Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 2, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada at a glance november a3 Dollar hits new High us Canadian Dollar jumped a fifth of a cent yesterday to close at a 13year finance minister Don Mazankowski said the loonies recent Rise is evidence his eco nomic policies Are working at least in the eyes of foreign i think what the strength of the Dollar Indi Cates is the inherent strength of the Canadian Mazankowski told the but opposition mis pointed out the econ omy shrank in August and again appealed for a lower Dollar to help give Canadian Export ers an Edge on foreign Liberal my Shelia Copps said the steel Industry in her Riding is being killed by the High which is being buoyed because Canadian interest rates re main higher than Why is he pursuing the policies of a government that Are costing canadians thou Sands and thousands of jobs Copps earlier statistics Canada re leased a Survey that suggested manufacturers were a bit More optimistic in october than earlier this summer about the number of orders coming for their the Survey of about companies found 20 per cent saw their orders up from 13 per cent in july Survey and nine per cent in october and 17 per cent said the backlog of unfilled orders for goods was higher than Lewis critical of Canadas role Saskatoon children must learn can Ada is partly responsible for third world a former Canadian ambassador to the United nations told a teachers Confer ence in Saskatoon when Canadian children learn about global they must realize that it was possible for Canada with the snap of the International to raise billion to fight a War in the but we cant find pennies to save the lives of Stephen Lewis one of the realities of global education is that it identifies connections Between world he thousands of children under age five in the developing world die daily from preventable diseases because their countries cant afford to buy a simple vaccination that costs per said a former Federal Leader of the new every Day children go Blind in the absence of a supplement costing roughly 10 cents a hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries Are dying of starvation so that debts can be Lewis Why is Canada forcing the payment of Loans and debts of countries whose payments Are killing children teachers must not recoil from addressing the realities of these global he vital Job who says there never there when you need them a doing their duty this week As they give oxygen to an police Constable and a firefighter were on hand and unidentified victim of a Gas leak in Quebec handlers tainted oysters Grosbie freder1cton the northeastern new Brunswick oysters that Are believed to have made up to 150 Quebe cers sick probably we rent contaminated until after they reached local producers and Federal fisheries minister John Crosbie said yester while stores and restaurants in Quebec Are pulling the oysters off shelves and the shellfish Are still for Sale in new Brun Oyster producers said yesterday theres nothing wrong with the oysters in new Federal fisheries officers rigorously inspect so they must have gone bad after they arrived in there Are no controls Over How oysters Are and some companies May not be properly equipped to handle Hufe producers some kilograms of oysters from were pulled in Quebec Fol lowing the poisoning visiting Fredericton said he int ascribing he said it appears most Likely the oysters became contaminated during distribution rather than in the Man elects to face judge a Man who sparked one of the largest manhunt in the Kootenay re Gion of British Columbia pleaded guilty to one offence yesterday and elected trial by provincial court judge on seven other charge Lyndon became the focus of the manhunt tuesday after two men forced their Way at gunpoint through the Rukerts customs port South of this Community 485 Kilometres East of the Montana resident faces 10 including five weapons two immigration explosives and breaking and who pleaded guilty to unlawful was remanded to Riis seeks inquiry into lost tory files bribe charges tie a mountie to scheme Ottawa vanishing documents Are be coming a habit with the conservative govern ment and the nip wants a Public Deputy party Leader Nelson Riis said yester Riis was commenting in the commons after the government gave senator Pat Carney As compensation for the loss of files she kept on the free Trade talks while she was Trade the opposition is worried about a trend in which the government will destroy any Evi Dence it finds Riis he also cited As an example the disappearance of an important memo during the controversy sur rounding the immigration of iraqi Diplomat Mohamed Almashat last external affairs minister Barbara Mcdougall said an internal investigation has deter mined the Carney files were destroyed by but the opposition Doest believe the governments explanation and neither does car who said thursday from Vancouver they were destroyed on someones Riis said we saw the documents for the Almashat Case disappear mysteriously and the sensitive critical documents that would indicate what happened at the Lith hour Dur ing the free Trade negotiations have All mysteriously during a parliamentary inquiry into the Mashat the government told the opposition it could Only Supply a copy of the departmental memo that was intended to in form Joe Clark about the diplomats entry to Canada because the original could not be the opposition wanted that original to de Termine if the former external affairs minis Ter really didst see the memo As claimed be cause ministers usually initial what they ramp is looking into allegations that an associate of former conserva Tive Cabinet minister Roch Lasalle tried to so licit a bribe in 1979 to fix a government con tract and that a former mountie participated in the Liberal my Don Boudria raised the matter in the commons this citing a Csc re port that said Frank a Friend of la requested a bribe from Mcdonnell Douglas in connection with a fighter aircraft Boudria said Mcdonnell Douglas had con firmed the the matter is under review by the ramp and the government is not in a position to solicitor general Doug Lewis responded thursday in the when Boudria asked if an ramp officer from Montreal had accompanied Majeau to where the aircraft maker is head Lewis replied that an investigation is under Way and the government has nothing to say at the present Pierre a spokesman for the said yesterday the Force is reviewing All the allegations but refused to characterize the inquiry As a full fledged criminal he said the mounties Are especially inter ested in the reference to an ramp Belanger identify the who is believed to have left the he acknowledged the allegation really tarnished us and painted us in a very bad it makes the ramp look like a Cocon aspirator in a possible criminal Lee a spokesman for Mcdonnell said the company was approached in the context of a contract for the f18 fight the proposals did not meet the standards 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people when they opened fire at a minibus at Phola Park squatter a Strong hold of the Black nationalist african National Thomas takes a seat Washington Justice Clar ence Thomas took the Bench with the eight other members of the supreme court for the first time yester Day in a courtroom As he did in a private Cere Mony pledged in his judicial oath to administer Justice and do equal right to the poor and to the chief Justice William Rehnquist wished Thomas a Long and Happy Ca reer in our common iraqi scuds awol United nations accusing Iraq of a pattern of concealment and Lack of United nations inspectors reported yesterday that iraqi president sad dam Hussein is government has failed to account for 300 scud mis Siles that once were in its but the in a report de tailing their first six months of did not go so far As to charge Iraq with concealing the which proved to be Hussein most lethal weapon during the persian Gulf the report said the United nations was still awaiting a satisfactory 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