Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Flyer in today paper Winnipeg subscribers Only the o mainly sunny High 9 Low 18 y garbage Day 3 school Day 1 inside wild Oats return to haunt mayor Mel Toronto flamboyant front Man admitted to a lengthy affair after his Elover and her two sons filed in lawsuits b1 Casino Revenue up Revenue at Winnipeg two provincially owned Mcphillips Street station and club Rose More than 30 per cent during the second Quarter of this year a3 Chew on this Manitoba Farmers hosted a Buffet for provincial politicians and those in including pre Mier Gary got to digest some sour financial figures from farms a4 missiles Safe port facility at North Dakotas Minot air Force Baize Early tit nobody was Hurt and the nuclear missiles were not threatened b1 i business to end in sight to versatile strike a strike by 250 workers at the Buhler versatile tractor manufacturing Plant is four weeks and the owner says Hes unsure if hell be Able to Sal Vage the relationship the com Pany had with its main customer b7 december 2000 Peg free Prass Hoh Holiday movies want to steer Clear of Christmas turkeys this year our Alison Gillmor unwraps All the naughty and Nice blockbusters Hollywood is dishing up for the festive season d1 rooms to rent nope cites apartment vacancy rate lowest in 14 Chc Survey shows do i Arrau mrm Iii solid population growth and no new areas of the City such As fort Garry and that will present a Judith y y unit construction combined to Assiniboine Storey in going to be warning the Overall apartment vacancy rate in Winnipeg has fallen to its lowest level in 14 years and its expected to drop even further in Dwayne Canada mortgage and housing senior Market Ana Lyst for said yesterday the Agency latest annual rental Market sur vey shows that tight labour solid population growth and no new rental unit construction combined to drive Down the cites Overall vacancy rate to two per cent in october from three per cent a year the last time it was lower was when it dipped to per with those conditions unlikely to change Over the next the Overall vacancy rate is expected to drop to per cent by october Rywniak and to As Low As Zero in some areas of the City such As fort Garry and Assiniboine while that Good news for landlords and property its going to make finding the right apartment that much tougher for students and other apartment the University of Manitoba off am pus housing coordinator said a lot of University students had a hard time finding accommodations this so if the vacancy rate gets even that will present a Judith Storey in going to be warning them next year to Start looking the president of the professional property managers association of Manitoba said the Only Way rental Market conditions will significantly improve is if developers Start bringing new apart ment units on the continued please see no vacancy a2 this hour has 22 minuets Wayne Lowacki Winnipeg free press Ballet goes to school Scott Andrew and Victoria Lane Green of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet this starting dance students will visit City schools professional division Fine tune their routine in preparation and Rural schools to gain experience touring and performing before for the launch of the schools sixth annual concert hour Ballet pro an audience and to give youngsters a Chance to experience a disaster Boss charged with expense claim fraud by Kim Guttormson t the former head of the provinces emergency management Organiza Tion has been charged with fraud relating to improper use of his expense Harold Clayton was arrested yesterday and released on an appearance charged with fraud Over police sources a source said the charge is connected to about in false travel expenses claimed from 1999 to Harold Clayton elements of the it was done prior to Clayton Over the summer Berezuk comment on the charge and a government spokesman said there will be no official comment because the matter is before the we handed Over a lot of information to the the spokesman we cooperated with them on a former Portage la Prairie City was hired to head the newly merged disaster assistance and emergency measures operations just greatest life illegally slashed pensions judge by Aldo Santon As head of Clayton would have travelled around the to Ottawa to months before the province was hit by the 1997 meet Federal emergency preparedness staff and to the United states to meet his counterparts he was part of the team that developed the plan the Point Man for disaster claims during the 1997 to keep communities he became the face of Clayton was fired As executive coordinator disaster explaining to people How the of the Emo in while he was on a three compensation programs and took much of week sick the heat when victims Felt their needs weren t Gerry assistant Deputy minister of government said the department undertook continued a review of various financial and administrative please see a2 Manitoba first class action lawsuit has found that greatest life Assurance improperly changed the terms of its employees pension and a lawyer says the company cow be liable for a multimillion Dollar set in a court of Queens Bench ruling issued Justice Gerald Jewers said the company violated the pension act when it arbitrarily altered the terms of the pension plan by capping indexing provisions to match increases in the consumer Price in said lawyer Robert who represented approximately 400 former greatest life the final Bill for greatest life will be definitely in the seven figure maybe eight i dont Tapper continued please see pensions a2 Friday minion ;