Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba In Isi t be r t a in Ivi e in t education Page kids make the Grade As report cards become thing of past survives vote in House furniture eases universities lament tax changes prices on the Rise automotive showcase 012 to i e born Beautiful Brooke Shields Back on screen in miniseries nothing lasts a new Ball game for Rod Black 701 Warhaft reviews lunch Rookie hosts Cynd film captures Holiday madness of Allstar snub steady Winnipeg Elueline Treppo Numminen left off thus Allstar Cyclone signs Deal with jets still searching for Landing Alphin feeling right at 1 nil checking out business b7 classified c7 comics 02 Cross rubes Ann d3 in sports to the weather morning afternoon High Low details on Page c10 Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas november province dumping Money pit by Paul Samyn legislature reporter after pumping More than million into the Manitoba hazardous waste manage ment the province has been left with a asset that it plans to sell for environment minister Glen Cummings said yesterday that a Ontario firm buying White elephant waste facility at bargain Price Deal to privatize the Money losing facility with an Ontario firm will fetch Only million Over the next three years although there is a possibility of a further we have a classic White ele said Peter Holle of the Manitoba taxpayers but Cummings said the Deal with Miller which he expects to be finalized next will end years of taxpayer subsidies and let the province tap into As much As in yearly lease payments and a share of any we have an Opportunity to receive an amount of rent equal to what we have invested in the corporation in Cummings the proposed which comes after nearly three years of search will see Miller invest Mil lion Over the next three years into a newly formed company that will run the Cummings the Money will not go to the province but instead will be used to expand the operation near which consists primarily of a storehouse to hold toxic waste and an soil treatment facility that Hast worked in a Miller is prepared to proceed with building a functional treat ment he Cummings said Miller will also pump up to million into the Facil Ity in the next two years of the depending on How the Busi Ness continued please see Joe free press ditched Carlos Rodrigues walks away from his Van after a futile work yesterday from the country just North of attempt to dig it out after losing Rodrigues the first storm of the season dumped about encountered Black ice on Mcphillips Street on his Way to 20 pm of Snow on the please see Story on Page net surfers swamp phone lines calling its get me on the internet by Kim Guttormson free press correspondent in the increasing Rush to get on the demand has outstripped the Manitoba Tele phone systems ability to Supply the necessary phone Leav ing providers stalled in the fast a number of internet service providers which operate the Gateway through which people Access the net Are angry and frustrated that its cant provide what they need phone lines or they cant deliver the product there said Leslie systems Engineer with magic online that the Bottom its very frustrate we need these phone lines and they cant give it to the problems in South win where Many of the service providers Are include not getting the phone lines Treyve ordered for weeks and its equipment being so overloaded that Call capacity is reached even when the lines Arent All in for the fledgling that results in dissatisfied customers and lost one company has been waiting a month to get four lines one service provider who asked not to be identified because he feared its could subtly retaliate by further delaying his said Many of his customers Call to complain that they get a fast Busy that Means he has lines Avail Able to take their computers but the its equipment has no circuits available to put them its much like when theres a Lon distance Sale on and dealers get a bus circuits they say its a network congestion but there a monopoly and there not giving us any the spokesman continued please see nobody by to stay Leader ponders his future by Dan Lett National reporter Ottawa the future remains murky for bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard but the spiritual Leader of the Quebec separatist movement said yesterday the 52 maps in his caucus will remain in Ottawa to fight for Quebec Bouchard told reporters yesterday at an Ottawa news con Ference that his pro separatist party met the night before and decided it was even More important after the refer to remain in the nations speculation about the future give us Power premiers b2 of Bouchard and the bloc quebecois reached a fever pitch in Ottawa on tuesday when que Bec Premier Jacques his dream of a Sovereign nation dead at the hands of resigned his position As Leader and Bouchard said his caucus has decided to although sever Al bloc maps so few you can count them on the fingers of one hand will require a few More Days to reach final decisions on their continued please see term in peril As talks bomb u profs Miles apart student Leader fears time running out by Bill Redekop and Aldo Santon staff reporters the fall term at the University of Manitoba moved closer to being lost yesterday after talks broke off Between strik ing professors and the adm Nistra the academics said they Are pre pared to sit out the entire school year unless the University of Manitoba softens its Layoff they would move on absolutely said Paul who is negotiating on behalf of the striking proves lecturers and students were understandably upset by yesterdays develop theres incredible property tax Bill looms a11 causing incredible said David president of the University of Manitoba students he said school programs will be lost after four and the entire term would Likely be can celled if the strike lasts five if the strike now entering its third week ends this lost time could still be made said we might cancel Spring something like Terry the u of m vice president for said the fall term int going to be can but gave Little explanation How that could be he said some exams will be postponed until spokesmen for both sides say they have agreed on most except the critical one How to shrink departments and Falconer last night denied administration is refusing to saying the faculty considers changing two or three words a Concession on its when they make diddly Little that not accomplishing what they want is for the sen ate to decide who is Laid that a lot different from having a say in Falconer Phillips said the Normal process is to allow the University Senate made up of Deans and faculty Council reps to make program decisions that Are academically they want to keep Power to remove individual programs and individual professors for monetary Phillips said of adminis these become accounting decisions by it appears that a few More professors Are abandoning the picket when the strike Falconer said 26 per cent of faculty Mem about 257 chose to continue Falconer said the number of faculty members who Are crossing the picket line now stands at faculty association president Grant Woods said a Small number of professors have left the picket line but added that some others who initially refused to strike Are now on the picket Gratzer said the student Union has asked education minister Linda Mclntosh to consider an Aid package for look for the insert in saturdays paper for your Chance to win lottery License for tickets 9883333 goodlife health i Asci a civic foundation ;