Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 30, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Business Winnipeg free May 2000 Omni trax continued from Page 13 Pietryk noted the Board shipped tonnes of wheat through Churchill last so to rely on the wheat Board for nearly tonnes this year might be a Rennick and Boucher said that target also includes no wheat Board products like Alfalfa pellets and last tonnes of peas and Alfalfa pellets were shipped to Europe via and Boucher said Omni trax officials expect that number to jump to about tonnes this Rennick said Omni trax officials also Are optimistic Grain brokers will Send some canola shipments through the port this in addition to its role As an Grain shipping Boucher told the seminar railway officials would like to see Churchill become the major Supply port for the Northern territory of Jim senior transportation plan Ner for the Nunavut told the seminar the government is in the process of developing a Multi modal transportation strategy that will help deter mine How goods Are shipped to and from the communities within the Churchill is already one of the three main routes used to ship goods via land or water to the High Canadian pay cheques but cant keep up with torn unemployment rates started trans Toronto canadians pay cheques continued to grow in but inflation ate up All the average weekly including were in up from statistics Canada reported compared with March the increase was three per mirroring that months inflation stagnant real earnings have been the trend for almost two with nominal wages struggling to keep up with rising for at last years average weekly earnings were still below 1983 Levels once Infra Tidikis stripped despite the booming Canadian econ Progress on the wage front int Likely any time warned Andrew an economist with the Cana Dian labour in the United its been Only during the last two years that Rock Bot Tom unemployment rates started trans lating into higher he Canadian companies Overall Are As profitable As they have been in the last 20 Jackson but there is still a lot More hidden unemployment in the Bank of in its monetary policy report two weeks con firmed there is no sign of upward pres sure on some sectors did make some sizable forestry workers saw their weekly earnings increase to in up eight per cent from a year manufacturing workers earnings Rose per to the Only people with shrinking Nom Inal wages were real estate operators and insurance Agency their weekly pay dropped three per to Ontario continues to Lead the rest of the with average weekly earnings of in up per cent from a year Alberta growing inflation was second at when it comes to spending the news int All Strong economic expansion has started to help boost household disposable mainly As a result of people moving from Par time jobs and self employment to full time we Are also seeing some tax and that helps the disposable income Side of the said Doug senior economist at boo Nesbitt for the last three months of canadians total disposable income grew by per cent compared with a year during that the population grew by one per cent and the consumer Price Index by per that leaves modest but nevertheless positive growth of per cent for the Porter that the key slow but he its a gradual Canadian press inf corp continues its profitable run inf corp computer solutions has recorded its third consecutive Money making Quarter after posting a profit for the first three months of this the Winnipeg based which specializes in providing Commerce related Point service software to governments and Point Sale soft Ware to specially said increased revenues in the government sector and reduced operating expenses contributed to the improved first Quad ter Revenue from licence fees and related services for its government soft Ware were 94 per cent from the first Quarter of last year com pared to while operating expenses were Down 22 per cent to the company this years first Quarter profit com pared to a loss of for the first three months of last shares in which is a Mem Ber of the group of com Are traded on the Toronto Stock yesterday the shares closed at which was up nine cents from last fridays closing your financial advisor suggested you invest in Seville its 2000 by of Clemn and i Ion wild p i with Road Mommp 11 111 11 i n 11 o i Stai in w Alt sound sym ii with i mini Ooi it ii us ask rate Vara ask i k c Tava Why go anywhere else with All your business needs Are at one and with incomparable service you know from Long distance and to High Speed youre getting the support your business can rely Telephone equipment and data to see what we can do for Call your its sales its can accommodate any size representative or a allots Tollfree its business All your in one its ;