Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 30, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1og professors do their Homework u of m faculty spends week end studying proposal the Case of the shrinking i the search for parents and Canada must Brace for take Steps to protect Shes sure Ofshe reef actress Jodie Foster oozes self Confidence Liberty Street earns its Praise 1 terrific actors elevate film who wrote Keely and do 1 jazz film a great snapshots by the skin of their Teeth playoff spot with 3633 win Over Ottawa 701 9 the Jet attention to defence is paying world series telling diversions the weather 60 Chance of High Low details on Page c6 emf v Winnipeg free press in its k plus taxes higher in outlying areas october was it just an election ploy health plans under Cloud by Paul Samyn legislature reporter reelection commitment from the Fil Mon government to build new hospitals and nursing Homes is under review and some projects May be shelved health minister Jim Mccrae confirmed that coming cuts in fed eral funding As Well As the provinces move to regional health boards is forcing a rethinking of the capital building program announced in March just a week before the we Are entering upon a review of All aspects of our he this review comes amid delays in 24 projects scheduled to begin construction by March healthcare facility administrators and Las fear Many of those promises Are in health department officials con firmed that construction has begun on Only one of the a million masonry repair to the outer Shell of Victoria general was it just an election ploy asked one tory other including a Mas Sive retrofit of the health sciences Centre and million of work at Brandon Gen eral Likely wont see any shovels in the ground until the Spring at the things Are slower than previously said Larry chief executive officer of Brandon general we Are behind where we thought we would Todd said the Hospital had hoped to begin construction this fall but next Spring is now the most Likely Start although he is not As optimistic As he once our concern is that things Are not proceeding As expeditiously As we had been any further delays would cause us serious con Cern because we have an aging Al Carberry hospitals said he Hast heard about any problems with the million project at this we have been assured it will go ahead next but Sjolie said he has heard that some or All of the projects May be Mccrae said million of the million allocated to be spent beginning this year and Over sub sequent years has already he insisted everything is run Ning normally and that project reviews happen As do changes to the capital nip health critic Dave Chomiak said delays with the projects Are just another example of broken tory Campaign voices sing out please believe in Manitoban beg Quebec by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter t hey Sang 0 Canada they shouted no Over and As hundreds of red and White flags fluttered in the cold northerly about Manitoban Gath ered at the Forks in Winnipeg yesterday to plead with their que Bec neighbors not to vote today for separation from the but Many wondered whether the message will really reach its whether news of ral lies like this going on across the country will even be reported by the Media in Anne resident Janine Lafe said she watches French language Csc reports from Quebec All the time and has heard nothing of rallies outside its too close to Call a5 nation shows its colors b1 what will happen to us 82 la Belle Boniface resident Joanne said a Friend in Quebec City told her yesterday he had no idea such rallies were even and Quebec Exchange student Pascale Belanger told the huge Winnipeg crowd that it want until she came to Manitoba that she realized we since Ive lived in Friendly i understand what it really Means to be the teenager i thought the rest of the country didst care about and she was optimistic the Mes Sage will get continued please see non sides make final bid for undecided Jeff free press National Unity rally yesterday afternoon at the Forks was a sea of by Donald Mckenzie Canadian press Montreal Quebe cers decide their Des tiny and Canadas today in a referendum that could give them their own nation and Cre ate the worst crisis in confederations 128year the yes and no sides spent the last Day of the Campaign yester Day trying to woo the undecided voters who will Settle the Lucien Bouchard pleaded with Quebe cers not to allow a final Chance for Independence to slip through their we dont have the right to let this Chance pass us the bloc quebecois Leader told a rapturous crowd of about people in seize it and vote yes on say yes to say yes to the people of during the Day on at different in different places we will All enter the voting but in the evening we will emerge As a Jean who could go Down in history As the prime min ister who keep the coun try made a final emotional Appeal for National telling Quebe cers that Canada will change to meet their Canada will remain because we must be ready for the 21st Century and canadians want the necessary changes brought about so that we can continue being the Best country in the he told thousands at a federalist continued please see hundreds die in Azerbaijan subway fire Preuter Azerbaijan Rescue workers recovered about 300 bodies yesterday from the wreckage of a subway that caught fire in the trapping hundreds of terrified at least 200 others were unable to escape from the packed most of the people who died were killed by Carbon monoxide poisoning from burning toxic materials in the train officials Azerbaijan declared two Days of mourn ing for the officials blamed the the worst underground railway Accident in the former soviet on the Baku subways outdated soviet equip survivors said there was panic when the train came to a halt in a Tunnel Between the a Luz and Nari Manov stations in Central Baku in the Rush hour saturday evening and the lights went smoke began to fill the the train went on for a bit and then Gennady Niki Fere the Driver came Back but open the then the lights went after a while we started to suffocate from the smoke and we realized we had to open the the car was packed with and when we opened the half the people just fell out on top of each Manish was in the second Carriage and said he climbed through a ventilation duct to i got through the Tunnel by grabbing a Cable on the top of the but they say a lot of other people were people were dying All Over the rescuers battled the Blaze until Early then pulled the injured and the dead from the minister Ramil Yusubov said yesterday morning that at least 289 people including 28 Chil morgue officials said they counted at least 303 and the Independent news Agency turan quoted medical officials As putting the toll at Azerbaijan health Ali said 269 people were of the 62 remained in Hospital most of them in serious it was not known How Many people were on the subway traffic resumed on most lines on yesterday last about 20 people were killed in two terrorist attacks on the Baku both cases Are still under authorities insisted there was no Indica Tion of terrorism in saturdays now to Stirum m hours Ross Rutherford and Lorie Mcnaughton weekdays at on Channel Csc Manitoba ;