Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba If Fps info 1 i Driedger wont quit on Call for meeting Winnipeg free october 1989 9 the Federal government has rejected Manitoba demand for a National meeting of transportation ministers to debate cuts to via rail Canada the proposed Cut is also being attacked by a railway employees which is using a Job Security clause in its collective agreement to try to overturn the Manitoba transportation minister Albert Driedger said yesterday he still Hopes that other provinces will join Manitoba to persuade Federal transport minister Benoit Bouchard to change his mind and hold a National in the he said he will meet Bouchard privately on 22 to Lay out Manitoba objections to the i suspect he Bouchard feels that the decision is made and he will try to defend Driedger said he does not know Johns College the University of Manitoba reason and religious Faith a Public lecture by Basil Mitchell lately professor of the philosophy of Oxford who has written widely on the relationship Between mor and religious Cross common room Johns College october 19 this lecture is organized by Johns College with assistance from the distinguished visiting lectureship committee of the University of Manitoba How effective the meeting will and said a joint meeting of Provin Cial transport ministers would be More Likely to wring concessions from but he said other provinces Are still assessing their course of a Driedger said he has also asked to appear before the commons transportation committee to oppose the and he said groups lobbying against the cuts Are to meet next week to finish drafting a joint sub Mission to the the meet ing will include Union and business representatives As Well As the provincial he Driedger said it has yet to be decided if representatives of the other groups will accompany him to Ottawa to appear before the com Bouchard announced 4 that he plans to Cut via rail eliminating jobs across including 224 in the plan Calls for elimination of 18 of via rails 38 reducing of Tawas subsidies to the passenger rail system by billion Over the next five nip transportation critic John Lohman Dauphin said Premier Gary Filmon has to raise the Issue directly with prime minis Ter particularly in Light of reports quoting Mulroney As saying the government is trying to get rid of via Mulroney was quoted As making the remark during his visit to Singa pore this in Mulroney has said the Federal cuts will save via the Union is hoping to save via rail with clause under employ ment which prohibits or organizational change that results in employees with four or More years of service being Laid said Union Leader Al via rail has interpreted the clause to mean that employees with More than four years service must be compensated unless they Are relocated or found other but the Union says the clause was meant to maintain via rail ser we want the trains to keep we want to provide a ser said regional vice president of the Canadian brother Hood of transport and Gen eral Cerilli said the Union plans to take the disagreement to jul w o for shots at inquiry by Dan Lett and David Roberts Manitoba native leaders and one mayoral candidate have condemned statements by Frank Syms that the aboriginal Justice inquiry is an Academy award production that unfairly paints Manitoban As its racism of the worst Assembly of Manitoba chiefs Leader Philip Fontaine said of Syms com its cheap and bloody running for mayor in the 25 civic election and former chairman of the Manitoba liquor control said the inquiry has allowed native people to make unsubstantiated claims about Rac which Only succeeded in maligning Syms said he holds mayor Bill Norrie responsible for not dealing personally with problems inside the october 18 estimated Jackpot Manitoba making Good things happen Good planets Are hard to find the 3rd in a series of Public forums on our environment the state of recycling in Winnipeg and Manitoba by Rod recycling 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were not in keep ing with the responsibilities of a candidate for i think it was a redneck com Pompano i dont think Syms is much of a candidate if he talks like although Syms accused the inquiry of being a forum for unsubstantiated Pompano said in it was Syms who was making a lot of unsubstantiated Norrie has continued to refuse comment about Syms Nick a perennial mayoral issued a state ment yesterday condemning Syms for attacking the inquiry just to get at its reverse racism of the worst said who is making his third bid for its incomprehensible and inconceivable that he would say those spokesmen for 48 United Church congregations in Winnipeg have called for cooler Heads and patience following criticism of the the aboriginal Justice inquiry is exposing Many longstanding officials of the Church Winnipeg presbytery said yester issuing a plea for Calm amid what they described As a time of severe racial tension in our the spokesmen said the inquiry must finish its were concerned about the Public John Badertscher of the presbytery social affairs commit tee we heard people we want the inquiry to wind Bill Hickerson we think to do that would be More women on Council urged by Janet Mcfarland the involvement of women in civic politics has been the co chairman of a group promoting women in politics said Marilyn co chairman of winning said women names will appear on 10of 27 ballots for councillor in the 25 civic but she would still like to see there Are 244 candidates running for councillor and school Letts said 72 of or less than 30 per Are it Doest mean that men Arent any Letts but the experience of women and men All go into what makes our its not she said there have been so few women on City Council that former lieutenant governor Pearl Mcgoni Gal is still remembered by the Public As one of the key women in Council even though she has been away from the Job for Many winning women is a committee founded through the social planning Council of the Junior league and the Council of committee members took part in a presentation at City Hall yesterday to celebrate the declaration of Tomor Row As winning women Active the sky news hour team an experienced Force committed to keeping you were working hard to bring you news that hits Home ;