Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 15, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Unwanted of Kanee a on the trans air Sale s3 lottery spawns depression disease of the 70s the treat Coupon Ripoff game Naton new con game 4 in the rial weather report from sunny High Low 7 Sun Rhes sets Moon rises sets 85 166 april 1978 final edition some booze 20 dearer by Steve Whysall imported wines and spirits will go up about 20 per cent next Louis Manitoba liquor control com Mission revealed the dramatic fall in the value of the Canadian Dollar on the foreign Exchange is the main reason for the in Lelliet More goods to Cost More seepage although a specific Date has not been fixed to Intro Duce the Lelliet said new prices would be made Public on or just after May increases will be across the we Are preparing a new Price list at the moment and the average increase will be about 20 per he liquor suppliers have put up their and freight costs have also the 20 per cent increase will mean a bottle of French now priced at will Cost about 80 cents a bottle of scotch Whis priced at at the will jump an extra spirits such As which is the top Selling hard liquor wont be going a big Rush is expected on City liquor stores during the next two weeks As people race to Stock up with their favorite wines to beat the Many stores were still Busy coping Friday with the Sale of 30 discontinued brands of its been hectic this it makes me shudder to think we have to go through it All one store manager said pm lashes out at opposition by Paul Whitelaw staff correspondent Ottawa prime minister Trudeau accused opposition parties Friday of supporting Quebec separatism by backing the position of the parti quebecois that the fed eral government has intruded in provincial affairs through its sales tax Cut the accusation came during a Stormy commons Tion period in which the prime minister also accused the four Western premiers who have criticized Ottawa for Lack of consultation about the sales tax cuts of play ing politics to help defeat the Federal prime minister Trudeau has Trudeau told the commons Friday that his government have made a better attempt to cooperate with the provinces in working out the temporary tax reduction contained in the new Federal there big there if they thought it was not a Good they could have said but they stated rejecting the premiers joint communique claiming insufficient consultation threatened National see pm Page t West will study Hydro Grid system Quebec Liberal leadership candidate Claude Ryan plants a kiss on a leadership convention in Quebec up photo Delegate at the by Debbie Sproat the four Western provinces Are embarking on a study which could result in the develop ment of a Western electric Power generation and distribution the establishment of the committee to examine the feasibility of such a system was announced in a comm issued at the end of the sixth annual Western pre Miers conference held Here this Manitoba Premier Sterling who proposed the said it is a pretty darned important initiative and the kind of thing weve got to do in this he added Energy is a area for inter provincial co of the four Western prov Manitoba and British Columbia Are Rich in renew Able resources which can be harnessed to provide Hydro electric Alberta and see West Page 4 Huband nominated Charles who stepped Down last week As Leader of the provincial lib eral was nominated Friday eve Ning As the Liberal candidate in Tho new Federal Winnipeg Assiniboine about 600 people turned out for the nomination meeting in which Huband and University Manitoba professor Roy Vogt contested for the Huband said afterwards the turnout at the meeting was an indication of optimism among Liberal supporters in the province an optimism we have a real Opportunity of winning he the provincial Liberal party was the victim of polarization in the 11 elec he in the Federal election Well have the Goodwill of the people in this he suggested that the liberals offer an alternative to the positions taken by conservative Dan he said be easy to erode the massive majority Mckenzie had in the last elec but added the new Riding excluded part of Mckenzie former seat and now included River Heights which should be up photo Huband gets party to my he also said hed be offering voters a profile person known to the in Trade talks May resume London up r stalled United nations Trade negotiations Between industrialized and developing coun tries May be resumed next summer As a result of Commonwealth discussions concluded in the Light of the discus Sions that have been taking we can Hope to have a resumption of Unstad be Commonwealth Secretary general ramp Al told reporters Fri Unstad is the United nations conference on Trade and development which suspended its bargaining last Winter when member coun tries failed to resolve differences on a Nur Ilber of including the ingredients for an International fund to help stabilize commodity Ramphal said the time was passed when we ask whether there will be a we have to decide whether there should be direct government contrib coma girls parents peace a r Karen Ann Quintan is still almost two years after her parents won a court Battle to disconnect her life supporting Respirator and allow her to her parents said this week they have no regrets about their Deci Sion to ask the courts to end her life or the Long Legal Battle it we know that we have done everything possible for our Daugh Ter everything physically Possi everything spiritually Possi ble and that Why we Are at Julia Quinlan said in an it was three years ago sat urday that Karen Ann fell into the coma after mixing alcohol and Tranquili Zers at a during the Legal Battle Over her right to die with Doc tors testified