Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 19, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Cd Winnipeg free july 1979 3 it i Tiff of Xiv promised land for 100s of investors by Ritchie Gage increasing numbers of canadians Are inquiring about starting businesses in the United according to Ameri can consulate officials in but immigration Laws make it Tough for investors to follow their Dol Lars with a waiting list of 600 in the no preference which includes investors and retired the situation is not expected to ease for some some have been on the list for As Long As five firms to Appeal closure orders lawyers for Borger industries and lad co yesterday filed notice of Appeal in Boniface county court against an order to move an Asphalt mixing Plant from 751 Lagimodiere the notice sets out 10 grounds of Appeal against the order for and eight grounds against the order for no Date has been set for the court to hear the judge Ian Ubienski found the companies in violation of a City bylaw june 13 and fined them he ruled the Plant was a heavy Industrial opera Tion in an area zoned my for Light Industrial the provincial court judge instructed the companies to observe the restrictions of the my zone and to cease and desist further operations at that the notice of Appeal contends the operation is a contractors Plant and a permitted use in an my it says the judge erred in ruling the operation to be the manufacture of the notice also said the Fine exceeded the maximum allowed under the summary convictions act and the judge did not have authority under the act to order the Plant options in plan to get test City Council will continue to spend More Money developing plan Winnipeg even though some councillors now fear the Lack of Active senior government participation May mean study recommendations will never be implement Council yesterday agreed with an executive policy committee report that even though the City is unsure of the value of the final major commitments of time and funds to Date mean the City must at least test the options set Forth in plan Winnipeg options for the Alf Skowron and Elmwood said mayor Bill Norrie and the executive policy committee must bring pressure on the Federal and provincial govern ments to take an Active Skowron said the senior governments have the foresight of what capital expenditures they will be making which will have an Impact on future develop ment of spent without such he plan Winnipeg will just be another report gathering about has been spent to Date by the three Levels of government on plan another will probably be required be fore final recommendations Are but in the year since the development study the Federal government has withdrawn its input and the provincial government has decided to Only Moni not participate the Deputy mayor Pearl chairman of the executive policy com said the City would prefer to have three Active partners so there would be More Chance of implementing the Joe Zuken said Council should establish a definite time table for discussing the various recommendations for priority areas needing first consideration and a time table for implementing the Council also agreed not to proceed with further consideration of one option relocation of private Golf with the freed land used for infill Consul general Michael car Penter said most of the business Ven Ture queries Are for Camp motels and hotels across the More than 800 Manitoban moved to the in the past 18 months to Start businesses or according to consulate vice Consul Andrew who handles investment said a Canadian businessman has to make a minimum investment of before he can Start but immigration which Ken free press put the investment visa in the no pref Terence Stop the businessman from actually working at his in he can invest the but cant get a visa to work this forces him to hire As is the Case with most major Canad an firms investing in the United its not a desirable situation for a i cant say when the situation will but it Doest look Goodman Goodman said there Are misleading business promotion advertisements which claim getting into the United states is unless you have immediate rela or marry its going to be Tough to get a visa for some time to he Goodman said a Canadian business Man has to prove to the consulate he is actually involved in a Busi Ness in the before he can apply for an investment in about half of each months quota of immigrants allowed into the an arbitration Board ruling gives Safeway employee Don Chapman Victory in his Beard Board shaves policy on beards at Safeway a three member arbitration Board has ruled that Canada Safeway no beards policy is unreasonable and ordered the firm to remove a written reprimand from an employees the Case involved Don an assistant produce manager in Safeway Corydon Avenue and Lanark Street Chapman was suspended for three Given a written reprimand and put on the night shift in the Board Doest consider it sufficient for Safeway to come before it the Board and say our policy is and always has been one that requires an employee to be clean shaven1 Safeway must prove particularly councillor urges Cut in cites delegation one of the seven City councillors who attended a National conference in que Bec City last month recommended yesterday that no More than two delegates be sent to future in a six Page report to Cyril keeper nip Redbone suggested that two Winnipeg representatives could adequately represent Winnipeg at next years annual federation of Canadian municipalities and Given the irrelevance and ineffectiveness of its constitutional Reform local representatives on the 50member Board of the National lobby group should seek to change the organizations keeper said he strongly disagreed with primary objective of the federa Tion and the main focus of discussions at the three Day the real needs of Urban centres can be met by changes in Public policy and statutory without seeking the holy grail of constitutional Home Rule for said the councillor states that cities like Winnipeg Arent ready to assume the sort of Home Rule constitutional status not when they the cities can Autho Rize construction in flood prone flaunt building and permit the spread of suburban sprawl said u of m gets age Grant the faculty of Medicine at the University of Manitoba has received a Grant to improve curriculum and training at the graduate and under graduate Levels in the Field of Geria the provided by the Winnipeg will be used to provide fellowships for study in geriatric medi Cine or award winners must return to the University to provide service for a least one the province is expected to need nine More persons Over the next decade qualified in the Field of since its restriction on if up will unduly affect Chapmans private and personal Way of life outside of his working hours the Board also found no evidence Chapmans Beard caused Safeway any damage or in any Way affected their Safeway Well groomed corporate to use the words set out in the employee appearance Bulle Henry Safeway appointee to the arbitration saying the firm has the right under the collective agreement to enforce its rules and Jim a Safeway Industrial relations said officials Are studying the decision and wont com ment for a week or 10 grown during strike has worked for Safeway since he was he grew the Beard during the seven week strike in the summer of 1978 and told the Board he wanted to keep it for personal Rea the Board also said his store manag Stanley conceded that de spite the Beard Chapman met the requirement that employees be