe it. Nobody cares about snakes. Most people have a phobia about these disgusting creatures, a phobia so bad that many couldn't even read this article. While the city is at it, why doesn't it save all the rats that infest condemned buildings? Brandon St. Onge Pierrefonds Wrong answer Re: ""Squeaky wheels"" (Gazette, Dec. 6), Transport Quebec spokesperson Mario St-Pierre gave us an insight into why some things just don't make sense when it comes to road work in our province. Instead of warning drivers a couple of exits in advance of any road closings, he suggests we go online or call Transport Quebec to get an update for any road work. This embarrassing answer to a very logical request just proves the incompetence of those running Transport Quebec. It's much more logical to have a few road workers place a few warning signs, rather than have tens of thousands of drivers going online or calling for road work updates. Kyriakos Mamlis Laval A vocation, not a job Re: ""Schools can afford to let boys be boys"" (Opinion, Dec. 7), Ann Tellier's article was one of the sweetest pieces of writing I have seen in a long time. Teaching's not a job, it's a vocation, a calling (like nursing). You have to love to teach and you have to love, accept and respect children and listen to them. And yes, boys are different from girls. They might be more energetic, more antsy, more disruptive but both are so special and so precious and so fascinating. I was a school secretary for many years and I loved my students and miss and think of them often. Kathryn Pryce Dorval The perfect teacher Re: ""Schools can afford to let boys be boys"" (Opinion, Dec. 7), What a wonderful commentary on school! Perhaps unknown to herself, Ann Tellier exemplifies the teacher we all want for our children: thoughtful; incredibly sensitive to children; deeply committed to her own learning and to reflective practice. She is the consummate professional teacher and we must remember that our schools are filled with such people. Our schools aren't perfect, but with the continued efforts of our teachers, principals and support staff, I have total confidence that any difficulties will be overcome. Don Harris Dollard des Ormeaux The Clinch bites Re: ""Not all that rosy"" (Letters, Dec. 7), While Matthew Brett is busy playing the Grinch and pouring cold water on L. Ian MacDonald's optimistic outlook on the Canadian economy, perhaps he could tear down some of the stories on The Gazette's ""You'll like this"" page. After all, there is just too much good news out there in the world right now. Jon Minnis Pointe Claire WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU, Send your letters to lettersmontrealgazette.com A national figure in her battle against cancer and as a partner in the political career of her husband, John, died yesterday at age 61. See pictures from her life at montrealgazette.com/photos V4 J I: r Q SEE WHAT'S NEW FROM montrealgazette.com/blogs How about a tree made of 100-per-cent recycled cardboard? It looks cool, and you won't be sweeping up pine needles off your floor for the next six months. Green Life BEST REUTERS SPORTS PHOTOS Simone Arrigoni of Italy attempts to set an apnea diving record, while being pushed by two dolphins, in Torvaianica, near Rome, on May 27. See this and other Best Photos of 2010 taken by Reuters at montrealgazette.com/photos ALLISON LAMPERT It's not often that you see a developer get excited about a project with zero financial return. But Kodem president Benjamin Sternthal can't stop talking about his latest project in the Northern Condor region of Ethiopia. Real Deal SHARE YOUR VIEWS ON TODAY'S HOT TOPICS TOTAL SNOWFALL IN CITY MAY HIT 40 CENTIMETRES ""We do not get snow in the Montreal area. We get SNOWSTORMS. And these 30 or so centimetres are just the beginning. Don't blame the weatherman. If you haven't already noticed, it's the only job where you can be 100 per cent wrong and still get paid. Looking at the pictures from the downtown area, obviously this lousy city administration doesn't have a clue how to do snow removal."
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John Railway workshops. The chimney of Gour-deau's factory was blown down, breaking in some three-fourths of the roof. The Levis ferry service had to be suspended, and the firemen were called out any number of times by alarms for chimney fires. Trains are delayed on all the railways. Some of the electric light poles, carrying the wires with the light into the city from Montmorency, were blown down tonight by the blizzard, throwing the whole city into darkness. Toronto, December 27, (Special) Notwithstanding the very plain prediction of Old Probs, the Street Railway company was caught napping this morning, for it was eight o'clock before the cars were running on anything like scheduled time. Residents in the North and West ends of the city were surprised that the company had not made better preparations for the storm, which knocked out the service for three hours, at a time when the cars were most needed. At Other Canadian points, Y, December 27, A snowstorm, almost equal to the famous blizzard of 1888, has been raging in the Mohawk valley since last night, about 18 inches of snow falling.
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Swimmer Lenny Krazelburg, who won three gold medals at the Sydney Olympics in 2000 and was a frequent Maccabi competitor in his teens, was in attendance last night. ""This is beyond sports,"" he told the crowd. ""The experience in the next five days you'll remember for the rest of your life."" The heat is off. The eight-day heat wave that has been gripping the city should end today, an Environment Canada meteorologist said yesterday. Pierre Lassard said dry air gathering over Ottawa would make its way east overnight, bringing average temperatures down by several degrees in the Montreal area throughout the week. The forecast for today calls for a mix of sun and clouds with a high of 25C and a low of 13C. ""This has been an unusually hot August,"" Lassard said, adding that temperatures since Aug. 11 have hovered around 32C. In the same period, the humidex—a measure of air temperatures factoring in humidity—averaged 40C. The humidex temperature in Ottawa yesterday was 32C. Meteorologists define a heat wave as at least three days in a row in which the humidex temperature rises above 38C. Montreal suffered its worst heat wave in August 1944, with temperatures hovering between 32 and 35C over the entire month. The record high for this time of year is 35.6C, recorded on Aug. 14, 1944, just 0.2 degrees above last Wednesday's high. Lizotte civil case reinstated. CORINNE SMITH The Gazette New evidence about the 1999 death of Jean-Pierre Lizotte has prompted the victim's brother to reinstate a 2-year-old civil case alleging a police cover-up and wrongful death. Leopold Lizotte is suing Montreal police Constables Giovanni Stante and Sylvain Fouquette, the police department, the Shed Cafe, restaurant bouncer Steve Deschatelets and Notre Dame Hospital for $750,000 in damages for the beating and death of his younger brother. The younger Lizotte was homeless when he was arrested on Sept. 5, 1999, after causing a disturbance outside the Shed Cafe on St. Laurent Blvd. Lizotte was hospitalized after a violent confrontation with police and a restaurant bouncer during his arrest. He died six weeks later of bronchial pneumonia caused by spinal trauma. The civil case, first launched in June 2000, was reinstated four days ago, after a hiatus during Stante's criminal trial, which ended Aug. 1. Stante was acquitted on three charges—manslaughter, aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm—related to Lizotte's death. The civil case relaunched by Leopold Lizotte alleges that not only did Jean-Pierre suffer a wrongful death, but there was a widespread cover-up about the incident. ""A lot of interesting things came out at the trial,"" said Charles O'Brien, a Montreal lawyer representing Lizotte in the civil case. O'Brien said evidence presented during Stante's trial indicates more than one person is responsible for Jean-Pierre Lizotte's death. Corinne Smith's E-mail address is [email protected]. Hockey legend Jean Beliveau was a guest of honour and the Canadiens were also paid tribute by hosts Andy Nulman and Eden Polanski, who sported Habs jerseys as they treated the crowd to a play-by-play commentary filled with jokes both corny and amusing. ""There's about 5,000 people in Edmonton's Jewish community,"" Nulman said. ""It's about the size of a Bronfman seder (Passover dinner)."" TEAM'S CHANCES The athletes came to Montreal from all over, with delegations from across Canada and the United States, as well as Britain, Mexico, Venezuela and Israel. ""It's way more humid here,"" said Alex Smolen, 16, from Vancouver. ""I can't take it."" Alex modestly downplayed her soccer team's chances but then admitted that her team included several members of B."
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23 Washington P Cloudy 9 0 Tampa P Cloudy 27 16 Your Morning News Update K f lit ll S f Right at Home weekdays Andrew Peplowski This nerd has his charms National Lampoon sequel rides on Kal Penn's capable shoulders KATHERINE MONK CANWEST NEWS SERVICE There's no fighting the appeal of nerd revenge, especially when the supposed hipsters are complete snobs who use their influence and inherited power to deride, humiliate and destroy those of lesser looks and lesser fortune. The Rise of Taj - a National Lampoon sequel to the entirely forgettable Van Wilder - gets maximum mileage out of the nerd-revenge idea. Despite the built-in misogyny of the National Lampoon shtik, the film even manages to find a quiet charm. Don't get me wrong, this is far from a good movie. But thanks to lead actor Kal Penn (star of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle), The Rise of Taj escapes a head-on collision with good taste and intelligence. Unlike other actors who have worn the geek mantle over the years, Penn refuses to play up the easy nebbish.