that her Respirator was the Only thing keeping her but she defied the experts after the Respirator was disconnected in under a Rul ing by the new Jersey supreme her parents still visit her daily at the Morris View nursing recently they spent her 24th birthday at her she is much More Quinlan it was Beauty she said the if faced with the same decision still would ask the remove there Are no she we try not to be affected by Quinlan but of course when you lose someone you it does change your there is no going Back to what happened three years she said the court ruling has brought her family closer Ogeth Quinlan is a Par time Secretary at her roman Catholic and she and her a supervisor at a pharmaceutical donated to their diocese the profits from a Book and television movie about their Ryan appears Likely Winner Iii Liberal race by Peter Hadekel staff correspondent Quebec Ryan appeared to have an insurmountable Delegate Lead going into today voting at the Quebec Liberal Leader ship despite a late drive by his Only Raymond an enthusiastic crowd of delegates and observers filled a hockey Arena Here Friday to cheer the two candidates seeking the leadership vacated by Robert Bourassa in although Only about of the eligible delegates had registered Friday Ryan stickers and scarves outnumbered Garneau badges and pennants in the Delegate and in a period with delegates in the Ryan also won the applause his organization appeared supremely confident on the eve of the while Gar Neau workers stepped up their intensive drive to win Over Ryan delegates and in we will be up All night in the hotels talking to As Many delegates As we can on a on Toone a Garneau organizer were still because our own polls show us with More than Dele because there were Only two candidates in the three month Long leadership the organizations arrived with committed slates of much of the backroom lobbying and sus Pense that usually surrounds political Leader ship conventions is organizers for the former finance minister in the Bourassa were hoping that a couple of mistakes by the front running Ryan during the question and answer session might swing More support their More coverage of Quebec Liberal convention see pages ii and 12 but the former be Devoir publisher fielded questions impressively in the scholarly style he has displayed throughout the he stressed the need for major constitutional reforms which would give More autonomy to he elicited the biggest response from the audience when he told a questioner that it is possible to be a Quebec nationalist and a federalist at the same when nationalism becomes exclusive and jealous and rejects All other then it must be he but what see Ryan Page 4 this Money belongs to us9 pm wants million Quebec up finance minister Jacques Parizeau says he will insist that Ottawa pay a million sub Sidy for the provinces Selec Tive sales tax this Money belongs to Parizeau told a press conference for once everyone is in agree ment on this Quebec has refused to comply with Ottawa tax plan outlined in mondays Federal instead deciding to Cut taxes on certain goods under Federal finance minister Jean Chretien original Quebec would have received a million subsidy for reducing the sales tax by two or three per but on thursday he said Quebec would Only get a million subsidy for the provincial which eliminates the eight percent sales tax on clothing and furniture for 50 the Ottawa which every province but Quebec has will subsidize the provinces for two thirds of the Cost of reducing the taxes by two or three per Chretien has refused to subsidize the Quebec plan because he contends it favors mainly Quebe based Indus while the other prov inces have accepted across the Board sales tax but Parizeau said Well ordered Charity begins at he said he would see what happens be fore taking up with Ottawa the Means of recuperating that which is coming to in the i ask All Quebe cers and the institutions which represent them to show their support for the Steps taken by the Quebec partisanship has no place its Neces sary to support Good Parizeau said he was pleased to have received support for his position from such associations As the que Bec chamber of Commerce and the Quebec federation of he added that his govern ment was taking taxes off articles which poor people were after taking the tax off pleasure Karen Ann Quinlan Canadian Dollar bounces Back Montreal up after hitting a record Low in Early the Canadian Dollar staged a significant recovery on new York Money markets amid rumours that an increase in the Bank of Canadas Bank rate was in in confusing and often hectic the Dollar bounced Back from a Low of cents to cents within a matter of hours in the Interbank wholesale the closing Price was More than a third facet higher than thursdays 15year Low of foreign Exchange dealers characterized the Days ses Sion As utterly the Dollar had been under heavy downward pressure for most of the plunging through the cent which was the Low for but a wave of buying brought on by speculation that a hike in the Bank rate would soon be announced pushed the Dollar Well above 87 cents by Early some traders reported rumours that Ottawa May also be planning to impose foreign Exchange controls to protect the battered it was All has been noted a Bank of Montreal the Bank of Canada raised its Bank rate half Point on March 9 and then again on april 3 when pressure on the Dollar continued the increases were designed to Widen the interest spread Between Canada and the and attract foreign investment into the an inflow of capital into Canada would increase demand for Canadian prime minister Trudeau told the commons Friday that his government will continue to let sup ply and demand determine the value of the Canadian i ;