Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2007, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Winnipeg free press thursday december 20, 2007 Manitoba a population increase largest in years by Marie to Proulx fewer people Are deserting Manitoba according to a statistics Canada report released wednesday. In the last year a total of 7,571 More people were added to Manitoba a popu lation the largest increase since 1982. Wilf Falk of the Manitoba Bureau of statistics credited the trend to the High Cost of living in Alberta still the first destination for those who do leave Manitoba. Falk pointed to the Strong Economy in Manitoba As a reason Many workers May decide to stay or to return. Housing manufacturing and exports Are All up from last year and the provinces workforce is growing. Manitoba has improved its labour productivity by 2.2 per cent or double the National average increase. Bob Dolyniuk general manager of the Manitoba trucking association said he would not be surprised to see an influx of workers from Ontario. With the Down turn in the Auto Industry i think there a a likelihood people will come the trend May have already started As 184 people came to Manitoba from Ontario in the last year. Retired theatre manager Gord Jack son is one of them. Having lived and worked in Hamilton most of his life he moved to Winnipeg in the fall to enjoy his retirement. I love the Winter Here he said noting he also appreciates the lower Levels of air pollution. In line with historical trends Quebec the breakdown Manitoba population and economic figures for the last year. Total population increase 11,471. Net inter provincial inflow 7,571. Last net inter provincial inflow 1,378 1983. Labour productivity increase 2.2 per cent first in Canada. Total exports 12.9 per cent increase second in Canada. Unemployment rate 4.2 per cent. Corporate bankruptcies 33 per cent decrease continues to contribute More residents to Manitoba than it welcomes. A total of 230 made that trip West last year. Isaac Gelin and Dier Geline Desjardins left their French speaking province in search of a place where they could make daily use of their native Tongue. They moved to Winnipeg in september. The City is not very modern and its quite smaller Gelin said but people Are a lot friendlier than in he and his wife Hope to remain Here after they finish their studies. Gelin is in medical school at the University of Manitoba. Desjardins who was a nurse in Montreal is now completing equivalencies at the Coll be Universita ire de Saint Boniface so she can work As a nurse Here. East Side Power line supported in new report province risks International uproar Over boreal Forest Side of Lake Winnipeg. That a despite revealed deep opposition to the line. By Mary Agnes Welch the fact that the West Side route is the but the consultants said that View is longest most expensive and least use far from unanimous and they noted t Here Are Good reasons to Ful in an emergency operation that some first nations appear will build a massive new Power line according to the consultants. Ing to discuss a line if it comes with Down the East Side of Manitoba the nip favours the Western route economic opportunities. Instead of the West Side but the because it wants to preserve the bore also at Issue is the lobbying heft of province risks turning the boreal for Al Forest on the East Side. The govern International environmental groups est into an International cause Cele ment is making a bid to turn that and whether they would make the Bre if it does according to a new Forest into a Enesco world heritage preservation of the Forest the focus of report released wednesday night. Site. A Well funded global Campaign. That a the nip government and the tory Enesco site bid doers fear and the consultants said opposition faced off again yesterday the consultants report which its a genuine possibility especially if evening at a Crown corporations com makes no firm recommendations said first nations Are unanimous and Are Mittee meeting ? normally mundane building a Power line Down the East Allied with environmental groups. Gatherings that have taken on new life Side would to necessarily kill the but tory Leader Hugh Mcfadyen thanks to the Power line debate. Provinces bid for a Enesco site. And said he a not convinced a global out on the table Between the Cabinet it highlighted some similar Environ cry is a foregone conclusion Espe ministers opposition critics and Las mental issues on the West Side that no scially if the pros and cons on each was a new study done by Csc con one has studied properly yet like a option Are Laid out clearly for the pub sultans that recapped Many of the Forest Reserve near the Saskatchewan Lic. And he said he listens More to peo East versus West arguments that have River. Ple who live in the boreal Forest like dominated the legislature for the last it also noted that first nations oppo aboriginal groups than he does to several months. Sit Ion to a line Down the East Side May Cape cod environmentalists a shot at the nip government has decreed be wavering ? something the tories activist Robert f. Kennedy jr., who has that a third Power line connecting have been arguing for months. Demanded the forests preservation. Northern dams to Southern customers Premier Gary doer has said repeat should be built Down the West Side of edly that his 2004 consultations with. Lake Manitoba rather than the East the dozen or so bands on the East Side ;