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Investigations launched after building demolition accident
May 5, 2008
4:58 PM
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The whole block is coming down. Lots of cool old buildings up there.

This building that collapsed was built in 1909, and the Epic Theatre, a Grade 2 heritage structure which was one of Canada's first movie theatres -- once two of five theatres at Logan and Main. Then there is the Jack's Place building at 652 Main (1912), and the Weir Hardware building up the street at 666 Main (1899). To allow for demolition, the Starland and Jack's were removed from the Historical Buildings Inventory by the city's heritage buildings committee on March 20. The fate of the Epic and Weir's, meanwhile, will be decided at a later date.

For such a feat of perfidy and hypocrisy, the heritage buildings committee should congratulate themselves: Three historical buildings being approved for demolition in a single day probably hasn't happened since the 1970s.

May 5, 2008
8:02 AM
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Two investigations have been launched into an accident that sent part of a building spilling onto a Winnipeg road last week.

The Starland Theatre on Main Street was in the process of being demolished Thursday when the top of the building

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