Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 1999, Winnipeg, Manitoba Need a solution Fin Reading problems conference weight preview Gold tops Mark the weather sunny with increasing afternoon High Low details on Page d12 Winnipeg free press garbage Day 4 school Day 4 inside explosive situation residents of a Windsor Park apartment Block were evacuated for about six hours monday night and Early yester Day after an Anonymous caller alerted police to a Cache of explosives inside the the bomb making material was discovered in the basement and later destroyed at a City Landfill initiatives go to Council mayor Glen Murray is taking two key initiatives to City Council hoping for one is the business plan for an Agency charged with downtown the other is his tax reduction plan Frost too Early for crops the killer Frost came late to Southwest Ern Manitoba this but it was still too Early for Farmers who had to seed their crops late due to unusually heavy and unrelenting Spring rain transition underway eleven years of tory bureaucracy and government is being rapidly torn to pieces and cast aside and in its place the Skeleton of a new nip regime is growing to meet the 5 deadline for swearing in the new Premier and Cabi net peacekeepers threatened ant Independence militias in East timor Are warning International peace keepers to Stop raids on their Strong holds and release arrested militia Lead ers or suffer the consequences crisis in caucasus the regions surrounding Chechnya braced for a humanitarian crisis yester Day As tens of thousands of people from the restive russian Republic fled another Day of russian air attacks Banks turf invaded Primerina financial services of Canada is bringing the Bank to the Kitchen getting in on the Market for credit Loans and other products that have previously been the turf of traditional Banks brawling golfers european Ryder cup Captain Mark James says that unless something is done to curb the abusive behaviour seen at this years there could be fist fights on the Golf course today in your City Orson Scott card one of the worlds preeminent contemporary science fiction writers Reading and signing Enders Mcnally Grant Park 7 Max Island of the Africa the and mysteries of Egypt children be foyer 340 cd release party for Monica schroeders new album the expectation of Index local Canada world in Lite net Reader and Ann sports to september constitutional Challenge Over sexually child porn Law attacked by Mike Mclntyre staff reporter Canadas child pornography Law came under fire in a Winnipeg courtroom yesterday when a lawyer argued children As Young As 14 should be allowed to pose nude for sexually explicit in what is believed to be the first constitutional Challenge of its Ken Mccaffrey said the government is discriminating against Young people by allowing them to have sex at age 14 its very if a 15yearold girl can have sex with Why cant she ask me to take a topless picture of her Garry who is charged with possessing child but forcing them to wait until they Are 18 before they can consent to be photographed were not trying to make a moral statement regarding child por Nogra were just trying to Challenge the double Standard that exists in Canad an Mccaffrey told provincial court judge Linda i Frame this As the taking away of ones ability to make whether Good choices or bad if experts say the Legal Challenge could have widespread ram Wayne free press sky High Bird numbers Canada geese Fly near Oak Hammock Marsh nature preserve North of some geese will pass through the area this fall As they Wing their Way to Winter migration this year is Likely to be the busiest migration in recorded please see Story on Page if cations across this would totally throw out child pornography said Rosalind a child rights activist with the Winnipeg based child pornography watchdog group beyond Mccaffrey has launched the Legal Challenge on behalf of his 56 year old Garry who was charged in january 1997 with one count of possessing child por Nogra continued please see Bye Bye to cheap Winter flights tour operators slash number of Charters managers 10 of hospitals Cost wha targets plans to put savings into patient care by Alexandra Paul medical reporter layers of management within hospitals accounted for More than 10 per cent of the total budget for the cities nine hospitals last according to the first annual report of the Winnipeg Hospital administrative and support ser vices Cost the health system Mil lion out of a total of million for Hospital services across the the bulk of the million went to salaries and benefits for Hospital pres Vic presidents and depart ment it is the first time the Public has been Able to see what Hospital management the Cost for the next layer of Bureau Cracy the managers at the tory appointed Winnipeg Hospital authority was the two figures show for the first time the Cost of maintaining duplicate layers of hos Pital which Drew fire in the recent provincial election Cam the new nip government has promised to reduce the at last nights annual general meet ing of the its chief executive Gordon identified 20 areas in administrative and support services within the hospitals that will be restructured to eliminate Duplica Tion with the Hospital continued please see Ontario judge gives Onex Green Light to poll stockholders proposed airline merger private pm says by Sandra cordon Canadian press Ottawa prime minister Jean Chretien suggested yesterday that shareholders should decide the Fate of a proposed airline just As an Ontario court was giving them that in some of his first comments on a merger Between air Canada and Cana Dian Chretien suggested the Deal int his governments its a private Chretien said in although his transport min ister took a different tack in new an Ontario Superior court said Onex can Call a special shareholder meeting where air Canada Stockhold ers can vote on the company lion bid to buy the airline and merge it with troubled Canadian air Canada wanted to delay a meeting until january to give other potential bid Ders time to come the airline said it May Appeal the court we have up to the Day before the november said spokes woman Nicole transport minister David Collenette said Ottawa has a very critical role to play in assessing any the Market alone will not decide what is in the Best interests of Cana he said following a meeting of transport ministers in Saint for said the Deal must meet five conditions con Sumer service to Small employee ensuring Competition and maintaining effective Domestic the government of Canada will act in the Public interest we want a Canadian Chretien remarks outraged opposition maps who frustrated by the Liberal governments delay in resum ing parliament began their own and hoc hearings on the Onex proposal yes continued please see by Duncan Morrison for the free press Manitoban holding out for a cheap Winter getaway this year May find their Holiday dreams now that Winnipeg tour operators have trimmed the sur plus of vacation charter flights out of the Pat Rachey of signature one of four vacation tour operators in said the move to split routes and offer fewer flights this Winter was necessary following last years Over abundance of there were far More seats in the Winnipeg marketplace than the mar Ket could said explain ing that the tour operators signature Canada 3000 hol world of and Sun quest contract seats individually from operating this year everybody took a More realistic approach in bringing things Back to that Means you can say Bye Bye to the bargains of last people Are coming in looking for seat but there not going to be there this said Helen Kuch of four seasons travel people seem to think they can get a break if they i just Hope they dont get Wendy Kowaliszyn of world of vacations said people should be plan Ning their Winter vacation we encourage people to Book ahead because theres less seats and if there booked theres no she people wont see the same Type of deals As last because weve Cut Back Kuch said something had to the tour companies cant afford to have All these empty seats at Giveaway she its been silly the last few last four flights a week left Winnipeg for Las but since Many of the 792 seats offered weekly were tour operators scram bled to fill planes by slashing sometimes Selling return fares to vegas for As Low As people who purchased holidays at Sale prices last year were paying unrealistic prices for their said this there wont be As Many Sale packages offered below she said signature vacations has booked 25 per cent fewer seats than last but besides Basic Supply and there Are other reasons win nip Eggers wont find the same bar gains this a lot of the Al inclusive hotels Are adding extra features for the 2000 Mil which is increasing prices Over that time she but some Are increasing prices simply because they ;