Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 25, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus outside looking Europe outsiders fear for the future sports jets ending suspense jets Are expected to end the suspense today by naming Bob Murdoch As the clubs ninth head coach since 1979 51 Tempo Coats for Export made in Winnipeg Coats worn around the world 31 rain tonight 5 Cloud tomorrow 13 May 1989 vol117n0173 Sun rises sets Moon sets real outs me Winnipeg Home delivery 9570550 9562330 second Oass Mai re Ostran number 0286 rumours Tumble Dollar interest rate jump expected Toronto up rumours that finance minister Michael Wilson had resigned Over reports of More budget combined with a Sud Denly Strong sent the Canadian Dollar plunging yester As a the Bank of Canada is expected to bump up its trendsetting interest rate ending a three Eekong the Canadian Dollar closed at cents Down 61100ths from its Toronto closing when it lost 59100ths of a the Bank of Canada is expected to raise the current per cent Bank rate by As much As on tenth of a percentage Point to in its attempts to Shore up the sagging rumours were circulating in the highly sensitive world of foreign Exchange trading that Wilson had resigned following a news report that another Federal budget leak had occurred before the budget was re leased last in Wilson brushed aside Calls to but he admitted yesterday he knew before he read an abbreviated budget speech april 27 to the commons that details had been leaked Days earlier to a major insurance decision defended in the Wilson defended his decision to say nothing for Al most a month about the leak to the Mutual life Assurance of Cana to howls from opposition Wilson insisted he was constrained because of an ramp investigation from making Public that information even though prime minister Mulroney had promised that same Day that any new information would be brought to nip critic lome Nystrom scoffed at Wilsons claim that the govern ment was right to keep the Mutual life leak under wraps because unlike a leak to global television budget details had not reached the Public the whose president told Wilsons office in a Telephone Call april 27 his firm had Access to the has More than employees and billion in Nystrom youre not dealing Here with just an Ordinary Crank Call or an Ordi nary person calling in but the president of a very very respectable Canadian what youre seeing Here is the government trying to cover up a budget leak that they were certainly see Turner Page 4 fice press Ann Landers 34 an were 21 Bridge 36 business 26 classified 40 56 crossword 36 deaths 40 tetters 6 Intertas Ament 37 focus 7 Horoscope 36 us tote Puzzle 44 movies 39 sports 61 sports record stocks 27 Tempo 31 21 winning numbw9 40 number 25 tact Hyp winning number u a Stonewall Man is about to carve a slice of Canadian Legal history after being ordered to appear in court on charges of Selling cheese fake ramp have arrested a Man for importing kilograms of imitation Mozzarella cheese with Oil and fat and passing it off As real the cheese substitute costs about 20 per cent less than real Archie president of the Manitoba Dairy said the kilograms of mock cheese is Worth an estimated in lost milk he ramp Wyman Sangster said the Man has been Given a notice to appear in Stonewall provincial court monday on charges under the Manitoba Dairy Job Agency folds owing million wet and Windy baseball fan Reiner Dorn used his umbrella to keep Dryad to shelter himself from the rain As he joined other fans who took in the Pacific coast league baseball game Between the Edmonton trappers and the Portland beavers at the Winnipeg stadium last Edmonton won 107 in the second game of a two game series played in Stonewall Man first to be charged under Law against counterfeit cheese act of possessing for the purposes of Selling imitation cheese and Selling imitation once this charge has been it will be the first time in Sangster noting the act was created to protect the provinces Dairy he said the imitation cheese was imported from Wisconsin Between 8 and april but added some of it has been sold to out province Bruce said the importing of fake cheese can Cost the makers of real cheese in the province a that great they caught this Guy with but theres probably a lot More out there that Are going he police have refused to release other details of the by Alexandra Paul and Martin Cash Ottawa has pulled the plug on a National business development and Job creation leaving hundreds of clients in the cold and the repayment of an million Feder Al loan i Tiem Canada closed its five offices across Canada a memo dated May 24 and signed by Tiem Board chairman Chris Scott and president Stuart said due to the Lack of working Capi resulting from employ ment and immigration Canadas decision not to extend items contracts we Are unable to continue items Winnipeg general manager Robert Hitesman was unavailable for Tiem Stuart said from Mississauga that a statement would be made tomorrow and suggested that it was business As usual in Winni Peg but Peter executive director for the employment depart ments jobs strategy con firmed his office has stopped funding items after an evaluation of its three year performance and an see Job Page 4 Mccrae pledges to Cut backlog by Gerald flood Manitoba court backlog is to be Cut to three months from 12 under a reorganization of the criminal jus Tice unveiled by Justice minister Jim Mccrae the traditional Rule is that jus Tice delayed is Justice he slow Justice is no Mccrae said the which has been an open secret for Aims to address criticism of the divisions management and re porting while at the same time eliminate a backlog resulting in trial dates being set today for next simultaneous the backlog is to be Cut by creat ing two prosecution systems that will operate simultaneously in the department beginning july he under temporary a team of Crown attorneys is being created whose Job it will be to Deal with All backlogged cases by the end of the the permanent system will Start work As if the backlog did not setting trials to begin within three Mccrae said while the two sys tems operating at one time will create heavy workloads in the Short the Load will be reduced when the temporary teams Job is com the Load also wont be As great As might be expected Given that no new person Ell is being because of the reorganization within the department resulting from a consultants he said an important feature of the reorganization will be the assignment of More Crown attorneys to intake court so that decisions about the number and degree of charges can be made at the front see Tim saving Page 4 civic seminar to Battle drop in staff morale by Radha Krishnan Thampi a moral boosting seminar for about 100 senior civic Parks and recreation employees was scheduled for a City hotel this sources the 90minute seminar ostensibly was to boost senior employees Sag Ging to plead with them to pull together in a difficult time and to warn them against leaking information to the the sources they said the scheduled to Start at 3 at the Garden City also was to prepare senior staff for impending changes stemming from a but reportedly reorganization of the problem plagued depart see mismanagement Page 4 Kenora up to Battle residents fear major loss of tourist jobs Tran Canada Highway bypass around Kenora Paul freepres5 by Randy Turner Winnipeg free press Kenora businessmen Here Are gearing up for a Battle against a bypass project they say will devas Tate this tourist at a news conference Here yester the Kenora and District Cham Ber of Commerce called on residents to protest the which involves rerouting the Tran Canada High Way North of the Kenora Keewatin we cannot tolerate and we will not tolerate a chamber president Patricia Cox Allan a longtime opponent of the bypass told businessmen to do everything they can to per Suade provincial politicians to alter the use every Avenue Luby adding he has grown frustrated with the Lack of response from provincial politicians to the economic dangers posed by the efforts to persuade ministry of transport officials to change the bypass plans have been he 260 jobs lost smouldering opposition to the bypass ignited last week with the release of a task Force study that predicted the project would Cost the District million annually in lost the 85page funded largely by the ministry of concluded the District also would lose More than 260 jobs if the project is completed As planned by the fall of the reports findings have shocked Many townspeople who originally requested the bypass More than 10 years ago to rid the downtown of heavy truck while they had always favored the most people said they did not realize the design rerouted the Highway so that travellers would have to Stop and turn off the bypass to get into there is no Kenora Hotelier Richard Beckett Treyve moved the Tran Canada Many townspeople Only realized the potential Impact the project would have on the area after the release of the every single family in the area is going to be touched by the economic Impact of Beckett noting the tourist Trade is a major economic Force in the the report noted that the loss in Revenue would be about equal to 10 see bypass Page 4 i i ;