Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 25, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local Detour Farmers in Tizzy Over Cable by Bill Redekop staff reporter Manitoba farm families Are in a and its not Over record Grain its Cable they dont have but now it looks like there finally going to get this is really exciting said Glen Manitoba telecommunications whose family lives on a Shoal Lake weve lived without Cable All these Winnipeg has had it companies apply to crts to give Rural residents More to channels since the most farms still get just two or three local it want that Long ago when we got just one said three companies have applied to give those customers Cable service via microwave their application will be heard 30 in by the Canadian Radi Otele vision and telecommunications applications to provide similar services have been turned Down three times in the but Findlay said the technology to deliver the service has never been this companies propose using wire less Cable to deliver program satellite services gather signals from programmers and retransmit signals to microwave distribution systems atop telecommunication the towers then transmit the Sig nals to a rooftop Antenna or pizza sized satellite dish connected to the subscribers to this is very recent we dont see How in the world the crts could turn Down this Findlay he said there Are some households in Manitoba without including people living in Small villages and the service would extend As far North As Dauphin and the Premier Gary Filmon has sent the crts a letter that says the province Doest care which com Pany the Federal Agency chooses to deliver the service so Long As it chooses Brian who farms near said Hes definitely inter ested in they Only see Cable to now when they visit friends in we do enjoy vis iting friends in town and watching their he but Farmer Ernie Sirski said Hes not my kids watch enough to with cities watch vote count Winnipeg May rent out system by Stevens wild City Hall reporter Winnipeg is in the Busi Ness of Selling election officials from 10 Canadian cities will be in Winnipeg today checking out the cites new computerized vote counting its part of the cites plan to rent its bran new machines to other we Are the Only municipality in North America to negotiate rights to lease the said Deputy City clerk Richard for Winnipeg will rent its 150 newly acquired computerized vote counting machines to any municipality in North Amer the system Cost All Canadian municipalities Are Kachur a municipality would be crazy not to take advantage of Kachur said the City had Joe Bryks Winnipeg free press North Yorks Greg barbra Liddiard and Winnipeg Marc Lemoine left to acquired leasing rights from the machines Busi Ness record of Kachur said cities that have expressed interest in cutting deals with Winnipeg include Den ver and Salt Lake he said the Beauty of renting the system was that the machines would otherwise be gathering dust for the three years Between Winnipeg civic everyone wants to go to Auto mated Kachur but everybody apprehensive about the so they want to try it on a trial if they like they will go out and buy Kachur predicted the City would be Able to make six leasing deals in the next two Winnipeg City clerk Dorothy Browton said the Toronto area City of Etobicoke has already agreed to rent part of the one of the visiting Joseph City clerk of said he was inter ested in leasing Winnipeg the possibility of leasing the equipment is very attractive and we want to talk to the Schatz i Hope it works smoothly and we can make a the ballot is people like to put a Pencil Mark on their he said Hamilton uses an antiquated punch card which the City wants to he said he wanted to see How an elec tronic system worked in a City about Hamiltons John Angus Norbert said leasing the equipment would allow the City to recover some of the Cost of the new Umsu chief in conflict faculty Gratzer denies parroting administration in professors9 strike by Bruce Owen staff reporter the head of the University of Manitoba students Union found himself caught in a War of words yesterday As faculty and administration met to pick a mediator to help end the week old professors faculty association president Grant Woods accused Umsu pres ident David Gratzer of being in a conflict of interest because Hes a full voting member on the univer Sites Board of governors and takes the administrations position on the strike when he should be Neutral and represent it sounds to me like someone who wearing the Board of Gover nors hat rather than his Umsu presidents Woods he must find himself in a very difficult accusation rejected Gratzer called the accusation ridiculous and an attempt to Dis credit him personally rather than what he had to say about the were holding up their position to the Light and seeing what they really stand Gratzer earlier in the Gratzer held a news conference where he released Musus position on the strike a position that condemns both sides for jeopardizing Stu dents education and the future of the professors set up their picket lines last week after both sides butted Heads Over As funding cuts pile the University could downsize its operations without sacrificing the University wants to have More control Over laying off pro but the faculty association Doest want to lose academic free Gratzer said Union and manage ment have to Deal with the Finan Cial realities facing the University by focusing on what it does Best and by retaining the Best and brightest he said this can be accomplished through making professors More account Able by evaluating their under such a