Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday free june 1996 a7 Spicer exits on a wave by Vic Parsons Canadian press Ottawa Keith Spicer helped whip up the swells of the information wave during the last seven years and is stepping off Canadas regulatory Board just As the Breakers come crashing onto the his term As chairman of the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission ends later this month with the country in the midst of a turbulent transition in among the changes facing canadians Are the introduction of digital radio and allowing distribution of More signals with finer Quality allowing con Sumers to talk Back or to reshape the Content they and mergers and tougher Competition among Industry Spicer easily admits that Riding the wave will be anybody who portrays himself As a reliable Futurist should not be looking ahead More than six months or they Are going to end up in the realm of fairy he perhaps his most visible Effort has been a drive to eliminate the worst of to we have to try to give kids a bet Ter Chance at a creative and Loving he through persuasion and Public Spicer has enlisted Canadas broadcasters in his he threatened broadcasters with a blackout of violent to and then went to washing ton to work out a Compromise to Avert a Nasty Trade Many americans see Eyet Eye with Spicer that something must be done to keep violent to from polluting Young its a real win win Spicer executive rejects cart Job Canadian press Toronto Ottawa top Choice for chairman of the Canadian Radi Otele vision and telecommunications commission has turned the fed eral government says the Toronto Robert chief operating officer of the bronc Man family Claridge in wont replace Keith Spicer As chairman when Spicer Steps Down at the end of government sources told the who headed last years Federal panel that exam ined the future of direct to Home satellite policy and is a former Deputy minister of com is said to be the Choice of most Industry but sources say one of his conditions for accepting the top Job was that Ottawa would offer his brother a different position with the Federal government to avoid any apparent conflicts of that Hast Victor Rabinovitch is an Assis Tant Deputy minister for Broad casting in the heritage which oversees the Spicers time As regulator has featured High profile Battles with the government Over issues like satellite to and local phone those disputes led Industry min ister John Manley to Muse last year that the next appointee should be More attuned to the govern ments Spicer has no but strives to avoid confrontational i Hope the commissions role will be Independent and trans Par that valuable to an honest most of the decisions we have had to make Are controversial and traditionally governments Are not very interested in making Canadas broadcast and communications world seems to be divided Between spice philes and Spicers departure from the com Mission at the end of june helps realize a dream he has had since he was a student at the sorbonne in he will teach communications for eight months a year at the renowned French University and will spend another two months lec Turing in secret tory fund covered fraud losses Regina the Saskatchewan conservative party used a secret lion fund in february to pay Back stolen from the govern ment in a fraud the fund also allowed the con who claimed to be thou Sands of dollars in to fight last Springs election on equal footing with the nip and tory Leader Bill Boyd said Fri Day the Regina pc metro Council fund was established in 1982 Dur ing Grant Devines administration by three party emergency Landing a routine trip turned into an adventure when almost 400 Virgin Atlantic Passen Gers including a Duke had a Surprise 15hour Layover in the Eastern flight scheduled to go from London to los had to make an emergency Landing Fri Day in Iqaluit on Baffin Kilometres North of after an american passenger had a heart attack four hours into the an airline spokeswoman said in passengers included Prince Michael of Cousin to the clinic fees Deal could soak Alberta taxpayers ads sep free to leave Canadian press Edmonton of Berta taxpayers could be on the Hook for millions of dollars because of the provinces new Deal with Ottawa Over private clinic says some we now have two tier Medicine and the provincial government is paying for both objected Paul a spokesman for doctors in the capital health for something like a Cataract private clinics in Alberta Are charging patients a fee to cover the Cost of running a freestanding he that three times As much As the already covered by the tax payer for the same operation in the publicly funded despite these wide Cost the Alberta government agreed this week to end extra Billing by picking up the Tab for All facility fees paid to private clinics for procedures considered medically Nec Alberta has paid about Mil lion in fines since last Ottawa imposed the penalties because Alberta wanted to continue to allow doctors to Bill both Public and Pri vate a contravention of the Canada health the province says it has already budgeted for the a month the facility fees will whats missing is a commitment to bring private facility costs Down to Public Greenwood but advocates for privatization warn that private clinic physicians will opt out of medicare if they dont get a fair facility Halifax ramp investigators have left a vessel implicated in an alleged Case of High seas Mur der of stowaways and the ship is now free to police said yes the Maersk Dubai had put in a request for a Harbour Pilot Friday night in preparation for but the request was subsequently there was no word on a h i o n s Footie a a c c e s s o r i e s cos in e t i c s Nursery f u r n i t u r h o m e bed Bat h h a r d w h o m e i m prove m e n i s m a j o r a p p i i a Nee s All bras and control briefs and All hosiery Sears has professionally trained Bra fit consultants to help you find the perfect selection May vary 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