Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 12, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Winnipeg free press. Wednesday. February 12, 1975 liberals use majority muscle by Dave Blaikie Ottawa up the m j o r i t y Liberal government swept aside two opposition a tempts tuesday night to broaden personal income tax red ions announced nov. 18 by f Nance minister John Turner. Arguing that the county France St. Pierre to Confer St. Pierre Dele gallon representing elected officials and Union officers Wil Fly to Paris from these French islands feb. 15 to meet with Olivier Stirn French overseas territories minister. The meeting which will Dis cuss local grievances which have led to demonstrations and strikes was arranged after the French government agreed to a condition insisted upon by the local officials that gov. Jean Luchard not be left on the Island while the delegation is absent. Luchard who has been governor Here for eight months will accompany the delegation to Paris for talks set for feb 18. Senator Albert pen who will head the delegation said today his group will ask for the governor s resignation. The meeting represents a Compromise in that local officials had said earlier they would not meet with the Over seas minister unless Luchard were recalled pen was told by a ministerial aide in a Telephone conversation monday that Stirn would come to St. Pierre for a first hand look at the Island territories off the Newfoundland South coast but his schedule was booked until the end of february. The Compromise was reached after pen insisted that the elected Council members and Union officials would not leave the Island s affairs in the governors hands while they were in Paris. Luchard must leave the Island on the same plane with the delegation pen said. Can t afford additional tax cuts now government maps also used their majority muscle to give second Reading approval in principle to a Bill authorizing tax changes proposed by or. Turner. They were assisted in route Rby Leonard Jones ton who managed to get through a motion effectively ending the second Reading de Bate which had lasted nine Days. Fewer than the required 10 maps stood to object when or. Jones moved late tuesday Light that the House sit Contin u o u s 1 y until second Reading was voted. Nip members indicated they wanted to continue the debate today but Only nine were present at the time. The conservative proposal Defeated 125 to 96, called for a substantial increase in the 1974 tax cuts of 5150 to s500 announced by or. Turner in no vember. Sinclair Stevens conserva Tive financial critic said the proposal costing million would have Given taxpayers a break of to More for 1974 than the reduction pro used by or. Turner. Or. Turner has proposed fur ther tax cuts for 1975 raising he minimum reduction to and the maximum to the nip motion Defeated 04 to 18, would have granted All taxpayers a tax credit t was presented by nip parliamentary Leader de Broad int As part of a package of economic proposals to give the conomy a massive shot in lie Arm. Standing in the 264-seat com Mons Liberal 141, conserva Tive 95, nip 16, social credit softer penalties for drugs urged Ottawa up citing concern about the future menial and emotional health of persons convicted of Mari Juana or hashish Possession the Canadian medical lion Cha called tuesday for less harsh methods of dealing with them. Or. Betle Stephenson Cha president told a Senate com m i 11 e e the association has ample documentation showing that the process of being charged and going through court processes can be very damaging especially to adolescents and Young the Cha therefore called for provisions t o automatically erase the criminal records of persons charged with simple Possession of cannabis drugs marijuana hashish and hash Oil. In addition or. Stephenson asked for amendments to pro posed new drug legislation to get rid of the hard criminal court processes faced by per sons charged with Possession. She suggested that court processes with less harsh proce As exist in traffic them. The senators said however that provisions already exist for expunging criminal records after a period of time following the conviction. 1, Independent 1. The two votes were followed immediately by a voice vote iving the controversial 287 age omnibus tax Bill second Reading sending it to comr it be for clause by clause study. Besides personal income tax uts the Bill includes proposals o exempt the first of in Terest income from income taxes plus up to invested by individuals in the government s new registered Home ownership savings plan. Covered also in Thelon stand ing and controversial Federal plan to charge income tax on royalties paid by Oil and Natu ral Gas companies to Provin Cial governments. Seven Oaks clerks vote to strike clerical staff of seven Oaks school division have voted to strike unless trustees make a better wage offer a Union official said in an interview wednesday. Jim c. Keep representing local 949, Canadian Union o Public employees said a secret ballot vote tuesday night showed 34 to one favor ing a