unproductive professors would be dismissed out Side the seniority provisions of the collective Gratzer said the faculty association brushed Umsu aside like immature children when it made this he also said the administration was Only offering Banda id solutions to the labor impasse by ask ing for salary cuts and the ability to control the size of its Gratzer said the administration has to take account of the performance of its professors not years of service when it comes to you be taught by a professor just because Hes but because Hes the he University spokesman Terry Falconer said he did not believe Gratzer was in a conflict or parroting the if you read what David i think its a balanced report that of concern to All he negotiators for both sides met to pick a mediator to help broker a the mediator will Likely be someone from outside the province who is familiar with the University and its budget prob which will Worsen when fed eral Transfer cuts take effect next labor minister Vic Toews said yesterday he was heartened that both faculty and administration were keen to bring in a he gave them 24 hours to pick someone or the province would do it for its expected a Media Tor will be named Woods said the faculty association would rather have seen the province appoint an arbitrator to Settle the he said the University has been Loath to negotiate in the nine months since the professors con tract expired and that it was naive to think a mediator unlike an has no Power to end the strike could bring the administration Back to the Gratzer no conflict u of m sides wage and Campaign for hearts and minds of Public by Bruce Owen staff reporter youve seen the but do you buy what there sell ing both sides in the week old strike at the University of Mani Toba Hope you on the administration the University of Manitoba has set up a min business Fielding questions from students and the pub Lic about the ongoing labor University spokesman de Unrau said a series of ads answering questions about the strike has been successful in get Ting the message More than 400 people a Day phone a hotline asking for More the University has hired two to three students to work the the University of Manitoba faculty association responded with its own and asking newspaper readers to Send a Cut out Coupon to Premier Gary Fil Mon to impose binding arbitration to end the the University and in tuesdays free press Cost a similar and in that Days Winnipeg Sun Cost both sides put similar packages on the discussion r groups have sprung up debating the issues in the strike the Abil Ity of the University to Lay off professors versus the principle of academic one of the most common questions asked if the strike drags will courses be cancelled David vice Provost of student said the University will consider cancelling courses this term and refund ing tuition Only if the strike lasts More than two but he said cancellation was a last adding plans Are now being such As pushing Back final exam so that course time is not r the three and i dont have time to watch he sky Cable has applied to serve areas around Brandon and Baldy Mountain the Lac Dubonnet and fal con Westman Media cooperative an amalgamation of Cable companies including Shaw com has applied to serve fish or Bass Wood and Baldy Winnipeg River cat has applied to serve the Pine Falls sex takes harsh toll lives shattered by addiction by Allison Bray staff reporter after 10 years in a seemingly Happy mar Gail finally discovered her husbands horrible he is a sex addict who has been compulsively seeking out the ser vices of prostitutes since before they were its devastating compared to alcohol or drug addiction you dont see any physical said whose name has been changed to protect her there con they hide the group against pornography is sponsoring a workshop Tomor Row and Friday on sex addiction for both sex addicts and their fam Ilies As Well As professionals who May be interested in treating Patrick a leading researcher and author in the Field and clinical director of the sexual dependency unit at Del Amo hos Pital in will Lead the spokeswoman Audrey Krushel said the anti pornography group decided to sponsor the workshop after numerous Calls from sex addicts and their spouses in recent years seeking counselling or info As she said there is growing evidence pointing to a link Between pornography and sex Gail said she had a feeling some thing was even though her marriage and sex life seemed nor Mal and then clues Start ing piling you Start to see signs of Bank accounts Arent you see All these strange phone num Bers for sex finally she Dis covered the average a month her husband claimed went toward new office equipment or business trips went to pay for pros its the same thing As the death of a she said of her reaction when she discovered her Hus bands it destroys it destroys families they sex addicts Are often willing to jeopardize their jobs and their Chil Ted director of the Winnipeg Christian counselling Cen said his Centre sees about 10 sex addicts a week for their cases histories Range from people who frequent prostitutes to those obsessed with having sex with strangers they meet in bars to those who Are unreasonably sexually demanding with their spots although others May use prostitutes or seek out Anonymous sex for a variety of the sex addict does so because he or she is compelled to do he Hull said most clients turn to counselling Only after the consequences of their behaviour become too they May have gone into debt fuelling the addiction to prostitutes or been charged with sex related offences or been found out by spouses or he f ;