Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 23, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Job agreement cited Fitspatrick gains temporary support from City welfare try Jet Maggart the City welfare department has agreed to temporarily support Robert and his children while he a fight with the pow tree Over social assistance legislation he claims is Dis previously denied welfare by provincial and civic a has been granted Assis Tance by the City after his Case received publicity through the Media and Vruth the intervention of councillor Joe me said he was denied provincial assistance because provincial legis lation Only provides for Aid to sin Gle Parent not single Parent City welfare had previously turned him Down for assistance because he refused to look for fits Patriek received a Cheque wednesday afternoon from City although he says he still look for City welfare director ton Hooper refused to discuss details of the Fitzpatrick claiming the file was confidential and it would be unethical to discuss it in an interview last Hooper said under our he is required to Register with manpower and to seek employment and Coop Erate with us in he wishes to change the provincial but at the same time he would like us to act outside the Law to assist him 1 think the Intelli gent thing would be for this Guy to accept the requirements to Register at to cooperate with regard to particularly if he gets a Job and ceases to be a charge upon the 1 could see this Chap if he wants to take this Issue up As a crusade or a in explaining his departments apparent change of Hooper said wednesday that an agreement reached Between himself and Fitz Patrick satisfies the eligibility requirements for Fitzpatrick denied he has changed his stance that he already has a full time Job As a homemaker and father to his two he said the City still does not require him to apply to manpower or look for a he has agreed to consider an offer if welfare finds one but stresses there is no commitment Between himself and welfare that he must take a Job if its of he decides to accept a he would then have to Register at Man he com Zuken said he became involved in the Issue at fitzpatricks request because he is a constituent of he said he discussed the Case with Hooper on there is not necessarily a conflict Between the City welfare stance last week and its position this Zuken he said he pointed out to Hooper that in the bylaws the welfare director has authority to give Assis Tance at his discretion in exceptional Zuken said he took an interest in the Issue because of the children and out of a desire for the family to have at least temporary Assis Tance for food and he said Fitzpa treks landlord had threatened eviction because of nonpayment of during the mondays Telephone Hooper agreed to rein Ter View Zuken City welfare does not consider him an exceptional Case but assistance is being granted because he is cooperating with them in agreeing to consider accepting a Job if they find him Fitzpa trick Winnipeg free press november 1978 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 Mirnoff it leaves you breathless Barbara Cansino the War it started in the spoils were Tofte new publications the wild fron Tiit by Pierre Berton listed at and the Bronfman dynasty by Peter listed at the combatants were Coles books and classic who would sell m Ore frontiers and Bronfman and a what would be the strategy Price at Coles in Toron to for for bronc classics adjusted then Coles adjusted accordingly in Toronto the Bay and Eaton remained then joined in the Eaton met Simpsons prices because both stores offer the same the Bay offered a Varia Tion for an autographed for an Una to or Anahed go figure that one then the War As wars Coles in Toronto contacted their Coles allies in then Clas sics in Toronto alerted their Clas sics allies in co Esclas sics prices in Winnipeg Thusn then plummeted the and Eaton stayed Mary scorer books stayed thie latest report from the front at Bronfman has gone from to to to to where it now Frontier has gone from to to rorie manager a i 321 Portage is following orders from Toronto the Way i understand it from head office in it started with Coles marking it classics didst get involved at first and left the bronc Man dynasty at the situation actually started first with the Pierre Berton classics Felt they had to follow suit for customer credibility head office Doest agree with the Price cutting they Felt that Coles would put the Price Back up and that it would eventually go up to the original Price of and it May be going were reacting to what Coles is were not taking any action on our Coles is classics Competition As far As head office is i feel that Eaton is our main Competition because there right across the Eaton and classics have services that Coles Doest we have a Coles int in the phone 2 Eaton and classics will special order books they dont have in Stock i think we would have been belter not to get we sold As Many when they were the regular Price As we have since we lost Money at and at now what were making is a matter of a few is it All Worth it that Why were trying to get the Book right up its not benefiting i the people who Are buying it at the cheaper at Bronfman has gone from to where it now Frontier has always been says Jim downtown manager of Coles no Price War was meant to the Bronfman dynasty was sold to we took a loss on the Book to sell it at the Price we it was meant to be a loss Leader that Means a special to bring people into the that also the Case with the Berton with Clas sics saying that we put the Price Back they put the Price Back it want intended to be a War weve decided i dont know what Clas sics have decided that Well meet any prices they have on those particular is just Fol lowing orders All decisions Are made in we were Given the prices at least a month when the by offs were and Why int Coles listed in the Telephone Book there was some kind of a mistake till be in next was it in last year two out of five were left out last but dont you want people to phone you up we dont know Why the phone numbers Arent in phone Calls distract us from the amount of work we have to do in the but that the Way it is in any were not out to Dis courage customers from if you really want to know More about the phone listings youll have to Call at wednesday nobody was available for comment in Eaton Are hanging in Bronfman has always been and Frontier has always been says books manager Ron Robinson we wont Knock it Down until our defined Competition the Bay and Mary scorer books knocks it Why would people buy a Book from Eaton if they can get it cheaper somewhere else because of Coles Arent in the phone Coles has no delivery or account card these Are the things you pay we would Knock it Down if the complaints were loud and at Mary scorer bronc Man has always been Frontier owner John Oleksiuk says the prices will not be i cant afford chains can absorb their do the Price differences take away from sales not really right if it gets to be a bigger thing it could affect the smaller Book there Are customers who prefer a if they want to go to a supermarket they go our customers come to the they like the Ive told custom ers they can buy it they i prefer to buy it i dont want the hassle of going Down the which had been Selling the Bronfman for and Frontier for entered the fray late Bronfman is now Berton is now says Gor Don regional department books we Are meeting our the reason we have reduced our prices is its our policy to