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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba Lqqlshj?v3uhplhuh, subject to wednesday August 23, 2006 cops do change. Certain conditions May apply. 5 .35 % buy your Gic online at business Call 788-4040 re frus Rudh Qaq Fth dog Thuy Luhv Foo Xiv do editor Steve Pona 697-7264 i Market details b7 i i b6 re Al vow Rhu Zhe Vlah Zzz mrs ads Lido Fri Dow 11,339.84 5.21 0.19?. Up tax Nash a Dollar Oil Gold 12,201.15 64.22 2,150.02 2.27 89.65? . 72.63$./barrel 0.18? ./barrel 634.00$./troy of 1.20$./troy of fuel prices hit Home Manitoba a Cost of living takes a jump by Murray Mcneill m Manitoba Consumers Are finally starting to feel the full Impact of higher fuel prices As soaring transportation costs begin to drive up the Price of consumer goods. New statistics Canada figures released yesterday show Manitoba had the second highest Cost of living increase in the country last month at 0.4 per cent. And the main reasons for that were a Spike in gasoline prices and a jump in the Cost for fresh fruits and vegetables. a spokesman for one local fruit and vegetable wholesaler ? Southern produce ? said the Cost of imported fruits and vegetables is up More than 50 per cent from a year ago thanks mainly to a 35 to 40 per cent increase in transportation costs. Alan Leung said in August of last year it Cost Southern produce about $4,000 to bring in a truckload of fresh fruit or vegetables from the Southern United states. This month it Cost about $6,000. University of Manitoba economics pro Fessor John Mccallum said that up until about a month ago the rising value of the Canadian Dollar was helping to shield Cana Dian Consumers from the full Impact of soar ing fuel prices because it was costing Canadian importers less Money to buy products from the United states. So that boosted their profit margins and enabled them to absorb much of the increase in transportation costs. but in the past month or so the Canadian Dollar has been More stable he added Hov ering in the 88 cent to 90 cent us Range. So the purchasing Power for importers in to increasing at anywhere near the same rate it was in the first half of the year he added but fuel prices continue to Rise. now Many of those importers Are at the Point where they can no longer afford to absorb those rising transportation costs Mccallum said so they re passing them on in the form of higher prices. Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press you have to Leung added. If you tried to eat that Cost. Your business would go Alan Leung says Cost of importing fruit and vegetables is up from 35 to 40 per cent. Local trucking companies Are in the same boat according to Bob Dolyniuk general fuel in Winnipeg has jumped about 16 per feel the sting of higher transportation costs. Manager of the Manitoba trucking Assoc a cent in the past year and 43 per cent in the he said virtually anything that has to be Tion. Past two years. As a result it now costs a local hauled a substantial distance by truck or rail Dolyniuk said trucking firms have had to trucking firm Between $10,000 and $11,000 including new vehicles toys clothing and increase the fuel charges to their customers More to operate a truck for a full year than it Home electronics products could end up Cost because they can to afford not to. He said two did a year ago. Ing More if transportation costs continue to years ago the fuel surcharge accounted for that a a lot of Money he added. And climb and the Dollar remains relatively Sta Only 10 to 12 per cent of a total freight Bill. By we be said from the Start those costs would ble. 2005 that had jumped to 25 per cent and this have to be passed on and that Consumers. year it accounts for about 35 per cent. Would eventually feel he said truckers have had to boost the sur Mccallum said its not just at the fruit and charge because the Price of a litre of diesel vegetable stand that Consumers Are going to ? with files from up kids turn to Peers advertising to choose products Survey finds the report which was released this week by misty Harris also reveals teens and teens Are More responsive to Standard advertising ploys than new although just six per cent of today a youth technology based tactics. Believe there a truth in advertising its not Stop fully 40 per cent say they try to buy prod Ping them from looking to marketing Cam acts they be seen on to or in the movies with pains for help on what to Purchase. Those aged eight to 12 most Likely to agree 53 and they re doing so at the same rate they per cent. Turn to friends for product advice. Twenty six per cent of Young people say they More than one in three teens 36 per cent like seeing product placement in film As an and nearly a Quarter of teens 23 per cent look advertising technique the same number who to their Peers to help decide which products to like seeing a company a name attached to a buy with an equal proportion admitting they sporting or stadium event. Celebrity endorse John ulan / Canadian press archives pay close attention to advertisements. Ment tops the list at 29 per cent. Yet 72 per cent of respondents believe com Young Peoples least Favourite marketing tac Young people Don to like ads on cellphones. Panties Arent upfront about their products neg tics Are the newest Only five per cent like to Active qualities and 73 per cent think