Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Afif Canadian Pun Hie Kent Royal commission on papers delivers its report today amidst speculation the chief recommendation will be that Canadas major newspaper chains be forced to reduce their Leholden the nip consumer affairs critic Ray who claims to have been told of the reports contents said yesterday in an flt review with the pm pm the report Wilt urge major newspaper chains be forced to reduce their hold Ings of Media tax incentives to Aid Independent press councils for Public complaints and t Strong newspaper act to other apr Paranthy based on leaks of the reports the headed by fam Kent will also recommend barring papers front con trolling radio or to stations within their main circulation and will propose a ban on future ownership of Community weeklies by a daily in the same existing ownership would not be other reports indicate the Tommis Sion will also recommend the Federal goer Newi prohibit publication of tonal newspapers by existing a Story in today Montreal Date tie says such a move would Force son newspapers to give up the National edition of the Globe and divest itself of the newspaper or Seii the rest of the the Trudeau government May pirate the commissions suggestions into an overhaul of Competition station planned for this fail or ignore study urges curbs on accused rights the los Angeles times Washington a Reagan administration task responding to Public outrage Over rising crime recommended yesterday that limits be placed on some traditional safeguards for accused persons to make sure the guilty Are the citizen wants safety and expects the task Force too often he or she gets the attorney generals task Force on violent crime proposed restrictions on the right to the right to exclude from trials evidence obtained and the right of prisoners to Challenge in Federal courts their convictions in state the task Force also urged enactment of a Federal Law requiring a waiting period of purchases of compulsory reporting of the theft or loss of a and a ban on the import of parts that can be assembled into cheap in the group proposed Feder Al spending of billion Over four years to build and improve state some of the most controversial recommendations dealt with Federal Crim Inal Justice procedures which have been praised As Basic constitutional protections by their defenders and denounced by critics As Legal technicalities that allow criminals to go exam Ples d the task Force endorsed legis lation that would allow courts to deny Grain handlers at Thunder Bay vote to strike continued from Page 1 tee Grain exports if Thunder Bay Grain handlers go on Peter policy advisor to agriculture minister Eugene Whelan said in Regina we Are looking at All options and alternative transport routes and Back to work legislation Are among he although the government Hopes a contract agreement can be reached without a there is every possibility of a he changeling Grain through other ports is also being considered if there is a Christensen but Mac president of the United Grain said he has no knowledge of Federal plans to Channel Grain through other theres no one in the Grain Industry i know of who knows what there referring to by other Runci Man said in an interview from Winni if theres another Way to get around the in sure someone would have come up with it by Prairie Grain could be shipped by rail to Eastern Transfer elevators or to other but neither option is he Doug Radke of acting head of the Grain transportation said the unions refusal to work More than five Days a week has already restricted marketing weve been losing roughly unloads a week at the Radke said in an he said if cars cant be unloaded at Thunder they cant be loaded in so with a Large crop waiting to be congestion could soon Start showing up in the primary Eleva Tor railway sidings and another potentially disruptive labor dispute on the great lakes was averted last week when Lawrence Seaway workers agreed to a new contract talks Are continuing Between elevator companies and Grain handlers in the other major port for Grain the out come of those talks could hinge on the Thunder Bay bait to persons who Are found by Clear and convincing evidence at a pretrial hearing to be a danger to the Community or to it also in serious the imprisonment of convicted persons who Are awaiting sentencing or who Are appealing their convictions rather than allowing them to remain free on d the existing Rule that excludes evidence obtained illegally by police would be modified under the task Force to permit use of such evidence if it was obtained by police who believed in Good Faith they were acting within the limit of hearings d Hareas the task Foresaid an incalculable amount of the time of state and local judges is taken up with consideration of prisoners petitions for review of their convictions under the Federal Hareas Corpus it would limit the number of Federal hearings and limit the time period for filing such petitions to three years after final judgment in most d insanity a new verdict of guilty but mentally in cases where an accused person makes an insanity was the task Force said this would assure juries that a defendant who goes to prison for a crime would be treated for mental illness while other task Force recommendations wants new guidelines d adoption of National designed to provide More uniformity in prison terms for individuals convicted of the same this would permit abolition of the parole which in turn