Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 24, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fork hover province grabs dollars saved during or doctor strike the weather morning afternoon High details on Page c10 sculptor Leo Mol has gift for City its cancels 10cent night chiropractors patient testifies Small business is big business for a Strad Corey Yerovsek yearns to play a the Roll Royce of not animals May need licences Sega Saturn offers door i beatles a big draw 25 years in Cpd Blue opens third depends who has whistle nil crackdown on obstruction is being interpreted differently by referees indians feeling cursed after roughriders leave Ridgway jets just cant Bury their golfer of the year nominations diversions rubes and Ann in sports Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas october polls Batter Economy Dollar plunges As referendum fears trigger Panicky Selling by Rob Carrick Canadian press Ottawa the Quebec referendum is starting to Cost Consumers big polls indicating the yes and no sides were in a dead heat caused a wave of Panicky Selling in Finan Cial markets yesterday that hacked almost nine tenths of a cent off the Canadian analysts said the dollars plunge Means a huge jump in the Bank rate today and a Likely increase in interest rates on mortgages and savings the Toronto Stock Exchange was caught in the storm As the uses 300 composite Index fell a whopping Points to slashing the value of stocks in Mutual pension funds and individual investment Mario senior economist with financial Market analysis firm mrs inter nation said More of the same is ahead As the markets digest the final polls before next mondays ref if youre going to lock in your do it he Over the next week we will be looking for increased which typically Means higher interest the Dollar plunged of a cent to cents its worst setback since the constitutional clenched fists were in Vogue yesterday for in Quebec City and no Leader Daniel Johnson in Cree fire Salvo Union dealt blow b3 wrangling Over the Charlottetown Accord in september the currency had already lost of a cent last Many forecasters said before the referendum Campaign began that the Dollar would drop and interest rates polls indicating the no Side had the Lead caused the Dollar to rally above 75 Angast Niotis said the severity of the dollars decline reflects the markets sudden realization that the separatists could win the ref it looks like some people Are he the dollars plunge could Actu ally work to the advantage of federalists by persuading Quebe cers there will be Steep economic costs if the yes Side wins the referee Quebec pollster Jeanmarc Leger its a reality Leger told a Telephone news conference organized by investment dealer Nesbitt finance minister Paul Martin said the Dollar and Stock Market turmoil shows clearly that foreign Exchange markets dont like the idea of bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard said Martin and prime minister Chretien could rebuild Confidence in the currency by saying they will negotiate eco nomic ties with Quebec after a yes analysts said they expected the Bank rate to Rise today by about three quarters of a percentage enough to push the major Banks prime rate to per cent from a 1995 Low of per higher rates will be a heavy Load to Bear for the which has Only recently been showing signs of breaking out of a yearlong Vodrey gift for mayor raises eyebrows by Nick Martin City Hall reporter a beaming mayor Susan Thompson picked up a million Cheque from Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey for 40 new police officers sparking controversy Over what critics say is an endorsement from the province for her reelection two Days before the civic challengers Terry Duguid and Peter As Well As opposition Leader Gary questioned the timing of the highly publicized Media event with Duguid suggesting provincial politicians Are looking to Curry vote favor with a mayor who wont put up any the timing is very Peru Duguid people will draw their own Susan Thompson has shown Shes not a very Good negotiator with the provincial this May make her that much More Kaufmann said the event clearly Means the province has anointed Thompson As but Vodrey and Thompson insisted the timing had absolutely Noth ing to do with tomorrows civic the Filmon government has been promising the Money since making an election Promise last Vodrey said negotiations concluded in late september and the Cheque was approved last this is a Public safety Initia Vodrey the timing is continued please see Jeff free press Amaro Thompson Check out the big businesses thrilled As new Bridge opens by Lisa Saunders free press correspondent two communities forever separated by a thin band of water will be United today and business owners in Charleswood and James Are already rubbing their hands in the Charleswood an off again Promise for at least 50 years in will be open for traffic this joining Portage Avenue to Roblin Boulevard at Moray its a link Between the two communities that were originally All one said Jae Eadie adding that businesses and residents on either Side Are getting ready to renew their there was a desire for com Mercial Trade Between the two businesses on both sides of the River Are now gearing themselves up for he noting that the James Assiniboia chamber of com Merce has already begun to promote area business across the projected to carry vehicles per traffic planners say the Bridge will save Winnipeg motorists travel hours a year and million Kilometres in travel traffic on route 90 and the James Bridge will be reduced by about 25 per with More than vehicles diverting to the the Charleswood Bridge project was developed As a Public private partnership and it is believed to be the first time in Canada a major Public infrastructure has used this the Bridge was built and paid for by a private contract def which will lease it to the City on a 30year continued please see wounded teen clinging to life Cap insult Sparks shot by Doug Nairne police reporter a near fatal teen shooting on the weekend was sparked by an insult about a baseball police said the argument ended with a gun shot that sent a 17yearold to hos Pital clinging to life and a 15yearold behind bars facing charges of attempted the which has police again dismayed at the escalation of youth violence in the began Early sunday morning when a group of youths rushed 17yearold Donald Ashcroft to the health sciences Centre near death and bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound to the they told police Ashcroft had been shot in a drive by shooting earlier that night at the Corner of main Street and Burrows police sped out to the crime scene but All they found after an exhaustive search was a baseball the identification team got to the they set up shop and started searching but they didst even find any said police spokesmen Carl it did it take too Long for them to realize something was Shier said even the hat found on the Street May not be connected to the As the holes in the youths Story began gaping investigators started casting their nets they Learned that a Large group of youths were at a House party at a residence on North main at 3 that when the insult was allegedly made about the baseball Cap and More insults came flying Ashcroft was then shot in the Chest at close Range with an unregistered semiautomatic the Bullet narrowly missing his health sciences Centre spokesman Jim Rodger said Ashcroft remains in critical Condi Tion in the hospitals intensive care he is reportedly responsive to but still unable to speak to although Many of the youths involved Are known to police As current or former gang investigators have ruled out gang rivalry As a motivating Factor in the police say the youths lied about what happened to cover their own gang connections and hamper the police arrested the 15yearold at sunday near his Home in the West the who can not be identified by appeared in court yesterday on charges of attempted use of a firearm and Possession of a restricted the handgun used 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