Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Rue june Hii Hil Canoe trip leaders unprepared for emergencies warnings issued at 8 that morning for Gusty winds and scattered there was also a Small Craft warning on Lake about 80 kilo metres South of Lake Timis he questioned by Ron president of the Canadian recreation canoeing Bird said the boys were not divided into groups for the expedition until less than an hour before they started there was a Brief test of the of each which was loaded with equipment and food for eight before they set out from at the South end of the asked whether he had made preparations for an Bird replied and specific discussions on arrangements were Bird said it was the first time he had been sole Leader of a trip and responsible for All planning and me had been a co Leader on one previous it was also the first time he had made a trip in the Large 22foot Cedar three of the canoes each carried seven boys and an and one carried six boys and an instruct although he had been canoeing for 16 or 17 Bird said his previous trips had been in woman the expedition was to take them about 350 Kilometres North to on James Bird said two of the other Peter Cain and Mark were it was the first time the fourth instruct Neil had served As a Canoe although he had previously been a Thomson which was the last in the line of four Cross ing the Choppy Waters of the was the first to the other three capsized during res Cue Coroner Stanislas Dery of que Bec City is permitting film and continued still cameras Iti the courtroom where the inquest is being attention was focused on a former student at the Manitoba Johns school and now a pro Fessor of mathematics at Queens University in he spent almost two hours Bird said he drove All night from Claremont with the four canoes on a trailer and the boys following behind in four they had had Little or no the accompanied by several arrived at the site about had a Quick breakfast and loaded the a Parent took several photographs of the preparations and the inquiry was shown slides of the boys in the canoes All Wear ing Bright red life Mak ing a few test manoeuvres on the Bird said there was a gentle South wind when they left shortly after 8 they paddled without incident until about when they stopped at the Quebec Shore for a lunch of cheese he said when they set out again about 1 he decided to Lead the group to the Ontario Shore about kilo metres feeling there would be More shelter from the wind and Waves which had been in Bird said he worried briefly about the Waves and then decided it was Safe to push about 45 minutes As he was nearing the Ontario he heard a shout from Cain that Neils referring to Thomson he saw Mark Dennys in third turning to help Thomson and then saw it he and Cain managed to Rescue several ferried them to dropping off boys and equipment each but on one trip Back his Canoe capsized while he was trying to pull boys into Cains Canoe was the last to meaning a handful of boys were on Shore and the rest of the group was in the it was almost five hours before they managed to regroup on the three who had been were dead on the Shore and nine others and Denny were missing on the the bodies of the others were found by police the next the inquiry continues eskimos walk out Over whaling quota London a an alaskan Eskimo delegation walked out of the International whaling commissions meeting Here today in a Dis Pute Over the number of Bow head whales the eskimos May the alaskan Eskimo whaling formed to lobby the inc for a higher quota of had proposed to the commis Sion that they be allowed to take 37 to 45 of the whales in the season beginning this but an inc technical com Mittee voted 7 to 6 wednes Day night to recommend a quota of 24 Bowhead for the the recommendation would have to be approved by a plenary session of the the 17country body began a five Day meeting meeting Here monday to decide How Many whales May be slaughtered in the worlds oceans in the coming the inc few enforce ment Powers and its meet Ings Are always embroiled in controversy and National the dozen alaskan Eski mos lobbying Here Are fight ing to keep alive a year old tradition of Bow head they represent about eskimos in nine yupik and inupiaq Eskimo villages on alaskan arc tic rim who consider whale meat a dietary Staple and a Cornerstone of their subsistence in a statement to the inc circulated the alas kans said they now do not feel bound by the commis Sions rulings and would take As Many Bowhead whales next season As they feel Nec Essary to meet their nutritional and cultural Jacob chairman of the alaskan Eskimo whaling said the Eski mos considered the 76 vote in the technical committee too narrow to insure acceptance of the proposal by an inc plenary there were four abstentions in the technical commissions bal a few Days before the Start of the inc Alaska Jay Hammond announced in Anchorage that a new count of Bowhead conducted at the insistence of the eskimos and with their Aid by govern ment indicated 264 Bowhead had passed the counting stations on the arc tic Ocean ice this More than whales actually were at last