Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 24, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Weve got local news we need More new Eggers Murray mayor launches push to boost immigration by Paul Mckee Winnipeg mayor Glen Murray wants More immigrants at least a year to ensure the City and Hes already talking to the Federal govern ment about a Pilot project that will help make it Murray is in Ottawa this weekend talk ing to Cabinet members and meeting with mayors from other major he wants to initiate a process where cities other than Montreal and Vancouver which receive 75 per cent of immigrants can set targets for technically a Federal Murray wants to Immi Grants annually to come to he Calls that a minimum Range and said tar gets must be last total Immi Gration to the entire province was Murray noted he was at a recent conference attended by business looking for places to when they asked what the unemployment rate in Winnipeg he the Low est in wrong laughed he said businesses want a City with capacity to employ Large numbers of both skilled and unskilled provincial labour and immigration minister Becky Barrett said the province already has a provincial Nomi Nee program that helps fill vacancies in Fields where no skilled workers Are Murray noted that the Provin Cial program had brought More people to immigration to Canada has increased More than 20 per cent in each of the last three but Murray and Barrett noted that Manitoba share of Immi Grants most recently about two per cent of All immigrants to Canada is still below Manitoba portion of the Canadian population of per Gerry Clement from Manitoba labour and immigration said the goal is to bring even More people into Manitoba and reach that per immigration is the source of youth and new workers for our he the provinces tar get is about people but delegates to the conference members of social and support agencies that work with new canadians also wanted to see More done with the new canadians we have Pauline mor of the association of foreign med ical graduates of said Many immigrants Are they keep saying theres a brain Drain in there in a brain said Man pronounced dead after apartment fire police reported a fatality late last night following a fire at an intercity apartment a described As in his was reported dead after firefighters were called to the scene at 195 Young Street at around 9 the fatality was con firmed at police and fire officials did not reveal the cause of death or the extent of dam saturday free press february 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 work on live wires court told Crown cites illegal practice in Case of electrocuted teen by Helen falling Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press master of the ditch Paul a masters thesis roars with jubilation yesterday after his the old Defeated the left overs in a game of ditch ditch while certainly not recognized As an olympic ditch Ball has been a Winter tradition among University of Manitoba students for the past 25 the full Contact game has High spirited teams War in a snowy ditch Over an oversized Hydro moves to reduce Cost of Centra marriage Bald Santin Manitoba Hydro and Centra Gas tightened their operations this week when most customers received their monthly Bills for both utilities in the same the latest move will save Hydro about million said spokesman Glenn the change has been one of several the Crown corporation has taken Over the past Hydro Purchase of Centra Gas was approved in july Schneider said the two utilities still function As distinct operations on Many but changes have occurred to pro Duce Hydro reported yesterday that its revenues from outside Manitoba had reached million for the first nine months of the fiscal which ended a increase Over the same period the year Schneider said that in addition to the Utility firm Export Hydro was Selling electricity on the spot Market at prices substantially higher than the year Schneider said Hydro unit Price on average was about 21 per cent higher than the year adding that even at those Many american utilities found it less expensive to buy Power from Manitoba Hydro than from other including their Hydro third Quarter report shows that its net income from electricity and Gas operations had doubled Over the previous from Mil lion to Hydro predicts that its net income for the boosted by its sales to the will reach an All time High of million for the fiscal the report shows that Centra Gas was a drag on Manitoba Centra Gas reported a net loss of million for the nine month Manitoba Hydro has used its growing sales of Power to the United states to postpone any rate increases Large Industrial users have not had a rate increase in 10 years and residential customers have not seen an increase in five savings on a great of Low mile age autism society part of Wyid a a awl a Young Man electrocuted on the Job had been pushed to work faster by a company that let employees work on live wires a practice that illegal in Manitoba a courtroom heard Clearwater electric commonly allowed Michael Skan and other staff to work on Lowe voltage circuits without turning off the prosecutor Mary Goska said yesterday at the company sentencing hearing on a work place safety the night Sanderberg died in he was work ing alone on a much higher voltage fluorescent Light he screamed and fell from the but coworkers who rushed into the room were unable to resuscitate the which will be fined next has admit Ted that supervisor Peter Thomson should have checked whether the Power was off before letting Sanderberg Start the but defence lawyer Randy Mcnicol said Thomson assumed Sanderberg would turn the Power off himself or ask where to find the circuit for some inexplicable he chose not the rest of the Crew was working in another room at the Beausejour school with the Power Goska argued that the Young workers actions were indeed explicable Sanderberg was on probation because he had not been working As fast As owner Tony Bruneau Thomson had told Young staff that working on live wires saves the practice is banned except under strict conditions that did not apply in this it appears the company was More concerned about the number of Light fixtures Michael could do in an hour than about his Goska Thomson had no training to be a supervisor and was not even familiar with the provinces electrical regulations when questioned by she Sanderberg had completed a 10month electrical course at Keewatin Community col which did not at the time include information on the Michael Sanderberg Clearwater did not provide rubber Mats or wire Goska the company has pleaded guilty to failing to provide training and supervision on procedures for working with electrical Mcnicol said that on the night Sanderberg the workers were in no partic ular Rush As they replaced Light Sanderberg had already Learned to meet the expected quota and went off to another room because he was looking for something to workers were not supposed to work on live but from time to time did it on their own Mcnicol he called Skander bergs death a inadvertent mistake that could not have been the lawyer is asking for a Fine of less than the Small electrical con tractor made a profit of Only in Mcnicol but Goska called for a higher Fine that sends a Strong Mes this Case cries out for the maximum Fine under Manitoba Law is but judges have never come close to imposing that in a series of eloquent and intensely emotional victim Impact statements read aloud in Skander bergs family begged judge Glenn Joyal to go beyond the Small fines typically awarded in if the purpose of Michaels life was to die then the purpose of our lives has got to be to convince the courts and the province that a change is Long past the teenagers Shirley As about 20 relatives watched and Cindy Sanderberg described her son to Joyal in a Clear she spoke of Michaels uncontrollable laugh and of How proud he was to get his first Job in his chosen 2000 Malibu Auto overdrive Power cd split folding rear Bench and More 2000 Camaro 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