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"THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1992 AS Ottawa out of touch on children's issues, pollsters told KIRK LAPOINTE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA After the Mulroney government's last budget, most Canadians said they thought the government was out of touch on children's issues and should have kept its promise for national daycare, post-budget federal studies suggest. More than four in 10 surveyed gave the federal government "poor" marks, while a similar number graded it only "fair" in handling the issues and problems facing children, one survey found. There was a surprisingly strong commitment to spending on children's policies in an age of high taxes and government deficits. Decima found only 15 per cent were against more federal spending on children, despite their concerns about the deficit. About 60 per cent were in favor of ending universal application of social programs. They preferred policies aiming funds only at the neediest, an increasing feature of federal policies in the area, while 40 per cent preferred universal programs.
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$11,000 Canadian, Rowe Brothers 516-594-3914 CHRYSLER 1969, convertible New Port, 21,000 miles, rare, private DODGE Dart Swinger, 1970, all original, immaculate, 35,000 miles, $5,300 negotiable, 630-1400 FALCON 1960 station wagon, standard, running but needs work, $500, 525-9869 private FERRARI 1965 330GT 2+2, black, Borrani wire wheels, nice California car, Must sell!
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Maury, ""must be visited with a thorough system of observations."" NOT MUCH OF A STORM AFTER ALL ROCHESTER, March 10 The deciding games in the pool tournament were played tonight. Albert Frey took the first prize, John B. Suessinger the second, Samuel Knight the third, and George B. Sutton the fourth. Ottawa, March 11 The weather today has been cold, cloudy and gusty. Tonight the wind is higher than it has been all day, but there has been no approach to a storm, though snow fell to a considerable depth during Saturday night. Some excitement was created yesterday afternoon, when telegrams were received stating that severe gales and a tidal wave had occurred on the coast of Nova Scotia and the eastern coast of the United States, and, in consequence, Wiggins' stock went up, but it had a downward tendency tonight. Mr. Wiggins claims Saturday's snowstorm as part of his great blow. IN THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS AN EARTHQUAKE Waterville, Que., March 11 The severest storm known for years is in progress today.
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The two sides reached a five-year agreement. The shareholders will pay the NHL Canadiens approximately $400,000 each season and will have an annual operating budget of $1.5 million. The Baby Habs had operated in Sherbrooke for six seasons before announcing last month that they were transferring their affiliate. Average attendance in Sherbrooke last year was 2,200 and resulted in an operating loss of $1,168 million. "The offers from the different cities were all very good, but there's a lot of advantages in going to Fredericton," Canadiens president Ronald Corey told The Gazette from Bermuda, where he's attending AHL meetings. "The franchise stays in Canada, it isn't far from Montreal and there are now four teams in the Maritimes. This will help everybody scheduling-wise." The Canadiens appeared headed to Troy until the Fort Wayne Komets, a senior court official, Borg was reported to be in Italy to watch World Cup soccer action with his Italian wife, Loredana. He was given an extension until July 20 to pay the debt.
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We always said the roof was solid for the winter. For the summer, that's another problem. The roof is safe. It might not be 100 percent dependable, but it is safe. If there were another break, it would not threaten the safety of people inside the stadium." Dorion mayoral result stands as judge rejects bid for recount There won't be a judicial recount in Dorion's mayoral race, which Jean Lemaire won by 29 votes. Quebec Court Judge Raymond Boyer ruled on Friday that there were no reasonable grounds for a recount. "The judge said there was no proof that there were irregularities at the polls," said Jean Lemaire, 48, who was sworn in as mayor last night. Robert Goyer, who lost the race 1,293 votes to 1,264, had asked for a recount because there were 65 spoiled ballots on election night. Goyer, a former city councillor and retired CBC employee, said he was disappointed with the judge's decision. "I don't understand why they can have a recount in Outremont and we can't have one in Dorion," Goyer said.
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Aid Laurent said he would do his best in the matter and endeavor to carry out Aid Kennedy's wishes. Aid Cunningham then said he was on four committees: the markets, fire, health and light. The latter two he could not attend to and he tendered his resignation on them with a motion to the effect that Aid Kennedy should be appointed in his place. Aid THE QUEEN'S JUBILEE On motion of Aid Stevenson, a committee was appointed to report on the best means of celebrating the Queen's jubilee in the city. The council adjourned. A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE A McGill Medical Student Visits the Back River and is not Seen Again Foul Play Feared Certain Houses at the Back River to be Searched. A medical student of McGill University named Albert Hamer, of Grantfold, Out., residing at 123 St. Alexander street, has disappeared in the most mysterious manner, and notwithstanding a most diligent search by Chief Detective Cullen and Detective Lapointe no trace as yet has been found of the young man.
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At Other Canadian points, Y, December 27, A snowstorm, almost equal to the famous blizzard of 1888, has been raging in the Mohawk valley since last night, about 18 inches of snow falling. It has drifted badly and Central Hudson and West Shore trains are from three to four hours late, and some of them have been abandoned. No freights have been run today. The Empire State express, west-bound, was nearly two hours late when it reached this city. The storm is still raging. Watertown, N.Y., December 27, The worst blizzard of recent years has raged here today. A fine snow has fallen to the depth of twenty inches and the wind has piled it into huge drifts. The street cars have ceased running and trains are from one to five hours late. The country roads are completely blocked. The weather is very cold. Fonda, N.Y., December 27, A ferocious blizzard from the northeast is howling through the town at the rate of 52 miles an hour. The streets are filled with drifts this morning four feet high, where the dust was lying last night.
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"P. Sanlagulda, 952-4553 PIANO moving specialists Tuning & servicing Rudy Adler 46-624 30 killed, 186 feared drowned as storm sinks ferry in Burma ASSOCIATED PRESS RANGOON A river ferry capsized and sank during a fierce storm in southern Burma, killing at least 30 people, government radio reported yesterday. It said 186 were missing and believed drowned. The double-decker ferry Sein San Pya overturned in gale-force winds Friday afternoon with 241 people aboard, Rangoon Radio said. The bodies of 25 women and five men, including two Buddhist monks, were recovered, but 186 people were still missing, the radio said. It said 25 people were rescued. An earlier broadcast said 50 people were saved. The report said some of the dead were children and all those missing were presumed drowned. The ferry was making a regular run on the Gyaing river from the town of Moulmein, about 160 kilometres southeast of the capital Rangoon, to the town of Kyondo in the southern province of Tenasserim, the report said. It sank about 12:30 p.m.
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Reports received from many points in Ontario indicate that fall wheat will be hardly an average crop, much of it having been winter killed. Spring wheat will, it is believed, be slightly over the average. Oats have not done well and will be short. If barley is a fair crop, it is all it will be. Hay is a failure. Peas are reported to be average. Roots and fruit are good, live is in many places but half a crop. The west makes a much better showing than the east, where a large area suffered from the long drought. Injuring every growing thing. In many cases farmers will have to purchase food. Fodder will have to be purchased for stock.
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Futures contracts at Winnipeg Commodity Exchange closed mixed in the wake of a choppy session. Floor sources suggested the cautious tone today was due to an absence of fresh market-driving news. Ballard shareholders okay stock split Vancouver Sun VANCOUVER - Ballard Power Systems Inc. shareholders yesterday approved a three-for-one split of the high-flying stock. The decision, which came after markets had closed, will take effect June 5, chief financial officer Mossadiq Umedaly told the annual meeting. Shares of the Burnaby-based company fell 70 cents to $164.10 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. At this time last year, the issue closed at $37.95. For the first quarter, Ballard reported a loss of $8.2 million on revenue of $4.8 million. Shareholders peppered management with questions about technology, test projects and the remuneration of directors. But not one of the 723 asked about the company's financial statement. Mass application of its non-polluting automotive fuel technology is years away, but Ballard has Ford Motor Co. and Daimler-Benz AG as shareholders and has won contracts from major auto companies.
