Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Arg stake bombers apart for the second time this month at Winnipeg stadium in ii ii and Hope holocaust survivor transforms Trie unimaginable into Trie Concrete sentor is Over aimed by the positive response to his Energy Effi client construction product the weather Cloudy and Chance of in details on Page c10 125 years Winnipeg free press garbage Day 4 school Day Al inside fallen officers honoured thousands of police officers from across Canada and the United states gathered in Ottawa yester Day for the 20th National memorial service for officers who have died in the line of monarchy undermined a poll has found that the death of Princess Diana has undermined How Winni Eggers feel about the monarchy soap opera continues City Council could kill Sam Kates stadium delay it or give it the Green City Hall reporter Aldo Santin recounts the twists and turns that have occurred in the stadium soap opera so far second Chance sought the Canadian Cable to Industry is launching a expensive Campaign today to sell Consumers on a Batch of new channels in Hopes forgive the infamous negative option Gaffe of two years ago Disneyland of the dead a former grave robber who was a Thorn in the Side of archaeologists for decades has recreated the world of ancient Italy in a kind of Disneyland of the Europe takes Ryder cup the United states had the better but Europe had the better the europeans held off a furious rally by the americans yesterday to capture the Ryder cup in Spain today in your City Smith with Stephen West end cultural 8 and evening with Gerda Klein pan tages 8 rumours Gay comedy starring Scott Kennedy and Kevin 8 Index local Canada it world in life net Reader and Ann sports to september tax Cut pressure mounts staff finance minister Eric Ste Fanson hits the Road next month with a Wallet Ful of taxpayers savings Worth More than Mil in a consultation like no Manitoban face the question of what to do with All that the tories second budget surplus in two after a period of fiscal Bel tighten ing and spending the provincial Economy is beginning to fire on All cylinders and the tories Are under Stefanson to poll Public on surplus 1 the tories tax options a8 pressure to Cut but where to where to and by How much is the question Ste Fanson will be asking in his annual pre budget the business Community is getting a Little said Dan Kelly of the Canadian federation of Independent we have gone through some pain in the sense of doing business and now we have to watch As other provinces have done tax lowering the provincial sales tax to six per cent from the current seven per cent would mean a loss of Mil lion to the provincial it would mean an extra for an average family of dropping the personal income tax rate by one Point would Cost the province just but give the clinic woos Manitoban Joe Bryksa Winnipeg free press patient undergoes cts can in Dos imaging is waiting to see if Manitoban use All systems go in Grafton for tests on Manitoban High tech machines ready for patients fed up with waiting by Kim Guttormson staff reporter this quiet town of about is an unlikely Home for High tech equipment like cts cans and Ultra but the machines Are sending a signal to just an hour who await diagnostic tests from an overburdened Public healthcare crossing the Border to pay for a medical test int a new but when the new clinics sole Pur pose is to Cater to the worried and the impatient in it puts a fresh face on the old two tier healthcare will we Ante up for Quick peace of or hold onto the purse strings and wait our turns Dos imaging used to haul the diagnostic equipment a magnetic resonance a cts can waiting heres what various tests will Cost you at the medical imaging Centre in twon Between us about Fri Between us about us about for 0ts Are available Mon thursdays and Fri Day ultrasounds Are available on mondays and mris Are available on your doctor must refer you for the Manitoba waiting times cts can Between four and five months for cases such As Lon stand and an ultrasound machine to Grafton in the Back of a truck once or twice a said Dos project director Steve but Manitoba fearing that waiting lists were becoming too Long in the began to Call the company last he they were willing to Send their patients below the Sven ing Low or tribe tween four and five Konttis for elective cases such testing whether a patient might have multiple or cerebral aneurysms where theres a family his tory six to eight weeks for some obstetrical tests to a year for other Manitoba numbers cts cans 10 machines doing More than tests a mris one machine doing tests each 40 doing More than tests a Ingson we came to Winnipeg to gauge How much business there would and there seemed like there would be a patients were frustrated with the doctors because they get them in continued please see same family of four Only extra a the tories have promised to get rid of the and created payroll but Stefanson May not be too keen about it nets the province million a year and 90 per cent of employers dont have to pay the finance minister has said he has it seen any direct evidence that major tax cuts create he said he wants to get on with the business of paying Down the provinces and there Are other ways to stimulate the feds try to Force students to pay up by Bill Redekop staff reporter the Federal government will move tomorrow to crack Down on students who declare bankruptcy simply to avoid repaying Stu Dent As student debt loads have so too has the number who simply walk away from the government Between 1989 and the number of student bankruptcies jumped 250 per now Ottawa is proposing new regu lations to prevent students from using bankruptcy to default on student loan repayments for at least two years after they graduate or leave they cant just walk out the see a trustee and declare said Russ acting Federal superintendent of bankruptcy for in the last two 120 students in Manitoba have declared bankruptcy and walked away from in Stu Dent last Manitoba students were eligible for million in Federal Loans and million in provincial Assis although much of that million was disbursed through tax credits to throughout students owe about billion in Loans to the Federal and provincial about 20 per cent of them will fail to repay the Loans on time and in student leaders dont quibble with the new but add it Doest address the real problem the crushing debt Load of pos secondary at the University of Stu dents now pay 37 per cent of the institutions versus 20 per cent a decade said Elizabeth u of w student a recent study showed 48 per cent of u of m students carried Loans that averaged National figures show the average student graduating with a three year degree has accumulated about in that number is projected to increase to by according to figures from the Canadian federa Tion of students say its not surprising that students decided in 1996 to sin ply walk away from the Loans and declare i think the question is what is the government going to do about the Stu Dent debt said continued please see whiplash Cau be a serious it not treated correctly f it can create lit Eloigi g problems chiropractic care is o Ali splash in r Why suffer s chiropractor medicare and private and group health ;