Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba
4 Winnipeg free May 1985 Dave free press shipping cuts mean lost official warns Don Mitchelson says rubble at the Logan site is an making it unlikely to attract any Industrial Park inquiry demanded City warned Logan project doomed to manager charges continued from Page 1 in the luxury of waiting around for a year or two while we see what is going to Nomes comments Drew an angry response from Lilian one of several people whose companies were forced out of the site to make Way for the touted we told them from Day 1 it want going to said manager of Horstman contracting they were All Good businesses Here and they have screwed everybody its there should be a whole inquiry into who did the who did the thinking and How much Money is being thrown in Public the initiative spent million expropriating residential and commercial property in the Park area and relocating a City councillor has called for an immediate Don Mitchelson said the land is strewn with rubble and is an Ideal Breeding ground for weeds this Mitchelson said it is not Only an eyesore but is unlikely to attract any industries in its current originally seen As a nine hectare Industrial the Industrial Park plan was announced in 1981 As the Linchpin of Core area initiative efforts to create new jobs for intercity but residents and firms whose land was slated for expropriation raised a howl of protest and in native Leader angered by cynical blueprint continued from Page 1 if he had seen the document before or if Cabinet is studying its he did insist that no policy affecting aboriginal people is going to be put in place until there has been appropriate discussion with the peo ple both at the Community based level and at the Public and National the which was stamped says the Lon term objective of increasing efficiency and reducing duplication of government programs can be achieved through the encouragement of greater Indian and native self re Liance and it recommends deterrent fees and cuts in Hospital services and Calls for major reorganization of virtually every native Peoples pro Broadbent its deeply disturbing when you consider the housing conditions of our native people and the medical circumstances compared with the aver age he Senate Reform decried continued from Page 1 Justice minister John Crosbie said he did not expect maps will begin debate on the Resolution this week because the government has other legislative items on its Crosbie could not say when the debate would take but said the government would like the Resolution passed by the end of the constitutional experts Are divided Over the Impact of the Edward Mcwhinney of Simon Fraser University said the Resolution is a sensible interim measure since Mulroney is promising major Reform of the non elected upper but former Liberal senator Eugene a constitutional said the Resolution would gut the Senate of its Power to protect regional the move to rein in the Senate began after Liberal who hold 72 of the 104 delayed a Money Bill unanimously passed by the commons earlier this the document is not similar to the task Force report prepared by outside advisers for Nielsen and leaked to the press last Broad Bent these Are recommendations signed by the Deputy prime minister he says in the Docu have the support of 11 Broadbent we this was though tout committed policy by the government within the past Broadbent said the proposed cuts Are atrocious and should be David National chief of the Assem Bly of first said the Cabinet memorandum is a cynical blueprint for the elimination of the first nations As a unique people within the federation of he told a hastily called news conference he is not opposed to dismantling the Indian affairs but the governments strategy is shocking and shows it intends to Tell the Indian people and the Canadian Public one thing while implementing the the strategy is to carefully time announce ments of program changes and it is especially important that Early announcements relate to sectors where there is the strongest Public sup port for the business Community demand for deficit reduction is a Good starting Point for the an the document announcing changes to native programs after changes Are announced in other sectors would help persuade native people that they Are not being singled out nor expected to Bear the consequences of readjustment no announcements of specific native program changes would occur before the budget is says the assuming that strategy is it May be advisable to withhold news of specific native programming until june to allow the native min interial meeting in the last week of May to proceed without the added complication of and verse native reaction to program the document also says that at budget except for an acknowledgement that the native program review has been no detailed reference would be made to resulting action at the time of release of the pre budget manage ment Early 1982 the newly elected Pawley government announced a Public inquiry into the the inquiry resulted in the site being trimmed to on third its original size so some residents and businesses could remain in the the initiatives Job creation efforts Are Only about Halfway to the original Kiernan estimated he blamed the economic recession of the Early 1980s and the failure to attract industries to Core area officials and councillors have cited the reduction in the Parks size As one reason for the difficulty in attracting Ron development officer for the Logan Community development