Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Nii March 2001 local a11 Public to weigh Worth of an hour panel seeks input on minimum wage by Helen fall Liq Board is giving Manitoban seven weeks to Send in their ideas on reforming provincial minimum wage lower rates for trainees and people who earn tips Are under along with the possibility of guarantee ing a minimum wage to livestock Indus try workers currently excluded along with other farm written submissions Are due by the end of but the minimum wage Board May hold hearings in parts of the province where there is sufficient inter the Board is expected to report to labour minister Becky Barrett by Winnipeg chamber of Commerce president Dave Angus is remarkably optimistic about the considering the business Community ruins last summer with Barrett Over labour Law i think its a very positive Angus said he is pleased that the nip is consid ering some of the Chambers recent rec including setting up different categories of minimum wage and tying increases to economic Indica Board chairman John a pro Fessor of Industrial relations at the University of said he Hopes the recommendations will be based on research instead of Godard said he is concerned about people who work full but still fall below statistics Canadas Low income he said the last thing he wants is for wage increases to drive Small companies out of the Manitoba pork Council has not taken a position on including hog barn workers under a minimum wage chairman Marcel Hacault it Hast been an Hacault said most barn workers earn far More than minimum wage he pays his 16yearold assistant an Manitoba minimum wage is currently an but next month it will Rise to As recommended by the previous Tor appointed minimum wage review three members of the new Board rep resent employers i lawyer Tracey Rpp of Pitblado Buch Wald i Hartley executive vice pres ident of mag and i Bob president of the Manitoba restaurant the remaining three members represent employees i Bernard president of the United food and commercial workers i George tax crusader and trea surer of a Canadian Union of Public employees and i Maria business agent for the unite garment workers Lone fighter gets Library policy altered by Bruce Owen John Ryan fought City Hall and won yester and in doing so gained another legacy for his late he single Anderly got the cites libraries to change How they Issue tax receipts for new a minor Issue in the big scheme of but one that May open the door for future donations to the Public Library in very Happy with How things turned Ryan said after he addressed the Protection and Community services in extremely Happy with the efficiency with which it was it was just common after a retired University of Winnipeg Geog Raphy started battling the Library bureaucracy last year when he approached them wanting to donate to each Branch 16 new copies of where the wind carries me the life and times of Judith a Book he wrote about his late wife and her the books cover Price is yet under City the Library could Issue him a tax receipt for Only per Ryan donated the Book to other libraries throughout the province and got a tax receipt from i refused to accept the cites Token tax he it made no sense to its not in the interest of its not in the inter est of libraries and it seems to contravene the income tax so vowed to change the he called his City Garth Steek River and researched tax he made a Quick and convincing argument that the Library tax receipt policy on donations was the councillors the committee Jeff de body free press Ryan policy made no sense to me passed a motion to give Ryan a tax receipt for such a receipt costs the City nothing and asked bureaucrats to look at changing the Library policy within 60 the committee was told the policy was based on people donating used Ryan said a new policy that recognizes the True Market value of donations will encourage people to donate their collections to Public it seemed if people had a valuable collect Why would they donate to the City Library he Ryan wrote the Book about his wife after she died unexpectedly of a brain Haemorrhage in Judy Ryan was a Well known local she used a variety of ranging from Folk Art Hwayang copperplate Sculp Tures and stained Batik is making designs on cloth one part at a protecting uncoloured portions with melted Boxer freed on bail to be with sick brother by Mike Mclntyre a Winnipeg Boxer won the biggest fight of his life yesterday getting out of jail to be with his critically ill younger Ralph Junior Moar was freed on bail after spending three months behind bars on charges of attempted court of Queens Bench associate chief Justice Jeffrey Oliphant overturned a previous decision he made in january to keep in custody at the remand Centre while he awaits at the Oliphant had expressed Hope prison officials could arrange for Moar to have regular visits with his who has been hospitalized with defence lawyer Mike Cook said Moar has Only seen his sibling on one occasion and asked for him to be freed on compassionate a former Canadian Amateur boxing Cham was charged late last year with firing a nine millimetre handgun at four people inside a car As it was being driven Down an intercity at the time of his Moar was preparing to head to Las vegas to be trained by famous boxing promoter Don Oliphant said yesterday he sympathizes with the plight of Mars who packed the tiny court room yesterday and cheered when the judge agreed to release Moar must abide by strict including an absolute curfew which will Only allow him out of the Home to visit his brother in along with other family Mars father and Fiancee also posted sureties which will be vacated if Moar breaches his bail City seeks provincial help in fight against mosquitoes official wants plan to Deal with threat of West Nile virus by Bruce Owen Winnipeg War on mosquitoes needs help from the doer government if the City is going to get the upper hand on the Pesky blood a civic com Mittee was told i think the province is under some heat to do Protection and Community services committee chairman Jenny Gerbasi its our Job to keep the heat the City needs changes to legislation that would give City Crews Access to private property to Lar Sacide for Mosquito As Well As approval for the City to Spray for Mosquito eggs six Kilometres beyond City the province also has to Amend the City of Winnipeg act to make no fogging requests More City entomologist Randy Gadawski said the City wants people who dont want their property fogged with malathion to kill adult Mosquito to submit self composed exemption the proposal is in response to a Campaign last year in Wolseley that saw a few using form get fogging banned in the entire neigh it was somewhat Gadawski it was an organized Campaign that saw maximum effect with minimum a provincial spokesman said intergovernmental affairs minister Jean Friesen is aware of the cites concerns and is in the process of dealing with the City needs action within the next month to allow City Bug Crews this Mosquito which typically starts in late Gadawski said the province should also take a More Active role because Mosquito control is a health he said a coordinated plan is needed to Deal with the potential threat from the West Nile a lethal disease that spread by sever Al people have died in the United states in the past two Gadawski said theres evidence the virus there is no vaccine for it has spread towards the Cana Dian plans Are under Way for Manitoban to be on the Lookout for dead an indication of West Nile he migrating Birds can carry the Dis its transmitted to human by the whole idea of mosquitoes and disease is always in the Back of our Gadawski the cites top Bug fighter also told the committee his Crews need Access to private property this year to Lar Sacide for spraying chemicals in standing water to kill we think we need to be Able to visit those he Gadawski also said a Public information Campaign will Alert people to the threat of standing water in their like in rain barrels or old the City committee agreed in most part to Gadawski War Gadawski said he needs More this on top of the million already approved by coun to buy and use More biological chemicals in the next two Iii downtown f Market pharm save 3 49 99 Hills instant Coffee 200 red Rose Tea bags Carnation evaporated a a 4 milk of Alfh 385 Golden Valley All fruit spread Lipton Sou works Clover Leaf Flavoured m Light Tunas Al 85 u Kraft Delissio pizza 888 g992 a 969 1 Tat 1 149 3 989 Scott pm a paper towels 1 Yir 2 i 85 i Edwards ground Coffee 737 oceans Sockeye Salmon 213 Sun Rype Purego Apple juice 1 Blue nature Valley Granola bars 1 Black cheese spread 500 Campbells Chunky soups Betty Crocker hamburger u i59 1 3 1 Kelloggs Rice Krispie a squares Swansong potato topped pie of 340 we Del Monte fruit bowls 2 Sara Lee Aya cheesecake bites Post shred Dies 620 Scott 99 generic facial tissue 150s fiesta bathroom tissue 8 Roll 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