Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jirm wage pacts to the try warns it to wont 8ft the joining end or recent wage fat trusses Lor Etc employees that win mean higher tix revenues for the Federal and mayor fill Nome said about Fil hts Fitol of the roughly in crease Iti civic wage costs will tie taken a in it Tome t think we would certainly use this tit Otto approaches to provincial and Federal governments Wlton we Are asking for in Ciessau the duty recently signed two their labor contracts with transit and civic workers which provide wage creases of about 11 per cent a the settlements will Winnipeg taxpayers an extra i million this year and million in said municipal revenues main relatively Static because the youngest Axworthy cries foul who is Bob Axworthy and Why is everybody saying those terrible things about him Bob at is Lloyd a worthy youngest although youre not doing him any favors by pointing that hed rather be known As a Guy who was once an accomplished political organizer in his own right and now As a proprietor and partner in the Royal Albert arms but his brother the Federal minister of manpower and immigration keeps getting in the the last year has been a mad hat ters Tea party of conflict interest charges involving a guru Timothy three handicapped Stu a menu from bobs restaurant and the Liberal and an alleged wild party involving prominent liberals at the political Albatross Lloyd has been investigated by a commons committee and Bob has been declared a political Albatross around his Brothers said Albatross was in his the refurbished pub of the still in his having just cooked lunch for he was in the advising hotel resident Stanley to restrain who May be As old As the hotel was missed in the extensive renovation of the so Why dont you take your clothes off he asked two aghast Young women at the next now cautioned what i do asked the soul of offended Stanley is one of the few vestiges of the seedy Royal Albert As she was before Axworthy and fellow Liberal party organizer Reg Alcock decided to leave politics and Rescue her from her Long comfortable slide into politics Hast left much to bobs i got away from my first love because i was sick of being Lloyd Axworthy Little everything i did in the Liberal no matter if i did it on my own was because Lloyd set it Lloyd never set any thing up for that Why i left and took on this because i want to be Independent and my own bobs been in and out of restau rants for seven he Learned the Biz As the manager of a pizza hut in Brandon and set up the captains Cove Here in the Royal Albert has been his most ambitious assignment to two years he and Alcock and Leigh another Liberal party kicked in Bucks each and took Over the restaurant at the turning it into 48 they trend sized the menu and decorated it in Early hanging Green other pastures Sigurdson and Alcock have gone on to Chew other and now a worthy is chief Cook and bottle Wash theres so much i want to do with this he we want to remodel it sort of the like the Windsor arms in Toronto interesting alternative to the Holiday As for the political Cloud hanging Over the Bob admitted it was making him a Little but he still Doest think he did anything wrong when he booked Timo thy learns standup philosopher act into his hotel for one after who had a piece of the cleared Leary for entry into the country even though he was judged an undesirable by other immigration How could Lloyd be feathering his nest on a on night stand that Ridic Leary was cleared to play Toron to before we booked he still Doest think he did anything wrong when he hired the handicapped kids through the Federal program even though its a violation of the House of Paul Sullivan commons act for maps to Benefit from business with the and Lloyd had that piece of the in sorry i didst read the Fine Ive hired handicapped people since Ive been in we even got an employers award from Prince Charles he still Doest think he did anything wrong when he asked the Liberal party to include a menu for his restaurant in 600 kits going to Young liberals at the recent National Liberal convention it was the Liberal not the Why i advertise at the As a Liberal and a Hotelier i understand there was a list of 25 other restaurants in the Conven Tion i reminded but didst peo ple think he used his influence to get his whole menu included in the Young liberals material did anyone else ask he answering a question with perhaps a brighter i would do it Over but id be a lot More a lot More he still Doest think he did anything wrong by throwing a private party for some Liberal friends on the last night of the it went into the wee hours and the Manitoba liquor control commission is investigating it for pos sible breaches of the liquor the guess who was at the it was a private liberals like anyone 52 repercussions Lloyd is so now the Media leaps gleefully on anything that looks As if it might be a conflict of now everything i i try to figure out the 52 repercussions of each what Angle there going to get to he adding a Little i Haven started Clearing what i do with he Doest expect me to and i Haven any intention of doing that would be playing the game that been set up for Lloyd has his he he Doest consult me on anything relating to his department and i consult him on what Brand of soap to Stock in the or to order a different Brand of Axworthy has a slightly puzzled smile that involves most of his when Hes measuring his it takes up his whole when i got into politics As a Young i was very i believed there was More to politics than building a Man up then tearing him id still like 1 guess in surprised about this and then in i know about i know How dirty it can Axworthy began to talk about his North end its a common it happens to me All the Lloyd and i and the Brothers Tom and Trevor used to fight off Rock throwing and weve been through a lot harder fights than this like when Lloyd was running for but he in not asking for a id like but in i dont want it to appear As if i think the worlds against Axworthy still has Hopes of running for office some As a presumably once Hes out from his Brothers Here in and ill run on my and i Hope people will vote for me on my right now i just want to ride out the in no Billy and i certainly made no from that kind of fan one unit to Coesse who Jeff latin to the same degree As income what we Hying w to mow province Ana tire Teaera has Access to what can growth taxes and they actually a san by on the other the real tax is while property tax revenues Init Jas As real estate values there is a lag because the cites assessment part Mem int Able to keep up with the he were Styli Tsig Ait assessment m Many areas of the City that on Nome added that the City has toting wanted to extract a greater share of the personal corporate Flie emt take and also to get a slice of the five per cent provincial Sites As Howe Etc Haven pared figures As to what would be the mayor under the tax Art the City gusts per cent of l ff60ffie Tai fld p6f 0911 of corp untie ulc Onk plus to but Peg Tif Flet mis this rears provincial Block Alf