Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 27, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba T e in f o masters of Doc Oft poisonous or wonderful mushrooms test experts Eye c1 32 pages vol 122 no 295 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post h get t Post outside City 75c in on Reno Wro Kly Horra Clet Sofr s35 Evv ipo3 Tofstein Winnipeg s3 30 Way 1w of september 1994 provinces would Rule income tax in plan to kill get by John Douglas staff reporter the latest proposal to kill the hated get would see Ottawa take Complete control Over sales taxes in return for allow ing provinces a bigger share of per Sonal income and Manitoba finance minister Eric Stefanson says he likes the put Forward by would give Ottawa sole jurisdiction to Levy retail taxes and allow prov inces to make up lost Revenue by taking a bigger piece of income tax it would not change the amount of taxes paid by we see a significant amount of Merit to this kind of Ste Fanson said in an its by far the Best alternative weve seen so but we want to do some More work to really determine specifically this is the proposal for a similar concept was originally floated by Manitoba during a meet ing of finance ministers last sum Mer in the new scheme also has the qualified support of British Columbia and new Brun for Federal and Provin Cial officials have been considering a Federal proposal to set up a joint Federal provincial sales tax system As a Way of reforming the but the Federal which Calls for a joint sales tax of 10 to 12 per is being resisted by the provinces because they would be forced to make up for lost sales tax Revenue with higher income in Manitoba it would mean a 12 per cent income tax the new Ontario scheme seems to comply with a major Manitoba de Mand for alternatives to the get that they be cos Neutral to tax pay Ottawa would reduce personal income taxes by the amount it collects in a new National sales the provinces would take up the Slack through a revised personal income tax in Manitoba the provincial government would shift about million from sales taxes to personal income Karen a spokeswoman for the Canadian tax said the plan will work Only if All prov inces if that is the Treff the Likely result will be a 12 per cent National sales there would also be a Federal Flat tax of less than one per cent on provinces would then have the Power to set income tax determine what is classified As in come and what qualifies As a the provinces want More input into the whole income tax Stefanson adding such a plan would also end confusion and prob lems with the get and be easier for business to slaying suspect quiet lived with parents and Seldom spoke to anyone Sybil Redekop staff reporter the of a local car Dealership who took part in a massive search for Sarah Kelly last week were stunned yesterday to learn one of their colleagues has been charged in her we feel said Brian manager of Carroll everyone feels Robert Bliss who worked at the Dealership washing and waxing cars Over the past two was apprehended sunday by ramp in White near and charged in Kellys the body of the 13yearold Stu Dent was found last wednesday off inside Story the Pas grieves for b3 a Back Road North of the Pas follow ing a massive search involving about Community the Pas residents described Arthurston As a quiet Man who kept to himself and had few outside in he lived with his parents on the South Edge of he Seldom spoke to said that is in Stark contrast to his Bliss and Connie Arthur whom local residents de scribed As outgoing members of the Community who liked to play Golf and he was a quiet fellow who didst seem to do much of said Peter free press girl guides left form Honor guard outside Church after funeral for Sarah Kelly inset Greg who employed Arthurston last year with his refrigeration and air conditioning Busi Arthurston spent a year with Hal Strom As part of a government paid training he Arthurston drove a Maroon and Silver Chevrolet that police impounded it was not the car he was driving when police arrested him in ramp continued to withhold most details about the Case and would not release the girls cause of time of death or other information obtained from an autopsy conducted last nor would police divulge the source of the tip that led them to the discovery of the teenagers Dell Schumack said he release the reason Why Arthurston was in Saskatchewan when he was but he said Arthurston did not re Sist police yesterday announced the arrest hours before about mourners gathered in the Pas to at tend Kellys the girl was last seen alive at about a week ago while out for an afternoon in sources trash report on rwandan atrocities Rwanda a highly publicized United nations re port alleging atrocities Are being committed by the rwandan government is inaccurate and the result of Sloppy sources within the in a United nations High commis Sion for refugees report dated 8 alleges that soldiers from the Rul ing rwandan patriotic front ref have been massacring refugees who Are returning to the Doug Naira but officials from other in Agen cies Active in Rwanda said the re port was not investigated and Unher didst attempt to con firm the which were gathered from 31 refugees in Tanza before issuing the i personally spent two Days investigating their findings and was Able to discredit the said one who asked not to be the world is responding to Unher reports that have not even been properly the Unher report has been condemned by the which claims it has greatly damaged efforts to get the two million rwandans who Are in self exile in neighbouring nations Back into the by saying Rwanda is the report also appears to contradict in efforts to encourage the refugees to return the former rwandan government forces who share the refugee Camps with those who fled the civil War have reportedly been telling the primarily Hutu refugees that the ref will kill them if they they claim the killings would be in reprisal for the one million Tutsi and moderate huts who were slaughtered during the those critical of in hrs report say it has played right into the hands of the former government and dam aged the refs attempts to rebuild the the report states that ref sol Diers Are searching out and killing people in their in the swamps and at the Border it goes on to specifically allege that on 1 at the Zaza Mission in the Southeast Corner of the one of the refugees interviewed Dis mayor vows Arena hearings committee recommends group of 44 get marketing Money by Nick Martin and Stevens wild City Hall reporters mayor Susan Thompson yesterday promised Public hearings within two weeks on a site for a new and executive policy committee gave one of the bidders the nod to Access million for its design and its a whole City of Winnipeg is there will be a Public Thompson said yesterday of the promised the mayor ignored demands from the so called group of 44 Consor known As Manitoba entertain ment Complex hat Council de cide by Friday where the Arena should be the options include a site near the Winnipeg convention Centre and Cit owned land at the end of por Tage Avenue North of the tale of two Sigur Sonon 03 executive policy committee recommended yesterday that Tomor rows special meeting of Council Al Low Manitoba entertainment com plex Access to million from a private capital Pool for the design and marketing of a new the group has already budgeted million of the including for the design and costing of the Arena and for mar according to documents presented to pc and obtained by the free the City would guarantee the which would he repaid from any future Sale of the Winnipeg jets or become part of the financing for a new Thompson urged ill groups that have made Arena proposals in the past to come Forward at the hear no dates have been Well have to do what we have to group of 44 spokesman John Loewen said after the marketing luxury boxes and Premium seats has to begin immediately if the consortium is to meet a May 1 deadline for determining if an Arena keeping the Winni Peg jets he the consortium publicly unveiled detailed Arena plans for both Sites it prefers the Forks but will Market the convention Cen tre location if Council does not make a decision Loewen consortium director of develop Cam said All municipal approvals have to be in place by if we dont accomplish it by de its Hall game but fast tracking approval of the Forks site would mean the site would be exempt from both a provincial environmental assessment and a provincial review of the locations archaeological heritage a scenario that has outraged local in aboriginal and social action several councillors noted yester Day the Public is already saying it wont pay for a new Arena any the taxpayers Are saying Evelyne Reese Boniface told Jim Silver of the Andiarena coalition thin warned that Momen Tum is building through the Consor tums pressure cooker deadlines to Force governments to choose a site quote of the Day five dollars a Day Doest quite make Superior coun judge Lance Ito comments on county jury pay As the Simpson trial gets under Tea me Ween of today variable 30 us tonight 0oca Piri Mill my Maat pm covered a 10metre by 30metre building that was full of bodies of victims whose hands were tied be Hind their backs before they were journalists and Cana Dian military personnel who exam ined the site last week found no Evi Dence of the massacre the report de in in sources say a massacre did take place in but it is thought that members of the for Mer rwandan government carried out the killings several months inside diversions far Side and Ann in sports ;