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On Saturday, divers moved their search for bodies toward less damaged areas after failing to enter a shattered third forward compartment earlier in the week. So far, only 12 bodies have been recovered. What's Up? Young people in politics Appearing on November 9. ATTENTION ALL EMPLOYERS Read other newspapers Gazette Enrjf Uieilnosdey in The A First in Recruitment Advertising The Gazette and Le Journal de Montreal have teamed up to offer employers and recruiters an opportunity to reach almost 1.1 million potential candidates every Wednesday with a special combination buy in the employment pages of both newspapers. That's more than double the people reading our closest competitor, and Le Journal de Montreal. Save more than 40 starting November 11th. When you purchase a Saturday display ad in The Gazette's Employment pages at the rate card price per line or in the Careers and Employment pages of Le Journal de Montreal, you can repeat the same ad on the following Wednesday in both papers for only $7.00 per line (reg. $12.35). Take advantage of our special combination buy today!
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BTKCCK B7 LIGHTNING, thunderstorm last evening, the shop of Mr. John McDougall at Thurso was struck by lightning and a survivor was seen, but no serious damage resulted. THE VOTING HABITS, The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge of Canada will be held on Wednesday next in Brockville. It is expected
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See dealers for details. Option package credits based on MSRP of items if sold separately. Patterson replaced Manley as leader of the governing People's National Party. Patterson is to become prime minister this afternoon. Father of princess of Wales dies LONDON The father of Diana, princess of Wales, died yesterday afternoon of a heart attack. He was 68. The eighth Earl Spencer had been suffering from pneumonia. Diana and her husband, Prince Charles, cut short a skiing vacation in Austria to return to London. The earl, born Edward John Spencer on Jan. 24, 1924, suffered a stroke in 1978, which left him somewhat unsteady when he walked with Diana down the aisle of St. Paul's Cathedral in 1981 for her marriage to Prince Charles. "There are times I wish she was marrying an ordinary chap," he said after the engagement, "so I could have her and my son-in-law living here with me in the park."
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Temperature conversion 35 30 25 20 15 10 6 0 -5 -10 -15 -20 -25 C 9586 776859 504132 2314 3 4-13 Almanac Today's Records Max Min Precipitation 1963 33.3 1976 10.0 Rain (mm) Temperature Month 87 Normal 64 yesterday - 25.7 16.1 snow(cm) Year ago today 26.2 16.9 Month 0 Normal this date 27.0 16.3 Normal 0 Degree days to 2 am Yesterday 0 July 1 to date 2.4 Eastern Ontario High 27 Low near 16 Partly sunny, chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Southern Ontario High 27 Low near 16 Partly sunny, chance of an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Quebec City High 26 Low near 15 Partly sunny skies. Eastern Townships High 27 Low near 15 Partly sunny, maybe an isolated afternoon shower. Northern New England High 29 Low near 18 Partly sunny, maybe an isolated afternoon shower.
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Some cars wouldn't start because of what was Alan Richardson's Cryptic Crossword: No 213. A'mmxtv in parentheses after each clue indicate the number of letters in the word or words for the required answer. Across 1, They're good included places (9) 6, Shanghai type to crease (5) 9, Bad back for French people on the run (3) 10, A dieting art is favored here (10) 11, But at this event don't c, rnxl cheap car (6,4) 12, Brawl to cir away (4) 13, He can be a peach, but native (6) 15, Got to dig about a remedy (6) 18, A hit of light from 12 (3) 9, Let rest (or the supporter (X) 20, On foot, and with proper timing (5) 22, It's quite frequently properly avwu'iiiicd (4) 23, Seafarer, but hardly true passenger (4) 24, Small animal distributed by rKg (5) 27, I (insure is free limp) range with Roy was S&jffF r7 cju$ - fir's Bob Bonnell (left) with Lorne Greene, Dill Brownstein MONTREALERS V rhapsodizes.
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The policy, which carries a $1,000 deductible, covers uninsurable damage to homes and small businesses up to $50,000. The overall damage must also trigger a national relief policy before the provincial plan kicks in. In Nova Scotia, that means roughly one dollar per capita, or $942,000, worth of damage must be incurred in any area of the province before relief is offered. "There are a number of factors and it doesn't take a long while to straighten out once things dry out," he said. "But until the water goes down and people get things dried out, it's pretty difficult to make an assessment." BRIDGE REPLACED Muir added that the province is already footing the bill for repairs to a culvert eaten away by a rushing brook in the Floral Heights subdivision near Sydney. Yesterday, crews replaced a walking bridge that was the only way in or out for about 150 families, with a 26-metre span. The new bridge was expected to be operating after midnight, emergency measures spokesman Debbie Rudderham said. Weather forecasters weren't offering any immediate relief from the wet weather.
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1 hard Manitoba No. 2 hard Manitoba No. 3 hard Manitoba, Peas, per 88 lbs, afloat, ANCIENT CAPITAL ITEMS, Little lad drowned in well-drought near Capeslin A Miracle, From our own correspondent, QUEBEC, July 10, The three-year-old son of Louis LaRoue was drowned in a well at Lorette yesterday, The child was missed early in the afternoon, and after a prolonged search the body was found at about 8 o'clock, It is supposed the little fellow had been playing around the well and accidentally fell in, The hay crop around New Richmond is said to be very poor owing to the drought of the last three weeks, Dusty firm have been prevalent and very disastrous, Two families in the township of New Richmond and six in Chavenlure have lost everything, and on several farms there is not a green tree left, The crew of the tug Beaver captured a dead whale floating around in the river near Point des Monts on Friday and towed it up, The fish, which measured about 11 feet, was moored at St.
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killing one man who drowned in a swollen river, ripping the roofs off homes, and downing several power lines Thousands of residents in several low-lying New South Wales villages had to be evacuated because of rising flood waters Monsoon More than three million people have been affected by floods caused by incessant monsoon rains in northern India and northwestern Bangladesh Raging rivers eroded valuable farmland here for more than a year and never once did I ever see Mr Hughes," this man told me "He was up there in the top floor, so far as anybody knows he never left it except to leave the Bahamas Very, very clever man, that Mr Hughes, only he never seemed to be happy about anything "Are the really clever people ever really happy? The happiest man in my circle of friends is a little fellow whose IQ must be somewhere around 50 He rides a bicycle and smokes a pipe, and those two items seem to constitute the sum total of his earthly possessions But he has credit at the grocery store and he always has a job waiting for him somewhere On the other hand,
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THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1999 MONTREAL Danyluk suggests Quebec agencies pay water eco-tax PATRICIA BAILEY The Gazette All Montrealers should pay a price for wasting water, public officials at the Great Lakes-St Lawrence Mayors' Conference agreed yesterday. And the punishment could range from a special tax to being forced to let your pansies wilt. The chairman of the MUC's executive committee, Vera Danyluk, said she thinks an eco-tax might discourage public institutions from wasting water. Private industry must pay a water tax and a tariff on pollution levels of water they pump into the system, but there are no such controls on public institutions, Danyluk said. But the mayor of Dorval has another plan to reduce water consumption. If there is a drought this summer, Peter Yeomans said he might send a patrol car around to ring the doorbells of anyone caught watering their lawn. And if they have a problem with that, they will just have to phone the mayor, he said. While Yeomans's summer plans might embarrass a few Dorval gardeners, Danyluk's demand that the province pay for the treatment of water used by its public institutions is more likely to spark controversy. Danyluk said that because public institutions pay no municipal taxes, residential taxpayers are funding the purification of water that government institutions use. The MUC estimates that 25 per cent of the 1,300 to 1,400 litres used in Montreal per day, per person, is actually by public institutions. As a result, Danyluk said, the MUC plans to lobby Quebec City to pay their fair share for the treatment of this water. ""We are building a serious case so the government will assume part of the cost."" Throughout the conference, the negative impact of low water levels was discussed. A drought could overburden the filtration system because water tends to be dirtier the shallower it is. Although Yeomans estimated that Lac St. Louis is 4.5 feet lower than it was a year ago, he said his main concern is water quality, not supply. He said that when levels are down, water is warmer and this produces excessive plankton and algae, which can give water an unpleasant odour. ""It doesn't smell nice so we have to use more active charcoal to clean it, and this can be expensive."" The license plate's validity is significant because the city's chief investigator, Claude Champagne, cited the number when he testified before the commission. The license was supposed to belong to the driver of a Honda Civic who cut him off in April 1998 on Christophe Colomb St. