Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 27, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba I May 2000 Canada a15 Clark Calls off Quick tory Leader will Wai for general election by Jim Brown Ottawa conservative Leader Joe after weeks of has rejected the advice of some of his own maps and decided not to seek a commons seat through a Quick Clark maintained yesterday there is no Rea son to run this summer even if he the House would be in recess and he take his seat until the session resumes in the by he there is a growing likelihood prime minister Jean Chretien will make the whole question moot by calling a general theres no Point in provoking a by election in the next several Clark so we Are concentrating our activities in Prepa ration for a general election we expect to come this that contradicted what he said just two weeks ago at the close of a party policy convention in Quebec i expect to be in the House of commons by Way of a by election at least by the fall he declared he also told supporters in Quebec City he thought Chretien was unlikely to Call an Early general election because the liberals were in trouble on several issues and facing internal Clark spokesman Mark Entwistle explained the about face with a simple observation that Entwistle said that since the the tories had picked up quite Strong indications Chretien is in fact preparing for a fall general he was unable to say exactly what those Indi cations beyond a general perception that the election machinery is gearing senior Liberal organizers have said repeat edly although a fall election is not impose next Spring is More Toronto lawyer David co chairman of the Liberal Campaign has indicated his party probably wont Start nominating Candi dates until after labour Clement Allard Canadian press Joe Clark will not seek that process usually precedes an election Call by six or seven putting Chretien on a timetable for roughly next april exactly four years after he called the last the prime minister indicated earlier this month he would be amenable to a Quick Bielec Tion if one of Clarks maps wanted to resign to make Way for the tory i will not make life difficult for said Canadian press Alliance leadership candidate Day would privatize Csc Calgary Canadian Alliance leadership hopeful Stockwell Day says Hes in favour of privatizing the abcs Cable and internet speaking in Calgary on Day said he supports changes to the Csc proposed by chairman Robert but added that Rabinovitch needs to go what they need is an infusion of capital that will come by making shares available to Day they should go to the Public for a share offering and become a truly vibrant voice not just for the but he if that Doest its going to continue the death by a thousand cuts Treyve been going who is on leave from his Post As Albertas said Csc radio should remain in Public hands because it provides distinctive services to local markets that commercial radio can not if Csc to is to compete it must have the ability to raise private capital and enter into he citing the examples of Altime Warner and Day said any privatization would require rules to prevent foreign control of the Canadian press healthcare workers Back on Job in Alberta by Bob Weber Edmonton thousands of Alberta healthcare workers headed Back to work yesterday with a hefty new contract but their Union paid a Steep financial Price for staging a today illegal the Alberta Union of provincial employees and its former jail guard Dan were jointly fined yesterday for contempt of court in their Defiance of a labour relations Board the Union is about Union members in four bargaining units including licensed practical psychiatric sup port staff and late thurs Day to accept a mediated the new contract includes a Promise that workers wont be punished for their illegal which caused hundreds of surgeries to be cancelled and patients to be discharged by yesterday morning most were Back on the Job at 159 hospitals and Lon term care facilities across the were glad to be said Angie a worker at Northern lights regional health Centre in fort Mcmurt everything Good on the workers were also welcomed Back at three psychiatric centres where super visors had taken Over care of about 700 said Charlie Vermeeren of the Alberta mental health although no one wants to go through it Vermeeren the strike gave management a new appreciation of the unionized the biggest Issue for everyone is the sigh of Relief from the picket line say we dont have to do this any and the sigh of Relief from inside we can let the profession als come Back and handle it on a regular Vermeeren the Board manages nearly psychiatric about a third of those patients were sent Home or to the correctional but All were expected Back by he the mental health workers Are among a Long list of provincial workers deemed essential and therefore prohibited from Maclennan had maintained his Mem Bers had no Choice but to walk out to get the wages they the settlement gives the largest of the four the licensed practical Nurs a wage hike totalling 16 per cent Over two Judith spokeswoman for the provincial health estimated the Deal would Cost million Over two years in addition to the yearly Mil lion that employers already pay out in wages and the strike put particular stress on the Edmonton where More than 700 elective surgeries were but urgent procedures such As cancer and heart operations went ahead As sched and All emergency departments stayed Steve Buick of the capital health which manages Hospi Tal Beds in the Edmonton said it would take a few Days for things to return to Canadian press planning a iday this summer 5 us it Dat you we no Gas boo and a in my meat shops products every beginning on May 22 to september a draw will be held from All entries received the previous to enter give us a restart Date when stopping your paper for holidays and your name will be entered once into the weekly subscribers who Stop their paper with a restart Date and donate their papers to our newspapers in 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Winnipeg act hereby gives notice that the executive policy committee will Convene a Public hearing to be held at the times and places set below to receive representations from any person s who wish to make them in respect of bylaw Pun Winnipeg vision a bylaw of the City of Winnipeg to replace the existing bylaw entitled plan Winnipeg plan Winnipeg vision sets out Lon term and proposals of the City respecting land transportation and measures to improve the and environmental conditions in the the policies in the plan have implications for and landowners throughout in there Are proposed changes to certain land use designations from Rural to neighbourhood in the Assiniboia Downs area South of Portage Avenue from red River exhibition site to Rural in the Assiniboia Downs area North of Portage Avenue from Rural to neighbourhood in the West Kildonan Industrial area from neighbourhood to major open space in the North Boniface area and from neighbourhood to Industrial in the West fort Garry Industrial As there Are changes to designated routes for rapid transit corridors and on Street transit and major Roadway additions and areas identified for regional retail concentration have also been copies of plan Winnipeg vision May be obtained by contacting the clerk of the executive policy Telephone week Days Between the hours of am and the plan May be viewed on the City of Winnipeg web site located at by following the plan Winnipeg vision Public hearing june West committee City 510 main Street session 1 beginning at am session 2 beginning at pm session 3 beginning at pm if representations Are not completed during the above a further session or sessions will be held on june at the some any person s wishing to make representation at one of these sessions is asked to Register with the clerk of the executive policy Telephone week Days Between the hours of am and each representation will be granted a maximum of 10 minutes on the written submissions to support the representation Are strongly and should be delivered to the clerk of the executive policy City clerks 510 main one week prior to the Public hearing ;