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 t 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 fire destroyed a missile sup port facility at North Dakotas Minot air Force base Early but nobody was Hurt and the nuclear missiles were not threatened b1 Minbu Alnass no 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 b3 5639 5 Shch mfr 2000 Peg free 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 re i Irav or Pill solid population growth and no new areas of the City such As fort Garry and that will present a Judith by Iti Uii a c 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 is hour has 22 minuets Ballet goes to school Scott Andrew and Victoria Lane Green of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet schools professional division Fine tune their routine in preparation for the launch of the schools sixth annual concert hour Ballet this starting dance students will visit Winnipeg and Rural Manitoba schools to gain experience touring and performing before an audience and to give youngsters a Chance to experience Ballet up a disaster Boss charged with expense claim fraud by Kim Guttormson 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 As head of Clayton would have travelled around the to Ottawa to meet Federal emergency preparedness staff and to the United states to meet his counterparts the Point Man for disaster claims during the 1997 Clayton was fired As executive coordinator of the Emo in while he was on a three week sick Gerry assistant Deputy minister of government said the department undertook a review of various financial and administrative 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 months before the province was hit by the 1997 he was part of the team that developed the plan to keep communities he became the face of disaster explaining to people How the compensation programs and took much of the heat when victims Felt their needs we rent continued please see a2 greatest life illegally slashed pensions judge by Aldo Santin 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 could 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 seven figure maybe eight i dont Tapper continued please see pensions a2 Friday illion ;