Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 15, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba Home grown Wild cheeses are Manitoba food stars D1 48 PAGES VOL 121 NO 284 PUBLICATIONS MAIL REGISTRATION 0286 Winnipeg Free Press GST PST 60c t GS1 Weekly homo 25 wHy 05 21 September Get out or go in inmate mistakenly told 4 3y Maloney him to When Viandante motorcycle He tried to the Remand Centre was W W jBL M see VLTs grab tips By Maloney Staff Reporter A COMEDY of errors led to the release of a motorcycle gang member charged in last weeks mammoth drug bust despite the prisoners Franco Viandante was about to sit down to dinner Monday night when a guard told him all charges against him had been dropped and ordered him to When Viandante questioned the he was threatened with solitary confinement if he didnt his lawyer He advised jail officials it couldnt be lawyer Martin Glazer said He wanted the jail to let him back was arrested last week in connection with a cocaine distribution ring involving the Los motorcycle He tried to tell jail workers his including trafficking cocaine and conspiracy to traffic had not been The mixup was traced to technical and clerical In court last charges listed an incident occurring on July 16 instead of June The Crown was forced to stay those but issued new ones to take their the Remand Centre was sent only records of the stayed And thats why Viandante was said Remand Centre deputy Victor They needed to communicate the entire picture to Bergen said In my stint at the this is the first incident of this Viandante voluntarily returned to his cell last Duty time to go Bourassa not running again By Don Macdonald Canadian Press QUEBEC PREMIER Rob ert Bourassa declared his duty done yesterday in an nouncing the end of one of Canadas most enduring and tu political told a news confer ence he will not seek another man He said he wanted to spend more time with his family and give breathing room to his successor before a provincial election next Its not an easy said looking calm and digni fied in a blue at the news con When you have given the best of yourself and fighting every you do not leave that function But I am leaving with the satisfaction of having done my Bourassa was given a standing ovation by friends and members of his caucus both before and after his news conference in the red room of the He made a strong defence of Ca federalism despite that fact that his two attempts to bring Que bec into Canadas constitutional fold over the past five years have ended in humiliating Quebec can never win by breaking Canada into three piec Bourassa said under glaring TV The independence of Quebec is geopolitical who was first elected premier 23 years denied the timing of his departure had any thing to do with the 25 federal election in which the separatist Bloc Quebecois is It is difficult to conclude that it could have a strong impact on the he with wife told news conference his health is He has had skin good but he decided to retire dur ing the summer after discussing his future with his I have got tremendous mail from Quebec and the rest of Can ada and they say We are for you Bourassa but maybe it is about time to think about yourself and your I am just follow ing that Saddened Liberals expressed ap prehension about the future without Bourassa and some said his departure is a blow to federal He believed in the federal pro cess and he searched for ways to renew Revenue Minister Ray mond His departure creates theres no doubt about Ministers who have been named as possible successors to Bourassa Treasury Board President Daniel deputy premier Lise Bacon and Industry Minister Gerald Tremblay joined in a chorus of Liberal praise for the premier but refused to discuss their own plans for the Even Bloc Leader Lucien Bou a sworn political called Bourassa a man of vision and praised the warmth and simplicity of the Possible successors Daniel Gerald End of Bourassa era Warmth unseen by public A2 No victory for My for all practical purposes was made over the sum mer I wanted to give enough time to my party to hold a leader ship race and for my successor to have a little flexibility in when to hold an He said he trusts his Liberal party to choose a successor able to defend Canada against the attacks of the Parti Quebecois in the pro Bourassa is to remain in office until a leadership convention is likely in late His future has been in doubt since his advanced case of skin cancer was found to have recurred at the beginning of the He has since been successfully treated in the The speaking with his cabinet and caucus sitting said his health remains mirror on the central Reform party likely not the fairest of them all By Randy Turner Staff Reporter supposed to be the Reform Party of Canadas launching Reformers here admit that electing fewer than 10 MPs in Alberta would be considered a Their dream As many as 20 of 26 carrying the flag of the West to But if Reform Leader Preston Manning believes victory is at hed better take a hard look in this This last theres hardly a mention of Reform I dont know why there was such a Gary who owns the said between Theyve Losing ground in really done nothing from my point of Albert said he would vote for Mannings the former Social Credit party leader in But Preston Thats another I dont know much about them Reformers at said a 1 dont even know what they stand to tell you the To try something we might get into a worse situation then we are Such is the dilemma facing While rural Alberta offers fertile political soil for the it is also a land where Conservatives have grown roots for And that underlying Conservative loyalty shows in places like almost between Edmonton and In a random sampling of the folks in this population actually turned up a Liberal before a Manning It Reform was very popular to begin said Steve a from way But I think theyre finding it pretty And 1 cant see it getting any Every four people here get ticked off and say they want a Lamb And when it comes time to they put them Tories back Polls back up residents The Reform party has taken a nosedive in its home province since July when it had 43 per cent support of those surveyed in Alberta for an Angus Reid This only 26 per cent of those polled said they would vote Reform if the election were held At the same traditional Conservative support has soared back up to near traditional From only 19 per cent poll support in Alberta in July of the Tories are now popular with 40 per cent of those surveyed in the same Angus Reid serving staff as quarters feed game machines By Teresa Crellin Free Press Correspondent MORE more hassles and less Thats what bartenders and serving personnel across the city say about new video lottery ter VLTs in their Slinging beer has never really paid but the tips are nor mally ranging between and a Not On an exceptionally good I might make said Diane a bartender at the West brook Inn who has been in the busi ness 17 You get theres more work and less People playing VLTs dont They take all the change for the A waitress at the Fox and Hound in the James Hotel who did not want her name used Its creating a whole new job de scription for us and the pay hasnt in she referring to the chores of paying out mak ing change and changing paper rolls in the Maybe the government should consider subsidizing us for doing their who has worked at the Lin coln Motor Hotel for 13 was equally Theyre not tipping and not just Youre rush ing across the and they get mad if youre not there right away with Theres no tips at all and if you give them the wrong then youre If they they might buy you a but what goods that Ronni Benoit and Colleen two single parents working at the Golden Nugget No food or just And tips are down about 60 per If this keeps Ive got no Im going to have to go to welfare for a supplement or quit and go back to a divorced mother of Theyre very addict said who is separated and has one child and a mortgage to It wouldnt be bad losing JEFF FREE PRESS Bouteiller on good day business if they were quitting drink but theyre just going from one addiction to Over at Grapes on Mike Elli who was tending noted the hassle of constantly making At the Marion waitress Terri Hurrell was the only waitress inter viewed to say her tips were Theres more work and less People playing who has been a waitress at the Grant Motor Inn for 17 years since immigrating from of an explanation for the because its a show she refusing to give her last The bars that have exot ic have dedicated drink They dont play the VLTs theyre there to watch the The government has this idea it really Theyre taking poor peoples Its not the hotel owners they have to Theres only so much money to go its just a quar you can win up to The Chinese people say its the worst thing you can do worse than They hook TODAY Quote of the Day They were just dangling there and just wanted to know when help was going to John Schellenberg describes the plight of three Winnipeg painters suspended by safety ropes five storeys up when their scaffolding gave Details on page B1 The Weather Today Increasing 40 chance of Wind southeast 30 High Low tonight Tomorrow 40 chance of High Sun Rises Sets Moon Rises Sets Details on page C7 Inside Ann In Sports TV