Wagh Eity com Elf had according to civic if 25 per cent of provincial sates tax revenues were handed Over to the it would protein from blood Bert Friesen of the re Institute holds albumin protein used for intravenous feeding of Burn the Institute has developed a method for extracting the protein from human blood plasma the column Ion which allows it to receive 90 per cent of the bloods useful protein instead of 60 per cent As other labs University appeals retirement ruling the University of Manitoba is appealing a court of Queens Bench ruling invalidating a mandatory retirement clause in the collective agreement be tween the University and its Ber faculty in an Appeal filed the University said Justice Ham Ilton erred when he ruled education professor Imogene could not be forced to judge Hamilton based his june 10 decision on the Manitoba human rights which bans employer discrimination on the basis of but Doest specify an age the Appeal maintains the provisions in the collective agreement Are not con repairs to disrupt traffic Street reconstruction at the Ness a enu Esturgeon Road intersection and on Mcphillips Street Between Temple ton Avenue and the up rail Bergen subdivision cutoff will begin causing some inconvenience to motor the Winnipeg works and operations department said the two month Ness Sturgeon project involves provision of left turn traffic stacking lanes on All approaches and the four month Mcphillips project involves Street i two traffic lanes will be available during the 79 and 46 Rush hours on the Ness Sturgeon with at least one traffic Lane in each direction available at other two Way traffic on Mcphillips will be maintained for the duration of that the department tray to the human rights the University also holds that judge Hamil ton erred when he declared the collective agreements age65 retirement clause was in his judge Hamilton said he interpreted Section of the human rights act to mean that no employer May refuse to employ a person solely on the basis of his no matter what that age May jurisdiction questioned during the May 2829 univer sity lawyers said the court had no jurisdiction to hear the arguing that the matter could have been dealt with through the arbitration process or by the human rights judge Hamilton said he did have the authority to Deal with the in their the University still maintains Mclntyre should have filed a grievance with an arbitration body As required by the collective first contract approved by grocery store workers about 60 workers at a family fare store in Charleswood have won a nine month fight to achieve a first collective Bernard president of the Manitoba food and commercial work said yesterday that workers approved a contract providing pay in creases ranging from 20 to 100 per the average pay rate at the end of 1981 will be an compared with the 40anhour average before the Union he workers at the Roblin Boulevard store were certified the store was sold last november to a new owner who fired the approximately 70 then rehired about filed complaints eight of those who were not rehired filed complaints with the Manitoba labor the Board ordered the former owner to pay a total of in a award upheld by the Manitoba court of Queens Christophe Manitoba is the Only Canadian prov Ince where a Union certification application Doest carry Over from one owner to a few filed a subsequent application and was certified in february to represent the Christophe said the 18month collective retroactive to july provides health and welfare benefits including a dental grievance pro a Layoff seniority clause and other have amounted to a Futon list last City Lotfi ctr shelved it plan to lift the province for a on per cent tax on real estate transactions alter being told by a realtor the Levy would he discriminatory and inc Juita tiits to 1500 on a Foo Emo would have brought in million in 10 and roughly million to million in today mar City act change backed a proposed amendment to the City of Winnipeg act which would prohibit a person from seeking election both As mayor and councillor squeaked through the Legislatures municipal affairs committee by one vote yester the opposition and Jay a citizen who appeared before the com opposed the claiming it would Rob the City of the services of experienced com Jim Moore making representation before the supported the govern ment which argued that the Job of mayor was a full time position leaving Little time to attend to constituency missed vote while Maverick tory Bac Bencher Bob Wilson Wolseley said he would prefer to see City Council decide whether a person should seek both he said he would support the government to avoid ruffling he absent for the 54 which approved the the proposed amendment Hast be come a major Issue at City Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie was elected As councillor for Tuxedo Heights in he gave up the seat four months after he won the 1979 mayoralty held after the death of mayor Robert Urban affairs minister Gerry Mer Cier said provision for election to both offices was made by the former govern ment in it is my Clear impression the Previ Ous government brought in the previous amendment designed to defeat the existing mayor of the Steve but nip Urban affairs critic Saul Miller denied the the amendment was designed to encourage top calibre people to seek the mayoralty office and 1 think we achieved he Wilson suggested the current Legisla Tion is to protect mayor Norrie probably be mayor if the proposed amendment had been in he Choice advocated june Westbury Rouge told the government to Stop trying to protect and handing out Vitamin pills to City let them make their own Moore told the committee i dont feel it is fair to citizens of a particular Ward to be represented by a person who is both mayor and but Elmwood new Democrat Russ Doern argued that the prime the Premier and Cabinet ministers Are elected both As representatives of constituencies and As their executive assistants handle a lot of the constituency work at the Federal and provincial level and he suggested the mayors executive Assis Tant could do the amendments to the City of Winnipeg act were approved by the committee and go to the legislature for final probably next 7eleven stores drop Sale of sniffs Winnipeg 7eleven stores have stopped Selling rubbing alcohol and Lysol Spray in an Effort to curb the growing use of those products As into i Vanilla extract also will be placed under the counter with sales limited to one bottle per Dan Winnipeg zone said other sniff such As epoxy glues and plastic repair have been kept under the counter for some the Chain May extend the restrictions to its stores throughout the coun Daley said the use of intoxicant products is not the company recognizes that the illicit use of rubbing alcohol and Lysol is a grow ing social we cannot remove All products which May contain intoxicants or be harmful in other ways because every Day the list is he said we do know that the legitimate sales of rubbing alcohol and Lysol Spray u
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