Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 2, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba T free january tudy prompted by Max debacle of photo 11 continued front Page 1 r who took Over responsibility cd Fulps former minister Al mowing resigned stopped Short of saying he didst Trust the analysis of about 10 projects and products by senior its he said he and Robertson decided Ait Independent overview was needed in Light of the Quality of information the government had received about the financial health of the Coopers audit said the govern Niento was continually misled about the ventures financial performance since its inception in i dont want to go another five losses continued from Page 1 find the current format of com Niu Nichting rate increases awkward in the sense the percentage Doest reconcile with the proposed Mone tary increase for the As an doer cited the March 27 increase approved by the Board last which boosted its Revenue by three per cent or he said the actual rate increase for customers was More than three per although that increase was de signed to allow its to break the Utility is now projected to lose million this fiscal ending March doer said million of that is the estimated Max another million stems from a foreigner change loss associated with a Japa Nese loan taken out 10 years and is from unexpected operating and capital its had a net profit of million on about million in operating Revenue in the 198586 fiscal doer refused comment on the pre diction of an its source that Max could Cost Manitoba taxpayers saying a final figure on the loss will be known Only after winding Down of the subsidiary is completed late this doer noted that Manitoba even after the proposed will be among the Countryside said the new its management Hope to save about million prudent and eliminating waste Ful posting a net surplus million in the next fiscal its also plans to spend million rift Revenue generated by the propped higher rates for Rural in pr6vement a cd acting its presi said there have been just seven pm operate increases in Manitoba since if inflation is taken into its subscribers Are actually pay ing half the amount they were in he years and find out we have the same a business like Meh falsity with the rest of the products to he noted Max operations were plagued by Iiri proper financial a marketing evaluations and Lon term one cannot assume that we have a different management style going on with the its products than we had with the Only ence is that one operated in for eign Coopers and Lybrand was hired two weeks at a Cost of to review the project evaluations and also to Salvage any pieces of the Max such As doer he refused to comment on the financial health of fast and the other its projects and say what planning was Laid Down for their he said past was a priority for evaluation because of the Utility Large investment in he said he has been told the schemes capital Cost was about it appears the emergency alarm system made Money on its operations in doer but he stressed that capital costs determine the Utility an its source said an analysis of fast in 1983 estimated mass expo sure in the venture was Between million and another who has worked on the said most of the company investment was made before Market research was and total exposure now could be in the Range of problems with the initial software used in the alarm units placed wit subscribers compounded Early the sources other bugs in the system such As alarms triggering when a phone was left off the Hook to be worked and the software in All the units had to be replaced after two years in they hello which allows sub scribers to Call up voice messages through a personal simply Hast caught on in one of the its employees the other said firs year sales projections of to units for the fast 24hour monitoring system were Richard Vic president of comp scan Protection said fast is cheaper than Meta wired Home alarm systems but he said his an alarm response has found major glitches in the system from a its has been slow to none of the systems flaws has affected comp scans he the firm is one of eight that have contracted with its to sell the Wear Douglas National sales Man for base 10 of the company its joined to create the fast system in said the technology pioneered by the partner ship has been sold to 16 major american cities and is entering Australia and new negotiator dubs letter sideshow Rescue workers take body from charred Dupont survivors report three explosions before hotel fire continued from Page 1 Sci added we have heard that some of our workers May be among the to say that the Union would do that is to say that the Union is Freda Fenner of a guest at the nearby Al Canario said a worker there gave a warning to her and her the night before the Dupont Plaza dont even think about Agbing there there is going to be a bomb she quoted him As i asked him he said there were Union labor negotiations going on and there is always survivors said they heard three explosions at about the time the Casino was engulfed in they said there had been two Small fires in recent Days that they attributed to labor at least two canadians were among the 109 admitted to Hospital after the eighteen people remained in critical condition yester a spokesman for the governor most of the others were treated and released for smoke inhalation and minor said Carlos chief of staff at the Central medical William of burling said he was outside the hotel when the fire broke there was hysteria off the off jumping out of win he said he and Many of the canadians at the hotel had travelled to puerto Rico last weekend on a War Dair charter flight from Montreal and Cut told of raft Page 1 dour can chief negotiator in the lumber told reporters the letter by Baldrige and Yeutter was an unfortunate sideshow and is at Odds with the terms of the How we make when we make changes and what form we make changes in Canadian Forest management systems Are exclusively for Canadian governments to de Campbell told a news Confer these Are the elements that lie at the heart of the sovereignty he Only the calculation of the value of any changes is a matter for both Campbell said his concerns about the letter Are being communicated to the hopefully be fore the end of the last the lumber lobby petitioned Washington for a countervailing duty on Canadian lumber alleging that Low provincial Timber cutting fees were giving the canadians an unfair advantage As defined by Trade in the Commerce in an interim agreed and