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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 31, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba B6 business business watch can West appoints Burney lease from Toronto ? can West global communications Mth corp. Appointed Derek Burney chairman of its $449 Board of directors yesterday. Burney who was chief executive of cae inc. 0 Down and served As Canadas ambassador to the United states for four years ending in 1993, replaces David Drybrough. Drybrough was can West a interim chairman features for 18 months following the departure of Frank ? 210hp v6 engine Mckenna who left after he was appointed Cana ? automatic transmission Das ambassador to the . ? pm satellite radio ? 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Residual value at lease end $15,844.00 plus taxes. Equipped Srp $39,610. Stock #61087 -0.halls, hotels and legions across the province. Home depot to Cut 300 jobs strength in numbers Atlanta ? the Home depot inc. Nose Hethe Winnipeg free press North americas largest Home improvement store Chain said yesterday it is cutting about 300 is read by 44% of Winnipeg adults jobs at its Headquarters. Every weekday. Chief executive Bob Nardelli made the announce that a #1 in Canada among ment in a memo to All 355,000 Home depot employ major in the ., Canada and Mexico. Unlimited incoming Calls $30 our hottest Motorola handsets ? unlimited incoming local Calls starting at $25 ? 100 weekday minutes ? 1,000 evening and weekend per month minutes from 7 . Bonus 3 months unlimited. ? local Calls Winnipeg free press thursday August 31, 2006 Costco warns of lower profits Seattle ? Costco wholesale corp. Said yester Day it expects fourth Quarter profit to be below analysts estimates As sales on items like jewelry and furniture slowed and the company struggled with higher Gas prices. The warning sent Costco shares Down More than four per cent. The Issaquah based wholesale club North americas largest wholesale club operator said it expects to earn Between 68 cents and 71 cents per share for its Quarter ending sept. 3. The 17-week period will include a one time tax charge of about three cents per share. Workers dismissed by email fort Worth Texas ? radio Shack corp. Nose Rush notified about 400 workers by email that they were being dismissed immediately As part of planned Job cuts. Employees at the fort Worth Headquarters got messages tuesday morning saying the work Force reduction notification is currently in Progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been company officials had told employees in a series of meetings that Layoff notices would be delivered electronically spokeswoman Kay Jack son said. Award grossly excessive new Orleans ? the $50-million compensatory damage award in a Federal Viox Case this month was grossly excessive and a new trial must be held to decide How much drug maker Merck & co. Nose mrk must pay a retired Fri agent who suffered a heart attack after Tak ing the painkiller a Federal judge ruled yester Day. ? from the news services Airport continued from Page b5 the ceo of destination Winnipeg the tourism and economic development Arm of the City of Winnipeg said the Agency welcomes the Waas efforts to encourage More aerospace and transportation related ventures within the City. Aerospace provides a lot of highly skilled higher paying jobs Stuart Dun can said in an interview. Although there Are no deals pending Rempel said waa officials have had talks with a number of parties who have expressed an interest in setting up air Craft maintenance hangars on the air port site. Another company was interested in leasing office space in one of the airports business Parks because it wanted Quick and easy Access to the air port he added. He said its difficult to predict How quickly Eva Rempel and her team can begin nailing Down deals. Well be bringing in a lot of people to look he said. Its then a question of who is going to fifty three tenants lease space in the airports business Parks. They include aerospace companies commercial air lines logistics specialists International courier companies and aviation related training facilities. Barry Rempel said the tenants Gener ate about $1.7 million a year in rental revenues for the waa. He said its too soon to say How much the waa might be Able to grow that number. In addition to developing 323 hectares of its own land the waa has also entered into a joint venture with a consortium of private land owners to develop about 1,200 More hectares of land immediately West of the Airport land. The joint venture is called the Winnipeg Airport lands corp., and Bruce Macleod its president and ceo said in an interview the corporation already has a City approved plan in place for devel Oping the approximately 485 hectares of land that fall within the boundaries of the City of Winnipeg. The plan Calls for the creation of an Industrial Park which would essentially be an Extension of the waa business Campus concept with a mix of Aero space transportation and logistics related businesses. 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