Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1979 City news 2nd class mail registration number 0286 it leaves you breathless watch out for thin ice f photo by Wayne Glowacky a working with a City Crew removing timbers from an old pier at the Elm Park plunged through the ice into the red River thursday although attempts were made to lift the Bulldozer out of the it was still in the water this no one was injured in the five groups fight against proposed clinic prolife leagues Forsee Manitoba being Centre for abortions in Canada for Concordia Hospital there May be a buyer for the old Concordia Hospital in two civic committees have recommended demolition of the building which has been unused for More than three rather than have the City pay annual maintenance and Security costs of about in the City has been negotiating with the knights of Columbus for use of the property at 400 Desala Berry the organization expressed interest in the land but has no use for the Abe Yanofsky Independent citizens election committee finance told executive policy com Mittee thursday a potential buyer has emerged for the Yanofsky declined to name the interested party which made a confidential inquiry about the build he added the finance committee would discuss the proposal at a closed if the proposal is it will be brought into the Yanofsky said after the meeting executive the executive committee deferred its decision on the proposed Demoli Tion of the building until finance committees report on the by Steve Whysall an abortion clinic in downtown Winnipeg would make Manitoba the abortion Centre of the provinces prolife groups claimed the five prolife groups league for Alliance against physicians for coalition against and pregnancy distress held a joint press conference thurs Day to state their opposition to the proposed Winnipeg gynaecologist Richard and John head of obstetrics and gynaecology at the health sciences Are suggest ing the clinic to be called the Mani Toba Centre for reproductive health to the Manitoba health ser vices it has already been approved by the health sciences which has offered planned parenthood of has agreed to contribute to the the proposed clinic is supposed to need a budget of Only a but the health sciences Centre administration has estimated the total budget in excess of that sure to come out of taxpayers commented Anna league for life Desilet claimed the clinic would perform 125 abortions a week which would mean babies being killed a that is More than double the num Ber of abortions anticipated by proponents of the who have projected Revenue from 50 abortions or it seems obvious that the health sciences Centre does not wish to tarnish its medical reputation by being known As an abortion Mill hence the proposal to re move the life destroying procedure to a Centre located Miles away from the Desilet Joe of Alliance against said if the government is foolish enough to go ahead with this it will be declaring War against the prolife Terence of Manitoba physicians for said the Law stipulates that abortions can Only be done in an accredited a freestanding clinic is not an accredited unless some Jigger poker is performed to make it Charles of the coalition for life predicted the clinic will not be approved and this will be the death rattle of the pro abortion he said the Cal will be Active in the next general informing the Public of which candidates Are Ernest a City lawyer who also attended the press conference at the Holiday said he has put in Trust for the unborn children of mothers who might use the proposed abortion it is Well known that under the Laws of Canada and the Laws of an infant child in Ventre a Mere being a child not yet born is a person who May be a beneficiary of since the children Are not yet capable of speaking for their property rights must be defended by the Public trustee of Manito while protecting the childrens property Wehrle the officials must save the lives of the children so they May be Given every reasonable Chance of living to the age of majority and receiving the property to which they Are who is trying to set up a prolife lawyers has also Noti fied the attorney general that he believes there will be a conspiracy to commit a criminal civil offence at the Manitoba Centre for reproductive psychiatry under prof says psychiatry is in a crisis because it is increasingly under attack from both the scientific and political a psychiatry and Law pro Fessor said thursday in David who teaches at Toronto Clarke Institute of Psychia try and Osgood Hall Law school in addition to serving As a consultant to the British Columbia forensic ser vices spoke thursday at the University of Manitoba school of social work conference on mental Weiss tub told about 100 people that psychiatry has taken on a higher social profile since the second world War and consequently has acquired More for he psychiatrists Are called upon to testify in criminal and civil court cases and to help decide matters ranging from child custody to whether or not a person is fit to stand trial or is not guilty of criminal activity due to the system of Justice has used psychiatry to launder its dirty he As a result of the civil liberties movement to enunciate the rights of patients incarcerated in mental inst psychiatry is caught be tween liability for undue incarceration and responsibility for negligent if in that through misdiagnosis there was a failure to detect impending in for government whose objective is to decrease and civil Liber ties whose objective has been to free have turned patients away from Hospital doors and into the while some critics of psychiatry say it has no scientific base and Little in the Way of a sociological Weiss tub said psychiatry is a combi nation of informed intuition and hard science and it should live with psychiatry should stand up for it should admit that it has political that it makes decisions that affect human but psychiatry has to engage in a More constructive and less defensive debate and it should push decisions which it cant handle Back to the Legal Experiment delayed by Telephone system the Manitoba Telephone system its has delayed the selection of a Winnipeg suburb to be used for its Home fire alarm and computer Experiment until negotiations with Cable television companies Are according to company spokesman Glen the Experiment will use Cable Tele vision companies Home drop equip ment to put the service in 100 during recent Public utilities Board Videon Cable television argued its was attempting to set a precedent in taking Over Home Cable this would in turn deter mine who would control future reve Nues from new Home telecommunications they its was to have named the suburb to be used in the Experiment by the end of the Experiment was scheduled to Start this Man gets swollen face in fight ramp prohibits use by officers of heavy Metal Case flashlight by Ritchie Gage the ramp in Manitoba has banned the use of an imported heavy Metal flashlight by officers after one was used by a mountie during a fight in the Beausejour area about six months the Man who fought with the ramp Constable suffered a swollen face As a result of being struck with the flashlight and a complaint was lodged with the ramp by Winnipeg lawyer Hymie the Case was investigated by the ramp internal investigation unit and disciplinary action was taken against the according to ramp head of administration and the which costs about was not rom sanctioned and was purchased by the Constable on his according to the flashlights Are used by police in the United where police Are Are Given an allotment for the Purchase of their own department sanctioned equipment i have no idea of the extent to which these flashlights were said but if a number of constables were using them that was too so we said no More flashlights of that we Issue flashlights to our so that the Type that we the ramp Issue is a Black and yellow plastic the heavy Metal flashlights Are bought on a special order basis by some ramp and Winnipeg police through a police officer who Sells the flashlights As a they Are also available at safari shoot ing sales of which has supplied provincial Park officers and game wardens in Manitoba with about the flashlights Are known As Blite or the pro Lite has a slightly larger a number of Winnipeg police offi cer said the Metal flashlight is used by members because of its do the Blite has a plastic Lens and a heavy Metal Alloy Cas it is guaranteed for the Normal Winnipeg police Issue flashlights Are Black plastic and Cost the department they were issued for the first time during the past replacing a two cell aluminium Type which had an easily broken Glass a Winnipeg police acting Bob said All police equipment must be sanctioned by the despite the ramp reliable sources say that they Are still being used by Gaillard said that the flashlights have been banned because there rather a heavy they could be used As a weapon for police to defend or if they were taken off the police they could be used to beat him Stalf photo the Manitoba ramp has prohibited its officers from using these special Metal Case the Blite left and the larger because of their potential for use As a weapon by or against ;