Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local May 1995 Section Brian Cole 6977292 b1 growers get Tab Sybil Redekop staff reporter Manitoba Farmers will have to pay another Mil lion to ship Grain this and Are looking to the Federal government for the new costs come from Otta was announcement recently that Manitoba Farmers will pay More of the real Cost to ship Grain through the great lakes this year More on every tonne of wheat and Barley shipped agriculture minister Ralph goo Dale said some Federal Money would be made available from a Mil Manitoba Farmers seek Federal help to offset higher Lake freight costs lion adjustment fund announced in the last Federal but he did not say How were Manitoba Farmers need to know How much there getting from the adjustment said Ken Vic president of Manitoba Pool Manitoba Farmers have generally supported the which Only affects wheat and Barley marketed by the Canadian wheat As Long As they could get full compensation in the first that the Only Way we could agree to said Owen second Vic president of Keystone agricultural the change corrects a longstanding anomaly where Alberta Farmers were Cross subsidizing the ship ment of Manitoba and Saskatchewan Grain through the great lakes by about million per were very said Joe executive director of an Alberta farm lobby Woytowich said the change will bolster pro wheat Board forces in the which is preparing for a plebiscite on whether to stay in the wheat its a really heated debate right Woytowich but full Cost great lakes shipping could mean All kinds of problems for Manitoba who have Al ready made their cropping Deci Sions this Farmers intending to grow Barley for for in will find it impossible to ship the crop from Manitoba to the Lawrence Seaway and make a Manitoba Farmers Are in the midst of seeding Over one million acres to about the same As last doing the change so late in the year Doest give Farmers a Chance to change plans or said Dau Phin Grain Farmer Don coupled with the end of the million Crow transportation sub the new great lakes costs will push Grain shipping costs in Mani Toba from an average of in to this farm groups that represent producers across All three Prairie prov welcomed the it removes distortions and gets Market prices reflecting True Val said Blair spokesman for the Western Canadian wheat growers farm Leader Earl Geddes of Pilot Mound was also so Long As Ottawa helps Manitoba lets get on with it and clean up the Industry so we know where we Geddes Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press robber ran to ground Winnipeg police officers converge on a car on Ellice Avenue Brooklands was initiated by Zipper courier Driver Bob near Maryland Street after a Chase through the City at noon at least one person was arrested at the one offi the following an armed robbery at the cer has just taken a Rifle found in the car As strikers see added risk in Gas leaks Centra can Lang says by Bud Robertson staff reporter Filmon promotes the Deputy Lacquay chosen As new speaker by Paul Samyn legislature reporter Seine River la Louise Lacquay is Premier Gary Hilmons Choice As speaker of the Manitoba in looking Forward to the Lacquay said yesterday after being sworn in As an i am honoured with the Confidence the Premier has bestowed upon was first elected in 1990 and has served As the Deputy speaker Ever Denis the Gladstone la she is said he enjoyed his seven years As i loved every minute of it and in grateful for having had the Opportunity to he nip Leader Gary doer said his party will be introducing a private members Bill calling for an elected we should be bringing the Manitoba legislature into the doer said in reference to the other Canadian Legislatures that elect doer said Filmon has opted for control instead of credibility by appointing doer didst want to Knock Lacquay but said he understand Why Filmon had dumped the Bottom line is that we had a Good speaker who was credible with the doer Liberal Leader Paul Edwards said the bilingual Lacquay will be an i wish her said who will be returning to the Law firm Pitblado Hoskin while acting As grit Leader without an elected formal nomination and selection of the speaker is expected on May 23 when the legislative session Marcel Laurendeau Norbert was named Deputy striking Centra Gas work ers say Gas leaks will be extra dangerous with the people who usually handle them being out on the picket theres definitely a safety is said Larry As he marched outside the company operations building on Sutherland Avenue but Centra president Otto Lang and acting fire chief Gary Richard son said there is no increased Dan Ger with nonunion personnel responding to about 280 customer service work meter readers and pipeline maintenance workers in Winnipeg walked off the Job tuesday after rejecting the company latest Only a handful of supervisors and managers Are qualified to handle such Calls As Gas line said a 49yearold customer service others echoed Paterson fears As they we have some great concerns about said Jerry a National representative for the com Energy and paper workers Union local but