Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba If if feet securities a Tilini Tabi fun service investment fim Blu Chip wc0me 946029 or 1800205900 More Canada and world news s3 and around thew orid women die in crash Lviv re Teft eighteen women were killed yesterday when a train smashed into a truck taking them to work in the Fields of Central the Only survivors in the truck were the Driver and a woman beside who were in grave an emergencies ministry spokesman no one in the train was Interior minister Yuri Kravchenko said the truck who was Tak ing the women from a collective farm in the Dnipropetrovsk Central Region to the drove on to an unguarded rail crossing when the alarm was going tremor hits hard Rome Strong aftershock Early yesterday struck a population already battered by 12 Days of continuing tremors in Central at least four people were Hurt and the famed Basilica of Francis of assist sustained further the tremor hit at with a magnitude of on the Richter the National geophysics Institute that compares with the magnitude readings of the first quakes Star outshines Sun los Angeles a the Hub ble space Telescope has captured a glimpse of what is believed to be most powerful Star Ever detected a colossus that pumps out 10 million times More Energy than the Sun and yet cant be seen with the naked the pistol Star was first observed in the Early 1990s by astronomers in South Africa and Japan using Earth based infrared but it was it until Hubble provided a clearer infrared look three weeks ago that astronomers at the University of California at los Angeles realized How powerful it they said the Star releases As much Energy in six seconds As the Sun does in a whole death toll heavy Colombo renter sri lankan troops trying to capture a key North Ern Highway fought off ferocious attacks by tamil Tiger and military officials reported yesterday that More than 400 had been killed in two Days of heavy the defence ministry in Colombo said some 200 guerrillas and 30 sol Diers were killed monday when rebels attacked troops advancing towards about 260 kilo metres Northeast of the throats slashed Paris Reuter gunmen Cut the throats of 16 civilians in a night raid in Algeria and government troops killed 11 rebels on the Lith Day of a guerrilla base algerian news papers said be Matin newspaper said about 20 attackers slashed the throats of 16 people in sek Mouna Village in medea 70 pm South of overnight Canadian takes reins United nations a a Canadian has been appointed acting director of the in housing which was faulted in a in report this year for significant shortcomings in its internal Darshan Johal of will serve As acting director of the in Centre for human or from 15 until the end of the year pending appointment of a new in spokesman Fred Eckhard said talks begin Northern Ireland a a bomb attempt As a chilling leaders of North Ern Ireland Catholic and protestant communities met yesterday in their first formal talks aimed at ending a generation of it was the first time since the creation of Northern Ireland in 1921 that pro British unionists and Catholic who want a United ire have sat Down to try and work out a political a letter sent to an Ulster unionist Delegate but served As a reminder of the linger ing threat of repair Job set Yiv a Canada and the United states will pay million us to repair a deteriorating Section of the casing surrounding a ruined reactor at the chernobyl nuclear Power an official said the project is designed to Shore up the ventilation which towers Over the radioactive remains of the said Carol a u 4 offi Cial who is in Ukraine for talks on closing Chaj Robyi by the year Winnipeg tree press Canada world october Patrick Flynn 6977294 billion Dollar goof Nav Canada Deal flagged by auditor by Paul Samyn National reporter Ottawa transport Canada sold off the country air navigation system for billion less than its own estimates snowed it was the Federal auditor general reported the Price paid by Nav Canada in october 1996 to take Over the Navi gation and air traffic control system depended upon by commercial air liners and private pilots was just one of the concerns flagged by the coun try fiscal auditor general Denis Desautels also warned transport Canada still has no procedures in place to ensure Nav Canada is operating the system the department will not be in a position to have full Assurance concerning Nav Canadas compliance with safety standards until it makes significant Progress in implement ing its own safety regulation Desautels As of mid August approximately nine months after the Transfer the department had not yet fully con ducted its first audit or inspection of Nav Canadas Desautels said he didst want to suggest passenger safety has been but he said the government has a responsibility to assure canadians that the system is Nav a Norfo profit paid billion for the rights to the navigation Deal