a group formed by said even if the Nowres Iden tial area East of the Slaw Bebchuk Bridge had remained As part of the Industrial Park As originally the Bridge would have sliced up the site anyway and made it impractical for major he said although Many residents were forced to move from the area West of the the final outcome for residents has not been that bad because the remaining residential area has been continued from Page 1 Grain producers because it is cheaper to ship through Churchill than other its Clear that theres a tremendous advantage to a he Lohman challenged the conservative opposition to put pressure on the tory my for Portage to alter the boards Posi Tion on Churchill chamber of Commerce spokesman Bob Penwarden said a Cut in Grain shipments through the port would have a devastating effect on the fragile Economy of the town of about Penwarden estimated More than 90 of the ports Normal summer season staff Are local people and could be Laid its also very strange that the wheat Board cannot grasp the value of they always seem to be Only too ready to run us Cut us anything instead of trying to he Penwarden noted a lot of Grain from the Churchill Supply area in Northern Saskatchewan is being shipped to Eastern and Western there was a Good crop there last year and if they had left us alone and allowed us to ship Grain Tiroui Churchill would have been Fine and we could have he said he is concerned that if the port does not operate this a number of local people who normally work there would leave and take jobs on the Limestone generating when anything like this the whole Community feels it imme he we need every Job and we cannot afford to lose port manager Don Figurski said Normal preparations Are being made for the coming with the first port workers to report next about 100 employees Are needed to operate the port during the which normally runs from about july 25 to Morriss said Grain shipments out of Churchill Likely will be Down from last years Low level of tonnes and definitely far less than the 000 tonnes Axworthy and Figurski say is necessary to make the Harbor port theres no Way we could move that kind of Grain through Morriss noting last Summers Prairie drought Means producers entered this crop year with the lowest stocks in 32 we just do not have the Morriss he said Grain buyers dont like sending their ships to Churchill be cause the port is far from world markets and its icy Waters can dam age As the Board official said the port cant Send out shipments until the beginning of whereas Grain can be moved earlier in the year through other Ottawa and Manitoba have agreed to spend millions of dollars upgrading the port and to improve the Canadian National railways line to Churchill and a Power line is being built to the Murphy nuclear blackmail perceived continued from Page 1 such a weapon is an intolerable a condition which presents the soviet Union with an apparent first strike he said the development of such a weapon is not important in terms of whether the soviet Union would Ever launch a first but perceiving it from the american Point of View would make us vulnerable to Coer Cion and nuclear the Reagan administration backed my a 10warhead nuclear weapon called the peace keeper by has often been criticized on similar opponents have claimed the supera Ccu rate because it is to be housed in vulnerable minuteman will be perceived by Moscow As a first strike reagans a reduces Jimmy once proposed that the my be put on a rail sys liquor bribes alleged continued from Page 1 in the Newfoundland where the germans do most of their said ramp Are investigating alleged infractions by a fisheries department fisheries minister John Fraser has likened the West germans to a Bunch of pirates after discovering they had exceeded quotas reached under a bilateral agreement made in cooperation with the North Atlantic fisheries Fraser has threatened to ban the dec from cod fishing in Canadian the violations took place outside the 200nauti Cal mile zone but regarded As manager of the argues West Germany and the rest of the dec should stick to quotas because overfishing threatens the the catches Are monitored by fisheries who conduct spot and by observers who Are under contract to the Federal department and Board foreign vessels for a month at a time to watch the trawls and record catch the former observer said the fisheries depart ment expected observers to be present for 90 per cent of the but Many slept through nighttime tows or were too groggy to make accurate catch some vessels would try to keep an observer drunk for practically an entire he the Man said he once took a bribe from an italian Captain who had doctored his logbooks to cover an extra 50 tonnes of he had also received a trip to new lodging and two prostitutes for his one Christmas he disembarked from a Japa Nese vessel with 15 bottles of two Cartons of cigarettes and 45 kilograms each of tuna and he he said observers preferred the italian and French boats because the food and drink were the he were not such Good hosts but they were experts at doctor ing the his comments were backed up by another former observer who said overfishing is a fact of life off Canadas the second Man also asked not to be he owns a fish marketing extra firm Sealy posture edic 200 twin set 299 made in Canada by Canadian craftsmen 15 year warranty double set 349 Queen set 409 King set 599 phone orders Welcome plus free delivery free set up free removal of 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