Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free aft Katy 1985 Gas Levy urged for roads Manitoba should follow the example and raise gasoline taxes by two cents a litre to pay Lor Road and Highway a construction spokesman said Don president of the Manitoba heavy construction Asso said the extra million a year raised by such a tax would be used to improve the sorry state of the provinces Whitmore said he thinks the Public would support the two cent Levy if the Money went straight into Road repair and could not be diverted to general government he also said the extra tax would reduce the hidden bad Road tax that Manitoba motorists now pay in damage to their vehicles caused by poor provincial worst record Whitmore said the province should Start upgrading roads now rather than waiting for More deterioration and a bigger Bill in the Winnipeg engineers say it would Cost million to bring the cites water and sewer systems up to an acceptable Rod civic works and operations said the City has allocated about 10 per cent of this amount for Basic transportation services in recent he said Winnipeg has about the worst record in Canada for water main with in we Are falling Whitmore said we just Haven put enough Money Back into in a Brief to the made Public at a news conference yester the association says govern ment payments to Highway contractors for the year ending March 31 will be about compared with million two years Whitmore said his Industry employed about Manitoban last Down from in 1982 and in he said jobs have disappeared and roads deteriorated because the prov Ince gives workers compensation and other social programs a higher these programs Are to blame for Manitoba multimillion Dollar Defi he Dick association said the Quality of provincial highways has also been Hurt by rail line abandonment and Grain elevator which have placed added Strain on finance minister Vic Schroeder be reached for comment but a spokesman for the minister said no decisions on tax increases of any kind will be made until after budget consultations in Whitmore said All Gas tax Revenue should go toward its Origi Nal rather than siphoned off for Giveaway schroeders spokesman said that of million raised through the provincial Gas tax in the 198384 million went to Highway a Road sign near Richer Points the Way As Steve Fonyo continues his National to reach Anne today Steve Fonyo was expected to jog into Anne by noon a Canadian cancer society spokes Man said last Norman Gyles said who is running across Canada to raise Money for cancer logged about 20 Kilometres stopping about Kilometres from where he spent the so runner has raised More than for research in his Cross country will leave Manitoba tomorrow for a weekend trip to to Ronto where he is to attend a Debu tante Ball saturday Gyles the who lost his left leg to cancer seven years should be in Winnipeg a week from Gyles warmer temperatures have made the run a bit Gyles it was a Good Day for but Steve had a bit of problem with bandages on his prosthesis Gyles the problem was rectified when the bandages were he apart from the journey for lives run is on although vehicle plagued the Start of Fontos trip across the Gyles lung association donations stolen Metis request status inquiry by Cecil Rosner the Manitoba Metis federation has called on Premier Howard Paw Ley to establish a full scale inquiry into the condition and status of Metis people in the federation president Yvon do Mont said Ottawa Law professor Joseph Magnet has been approached about the idea and is willing to serve on the Magnet has done research into Metis Legal rights and is Well Quali fied to do the he Dumont said the is badly needed As there has never been a systematic study of local government structures affecting Metis without such a the province int in a position to discuss the mechanisms of self gov Ern ment for the he while various commissions have studied the indians and none has addressed the situation of the Dumont Long the Metis leadership regard the establishment of a commission of inquiry into Metis conditions As Long the commission should be empowered to look into environmental and Industrial conditions in Metis he it should also Canvas the views of Metis on the effectiveness of existing local government some Metis communities have expressed concern in the last year Over their role in local Metis in Camperville declared they were setting up self govern with the aim of becoming Independent of provincial Dumont said the government has promised to examine the commis Sion proposal in Cabinet and re Spond a spokesman for attorney general Roland Penner said she didst know whether the matter was on cabinets Agenda the federation wants the commis Sion to be appointed Early this year so it can have its report finished by March that would allow the study to be used if a first ministers conference on aboriginal matters is called in Dumont also said it is almost certain the federation will reactivate its court action on land