Winnipeg Free Press

Saturday, August 30, 1986

Issue date: Saturday, August 30, 1986
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Previous edition: Friday, August 29, 1986

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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba August continued from Page 1 which the four of duty cers were told the court had eight to 11 bottles of during a Sian Dahal hour Gislason said he had seven or eight court was told they saw was with a group of throw a bottle at an other car stopped at Wiggim Avenue and main Allen said who had rolled Down his window to engage in a verbal Exchange with some pedestrians who de Laved their said some thing to who was holding another Ross then threw the bottle at their curtain stopped and he and Gislason got out of the const Alexander Walls and const Glen Zelenewich were after coming to the Aid of curtain and Allen said that had curtain Gislason shown More re the fracas would not have babies switched but couple wont Swap Back Dublin a an Irish Hospital said it gave two baby boys to the wrong parents last week and one couple refused to return the infant they were insisting it is the disputed baby was taken to the Hospital for treatment of Jaun Dice a Day after a court ruled the infant has to remain in Ireland until another court hearing 00the dispute next not going to give him Hajj the who doubted a mis take had been he is he has my husbands nose and his family How could an other baby look like the family i could pick him out of a Nursery of 35 babies As the babies were born 10 minutes t 21 at Portal Oise a Why he figures Turner in trouble tool Pige 1 of both the other major patties ail Well is very its very volatile mad out that Allim i very carefully said it applies to All party including we happen to be the ones having the of dubbed the rainmaker for his political wizardry in helping keep Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau in office for 20 of the last 23 declined to comment on what would be causing such uncertainty two full years after Turner took i dont think that something i want to he said the november vote will depend on several 1 think polls and surveys this and i think the performance of the Leader this fall and what happens in the two sept 29 by elections and what happens to the nip and what happens to prime minister i think those Are All fac tors at Davey still has not said what percentage of support he thinks Turner needs to he said april 24 that be want certain Turner would even do As Well As former tory Leader Joe Clark did at the 1983 Winnipeg convention that led to his Clark had per cent of the delegates behind him but called a leadership convention How Davey also said in april that Turner will have to choose his own figure and that is not cast in he promised yesterday he will comment further on the november vote after Book is published in late unlike Many other he praised the appoint ment monday of former tory presi Dent Dalton Camp As senior adviser to the prime minister and his Cabi net i like i think its a very smart move for the there sending in the first i think you getting his act Ogeth one feared dead in Gas Well blast up one Well service worker was unaccounted for and seven others were taken to hos Pital with critical injuries last night after a natural Gas Well blew out in Wes Central sending flames 20 metres into the the located about 40 metres due South of blew about cd while 10 or 12 employees were doing Doug Bangle of Edson ramp said one of the workers was Unac counted for and possibly and nine were seven were seriously injured and flown to hospitals in 200 Kilometres to the Bangle said the Well was located in Remote Bush country and there was no danger to the teenager suffers Burns moving car from flames continued from Page 1 the area while the House was Burn Hospital Matron Mai read Hogan said identification labels on the infants and their cribs were accidentally blast shakes stadium smoke Billows from the Tower of Montreal olympic stadium yesterday after two 90kilogram oxygen bottles no one was injured in the explosion and but the Montreal expos and san Diego padres Ball game was postponed until today so engineers could determine if the Tower suffered structural other bystanders de fended the saying they moved quickly to douse flames once they trucks were called from several fire Ceretti said he was inside when he saw the construction site i looked out the Kitchen window and i saw he Dino said he suffered firsthand second degree Burns to his right foot in his efforts to Rescue two cars and a truck parked behind the i just looked out and i just saw that building Over there i ran out to move my car and stepped on a piece of Masi adding the debris must have blown Over from the main Ore he said he move the which suffered paint damage and some and then went to Hospital where his foot was treated and other neighbourhood residents expressed Little remorse for the burned construction saying the development was unpopular because it had replaced a wooded they Tore Down my one Man Federal patronage dried up As Epp replaced