years annual meet ing in the inc decided that Bowhead whales Are the most endangered species of the huge the com Mission decreed that no Bowhead whales could be killed during the 197778 Cabinet devising plan to Cope with High prices continued Board in Canada aroused indignant com ments from opposition finance minister came under criticism for his statement in which he cautioned that there Are disturbing signs that Canadian workers will Start making big wage demands when ant inflation control have been re he said canadians have to take it on the Chin and should not Start demanding increases in their incomes As controls Are Les Benjamin nip Regina Lake Centre said the finance minister was in effect calling on canadians to voluntarily re Duce their Standard of living to save the country from economic James Mcgrath pc Johns East told the House that canadians Are faced with soaring costs of he pointed out that the Ontario food Council announced a per cent increase in its month food Basket this meant there would be a substantial increase in the consumer Price the monitoring Agency set up by the government under the jurisdiction of the economic Council of Canada had no investigatory it would be ineffectual in holding hold Down warned Mcgrath asked Allmand How the Monitor ing Agency would have any effect at All in curbing profiteering and Price gouging on food Allmand said that he and other Cabinet colleagues will be watching closely to see How effectual the monitoring Agency is when inflation controls Are we feel it can do the it was at this Point he revealed that agriculture minister Eugene Whelan and Chretien have been Busy trying to come up with a program to help canadians in the food prices Kkt hate mail sent to student continued Winnipeg daily newspapers in which they opposed the decision to Cut foreign students off free provincial in both the hate literature was addressed by using Ash tons and ladles printed names and University positions from the newspaper Ashton that a Check of others at the University who also criticized the medicare decision indicated they haunt received similar he said he received three pieces of racist literature in the mail on they consisted of montages of photo co newspaper clippings and other a and appeared to carry ant jewish the received tuesday by bore the slogan racial purity is Ameri Cas and invited the recipient to write for 10 additional there was no handwriting or other identifying Marks associated with the two pieces of Ashton two attempts made to Contact David identified As the head of the Kian in through the store were Hunsuc the woman said he could Only be reached at the stores Telephone number but added be was frequently in and out of the Duke has been described to newspaper reports from the United states As a driving Force in the reports further say that the klan has been using Slick Public relations in an Effort to boost Mem although it adheres to an anti ant jewish the woman said there Are members of the klan in Manitoba but she would not say How asked if there were any units of the organization she would reply Only that the klan has units All Over the she denied the literature received by Ashton came from the organization after be was Given a Brief description of anyone receiving literature from us will have to Call in and ask for she we do not just pick up names and write to detectives in the fort Garry subdivision Are looking into the a police spokesman Laale said the incident should serve As a warning that the extreme views represented by the klan Are not confined Geo graphically to the Southern they can pop up its Al though in not that we do have if moral spiritual leaders speak out against racist then i believe uus kind of attitude will not take roots in our be added photo an unidentified Man Centre gets help from two civilians after he was injured this morning in a bomb blast in Jerusalem Market a powerful charge exploded near a vegetable stall killing two and injuring 28 Mirabel unsafe rating May be lifted by pilots Montreal up Mirabel International Airport is no longer considered unsafe by the North american Section of the International federation of airline pilots Assoc a Captain James Vic president of the associations North Ameri can and Arctic said wednesday he has recommended to its president that the airports red Star rating for inadequate Security service and flight control be the air Canada Pilot said he made the decision this week after a Check on Security measures in the Advent of a were completely Happy with the disaster operation plan at the he 55 Kilometres North of became the Only Canadian Airport classified As unsafe by the airline pilots in months after the million instal lation was Jones said the unsafe classification was recommended after pilots complained of loss of instances where two aircraft come closer than they should on pilots also said it would take ambulances too Long to reach the Airport if a major disaster there have been no reports of planes coming too close during the he flights approaching Mirabel Are controlled from Dorval and it appears Treyve got the kinks