Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 21, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba Voters soy piece on raises judge blasts Law by Ron Campbell a Manitoba Cour of Appeal judge warned lawyer David Pearlman yesterday that he personally May com Plain to the Law society of Manitoba about the lawyers conduct at a Justice Joseph sitting with Justice Roy Matas and Justice Monnin on an Appeal of two of Pearl mans said that if someone else wont complain to the Law i he said the lawyers licence to prac Tice Law was in jeopardy if you persist in carrying on As you Pearlman was representing himself on appeals of judgments Given by Justice John of Manitoba court of Queens in cases involving Pearl mans residential rental properties at 1852 Pacific Avenue and 11 tender the lawyer alleged that he City proceeded improperly against him in requiring him to conform to repairs ordered by City inspectors under the cites maintenance and occupancy judge Solomon found at trial that Pearlman was evading a question whether he had received notice Ofa meeting at which he could have voiced his objections to the repair Pearlman flatly denied to the Appeal court that he had received such notice of or that he knew of the such evasiveness in court is conduct unbecoming a member of the Justice Osullivan commented yester judge Monnin said there was Docy Centary evidence that the City had sent registered letters to Pearl mans Niagara Street Home on four notifying him of the but no one was a notice that registered mail was waiting for him at the Post office depot was left in the Home Mailbox on each judge Monnin when people refuse their they dont want the Appeal judge 1 have Ever refused to accept a registered letter that was delivered to Pearlman Pearlman told the court Hes lost 13 of his residential rental properties in the past several years since he began hav ing difficulties with the City Over repair orders issued by City the Issue Here is Are you a liar and Are you fit to Justice Osullivan so your credibility is very see lawyers Page 4 sunny today 5 Cloudy tonight 14 March 1980 free press Sun rises sets Moon final 200 30c with coloured comics for Home Call 9570550 sets rail move Cost makes overpass a probable Choice Wiley Winnipeg i rtt Swiss by Tom Goldstein the High Cost of relocating Winnipeg downtown up rail Yards is Likely to make the Sherbrook Mcgregor pass a relocating Yards and main line would Cost according to a Long awaited consultants report re leased moving just the Yards line is estimated at Mil the costs Are excluding the estimated value of the land which would be reclaimed As a the Dillon limited of say the overpass option including the necessary replace building and maintenance of Grade separations would Cost mayor Bill Norrie and Bob parliamentary assistant to transport Bank rate hits record Ottawa up the Bank of Cana Das trendsetting Bank rate jumped sixteenths of one per cent to another record High but the nations chartered Banks gave no immediate indication whether they will raise inter est rates to Consumers and business the chartered Banks were Quick to follow last weeks increase with Large jumps in their prime rates the in Terest charged their Best corporate customers but remained silent on the subject yesterday when the floating Bank rate was fixed at per up from per cent one week Mackenzie resigns command finance minister Allan Maceachen insisted the latest increase is not a signal to Banks and other lenders to raise interest when the Bank rate Rose from 14 to per cent last the Banks responded by raising their primes from 15 to per cent and some action is possible Maceachen offered no forecast of when recent rapid increases in interest rates will last the Bank of Canada announced it was abandoning a fixed rate see Banks Page 4 forces lose chief of air Arm Allan Mackenzie announced yesterday he has resigned As commander of the Canadian armed forces air Mackenzie cited personal reasons when he told staff at his Winnipeg office of his he will be on leave until the effective Date of the april has been commander of the air command since he joined the armed forces As a Pilot in 1951 and flew on numerous United nations peacekeeping missions during his see forces Page 4 minister Jeanluc both said yesterday the Cost Factor favored construction of the Norrie said City which rejected relocation in favor of the would support rail line removal if Ottawa was prepared to pay most of the he added the City would Likely contribute any Money about Mil lion to the project it might otherwise spend on the Sherbrook Mcgregor overpass and Grade province says no Manitoba Urban affairs minister Gerry Mercier said the province is not prepared to fund rail we made a decision and its the said he added it was too Early too determine if the million in Federal Urban transportation assistance program funding earmarked for the overpass could be used for Norrie said it is unlikely Ottawa could provide million for Geloca the economic facts Are so Clear that rail relocation will probably not Norrie Bockstael was equally pessimistic about the prospects of relocating the up rail in a period of i find its going to be a very difficult decision to make about How much More Money the Federal government is prepared to expend toward one or the other pro Bockstael Boniface said from his Ottawa the former City councillor said no followup study would be undertaken to examine the benefits each option would provide for the Cabinet to see study the study will be forwarded to the Federal Cabinet next Bock Stael the former Liberal govern ment commissioned the study a year at the same time withholding a permit to build the Sherbrooke care Gor prominent liberals including employment and immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy and prune minister Pierre Trudeau have supported rail Axworthy could not be reached for comment Norrie wants to meet with Federal officials next but no Date had t been set by late yesterday1 the mayor said he plans to press Ottawa for a Quick decision on the if the overpass option is Cho he Ottawa should pay any additional costs caused by the delay in construction which was to have begun a year the City had budgeted million for construction of the the see Cost Page 1 signs of Spring if the nip in the morning air made you think yesterday want the first Day of think one surefire Way of telling of Man Winter is losing his grip is the arrival of lambs at the University of Manitoba Dwayne was at the University yesterday and found two of the new seasons Wooler signs a downright fun and warming Mercier asks judge inquest into Childs attorney general Geny Mercier has recommended the inquest into the death of a six month old child killed by a Gas explosion in a her Home be Mercier said yesterday that because of inadequate evidence he will apply to reopen the inquest into the june death it Tara there is some evidence available that want presented during tin hear he senior provincial judge Ian Lubiens who presided Over the two Dav Iii quest last will be to reconvene with the final decision Lett to the merrier said when told of i he ministers judge Ubienski said he has to hear exactly what the attorney general said before he would decide judge Ubienski said this Type of situation has never Arisen before and he want sure of the procedure to reopen an inquest or whether it is his decision to make Halfway measure hut the judge added if the is to he he Doest want to i Urmac is Neil lawyer Tor he have preferred a rehearing of the in to reopen death quest instead of a he said the inquest would be a hallway i would have the whole thing done i my beginning to end so my people and Myshe would have a Chance of hearing the evidence and asking some pointed he hut the lawyer added at least it gives us a i think my clients will at least feel that Treyve been Given some consideration said residents of the area hould he called to testify and describe expire incs they May have had with the same of anthrax admitted c Iii Irr r l 3 c 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