Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Gordon Sinclair lessons Learned from look Over Brink it was the most Pivotal hour in Canadian at least in my but what have we Learned from the que Bec referendum and our Jour Ney to the Brink of breakup we have Learned that Jacques Parizeau and per haps Quebec nationalism Are even More scary than we we were its the Quebec Premier told the losing yes but by what by Money and the eth Nic this is the Man who wanted to Lead the country of what could have been the nation next what next ethnic cleans ing groping on National to to explain Why Parizeau blamed the English and former Ontario Premier Bob Rae suggested it might have been something the Quebec Premier in the Shock of the none of the television commentators considered another possibility that Parizeau inflammatory language was calculated that drunk for instead of with wanted to drive a deeper wedge Between us and Divide further and Canada trumpeted the English daily Montreal Quebec warned the French daily be we Learned the hard Way that something is fundamentally wrong with our country when Quebe cers make the difference Between Canada As we know and Quebec As the majority of francophone quebecois want it to we Learned that if this were almost any other country on we could be headed for civil War we Learned that All of us but Jean Chretien especially owe the voters of Montreal including the cites they actually made the difference on referendum we Learned that the people who made the difference Between winning and losing might Well have been the thou Sands of canadians who trav Elled to Montreal last week to demonstrate their affection for we Learned that there is a place for passion and patriotism in and we Learned that from but we also Learned that say ing we love Quebec wont be enough in the in the words of Quebec minister of intergovernmental just dont love us recognize we have Learned Quebec language and Cul Ture make it different Dis if you and unless we can accommodate the legitimate aspirations of a democratic society that is the quebecois will get their we have Learned that even More provincial Powers wont be enough we have Learned that Quebec is More than a province but less than a we have Learned that to sur Vive As a we might have to go so far As to create we might have to give Quebec what we have steadfastly denied them sovereignty in what amounts to an economic Union Between Canada and a continent of coun tries that have warred for Cen has created an economic Why not Canada and Quebec i think some of us in the rest of Canada Learned All of that on referendum at least we better Winnipeg free press local nowt let f province threatening marketing boards official says hog plan raises hackles by Bill Redekop staff reporter it will be a mad scramble to sell hogs and far Gate prices will drop under a new Provin Cial plan announced hog producers in said Ken chairman of the Manitoba hog marketing i think the govern ment is responding to corporate and that very disturb the provinces plan allows farm ers to make their own deals with a move that threatens the future of the Manitoba hog marketing for the past 22 All hog sales have passed through the marketing which negotiates prices on behalf of Farmers and then pays Farmers the weekly average the system is designed to pre vent companies from playing one Farmer off against another to drive Down hog that not hard to do with hog producers and just four Foster the marketing Board also pre vents surpluses that cause Short term drops in prices due to forced he the Board May just become a promotion Agency for the pork Industry if Many Farmers choose to bypass its Foster agriculture minister Harry Enns said the new called dual could take effect with in three attract producers Enns said the move is designed to attract More meat processors Able to Market pork International Kitchene based Schneider recently announced it will invest million in a new Manitoba hog and Enns said another processor is close to making a Sim Ilar Enns said the schneiders Plant in Large being built to sell specific pork cuts to the japanese to do Schneider wants to negotiate directly with Farmers to get specific fat con there Are currently hogs leaving the province a year to be processed in and that Means lost said direct Selling is Only an he and Farmers can still make their deals through the marketing Board if they the hog Industry employs about people in include worker has deadly fall by Paul Mckie staff reporter a Winnipeg bricklayer fell seven storeys to his death yesterday while repairing masonry work on a Wellington Crescent apartment Johnny Edward fell from a Balcony at 245 Wellington Crescent just before 10 his ladder crashing to the ground beside workplace health and safety were at the scene investigating the police said a ladder had been set up to the roof from the bal the worker was apparently on the ladder when he lost his bal Ance and at the the dead mans shocked and grimaced coworkers declined a truck at the site bore the name t l masonry but Calls to the office were not answered yester a neighbor who lives across