Axworthy continued from Page 1 in i think the local conservatives feel Treyve waited a Long time to get some of the benefits of Federal patronage and not enough of it has flowed into this both in terms of appointments and government spending in the prov but he emphasized that few people know exactly what goes on in the privacy of Cabinet and its hard to judge a regional minister without Access to All the As he said Federal generosity to regions or provinces tend to go in if Manitoba was indulged under Axworthy it be Surpris ing if there was a tapering off of spending and other kinds of spending in the he the question Mark surrounding Epps ability to take care of Manito Bas interests began soon after the tories took finance minister Michael Wil sons deficit cutting min budget in 1984 exacted a heavy toll from wiping out a number of projects developed by Axworthy and his Small army of political operators who specialized in procuring As Many political plums As possible for the one of the most visible casualties was the j3gmillion science and technology research Institute on Ellice it was supposed to attract new manufacturing interests to the City like a further diversifying the cites the Axworthy plan called for the National research Council to put 150 researchers in the building at a Cost of about million a the tories have scaled Down the project they have agreed to put 20 arc scientists in the Wilson also killed a Crown corporation headquartered in Winnipeg with a and effectively lulled a proposed million via rail maintenance Centre proposed for the Transcona in the last an aborted at tempt to move a number of Canad an National railways staff to Monton from Winnipeg and delays in providing funds to upgrade the port of Churchill also irritated City and provincial How civic and provincial leaders really feel about the tories is any body the nip governments Campaign slogan was stand up for a reference to the poor shake the province was believed to be getting from John president of the Winnipeg chamber of said he want interested in which minis Ter was the Best at delivering Politi Cal noting that he Doest like any of the major political Doole said Winnipeg business believes por barrelling is bad no master which part of the country is favored and that government should concen trate on splitting the pie despite the perception that Mani Toba has been left out in the cold by the Winnipeg pollster Angus Reid says voters in the Region appear to have remained More Loyal to the government than any other re Gion in the while the polls show drastic drops in support for the tories in almost every Region of the particularly Quebec and support in Manitoba and Saskatchewan has remained according to a Reid poll taken in the tories have dropped to 45 per cent of the decided vote from 55 per this for exam with a drop in Quebec to 20 per cent of the vote from 50 per cent in Reid said the reason for the tories relatively Good showing was support for senior conservatives like Ray Hnatyshyn and Don main terms of personal Reid said judging from a poll done in was doing fairly about 45 per cent of the regional electorate approve of the Job he is doing with Only 20 per disapproving and about 35 per cent having no this compares with Axworthy approval rating of 62 per cent combined with a disapproval rating of 23 per cent and 15 per cent having no when comparing the records of the two men As regional its impossible not to notice other differences in their personalities and Bow they approach their Epp is a Small c conservative mennonite from Small town Manitoba who believes free Enterprise be the motor of in econ he wears Blue White shirts and regular Meta Frame is slightly to the left of the political Centre and is far More interested in using government As a tool for shaping the he dresses a Little More informally and favors trendier looking glasses with circular while both men Are a worthy is More relaxed and is far More willing to discuss How he feels personally about political Epp himself bristles at the Sugges Tion that he int As capable a regional minister As was Axworthy or that Manitoba has been left out in the i know there is this mythology that Manitoba has been singled out its not the but when it comes to listing what the tories have done for Epp likes to talk about National issues the first thing that has to be Epp is that Manitoba does not stand Manitoba is part of the National to that Epp says Federal platforms such As National reconcile deficit reduction and lowering interest rates Are uppermost in the minds of Epp said Winnipeg and Manitoba have set records in housing starts for two years he said Winnipeg today has More approved building permits in value than at anytime in its and that includes the Axworthy he also noted that government efforts to encourage foreign invest ment were also important for Mani Axworthy gained most of his reputation As a Sharp regional minister when he took Over the transport portfolio in the Trudeau govern soon after assuming his new of Axworthy invited local report ers 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