Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1c Winnipeg free press. Friday june 1981 Tobin triumphs Lily Schreyer wife of . De. Schreyer grabs her son Tobin by the Arm during yesterday s trooping the color ceremony in Ottawa. Tobin became restless during the Parade and wanted to go and play with friends. He eventually got his special teacher loss of concern to parents parents of la Verendrye school children Are worried the elimination of a special needs teacher will Hurt their children s Edu cation. Pat Edwards whose 10-year-old son Neil has a Reading problem said in an interview the boy s Reading ability jumped from Grade 1 to starting Grade 4 in 18 months and that he has much More self Confidence because of the help he has received. But Edwards said she fears if the boy does t continue to get this help he will again have great difficulty keeping up in school particularly in language arts where he receives his special help. Teacher May Bilik said the boy is one of 30 special needs students she teaches at the Lilac Street school. All attend some regular classes and nine police probe leak of raid to Thomson by Michael Doyle Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal government con firmed yesterday that the ramp is investigating whether the Thomson newspaper group was Given Advance warning of a 1978 raid on 21 newspaper offices across Canada. But Justice minister Jean Chretien and consumer affairs minister Andre Ouellet refused in the commons to provide details. Ouellet said opposition Leader Joe Clark and other progressive conservatives were being irresponsible in their line of question ing because they could harm the Federal investigation. Clark said it was a matter of Public importance and sought assurances that alleged leaks were not continuing or would not recur. The opposition Leader asked if there is any evidence that any officers of the Thomson group had Advance knowledge of the raid. Ouellet said it is that question which is under investigation. Fundy Royal my Bob Corbett who also raised the question tuesday yester Day the ramp has confirmed the investigation is under Way. Corbett demanded to know whether there is any connection Between the events and the removal in May of chief combines investigator Robert Bertrand. When Clark asked Ouellet whether he had assured himself that leaks Are not still continuing Ouellet replied that Clark should assure himself he can hang on to his precarious Clark said Ouellet cannot shed his responsibility simply by trading insults across the House of Thomson newspapers Ltd. Owns the free press and 39 other newspapers in Canada. It did not own the Winnipeg newspaper in 1978. Receive 2% hours special help each Day seven receive 1% hours and 14 half an hour she said in an interview. Bilik said most of these children have emotional problems such As hypertension. She said Only two Are ready for regular classrooms full time and believes the others could easily fall behind other classmates and ultimately drop out of school despite the fact All have above average intelligence. Bilik was hired late last september on a contract which expires june 30 and division officials have decided against renewing it. School principal Vernon Peters said the program has been in effect for two years but there Are no special Grants for it because the children have regular classroom instruction in addition to receiving remedial help. The school s population is projected to decline to about Iso students in september from the 191 this year and a Cut had to be made he said in an interview. Bill Sulypa the division s elementary schools superintendent said the division s recommended classroom ratio for grades 1 to 6 is 25 students for every teacher. La Verendrye now has about 23 to one or 17.5 to one if teacher aides the librarian resource teacher and specialists for French music and physical education Are counted he said in an interview. Decisions on school staffing Are reached through negotiation Between a superintendent and the principal with enrolment Stu dents needs and the principal s discretion the major factors Sulypa said. He said Bilik was hired on a one year contract because she started work after the school year began not because she teaches special needs students. Sulypa said he believes regular class room teachers and the school s special resource teacher can provide the extra help needed. But Grant Sidwall chairman of the school s Parent Council disagrees. Nine of them make a full time Load for one very. Patient he said in an interview. Many regular classroom teachers Aren t qualified to handle children with emotional problems and at source teacher is supposed to provide support help to a special needs teacher not replace that teacher he said. Plumas ramp seize Worth of goods ramp in Plumas yesterday charged Kane Allison Rand Ruschau 25, with several counts of Possession of stolen property after confiscating about Worth of goods in the area. Seized were trucks Auto parts and Access ories a Semi trailer a Kenworth tractor Ford Garden tractors and attachments Gas furnaces up to 70 propane and acetylene tanks propane Heaters an Industrial Cement mixer and numerous other articles. They were seized from a machine shed and four Semi trailers used As storage Sheds. Ruschau was to appear in Langruth provincial judges court this morning on the charges. Park squatter claims Victory in fight for expropriated land . Up Jackie Vautour the Man who has led a bitter fight to regain lands he lost in a National Park expropriation produced a Federal court decision yesterday which he says returns the land Back to its original owners. Vautour flourished a decision handed Down june 17 by Justice Frank Collier of the Federal court of Canada saying it Means the 80 Square Kilometre National Park was not properly proclaimed. He said the government did not properly publish the notice of proclamation in the required number of Canadian newspapers. Collier struck Down a motion by the attorney general of Canada which would have made Vautour s claim invalid. A second motion calling for Collier to set other Legal Points for trial was adjourned for further hearings. Vautour maintained the decision changes the entire situation at the Park where he and a number of followers Are still squatting and refusing to be moved out. He said the government acted improperly and the land now reverts Back to its original owners. United in pension study Alberta Ontario expected to clash Over equalization payments Victoria provincial i a. Victoria up provincial finance ministers agreed yesterday to u Ati ail set up a series of committees to study the problems of Canada s pen Sion system. The ministers sidestepped for the moment the Touchy Issue of equalization payments to concentrate on retirement income. Ontario treasurer Frank Miller said he proposed the committee idea and it won unanimous agreement from his colleagues. Finance minis ters from All provinces except que Bec Are discussing a wide Range of fiscal problems in a two Day meeting Here. Federal intrusion Miller said the provinces Are concerned by potential Federal intrusion into the Field. This matter is being discussed by the Federal he said. It is a provincial Fiel the Ontario treasurer said he is concerned about the size of current pensions As Well As the economics of financing them. 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He suggested indexing As one pos sible solution to the problem of elderly persons trying to survive on meagre retirement incomes. Miller offered the ministers two approaches to improving the Canada pension plan. The first was a slow 30 years the contribution rate raising it to eight per cent from the current level of 3.6 per cent. A second alternative which de serves our consideration and which was proposed by the Royal commis Sion on the status of pensions in Ontario is pay As you go financing with a contingency he said. Contribution rates at the current level for another 10 years after which it would jump sharply. Importantly this would help soften the Impact of additional costs to common approach in his statement to the ministers Miller warned them that Ottawa May try to move into pension administration. Unless we can come to a common approach to pension Reform and implement uniform legislation for regu lating private sector pension plans there will be serious pressure by the Public and the Federal government on us to relinquish this area of his argument was apparently a telling one As the provinces closed ranks and agreed to work on solutions. The ministers have not yet gotten Down to the nitty Gritty of the meet ing the talks on equalization and Federal Transfer payments which total billion annually. Those Dis my Uminn Ann any. I nose Ais the second suggestion would keep cushions Likely pit Ontario against Alberta. Miller and Alberta treasurer Lou Hyndman Are at loggerheads Over an Ontario suggestion that resource revenues be funnelled into a re vamped equalization system. As the meetings began Hyndman reiterated his position that taking re source Money for equalization is unacceptable. He believes that the current system is fundamentally sound and fair. 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