Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba O o k booze free drinks gift of sight Manitoban donate used eyeglasses for third world countries it 36 pages vol 123 no 28 publications mail registration 0286 free press get Post 60s get Post outside City 75c in Ontario weedy Homo delivery 5 05 20 Post in Winnipeg 21 Post outside City december natives arms hiring complaints spark positive movement by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter the Manitoba Assembly of chiefs has pushed a dozen National employers to give natives More jobs after it launched com plaints with the Canadian human rights com the firms including Banks and Grain Compa Nies have struck employment agreements to hire More aboriginal people and redress systemic barriers that kept natives out in the inside Story taking the Bull by the horns the Progress was sparked by an fallout assault the Assembly mounted in 1990 against 17 Feder ally regulated firms and 28 Federal departments when it grew frustrated with the Lack of move ment by businesses covered by the employment equity the act says the Canadian workforce should reflect the makeup of the country popu it was obvious that there was no attempt at making some Effort in improving the employ ment situation of our says am official Ted who was part of a Small group who gathered the employment information and filed the we noticed a straight line in the effect of the employment equity after reviewing employment data filed Annu ally by 387 the am Cherr picked 17 and filed systemic discrimination in Addi 28 Federal government departments and several of their agencies were also investigated by the slowly the victories have begun to add while about eight of the firms formally signed settlements that Lay out deadlines and action plans to break Down systemic barriers through tools such As Cross cultural the other firms quickly hired More natives before the commission came they pulled up their Fontaine but he said the Assembly efforts serve Only As a he said the groups efforts have sparked move ment by other Public image is very important to the banking Industry in said Rosa a former parole officer who was hired by the Bank of Mon Treal in an employment agreement was struck Between the am and that Bank in the Banks workplace Equality Coordie said that while a number of factors opened up the Job for her at the the amps actions were a definite she notes that other Banks have followed Ken free press Snow flyer Mark Artimowich shows Fine form at Springhill Winter Park the warm weather meant manmade Snow was necessary to cover the Hill for hundreds of skiers and snowboarders enjoying the Winter Kenaston plan in trouble cargo facility could kill underpass by Paul Samyn legislature reporter the provinces largest infrastructure initiative could be dealt a lethal blow by a study examining the possibility of a major trucking cargo facility near the the i omillion Kenaston Boule Vard underpass already besieged by now must await a review that has already sounded a warning on its the study is related to a Federal and provincial commitment to spend million to research and develop an air cargo facility on the West Side of the according to a report for the cites works and operations the review of the Airport proposal which involves the provinces transportation department could have implications for the unit says the concept of a multiuse cargo Container port has consider Able Merit if located on the Periphery of the reduction in truck traffic through the City could delay or eliminate the need for major Street rehabilitation it could have an Impact on what we eventually Terry dug chairman of the works and operations said but Duguid stands behind the Kenaston saying an underpass will be needed As Long As in rail has underpass unwanted its main line crossing Kenaston Bou Duguid said time May be the real enemy for the project As the release of tenders is More than two weeks All funding for construction under the infrastructure agreement must be completed by March 1997 while the design process must begin by it looks less Likely that the under pass can be physically completed within the confines of the Infra Structure Duguid a new chapter in the underpass controversy was opened last week with the City and railway at Odds Over in rails plans to Transfer its fort Rouge Yards to South Tuxedo to marshal freight that would require closing Shaftesbury Boule Vard North of Wilkes the dispute prompted a senior Federal official to say that if the two sides cant work out their different it Doest make much sense to push Eric the provinces infrastructure Point said he Hast received any official notification that the underpass project is in but Stefanson said even a Funda mental shift in truck traffic change the need for the As trucks represent Only one per cent of the volume at the railway youth gang swarms Hospital staff by Allison Bray staff reporter Phil free press they just came at us Bergmann seven Oaks general Hospital is beefing up Security after an Emer gency doctor and two Security guards were attacked by an armed youth gang Over the Holiday Terence said he was kicked in the face and Chest by one of about eight gang members who swarmed him and the Security guards outside the Emer gency the guards suffered numerous blows to the arms and one was left with a broken nose and Cut lip after trying to Bergmann he said two youths ran into the Busy emergency Ward just before Midnight Fri Day claiming their Friend was dying in the truck inside Story abuse abounds but attacks rare b3 Bergmann said he found a youth lying on a Back seat of the apparently quite intoxicated but otherwise not in grave Dan he i dont want to talk to a i dont want i dont want to be in a hos Bergmann he was heading Back to the Ward when the youths con fronted they came after me and youre letting him Bergmann said Security was called after the youths followed him Back to the Ward and started Yelling and arguing inside the but when Bergmann went outside again to try to Cool off the the youths became they just came at he adding one of the youths go get the were going to finish them the doctor said one of the youths who claimed to belong to the Indian posse gang a Metal pipe from the the youths ran off when they heard approaching police he police Ron Dawson said four males and two 21yearolds were arrested shortly charges of assault causing bodily uttering threats and possessing a weapon Are Dawson confirmed the suspects belong to a youth but he say which aside from increasing Security in and outside the Bergmann said there is Little the Hospital can do to guard against senseless shrimp Are a new Kettle Offish for Minneapolis Grain Exchange t o a or quote of the Day inside by John Douglas business reporter Minneapolis its More than Kilometres from Salt but the Minneapolis Grain Exchange opens most Days to the barks of traders looking for shrimp its been that Way since Jim Lindau allowed shrimp to be traded As a commodity 18 months Welcome to the says the Silver haired former gubernatorial in a room where sheaves of wheat Are carved into the Stone a Man in a Bright purple jacket stands in a pit waving contracts for pounds of headless Shellon Occide Talis More than a ten traders in a tale of survival key 84 1 by three ignited hotbed is Check ered Coats shout out bids like kids arguing in a occasionally glancing up at the electronic billboards High above the Tim polished Hardwood up right beside the three and six month prices for Are the going rates for Hack Tiger underneath beside Are the listings for White with a the contract is merchants and traders have been Selling wheat from this stately building since wheat will always be sold in but i can see the Day when the electronic Board is dominated by seafood and other Lindau when Lindau became president of the Exchange after a taste of politics and 23 years trading commodities internationally for he inherited an institution on its death be larger exchanges were sapping the Energy and Money out of the Minneapolis about three years a Fisherman from Alaska asked if we might create a futures Market for he the process of researching Samon we found researchers found that the shrimp Industry was made for the futures Market because of its volatility and the fact that no single company or group dominated the and unlike other there was no Competition anywhere in the world for shrimp the fact that Chicago tried something similar in the 1960s and failed didst Fae things were much different he advancements in aquaculture today have made shrimp As much a crop As Corn or once sceptical buyers like red lobster Are now participating and Large companies like Cargill have a Femme nest education goes global we think fast food is equivalent to nutritionally Steve Elbert and his wife Anita who live in the Well heeled Ohio suburb of would rather live next to the adult video store than see it replaced by a details on Page a4 the weather today 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