Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg chamber chief Carolann Brady wants to bring it Back downtown and disgraced sportscaster Marv Albert accepted a Deal yesterday and pleaded guilty to assault in his lurid sex hours he was fired by Abc and put your hockey poo team together for 199798 the weather o mainly High Low details on Page b10 celebrating 125 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 3 school Day 4 september 1997 inside smothered in smoke its called simply the Blanket of smoke affecting millions As it wafts across Southeast Asia As a result of for est fires in Many of them deliberately treachery City Hall is Abuzz with rumblings that mayor Susan Thompson and the pc Are trying to kill Sam katzes proposed baseball one councillor says the kind of treatment the project has received is an embarrassment to the City Mill rate May Rise Winnipeg school division trustees say that because of successful commercial property assessment a four per cent Mill rate increase May be necessary to maintain current budget Levels cities look for links a Manitoba senior City of Winnipeg among More than 500 attending a mid Continental cities Summit this week in Kansas delegates Are working on common Trade goals and economic Cwb changes unveiled the Federal government has introduced changes to the Canadian wheat Board act that it says will make the Agency More democratic while maintaining the boards monopoly on Grain sales Brake for a break Neil Grover and Gilles Corbeil Are look ing Forward to leisurely rides through Assiniboine Park since returning from the world Mountain Bike championships in chateau today in your City province so and the Canadian brass Centennial concert 8 to sesame Street live Winnipeg and 7 and Shoom Sisters an evening of poetry and ukrainian cultural and educational 184 Alexander 8 Index Canada world in life net Reader and Ann sports to cup changes to hit hard at youth legislation introduced yesterday designed to keep plan from going broke by Bill Redekop Stan reporter Young people now entering the Job Market will pay dearly for changes to the Canada pension plan announced experts the real losers Are Young said actuary Louis of Elle ment someone earning about will pay five per cent of their salary for the rest of their in return for a very meagre the cup changes add up to nearly More in cup deductions Over the course of a working not including interest and future deduction Ellement was responding to the fed eral governments introduction yesterday of cup legislation designed to keep the plan from going an employees maximum annual deductions for cup will jump 75 per cent to per from today by the year in percentage employee deductions for cup will jump from per cent to about five per employ ers must match the the self employed have to pay the whole shot anyone earning or More pays the maximum continued please see health minister Rolls up attacks healthcare woes Praznik game plan we have already balanced the budget so we have turned the Corner financially health minister Darren Praznik Praznik Centre with from Don Roberta Frank sue by David Kuxhaus legislature reporter health minister Darren Praznik has a Multi pronged plan that will reduce waiting lists and streamline healthcare oper Praznik announced in funding for additional staff to operate the cites two Bone density testing the tests help identify a condition that can Lead to wrist and spine Frac postmenopausal women Are most susceptible to the the Money Means a two year Back log of about patients should be cleared up by Christmas its the latest initiative by a new minister looking to right the govern ments reputation on health eight months after taking Over the health Porto Praznik has found millions of dollars for Rural enough Cash to reduce waiting lists for cancer patients and backed Down on a plan to charge user fees for special orthotic he has increased healthcare spending by about including million to wipe out deficits at Mani Toba continued please see were try ing to fix a lot of go along health minister Darren Ansnik the Praznik plan reduce Walling lists for diagnostic services for outpatients by sep of the minister has set aside million to do was allotted for Bone announcements Are anticipated in coming months for orthopaedic and heart an Fri magnetic resonance imaging machine for the new dialysis unit to be built in the along with an expansion of services in Rural areas like longer Range revamp Hospital budgets so the province will be Able to track what funds Are used for what set up a facility that will conduct All diagnostic tests on appointments and test results would be handled by a centralized computer basically does he have magic or is it just More Money prognosis improving for ailing health department for Vanir by Paul Samyn National reporter Michael Bass of Hemma is Darren Praznik a better health minister or just one with deeper pockets for the theres no deny ing that Praznik has been Success Ful at getting the Filmon government to loosen its purse after just eight months on the this free spending health min ister has found millions of dollars for Rural enough Cash to reduce waiting lists and even backed Down on a mean spirited plan to charge user fees to the disabled for special orthotic devices analysis such As knee braces and shoe Modi and in what was one of the largest bailouts Ever in the depart Praznik got million to relieve hospitals of their red Ink that More Money than Sev eral government departments spend each we have already balanced the so we have turned the Cor Ner said who is in charge of a ment that spends a third of the provincial budget but theres More to Praznik new Money magic than just the provinces improving fiscal Situa As part of his revamping of his senior Praznik has also patched up differences with the Treasury which had Long been saying no to virtually every thing the health department has shortly after becoming health minister earlier this Praznik dipped into the finance depart ment and plucked out its associate Deputy Don continued please ;