Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 22, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Saturday free february 1997 b13 Road to Fame a real charge buyers lining up As team finds key to electric Concrete by Tom Spears Ottawa citizen Ottawa american entrepreneurs Are lining up to buy the secret of a Grey Concrete slab in Ottawa East end a slab that has stayed Snow free All the secret is but Jim Beaudoine team of National research Council scientists is run Ning an electric current through a material that normally wont carry and that has melted Snow and ice without the use of Road which Chews up Concrete Bridges and Highway ramps across Canada each its not very All you see is a Concrete slab and no says head of the materials lab at arcs Institute of research in it its you can Actu ally put your hand on it and feel the which he keeps at two to three Beaudoin and two other arc Ping go and Ping got into the Concrete Jungle almost by they were trying to figure out ways to prevent Road Salt from corroding the steel rein forcing bars in Concrete structures like corrosion routinely tears chunks out of elevated roads like Montre als Boulevard metropolitan and Toronto Gardiner smaller Bridges suffer As look around Beaudoin countries cant afford to replace infrastructure that falling apart every 15 the answer is to make materials last running an electric current through steel helps prevent Beaudoin says Carbon particles and fibres Are key to electrically charged Concrete that keeps roadways they it be Nice if they could electrify Concrete to melt Snow and ice Ordinary Concrete Doest carry attempts to make con Crete conduct Over the past half Century have produced weak Concrete or poor the arc team figured out ways of replacing the Sand and aggregate gravel in Normal Concrete with Small fibres or particles of the Carbon is cheap and plentiful one form is a waste byproduct of steel what they got was a dark Grey Concrete in which electricity trav Els from one Carbon particle to the next and heats As it and its As Strong As regular you can drive a truck across there now testing a Concrete slab half the size of a Tennis court on arc property to see How it handles a full Ottawa one objective is to come up with such As How Many Watts it takes per Square Beau Doin that crucial for determining the Early lab results show it could take anywhere from 300 to 800 Watts of three to eight 100watt Light bulbs to heat a Square the Beaudoin would be reasonable compared with the Cost of repairing the Concrete is a complicated mater Ial controlled by More than 300 chemical most All they see is con says i guess Beauty is in the Eye of the arc got a Patent on the idea in but Fame Only came when popular science wrote about Beau doing group a couple of months since december he has fielded More than 200 inquiries about this strange new Concrete that car Ries most came from contractors wondering whether its available it its still being tested and arc Hast licensed the technology to the Pri vate sector but most of these people Are very Beaudoin the entrepreneurial spirit of the americans is very Canada loses fight with to Block split run magazines by Lisa Schlein Canadian press Geneva Canadian Magazine publishers have lost a Battle at the world Trade organization to Block american split run periodicals such As sports illustrated from being sold in Trade sources a three person panel issued yesterday a Deci Sion that largely confirmed an interim ruling in favour of the United states in the so called final can be the Canadian government indicated last month that it intended to mount a in a spokeswoman for Trade minister Art Eggleton declined comment the latest report is supposed to be and neither Canadian nor Trade representatives in Geneva would discuss but Well informed Trade sources said the panel found greater Merit in the position in the the final report keeps largely intact the interim one source the Geneva based to regulates world its interim report on 16 ruled against Cana Das measures to keep out Canada has stopped the import of split runs foreign magazines sold in Canada with Canadian advertising inserted at the Border for three when sports illustrated bypassed the ban in 1993 by beaming its Content via satellite into Ottawa imposed customs tariffs and an 80percent excise tax on advertising Revenue for Canadian Magazine publishers say the split runs have an unfair advantage because their production costs Are much lower and that they Siphon scarce advertising dollars away from Canadian the to established the dispute settlement panel june 19 to investigate a complaint that the Canadian measures stifled foreign Competition and constituted unfair Trade Canada rejected the arguing the measures Are needed to maintain the country National in its concluding the panel said in the interim report the ability of a member country to protect its cultural identity was not at Issue in the present Low inflation betters interest rate Outlook by Gord Mclntosh Canadian press Ottawa