walkout. The women Are demanding a month on top of preset salaries ranging from to a month or. Keep said but we Are still open to Nego no Date for a strike was set. He said the division had offered increase a month across the Board which had been rejected. He said there Are Between 35 and 40 people in the bargaining unit. Courtis told youths laughed after killing Calgary up two youths accused of murder ran off Down the Street laughing minutes after one of them admitted stabbing and slitting the Throat of a 16-year-old service station attendant a self con f e s s e d accomplice testified tuesday. The 17-year-old girl told the Alberta supreme court she lured John Berze whom she had known in High school into the station s ladies washroom where two youths were waiting to ambush him. She was testifying under Protection of both the Canada and Alberta evidence acts at the second Day of the trial of three men charged with murder punishable by life imprisonment. Having completed her Par in the robbery last aug. 23, she watched Berze go into the washroom and then heard a moan or a scream and i the girl identified the two youths waiting in the washroom As two of the a Garfield Sarter 18, and lome John Rivett 19, both of Calgary. 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The Bill would eliminate jail sentences for simple Possession of cannabis and reduce maximum penalties to for a Crist offence and for sub sequent offences. A person convicted of cannabis Possession could be jailed Only if he failed to pay the Fine. Penalties for trafficking in cannabis also would be reduced to a maximum of 10 years in prison from life imprisonment. Or. Stephenson said the government is moving in the right direction with the Bill but has not gone far enough. She denied a suggestion that the Cha proposal would Lead Young people to think cannabis was legalized because the drug would still be controlled under a Federal act. But or. Lionel Solursh a Toronto psychiatrist with Inton s i v e experience with drug users admitted it might encourage some Fence Sitters o Start using cannabis and thus increase the number of users somewhat but we would Hope not or. Solursh said the Cha hesitated to advocate outright legalization of cannabis because this would give Rise to wide spread acceptance of the drug. It would also create a vested interest Industry in the production and distribution of cannabis which would make it difficult to turn the clock b a c k if further research showed it desirable to outlaw the drug once again. Or. Stephenson said she has noticed in her own practice a turning away from cannabis drugs on the part of Young people which she attributed to increasing awareness of the hazards of cannabis use. The Cha Brief said there is an increasing body of Evi Dence that marijuana May not be the relatively harmless sub stance it was thought to be and scientific observations Over the past five years have suggested that there Are Defi Nite hazards in its use. These included irreversible brain damage personality it att mugs f i exalt drugs f drugs i w drugs february Price busters head n shoulders lotion new 250 Mil. 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When Rivett and Sarter arrived Cochise said they Slabbed him and Slit his Throat. We ran Down a Back Alley climbed Over a Fence and hid the changes damage to the Respi r a t o r y system interference with hormonal production disruption of cellular metabolism and chromosomal dam age. But the Brief said the Evi Dence so far is not highly Reli Able and even where clinical trials have been held to deter mine the effects of cannabis no Clear answers have been obtained. But to put the Dangen in perspective or. Solursh told the senators that caffeine As Well As marijuana can cause chromosome damage. And in the midst of growing concern about the dangers of increasing use of which unlike cannabis is considered a hard said several nasal decongestant sprays sold without prescription Are similar to cocaine in their effects. Or. 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But railway company repro i said i was scared and Senta Tives appearing before a i Gus said he was scared j special inquiry into railway j she said the robbery plan did i pensions rejected the proposal i not involve killing the Atten-1 saying the Cost would be pro i Dant and she did not see the hib Tive. I Hunting knives until after the i the inquiry examining Feder i killing Al railway pensions was is i the girl said she went tit abolished last year by Federal i stay with a Friend and later labor minister John Munro. It 10% Neu Rogena soap Alpha Keri a further 10% discount on our already Low Low Reg. Price for photo finishing 18 of. Gravel . Capsules 99 1 99 25 s i we Rexall vaporizers Pha Macare information and forms available from our pharmacies at All our locations that Day she called a lawyer and after they talked she went to City police and told her Story. Sandy Park counsel for Augustus asked the girl if any charges had been Laid against her. She said no. 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