Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba V e Ini in m m i i tit or vol no 295 publications mail registration 0286 free press weekly Home delivery in outside City september 1992 vote anything can happen in referendum canadians flock to no Banner by Gerald flood staff reporter canadians Are flocking to the no Campaign and three provinces would reject the Charlottetown agreement if the referendum were held an Angus press poll has prime minister Mulroney has said rejection of the constitutional agree ment by a single province would kill but the poll warns voters Are so volatile that anything can happen Between now and the release yesterday of a Royal Bank analysis is Likely to add to the the 47page analysis said the breakup of Canada would Cost each Canadian As much As a put More people out of work and cause million people to move to the United the 2224 poll found support in Manitoba and Saskatchewan for the yes Side has fallen to 41 per cent from 60 per cent while opposition climbed to 40 per cent from 25 per cent a month local results Are in line with Cana Dwaide findings showing the yes Side lost 16 percentage Points in the past slipping to 42 per cent from 58 per no support Rose to 41 per cent from 25 per in both Alberta and the no Side currently is on top with 50 per cent of decided voters compared to 34 per cent who would say in Quebec the undecided group has grown four Points to 17 per but the no forces with 45 per cent have the Lead Over yes forces with 38 per the result is a reversal of results a month the poll of adults with a fur ther 428 sampled in found the no Side now has the with twice As Many no supporters As yes supporters saying they had been influenced by the respective Winnipeg nurse Margaret Norquay said she agrees with one can the phone numbers for information Are just out she i think a lot of people Are waiting for information and most of them prob ably wont go get it until it 26 is Glass Fabricator Brad Kushnier said his mind was made up Long i will vote no he if we give them what they want want More next Auto parts maker Pat Banayos was equally i will vote he yes will unite the no will Divide the that is when the referendum yes will other poll findings q the electorate is profoundly volatile with Only 45 per cent of de winning return Angela Chalmers arrived Home to a heros Welcome left and other Chalmers won a Bronze when she was greeted at the Airport by her medal in the race at the olympics a20 russians begging for better weigh by Carey Cox news service Moscow Organiza Tion May soon have More members than the communist party Ever did its russian first club for overweight More than half of russian 150 Mil lion people Are Accord ing to the russian Institute of nutria that Why Maria founder and director of the three week old has been bombarded with Calls from All Over the former soviet Union asking How people can she is she is also flabbergasted at the colossal response a tiny article buried in a Small mos cow newspaper has we Haven advertised but soon we will have More members than the communist party Ever she the communists had 20 million members at their life for the portly in Russia is tougher than it is for their counterparts in Many other Slobodskaya and her friends blame communism and its Central plan Ning for some of their communist bureaucrats dictated that most doorways be a Sli Verish 66 centimetres Many of Slobod Kayas overweight acquaintances literally cant get through the door Way into her they talk in the talk to old fat russians and youll find that what terrifies each of them is what will happen to them when they she the govern ment makes All the and All one we fat people get in a plastic clothes Are an enormous Large sizes simply Arent the club is now hiring the membership application asks not Only a persons but also if he or she wants to most say but Only if no Skinny folks can watch and tots ordeal Start of legend frantic search Over As boy discovered in Bush police reporter m were calling it the legend of the mad trapper Here and As with All Good Small town folks we rent letting the facts of Dean Bradley Story get in the crying hell he want said one bearded searcher who helped locate the 23monthold toddler yesterday a frantic search began the previous Day when Young Dean decided to go for a walk in the Long matter of he had a Muskrat by the Tail when we found aint that fellas said the bearded not but none of the dozen searchers assembled at Deans grandfathers House for a few celebratory Beers yesterday afternoon was going to quibble with the whatever i think its just incredible that weve got him said Deans As he dad Albert Happy now cradled the youngster aside from a few scratches on Deans face and some cuts on his suffered after he lost his Albert Bradley said his boy was none the worse for the 21 hours he spent in the Hes kind of but that about he in Deans Uncle said the boys Only complaint when searchers found him sitting in the Bush about two Kilometres from his Home was that he was he kept saying he wanted some said Danny Deans said the toddlers ordeal in the swam like Brush that surrounds Middlebro tiny Community in the Southeastern tip of Manitoba go Down in the towns in going to Call him the mad trapper for the rest of the Day just so i can make sure it Ralph Bradley worry about anyone forgetting about his grandsons adventure anytime certainly not the who rented a helicopter with infrared brought in a police dog from Gimli and tied up several dozen men in the cited voters saying they Are very certain they wont change their translated into it Means Only 17 per cent of both yes and no Camps Are q a turnout of 75 per cent of Vot ers can be expected q in Quebec the highly educated and most affluent Are most committed to the poll is accurate plus or minus per cent 19 times out of Bank puts Price on a13 americans get shortchanged retail gouging of tourists hurts province by Larry Kusch staff reporter the Filmon government is spending hundreds of thou Sands of dollars trying to at tract american tourists Only to have some Manitoba merchants Short change visitors who pay for goods Here with american Canadian Banks Are paying a 20 cent Premium for but Many Manitoba convenience stores and Gas bars Are giving american visitors half that amount or according to tourists and a Survey conducted by the free it Doest seem said Ross Wegener of grand Wegener said he received Only Par for his american Money at both a City restaurant and convenience store while on a recent trip to Exchange rates the number of americans travel Ling to Manitoba fell by 10 per cent last and merchants gouging visitors on Exchange rates wont reverse this govern ment and business officials its potentially very Detri mental to the american said Hubert director of marketing with travel Sandy president of the Winnipeg chamber of described the Exchange Ripoff As shortsighted and harmful to Mani Toba stories of unfair Exchange rate practices Are not Darren and Sara of grand warily inquired about Exchange rates before filling up at a Pembina Highway service station last we stopped at one Gas and they were going to give us five per cent Darren said in an interview outside the Canadian duty free shop in so we didst go we went to another one and got 13 per a free press posing As an american tourist on sunday and monday of this received Simi Lar treatment at the hands of several retailers along South Pembina High Way and in two towns along High Way of 14 merchants Only one paid As much As 20 per cent when giving Back change on american most paid 10 per cent and some gave that Only when when presented with an Ameri can five Dollar Bill for in a cashier at a self serve station on Pembina Highway handed a re Porter a saying Twenty five cents is your have a Good in addition to undercutting Mani Tobas promotional Mesman said shortchanging american tourists also runs counter to Federal pro Vinci Al efforts to lure americans to Manitoba by rebating sales taxes to them at the but not All tourists interviewed at the Border last weekend said they received unfair Exchange Carroll Keller of said she received 20 per cent Exchange at a Bonanza restaurant in while an Alabama family said they also received 20 per cent at the gift shop at the Assiniboine Park and Greg Glur of recalled receiving 15 to 17 per cent Exchange at Northern images in the Portage place Border lineups blasted a20 quote of the Day though in provincial court judge Ron explaining Why he enrolled in tap dancing details Page inside Ann i crossword j Stock listings Only 3 Days left see the win for life again and on Page a9 of today paper ;