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1999 GARDENING STUART ROBERTSON Special to The Gazette There's a garden in the country I visit that has flower beds that stretch for about a quarter-mile along a driveway. They're all in the full sun, and by midsummer they're producing a riot of colour as far as the eye can see. Such a sunny exposure soon weeds out the flower varieties that can't take the heat and the brightness, but the plants that remain just love the sun, and they thrive in it. The beds contain a lot of tall perennial flowers, providing a perfect hiding place for blooms less inclined to exposure. In his book The Complete Shade Gardener, author George Schenk wrote about a dozen types of shade you can find in a garden. They range from light shade to dense shade, from warm shade to high shade and many in between. This is a bit too complex for the average gardener to remember, so they usually limit the way they rate the shade potential for plants into three major groups: Deep shade, where there's never any strong light; Moderate shade, where there's at least exposure to bright conditions; and half shade, where the plants are exposed to some sun for up to half the day. This latter can be subdivided into places that get the cooler morning sun, and those that have the hotter afternoon sun. But one thing that Schenk really emphasizes is to use the shade provided by your garden as homes for the many plants that love some form of shade. The trick is to find the place where there's just the right amount of shade to suit the plant. So don't look at shade as an enemy, but rather as the perfect growing condition for certain plants. And there's a wide selection of plants available for those less-sunny spots. In really deep shade you can start with something big like rodgersia tabularis. Its giant leaves can float above a sea of shorter flowering varieties like mysotis (forget-me-nots), viola obliqua, or smilacina racemosa. If the soil stays quite moist you can put together a collection such as polygonatum (Solomon's seal) with astilbe, different hostas and various fern varieties. And you can always rely on the colours provided by annuals like begonias, impatiens and schizanthus. For drier areas in deep shade, like the ones you find under trees, you can rely on convallaria and other low-growing ground covers like pachysandra terminalis, vinca minor and ajuga reptans to do well competing with the tree's roots. In an area that has moderate shade you have a much larger choice, with a lot more flowering varieties to choose from. Try the low-growing pulmonaria along with the taller dicentra, alchemilla mollis and aquilegia for their colourful blooms as well as attractive foliage. Another combination that works well is hemerocallis (daylily), ligularia and rudbeckia to give you a display of bright yellow blooms. A lot of climbing plants do well in moderate shade, like the woody hydrangea and honeysuckle plants, and the flower-covered clematis montana. If you throw in hardy ivy and Virginia creeper, you can cover any shaded wall. And don't forget to try mixing different foliage shapes to make interesting groupings, like the combination of round-leaved bergenias and filigreed ferns along with sword-leaved iris foetidissima. In the brighter conditions that come with a half shade, either in the morning or the afternoon, you can plant almost anything at all. But just don't expect the plant to do as well as it would if it needs full sun. On the other hand, you can move up the moderate-light plants into the better conditions of half-shade, and most of them will respond for you with a better performance. Those that don't, just move back into a shadier location. For really early in the spring season, don't forget the spring-blooming bulbs. Even though they're not shade-tolerant plants, a lot of your shady places won't be so shady when there are no leaves on the trees in the early spring. So you can grow all of the bulbs like galanthus (snowdrops), crocus and the whole narcissus family to brighten up an area. After you've got the hang of choosing exactly the right place to put the right plants, the next most important thing that will allow them to perform to the best of their ability is to give them perfect soil conditions. For most of these plants, a spongy soil full of humus that has a high water-holding capacity is best, and it should be nice and fertile at all times. None of this crummy hardscrabble soil that's neglected all the time. You'll have to care for the shade-loving plants that are grown in containers, because even if you practice the best of garden management, pots and window boxes can dry out occasionally. So annuals such as petunia, alyssum, portulaca, mimulus and pelargonium (geranium) do particularly well in containers that are in the sun. The same is true for annuals that can be trained to hang or climb, either from containers or planted directly in the garden. Things like tropaeolum (nasturtium), lathyrus (sweet pea) and morning glory are great choices. One nice thing about annuals is that once they're in bloom, they usually stay that way for the rest of the season. Once they're planted in among your perennials, they will fill in with a lot of colour when the perennials are not in bloom. You can even find annual versions of familiar perennials such as rudbeckia, salvia, aster and papaver (poppy). If you need height in your floral displays, try the very tall althea (hollyhock), helianthus (sunflower), cleome, salvia digitalis (foxglove), cosmos and mirabilis. Slightly shorter are plants like heliotrope, lavatera, dahlia, calendula, antirrhinum (snapdragon), zinnia, marigold and centaurea. Annuals have their collection of low-growing plants too, like alyssum, iberis, dimorphotheca (star of Africa), matricaria (feverfew) and nemesia. Don't forget to give them a bit of room when you plant them in the spring, since each will cover a larger area as it spreads. Because of their fast growth, all annuals, whether planted in the ground or in containers, should be well fertilized at the start of the season and again just after the middle of the season. Use a slow-release granular organic fertilizer in the soil when you plant them, then boost them in mid-season with some liquid plant food in a watering can. It's a shame that some people feel the sunniest places in their garden are going to give them problems, with the soil drying out and plants not liking the location. In fact, these are prime bits of garden real estate, as long as you keep the soil moist by watering and mulching, and as long as you plant the sun-lovers there. If that's the case, either grow plants that don't mind drier conditions, or irrigate the area. So don't give up hope if, like nearly every gardener, your garden has its gloomy spots. You can fill them with interesting and attractive foliage, along with plenty of colour too. Remember, there are plenty of plants out there looking for a nice shady spot to put down roots. Stuart Robertson Dig around Web for tips. Page K2 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1999 K3 HOBBIES One of the saddest calamities that can befall a photographer is to discover that some or all of the images on a roll of carefully composed photos have turned out completely blank. When confronted by a blank roll of film, your first response might be to blame the lab. Though the lab is unlikely to be the culprit, there's an easy way to find out. Look for the frame numbers along the edges of the film. If they are present, then the film was processed properly. Next you need to ascertain whether the film is blank because it was never exposed to light, or because the whole film was exposed to excessive amounts of light. The diagnosis depends on whether you're using negative film or slide film. When negative film - either black-and-white or colour - is unexposed, it remains totally transparent. If exposed to very large amounts of light, the film turns black. With slide film, the effects are reversed. Thus, unexposed slide film looks black; totally overexposed slide film is transparent. If your film is blank because of excessive amounts of light, you next have to figure out whether the whole film was totally fogged, or whether it's just the individual frames that have been excessively exposed. Total fogging of the film occurs when, for example, someone inadvertently opens the back of the camera while there's film inside. Total exposure to light causes fogging that extends right across the film. Thus, negative film that's been fogged in this way will be black from edge to edge, including the area around the sprocket holes. Slide film that's been totally fogged will come out clear and transparent from edge to edge. If you mistakenly open a loaded camera, close it again as quickly as possible. Provided you act fast, the fogging will likely affect only a few frames and the rest of your pictures will be OK. When an individual frame receives an excessive exposure, the effects will vary. BIRD'S EYE VIEW DAVID BIRD Falconer wants to kill lesser prairie chickens, a fairly rare bird these days. Allow me to explain. It all began with my 50th on April 23. To celebrate, my wife, Toni, and I rented a Chrysler Sebring ragtop (is there any better vehicle with which to spot birds?) and like a pair of rich brats, we headed out from Tucson, Arizona, to join my old friend on his ranch near Clovis, New Mexico. Certainly no hobby farm, Jim's spread stretches a tad over 4,000 hectares. As far as the eye can see, man! Jim Weaver and I go back a long way. Jim's main claim to fame is the successful breeding and release of literally hundreds of peregrine falcons from the Pink Palace at Cornell University back when the species was just about as rare in eastern North America as eskimo curlews today. I also credit him with teaching me everything I know about peregrines in Ungava Bay, plus a whole lot about life besides. Did I mention that he is also one of the world's best falconers? That's where the prairie chickens come in. When Jim retired from the Peregrine Fund after it moved to its new headquarters in Boise, Idaho, he decided to buy some land in New Mexico near the Texas border, the premier hotspot for the lesser prairie chicken. The idea was to accumulate enough land so that he and his friends could hunt them with their trained falcons in peace. Many a falconry meet has been held in that part of North America in pursuit of this ultimate quarry for large falcons. But no one counted on a nine-year drought. Within a few years the lack of water and ludicrous grazing practices by cattle ranchers changed the landscape and lesser prairie chicken populations plummeted to new lows. Oh sure, there are plenty of scaled quail running around for the falcons to catch, but as Jim pointed out, they don't really provide much sport in the way of spectacular chases. After all, falconry at its best is nothing less than a specialized form of bird-watching to use the exact words of Tom Cade, a retired ecology professor and Jim's former boss at Cornell University. