Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 3, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba b6 Winnipeg free press thursday August 3, 2006 business Bio Vail corp. Shares drop 25% after ruling ashtray Tower to Star a Bottom line takes pounding ease rate of 3.9% for a new 2006 Lincoln Zephyr is available to qualified retail lessees on approved credit from Ford credit. Lease calculation monthly payment of $432 for a term of 48 months. Additional payments required $1,995 Down payment or equivalent Trade in $0 Security Deposit plus administration fees and applicable taxes. The total Cost of lease Over term is $22,731. Optional buyout $16,335. Cash Purchase prices $35,217. Cost of borrowing is $5,835 or 4.7%. Mileage restriction 80,000km Over 48 months with 12 cents per pm for each additional pm. Certain taxes will apply. Cash Purchase a new 2006 Lincoln Zephyr for $35,217 plus freight of $1,200 until August 31, 2006. Taxes payable on full amount of Purchase Price. Quantities Are limited. 0% Purchase financing on All new 2006 Lincoln Zephyr base models for a term of 36months to qualified retail customers on approved credit from Ford credit. Sample calculation based on a 36 month term $20,000 financed at 0%, monthly payments of $555.56 for a term of 36 months. The total Cost of borrowing is $0 or 0%. This is a Sample calculation Only. Down payment May be required based on approved credit from Ford credit. No Security Deposit on most 2006 and 2007 Ford and Lincoln vehicles excluding2006 and 2007 Shelby Mustang it 500, of series Chassis cabs and 2006 medium trucks and Kcf effective july 1, 2006 through october 2, 2006. Security Deposit May be required by Ford credit based on customer credit terms and conditions. Lincoln family pricing is Only in effect from june 16 to August 31, 2006 at participating Ford of Canada dealerships. Lincoln family pricing is available on most new 2006 and 2007ford and Lincoln vehicles excluding Mustang Shelby it 500, set Ford it Edge Max of series Chassis cab econ line cutaway and stripped Chassis Kcf and medium truck. The new vehicle must be delivered or ordered from your Ford Lincoln dealer on or before August 31, 2006. Lincoln family pricing does not include taxes registration administration pre delivery delivery freight or License fees. Lincoln family pricing snot available on any Fleet or government delivery. Additional incentives May apply. See your local Ford of Canada Dealership for Complete program details. The no charge scheduled maintenance package does not apply to any purchasers or lessees of Fleet and commercial vehicles. The no charge scheduled maintenance benefits package applies to Canadian residents and retail owners and lessees of 2006 Lincoln vehicles Only and is non transferable. Offers exclude freight pre delivery License insurance administration fees and All applicable taxes. Offers Are mutually exclusive and cannot be combined with any other offers. Dealer May sell or lease for less. Limited time offers. Dealer Transfer May be required. Offers May be cancelled at any time without notice. Some conditions apply. See dealer for details. Toronto ? Bio Vail corp. Shares plunged 25 per cent yesterday after the company lost a court Challenge in Cali fornia that May open the Way to quicker generic Competition for its main profit generating product the time release anti depressant Wel Butrin Al. A California judge ruled tuesday that Anchen pharmaceuticals planned generic version of Wel Butrin Al does not infringe Bio Vail a Patent shooting Down a Bio Vail attempt to Stop Anchen from producing the drug. Bio Vail has a Plant in Steinbach. Bio Vail a Stock Sank in late trading tuesday As word of the ruling circulated finishing the Day Down five per cent and plunged a further 25 per cent in trading yesterday. It closed Down $6.06 at $17.70. Early generic Competition for Well Butrin Al would be a big Challenge for Mississauga Bio Vail which got about 40 per cent of its sales and half its profit last year from the drug. Us analyst Jeff Elliott said in a report that should Anchen Start Selling a generic ver Sion in the first half of next year the com petition could Knock As much As $1.20 a share from Bio Vail a earnings which he estimated would be $2.49 a share. The Market had been expecting that a generic version would come to Market in late 2007 or Early 2008, but tuesdays decision raises the possibility that Anchen could be Selling its drug by the end of this year. The ruling also dashes Hopes that Bio Vail would reach a Settle ment with Anchen because it gives Anchen so much leverage. ? can West news service got a big butt problem inventor has the answer by Mike King m ont real ? Sylvain Bour Deau had his Eureka moment when he spotted the ground littered with cigarette Butts outside a Boucherville que., bar on the eve of the provinces introduction of its ban on smoking in Public places. It hit me like a Flash what people do with their cigarette Butts Bour Deau said yesterday recalling his May 30 Epiphany. The image also reminded him of Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay a pledge to Clear City streets and Side walks of unsightly cigarette Butts. Marcel Tremblay the mayors brother and City councillor in charge of the cleanup program referred to a billion Butts being discarded in Public yearly. I had a vision and two Days later i got to work on it Bourdeau said of Jerome started up Jer a