out of the Jones said the ambulance response time has also been i called for an ambulance tuesday and it took Only 13 minutes to get there from 11 Miles he there Are 20 ambulances available in the if we need we can get 50 to the Airport within a half hour from Laval and the recommendation will be considered next month at an Ifalia meeting in co death claim i ruled valid by High court continued Brown had obtained the insurance through the Canadian automobile the policy promised to pay benefits for accidental bodily injuries received while the insured was driving any private Passen Ger a lower court ruled thai Mutual should not have to pay up because Brown died us a result of getting herself grossly the Ontario court of Appeal re versed that saying that although she was at fault Brown had not voluntarily courted the risk that killed Justice Wishart writing the majority decision for the supreme said a person May be grossly negligent but might never have thought himself or herself to be it was different when a person realized the danger in his or her actions and deliberately assumed the he said Browns death was evidence showed that Brown backed her car onto a Street and struck an oncoming there was no damage but the Driver of the other car expressed concern that Brown appeared the other Driver offered to drive her car for her but she lawyer charged with Gold theft Vancouver up a former City lawyer and his now living in Hong have been charged with he theft of in Gold bars and jewelry from a safety Deposit Box of in the summer of charges against William and his wife Cath were sworn this week and Crown prosecutor Kerr Clark said the information had been sent to the attorney generals the first Legal step in extradition police said that sometime Between june 1 and a woman forged the signature of Mei Lai Tsoi at a Branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia and gained Access to the safety Deposit taking a Quantity of Gold bars and including Gold diamonds and Jade police said the owner was out of the country at the time and did not discover the valuables missing until the following reporting the theft the fans left Vancouver in the summer of 1976 and moved to Hong in a separate civil Tsoi is suing the Bank of Nova Scotia for negligence in the Ignatieff to get award for peace contributions George a former United nations has been named recipient of the annual Man of the year peace award by the Lester Pearson Park commit Priscilla Public relations officer for the com said wednesday that Ignatieff received the award for his Many contributions to peace while with the depart intent of external affairs and at his present position As Provost of Trinty the award is Given each year to a Canadian citizen who has made outstanding contributions to world peace and Canadian nominees Are selected by editors of some Canadian newspapers and Mac leans House tables information report circumstances and 10 Days for an information officers review in the Case of a the courts could examine allegedly delicate information behind closed half of the 10page report is devoted to defining reasons the govern ment could justifiably keep information saying exemptions pro posed by the government in a discus Sion paper Many months ago Are far too Broad and Leav ing too much discretion to the gov a major criticism was that All the government proposed exemptions were prefaced by the word which the committee said is too the committee recommended that the government could withhold information on these grounds continued the information could reason ably be expected to be detrimental to National tactical and Sara Gegic defence intelligence and Security plans or diplomatic negotiation might be included in the information could reason ably be expected to harm International relations or Federal provincial a sweeping exemption for any documents related to intergovernmental relations would be the information would reveal confidential deliberations or Deci Sions of the Cabinet or a Cabinet this would exclude Docu ments mainly containing factual or statistical the information would reveal an advice or recommendation prepared by an officer of an Agency or department for another Agency or again factual or Statis tical information would be As would documents containing or explaining the decision or the information would have a significant Adverse effect on Law enforcement activities by interfering with Law enforcement depriving a person of a fair or impartial trial or adjudication constituting an Unwar ranted invasion of privacy disclosing a confidential source endanger ing the physical safety of Law in it Calls for routine disclosures of Law enforcement information such As inspection reports on use of illegal Law enforcement methods or investigations which exceeded the limits imposed by the information would constitute an unwarranted invasion of per Sonal privacy or reveal information Given the government in the information would reveal privileged communications Between lawyer and client in government Legal advice to the govern ment unless the advice is used to support government ;