claims against the provincial the federation argues that the Manitoba act of 1870 guaranteed the Metis population hectares of together with rive lot but it says Metis were dispossessed of the land Over the the province has refused to recognize the Metis so Dumont said the federation has Little Choice but to reactivate a Legal action which was earlier suspended to allow for Possi ble talks Between the two relations Between the government and the Metis federation May be further strained following the announcement of construction of the Limestone generating which Dumont says is Dumont said the federation feels it didst have sufficient input into the he is concerned there is no Assurance Metis people will be Given Opportunity for jobs on the Lynn Lake Centre forced to close Thompson staff a Lack of funds has forced the closing of a Lynn Lake Walkin resource the Centre was opened in january 1984 with Federal government Assis Tance to help so called tent peo ple relocate into Homes on the town about 25 of the Indian families have moved into apartments and houses on the Tow site and the Centre has helped them get used to using modern these people at the Centre have done the work of a dozen or More civil said Lynn mayor Stan he said he Felt the Federal govern ment should continue to share responsibility for the Centre because most of the people involved Are treaty indians and their care is primarily a Federal Geddes said town Council had communicated its views to Jay la for Churchill and provincial Treasury Board Jennifer the centres us feared the situation could revert to where it was in the Early 1980s vandalism and a heavy Drain on taxpayers Ulvick and the four other staff members operated the Centre last year on a budget of up to funding has come from the Canadian employment and immigration departments employ ment development the province has Given the ser vices of an alcohol treatment worker from Thompson and two other employment service Branch counsellors from Lynn Lynn lakes Community develop ment Dennis said he Felt the Centre is important to help stabilize the Community from the Impact of the impending 1 Clos ing of the Fox the major contributor to the on Industry towns about was stolen during a 15 breaking at the Manitoba lung association ice at 629 Mcdermot association executive director Bob Marks said said most of the loss was in cheques mailed Between 9 and 12 As part of the associations memorial and Christmas Seal he said a list of the donations haunt been made when the breaking Marks asked anyone who sent a donation at that time to Contact the office to deter mine if their Cheque was among those he said the thieves stole the 450kilogram Safe containing the As Well As two slide projectors and a weather City Calendar h Hillh l Low cold from worm from Winnipeg area forecast Clearing with Cloudy periods this temperatures falling to near 18 this Low tonight near mainly sunny tomorrow with brisk Southwest winds in the High 12 to probability of precipitation is near 60 per cent Zero tonight and extended Outlook Southern Manitoba flurries and Windy Clearing flurries temperatures above Normal Satur below Normal sunday and near Normal Normal High is Normal Low is Northwestern Ontario Snow flurries sunny temperatures near Normal saturday and below Normal sunday and National Victoria 5 Vancouver 4 yellow knife 15 Edmonton 4 Calgary 6 Saskatoon 0 Reolena Winnipeg Thompson u Kenora 10 Brandon 4 Dauphin 4 Thunder Bay 6 Toronto Ottawa 5 Montreal s Halifax i 0 26 7 7 5 4 1j 23 14 6 14 cd Law Minneapolis new York Amsterdam Berlin us Don the Owca offers a workshop for single again men and women tomorrow and for Contact the Colony Street at Ellice also on the the Manitoba lung association and the health Tion directorate will hold a workshop for women who smoke or have smoked or know someone else who As a drawing and sketching course begins next for Contact the Toronto sculptor Susan Schelle will give a lecture at 8 saturday at the Plugin 175 Mcdermot groomed Cross country ski trails and a wanning building Are open at Crescent drive Golf sundays 10 to 5 ski equipment rentals Are available on a Halfor full Day for details on rentals and ski Contact the Assiniboine Garry Community recreation polish language classes for adults begin at monday 28 in the polish Sokol Community 717 Manitoba the course features 10 lessons of hours on fee Contact Stephen Yurkiw at the blood donor clinics will be held from 9 to 7 monday to wednesday and 9 to 31 and 1 at the red Cross 226 Osborne Street Mobile clinics will be held from 9 to tuesday to thursday in the multipurpose University University of Manito the Jame Assiniboia Community recreation Branch requires volunteers to Aid children with special needs in saturday afternoon workshops in february and also required is a Volunteer photographer to cover Branch pro Grams and special camera and film Contact Carol at the recreation 2055 Ness deaths 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