Canadas annual inflation rate remained Static at per cent for a second month in january amid signs it wont move statistics Canada said yesterday that transportation and Auto insurance drove prices up in january from the same month in in fact there was a wide Range of increases in everything from University tuition to Tele phone service rising per cent in the 12 month yet thanks to falling mortgage the con Sumer Price Index was Able to absorb virtually All of the Index advanced just per cent Between december and the Economys ability to handle All those increases prompted economists to look beyond the Overall rate to something called the Core rate for a Guries of whats the Core rate is the Chi rate with Energy and food prices stripped out and is the measure the Bank of Canada uses to decide whether to Cool things off or stimulate the Economy by manipulating interest the Core rate was stuck at per cent for a second month As because it too is Static near the lower end of the Central Banks inflation target Range of per cent to per there was wide Antici pation of further interest rate the inflation in conjunction with yes inflation rate annual percentage change in the consumer Price Index 2 1 0 j foam j j a Sondyj 1996 97 96 96 Ter Days much lower than expected per cent annualized Rise in december wage Settle suggest the Bank of Canada will keep monetary policy said Sherry chief economist at Nesbitt the fact that Core consumer prices would have fallen last month if not for the jump in Telephone charges is probably not lost on Bank of Canada offi Mario chief economist at mrs is also expecting further declines in interest rates even though economic growth is expected to pick up this in Angast Niotis Doest see inflation being a problem for at least a year and a with the Core rate at a 13month the Bank of Canada will be under pressure to continue cutting interest he the pressure is Here to ease monetary conditions or lower rates to stimulate further growth to fill the he source statistics Canada up air Canada flies through Black Cloud fierce Price wan higher fuel costs depress income by Allan Swift Canadian press Montreal a bruising Price War with rival Canadian air lines and higher fuel costs depressed air Canadas operating income in but the Carrier saved its Bottom line by Selling its invest ment in a operating which excludes taxes and extraordinary dropped to million from Mil lion in the Montrea based air line reported what you see is a company not Mak ing much Money carrying either peo ple or said analyst Fred with Bunting operating revenues increased eight per cent to we were not Happy with our operating chief executive Lamar Durrett admitted in a Confer ence Durrett added that 1997 will be bet Ter but he refused to be a12 per cent increase in fuel prices added million to costs in Price wars with Canadian airlines on Domestic routes Hurt both and Durrett said the Domestic Market will continue to be extremely he said air Canadas share of the combined Market in based on tick ets sold by travel grew by one percentage Point to 57 per cent com pared with 43 per cent for Canadian airlines reported this week that ridership was up in As passengers scared off by the air lines financial crisis in december appeared to be coming air Canada plans to hire employees this year As new flights Are added to and foreign the airline employed an average of last air Canada 400 200 net income in millions of dollars 200 400 600 1990 91 92 93 94 95 96 Canada Tammy Hoy up net profit for the year More than doubled to including a gain of million on the Sale of Continental airlines last the airline earned Mil lion which included a million gain after Selling a smaller stake in Conti and 1996 was Pivotal because for the first time More than half of air Cana Das passenger revenues came from foreign flights 52 per cent com pared with 47 per cent in the airline has added 33 scheduled Cross order services since the Cana open skies agreement was implemented in february As Well As new offshore Durrett said he expects the outside growth will continue and reduce air Canadas dependency on the Flat Cana Dian Rob chief financial said the pilots strike which began 10 at four air Canada regional airlines is costing million to million a month in net about 65 per cent of service is continuing with regular air Canada and third party r world class organizations supported by Winnipeg convention Centre Manitoba april hot lunch provided now you can learn powerful Tea building principles firsthand from a Man who knows How to Mak e every minute Ken coauthor of the phenomenally successful one minute manager will present a lessons in leadership Mission possible creating world class on april 30 in this is an exciting Opportunity to interact with an organizational Leader and teacher who has trained Many of the worlds top managers and has had an Impact on the Day today management of companies that few people can Ken Blanchard has helped millions of people 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