be competitive in our which is contributions on the subject of books and Book stores the november Issue of saturday night devotes 39 pages to an article called retailing As a love the Book seders hit Parade offers a Cross country list of not necessarily a top but a selection of stores that have made substantial contributions to their and it was gathered through inter views with the harshest judges of All the other number two on the list is Mary scorer books in which plays As Many Good bookstores do the role of information Centre for and the Ordinary and which specializes in Western canadians and childrens lit the other nine bookstores Are in Cal Montreal and conspiracies on the subject of Peter Newman and the Bronfman new Man was in town on Auto graphing speaking at the Cen Tennial on the to he got some intelligent questions and and then some of the for the one from the As in who phoned up the Peter Warren show to say the Bronfman killed the Kennedy conspiracy theory wrong War Peter Cut him off workmen Are Busy demolishing the Donalda Block at 322 Donald Street this the downtown building see inset was almost demolished 21 years Block coming Down at last in the summer of 1957 the Donal Dablock was stitched together with steel cables to keep it from collapsing while the buildings owner and City officials debated on whether it should be this More than 21 years the demolition of the Struc Ture at 322 Donald Street is finally under the downtown office building came close to the wreckers Ball in after a retaining Wall at an excavation site next door gave Way and the resulting spill under mined the foundation of the Donal a eighteen office a fur shop and Beauty Salon were forced to evacuate the four Storey building after it sagged inches in one night and cracks began appearing on the outside of the Donald Between Portage and Ellice was closed to motor and pedestrian traffic for Al most a week after then City Engi Neer Hurst reported the building was in extremely Hazard Ous condition after deliberating with Archi engineers and the owners of the building decided to restore their property and a 24houraday construction Blitz was launched to reinforce and protect the steel cables were Strung from outer Wall to outer Wall Side to Side and backs front heavy Tim Bers were used to Shore up the building inside and out and the foundation was shored litigation Between the owners of the Donalda Block and the construction firms involved in the excavation work followed with an out of court settlement finally reached in the Spring of owners of the Block had asked for an set City lawyer charges rent rebate orders ignored by any Bucu More than million in rent rebates is owed to Manitoba tenants and the the provincial government and its rent review Board Arent doing anything about Winnipeg lawyer Victor Savino said Savino told a lunch hour audience at the University of Manitoba that a Quarter of the million in rent rebates ordered by the Board have not been returned because the rent review Board and government Are doing nothing to Force landlords to return the Money to a number of landlords went to court and others Are still challenging the review boards rebate decisions and they Are withholding rebates from he Savino also claimed that rent review officers Are granting above control increases to landlords a Job provincial legislation requires the rent review Board itself to the rent review Board itself is responsible for decontrol he Savino said information he has indicates the review Board has not met since several months before phase four rent controls and the decontrol program became rent review Board officials were not available for comment after relating the history and function of rent controls to the he offered them some advice on rent he warned students not to accept rent increases from landlords even if they entered into a rental agree ment after the Day rent controls were removed on some vacant when you Are moving into a unit make sure it is eligible for rent Savino it has to be cleared by the rent review the landlord has to show Hes complied with the he landlords who owe tenants rent rebate Money or have breached other areas of rental legislation Are prohibited from de controlling their he the conservative government is absolutely not enforcing the act and it is up to tenants to pursue their although rent controls have not always adequately dealt with rental housing problems in this at least under rent controls there Are some rules to the Savino said Manitoban Are suffering a housing Cri with students and Low income families particularity in the North bearing the Brunt of the he also told the students that recent criticism he has levelled at attorney general Gerry Mercier and the rent review Board for allowing some landlords to possibly act illegally in not notifying tenants of upcoming rent is not politically my criticism is not a partisan he he said he was also very critical of the program in the first three phases of rent controls under the new men Brauc party awarding contract to corps lauded by Ingeborg Boyens the head of a City Security firm which submitted a tender for the cites 1978 parking patrol contract said wednesday that the decision of the finance committee to award the contract to the 35 Manitoba War vet Erans of the Canadian corps of com missionaries was a sign of i am delighted that sanity has Allan chair Man of Sentinel Security services Manitoba said Sentinel Security submitted the second lowest of five bids for the contract to ticket City meter violations and parking offences in tuesdays announcement that the Low metropolitan investigation and Security Canada was withdrawing from the Competition with the permission of the meant the Sentinel Security bid of was the Dryburgh was far from disappointed that the Job was awarded to the who have done the Job for 23 that Job should never have been tendered in the first he the tendering process never did make said Dryburgh and urged that the City should at least consider extending the contract Peri the tender specifications were far too vague and did not even Call for minimum hourly said the Secu Rity company no Security guard contractor could have done As a Good Job As the com said any private firm would have incurred costs in training and supervising you hold men in such a Job and for the kind of wages a private company could afford to said lets face a commission Aires Job is a thankless adding that he was not at All surprised with metropolitan withdrawal from the Ive played the but now i intend to ask the City to repay me for the bonding Dryburgh said the contract required firms to vide a performance Bond for person it is Only but it is a matter of neither senator Duff owner of nor the firms were available for comment Jock corps said the Low bidder May have withdrawn from the race because the Job did not seem viable in the first senator who is a vet May have allowed it As a said the corps has had to submit tend ers Only for the last three the veterans bid was the Only one received for the 1977 contract last years first tender Call did not even see an estimate from the on a recall of the the corps bid came in As the highest of four the 1978 contract was awarded to the this years bid from the corps came in at More than the lowest a representative of the City Pur chasing department said City administrators must recommend the lowest bidder on a tender Catt unless the Low bidder does not meet some of 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