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it took virtually a whole day for Jim to take Toni and me on a tour of his farm. What really impressed us most was his detailed knowledge of not just the cattle and other animal forms making a living off that parched landscape, but of all the plants, both wild and cultivated. Jim knew virtually all of them like the back of his hand. He carefully explained his plans to rejuvenate the land so that when the drought ends and the lesser prairie chickens are faced with the prospect of a comeback, there will be shortgrass prairie habitat for them to do just that. Jim has about 300 head of cattle composed of several breeds, including black angus, but he firmly believes that the answer to efficient beef production is the mashona breed from Africa. Apparently they convert their energy intake straight into marbled meat and not hunks of fat that is generally wasted at the abattoir. We were fortunate enough, thanks to Caroline, an undergraduate student from the George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Centre in Oklahoma, to witness the agreement which the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is asking players to sign if they want to take part in the 1999 FIDE World Championship. It says the event will be held in July-August at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, or at any other venue to be approved by the FIDE president in the United States, or at any other date! According to Quinn, nothing has yet been booked for those dates at Caesar's Palace. The contract states that the main sponsor of the championship is the World Chess Foundation. I had never heard of the foundation before but Quinn tells me it is simply something created by FIDE president Kirsan Iljumzhinov. In other words, Caesar's Palace provides the venue and Djumzhinov provides the money. According to Quinn, it is unlikely the championship will go ahead as scheduled, because of prior commitments by the players. The players have until June 1 to sign, but one has to wonder how a player can sign a contract that does not guarantee the dates and location of the event. The contract states that $3 million US will be distributed in prizes. That will certainly be enough information for some of the players! Another interesting clause in the contract is with regard to punctuality. Players will be fined $1,000 for being late. THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1999 A23 WORLD BRIEFS Belfast pub blasted A grenade lobbed by a suspected Protestant extremist exploded outside a pub in Catholic west Belfast at closing time yesterday, wounding three people in the latest bid to undermine Northern Ireland's peace accord. Witnesses said a white car possibly containing the attacker drove off toward hard-line Protestant turf a half-mile away, on the far side of Northern Ireland's major highway. Police said the suspect had earlier tried to force his way into one bar but was confronted by a security guard. He then lobbed what was believed to be a grenade containing ball bearings at a bar across the street that was crowded with up to 250 people. ARGENTINA Crash kills 23 A passenger bus and a truck collided head-on in central Argentina yesterday, killing at least 23 people, police said. The accident occurred around dawn on a curve in a highway near Villa Mercedes, a city about 725 kilometres west of Buenos Aires, authorities said. The bus was heading from Entre Rios in the east to Mendoza in the west. CZECH REPUBLIC Havel has bronchitis Czech President Vaclav Havel remained in the hospital with chronic bronchitis yesterday as doctors feared he might suffer another bout with pneumonia. Havel, 62, was suddenly hospitalized late Thursday after his viral infection turned into bronchitis and the president ran a mild fever. Havel, a veteran of Communist jails and a lifelong chain-smoker until he fell seriously ill, has been hospitalized five times since December 1996. Mother, shot daughter 'made peace' Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. - A paralyzed woman who won the right to be allowed to die made peace with her mother, who is accused of shooting her, a few hours before she was removed from life support, the mother's lawyer says. Georgette Smith spoke to her mother during a videotaped deposition from her hospital bed Tuesday, one day before Smith was removed from a ventilator at her own request. ""It was very emotional; they were at peace with one another,"" the mother's lawyer, Bob Wesley said Thursday. Shirley Egan, 68, is charged with attempted murder in her daughter's shooting, and the charge could be changed to manslaughter or murder now that her daughter is dead. Wesley said he didn't believe a grand jury would indict Egan for murder once they see the deposition. Egan, who has emphysema and is blind in one eye, is accused of shooting her 42-year-old daughter in March after overhearing her discuss putting her in a nursing home. In asking a court for permission to be taken off life support, she said she could only wink and wiggle her nose and tongue, and added, ""I can't live like this."" Smith died Wednesday after a court granted her wish. Egan supported her daughter's decision, but Wesley fought it to avoid the charge being upgraded to murder. Wesley said Egan didn't mean to shoot her daughter and didn't want to see her suffer. Smith was sedated before the ventilator was removed Wednesday night. Egan was told of her daughter's death by chaplain. ""It was a traumatic night for her,"" Wesley said. Egan: accused in shooting. The bullet hit Smith's spinal cord, paralyzing her and leaving her unable to speak without effort and incapable of swallowing or controlling her bladder. MEXICO Drought disaster declared Mexico has declared five northern states disaster areas due to a drought that has wiped out corn and other crops. The states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora, Durango and Sinaloa will be eligible for federal relief funds under the decree, announced Thursday and effective yesterday. Reservoirs in northern Mexico are at an average 79 per cent below capacity and the rainfall from January through April was 93 per cent below the average for that period. GERMANY Terror suspect jailed A Frankfurt court yesterday ordered a suspect in a 1975 terrorist attack on OPEC headquarters jailed pending an indictment on murder and kidnapping charges. Hans-Joachim Klein was extradited Thursday from France, where he had been living in hiding for 23 years until his arrest in September. He was being held at the Weiterstadt prison near Darmstadt. Klein, a former leftist radical, allegedly took part in the attack at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries headquarters in Vienna, in which 70 people were taken hostage and three people were killed. AFGHANISTAN Thieves lose hands The right hands of four young men, all convicted thieves, were cut off yesterday before a crowd of several hundred people in the Kabul Sports Stadium. The men sat on the rain-soaked grass, their legs bound by chains and their faces covered with their turbans, while three doctors wearing surgical masks performed the amputations. The Taliban religious army, which rules about 90 per cent of Afghanistan, has imposed a harsh brand of Islamic law in the area under its control. The Taliban publicly execute murderers, amputate the limbs of thieves and lash people for lesser offenses. SOUTH KOREA Prisoners freed South Korea freed 1,240 inmates yesterday in observance of Buddha's birthday. The move disappointed rights activists because political prisoners weren't released. Among those freed were about 100 people who had served more than 10 years for murder, robbery and other non-political crimes. NEPAL Centrists win The centrist Nepali Congress won a majority vote in the 205-seat parliament yesterday that is expected to end messy coalition politics in the Himalayan nation. Nepal's oldest party has won 103 of the 189 results declared so far by the Election Commission, and capitalized on a split in the party with which it now shares power in a caretaker administration. Results for all 205 seats are expected to be declared by this weekend, and the Nepali Congress is expected to assume power on its own early next week. MOUNT EVEREST Polish climber dies One of three Polish climbers who scaled Mount Everest was killed during the descent, the head of the team said yesterday. Tadeusz Kudelski, who was 44, fell Tuesday while descending after reaching the peak of the world's highest mountain earlier in the day, team leader Ryszard Pawlowski told independent Radio Zet by satellite telephone. Pawlowski, 49, said Kudelski died when he fell from a difficult rock face at 28,380 feet, less than 1,000 feet below the peak. ap loto-quebec mm Draw 99-05-21 NUMBERS 101145 01145 1145 146 45 10114 1011 101 PRIZES $50,000 $5,000 $250 $25 $5 $1,000 $100 $10 Draw 99-05-21 111141512 25 25 33 34 35 33 39 41 42 45 45 42 5155 Draw 99-05-21 3 4 050 9380 Draw 99-05-21 7 9 16 17 18 34 36 BONUS NUMBER 46 Draw 99-05-21 NUMBER 118935 Claims: See back of tickets. In the event of discrepancy between this list and the official winning list, the latter shall prevail. JonBenet's brother 'not a suspect': DA Associated Press BOULDER, Colo. - Authorities have denied a tabloid newspaper report that JonBenet Ramsey's brother is a suspect in the girl's death. ""Burke is not a suspect,"" said Suzanne Laurion, a spokesman for Boulder district attorney Alex Hunter. Burke was 9 when his 6-year-old sister was found beaten and strangled in the family's basement in Boulder. He was the only person, other than JonBenet's parents, known to be in the house when she died on Christmas night in 1996. Police have said the parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, remain under suspicion. A grand jury has been investigating the case since Sept 15. Boulder city spokesman Leslie Aaholm said police want to talk more with Burke. ""We would like to talk to him, which is something we've said all along,"" she said. ""We're simply trying to clarify that the police do not now nor have they ever considered Burke to be a suspect."" THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1999 S3 GARDENING Making daylily decisions Vast variety makes picking a favourite difficult STEPHANIE WHITTAKER Special to The Gazette Howard Hackwell says when it comes to perennials, there's no contest. Daylilies are his favourites. ""They're so addictive, he's willing to travel far afield to buy new varieties. ""I love bearded irises, but the modern varieties of daylilies that are coming out are so beautiful with their colour combinations, they're becoming the flower of the day,"" says the gardener from Cowansville. If you want to ask a horticultural expert a silly question, try: ""What's your favourite daylily?"" ""There are easily 10,000 cultivars, so I can't tell you what my favourite is,"" says Barbara Damrosch, a former landscape designer, author of two gardening books and co-host of television's Gardening Naturally. She says the range of choice makes selecting daylilies a challenge for even the most experienced gardeners. Daylilies are members of the genus hemerocallis, the best-known varieties of which are hemerocallis fulva, the common-as-muck orange daylily that populates fields and roadside ditches, and hemerocallis flava, the humble ""lemon daylily."" In fact, the late Douglas Lycett had a pretty low opinion of daylilies when he asked a friend to accompany him to a garden centre to buy perennials for his Toronto garden. When the friend suggested daylilies, Lycett dismissed them, saying he didn't like them. Fortunately for plant-breeding in Canada, the friend prevailed and Lycett planted a daylily only to fall madly in love with it when it bloomed. It was the beginning of his career as one of the foremost breeders of hemerocallis in Canada, said his partner Henry Lorrain, who runs We're in the Hayfield Now, the mail-order daylily company he and Lycett founded in the mid '80s on their farm in Orono, Ont. ""Douglas had read about the hybridizing of roses and he thought it would be fun to do something like that. We started hybridizing daylilies in 1984,"" Lorrain said. The two were mentored by Bill Munson, a top daylily breeder in Gainesville, Fla., and their business grew quickly. When trial plants began to spill out of the couple's vegetable patch into the neighbouring hay field, the company's name was born. ""We've introduced 30 new varieties of daylily this year, all of which are registered with the American Hemerocallis Society,"" said Lorrain. ""We produce about 30 new varieties every year."" Lycett died of a heart attack last year and Lorrain continues the work of his partner's horticultural legacy. For the uninitiated, here is a crash course on this wide-petaled, sublime plant: Daylilies are clump-forming perennials with strap-like, arching foliage and clusters of blooms at the top of leafless stems. Each flower, which resembles a lily, blooms for only one day. The fulvas and flavas are called diploids while the fancier new introductions are called tetraploids. ""The tetraploids have double the chromosome count of the diploids,"" said Lorrain. ""They have heftier foliage and the blooms have more texture and intensity of colour."" Colours range from beige and buff through the yellow and orange spectrum to pinks, purples and burgundy. According to Lorrain, daylilies were grown by the Chinese as early as 3000 BC for their nutritional and medicinal properties. Trendy food-lovers have recently reclaimed them for use in dishes that are as ornamental as they are tasty. Lorrain says he has 15,000 new daylily seedlings this year. ""It takes two years to get them to bloom from seed,"" he said. ""We get rid of between 90 and 95 per cent of the plants we cultivate. The 5-to-10 per cent that remain are what we offer for sale."" And what marvels they are. Queen Priscilla, a wine-red variety with a golden throat, named for the Australian film Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and Sans Pareil, a creamy confection with ruffled petals and a burgundy throat, are but two examples. Every gardener who cultivates hemerocallis knows that these plants are as loyal as the family dog. Not fussy, they are hardy and resistant to pests and disease. They demand minimal attention and will withstand drought because their fleshy roots store water. Heat-lovers, daylilies bloom in July. Flower stems range in height from 12 to 45 inches. Barbara Damrosch praises daylilies for their ability to combine with almost every other plant in the perennial border. ""They're good vertical accents in low flower beds,"" she said during an interview from the Maine farm that she and her husband, Eliot Coleman, cultivate for their market-garden business. ""Daylilies are wonderful at holding a steep bank because their finger-like roots quickly grab the soil,"" she says. ""A border planted exclusively with daylilies can be interesting if you choose those that bloom at different times and span the season. Or, you can choose one kind and get a big, short blaze of bloom. I've seen daylilies in a band, flanking a driveway, and they look really good."" Damrosch says she grows her hemerocallis in a parterre. ""There is a clump of daylilies in the centre of each quadrant in the parterre,"" she said. ""They form a focus for each bed. They're melon-coloured and they tower over the lower plants. My style is to have a formal outline with cottage-garden plants inside."" Because clumps of daylilies double their size yearly, they need to be divided every three years, says Lorrain. ""Some are more vigorous than others,"" he said. ""If you don't divide them, they dwindle in their flower production."" While some gardeners divide their daylilies by cutting them with a fork, spade or edger, Lorrain says he separates his by hand. When planting daylilies, he says, add compost, manure, blood meal or bone meal to the planting hole. ""It's also best to mulch them for the first winter to protect them until they become established,"" says Lorrain. Hackwell, a retired nurseryman, says he favours Canadian-bred daylilies. ""A lot of hybridizing is done in the south, but you may be getting stuff from there that isn't overly hardy,"" he said. He says there is no ""right"" season in which to divide the plants. ""You can do that at any time."" Hackwell says daylilies combine well with spring-blooming bulb flowers. ""As their foliage grows, they cover the old, dying foliage of the spring bulbs,"" he said. Finding border companions for daylilies is easy, he added. ""You can combine them with a plant that has darker or lighter foliage. They'll go with lupins, oriental poppies and irises - anything, really. And they look good in mass plantings."" He says he also prefers tetraploids to their simpler diploid cousins. ""The tetraploids have more flower buds on them,"" he said. ""They also have much stronger stems and thicker flowers. And the new varieties have eyes that are of contrasting colours."" Meanwhile, Hackwell is always on the lookout for new varieties of daylilies. He already owns hundreds. ""When you're at the stage I'm at, you're always looking for new ones,"" he said. Having a garden full of daylilies can give any gardener an excuse to postpone the summer vacation and stay home throughout July. Carpe diem, just like each lovely daylily bloom. We're in the Hayfield Now Daylily Gardens ships hardy hemerocallis for Canadian gardens. To obtain a copy of its catalogue, send $2 to 4704 Pollard Rd, RR 1, Orono, Ont, LOB 1M0. A video in which Douglas Lycett and Henry Lorrain describe and demonstrate how to cultivate and hybridize daylilies is also available for $19.95, plus taxes and shipping. The photographs accompanying this story are from the We're in the Hayfield Now Daylily Gardens catalogue, except the Queen Priscilla, which is from the book Daylilies, by Norman S. Track, which costs $27, shipping and taxes included. To order, call (800) 595-1955."
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Alexander street, has disappeared in the most mysterious manner, and notwithstanding a most diligent search by Chief Detective Cullen and Detective Lapointe no trace as yet has been found of the young man. It appears that on Thursday last, in company with three fellow students, Hamer drove to the Back River, and on the return journey they stopped at Mr. Frigon's hotel for refreshments. After stopping a short time Hamer went out and did not return. His companions naturally supposed that he had walked into the city, so they drove in to catch up with him, but saw nothing of him. On making enquiries at his home they learned that he had not come back. They then drove back to the hotel, but Mr. Frigon informed them that the young man had not come back again. The students again returned to the city, and driving to the Central Police station laid the facts before Detective Lapointe, who then proceeded to Mr. Frigon's hotel, but with no better result. The detective then went around to all the neighboring farm houses until he came to the first clue at the Priest's farm. The occupant told him that a young man of the description of Mr.
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Ingersoll market Reported offerings: 5,750 boxes August make, No sales; 12c-12.5c generally bid, and 14c for white. Prices here have moved up 25c-50c per brl, heavy mess being now quoted at $21.60-$22.50. Lard A fair demand has been experienced during the week at full prices, the inquiry being chiefly from local sources. General Produce Receipts at Inspection stores from 1st January to 8th September: Pots, 7,473 brls; pearls, 675 brls. Deliveries Pots, 7,149 brls; pearls, 622 brls. Stocks in store this morning Pots, 412 brls; pearls, 74 brls. Pots Receipts have been moderate during the past week. Firsts have sold at $5.25-$5.35, but the past three days markets have been easier, the figures paid for light tares being $5.10-$5.15. The feeling at close is weak. Seconds have been very scarce and very few are arriving.
