Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 7, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba City not amused Over Charity tax break by Patrick Mckinley the City has cried foul Over a business Deal Between big Brothers of Winnipeg and a promotion firm that handled two Kenny Rogers con certs the Charity sponsored last in a report to civic finance com Mittee City officials said a private promotion firm reaped most of a tax break the City granted to big Brothers for the documents on file with the pro Vinces corporations Branch show that Sam a member of the big Brothers is also a director of the private promotion As a result of the the City is reviewing the system of allowing amusement tax Breaks on shows sponsored by charitable we want to get at the few who Are abusing Eric St Farison finance com Mittee the City report says big Brothers was granted a exemption from the cites amusement tax on the staged at Winnipeg Arena last july 31 and the charitable group ended up with Only after paying to Nite out entertain the promotion firm in which Katz is civic finance commissioner Mai Anderson said City officials take a dim View of the our View is that if an exemption is provided from the amusement then it should go to the Charity and not to the he Abe Yanofsky who Drew the problem to the cites said the City May ask charities to guarantee that their own earnings from events will be at least equal to the tax break before agreeing to Grant the tax exemptions in City officials have suggested that charities should have to Post Bonds equal to the tax exemption to ensure the guarantees Are Yanofsky said the promotion firms share of proceeds from the Rogers concerts came to Light after a complaint from Winnipeg enter see Charity Page 4 Cien Tisi eager to test shroud sunny today 21 Clear tonight 7 final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number k86 May vol 113 no 145 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Phil free press obstacle course a pedestrian at Portage Avenue and Furby Street months of reconstruction along a five lock area appears stopped in his tracks by the Maze of Street merchants fear the Street repairs will Render their stores repair and Detour signs signalling the Start of five driving them out of major Power Sale to Ontario touted potential multimillion Dollar Deal requires new Hydro station by Fred Youngs Manitoba Hydro has started talks on a potential multimillion Dollar Power Sale to Hydro chair Man Marc Liesen said such a Deal would trigger the construction of a generating station downstream from called and that stations entire output would be transmitted to Southern Liesen said the Manitoba Utility and Ontario Hydro Are on the verge of signing a letter of intent for the possible Sale which would link the Manitoba Utility for the first time to the heavily populated Southern on Tario the Sale would not Start until the late Liesen he Manitoba Hydro is experiencing a Windfall from the strike which has shut Down Ontario Hydro nuclear Manitoba Hydro has doubled its weekly sales to he it will sell 200 megawatts of a week for As Long As the strike he Hydro studies nuclear War effects by Cecil Rosner Manitoba Hydro is quietly doing research for the department of National defence into How Canadian Power grids would be affected Dur ing a nuclear Hydro received a contract recently for to Supply the defence department with information and recommendations on protecting Power systems in the event of a nuclear Hydro spokesman Verne prior re fused to comment on the referring questions to the Federal Kevin Public affairs spokesman for the defence depart ment in confirmed the con tract it is officially called a study of electromagnetic pulse effects on electric Power the contract is a study to assess the vulnerability of the Canadian Power Grid in the event of an electromagnetic Carle nuclear explosions cause such he Carle said it was part of the re search that is carried out into different aspects of he said there Are venues available for the Exchange of this Type of research information with other North Atlan tic treaty organization a spokesman for the Federal sup ply and services department said portions of the contract were secret and be she said the contract Calls for Hydro to deliver its report by april Peter Hartia of the defence research establishment in Ottawa said nuclear explosions can cause serious destruction to Power sys tems and it is important to know the exact effects they will Canadian research in this Field is relatively although there have been other studies in the United states and some nato but Canada needs to carry out its own studies on the Issue because there int always agreement on the Complete Exchange of information Between countries and Canada might not be Able to adapt other research to its he the United states has awarded a contract to Westinghouse to look into similar he Hartia said the researchers will recommend methods to protect Power systems from nuclear expo but he said he suspected it be practical to ensure All Power systems in the country Are my initial feeling is that it May be just too he there will Likely be an emphasis on protecting Power installations at strategic such As military he contract talks at a Toronto hotel broke off sunday night and the full Impact of the walkout was Felt within the Utility yesterday morning when workers at its Thermal and Hydraulic Power plus office and transmission were All off the the Canadian