Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 56 pages vol 122 no 38 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg Post oils de City january officials hear ring of telecommunications dollars by Randy Turner staff reporter your cars stuck in a Bliz Zard just outside your Winni Peg so you Call a toll free number to get a Tow truck from the garage at the end of the who takes the Call an operator in sunny of a Mississauga resident gets a inside Story just Call 1800manitoba a10 parking ticket and wants to pay by who on the other end of the line could be a Winnipeg University Stu Welcome to the world of telecoms an Industry Worth Bil Lions of dollars annually and last Manitoba landed 710 jobs in the telecommunications and telemarketing firms like uni Canadian Canada Post and integrated messaging have made commitments to establish Call centres in the and provincial and City officials predict Manitoba will lure another new telemarketing and Tele communications jobs in the next theres a lot of wealth to be Gen we want some of that in win said Greg a spokes Man for the provinces Trade and tourism loader said the telecommunications Industry generates billion in Revenue in the but Only Marc free press Archambault left says Tiger has added a sparkle to the life of Pirt and other residents in Deer Lodge patients can talk to the animals when everyone else just won 9t listen by Carreen Maloney staff reporter when grandpa Barry was admitted to Deer Lodge Centre last year with two amputated it was Tiger the cat who helped him a senior citizen himself at 16 is one of the newest residents of Ward i just had to accept is said Barry who lost his legs to diabetes and suffers left Side paralysis from a its very Nice to have Tiger jump up on the i look Down and Hes got his motor Tiger moved into the geriatric personal care Home in october on a trial basis when his original owners no longer could care for head nurse Stella Archambault said the cat has added a sparkle to most of the residents using animals to help people in a healthcare setting has come to be known As pet first used on an experimental basis in the it is now being recognized As a valuable therapeutic Many personal care Homes in Manitoba Are starting to allow Archambault theres a she elderly people May interact better with sometimes they cant Tell us but they can talk to the Pirts 21yearold granddaughter Debbie Scott raised Tiger until she went away to University in her Bob and cared for him until this when Bob moved on to the University of North Dakota Campus in grand Forks to study for his pets Arent allowed another Ward George recently got a he said the baby Bird lifted his its something in the room that tigers three month trial period As a Ward therapist is up at the end of this but Archambault said she Doest anticipate any problems with him staying there is even talk that a cat run might be built outside the Centre for Tiger this top mall will pay top taxes top properties face hefty hike assessed values of top 10 commercial properties in Winnipeg Polo up from vital up from 1 Portage up from Kildonan up from Eaton million up from Garden City up from Grant up from uni City up from the Bay Down from Eaton Down from source City of commercial reassessment scheme raises values by Dan Lett cily Hall reporter Polo Parks prize for winning the distinction of being Winni pegs mos valuable retail commercial property will be a million increase in property taxes this under a new system of estimating commercial property the City judged Polo Park to be Worth More than up 170 per cent from million in the increase triggered a 125per cent increase in bringing the total tax Bill for the James mall to million a City assessor Bob Brown said the new system that judges a property value based on its income triggered the hefty increase in taxes charged to Cadillac owner of Polo the City calculated value based on the depreciated Cost of the he numerous court challenges to the commercial property tax How inside Story fewer appeals expected a10 forced the City to repay Mil Lions of dollars in municipal and school taxes for assessments that were too Brown by using the income which judges a property value on the amount of Money it earns for its the City now has a much bet Ter idea of which properties Are the most he in contrast to Polo some older downtown stores such As Eaton and the Bay saw decreases in value and subsequent reductions in property Brown the Bay downtown stores assessed value dropped to Mil lion from for a tax reduction of 37 per Eaton Down town store is now assessed at Down from for a tax Cut of 30 per older stores have less retail space billion in Canada proof of the potential for expansion in they even Small Rural towns like Russell can compete with Toronto and Van Couver for Calls to the Canadian automobile associations Tollfree currently serviced by operators near will be rerouted at the Border to dispatch offices Here starting and representatives from the Manitoba Telephone the province and Winnipeg 2000 said last week they have been courting dozens of firms including Fortune 500 companies and Hope to final ize deals on two Call centres within a insurers fought suspect firms would pay after death police reporter a Man being investigated in the deaths of his a sister and possibly a third woman sued in order to collect on his Sis ters insurance court documents obtained by the free press yesterday show two insurance companies believed they should not have to pay some to Mohamed Khan follow ing the september 1990 discovery of his sister Bibi khans body in a Freezer in the basement of their Al Fred Avenue the documents also quote Bibi khans doctor As saying he had in formation from a very reliable source that Mohamed and his sister were not blood Mohamed had said Bibi was his the documents do not detail the doctors information and the physician named in the documents no longer practises in police sources say Khan is being investigated in the death of and the death of his Sureta who was found dead tues Day in a Bathtub in their autopsies on both women failed to determine a cause of police Are also attempting to con firm reports that Khan had another wife who died in the Philippines Dur ing the the court documents obtained yesterday by the free press were filed by greatest life Assurance and tra Samerica life insurance of Canada in response to a civil claim filed by Khan that the companies were refusing to pay out Worth of life insurance he held on Bibis company representatives stated in the documents they refused to pay out the policies taken out in 1989 and 1990 because they believed Bibi committed Mak ing them sources said tra Samerica eventually settled out of court with who dropped his suit in june sources said tra Samerica paid Khan of the poli Khan also held Worth of insurance with greatest life but it is not Clear whether he received any funds from two other insurance companies that had insured Sureta khans life Are awaiting results of the investigation into her Industry sources said Mohamed Khan took out Worth of life insurance on his wife with Wawanesa and Worth of insurance with London at the same Khan insured the mortgage on his Alfred Avenue Home which was refinanced this year with London making the company liable for paying the entire mortgage if Sureta City police flatly refused to discuss the revelations in the documents or discuss any other details of the saying the intense publicity surrounding it is damaging their a total of 18 including the departments entire homicide has been assigned to investigate the two deaths and attempt to confirm the police police continued to search khans Alfred Avenue Home for the fourth consecutive Day police said the search May conclude police sources said the investigation has been complicated by the fact both dead women were from an other country the third woman was reportedly from the Philippines and died today and More wasted storage a condition that reduces ability to earn Brown he said that despite the huge in creases in value for some proper none of the mall owners has indicated a great Deal of opposition to the cites Cadillac Fairview officials could not be reached for comment yester the income approach is generally Well regarded by the private real estate Dennis a private residential and commercial property said the income approach is by far better than the former depreciated Cost Browaty said even in the Case of Polo where there has been an extraordinary increase in the income approach seems Browaty noted Cadillac Fairview sold a half interest in Polo Park for million in indicating what it might Trade for on the open mar quote of the year i thought Nancy was loved by Brenda Kerrigan cant believe her figure skating Champion Nancy was the victim of a brutal details on Page c1 the weather today mainly High Low tonight wind tomorrow Cloudy 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