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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba B4 business Winnipeg free september 2000 appointments Harry Levy has been appointed president of the mid West Region for Rogers formerly Vic president and general manager for the will Lead All aspects of Rogers business in Saskatchewan and Northwestern including mar distribution and customer his experience in developing marketing and distribution strategies and his proven ability to get results adds to the strength of our senior executive team at said Rogers wireless chief executive officer Charles Hoff Michelle Bourgeois and Pat Elsworth have been appointed to positions with the health sciences Centre Bourgeois has been named director of major and planned gifts and will be responsible for expanding major and planned gift portfolios within the Elsworth is the foundations new director of communications and will be responsible for developing and managing a Multi faced program of communications to support and enhance the fundraising and pub Lic education roles of the in announcing the two Hsc executive director Vince Bowman noted that Bourgeois has extensive Public relations experience in both the private and Public having previously worked for such companies As its Mobili Shippam and Canada life Assurance company and the Winnipeg convention has Over 20 years of experience in marketing and having worked for such firms As groundswell new music the Manitoba theatre the Prairie the atre Manitoba opera and the Cana Dian red Cross companies fusion communications group has been named one of the top 100 Market ing communications services companies in Canada by the National marketing which had sales of million last was the Only Winnipeg firm to make the top 100 its exciting to be listed among such distinguished company and it just shows that Youdong have to be located in Toronto or be part of a huge conglomerate to said fusion senior partner Dave formed in fusion has evolved from a Small design studio into a full service marketing communications company specializing in strategy and creative development and Manitoba movers Henderson Krueger appraisal services is celebrating its 20th year in business this the Winnipeg firms staff of profession who include Lindsay Eric Dennis Ken and Denis offer a full Range of com Industrial and residential real estate appraisal and consulting web news converges customer management Canadas employees have donated their time and expertise to develop a new website for the big Sisters and big Brothers organizations of win the new website offers information about Success and opportunities for As Well As a Calendar of events and other facts about the non profit with the Aid of this new we will enhance our recruiting capabilities for Matching children with caring adults for ongoing support and said Ruth executive director of big Sisters and big the con verges team that helped develop the website and will help update and maintain it includes Carol Paul Bernie Scott and Karen contests Hanna Stangl and Sara Janssen have been selected the Manitoba winners of Koo aids National Kool Rocare summer con the two Niney Earold Winni Eggers raised for a childrens Charity by setting up a weekend Koolard stand earlier this Koolard makes a donation to each provincial winners Charity of and Stangl and Janssen chose Amant Amant will be receiving the Koolard donation along with the Money raised by Stangl and got a an appointment or a new con tract phone or email the free press business 1355 Mountain win r2x 3b6 phone fax 697 7412 or email . There is no Cost to make a part of our not a world apart autism society 204 7839563 the free press were there for you investors group solutions built around today headlines business High Oil prices occupy finance leaders ministers vow to double number of nations getting debt Relief Prague world finance leaders Savoured fragile victories yesterday in their efforts to Cut Oil prices and boost the shaky european cur Rency while pledging to double the number of poor countries getting debt Relief by years finance ministers and Central Bank presidents found them selves breaking away from the annual if and world Bank Summit to get updates on world markets concerning the Price of Oil and the Exchange value of the the currency used by 11 members of the european the news through the Day was showing their Strong words Over the weekend on coordinated efforts to push Oil prices lower and the implied threat that Rich countries might intervene to buy More euros on currency markets were having the intended Oil prices dropped us per barrel Early yesterday on the London futures though they drifted higher As the ses Sion went North sea Brent crude for november delivery was off by 42 at per in late the euro held bringing cents us late in the compared to cents late Fri after the coordinated sup port Effort was launched and pushed the euro about two cents Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said other countries at the finance meet Ings had welcomed president Bill Clinton decision to release 30 million barrels of Oil from reserves in an Effort to lower what the Impact will i dont Summers said in a Prague television private stressed that they believed Oil markets were still unsettled in Advance of today meeting of open Oil they also said the euro was Likely to come under renewed Selling pres forcing further intervention worries about the euro and Oil prices took Over As top Agenda items at discussions Over the past three Days of policy setting committees of the International monetary fund and the world whose annual meetings attended by delegates from 182 countries will formally Start protesters Are threatening to disrupt the hoping to repeat the Points they made through mass demonstrations last year at a world Trade organization meeting in Seattle and in the Spring at the if and world Bank meetings in Wash asian markets rattled by rising Oil prices by Thomas Wanner Tokyo in South signs of the worlds Oil Price Shock Are everywhere elevators now Stop Only at every other floor and the country popular bathhouses have been ordered closed one Day a week to save next the which imports All its will raise Home electric prices from 20 to 50 per cent apart ment managers have warned residents to turn off their lights at night and some bus Drivers Are threatening to strike Over a per cent increase in diesel fuel Asia has seen nothing As dramatic As the Oil Price protests that blocked High ways across or the