Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada Winnipeg free press a o december Canada at a glance North enjoys mine Boom from the Canadian press eral exploration is Boom ing in where More than claims have been staked in recent says Newfoundland mines minister Rex Diamond Fields resources has discovered Copper and Cobalt and staked Mineral claims in the Voisey Bay area Gibbons girl asphyxiated Toronto investigators say a severely disabled girl found dead in her family Bathtub on monday died of As but Rick Cruickshank said yesterday that police still dont know the exact cause of Audrey Cohens in part because they have yet to talk with the parents of the nine Salmon Cut next Corner the commercial Salmon fish Ery off Labrador could be sharply Cut in the new warns a group representing East coast Salmon the Salmon id Council of Newfoundland and Labrador said Salmon stocks in the area Are at an Al time Low and the group expects Ottawa to Cut quotas when it releases its 1995 Salmon management plan next Wolf Hunt decried Ottawa a Yukon government plan to reduce the number of Timber wolves will have to get past Bill coordinator for an Otta abased group called friends of the is on his Way North with a plan to thwart the governments efforts to control the theres no reason for this Hunt to take he child recovering Hamilton a five year old Kitchener recovering in a Hamilton Hospital from the so called flesh eating Dis is playing with Christ Mas toys while being pre pared for operations to repair the surface of his the child had a Large strip of tissue removed from his lower Abdomen 18 after contracting Necro timing let it Snow Calgary an Airdrie woman eight grandchildren we rent going to let a Brown Christmas spoil her All Janny Marriott wanted for Christmas was so after mild Days melted the Snow around about 20 kilo metres North of her Gran kids got their when Christmas morning Marriott opened her blinds to see everything cloaked in Snow which they had scraped off the local rink and hauled in with via thanks couple via rail has thanked a couple who opened their Home to 407 Vic Tims of a train fire with roundtrip tickets to any where in a Montrea bound train on 20 caught fire at the foot of Doug and Judy Daviss property after it hit a piece of scrap the couple welcomed passengers with Blan clothes and hot Coffee about 50 were Christmas cramps Christmas dinner did not sit Well with fourteen guests who became sick after feasting at the dignified chateau Monte hello two elderly patrons were treated in Hospital for Stom Ach the others at a Community health health and hotel officials were at a loss to explain the anguish on the Atlantic Canadian theres More bad news for the East coast thousands of fisheries workers in Newfoundland Are be ing thrown off a Federal compensation program this and Fisher men expect big cuts in the com Mercial Salmon fishery off Labra Dor because of collapsing a Liberal Bac Bencher in the Newfoundland legislature said that about 130 Plant workers on the provinces Southeast coast have Al ready received notices that be off the program after Danny Dumaresque said that while the Plant workers Are losing area fishermen will keep receiving funding because they fall under a different part of the five year Federal compensation about newfound Landers qualified for the bailout program when Federal fisheries minister Brian Tobin announced it in but the number of recipients has since been Cut As eligibility rules by newfound Landers will be Cut off Federal As but Dumaresque warned that the new rules could also throw an additional off the pro who represents the Riding of Eagle said the Federal government is simply try ing to freeze Plant workers out of fisheries benefits to save this criteria has been changed since Tobin announced it and it appears to me its been changed with the intention of freezing people out because seven times As Many Plant workers exist than he we have to get it changed be cause its just Funda mentally unfair for people with 15 and 20 years in the fishery to be Frozen out of this in Corner a group representing Salmon fishermen warned yesterday of looming cuts to the commercial Salmon fishery off the Salmon id Council of new Wells fears the fallout from social Reform plan by Ian Bailey Canadian press Plant workers Are losing but fishermen Are found land and Labrador said Salmon stocks in the area Are at an Al time Low and theres International pressure to shut Down the Council president Tom Humphreys said he expects Ottawa to Cut close the fishery Al together when it releases its 1995 Salmon management plan in the next few the government has very few alternatives at this Humphreys Labrador is the Only Atlantic re Gion where commercial Salmon fishing still exists because Many of the areas 200 Salmon fishermen refused a 1992 buyout offer from Ottawa to give up their Humphreys said he expects most Labrador fishermen would support a new buyout of their licences As an option to conserve the Salmon