Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 local Winnipeg free May 2000 favouritism complaints probed at Manitoba lotteries human resources audit to be completed today by Doug Nalrie a second audit at Manitoba lot teries this one on allegations of workplace harassment and other human resources troubles will be completed Mac chairwoman Bev Suek said the investigation by labour lawyer Colleen Suche was commissioned after numer Ous complaints were received by the new Board of it appears that this has been a difficult place to Suek peo ple Felt they we rent being treated the report is expected to detail a number of allegations ranging from favouritism to Suche did More than 100 interviews with Mac and established a phone line for people to Call in Suek said Mac lacked Basic human resource policies present elsewhere in government to Deal with issues like awarding salary premiums for people filling in at jobs with higher there were a lot of informal practices in place that were applied Dif she Suek said Mac senior Vic president Peter who has been acting head of the Crown corporation for the past four has already started Tak ing Steps to tighten up financial controls and improve staff for she said Hak has removed rules that banned staff from eating at Mcdonalds restaurants in the casinos or shopping at Mac Suches report comes Only Days after provincial auditor Jon Singleton criticized Mac executives for giving themselves generous Perks and not being upfront with costs related to the expansion of club Regent and Mcphillips Street minutes after singletons report was made the doer government announced lotteries ceo Bill Funk had been More Mac executives May be released in the coming Liberal Leader Jon Ger Rard called yesterday for a Public inquiry into the troubles at he asked Premier Gary doer How former Board who were supposed to be monitoring what was going on in the Crown will be held but doer said he does not think an inquiry is the matter is under police invest he i think that to extra expenses at this Point would be Annec doer said the problems at Mac have been and now his govern ment will have to find Gerrard said he also wanted Assur ances there we rent similar problems at other Crown doer said the situation at Mac is boardroom versions of Casino expansion differed by Doug Narne the Manitoba lotteries had two versions of the ambitious Casino expansion project that is now embroiled in controversy one for the and another for the a free press investigation of min utes from Mac Board meetings shows the Cost of renovating club Regent and the Mcphillips Street station grew Over a period of two climbing from million in 1997 to Mil lion in the Board approved the starting with million in 1997 and then another million in another million was later added on for but those Arent the numbers that were Given to when the Fil Mon government first announced expansion in the Cost was set at by the Price was quoted at it want until months after the Board approved the million in extra spending that Mac disclosed the Cost had gone up to it took a direct enquiry from the Media to get the the tax Bill want Dis cussed until earlier this again when the Media went to Mac and asked for a Cost a12 per cent construction Cost Over run of million was identified this week in a scathing report on financial mismanagement at driving total construction costs up to provincial auditor Jon Singleton said the piecemeal disclosure is confusing and flies in the face of keeping tax payers informed about where their Money is get left out there Are also two ver Sions of exactly what the project when Mac was talking about the they didst include any thing but the bricks and mortar of the the also left out another million in equipment costs want made although it was approved by the Singleton says the total project Cost including taxes and buying new was million nearly twice the highest amount Ever made former Mac Board member Ken Cooper said it want up to him to Tell taxpayers How much Money the Crown corporation was it want our Job to release things to the he All that gets collected and vetted by the and the Crown corporations Council had Access to it As Cooper said the former tory Cabinet was Given every minute and every project report that was but that not the Story being told by former Premier Gary Filmon and his Cabinet Filmon says he thought the entire project included was Only former lotteries minister Darren Praznik said that was his understand ing As Cooper angrily rejected singletons position that the total project Cost should include Slot machines and Fea Tures like the million millennium which alone ended up nearly million Over Neon Winnipeg from the last after being phased by a Steinbach ramp Ruiter on Speed Neon Coll Dot with a gravel truck that is making a lefthand turn onto Plessis Chase begins when Neon hits Speed trap on at Highway ramp Cruiser terminates Chase just outside the City at deacons Neon nips and ends up on us tour people crash takes place at Tran Canada and Plessis mum rabbi i must a mat crash continued from Page a1 family members of the two 13year old boys waited anxiously at Hospital last one of the boys suffered a broken leg and a broken the other suffered internal he spent hours in surgery last one of the boys fathers said his son who lived in the Core area with his grandmother had been struggling to stay away from bad influences in the those kids kept asking him to do things for the father he was running with bad i the Man said he feels Lucky that his son survived the when the cops came to my place i thought he had been killed or some he while the boy underwent a five hour operation last his friends and fam ily members from the City and his grand parents from Lake Martin first nation streamed into the the father of the other 13yearold boy describes his son As an outgoing kid who attended Hugh John Macdonald he refused to speculate on Why his son was in a stolen several motorists who witnessed the crash stopped their vehicles and tried in vain to help the you could hear some and a passenger in the front seat was conscious and looking said gravel truck Driver Don some people capped off the leaking while others tried to get the doors of the car open but they could it get to the people Jacques westbound Rig collided with the speeding car when in front of him during a failed attempt to pass in the oncoming Lane of the result was a horrific crash that left the car crumpled and resting on its More than a dozen firefighters worked for hour using the jaws of a Fife to Tims including on male who repeat edly cried out in ramp and Winnipeg police Are jointly investigating the which began when a mountie from Steinbach doing radar patrol tried to pull Over the Neon after it raced past her on the trans Ana a Highway near ramp staff John Martin said the officer called off the Chase later near deacons Corner about five Kilometres East of the crash Martin said the Neor continued to Speed away while o icer followed at a Safe she be the crumpled car when she drove Over a Bridge on the Tran Canada at Plessis he he say How fast the car was travelling when it was clocked on radar but said it was far in excess of the posted Speed limit of 100 reports said the Speed was about 150 the westbound Neon had attempted to pass the westbound gravel truck while the truck was making a southbound turn on a gravel i saw it coming really fast in my rear View and i thought this crazy speeding Guy was going to try and pass said who was driving the truck for heavyweight hauling they pulled right in front of me As i was moving my it All happened in an Steinbach ramp Andre Arsenault said it appears proper safety procedures were but a mandatory review of the incident will pfc conducted by tie said there is no indication alcohol was a Factor p the crash but the investigation is f t 1 f we go to great widths to build the perfect new balance mens women w853 widths for All 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