Desautels said exacted what amounted to a subsidy from tax transport Canada had a going concern valuation of Bil lion As Well As an estimated net Book value of billion for the system prior to the the Federal government up photo in his questioned the state of financial management in the implemented three years As a consequence of failings in Finan As a doctors still being duped a1 did not include which could be As High As for items such As pension funds and Severance transport Canada also came under fire for not getting a formal appraisal from an outside the Nav Canada privatization was atthe Only billion Dollar Boondoggle outlined in the auditor generals Desautels also raised questions about billion poured into Atlantic Canada to help the ailing fishery and about How billion is spent on health care for in his report singled out the Atlantic ground fish strategy what has begun As a strategy aimed at restructuring the ground fish Industry became essentially an income support the auditors wide ranging 824 Page report did not find any evidence of deliberate wrongdoing As it tracked How billions of taxpayers dollars were spent r and in some Desautels report did poke holes in the Chretien govern ments claims that it has a firm Han dle on the country with each report of the auditor we continue to observe and report to parliament on significant across a Broad Range of government that occur Cial Desautels these issues in our a continuing basis of concern and raise important questions about the state of financial management in the transport minister David col Lenette defended the Nav Canada saying it is rare that one is Able to sell something for exactly what experts said it was this was a Good Deal which reflected a negotiated Collenette he and his departmental officials also said they Are confident Nav Canada is committed to Safe opera and that the Canadian aviation system remains among the safest in the marriages prone to five year itch divorce data debunks myth seven is unlucky by Janice Tibbotts Canadian press Ottawa so much for the seven year marriages Are most Likely to fall apart after the fifth wedding statistics Canada reported debunking the myth that seven is the unlucky number for matrimonial pick an its five said Jane coauthor of the report divorce in the seven year itch is a movie and i suspect it want based on Good statistical data or its possible it used to be seven years in the United states when the movie was she refer ring to a Marilyn Munroe a statistics Canada analyst con firmed that the length of marriages ending in divorce have shortened Over probably Why in the past it was a seven year itch but now its said Francois in about four out of 1q couples who had just had their fifth wedding anniversary obtained a in Only one in four divorced Cou Ples were married less than five Bui the report says divorce rates in general Are almost where they were before a divorce Boom in the late issus after the 1985 divorce act made it easier to legally end a a backlog of people waiting for the new no fault Law inflated the divorce numbers when the legislation was first put into at the Peak in divorces were compared with in the divorce rate int its just fluctuating a Little its not going its not going Down gentleman statistics show the trend appears to be the same in other Ottawa marriage counsellor John Mansfield said the Economy is responsible for the divorce rate levelling off in the i know employment in Canada is theres a lot of people out of work and i know that would slow Down divorce he gentleman said another possible Rea son the divorce rate is staying the same after two decades of growth is because Many couples decide to live common Tew instead of if i divorce rates an estimated 31 per cent of couples who married in jul says the report statistics also show that people in their late 20s Are most Likely to Mulroney wins award Over Airbus Canadian press Ottawa the ramp owes Brian Mulroney million for inking the former prime Ter to the Airbus Justice Alan who reviewed the out court settlement reached in Mulroney lawsuit against the Al approved payment yesterday for million in lawyers nearly for a Public relations company and More than in translation gut former chief Justice of turned Down Mulroney demand to pay his accountants nearly calling the claim the settlement reached last january stipulated that the ramp would pay for All Legal fees and Money paid experts used during the Gold said the services of accountants to manage Mulroney finances during the Case didst fall Muter that de scrip Mulroney sued the government for Iso million after it named him in a request for assistance sent to Swiss authorities that indicated be was being investigated for corruption along with two other the former prime minister received an apology from the government last Winter and so far has received a million payment from the ramp to cover Legal ;