Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba T v s o e m e i vol 120 no 303 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press weekly Home delivery in outside City october hunger finds a new stalking farm hunger is becoming a widespread problem in Rural Manitoba but residents see few solutions and Little a new Survey by Winnipeg Harvest neighbors dont turn to each other for help any the Survey most Rural respondents did not agree that turning to their neighbors was a viable the Survey Many Felt that Pride and dignity would prevent them from going to their As Well As the knowledge that their neighbors in All likelihood May be in the same situation As they Winnipeg Harvest executive director David Northcott said he was surprised by the Northcott said 60 per cent of respondents said there is a need for a food Bank in their adding they said hunger is a year round there has been the traditional View that neighbors help neighbors in the country but that not always True any Northcott there Are 14 food Banks in Rural Northcott Rural respondents said they Felt that their local Community offered Little support because their tax base was too Small to draw on for financial town councils offered Little the Survey and when they it was bound up with red tape and lengthy the results were among preliminary findings released by Winnipeg Northcott said More detailed analysis would be released when it is Northcott said the based on 110 was administered by area labor councils who questioned respondents at shopping plazas across the Survey respondents cited Canadas sick Economy and a Lack of jobs As the key reasons behind poverty in their Northcott hits a18 in shaking hands with my says unidentified in tin collecting unemployment Canadian Dollar slips below 80 cents us rate jump fails to beef up Buck Canadian press Ottawa the biggest interest rate Rise in at least 60 years failed yesterday to stabilize a Canadian Dollar battered by uncertainty Over the outcome of the 26 constitutional the Dollar closed under 80 cents us for the first time in 4 years hitting cents a drop that will put even More up Ward pressure on interest rates next the currency tumbled As Low As Low As cents us during trading despite a massive two Point jump in consumer and business interest rates i guess two percentage Points want said Ted senior economist at Burns Fry investment dealers in the slide in the Dollar yesterday was Only halted by signals that interest rates will jump again next much two thirds of a percentage Point based on trading Carmichael said the rising rates will further delay economic the Economy is in the process of stalling out again and now we have added this negative Shock through the higher interest Carmichael said he doubts that Pierre Trudeau passionate Appeal thursday for a no vote had a special Impact on the its just More of the he he said foreign investors Are worried that the no Side May carry the Trudeau wit slashes yes Side a3 communicate students learn to talk by Aldo Santin education reporter h Jeff Debooy Winnipeg free press Tarn Truo Jig and Ryan Colyer know about its a common refrain heard in the safety of school hallways and teachers teachers and students insulting each but students and teachers say that honesty can transform a school year from eight months of hell at least a learning Ryan Colyer said he spent one year trying to avoid one while the teacher was trying to have him transferred out of the a Grade 12 student at Dakota said the disagreement stemmed from a series of it turned out he thought i meant something when i meant something else and i thought he meant something when it was completely Colyer Robb Bend said Conyers situation could have been avoided if he and the teacher had if a kid wants out of my i would want an Opportunity to find out said Vic principal at Bend said he gets several requests each from students who want to switch or drop a he wont comply with the request until students make an attempt to talk to their John Mic Harchyshyn said his 20 years of teaching have shown that the ingredients of a successful adult relationship can have disastrous consequences in a school adult humor int always pleasant and sometimes students will say that when Ive used it on that Treyve Felt attacked by said who teaches at Gordon Bell High Mic Harchyshyn said he knows his be when i want to talk to i always sit Down so were at the same Mic Harchyshyn Tarn said students often wonder if an older siblings or influence How a teacher behaves with i had a teacher who was really hard on me and i thought it was my older Brothers a Dakota collegiate at the end of the year she told me she just wanted me to do its to Cut jobs by 1995 phone firm girds for Competition by Donald Campbell legislative Manitoba Telephone system will Cut jobs by 1995 and could be forced to hike local rates by As much As 33 per cent Over the next four its president of Pedde con firmed yesterday the moves Are de signed to help its reduce its debt and become competitive enough to survive in the telecommunications Industry of the Pedde says that by the end of executive and senior management which employs about will have been reduced by 25 per while Middle and Junior management will have Beert reduced by eight per the fearing a loss of Revenue from Lon distance Competition of As much As million a wants to lower its debt toe Unity ratio to 7030 from its current level of Pedde to the extent there is a greater risk to our Revenue we Are preoccupied by our he said in reference to Long distance compete Pedde said its trimmed 210 jobs in the first year of its downsizing in 1991 and Hopes to Cut up to 250 positions this it is targeting a fur ther 200 jobs a year in and we Are doing it by doing it nobody has been Hurt by Pedde in addition to cutting its is also looking at its Revenue pro the corporation filed an exhibit before the Public utilities Board this week warning it May need to raise Basic local rates by 33 per cent by 1996 with annual Pedde stressed the exhibit did not mean the rate hikes would be its is currently before the pub its facts some facts and figures about Manitoba Telephone system 1 4 total number employees april salaries and wages million debt charges million total Revenue total expenses number of Dally Long distance palls Gordon free press asking for a three percent rate hike for the next opposition Leader Gary doer said the Job losses and higher rates Are the direct result of deregulation of the Lon distance phone Market and impending Competition from United communications which has won the right to compete in the lucrative transnational Long distance were losing jobs and there going to Central Canada where United is doer Consumers Are getting hit with higher rates but big business like peddles former employer Rich Ardson greenshields is getting a rate t o a quote of the Day Pythagoras fan Early mathematician was an angry old but two and two still equal former prime minister Pierre Trudeau responds to a suggestion he an angry old Man with a tired a the weather Al mainly w is m 7q2 pm mar 3 j22 inside Annanders books Bridge i classified d5 deaths see big Brothers and in jets Section of mondays paper ;