Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 23, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba At strike splits students upstart Stu Dent group seeks end to u of m labor dispute the weather women walk for cancer research bombers dress up for fashion show Winnipeg school division profiled Steinbach Campaign funny Guys four comics who help keep Abc Dave Barry delves into Gopher safety i bassist Dave Young releases new i Folkie John Prine still Puggi along Industry watchers wonder what dream teams up braves go two up Atlanta knocks off Cleveland to take 20 Lead in base balls world s club jets 62 riders loss keeps Blue in playoff Hunt nil expansion team takes run at nothing like a night of in rubes sports Ann to 6m5 q morning Cloudy periods High details on Page c10 Winnipeg free press plus taxes higher in outlying areas october everyone talking taxes this election they dont like pm by Stevens wild City Hall reporter Lif to vote 71 k Matharina Stieffen Hofer wants to pay her civic taxes with a work of the Northend artist has pro posed that the City accept her Glass and steel sculpture called life Cycle in lieu of taxes on her Cathe dral Avenue election coverage a11 at least in Stieffenhofe wants to make the Deal because Shes finding it increasingly difficult to come up with the Money to pay the property taxes on her comfortable Ocean Dahal Storey where she lives with her companion and their two we try to make ends meet As Best we can but we find it difficult to pay our Stieffenhofe Stieffenhofe owes this year on her it appears to to my that taxes Are too she studies show that Winnipeg taxes Are i would like to see tax Money spent More on Winnipeg doorsteps and in spy Cam spurs fears new Gadget an indignity9 by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent a Winnipeg company is marketing a tiny video camera to help parents spy on their babysitters part of a technology trend that is raising ethical concerns about i dont know that it plays on the fears of but that fear is generally there Brad of Payne investigative said of his baby watch spy the Little camera is similar to other technology that has caught some child abusers re handed in the United states and featured on shows like its Small enough to hide in the Palm of your and can be hidden in smoke even Teddy the Lens can peek through spaces As Small As the barrel of a Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press Brad Payne displays baby watch spy camera and live image on right to remain private a12 its so the recording machine can be stashed about 700 metres it can be a regular sized videocassette recorder or As Small As a the camera takes a picture every third of a so the images play Back like a the tape can record up to eight cameras for up to 120 the Price tag on the device starts at or it can be rented for about a Payne got the idea for baby watch after one of his employees saw a television talk show where using hidden caught their Sitters doing Terri ble things to the Payne acknowledges the sys tem could be used for an endless array of other purposes spouses spying on for exam ple and says its really just an Extension of equipment put in bars to catch employees with their hands in the what the person does with the system in their Home is their he we dont Deal with Domestic you have to sign a waiver you wont use it for any thing Bryan a Law professor at the University of says people have to Start talking about the right to i see it As wreaking a terrible indignity on he who knows How the stuff will end up being used layoffs gave duo Start in business now they run their by Martin Cash business reporter Fidel and relly Araneta both lost their jobs on the same Day May they believe Fate has been Good to less than 18 months after join ing the ranks of the they Are now proprietors of a thriving computer aided design and draft ing company that employs eight it was like an impossible dream come said whose cad Power Canada provides computer aided drafting services to architects and the construction their company does regular own company work with Federal and next month it will be the Only Manitoba business to travel with Federal Trade minister Roy Mclaren on a Trade Mission to the Fidel lost his Job As an Engi Neering technologist at acres International the same Day relly lost hers at the health sciences but going on unemployment insurance May have been the Best thing to happen to while on Fidel was accepted into the self employment assistance sea a training and support program promoting continued please see local Joe free press the candidates taxes Are proving the most talked about Issue in this civic people dont think they Are get Ting value for said Peter Holle of the Manitoba taxpayers people see their taxes going up and their services going on the eve of the Small business owners Echo the concerns of Stieffenhofe and North main Street businessman de owner of cosmopolitan has seen his business taxes increase by 138 per cent in the last five this hell have to pay for a in he Only paid continued please see the new world gathers financial change in air Asun celebrates 50th birthday by Josh Friedman new Day Araneta and wife relly run a design drafting United nations they they they glared at each other across the they praised each they threatened each they ignored each for the first time in most of the people who run the world gathered yesterday in one room and broke they were brought together by agreement on at least one the Celebration of the 50th birthday of the United which managed to survive the cold War and is barely hang ing on in the penurious world that has struggling sometimes in vain keep their speeches to five the More than 140 sovereigns and Heads of state and government started three Days and nights of declarations that will give shape to their few Call for a new world order any but a picture of the Post cold War world began to emerge in the bilateral meetings and social gatherings of the newly Rich the fading old pow and the always powerful and always the United nations would be a different Many the Security councils present five permanent the victors of the second world War the United China and Russia would have to share Power with newly Rich and powerful countries ironically led by the Axis Powers they Van Japan and even the ability of the United states to dictate events was beginning to Japan wants More Power at the United nations if it has to make up the Gap left by the debt of which president Clinton has been unable to get Congress to Russia is Balking at letting its troops serve under nato in former where the Clinton administration Hopes to bring peace by replacing in troops with nato pm demands nations pay it is a world where terrorism is Clinton called for More world cooperation to combat organized terrorism and fear of islamic continued bombing in Paris contributed to the Cancella Tion of a meeting Here yesterday Between French and algerian offi it is a world where countries increase their demands of the United nations but keep it on Star vation complained in Sec Retar general Boutros who called for a special general Assembly session to bail out the United nations financially if dues Are not paid the financial crisis is a symptom of a deeper he member states simply do not regard the United nations As a Pri this is sad news to report to this commemorative the corridors of the United nations were a collage of the once and future powerful and famous world their aides and spouses were dressed mostly in Western although there was a generous sprinkling of military flow ing Robes and colourful wearing the familiar Safiya head covering and military pales Tine liberation organization Leader Yasser Arafat was reduced to a supportive in when the United states barred his the entire general Assembly had to be flown to Geneva to hear following a successful fundraiser in downtown manhat he told a Hal filled Assembly his heart was filled with love and looking out of character in a sombre Black suit he said was presented to him last week by a Friendly family in cuban Leader Fidel Castro Drew Long applause from the Assembly when he asked repeatedly How Long the world would have to wait for the United states to give up much of its Power and ;