Lang said yesterday the non unionized staff who will be respond ing to emergency Calls have been trained and there is no reason for the Public to be despite their concerns for workers said they Are willing to stay out on strike As Long As it takes to reach an equitable they have been without a Contact since negotiations broke off monday after the Union rejected the Compa nys final of it includes differential wage in creases for some employees no in creases for others and bonuses in each year of a two year but it also Rolls Back overtime amounts and offers new employees 10 per cent less than others in the same the position that the company put Forward was an attack on our Job said adding the two tier wage system proposed by Centra is just totally unacceptable to the members of the the Union is seeking across the Board wage increases for All of its said the company is concerned that already High wages make it difficult to be com our View is on the the wage Levels were talking about Are too High in the Winnipeg he Centra Gas is a subsidiary of Westcoast Energy trustees offer buyout plan Wayne Glowacki Winnipeg free press Lacquay with Rocan is looking Forward to trustees at Winnipeg school division Are hoping a retirement incentive plan will be enough to recall most of the 68 teachers and technicians who got Layoff notices earlier this trustees voted tuesday night to offer eligible staff a buyout if they retire by the end of the work ing Day May the trustees Are concerned that we Are Able to rescind As Many As possible of the Layoff notices that were sent Board chairwoman Anita Neville said the plan is offered to teachers or clinicians who have worked at least 10 continuous years for the division and who will be at least 54 by the end of Neville said about 220 staff will be eligible for the Winnipeg teachers association president Susanne Adkins said she was pleased with the offer and Hopes about 100 staff members will take Winnipeg 1 is one of several school divisions encouraging their older teachers to More than 225 teachers across the province received Layoff notices this the largest number in the provinces Many May be recalled after resignations and leaves Are filed by the end of seven Oaks is offering teachers a Lump sum the mystery Lake division in Thompson is offering Over three River East is offering a pay Jame Assiniboia is offer ing teachers a Lump sum equal to 30 per cent of i abuses Small business with pay Button Benefit Rule Winnipeg chartered accountant Brent Stefanson wrote Revenue Canada hoping that common sense would therell be a Short break for a maybe a Guffaw or a year later and Stefanson is still common As we All know too int a prerequisite to the bureaucratic Way of doing inflexibility is the or passing the Buck to another immovable when the Liberal government swept the conservatives into oblivion in the fall of we were assured All that would the new Guys on the Hill promised to be More considerate in they pledged to Cut through the red tape that had choked Small businesses during the Mulroney big business in this latter whats happened since the administration took office not a Heck of a As far As the former owners of a family run Arborg operation Are forced into shutting Down their business by the silliest of bureaucratic regulations and there still being hounded by Revenue Canada for almost in unpaid unemployment insurance benefits they would not have been Able to collect had they become instead of someone at the local level saying this is Patent the Issue has dragged on since through All Levels of the Appeal process to that big bureaucratic god in the tax court of the original demand for with a penalty of and gathering interest totalled Stefan sons office has prepared tax returns for Harasym of Arborg for More than 15 Harasym the harass Ems the its 21 per cent owned by Harasym with his holding 20 Lee his has 20 per cent and her 21 per Harasym Mother owns 18 per the chartered accountant explained that in Revenue Canada began enforcing a Mulroney government change in unemployment insurance husbands and wives who together owned More than 40 per cent of a business had to Start paying us Stefanson noted that none of the family All of whom have since found would have been eligible for i benefits they owned a business another he is that fishermen who run their own businesses Arent required to pay into receive benefits when their season we All know that i is grossly he but heres a Case of Revenue Canada and i doing the Harasym said the family business had been operating for 42 of which were running the Shell service station on Highway to 10 363 Days a overtime was not it was a necessity of running the family he meal Breaks were taken when you had not at scheduled lunch i would not be Able to negotiate a similar contract with someone outside of the family without breaking Manitoba labor but Here they this totally absurd Federal Revenue Canada and i should get off their backs and Start tackling the real another Liberal victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy fax 697 or email Mike Ward on the internet at ;