Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 14, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free november of photo homeowners Aid described As insignificant Aming traffic stopper a 20yearold Man escaped from his burning Van yesterday the Accident stopped traffic for awhile As alter it rolled Over and burst into flames in near the flaming Van blocked the landlords blame rising costs continued from Page 1 frustration because it offers Little re Lief from High interest or the slowing Wilson said Federal Energy taxes will Cost the average family hundreds of dollars a year and some of that Money should have been used to help those in the government had perpetrated a fraud by promising Aid for homeowners and then deliver ing a program that helps Only those in severe nip Leader de Broadbent Dis missed As puny and insignificant the program of interest rate half of which is to be used this year and he said housing minister Paul Cosgrove should others said the budget will drive the country into a pushing the number of unemployed Over the one million Mark and perhaps As High As million this Maceachen brushed off most of the criticism but got tripped up when nip finance critic Bob Rae accused him of using a Bald claim his budget is More generous to Lowland Middle income earners than it actually from Page 1 Hob ans Assurance that in a ceases would be in the 1015 per cent one of his tenants is trying to an increase of nearly 37 per Ackland said yesterday she sees no reason Why she should have her rent in greased to from a month on her caves Dale Square townhouse in Charles As a single she said she will have difficulty paying the extra said the landlord refused to the increase to but succeeded eventually in getting it the but she said that at the the focus was More on finances rather than the legitimacy the proposed other she said she was asked whether she received child sup port payments or other government Assis that really has nothing to do with an arbitration she i wish i haunt answered those provincial consumer and corporate affairs spokesman Gary Julius said protests Over High rents Are running at about the same rate As last when there were More than the average rent increase which went to arbitration last year was 21 per he Sam Linhart of Lakeview properties said rent increases would average 15 per cent in the near even though its really not enough to give us a satisfactory return on despite some reports of rent increases of 30 per cent and More at Lake views House of Linhart said that was not a typical situation among the firms he said he sees no evidence there will be an explosion of rents in the next year or since there is a big enough Supply of units for people to pick and Martin Bergen of Edison realty said he expects rent increases will average about 14 per cent in buildings which Are having their mortgages and less in the even in those buildings where rent has fallen behind Market it will be difficult to raise rents in one shot because tenants can simply opt to live he Bergen said the vacancy rate in his most of which Are located in the North Kildonan runs about seven per continued from Page i legislation which would enable him to i bring in the program without having logo to the that is the we can proceed to draw the regulations and the administration of the he if it is necessary to validate this by Spe act of the legislature then the Legisla Ture can be cites governments de decision on plan 000 added voters list eight thousand voters have been added to the provincial voters list since Numera was completed Althere were registered voters the province the deadline getting on a voting election officer Richard Willis said yesterday the number of voters on official will Rise with final x Willis said there were registered voters 26 when returning officers compiled a preliminary list of voters in the 57 citizens not on a voters list can still cast ballots in the 17 election by being sworn in at a polling the Mould be voter must be accompanied by somebody who is on the voters Rolls so that person can vouch for him or said he estimate How Fri any eligible Manitoban did not seek get on a voters or who were limply missed by the Opportunity to vote in an Advance poll fended Willis said he didst have figures for the numbers who cast x Manitoba citizens posted overseas with the military do not have voting privileges in he Lwillis said the election bureaucracy has Irun smoothly this despite earlier reports that thousands of voters had been off the preliminary voters he said the system is imperfect and that is Why opportunities Are provided for getting on voters Lyon called the program an Emer gency measure which would apply until the end of finance minister Brian Ransom said yesterday he would be seeking input in the next few weeks from mortgage lenders and Community As Well As ensuring that the program will not interfere with Federal government Lyon also announced that the govern ments rent monitoring and review pro Gram would be expanded to identify cases where rent increases Are becom ing excessive and where some cases May be referred by the finance minis Ter to compulsory Pawley described Lyons announcement As the deathbed decision of a government in the outgoing government has made one of the most remarkable deathbed conversions in the history of Pawley told a Roblin audience last since he is going Down in one final spark has been his endorse Tion of our interest rate Relief Pawley he predicted the conservative announce made just four Days before the would Sway few Sterling Lyon has destroyed the last shred of credibility with the people of he the nip Leader said his own pro Gram was at least based on an under standing of the and not panic and and would Aid Small businessmen and Pawley said an nip unlike a tory would also press the Federal government to abandon its made i Washington interest rate Maceachen said in the budget thursday night that marginal tax levied on an increasing scale with each addition to current income will be lowered for everyone with a taxable income of More than but Rae noted that other figures tabled with the budget show no change at All in marginal tax rates for persons with taxable income Between and checking figures Maceachen at first suggested Rae withdraw the he later retreated and said he would Check the if theres a mistake ill admit Maceachen told reporters no Maceachen denied claims by conservative John member for Johns and Tom member for the Riding of Hills that his decision to Cut Aid to the provinces will Hurt health care and pos secondary both programs depend heavily on Federal Money and Maceachen announced thursday he wants to save billion Over the next five years by slowing the rate of growth of Transfer payments to the provinces Ontario Hydro begins Cable negotiations Toronto up Ontario Hydro began behind Hestenes Price negotiations months ago with european companies for the 100 Kilometres of Cable that would be Laid under Lake Erie if an million Deal to Export electricity to the United states is and although the agreement of intent to pursue the project was signed Only Friday by the american customer general Public utilities of new Jersey and on wednesday by each partner in the Deal has spent up to million on preliminary work in the last sources at Hydro say the Advance work shows How important the project is to the Ontario which must get the electricity flowing by mid1985 or the plan is of no use to general Public the sources say the project is such a priority Hydro Doest want to submit to lengthy hearings by the Ontario Environ mental assessment normally required by provincial because the Deal might be theres a feeling in some quarters that if it gets into Ontario it wont get out in time to make the one of the sources lawyers for Hydro and the Ontario Energy and environment ministries say the Deal needs approval in Canada Only from the National Energy which Grants Export licences and deals in International opposition politicians say Board hearings dont give proper weight to environmental such As added pollution from the Coal burning plants where about 70 per cent of the Power will origi1 Rowler rescues British Crew from the news services trawler manned by soviet South yemeni fishermen rescued All 33 members from the British Tanker which caught fire in the Ara Bian the official soviet news Agency tags reported the British Dairying barrels of Oil from Burma to caught fire 24 Kilometres North of Socotra Island earlier this Tass canadians to try climb a Canadian expedition is among five foreign teams that will try to Himalayan peaks this ministry of tourism said the ministry said the to be led by 36yearold Gordon Smith of will try to reach the top of the news Roundup metre Annapurna China to pay in Bill United nations threatened with the loss of its right to vote in the in general has agreed to pay million it owes the organization in assess a unofficial said Patrick assistant Secretary general for financial told reporters he was advised informally a week ago that China would Settle the debt and beginning l would pay All us assessed contrib French plan new sub has decided to construct a seventh missile carrying nuclear powered defence minister Charles Herne told the National Assembly last he did not specify whether the planned sub would be of a new As French armed forces chiefs or an updated version of the current de hotel fires kill three Miami three people died and seven others were injured yester Day when fire swept through two aging Miami Beach fire officials said the which destroyed the Miami Beach hotel and neighbouring Mara Grande of suspicious sleeping hotel residents awoke to find flames Licking at their doors As the first alarm was sounded at about 3 caution How you can Prosper Book promotion advertisement hits Legal complication an advertiser who placed a full Page and on Page 16 in to scene has written to the free press after the magazines reprinted deadline to say 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