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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnith 2000 digest Index b4 b5 cd cd local forum slice of life family notices in a emporiums classified diversions crossword a11 comics b6 to listings c12 sports record movies d2 prime time to c12 weather c12 deaths widow of Earl William Harry i classified death notices c7 today in history the Fly released British Trade commissioner James Cross in Montreal 30 years ago in after police surrounded the House where hed been held in the kidnappers and their seven people in received Safe conduct and transportation to Cross had been kidnapped in october along with Quebec Cabinet minister Pierre Laporte by the Radical separatist Laporte was murdered also on this Date in 1984 More than people were killed and thousands injured when deadly Methyl soc Nate Gas leaked from an underground tank at the Union Carbide Plant in 1999 five canadians were among 10 people killed when a helicopter crashed into the Indian Ocean near a maldives Island resort just after taking off in heavy rain from a resort on the Island of 1999 Canada announced that the unemployment rate for november had fallen to an 18year Low to per i i i lotteries picks winning number yesterday was lotto winning numbers yesterday were 36 and Bonus number was the plus winning number yesterday for the main prize of was Western winning numbers yesterday were and Bonus number was encore winning number yesterday was i i i How to reach us Winnipeg free press 1355 Mountain Avenue Manitoba r2x 3b6 switchboard 6977000 t circulation City delivery 6977001 t advertising classified 6977100 display 6977122 t editorial newsroom 6977230 newsroom fax 6977412 photo desk 6977304 sports desk 6977285 entertainment 6977234 business news 6977235 Reader feedback 6977293 regional reporter 6977267 City desk letters to the editor t photo reprints to order reprints 6977063 t All departments from Manitoba outside Winnipeg 18005428900 t directors publisher Rudy Redekop 6977362 editor Nicholas Hirst 6977295 director of circulation Harry Brown 6977359 director of advertising marketing Laurie Finley 6977164 director of finance Dan Koshowski 6977425 director of human resources Don Dufort 6977358 director of operations and technology Glenn Williams 6977045 Canada Post sales agreement 0563595 recycled newsprint is used in the production of this please City taxes continued from Page a1 the most up Odate and most reliable information comparing municipal tax and rates comes from the City of it has surveyed 18 major Canadian cities for the past according to its october 1991 Winnipeg had the second highest rank ing of All Canadian cities after Montreal for property tax it found the property tax including school on a Sample three bedroom Bungalow was the second highest among Canadian Only in Montreal were taxes at for the same its 2000 released two weeks shows Winnipeg has dropped three behind Regina and Winnipeg total after the provincial tax was Winnipeg ranking started to drop in 1998 when City Council froze City of Edmonton chief economist Jong who has prepared the said Winnipeg War on spending should be its better than whats happening in other Huang to reduce taxes two per cent when cities like Edmonton and Calgary Are raising their taxes is especially if essential ser vices Are not when Murray released the budget Fig ures he went to great lengths comparing Winnipeg tax rate to Edmonton and Edmonton and Calgary Are raising property taxes and per cent respectively next no one holds a Candle to Murray find me a government that doing what were were blowing Alberta out of the chartier added that when All factors Are the net gain Over three years for Winnipeg taxpayers compared to people in Calgary and Alberta is pos in our favour after three it will be signify he it gets to be in the 10 to 15 per cent Range in our a Public meeting to detail the budget will be held from to 4 on wednesday at the Winnipeg convention Centre it goes to Council a week later for Vrsnik said the cites comparisons Between Winnipeg and Alberta and its trumpeted two per cent tax reduction Are just for Winnipeg still has one of the highest property tax rates in the he the same Edmonton Survey shows Winnipeg total Munici pal and school tax Bill in 2000 was before the tax compared with Edmonton and Calgary Toronto was Regina was Ottawa was and Montreal was he said the tax savings on a Home assessed at is Only not very much when school taxes will wipe that All this does is make it easier for Young Winni Eggers to move elsewhere when the inevitable slowdown in the Economy Vrsnik the Edmonton study also shows that while Winnipeg property taxes have school taxes have shot the 2000 Survey shows Winnipeg school tax Levy was the highest in Canada at for the same Sample the next highest was Regina at we have the highest school taxes in Vrsnik Murray said the province is aware of the school tax problem and its Burden on it is expected to unveil a new funding formula for schools some time next he that wont help City taxpayers in Manitoba association of school trustees executive director Carolyn Duhamel said school boards Are facing their own rising costs this including higher fuel prices and wage and will Likely pass them on the upcoming tax whether any potential tax increase is above the current per cent consumer Price Index remains to be she As school officials Are Only now preparing budget cheap Hydro credited for sodium Chloride expansion by Sean Oconnor cheap electricity at Home and increased environmental pressure around the Globe have resulted in a combined expansion of sodium Chloride plants in Calgary based Nexsen chemicals has announced a i omillion expansion of its existing sodium Chloride Plant in bran while Edmonton based Al chem is building a new Plant outside of both will be Complete by Al chem will employ up to 26 while Nexsen will hire up to 10 addition Al which in both cases begins in the new will require up to a combined 275 workers at its sodium Chloride is a chemical used to bleach Wood pulp for paper demand from the pulp Industry has grown because sodium Chloride is considered More environmentally Friendly than chlorine one of the biggest issues facing sodium Chloride producers is the Cost of elec according to electrical clash in Indonesia kills eight Power accounts for 80 per cent of manufacturing the production process involves pass ing electric currents through Salt solutions and then evaporating water from the solutions to form a dry Crystal that can be Kevin alb chem has said his company zeroed in on Manitoba because of Low electrical especially when compared with Alber tas fluctuating which is in the throes of Premier Gary doer credited the provinces abundance of inexpensive Power for nip government decisions in the 1980s to invest in Power think the rates Are absolutely doer when there spending million in expansion and new they want to make sure that were going to provide predictability and which Bills itself As one of the worlds three largest sodium chlorate also has plants in Quebec and it will shift production to the expanded Plant in Manitoba when electricity rates at other plants hit said Plant manager Bill Indonesia tensions Between indonesian forces and separatists pushing for irian jays Independence exploded into violence yesterday when police fired on a group wielding bows and arrows during a eight people were Sylvanus a top police commander in the troubled said the two sides clashed after the separatists tried to raise an outlawed rebel Flag in the Southeastern town of he said the Independence supporters challenged police during the Flag raising ceremony and fired arrows at settlers from other parts of wounding Wenas said seven separatists were local police said an eighth a taxi Driver from Java died from his injuries it was not known whether the taxi Driver was one of the nor was it Clear whether the separatists physically attacked police before the officers opened the deaths bring to 10 the number of people killed during the past two Days As the restive province Marks the anniversary of a failed 1961 Independence the anniversary has prompted a Security Clampdown in the irian a Jungle covered province Kilometres East of the capital Dakar is one of several regions pushing for More free Dom from the sprawling indonesian country of islands and 210 million indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid announced a wide ranging development package for the embattled aces province about Kilometres Northwest of apparently to defuse growing demands for Independence associated press als 18002674als Xmas and new years vacancies jetted free private Sauna 2 Day lower rates thru info line 4537626 West my 1 2043492209 Gate West Coin one of Canadas largest Coin dealers and official Canadian mint distributors we buy and sell All paper ill Tiaria Anil related All current mint products available at mint Issue Price 1711 Corydon Lanark 48991 1 2 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