imposed a 15percent countervailing duty on lumber a final ruling by the due by Midnight tuesday but averted by the could have confirmed or raised the 15percent either Canada or the United states can terminate the agreement upon 30 Days the two opposition parties charged wednesday that Canada Likely had a Strong Case if it had fought the countervailing duty at k higher level such As a review tribunal under the general agree ment on tariffs and but department of external affairs speaking to reporters wednesday at an offt Hereford said they feared a Legal precedent arising from a permanent ruling by the Commerce de part nent More than the political implications of settling had the Commerce department made a final ruling against Canad an other sectors of the american Economy would have seen an Avenue of retaliation enshrined in a highly placed Canadian Trade official i would be concerned about the Legal interpretation and the Legal Welcome mat it would have created in the preliminary but the opposition was having none of that this is really a dangerous Prece Liberal Leader John Turner said from where he was on a skiing As a i feel our sovereignty has been infringed nip Leader de Broadbent told an Ottawa news conference that Titt settlement undermines the important principle of Canada having the right to set its own Export when were talking about the Export of Wood tubular any major Cana Dian Export now is subject to this kind of action by the United both opposition parties said the conservatives seemed to Lack the will for a longer fight with the United states on Trade Broadbent said the Mulroney gov eminent had an inherent weakness for a perennial Pursuit of Compro afghan peace offer rejected Islamabad Reuter communist Leader Najibullah most ambitious Appeal for an end to afghanis tans eighty Earold guerrilla War has been dismissed by the Western backed moslem in a speech made Public yester Najibullah called for open contacts with the guerrillas and the formation of a coalition he announced a temporary ceasefire from the official Kabul radio quoted him As saying opposition leaders could take part in elections to a National Assembly and make suggestions for a new Constitution now being he included monarchists and members of former governments in his Call for made to the policymaking Central commit tee of his ruling communist Najibullah that National reconciliation is aimed at developing the gains of the revolt a reference to the communist takeover of april and at strengthening Afghanistan ties with the in the official soviet news Agency Tass reported naj bul Lahs speech without a spokesman for the Mujahideen rebels in the Northwest pakistani City of Peshawar dismissed the proposals As a fraud and said Naji Bullah cannot be the Mujahideen reject Mohammad Nabi spokes Man for the main Alliance of seven Pakistan based guerrilla told a spokesman for the Herb islami guerrilla group of Maulvi Yunis Khan said accepting the ceasefire would amount to recognizing the Kabul which is sup ported by a soviet military Force estimated at about limit on number of ads in Winnipeg considered continued from Page 1 tints and those unlikely to survive also could be deleted from the insurance As could unnecessary extra Desjardins if some services Are the government May allow private insurance companies to provide cover age for he another cos cutting measure being considered is a limit on the number of doctors allowed to prac Tise in Desjardins said such a restriction would mean City doctors would be kept busier less Likely to waste the provinces Money on unnecessary tests and patient it would also address the shortage of doctors in Many Small Rural com he As the government is looking at restricting the number of patients admitted to hospitals for or kept in an institution when they could be at Home if enough support services cutting acute care Hospital Beds and increasing the number of sex tended care and nursing Home Beds is being he All options Are the result of a three year medical services Desjardins adding the govern ments responsibility for health care does not include paying for every thing everyone theres going to have to be a big were responsible to the Public and were talking about the Public purse he adding the province spends Between 000 and a year on some individual As technology and the populations average age continue to Advance to will the Cost of medical Desjardins the provinces own estimates show the Cost rising at twice the inflation rate and hitting billion annually within five president of the Manitoba medical said physicians Are also concerned about the rising Cost of medical care and have been working with the province to find ways to restrain Mma claims fee schedule behind other provinces continued from Page 1 he noted Manitoba fee schedule is 28 per cent below the average for the other Western provinces and on not Only Are we far but we Are falling further he it does not create a climate or satisfying people to Desjardins said Manitoba has More doctors than it needs and the volume of service physicians pro vide goes beyond what is he added that less Likely option for dealing with the award is to pass legislation blocking the increase for this As both sides could ask the arbitrator to clarify Points in his or the matter could even end up in the minister doctors Gross on average a the Mma has said that once expenses Are the pretax income of doctors is about 60 per cent of what they japanese Bells chime to repel evils coif Linued from Page 1 easily led by stronger thousands of japanese flocked to shrines and temples to Pray for Success and Bells j to repel John Paul cheered by of Well wishers and Pil celebrated new years eve at the Jesuit orders main in downtown the roman Catholic said the citizens of where apostles Peter and Paul were have a special duty to set Christian soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev wished the american As Well As the Best for 1987 and said the superpowers must learn to coexist whether we like one an other or he said the reality of the nuclear in which countries Are increasingly rules out the Security of one to the detriment or at the expense of the Security of an president Reagan told the soviet people in a voice of America Broad cast that he is disappointed the two superpowers did not accomplish their goals in but expects More Progress to be made in nicaraguan president Daniel or Tega called 1986 a year of pain and blood for his but 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