the Street from the Block was grate Ful she didst see the tragic i heard a loud noise and a lot of said the thank god i didst see Harry the Manitoba federation of labors health and safety said the ladder should have been but he speculated the worker May have been in the process of doing Jeff free press distraught coworker is comforted by colleague after Man Dies in fall food Bank gets a break Core Agency allowed to stay in government building by Stevens wild City Hall reporter an intercity food Bank got a Las minute reprieve when a provincial Cabinet minister rescinded an order to evict it from its government owned Jim treasurer of the Ani Hinabe food said he received a lat afternoon phone Call from Urban affairs minister Jack Reimer saying the food Bank could stay at its Laura Street he said we could stay on a month month Smith Reimer was not available for comment last but an offi Cial in his office confirmed the minister had Given the food Bank permission to stay on the premis the food Bank was to surrender its keys yesterday it was facing eviction yester Day because government officials Felt it was impeding the possible Sale of the that would have led to the food Bank going out of business because it cannot afford to pay Smith we have no other place to work out he the food Bank had been using the premises rent free for six Smith said the food which served Between 100 and 200 area distributed food As recently As last earlier the provinces Deputy minister of Urban affairs confirmed the food Bank had been asked to vacate the we think it would be easier to sell if it was said Jim its not the role of Urban affairs to provide subsidies to nonprofit Ani Hinabe spokeswoman Lori Smith said the food Bank is run by volunteers and got most of its food from Winnipeg she said it paid for utilities through fundraising As she said the food Bank conducted other activities Over Fhil Hospach Winnipeg free f Ress Smith sits in building that houses Ani Hinabe food the such As teaching poor people How to Cook to maximize limited the Only thing the government has Ever Given us is the she its a Volunteer organi she said closing the food Bank would put added pressure on Sim Ilar organizations in the i think this is More of a bureaucratic thing than a ministerial she i think its something that got caught up in some bureaucrats Smith said an empty building could possibly be a nuisance to the we dont want another vacant building in our she its a White Beaulieu said the government did not have a tenant in mind for the but that renting the space would be easier without the food ing Farmers and farm processors and workers in the packaging More than Farmers manage production of about million hogs per this is one of the most Success Ful industries in the said its very hard to under stand Why the government wants to rip the heart out of hog producer Bill Vanags from Dugald said Enns should Call a referendum and let Farmers Enns responded that the marketing Board didst originate with a and referendums Are greed costs thief his life burglar Dies at Hydro Plant by Tony Davis staff reporter a mans attempt to steal cop per wire from a Manitoba Hydro terminal station came to a grisly end when he was electrocuted monday around noon two Manitoba Hydro workers found the body of a 40yearold Man bloody and badly burned inside a fenced compound at the Kirkfield Park terminal just West of the perimeter Highway on Saskatchewan the mans clothes and skin had been seared his baseball Fanny pack and boots he was found Hal sitting against the barbed wire fencing meant to keep people out of the ramp Are withholding his name until his next of Kin Are dozens of Winnipeg police offi cers descended on the scene yes but left when it was determined the death took place within the jurisdiction of Headin Gley there were tools and Burn Marks on the ground where the Copper wire the Man was pulling off the substation Structure came into Contact with a live his body was found More than 30 metres there was evidence he was Dis and he probably ran around the compound with his clothes on fire until he fell said heading Ley ramp Jim you play around with that Many volts in the that pretty a Manitoba Hydro spokesman said its believed the Man tried to steal the wire monday we had a trip in one of our capacitor Banks at Mon Day and we sent someone out to inspect the but he didst see said Manitoba Hydro spokesman manager Glenn Schnei the a staffed visited Only once or twice a week by Hydro converts electrical cur rent from to ramp Wyman Sangster said the dead Man was known to but he would not say if the Man had been involved in previous attempts to steal Copper wire has been stolen from substations in win Portage and Brandon in recent what they Are after typically is the Large gauge Copper wire that is already said the Loudoun Road substation in Charleswood was recently he said the ground wire the Man was apparently trying to Anbolt from the substation and a connect ing Rod buried in the ground was about 30 metres Long and thicker than a Jack owner of Logan Iron said the wire could have been Worth Between and per ;