Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March 2001 local a Jeff de body free press Stan and Bruce Mcphail Check out web site used for Ottawa touts better Road salting system weather forecasting would improve timing by Carol Sanders timing is everything when it comes to salting and sanding with that in Ottawa is spearhead ing a National Road weather information system that uses sensors and weather forecasts to help Road Crews Cut Down on their use of Road Salt and said Paul Delannoy of environment the ability to forecast Road conditions has a major added he there would be less accidents and even save some Delannoy if Road Crews can Lay Down a Salt brine mix Ture at the right it can prevent roads from icing Over and Crews from having to dump loads of Salt and Sand later said who is based in the system is catching on in Ontario and he Manitoba Hast tried to use it but the City of Winnipeg is one of the High tech Road Monitor ing systems earliest Delannoy it allows us to make better decisions about the Type and the timing of treatment to keep roadways said Bruce manager of streets maintenance for the Road weather information sensors were installed in 1993 at Bridges at Bishop Grandin Boulevard and the Pembina and the Disraeli freeway at a Cost of since the system has received a upgrade to make that information accessible on the cites internal web a company developed the software and hardware and also provides weather said pucks in the pavement and sensors above its surface measure Cloud pre humidity and the information is transmitted to a web site accessible by computers in four Public works Mcphail the City uses tonnes of Salt and tonnes of Sand a said he to announce a National Road weather initiative by the the Federal government is awaiting a report on the use of Road Salt that May classify it As a said if that the Environ ment Canada will be looking at ways to curtail its he the Road weather information system is one Way of doing Salt is hard on the environment and absorbs water so along with traffic and temperature eats away at Road said hed like to see Winnipeg network expand the Charleswood Bridge was built with wiring ducts for the he most of the weather the City gets comes from the West and sensors on the Western perimeter Highway would let Crews get a jump on systems As they hit the it would Cost Between and to install a monitoring Mcphail Esti in the state Road authority put in a number of Road weather monitoring Sites after one major it saved enough on its highways budget to pay for the said with Winnipeg wide Range of Winter weather Over the last few its hard to say if on average the Bishop Grandin and Disraeli sen sors have resulted in less Salt and Sand being Mcphail we had hoped to see modest decreases in Salt usage of five to 10 per cent Over Mcphail Winter conditions Are difficult to put on a but our primary goal was to Deal with conditions on a mealtime its very useful for our foremen and super said maintenance services Engineer Stan Siu at the cites Pacific Avenue the area office Foreman can get information seven Days a 24 hours a said its Dan director of information technology services for Manitoba transportation and government said the province plans to update its Road information system but using humans instead of Manitoba has sensors for counting cars but plans to use staff at outlying offices to update and input current Road weather said Barlow armed for corporate protest by Bud Robertson thousands of protesters Are expected to descend on Quebec City next month As representatives of nearly three dozen countries meet to Dis cuss the idea of a free Trade agreement Between North and South were not opposed to were not opposed to even globalization of some said Council of canadians chairwoman Maude whose organization is involved in planning the but these rules Are not going to be written by a group of faceless bureaucrats and corporate lobby Barlow and Polaris Institute director Tony Clarke were in Winnipeg yesterday to promote their new global showdown How the new activists Are fighting global corporate the Book argues that the mechanisms of Trade such As the world Trade organization and the North american free Trade Are not spreading wealth to no industrialized coun tries but rather widening the Gap Between the Rich and the Barlow said canadians will be alarmed to learn that from health care to could be negotiated away in the free agree ment of the americas absolutely everything is on the she a rally is planned for april 2 in where they will demand the release of the full text of the another major March is set for april 21 in que Bec City during the in there will be rallies and said who was in Seattle for the to talks in november where police and protesters clashed in the Barlow said she fears a repeat of that scene in Quebec even though most of the protesters will be dedicated to nonviolent in worried that people focus on that and not on the she recall the legislature to Deal with farm tories urge by David Kuxhaus the opposition is demanding the nip recall the legislature to debate solutions to the farm this is said tory agriculture critic Jack Farmers were hoping to get a break last week when the Federal government announced Emer gency threw Only million into the not the million some producers Penner said not Only Are Farmers getting stiffed by he accused the provincial nip of fail ing to do its the Cash injection by Ottawa could trigger a fur ther Mullion from the provinces under traditional cos sharing practice of the provinces adding for every Ottawa in Manitoba such a scheme would make million available to the provinces Farmers through exist ing programs such As crop the province has yet to say if it Ante we need to be sure Cabinet is dealing with this in their said we have heard nothing from the province except for them to say this fed eral contribution is a government spokesman said they need More details about the Federal package before making a agriculture minister Rosann Wowchuk is scheduled to meet with her Federal and provincial counterparts today in Quebec Penner said longer term solutions Are needed to Deal with inequities faced by Manitoba for he said american producers Are receiving can More per Bushel of canola than Manitoba Penner said Premier Gary doer should spend More time fixing problems in his own province rather than travelling to China on Trade if he Doest take on the responsibility of protecting the farm then he will lose said last the farm crisis drove Farmers in Western Canada off the Winnipeg receives an a1 rating a new York Bon rating Agency has recon firmed the City of Winnipeg credit rating at and has maintained the financial Outlook As mayor Glen Murray said the rating by Moodys investor services was an endorsement of the cites Lon term financial strategy to reduce Cut taxes and reinvest in the following factors influenced Moodys Analy Sis i the cites surplus pension which is Sav ing the City Between million and million a i the internal financing of All current capital pro i the fact that previous tax supported debt is expected to level off in i Winnipeg diverse Economy provides the resource base to support financial and debt oblige i Brief three year term for sexual assault a Man infected with hepatitis c who sexually assaulted his roommates Girlfriend will go to prison for three Ronald Keith originally charged with aggravated sexual yesterday pleaded guilty to sexual Crown attorney Kelly Moar and defence lawyer Michael Cook recommended the three year which court of Queens Bench Justice Perry Schulman the assault occurred in the Early hours of March after his Roommate and the victim spent a night drinking the victim awoke and found Thomas on top of the victim later discovered Thomas had acquired hepatitis c positive from his drug use several years but Moar said that the Vic Tim has been tested twice in the last year and shows no signs of til 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