Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free january landlords want list to Check tenant behaviour by noetic Boughton a number of Winnipeg landlords want to establish a province wide rat ing list for tenants to protect them selves against renters who damage suites or dont pay their some of the landlords who belong to the Manitoba landlords association already participate in such a system on a Small but association president Sid Silverman said yesterday he would like the system expanded to include All Manitoba because his list Accident victim awarded a former Winnipeg High school Stu Dent whose in rating dropped by 15 Points after she was injured in a traffic Accident in 1975 has been awarded damages totalling in Manitoba court of Queens Lauren who was 19 at the was a passenger in a car driven by her Mother on Highway 8 near they came into collision with a Halfton truck driven by David Wier the girl was thrown from the vehicle and suffered a fractured court was Justice John whose decision was made Public said the some of the girls brain tissue was destroyed in the Accident and her in rating slipped 15 he awarded her for pain and suffering and for lost the judge said the plaintiff was a vivacious outgoing Young girl in the Middle class environment besides being an average she was very popular with classmates and had a steady he but the Accident damaged the part of her brain that controls Moti vation and emotional her loss of motivation has completely changed her personality and her whole style of the judge she lost All Confidence in her personality changed she could no longer face her old her schoolmates and her environment in which she used to she withdrew from her lost her ambition to become a physiotherapist and refused to meet her former she dropped All her past became depressed and despondent and started to Lauren Cosford finally left Home and at the present time is living with a common Law husband on the Indian Reserve at the outskirts of Ever since the Accident she has been emotionally degrading herself to the Point that she now can feel at Home Only on the Indian the judge said there is nothing with being motivated and being Chappy to live on the Indian had the plaintiff decided to adopt that style of living by nobody would nor should have any but judge Solomon said miss Cosford Only adopted that style of living be cause she lost her sense of motivation in the Accident without this injury she could have been enjoying the Stan Dard of living becoming people in the Middle class bracket of Middle class lawyer Harvey who represented miss said the Driver of the who lived in admitted liability for the Only has information on about half the tenants to which the association a similar system in already has about 200 names on a Deadbeat which is Given Toland lords who answer inquiries about ten the Manitoba landlords associations system was established in and relies on members to Complete forms with details about suite court and regularity of rent but Silverman said most landlords dont fill the forms Ken woo out the listing service is Only available to members of the Silver Man said membership is about but of Viking holdings said this represents a Small por Tion of the number of suites in Winni Peg most landlords surveyed yesterday by the free press said there not members of the association and dont have any thorough Means of checking Many said they would appreciate a Central registry that would pro vide this Baity assistant manager of and said this would make it easier to Check references with previous land if there Small operators who Are difficult to Grace manager of Curtis construct pm Winnipeg said she would appreciate such a system especially if it were that would help her Trace tenants who have been province hopping like Bunny to avoid paying Ackman management manager Edie Lipson said it would be Good to have tenants know such a list exists so they would pay their rent before paying for a trip or new Lippott wondered about the effectiveness of such a list when people with Good financial ratings can run into Money problems during ten she also wondered whether land lords should record someones financial difficulties if the problem were temporary and had been solved before the next tenancy both Tan Plant of Smith Agency and Paul Nusgart of Ryan were negative about the saying their application forms provide enough in formation about tenants through employer and previous landlords refer Paul director of the con Sumers said that if landlords decided to Start such a it would be subject to the act governing personal which controls what information credit reporting agencies can collect on v v v a o a local news police deny error made in ordering guest charge in Honor of Robbie Bernie Wolfe former Deputy mayor of greets velvet Glove Paul with a sign of approval upon receiving his portion of Haggis in Honor of scottish poet Robert Burns birthday yesterday during lunch time at the Winnipeg by Brian Cole Winnipeg superintendent of Detec Tives has rejected attorney general Gerry Merciers claim that he made a mistake by ordering a charge of shoplifting be Laid against Bill guest earlier this month without the approval of the there was no de Igelski said after Reading a Story quoting the attorney general As saying the police were wrong in taking a file from the office of the director of prosecutions without prior in making his comments concerning the police Mercier also made it Clear the final decision on whether to proceed with a charge is the responsibility of the Crown and not members of the police the Crown attorneys running docket court Are responsible for authorizing All charges on a docket whether or not they have had input prior to the laying of the charges or Are merely con firming the charges Are Correct after being Mercier Mercier said his comments were made in reference to a Csc announcer who