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We do not select based on sex and language and religion and color. We try to have the best person available," said Chretien, who as justice minister appointed Bertha Wilson as the first woman on the top court. Ontario lawyer is called sharp, funny Binnie steps into late John Sopinka's shoes JIM BRONSKILL Southam News OTTAWA - The magazine article featured prominent lawyer John Sopinka, but the accompanying photograph was of colleague Ian Binnie. It was an easy mistake to make: the two legal eagles, with neatly trimmed mustaches and wide-rimmed glasses, looked strikingly similar. The 1988 mugshot mix-up eerily foreshadowed events to come. Binnie, appointed yesterday to the Supreme Court, fills the vacancy left by Sopinka's untimely November death. Both men made the rare leap from careers as practicing lawyers to the country's highest bench. And the similarities do not end there. Associates say Binnie possesses two of Sopinka's finest traits - the ability to distill complex arguments into simple language and a warm sense of humor.
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The wind was then blowing at the rate of thirty-seven miles an hour and apparently gaining in velocity. About nine, however, it calmed suddenly down and the property owners and people began to be more confident, but the breeze again sprung up from a more easterly direction, though not with as great strength as before. The tide is now falling and no more heavy weather is expected tonight, but in the morning, it is said by old fishermen and observers of the weather, with the incoming tide the wind will rise again and blow with equal if not greater violence. The fishing schooners Kuntford, Josie M., Calderwood and Magic, of Gloucester, are reported at western ports of the Province awaiting the passing of the storm period predicted. Halifax, N.S., March 11, 1:30 a.m. At this hour there is a slight breeze blowing from the southeast, but it appears at times to increase somewhat in strength, and then subside. The high tide has gone completely down and the vessels ride easily in their docks. The steamer Sardinian, for Liverpool with the weekly mail, still remains in port.
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Hong Kong Cloudy Jerusalem Sunny Lisbon Sunny London Cloudy Madrid Cloudy Mexico City Sunny Moscow Cloudy Nairobi Cloudy New Delhi Cloudy Paris Cloudy Rio de Janeiro Sunny Rome Sunny Stockholm Clearing Sydney Sunny Tokyo Sunny. Min, Max, 17 8 20 6 24 16 28 16 16 8 16 8 28 26 29 16 23 14 19 10 24 11 30 13 19 13 25 17 42 28 19 11 28 18 23 13 15 7 19 12 25 16 Resorts today Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Daytona Kingston Miami Sunny Cloudy Sunny Cloudy Showers Cloudy. Max, Min, 31 22 31 25 31 Myrtle Beach Cloudy Nassau Cloudy Tampa Cloudy. Great weekend for fishing Trout streams in New York State should be in peak condition GREAT OUTDOORS RON PINET This should be the best weekend to be on any of New York State's trout streams, as the most reliable fly hatches should be peaking.
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MANITOBAV QUEBEC GAZETTE 35 years ago, Inuit sent to High Arctic. MONTREAL MARCH 18, 1990, Final edition 50 CENTS seeks recognition referendum to confirm the decision. If we got involved in a discussion, we would be making a political mistake, as if we were admitting that the will of the people had not yet been expressed, he said. Gorbachev has ruled out the use of force to prevent Lithuania and other republics from seceding. But he still has a range of economic and political weapons at his disposal, including the declaration of direct presidential rule over the Baltic republic of 3.7 million people. ADDITIONAL REPORTING: LOS ANGELES TIMES Latvians, Estonians go to polls. PAGE B1 Fumes at YMCA make 7 kids sick PETER KUITENBROUWER THE GAZETTE Seven children were taken to hospital yesterday after swimming at the Notre Dame de Grace YMCA. They may have breathed in a dangerous combination of chlorine fumes and carbon monoxide, a Montreal Children's Hospital doctor said. Dr.
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Should this be the case, corrections will be posted in our stores. Certain products may not be available at all locations. Illustrations may differ. Prices and offers good until Monday, April 26th, 2008 or until merchandise is depleted. Offer subject to change without prior notice. Details in store. Montrealers! Talk to each other! Join the discussion through letters to the editor, daily on the Editorial Page of The Gazette. SAVE UP TO mo a 2) o April 23-27 SAVE $412! 9pc Charlottetown set Includes 1.5L & 3L saucepan, 5L Dutch oven, 24cm frying pan, 3L steamer, 4 covers, Free with set! Non-stick fry pan & pot cleaner, $79.99 value, 57 OFF! Cabot 20pc flatware, 4x5pc settings, $29.50 OFF! Super-size 45cm stainless roaster rack, Fits up to 25lb turkey, $249.99, $124.99 60 OFF!
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"The process that produced it is something that I don't know about." He said, "I've been to the Supreme Court often enough as a lawyer and it's going to be interesting to see it from the other side of the bench." Binnie said he is a fan of the Charter and is prepared to use it to strike down laws. "I think when the Charter was brought, it was intended to be used constructively and creatively, and I think that's what the court has done. The elected legislators gave the courts the tools by which they have invalidated some laws." It's not as if the courts have usurped the power that the parliamentarians never intended to confer. "I don't know that I can pigeonhole myself as a conservative or liberal or activist. I think those concepts are applied by others to judges when they see what kind of track record is developed. That will emerge over time." Binnie has four children with wife Susan, who works for the Law Society of Upper Canada. Daughter Alexandra is a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in England. Although he typically has a full legal plate, Binnie has made time for gardening, skiing and sailing.
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spurring the growth of cattails Every time it rains, we'll get a slug of bad water, said Neely Scientists have suggested sugar cane farmers solve their wastewater problem by converting 16,000 hectares, about 10 per cent of their land, to artificial marshes that soak up pollutants But industry spokesmen assert that adequate treatment would require much more land, at least 40,000 hectares That's 25 per cent of our cane lands, said Ed Barber, a vice-president of the Florida Sugar Cane League We couldn't sustain a viable industry Brains and bodies are being destroyed by epidemic of meetingitis I'm sorry doctor, he's at a meeting I get this answer more and more when trying to contact someone by telephone Later in the day he's at another meeting The next day I'm still talking to the secretary It leaves me wondering whether these people do any work And lately I've questioned whether these incessant meetings affect the nation's health There are no statistics, but common sense tells me that meetingitis must be responsible for some of the lifestyle problems in this country Meetingitis is an insidious disease that has infected our society and should be labelled an environmental risk factor when assessing a state of health Dr Paul Dudley White, a heart specialist at Harvard Medical School,
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THE CHAIRMAN'S ADDRESS The Chairman said: From the Harbor Master's report it will be seen that the tonnage for the month of May is the largest which we have ever had. The ocean vessels seem to be getting larger every year, the number for 1883 having been 74, average tonnage 1,171, with the same number this year they average 1,310 or 180 tons more than four years ago, so that for the same number of vessels, the tonnage has increased nearly 15,000 tons. It is worthy of notice that, notwithstanding the height of the floods reached this year, the water by 31st May had fallen to 20, that being the lowest for the previous three years, the difference being respectively 14, 8 and 12 inches less than the three previous years. The statement of revenue shows an increase of fully 14 percent for the month, as will be seen by the revenue statement. From the Engineer's report I note the following remarks: The ice left the Richelieu at Sorel, on the 12th April, without damage to the vessels wintered there. The main body of ice on the St. Lawrence between Montreal and Sorel moved off on the 18th April, and on the 24th the harbor dredging fleet came up from their winter quarters to Montreal. On the 20th the setting of the buoys was commenced with two boats, one working upwards and the other downwards from Sorel, and on the 30th April those which are essential to the opening of navigation were all placed. On the 27th the first dredges of the ship channel fleet left Sorel, and by the 6th May all were at work on their stations. MONTREAL HARBOR On the clearing away of the ice from the harbor it was found that, although no very great destruction had occurred at any one place, there had been a number of minor damages, which in the aggregate are rather larger than the average. No such quantity of ice was left lodged on the wharves as in the spring of 1885, but from section 21 (opposite Canadian Pacific Railway station) downwards, there was much more than usual, and it was necessary, in order to make vessels' berths, that a great deal should be removed by hand. The expenditure for this amounts to about $1,900. Dredging commenced on the 3rd May. Section 16 The pier used at the St Helen's island ferry wharf had the plank top stripped off and was otherwise considerably damaged during winter. The downstream side, which was the worst, is being built, and a new top is being put on throughout. The roadways and wharves received minor damages during winter in many places. These have been, in a great measure, repaired during the month, and, with the exception of the crib work in sections 9 and 10, Windmill Point, the whole is now in a fair condition for use. It may be noted, as a matter of record, that two grain carriers have been built at high