Syl inc. And bought includes installation a Choice his subsequent invention ? the Patent the younger Bourdeau continues to of 400 colours and a 10-year Guaran pending i Kakwit ashtray Tower a operate the manufacturer of poly eth tee even though Bourdeau suggest streamlined 1.4-metre-tall hollow Alu Ylene baskets and trays for fruits and the ashtray will last at least 25 year Minum Post that can be customized in vegetables ? spent $1,200 on a Proto without rusting. A variety of colours. Type. Twenty five Are now being built on Bourdeau said he added the second Bourdeau is marketing his ashtray order at a subcontracted Hometown to the name because a search found to All three Levels of government in company he said is capable of pro the word Kwit was already taken for Quebec there Are 350 municipalities during 50 to 100 a week. Another product. Alone bars restaurants hospitals and the plan is also to rent the ashtrays besides the letter k has Strong companies that have employees who for events and eventually sell Adver business association to companies like smoke. Tising on them making them Revenue Kodak and Kellogg she added. The Price a few Hundred dollars generating. The St. Jean sur Richelieu que., each depending on the Quantity entrepreneur he and his father ? can West news service Toronto ? to Star tax Bottom line took a pounding As weaker than expected and linage at the country a largest daily a Strong Dollar and one time charges squeezed profits in what the company Sceo called a Tough second Quarter. Profits at the company that owns the Toronto Star and the publisher of the harlequin Romance novels fell 28 per cent to $25.6 million from a year earlier As revenues slipped $12.6 million to $390 million. It was a difficult Quarter for to Star with disappointing operating results said Robert Prichard the company a president and ceo. We need to deliver better operating results in the quarters ahead and we plan to take the Steps necessary to get the poor performance comes on the heels of a 54 per cent profit drop in the first Quarter. At the Toronto Star Canadas biggest daily revenues fell to $108.7 million from $111.5 million a year earlier As operating profits were slashed in half to $5.6 million. Challenging linage trends continued David Holland to Star a chief financial officer told a conference Call late yesterday As he noted classified Advertis ing had taken the biggest hit. The company said $6.1 million of the Overall decline in net profit came from a one time gain realized on . Dollar hedge contracts that fattened the Bot Tom line last year As Well As the strength ening Dollar in the latest period. Prichard also said a bankruptcy at a mailing supplier disrupted Harlequins direct to Consumers Spring mailing. The isolated Issue Cut earnings by about $2 million Prichard said. ? Canadian press Bce says slump will turn around by end of year Montreal ? second Quarter profit at Bce inc. Slumped 15.5 per cent because of employee Benefit and other costs but the telecommunications giant said yesterday its still on track to meet its full year profit forecast. Net profit fell to $494 million or 53 cents a share from $581 million or 61 cents last year. Revenue in the Quarter ending june 30 Rose one per cent to $4.8 billion. Chief executive Michael Sabia was upbeat about Bce a profit margin and Cost cutting efforts in the Quarter. Its a Quarter that leaves us very much on plan and on track Sabia told analysts during a conference Call. Operating profit declined to $980 Mil lion compared with $1.1 billion in same Quarter last year. The drop stemmed from a $50-million charge to reduce staff and close facilities As Well As costs from the launch of the Bell valiant regional communications fund and an increase in amortization and pension expenses. The company squeezed out $172 Mil lion in Cost savings in the Quarter bring ing to almost $300 million its total for the first half of the year. ? can West news service legals notice to creditors in the matter of the estate of Ian Andrew West James of the City of Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba deceased. All claims against the above estate duly verified by statutory declaration must be sent to the undersigned at 1200 330 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba r3c 4e1, on or before the 5th Day of september 2006. Dated at Winnipeg Manitoba this 31st Day of july 2006. Darcy & Deacon lip per Roger d. Gripp solicitors for the estate. Notice under the real property act District of Morden to Mervin George Braun notice of exercising Power of Sale no. 1097841 has been filed in the Morden land titles office As no. 1097841 on behalf of farm credit Canada the mortgagee under a mortgage registered in the Morden land titles office As no. 96-9847 which charges the following land described in certificate of title no. 1548902 so 1/4 14-6-3 Wpm. The District registrar has been informed that it has been impossible to make personal or mail service of the order for Sale upon Mervin George Braun and has issued an order permitting substitution Al service. therefore take notice that unless the default in the mortgage is remedied within one Calendar month from the publication of this notice the mortgagee will be entitled to proceed upon the Sale of the land. District registrar Morden land titles office Taylor Mccaffrey lip 9th floor 400 St. Mary Avenue Winnipeg Manitoba Canada r3c 4k5 attn David Skinner 988-0368 ;