press re by the company had shut Down 10 nuclear reactors at Bruce and Pickering which sup ply about on third of the provinces electricity because the atomic Energy control Board ruled it would be unsafe to have them run by a management some management personnel were producing Power at the com pants Coa fired and water powered generators during the strike and the company was importing electricity from Quebec As Well As the Canadian press Liesen said the two utilities Are discussing a Sale which would re quire Power equivalent to the entire output of the con Yawapa generating that would make the potential Sale More than twice As Large As the Deal with Northern states Power of Minne the Conaw Apa dam is see proposed Page 4 tories budget Tough but Wilson says Ottawa up Tough but fair is How finance minister Michael Wil son describes the conservative governments first budget which will be presented May i think the budget will be regarded As a Tough but i think people will regard it As a fair budget and one that will be Able to address the problems of both deficit control and debt As Well As the question of unemployment which i feel is a very important Wilson told reporters he spoke moments after revealing the Long awaited budget Date in the commons in response to a question from backbench tory my Robert Toupin of the Quebec Riding of Ter Wilson had announced Dur ing the Mulroney governments March economic Summit that the budget would be delivered in the week of May 20 but had not announced an exact opposition spokesmen were sep tical that the budget will focus on the problems of the country million unemployed and speculated it will aim instead at reducing the annual deficit of billion or i Hope therell be something of substance there for unemployed canadians and Middle and lowering come canadians said Liberal House Leader Herb the Windsor West my added i doubt very much that that the new Democrat Leader de Broad Bent echoed Grays i do not believe that there will be priority put on the creation of new he i regret to say but i think the budget will continue the preoccupation with Short run deficit the Content of the budget has for the most part already been according to who said theres still some Loose ends to Deal but for the most part the decisions have been they have been Tough decisions which continue the path started on by the government in his 8 economic he the Centrepiece of the 8 statement was a package of spending cuts and Revenue recovery though the govern ment has run into problems implementing the full we have indicated that we have a number of Tough decisions to be taken in the but we know that those decisions must be taken in a fair and equitable Way As it relates to different groups of individuals across the As Well As differ ent regions in the Wilson told we Are also very conscious of the fact that unemployment is High in the and weve got to get see bad Page 4 pm denies Star wars missive by Larry Hill Winnipeg free press Ottawa Canada will participate in Star wars research and the National research Council has been told to set aside million for such new democratic Leader de Broadbent says he has been told by a former Federal Scien prime minister science minister Tom Siddon and arc officials promptly denied the allegations in a letter Broadbent said he received last the facts Are completely at Vari Ance with the contents of that let Mulroney told the commons Mulroney said he would investigate if Broadbent identified his Broadbent would Only say the Man had been a senior govern ment had a Good reputation and had not been the letter was in Broadbent hand As he spoke to reporters and a name at the top of the Page appeared to say the Only Hewlett listed in the Ottawa Telephone directory identified himself in an interview As a former Federal he seemed familiar with the theme of questions put to him about the but refused to confirm or deny he wrote if he Broadbent says that i i suppose that i Howlett according to the the arc is to act As the Point of Contact Between see space Page 4 suspension revoked for accused officer by Don Retson the Winnipeg police commission reinstated last night a City police Constable accused of breaking into a school while drunk or Joseph Thomas a plainclothes officer with Juve Nile was suspended without pay last thursday after being charged with break and enter with intent to commit an indictable of Fence and mischief in a breaking at Munroe Junior High school on april but the police which met in overturned the sus pension by acting chief John or commission chairman Don Gerrie left the hearing refusing Hymie Baileys said his client will return to work although he said it was up to police chief Herb Stephen to decide Baileys work contacted at Stephen said he had not been officially informed of the commissions he said he would decide the officers duties Weinstein said the commission voted unanimously to reinstate the he described the hearing As fair and adding he want surprised by the see officers Page 4 rights Issue while a consortium of companies searches for Oil in Hudson Mineral ownership rights remain a few laughs Winnipeg Blue bombers coaches maintain a sense of humor despite the recent loss of three free preserved historic furnishings remain in a schoolroom where Germany gave up the second world objections a righting group wants Stephen Lewis replaced As Canadian ambassador to the United Ann 17 10 33 37 22 37 6 31 7 Jumble 41 32 17 17 sports 34 27 to 17 ;