Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Al in a tiny Over Cable Rural residents excited at Prospect of Cable to Snew nation eyes city1 voting system business Banks on Boon from Bridge cutting red tape for business sounded Jack of All trades pumpkins Are a Good food source halloween burgers a party hit Hollywood helps give shirt its tips for buying a Winter coat chanels Spring line Superb swimming in debt Cal teams will lose million on operations this year 7c1 Hull loses c blues in turmoil Zha nov Back on Deion ready to suit up with Dallas Green riders cos Mically challenged diversions Cross rubes and Ann in sports to the weather 40 Chance of rain or High details on Page c10 Winnipeg free press plus taxes higher in outlying areas october Marc free press an undercover ramp narcotics officer inspects bin full of Cut marijuana buds during raid on Balmoral sophisticated marijuana factory largest Ever busted in Manitoba by Doug Nairne police reporter Balmoral an ramp raid Early yesterday morn ing shut Down the largest hydroponic drug operation Ever found in Manitoba a High tech growing factory producing at least million in marijuana every the elaborate with in growing equipment and thousands of marijuana is one of the most sophisticated police have Ever it was exporting drugs across the nothing like this has Ever been found before this barn is a total drug said Kevin a bumper crop of a2 a team of 25 mounties from the Stonewall detachment and the Winnipeg drug unit stormed the farm Southwest of where the growing operation was being and seized drugs and property Worth an estimated one Man was arrested at the farm during the and two other men Are being sought in connection with the ramp say it will take some time to Complete the investigation and identify All the people police identification officers Are scouring the area looking for fingerprints and other although the suspects sought have connections to biker police said the operation is not thought to be Gango Perat police believe the drug factory was operating for two producing a staggering amount of Ive seen a lot of these Over the years but i have never seen anything this Sophis said ramp spokesman Wyman police say they started investigating the farm about three months ago based on a but they had no idea what they would find until they pried open the barn doors and took a look they found marijuana at various stages of an initial count revealed but ramp said the number May actually be two to three times in one Corner 150 kilograms of leaves Worth an estimated sat Large hydroponic operations Are often discovered because of the huge amount of electricity they consume to Power grow but the Balmoral factory avoided detection by setting up a fake Hydro line running from the Yard to the and then splicing into another Power line and sending the electricity through an underground because the real Power line want on a the Power Drain was unde decision Day Many incumbents in tight races As electorate Heads to the polls by Stevens wild City Hall reporter this will be a Long Day for More than half the City councillors seeking reelection and it will be a disappoint ing night for some of observers say As Many As eight of the 13 contested seats on the 15 member Council Are too close to two councillors Harry Lazarenko Mynarski and Bill Clement Charle Woodfort Garry were in the other 13 City 52 candidates 11 incumbents and 41 challengers Are on the in a seat vacated by retiring Deputy mayor George candidates admit they dont know who is ahead in a six Candi Date undecided voters there Are a lot of undecided Vot ers out said candidate Pat that surprises another Charles Richard said part of the Marc free press Peter Susan Thompson reason for the Lack of Clear front runners May be due to the unusually Large number of it May be a time said it takes time to go through All the also considered to have a Chance of Victory in Charles Are Candi dates Grant Brian Kel Tom Miller and Mel its a really close said across town in North the race is also too close to Call in the Council seat vacated by May Oral candidate Terry continued please see pm plays his Ace for Unity Chretien says no vote could open the door to constitutional change by Dan Lett National reporter min ister Chretien upped the stakes in the desperate Bat the for Quebec soul last night by promising that a no vote in the referendum could open the door to constitutional it was the first time in the Rocky referendum Campaign the prime minister has suggested the possibility of constitutional that an element that the Quebec no forces in and Campaign Leader Daniel Johnson in Partick Felt was now critical to slowing what appeared to be a separatist juggernaut building toward referendum Day next we will be open to All other paths for Chretien told an of More than supporters packed into the Verdun including the administrative and constitutional any changes in constitutional Juris diction for Quebec will Only be made with the consent of Quebe Chretien statements marked a Sharp turn in his opinion on constitutional As recently As the he had seemingly Dis missed constitutional wrangling As a Way of persuading Quebec nationalists to vote no in the ref pressure mounted on Chretien to do something to bail out Johnson and the no intrigue continued to build about what Chretien May ultimately offer Quebe cers when the prime ministers office issued a hastily prepared news release last night an improved Canada a3 indicating he would address the nation in a special television Broad cast the news release noted that the broadcasting act allows for the prime minister to make a television address if it is deemed of urgent importance to although Chretien forged today he essentially gave up the limelight to Johnson and tory Leader Jean Charest by speaking first to the leaving his federalist compatriots to raise the emotional level of the it was a night when the rallying cry repeated by federalist Lead ers and academics and even famous hockey players on giant video screens was Jesuis it Jesuis Canadien i am a and i am Canad considered the Best Ora Tor of the sparked a great Roar when he attacked Quebec pre Mier Jacques Parizeau and bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard for what he termed a Dis honest and ambiguous Campaign to trick Quebe cers into accepting a sovereignty package that is clearly unacceptable to Johnson delivered a fiery speech attacking the Sovereign lists for offering Quebe cers All that is Good about confederation Access to Trade agreements and open and currency but under a different i never would have thought that you could build a separate Quebec on foundations stamped made in Johnson yes forces surge sets off Cash jitters by Alice Krueger legislature reporter Gilbert Paul of Starbuck was anxiously waiting for his wife yesterday hoping shed hurry so they could get into Winnipeg to Complete some important with reports of referendum Jit ters and a plummeting Canadian the 73yearold retired University of Manitoba professor was hoping to beat the clock before the inevitable jump in interest in trying to get in there before anything drastic he while Paul maintained Hes not Overly concerned about his own investments and retirement he was anxious to get his daughter susans mortgage locked in before interest rates go any in not but in con he said of the possible Impact on the Dollar of a yes vote in if it goes below 65 were All in Paul said he draws some Comfort from the political leadership in but the fickle Money markets Are what bother me More than Graca do Goto Mareira and Dave Poersch also Are keeping a wary Eye on the continued please see a mayor for All the people mayor ;