would make sure that sentences imposed in court could not be shortened d unequivocal commitment to the fight against the traffic in including the use of army and Navy forces if necessary to Stop the illegal importation of d mandatory sentence for the use of a gun in the commission of a Federal along with greater Federal prosecution of persons arrested on state charges who have violated Federal gun control d change Federal Law to allow limited use of internal Revenue service rec ords by other Law enforcement Agen car recalls to remain Public Ottawa up the Federal government will continue to announce major recalls for safety defects in cars despite a decision by the More business oriented government not a transport department official said Gordon head of the departments Road and motor vehicle traffic safety said the trans port department will continue to notify the news Media about major Detroit free press reporter Alan Inhof turned up evidence last week that Ford motor and Chrysler had quietly stopped announcing recalls involving Sands of Ford spokesman Roger director of Fords office of Auto told Inhof that news organizations used to get them on All of our recalls because the Federal government was making announcements of them on a regular to my they Are no longer making announcements As a routine matter of i presume the change has occurred As a result of the change in observers say the move is part of president reagans Promise in last years election to introduce More business oriented poli Campbell said the transport depart ment in Canada never routinely fied the news Media about minor recalls in which the owner was not in danger if repairs or modifications we rent made i Media we think a More effective Way of doing it is to be More selective about the More serious which we High Light in a quarterly bulletin to the news said a log on All re Calls is kept by the department to which the Public has Campbell agreed with a spokesman for the National Highway safety and the Federal Agency in charge of Auto that recalls Are voluntary and Federal Law in both countries does not require automakers to publicize recalls through the the automaker must Tell the appropriate Agency How it discovered the what risks Are involved and what Steps Are being taken to Correct then All owners of record must be contacted by the automaker and made aware of the if the Federal Agency in Canada is unhappy with Progress during the it can go to the news Media prior to publication of its bulletin or take the manufacturer to my a candidates to be graded continued from Page i gome of the most purines g people in private sponsors picked up the Tab list Winter for full Page ads in daily newspapers across the country slamming prime minister constitutional j cant Tell you no paid for the Winnipeg Tewis but u was a very prominent person in Mani wont say now much it takes in but the group is embroiled in court Battle with reve nue Canada Over its status go a religious Campbell Stid he will fight to relate the designation Ana has of plans to comply with Ottawa request to Register As a political Campbell talks fondly of Jerry pal Well and the moral majority in the with whom Renaissance shares a common commitment to encourage Christian involvement in Public fal Weij accepted an invitation last May to visit Canada and speak to a Renais Sance delegation and Campbell has often preaching to american like that of Falwell the Brand of politics espoused by Renais Sance is closely linked to economic policies Popularised by president Ronald Reagan cuts in the govern ment payrolls and social senders to curb and reduce taxes to stimulate the Lewis said group believes that schools Are All religious intended or the supposedly Neutral Public school system actually teaches secular where children learn that Man is the Centre of the universe and not he outside the Renaissance preaches that discrimination is ail employers and landlords should have the right to discriminate and minorities fed Lewis i have no problem with human rights except that when Yog give rights to one person you Are taking them away from someone he said Renaissance members support the return of capital punishment in Cana but Lewis insisted the organisation is pro4ife thou shall not kill is a personal he which allows government to sidestep the Law to pro test society by executing lie them As it did a Simitar warning 11 Yean ago from t committee headed by Liberal Keith the Davey alarmed at the increasing concentration 0f Media ownership recommended formation of a press ownership review Beard with Powers to approve or disapprove ers or acquisitions pers and the i99o report by Davey showed the two major newspaper chains of am and up publications each controlled about 18 per cent of r Thomson newspapers was a Dis Tant third at per cent Southam now controls about 2 cent of Canadian daily circulation with its 14 the Thomson with holdings that include North set Oil department stores such at the Simpsons and and truck ing and insurance has since bought the up Chain and now controls 40 dailies with 22 per cent of total daily it wit the simultaneous closing of the Ottum journal by Thomson and Ite Winnipeg Tribune by Sov Jotham last August that led to creation of the Royal commission headed by a former editor 61 the Winnipeg five pms in the Federal department of consumer and corporate affairs charged Southam Ana Thomson with conspiracy to unduly Lessen 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