Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1598 watch every Friday for your flyer Winnipeg free press Winnipeg subscribers Only c chamber releases hounds to dog councillors on taxes by Dave Obrien 11 ten Nipes civic politicians Vav have made new f v Bat its too Early to say How Long the relationships will the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce has matched one of its Bers with each of the Eity the goal of the new partnership is to ensure that councillors know that cutting taxes is the Chambers i the new buddy system was outlined at a chamber luncheon chamber chairman Joe Barnsley said he intended to keep mayor Glen Murray and each of the City Council tors feet to the fire on the importance of trimming instead of doing business As Wamsley said the Eity should Only be offering services that it can he added the chamber wants the cites nest labour contract to reflect the wages and benefits that Are earned in the private keynote speaker Clayton who wrote a report on the cites said City councillors have to take Tough action if they want to reduce a former tory provincial finance and education said the Days of sacred cows at City Hall must end and even the fire and ambulance services should be fair game for the City has no Choice but to look at All he told the business now is the time to he also repeated his support for removing the provincial education sep port Levy from property tax manness said the property tax sys tem transfers too much wealth from High income where ratepayers Are contributing disproportionately More than people in Low income even though they Are getting identical he questioned whether it was fair for some homeowners to pay virtually nothing for police and other civic while others Are paying huge Bills in some cases 10 to 20 times More than their Neighbours in the poorer parts of the Golden trial Date set for May City councillor Al Golden will go to trial on income tax evasion charges beginning May the trial is scheduled for two but there were already indications in court yesterday that More time might be the charges have been hanging Over Geldens head for several he was formally charged in novem Ber four counts of tax Eva Sion relating to allegedly undeclared income in and his preliminary hearing was on and from october 1997 until july despite the outstanding charges against Golden won a convincing Victory in last months civic election for the vital seat he has held for 10 Golden had also considered run for he could not be reached for comment City councillor Al Golden not a bad Trade for cookies and Mil sports mini desktop stereo system cassette pm Tell esp8 de705 cd clock radio icfcd8soblk Meg storage 5o cd changer cdfcx53 900mhz cordless phone sfp836 min disc 4 pack 4mdw74axp did player digitally effect pictures dvp8300 Universal Remote rmv60 min disc recorder mzr6q As to Hanoy Oam Cefi Trueb wifi receiver i00wx4power 8trbb38b t better not skimp on the chocolate chips this after Universal wifi j3vd players and Santa will he delivering the very latest in technology there Are lots of wonderful gift Tobi had this from the Sony everything from min disc to be you dont forget the Guy who will make it All the Sony store its not just a its a tto soot o saw v9mahw my Miebi Tot ate that Tofta ;