Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 20, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba I officers Knoek off finally earning a win at Home r Ignal consumer complaints about crackdown tvs mainly High Low o 4 m celebrating my 25 years Jim Mac saturday free press september 1997 inside crash deadly Britain worst rail crash since 1988 claimed six lives and injured More than 160 when two trains collided in London police arrested one of the Drivers and Media reports say he May face manslaughter charges Hedi Edin order to live they had to kill their patient to save his surgeons in Toronto stopped a mans heart and chilled his body to in order to repair a potentially fatal brain there were no signs of life for 18 minutes arrest in killings police in have arrested the com Mon Law husband of a woman whose body and those of her four children were found bludgeoned to death in their Vancouver Island Home warnings of doom financial expert Patrick Cooney is a very worried Man these he fears the Long party on the Stock markets will come to a sudden and calamitous end and a lot of investors will lose not Only their but their life savings toward smarter lights Winnipeg traffic lights Are being converted to operate by computers that Are so precise they will not Only keep the lights but will be adjusted for weather changes and Road conditions today in your City Heather Bishop West end cultural 8 and classical music of India Eckhardt Crammatte u of 7 free with donations National provisional truck Dri ving championships presented by the Manitoba trucking Parade cab Grant and 9 to 6 Index see Page d4 in life Wann sports free peek at new coming by Brad Oswald television reporter Golf and comedy and food family space to and something for the older viewer these Are All included in the new package of Spe Fialty services available to Cable to customers in four the roster of new unveiled by Cable companies yester will be offered As of 17 on a free preview basis for three and then will be sold to v Cable customers on strictly a Posi Tiv option basis meaning Cable customers will Only receive and be billed for the channels if they Contact their Cable company and ask for for customers who presently subscribe to full extended Basic Cable service Basic Ible plus channels 14 through the Price for the new package is 11 plus the Cost will be higher for those currently subscribing to lesser Cable the 10 channels included in videos new package available West of the red River Are history space the imagination the comedy net hot Home and Garden prime the Golf to food network and two former payt family Channel and Atlan abased superstition continued please Manon and Janelle Remi Uard Are taking their pumpkin Winter Eggers Stock up to get the jump on Snow by Stevens wild staff reporter the Snow has yet to but Winnipeg Gers Are already hunkering Down for with the first night of Frost on the pump Kin forecast and the first Day of autumn local businesses that Deal in Winter and Winter products Are reporting brisk sales despite what the experts environment Canada and the old Farmers a wac say Well have a mild Winter ahead of us because of warmer Pacific weather but that Good news Hast deterred win nip Eggers from buying up everything from snowblowers to Long Rod owner of vital Power said Snow Blower sales have already been i brought in 30 on Davidson Ive got nine left we Hung up a sign saying Snow blowers Are the Lively sales May be the result of last Winters High which left Davidson and other dealers without machines to continued please see Filmon fridays fading fast flush tories ready to Stop forcing unpaid Days off by Alice Krueger and John Douglas legislature editor eve years after introducing Filmon the provincial government is ready to phase them beginning in the Fil Mon government required More than provincial employees to take 10 unpaid Days off every year As a cos saving the forced holidays amounted to a per cent wage Cut that has saved the government about but with the provincial Economy humming along at a growth rate of three per nearly million in its fiscal stabilization account and two consecutive surplus the government believes its time to give workers in line depart ments a As the province prepares to sit Down with the Ber Manitoba government employees sources say Filmon fridays will soon be a thing of the they have the shelf life of less than a said a highly placed they will be phased out As con tracts come some will be phased others eliminated right the source said some multiyear contracts could see Tolje number of unpaid Days off reduced from 10 to five or then Premier Gary Filmon con firmed yesterday that the whole Issue is up for negotiation right but he added that with Manitoba entering its eighth year of economic it May be time to i 7 m under those Circum we want to recognize that employees have played a role in balancing the budget and maintaining he Filmon said that Doest mean the government is pre pared to return to wage increases that employees enjoyed in the 1970s and its time to proceed Cau he the government has already moved to exempt some hundreds of Public sector employees at Manitoba three Community alleges no longer have to take Filmon fridays they negotiate themselves out of the forced holidays in late this about Manitoba Hydro workers represented by the International brotherhood of electrical workers signed a collective agreement that does away with Fumon Union officials say there was recognition at the bar gaining table that the Days off May have contributed to a overtime Bill last employees of the Crystal Casino never were included in the Filmon fridays poli and last year the govern ment exempted corrections admitting the policy didst make sense when it meant replacing one worker with Manitoba government employees Union president Peter Olfert said yesterday that this weeks supreme court decision exempting provincial judges from the unpaid Days off is proof cracks in the policy Are starting to i think the trend is set that those Days Are behind he the Manitoba chiropractors association reminds All Manitoban that drinking and driving with excessive or without a Seatbelt contribute to serious or fatal injuries and car on behalf of oui we offer most sincere condolences to the Royal family and All who mount Princess dianas death around the ;