Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba L o u of m convocation nearly students 44 pages vol 123 no 180 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post 4 get Post outside Day 750 in Ontario weedy Horne delivery s3 is wkly s3 05 20 Post in Winnipeg s3 30 wkly s3 09 t 21 Post outside May 1995 dont bet on lottery hearings outside Desjardins warns Wypa Uleckie staff reporter there May be Only one Day of Public hearings into Gam bling in with no hearings outside Larry the former nip lotteries minister conducting the said yesterday he plans to cancel meetings scheduled for Thompson and Brandon because of Lack of but he admitted the hearings haunt been advertised in those and he said he May extend the registration deadline for delegations it is now tomorrow if the Public de mands Desjardins said the newspaper placed by a government depart ran Only in Desjardins issued a statement yesterday that the three hearings on gambling would be cancelled out Side the City due to Lack of Only one person in Dauphin has said adding he was disappointed by the meagre number of written submissions and registrations for Oral but that probably because most people in Dauphin dont even know about the let alone any said Greg co owner of the Dauphin inn this is the first Ive heard about said if there had been proper advertising or notification in sure More than just one person in a town of woul Dve made a his comments were echoed by a Brandon Marc Winnipeg free press in grandma Michael wants to stay close to grandmother in Kuonan Jev Tom the klingon had been Partick and Pichette on the transit bus yesterday and As far away As Pating in the Star trek federation science show at the my possible from klingon Hod Aras Doug left and Seum of Man and can to pay heavily for trades penalty levied against Coop in canola affair last Yeai by Bill Redekop staff reporter can Grain will pay for trades last june that caused canola prices to the Winnipeg commod announced jts largest Fine Ever paid to Dity Exchange in its 110 can is a Farmer co operated by the three Prairie wheat was rumoured to have the causing United Grain growers and new Yor based Continental Grain to lose millions of dollars on last years june canola futures Exchange president Fred Siemens said yesterday the Exchange found no evidence that can squeezed the but he said can disobeyed or Ders from the Exchange in May 1994 to Stop trying to acquire canola through the june canola Siemens said can was pushing the Market to acquire canola when there want enough Stock open demand on the Exchange was for tonnes of and Only tonnes were it meant the companies that had sold canola contracts to can Supply the canola and were driving prices up in futile attempts to find when can ignored the the canola Price hit a 10 year High of a As a member of the we have obligations to make this mar Ket to maintain Public conf said but some traders slammed the exchanges saying can did nothing several traders contend that the companies in the Short position speculators who had sold canola contracts on the prediction prices would go then deliver the canola when prices skyrocketed should have been forced to take their this is a big boys if you sell the canola and dont have you have to get it said one who requested a we audit found that can needed the canola for sales it had recently although can agreed to pay the it Doest admit to any said Ken can Grain we do not acknowledge any improper Matchett company officials said paying the Fine was cheaper than going through is a lot of but so is a court whether you win or said Ken Mani Toba Pool elevators Arborg Farmer Eric Fridfinnson called for an outside review of the commodity Exchange Fridfinnson says the exchanges actions caused canola prices to plummet from a Bushel Down to costing him about on 40 canola prices dropped by the daily limit every Day for a week after the commodity Exchange sus Pended trading of june canola con tracts last june Stefanson says time too Short to Call tenders for Arena contract by Alice Krueger legislature reporter t a i the three Levels of govern ment footing the Bill for a new Winnipeg Arena will not Call for tenders for its construction because there int enough Manitoba finance minister Eric Stefanson said the province is prepared to go along with some of the Early Spade work done by the Manitoba entertainment which had already selected the consortium of Dominion Hunt to act As construction Mec chairman John Loewen did not return phone Calls Stefanson said there will still be ample Opportunity for penalty whistle Manitoba construction companies to bid on subcontract responding to opposition criticism in the legislature yesterday that the government has lost control Over the Stefanson de fended the