Winnipeg Free Press

Monday, August 17, 1981

Issue date: Monday, August 17, 1981
Pages available: 70
Previous edition: Saturday, August 15, 1981

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 17, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Still not paying Energy tax so at gust 1 i Vancouver up British Lumbia will Edfelt Tuie to withhold pay tent of the new Energy tax to Ottawa until the matter is settled in the even though Canadas premiers have decided to try and Duee Stier Bill Bennett indicated Bennett said the province is Stoicu by opposed to the Federal the 10 provincial during three Days of meetings in Vancouver and in Between aboard the Queen of Prince agreed to begin reconciliation proceedings by inviting prime minister Ted eau to join them in demonstrating National leadership on the on fiscal arrangements and on Bennett said the decision by his government to withhold the tax will have no effect on his efforts As chair Man of the premiers to effect the renewal of cooperative federalism which he believes is essential to governing the the Federal government is taking action predicated on a Legal position and i dont think that would be a complicating he Petroleum companies that Haven been paying the tax were told last month by the Federal government to pay up by 15 or face penal the new which became Law in include 45 cents a thousand cubic feet on natural Gas sales and an eight percent tax on Oil and Gas companies were to begin paying tax in january and the Revenue department says an interest rate of 12 per cent a year will be applied retroactive to jinxed strike a youth sits on traffic control lights last Friday during disorder in the streets of up to m the whole affair was jinxed Fram the that hew mayor will Campbell summed up the dispute yesterday which Ted to a thret4ay police strike last week in this Small University town near the new Brunswick Nova Scotia Suc Villes eight unionized polled left returned to work saturday night after reaching a new contract with the town earlier in the details of the agreement not but both sides said it was a Compromise Over the main issues of the towns contribution to a dental plan and classification of police hard feelings present a few shattered traffic lights and Telephone stretches of skid Marks and trampled Flowers at the town Hall were the Only signs a Drunken and unruly element had taken to the streets during the but hard feelings were present everywhere among town policemen and merchants and even after the contract was ratified the mood was More sombre than Campbell said a fatal car Accident Early saturday when Ders raced unchecked through the downtown helped bring an end to the Alexander of nearby am died when the car he was driving slammed into the Wall of a the Accident occurred several blocks from where a crowd of about 250 had gathered to drink and applaud tires dealers and hooligans who set bonfires on the main two also from Nova so were treated at Sackville memorial Hospital while two others left the scene before the Only police on the chief and his 1 think both sides took a Long hard look at the situation and realized How serious things could Bell he said labor relations had so tired Long before the policemen and 14 other municipal members of local 1181 Canadian Union of Public employ walked off the Job at Midnight wednesday night charging the town was reneging on contract terms agreed tit by during earlier Union president Bill Holmes was fixed from the police Force and theft reinstated after a Brief policemen appeared subdued As they left the ratification meeting they said they had Felt frustrated they watched the Rowdy crowds from downtown Union at one Point Friday strikers done picket lilies to Aid in the arrest of two burglars in a hardware store and Appeal to speeders to slow Constable Stewart Mckee and others said the strike could have been avoided if the town had been willing to negotiate vandals attack 43 postal vans Montreal up fort three Post office vans were vandalized in suburban Laval Early police and one Post office employee has been questioned and released without charges being Post office officials said three of the vans parked at a sorting station in the bedroom suburb were set on fire after the gasoline tanks were the other vans had their gasoline and Brake lines three vans were total police said they suspect the Vandal ism was related to the recent Settle ment of the Post offices inside workers pm slammed Over Economy the Canadian press prime minister Trudeau and his Liberal government came in for Sharp criticism Over the country economic ills from both Federal opposition leaders during the in nip Leader de Broadbent termed an abdication of leadership remarks made by Trudeau in Kenya last week that there was nothing he could do about soaring interest rates and the sagging we have rarely even from a More cynical response to a Call for economic Broadbent told a luncheon gathering opposition Leader Joe Clark railed against the governments no Hope attitude toward the Economy at a Campground saturday near the progressive conservative on a weekend tour of the Niagara fruit told supporters the country is in a crisis while the government is on and the tories would not hesitate to take immediate action to build a Strong Canada on our country the nip Leader said there must be temporary Exchange controls to bolster the Dollar and amendments to the Bank act to bring mortgage rates Down to the Levels where a family can afford although he conceded that Banks should be allowed to profit on Loans for such luxury items As color televisions and Broadbent said housing is a social right in which the principle of a profit motive is not Clark said it is time the liberals stopped blaming the americans and the Banks for High inflation and the declining Dollar and come Home and govern the the tory Leader made a pitch for his party mortgage deductibility scheme to give tax credits to troubled Home he said action even on a temporary basis would so people Are not forced to leave their applied linguistics Centre language school 890 James across from the stadium now accepting foreign students with students offering an Emersion course in English As a second offering evening programs in Span ish and for information Call 204 7744689 1oo433 main r3b 1b3 2o4 9431531 the City of Winnipeg la cite de Winnipeg Boniface vital Community committee Comite common Astaire de St Boniface St vital notice Avis All interested persons Are invited to attend a special meeting of the Boniface vital Community committee to be held in the Council 604 marys on aug ust 1981 at to consider the joint use development proposal concerning the tache school gymnasium at 744 Langevin Street to be approved by the Boniface school division 4 and the Boniface vital Community Tous Tes Inte resses sont invitee a Une reunion specials do Comite common Astaire de St Boniface St vital jul Aura lieu a la Salle Duchemin to 19 1081 a 17 heres pour etude do project de construction Dun gym Naae Destino a usage common attache a i Cote tache so tue a Rue Langevin it jul dolt etre approve Par la division Scolare de St Boniface 4 it 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