tidy and Dave a Vic president for West fair foods which owns lob econ Mart and other food said his firms policy bans beards and says moustaches and hair must be a reasonable the firm fired an employee for having too Long a moustache earlier this year and was upheld by an arbitration King but the firm makes it absolutely Clear to employees what the policy he a Dominion stores spokesman be reached for slow police response rapped the Winnipeg police departments new computerized communications system is doing More harm than City councillors said Phil Rizzuto told Council that he has received numerous Cor plaints from residents who Haven had their Calls to the police cars Arent even showing up when there said Rizzuto ind one restaurant who called the 911 emergency number last week to report a breaking in was put on hold for several it took minutes from the time Arnold Petraus co owner of the Nia Kwa first called the emergency number for a car to be police chief Norm Stewart after calling for help with a a Homeowner waited on his front porch for three hours before the police said Eldon Ross Independent Citi Zens election committee Deer Lodge also said he had received Calls from according to one the burglar could have carried the House away by the time the police got said police commission chairman lome Leech conceded the communications system that has been in use since june 24 is not All there the multichannel radio computer aided dispatch and Centre Telephone system is still missing some software said Leech ice Seine a largely inexperienced civilian Force of which took Over the Job previously manned by police offi is also having troubles handling and processing while the department Hast had com plaints about delayed response it has received notice about the Way callers Are handled on the said the complaint handlers Are supposed to Send out a car immediately before obtaining other background inform was in the no preference cat ego investors and retired in the latter part of the year the no preference quota was Down to and needed Job skills were encourage to this trend continued into the first six months of Carpenter Goodman said chances of entering the states through the no preference category in the future Are slim the numbers just Arent Carpenter said on a per capita basis canadians Are now investing More in the than americans Are in Cana there was billion in american funds poured into Canada last year and billion in Canadian funds to the based on Canada had a greater investment in the United much of the Canadian investment is coming from Large development corporations such As Manitoba based la review metropolitan prop erties and Imperial Fol Lorama wins Council Grant the 1979 version of Fol Lorama will receive in City support after by a 20to4 City Council last night agreed to provide the up setting a decision just one Day earlier by civic finance committee to reject the Community Folk arts Council of Winni pegs Appeal for the decision came despite finance chairman Abe Yanofsky warning that Council would be inter Fering with the Normal operation of the committee if it overruled the Origi Nal the Grant will be spent three ways to provide special transit service to the 37 pavilions for a two Page advertisement in a 20page tabloid to publicize the 12to18 event and for Welcome to Fol Lorama City festival the which features ethnic food and cultural exhibits in the various will Cost about to acting president Aidin arguing Fol Lorama can become to Winnipeg what the Stampede is to Calgary and Klondike Days is to told Council the City has the responsibility to help finance the with the exceptions of councillors Yanofsky Independent citizens elec Tion committee Alan Wade Al Ducharme Don Ger Rie Independent his arguments found a sympathetic George Provost Vin said it is amazing Council would even be debating provision of Only for a festival which is putting Winnipeg on the map nationally and but Yanofsky said the Grants fund about million per year has almost been it is a bad precedent for Council to make exceptions for any group applying late for he he added Council would be open ing the door to appeals by other Worth while groups which have been turned Wade criticized the Community Folk arts Council for retaining earnings last year of Only even though it had a profit of he said he Doest think Pavilion operators would want the arts Council to come crying poverty before City Council when there is a Reserve in addition to a performing arts fund to assist Arena permit packed Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday he had no intention of asking the province to revoke the building permit for the expansion to the Winnipeg Arena Over Lack of Norrie said he want about to talk to labor minister Ken who has authority Over the building Stan Dards Board and the Manitoba building about the potential danger during emergencies in the hockey environment committee councillors ignored the warnings of City building inspectors on monday and granted approval for stairways that provide Only half the exits called for under Provin Cial building you talk to the minister so this matter can be resolved asked Joe it would not be appropriate unless we want changes in the replied since environment committee was the final civic Board of the matter is beyond his said the Cyril keeper nip Redbone noted that any citizen had the right under the cites Appeal procedure to request the minister of labor hold a what such an Appeal would do is delay very important construction that then be completed on said wage contracts Cut City surplus City contract settlements with employees will deplete this years carryover surplus by Deputy mayor Pearl Mcgonigal said contract increases Over last year will Cost the City a total of million or million More than was budgeted Money to cover the extra costs will have to be drawn from the surplus the City normally said Mcgoni City Council ratified two More 1979 contract agreement last about Canadian Union of Public employee workers will receive a total increase in two retroactive employees under the cites Winnipeg association of Public service officers will receive similar rail study under Way the Federal government study on rail relocation is under Way and should be completed on mayor Bill Norrie reported Ottawa officials have included All of the cites concerns in the terms of reference of the said the final report on the viability of moving Winnipeg downtown up rail Yards should be available within five Norrie to press for funds Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie said he will continue to press Ottawa for Arena City Hall notebook funds despite yesterdays announce ment of the disbandment of loto Cana Norrie said he Doest care where the million promised by the former administration comes he admitted that Federal fitness minis Ter Steve Paproski May now argue he Doest have the Money for Arena along with mayors of Edmon ton and Quebec will meet with Paproski in Ottawa on August police plan crackdown City police plan a crackdown on people leaving Gates around backyard swimming pools open when no one is in while there so far have been no known instances of children falling into and no police have been advised of concern that the City bylaw requiring that pools be fenced off is going the bylaw provides for a maximum Fine of for an individual and for a corporation found in Viola the bylaw in part Gates in the Fence shall be capable of being securely locked and shall be so maintained except when a responsible per son is in ;