level across the wharf at sections 21 and 22 for carrying grain from the new Canadian Pacific Railway elevator to the mill in the lumber, and they seem to be working well. An important judgment was rendered in our favor on the 28th May, regarding the responsibility of the commissioner in the event of damage to vessels by the work of the steamboat Ottawa. The Chief Justice stated that he was unable to find any law for holding the commissioner responsible for the accident, that they were not private corporations, but a public corporation created to perform certain work under the supervision of the Government, and with authority in placing buoys in such places as they might consider necessary. The following letter has been received from the Department of Public Works: Ottawa, June 7, 1888, Sir, I am directed to state for the information of the Harbour Commissioner of Montreal that, in compliance with the request made, an order thereon has been issued appointing Henry K. Perley, representing the Board of Trade and Corn Exchange Association of Montreal, John K. Sherwood, representing the Board of Marine Commissioners of Montreal, and Percival W. K., Secretary of the Commission, It is satisfactory to know that the Commission has at last been appointed, and that they will be sent today to meet. It is hoped that they may be able to arrive at an early decision, so that all possible work may be done this season. AS EXPLANATION During the last few weeks I have noticed several letters in the papers commenting on an interview with me made by a gentleman of the press. These I did not think it necessary to notice, as they seemed to be too absurd to be believed, but in justice to the gentleman let me say that I am credited with saying that Mr. Thomas Workman had in the thirties written his name under the eaves of the building where Joe's canteen now stands, from a river boat. If instead of from a river boat you will read from the ice it will be correct, Mr. Workman being my authority, and I believe the year was 1839. My object in mentioning this was to show that when there was no revetment wall the shelving bank allowed the ice to be pushed up to a much higher height than has been the case since the revetment wall was built. As for Mr. Hogan having built from the foot of Nelson a monument, I never spoke to Mr. O'Hara on the subject, know nothing about it, and do not believe it. REPORT OF MARITIME Number and tonnage of sea-going vessels that arrived in port from the opening of navigation up to June 1st the following years: Years 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 Parent, Mayor Hurtubise, of Longueuil, L. L. Morin, Mr. Lalonde, and Mr. Vauasse, M.P. for Yamaska. Windmill Point was visited, and the proposed extension of wharves upwards was explained and the ground pointed out. The tug steamed down the river to near Longue Pointe, and returned to Montreal. On the way down the Harbor engineer showed plans of the proposed lumber wharves at Hochelaga, and also plans of notable ice thaws, etc., for several years past. HOUSEHOLD SUPPLIES Where a Good Selection Can be Secured This is the season when a visit to Bonsecours market can be made with most satisfactory results, for the quality, quantity and variety of household supplies offered cannot be equaled elsewhere. This week the offerings have been liberal, even profuse, which ensures to the buyer ample scope to make selections, and at prices too which are low enough to suit nearly every purse. A special feature of this week is the display of early fruits, including excellent apricots from California, and peaches and cherries from the same quarter. Strawberries have become more plentiful and consequently more reasonable in price. The dairy produce department is worthy of patronage as several of the dealers make it a point to keep the very best stock on hand. There was a good line of fresh killed poultry, and frozen turkeys, geese, chickens, etc., are always kept by the principal dealers who have large refrigerators for that purpose. Beef, mutton, lamb and smoked meats of fine quality are to be had at moderate prices, with no change made for delivery, which is always made promptly. Fish from salmon to herring can be purchased on satisfactory terms. Altogether Bonsecours market is well worthy of the extensive patronage it receives.
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St. Elizabeth and Sanguinet were also partially covered, and Vitre Street in places resembled a chain of miniature lakes. St. Charles Borromeo, St. Urbain and Cote Streets were also submerged, and boats and rafts were plying here and there. The Central Fire Station on Craig Street was also invaded, and in a few moments the men's bedroom was under water and everything soaking. EXTENT OF THE AFFECTED DISTRICT. At 11 o'clock the water extended up St. Urbain Street, about fifty yards above Craig Street and from Craig up Alexander Street to Vitre, remaining the same; on Cote Street it was up to the Theatre Royal, and rose as high as the hubs of carriage wheels on Vitre, between St. George and Chenneville. On the upper side of Vitre Street a building, the foundations of which were completed, was filled to the level of the sidewalk. The water extended several yards above Vitre on St. George.
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Collision and loss of life. Calhoun, March 20. During a heavy wind the other night the oyster pungie Jasper and Industry collided at the mouth of the Wicomico River, Virginia. The Jasper sank. Boats were unable to reach her in the darkness, and in the morning the captain and two men were found lashed to the rigging, one frozen to death. Four others of the crew had dropped off during the night and were drowned. Business failure. New York, March 20. James Pendergast, ship broker, has assigned; liabilities, $75,000. Schuloss Heilbronner, woolens, have also assigned; liabilities, $50,000. Happenings abroad. St. Louis, March 20. Leading jewelers have been notified from New York that an organized band of daring thieves is about to raid Western cities. Claiming fortune. Des Moines, March 20. Reports from this section show that the apple orchards have been killed by the severe winter. One farmer lost two hundred trees.
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The fall of the town of Shusha marked a turning point in the four-year conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, both sides agreed. But while Armenians said it could open the way to peace, Azerbaijanis predicted only further, intensified war and swore to retake their lost territory. Azerbaijani agencies reported that the fighting over Shusha continued last night and that Armenian militants were battling to break a corridor through Azerbaijani territory to connect Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia proper. The fighting is far from over, said Lt. Vagif Dargyakhly, a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Defence Ministry. Flare-ups at various points along the Armenia-Azerbaijan border fueled fears that the Nagorno-Karabakh fighting could escalate into war between the two former Soviet republics. More than 1,500 people have been killed since early 1988 in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave administered by Azerbaijan but populated mainly by Armenians. A fertile, mountainous region, it has been cut off from the outside world and its economy is devastated.
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Seeded third, Hetherington and Rinaldi beat seventh-seeds Valda Lake and Clare Wood of Britain, 7-6 (7-3), 7-6 (7-4). In singles, unheralded Beate Reinstadler advanced to the semifinals with a 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 win over third-seeded Helena Sukova. Top-seeded Conchita Martinez cruised into the semis with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over Jolene Watanabe. Also advancing were No. 5 Zina Garrison Jackson and No. 4 Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere. Rain prevented play at the Dutch Open clay-court championships in Hilversum, postponing the quarterfinal matches until today. tore his left bicep during practice in Davie, Fla., and may miss the NFL season. Oflerdahl said he'll wait a couple of days until the swelling in his arm goes down before doctors decide whether an operation is required. Cleveland Browns wide receiver Hassan Jones has changed his mind and decided not to retire.
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to 3 p.m. Transport Quebec advises motorists to drive slowly across the span while the work is being done The right and centre northbound lanes of Highway 25 will be closed from the Lafontaine Tunnel to Hochelaga St, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday to Thursday for two weeks, for repairs to the road surface Winning numbers Monday, 900618 La Quotidienne-4 7-1-6-2 (in order) La Quotidienne-3 7-9-0 (in order) Banco 1-5-17-19 21-22 23 25-28-33-37-38 42 45-46 54-55 64 66 68"
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The most expensive winter storm recorded in Canada from an insurance perspective was a March 1991 tornado that tore through Sarnia, Ont., and caused $25 million worth of insurable damage. None of Montreal's previous ice storms made the insurance bureau's list of the most costly Canadian natural disasters. "Two people who work with me had tree branches crash through their roofs," Medza said the heaviest storm damage occurs during the summer months, when high winds can cause tornadoes and excessive rain brings sewer backups and floods homes. Of the 48 most costly Canadian storms, 31 of them occurred during the months of July and August. But it was on Sept. 7, 1991, that a severe hail storm rained down on the city of Calgary, causing $342 million in insurable damage to homes and cars - the highest total recorded by any natural disaster in Canada's history. Quebec's worst insurance bill was for $212 million after the July 1996 flooding in the Saguenay - although about $108 million of that total came from one company reporting three commercial-property claims. The cost of disaster Most expensive storms Cities Claims Amount paid Calgary, Alta. (hail) Sept.
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