decision to release 30 million barrels of Oil from its emergency while Asia remains concerned about the Impact of High Oil there is no Cri Sis Many economists Arent lowering their Strong eco nomic growth forecasts for in demonstrators Are threatening to form human chains to keep delegates from leaving the convention Centre this by late there were Only a few Hundred protesters at most events far fewer than the leaders had while their numbers were smaller than the anti globalization protesters had already had an Impact on the officials refashioned the traditional Agenda in an Effort to show that the two Agen who have been accused of having overpaid were heeding the Call to do More to alleviate poverty in the in a statement issued yester the development committee which sets policy for the world Bank pledged to work toward a goal of having 20 coun tries approved for debt Relief by the end of this that would be double the 10 that have so far managed to get through what has proven to be a lengthy qualification officials for various global poverty organizations expressed pleasure at the new but complained that other portions of their Agenda were not taken including a initiative to achieve Universal Edu Asia yet because the Region continued to do Well during the first half of this even after Oil prices said Tim chief Asia economist for ing brings in Hong but if prices continue to creating a True Oil Price that would really cause people to change their views of these he in which relies heavily on imported High Oil have rattled Many Stock and currency helping drive some to record Consumers Are grumbling about rising gasoline and other Energy prices in South the Hong Australia and those affected include everyone from taxi and Rick Shaw to fishermen and to poor people who Cook with scattered protests have occurred in the Philippines and press cation in poor the efforts have been undermined by the indifference of other nations like Japan and said Tony a policy analyst for the global Relief world Bank president James Wolfensohn insisted the if and his organization were heeding the demands to accelerate help for those left behind in the new global but insisted that the movement toward greater economic connections Between was a Force that could not be turned what is happening outside is that people Are Wolfen Sohn they Are afraid they May lose their these Are legitimate but the trend toward globalization is Irre world Bank statistics predicted that the inclusion of 20 coun tries in the debt Relief out of 40 that Are will result in forgiveness of 65 per cent of those countries foreign saving them about billion the Money is intended to be used to fight poverty and pro vide medical associated press plan transforms Montreal Exchange continuously changing headlines Foj and your organization Autte each Simon Cotter Simon Cotter has been described As Bill Cosby with an Andthil Toronto Star salted him a Camatte storyteller with a keen Eye for partial proceeds Cockcr Canadian intensive foundation the free press were there for you Montreal members of the Montreal Exchange have approved a plan to turn the Exchange into a for profit com Pany on a move aimed at broadening its derivatives and futures trading operations in Canadian capital at a special meeting yesterday the exchanges brokerage Indus try members backed the plan to become a for profit Exchange president Luc Bertrand outlined a plan to develop new financial products linked to futures Bertrand said a business plan to implement automated trading should be completed by next that will close the trading Alliance continued from b3 recent actions have emphasized that Point that the Content race is said Mark a senior analyst with Yankee f group in any kind of Content becomes increasingly Astral Media and chum Arent Short on Content Astral owns specially and payt including the movie net family Channel and Tele its also owns radio stations and has other chum owns the hip i Tyty and much music channels that Cater to the lucrative Young adult Audi its also got a network of radio analysts suggest can West which already owns about to per cent of alliances would be a Likely Candi Date to make a move As it beefs floor used by 170 Independent but be Able to continue doing their Job through electronic there Independent Busi Bertrand told a news i dont know Many business people who Haven had to make adjustments in the course of their Bertrand said in about 325 people will have to either change their Way of working or find new but they should have few Wor Ries in a City with a Strong econ omy and a per cent unemployment a reorganization of Canadas capital markets last year shifted trading in All senior companies up its Content can West May want to move More towards alliances rather than outright purchases after it spent billion buying the major including a half of the National owned by Conrad Blacks Hollinger group earlier this Geoffrey Vic president of corporate affairs with can West would not comment about any possibilities Between Alliance and the door is never close Don future opportunities if they present themselves and they make economic sense to us and we can afford he Elliot said the Hollinger Deal has been financially constructed in a Way that provides us with flexibility to take advantage of additional opportunities should they Media merger mania Trig gered in North America by the joining of internet company to the Toronto Stock while the Montreal Exchange focused on futures and other and the Alberta and Vancouver exchanges merged into the Canadian venture Exchange for Junior since the change ate into its trading the Montreal Exchange has been developing a plan to expand its As of current Exchange members will become share holders of the new Montreal Exchange while maintaining trading the Exchange said the change opens Access to new sources of capital for future Canadian press America online and Media giant time Warner came to Canada As telecoms giant Bce bought broadcaster ctr the pair recently formed an Alliance with Thomson and its flagship the Globe and mail can wests Purchase of the Hollinger papers was another big move in the Canadian Media while Quebe Cor buyout of Montreal Cable to operator Groupe video tron beating out Rogers communications kept the momentum Rogers made its own move in buying the Toronto Blue jays baseball and just last Corus with radio and kid oriented to bought animation House Nevana analysts have also suggested Astral medias childrens programming would fit Well with Canad press ;