decision to forgo the for Mal tendering he said the earlier Deal with Mec also includes the advantage of a guaranteed Price of any Cost overruns beyond that would be the responsibility of the private sector so that gives us the Comfort around the total he he said time is also of the essence if the Arena is to be completed by fall of in order to meet that he construction must begin in if we go another year in the exist ing we then run the risk of depleting the endowment fund that going to be put in its very important it get in by fall of he Tim the nip critic for Indus Trade and questioned who was looking out for Manitoban interests in he said Manitoban have a right to know about potential Cost provision for local tendering and who is designing the i cant imagine a situation in which a contract for million would not be tendered in the first Sale if this committee wants reaction from the they should let them know whats going other Wise this whole thing is said the restaurant who did not want his name the hearings were scheduled for Brandon on june Dauphin on june Thompson on june 19 and Winnipeg on june Desjardins said Only one newspaper and was on May in Winnipeg the Dps Steve Ashton and Dep Uty Liberal Leader Kevin Lamoureux said the committee Hast done its Job if the Public is unaware of the in the lotteries critic i Haven seen the said i dont think its Lack of said in slip closer to War West pours in reinforcements As rebels annul All agreements from the news services Sarajevo the bosnian serbs edged closer yesterday to a formal state of War with United nations de Claring them an enemy and annul Ling All the defiant statement from the who released six French sol Diers but continued to hold More than 320 peacekeeping troops hos came As British forces arrived in the croatian port of split with a Mission to reinforce the in Mission in Bosnia by providing it with Artil Lery for the first about marines and a French aircraft Carrier moved closer to the Adriatic 200 kilo metres Southwest of in a show of Force that seems unlikely to Lead to any immediate action but underscored the Gravity of the hostage consequences the United states and in their strongest terms warned the bosnian serbs to release the detained in peacekeepers immediately or suffer serious Conse the warnings were issued a Day after the United and Russia called for the peacekeeping Force in Bosnia to be partly to show the bosnian serbs that taking hostages would not intimidate the United nations into in the Clinton administration said yesterday it would permit using ground troops in Bosnia to protect in peacekeepers As they move to More defensible to the position marked a shift i rats in a Corner a4 a dangerous from the administrations previous More than a year that it would Send american ground troops to Bosnia Only to protect an evacuation of in peacekeepers or to Moni a peace officials portrayed the move As an Extension of past willingness to help a to Talun Canadian officials say Treyve talked to 54 of the 55 canadians be ing detained and they Are prime minister Chretien says the in should give its troops new or Ders so they can better Deal with in taking peacekeepers hostage As insurance against further attack since nato twice bombed a serbian ammunition dump last the serbs have also seized at least six in 12 armoured personnel carriers and More than 25 armoured they Are thus Able to disguise themselves As peacekeepers with Treyve got what they need to look like a company of peace keep said one units very meeting in their Strong hold of 15 Kilometres from the political and military leaders of the separatist serbs issued a statement accusing the United nations and nato of flagrant interference in the conflict and siding with one the statement All Secu Rity Council All nato resolutions and All accords with the United which have been Are declared Glen Murray said Hes not surprised the province is backing the Mec the Rich old boys network is hard at work and successfully keep ing the expenditure of Public Money behind closed said Murray fort Stevanson said one of the major partners in the construction management consortium is the Domin Ion a Manitoba firm that has done business in Winnipeg for 35 the other company he Hunt is currently overseeing construction of a new entertainment Complex in Van quote of the Day 7 doubt whether anyone has been rehabilitated or not rehabilitated because they were not Given the right to Ernest Van Den a new York economist and criminal Justice opposes giving convicts voting details on Page a2 the weather today mainly sunny with 30 Chance of an evening Thun High Low tonight 14 tomorrow sunny with a few Cloudy Peri High Sun sets Moon rials hittite on Page 1q inside diversions rubes and Ann in sports to 5 ;