was charged with shoplifting earlier this file removed from desk the charge was Laid 2 after Igelski ordered an officer to take a file off the desk of John director of criminal who was re viewing the Case to see whether there were grounds for it was stayed by the Crown on 10 the Day guest appeared in Igelski said yesterday that he would look into Merciers statement about the responsibility for laying when the guest controversy first Igelski said that it was the Job of the department to Lay charges after giving appearance he said he ordered the charge Laid because an appearance notice had been issued and the criminal code stipulates that a charge shall i wanted it it is our he unaware of change he added that if the actor Ney general changes the procedure of laying of the wed have to change our he emphasized he has not been made aware of any official change of Gil Deputy to the attorney said yesterday he believes the Crown must have the final say on whether charges should he also said that in his opinion the criminal code does not stipulate that charges have to be Laid after an appear Ance notice has been he said it is up to the Crown to review the Case and make the final mortgage decision reserved Justice Scott Wright of Manitoba court of Queens Bench yesterday re served decision on How to split the assets of the financially troubled Winnipeg mortgage Exchange among its More than 900 after hearing two Days of Legal argue judge Wright gave lawyers two weeks to submit written the judge said he would shortly there after Render judge Wright asked the Thorne Riddell to consider ways of disbursing the company remaining assets and asked lawyers to help the receiver in sorting out this great morass in a fair and expeditious and the least costly six losses shatter politicians life Joe in we says Many of us ideas have us fact Over won an by Tom Goldstein getting things done that what its All Joe Smith political life is some might say in sacrifices of of of of social rela for the there is the Satis faction of coming out on top and the Opportunity to influence history in however Small a then there Are the especially the political Don Quixote who perennially Chase electoral windmills in the vain Hope they might be Given the Chance to help shape the Joe Smith has had More than a flirtation with seeking elected he also knows what its like to have his advances rebuffed by Between 1973 and Smith entered the political Arena six he has represented established political parties and he has run As an ind Epen his last mayor of Winnipeg last june under the Banner of the party he created him lost every time the result was the same on every occasion he last the 31yearold his personal life in dissolved his Foury Earold democratic Reform party and made plans to leave political life after the Federal elec Tion Hes working for Winnipeg Birds Hill Liberal candidate Ron the split from politics is at least tem if not Ive lost the motivation to go out in Public and say vote for i think my family suffered Long enough waiting for something positive to he my political involvement has been harsh on it has Cost me it has Cost me opportunities and has left me family ridiculed the worst came last when he campaigned for mayor on a platform of Trust and growth and finished 10th in a 12man it was one thing to be branded a nuisance by fellow candidates and members of the Media or to be told he had a few screws it was something else again to have his wife and son ridiculed at work and its kind of hard on a nine year he can understand but he cant understand Why people f but before Smith plans to meet with mayor Bill Norrie and an aide to Liberal la june Westbury to offer his dream for Winnipeg and that includes a City operated towing a helicopter ambulance service a Portage Avenue underpass below flood prone Sturgeon be sup ports higher welfare More Money for Northern development and tying minimum wage increases to the Why does a Man become involved to the Point of spending 90 per cent of his time on politics spending sleepless nights developing policy repeatedly running unsuccessfully for office and forming his own political party or to the Point of losing jobs because he was too exhausted to get up in the morning or to the Point of having his marriage break up i had problems when i was a kid and i saw other people with prob said the onetime Grade 8 drop out who eventually achieved a Grade 10 and who spent two years on skid rows in various Western Ca Nadian cities before ending up in Winnipeg in As a the native would pass on ideas in letters to his my or in letters to the Active political involvement was a logical party a what it boils Down to is that i get Hung up on if 1 come up with i submit it or use it As part of a he Smith claims the introduction of liquor identification cards for River Bank preservation and improved sidewalk Snow removal were among we the democratic Reform party was a it was to be an alternative to the provincial Liberal which he joined in 1972 and left three years later because it lacked the motivation to be Active in the Community Between the drop had no members and didst try to recruit it also didst at tempt to raise it takes Money to make Smith and six or seven hours talk for a contribution want really Worth the to get 400 votes during its the drop ran Only two candidates in the mayoral and tache a elections last the party spent about on the two campaigns and received a lot of moral support but fewer than 400 votes in most of the Money came out of Smiths he said he was not prepared to enter earlier provincial and civic Cam despite never having won elected Smith said his political involve ment was still worthwhile because some of his proposals have been implemented even if he didst get the As far As he is Hes no in terms of original ideas submit i feel i have probably contributed than any elected politician in Canadian ;