companies see a product advertised on Mobile phones Fol they like or strongly like to share such info try to get people to buy things they Don to need. Lowed by contrived Chat session product men mation. Nearly half 47 per cent Are of the opinion mar tons at four per cent. Companies that enlist teens and teens represent about 14 per cent meters can lie in ads saying anything about bloggers to promote their products fared slight of the North american population with 4.3 Mil their product even if it in to by better with 10 per cent approval. Lion of them in Canada alone. Studies estimate so finds a new Survey of 1,306 . Young the Survey also suggests today a youth Don to american youth direct As much As $175 billion people aged eight to 18, conducted by Harris want to get personal with the people Selling to us in consumer spending annually while their interactive in collaboration with the universe them. Fully 66 per cent dislike or strongly Dis Canuck counterparts direct As much As $20 Bilty of Delaware a Lerner College of business like when a company asks for their name or a lion can a year. And economics. Mail address with just four per cent saying ? can West news service pm says hell Call election if lumber Bill in to adopted by Alexander Panetta Ottawa ? the Federal tory government has threatened to Call an election if parliament fails to adopt a Bill that would implement the controversial Canada-. Softwood lumber agreement this fall. Prime minister Stephen Harper announced his government a Fate will depend on legislation to be tabled once the House of commons resumes sitting next month. He issued the ultimatum late yesterday As he gave the Green Light to an agreement that would put to rest a four year Trade dispute that has devastated Canadas lumber Industry. This agreement will end years of costly Legal Wran gling and allow us to move on to build a stronger More prosperous Canada Harper said in a Brief appearance in the foyer of the House of com Mons. As such and because of its fiscal measures the vote on this will be a Confidence defeat on a Confidence motion would mean an elec Tion As Early As september just eight months after the last one. That scenario will be averted if just one opposition party ? including the Lead Erless liberals ? supports the Deal. However All opposition Par ties have taken turns criticizing the agreement As a sellout to . Interests and a Capitu lation to president George w. Bush. The Deal repays to Canadian producers about 80 per cent of the More than $5 billion in punitive duties collected by the United states on lumber shipments from Canada in the last three years. It also sets up a system of sliding duties and managed Market Access for Canadian companies who now account for about a third of the . Market. However the agreement could impose significant hurdles for Canadian producers shipping Wood into the . If lumber prices fall As they Are now starting to do because of a weakening . Housing Market. The nip declared within minutes of harpers announce ment it would vote against the Deal which leaves its destiny in the other parties hands. Any enlightened parliamentarian will be voting against this Deal said nip Industry critic Peter Julian. As enlightened politicians we re going to vote against it. We be read the agreement we be seen the capitulation we know its not in canadians interests. This sellout is Stephen Harper trying to cozy up to George Bush. It is not about standing up for Julian said lumber officials have warned that the Deal will mean severe Job losses in cer Tain sectors of their Industry. ? Canadian press Canad inns to butt out by end of november by Geoff Kirbyson Canad inns is breaking out the Carrot Sticks nicotine gum and the Patch. The Winnipeg based hotel Chain in to quitting cold Turkey but As of yesterday it is no longer taking reservations for smoking rooms. Existing reservations for such rooms will be honoured until nov. 30 when the final smok ing rooms ashtray will be emptied for the last time. The new policy will include All guest rooms restaurants lounges meeting rooms pub Lic spaces and employee work areas. The Only place you la be Able to feed your nicotine addiction at a Canad inn is in designated outdoor smoking areas. We want to provide our guests with the most enjoy Able experience possible Leo Ledochowski president and ceo of Canad inns said in a statement. Our new smoke free environment will make the experience better for All our perhaps its just a coincidence but Canad inns new initiative kicks in four Days after one of the biggest events of the year will be held in the City ? the Grey cup. The annual week Long party attracts thousands of Canad an football league fans from around the country and the United states. The site of the big game Canad inns stadium. The smoke free shift at Canad inns in tas dramatic As one might think. Guests at its Transcona property Haven to been Able to smoke in their rooms since last March. Over All the Chain allocates just 20 per cent of its room inventory to smokers. All of its recently renovated rooms have been designated smoke free and you can to smoke in any of the company a vehicles either. Jim Baker president and ceo of the Manitoba hotel association which represents about 330 hotels throughout the province said going smoke free is a growing inter National trend among major chains. ;