fishery in Newfoundland was closed in and there has been no commercial Salmon fishing in Nova new Brunswick and Prince Edward is land for More than a loyalty of Newfoundland Premier Clyde Wells to his Federal party social Reform crusade has its Wells agrees with the need for but says his Liberal counterparts in Ottawa must ease the Short term Impact on Canadas poorest which is heavily dependent on the unemployment insurance you just cant leave people cold to get from whats unacceptable today to whats desirable for Wells said in a yearned interview with the Canadian weve got to find a Bridge to jump across that Ottawa proposed reforms include the creation of a two tiered unemployment insurance system under which frequent users would get lower benefits and face longer qualifying that could be a blow to Rural where thousands of workers in seasonal industries like forestry and fishing scrape up enough weeks of full time work to get extended jobless benefits the rest of the Wells says he Hopes Ottawa will come up with a plan to ease the Impact of social policy but he suggested the provincial government might also act alone to help Cushion the blow on one past option has been provincially funded make work this year Newfoundland wanted Ottawa to help pay for such but the Federal government rejected the Reliance on Short term solutions is inconsistent with the direction of the social Security human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy said in a letter to newfoundlands labor As Wells looks to he seems aglow at the thought of making Tough choices that May not win him Many the liberals won their second majority government nearly 20 months promising Strong action to Cut the privatize Crown corporations and reduce Public sector pay and Wells expects even tougher challenges next school privatization of the provinces electrical Utility and a plan to change the pension plans of provincial workers and if in in this office mainly to maintain my political my obligation is to resign said the former my political Comfort should be the least of my Wells smiles at the Cly Demania fired up by his opposition to the Meech Lake noting the Fame is Good if it prompts canadians to think fondly of but the wave of adoring telegrams has leaving Wells in the trenches of this troubled grappling with its some Are Well including an unemployment rate near 20 per and the collapse of vast stretches of the fishery that have left thousands of newfound Landers relying on Federal Relief pro business legislation takes effect providing potential Job creators with extended tax Breaks and Access to Crown in Wells is still a popular a poll last month shows 52 per cent of newfound Landers supported his Liberal compared with 36 per cent for the provincial All Day wednesday 28th to Mark Down prices Parizeau wife Lisette Lapointe celebrate pm pm wins 94s top Story sports troubles second on Cipoll Fine furniture and interiors located in Winnipeg at 2627 Portage Avenue Yeric sibling Canadian press the political Fortun Etell ers had for months Over turned their cups of Cazeau Lait and read the grains of truth the parti quebecois would return to Power in everyone expected it the poll the water cooler the the kid next door even the governing it happened As expected but the predictable nature of the Story didst Stop the pm win from be ing rated Canadas top news Story of 1994 in a Canadian press Survey of newspaper editors and broadcast news How come implications for 1995 and be explained one of the David Judd of the Brantford the pm Victory was cited on 18 ballots in the up nine votes went to the troubled sports where the baseball season was can celled after players went on strike in August and the hockey season never started because of an owner imposed the social impacts of these labor disputes Cross the Boundary from sports into said Frank Stafford and Drew who voted on behalf of fax in seven ballots were cast for the Story of Canadas peacekeepers in the military image was badly tarnished by the beating death of a somali looter taken prisoner by members of the elite Canadian air borne the euthanasia debates centring on sue Rodriguez and Robert Latimer garnered five the Paul Bernardo sex slayings court Case got the red Cross taint Edbloom scandal and the proposed Reform of Canadas social safety net were each named on two the Quebec election Campaign unfolded with All the excitement of an outdoor hockey game after the Only puck disappears into a Snow the led by Premier Daniel said a vote for the pm was a vote for who trailed Johnson in personal said the pm stood for Good when 12 the pm won As but was nearly even with the liberals in popular it was a pyrrhic Victory for the which sought a Clear majority that it could later parlay into a referendum but it was a Victory just the and the pm now plots its referendum strategy with the instruments of government great store closing remodelling Sale be Here Early dont 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