Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba I August Ottawa rep a major increase m grime in Manitoba helped push the number of Cammal code offences nut the two million Mark in Canada last statistics Canada said yesterday the 1971 was the greatest since 1174 and was partly accounted for by major increases in trime in Alberta and another decrease was reported in continuing a trend which began with the abolition of the death penalty in m homicides numbered a decline of six per cent reported in provincial crime As were lowest in the East and highest in the with British columbian rate of offences per population the the rate was double that of the four Atlantic the Yukon and Northwest territories were ail higher than the average statistics Canada said the general crime helps push up National rate Rise in crime last year was largely a result of a significant upward shift in nonviolent property which Rose per cent in m in this a crease in House breaking was reported by with residences Ken into last year compared with 195 in thefts valued at More than 1200 Rose per lies with the fact that thefts valued at Over from motor vehicles increased per cent Over from to statistics Canada stereo systems Are a prime target of Auto automobile thefts decreased slightly while theft of trucks and motorcycles Rose it per More than charges of simple Possession of marijuana or hashish were Laid by police last the number of cannabis offences increased per cent to in compared with the previous about to of die cannabis charges were for importing or cultivating and about were for the rest were for simple the government has said it intends to shift cannabis offences from the Nar Cotic control act to the food and drug act and reduce penalties to fines for statistics Canada said cocaine offences were reported last a leap of per heroin offences Rose per cent to violent which totalled or per cent Oral criminal code offences increased per this was Down from air increase of per cent from 1978 to the key increase from 1979 to 1980 was a 116peftent Rise in robberies involving weapons other than firearms Rose per and statistics Canada speculated this May represent a displacement effect ing from 1978 gun Laws making a prison sentence mandatory where fire arms Are used in a the Agency robberies involving firearms Rose per cent last president Reagan watches f14 tomcat fighter leave the deck of the uss Constellation during a dramatic air Power libyans protest aggression ant american demonstrations reported in streets of Benghazi continued from Page 1 Reagan called the Constellation a powerful Force in an Uncertain and assured the Crew we All sleep a Little better at night knowing that youre on in demonstrators took to the streets of Tripoli and Benghazi to protest the the news Agency Jana the popular masses had emphasized their firm will to confront american aggression and to dissuade the aggressors with All the Power at their the Agency the crowds were said to have chanted slogans showing they were ready to sacrifice their lives to defend the Liby an the Agency also carried a Brief re port said to have been based on inter views with the pilots of the two Soukhoi su22 aircraft involved in the clash with american neither this report nor the diplomatic note mentioned that the aircraft were shot the report repeated claims provinces want Ottawa to pay full taxes on Federal property continued from Page 1 Winnipeg will lose about this year in municipal and school taxes because the Federal government wont pay Grants in lieu of taxes of about Worth of land and buildings within civic Peter Swan Lund of the cites assessment Branch said most of the loss is in Jame Sassin where Ottawa refuses to be assessed for million in runways at Winnipeg International most of the other exempted property is in Swanlund the government does pay full Grants on another Worth of prop erty in the including the Federal the Airport the fort Osborne Barracks and facilities for the Canada mortgage and the Freshwater fish marketing Board and the Swanlund noted that a pays no business tax on any of its which would amount to 11 per cent of their fair rental Deputy director of the provinces municipal assessment say How much messed Federal property there in Toba outside the City or How much it represents in lost Grant but Arbuckle said the current assess ment on All Federal holdings is Ottawa pays full assessment on million of it or about million in but is exempt from school taxes on the other million mainly armed forces bases which provide their own school changes to Federal Law last year will impose full assessment on defence is Arbuckle said Ottawa still refuses to be assessed on a Long list of these include the Fence around Stony Mountain wharves and communications towers and pole reservoirs and storage roads and railway Bridges and dams and water or sewer reacting to Ottawa threat to pull out of share Cost programs in favor of direct Federal programs for municipal Gourlay said the move comple Tely ignores the responsibility of the provinces and municipalities to decide the local Patrick Binns of Prince Edward is land added that there is going to be chaos if Ottawa funds programs helter shelter across the country and forces the provinces to adjust their programs duplication and dual bureaucracies Are he that they had shot Down one american it said while the pilots were carrying out a routine reconnaissance Mission within libyan airspace and territorial Waters at 7 yester eight american aircraft of the f14 Type attacked them and opened they opened fire in hitting one of the planes which went into the sea in there were still no signs of a direct comment on the incident by Agency said that in South where on wednesday he signed a Friendship treaty with his Host country and he had appealed to All Arab countries to oppose Ameri can aggression against the Arab a continued from Page 1 organization should be penalized for having provided the Globe with the necessary support to enable it to be printed in other locations in Canada and thereby helped to fulfil its Long standing objective of becoming Cana Das National he charged that recommendations that editors chief report to advisory committees also Supply annual reports to a press rights panel would open the door to government intervene the reaction of editors throughout the it is Clear that they share this he Thomson said the commissions Call for tax credits or depend ing on whether a newspapers editorial expenses were More or less than the Industry showed the commissioners lacked an understanding of the newspaper publishing Industry penalize efficiency the surtax would penalize those newspapers which operate most efficiently and the proposed tax credit would subsidize he he said any government subsidies granted to the Canadian Cana As National new gathering co opera would pose great dangers for Freedom of the press and once again open the Way to serious Tom chairman of the com said in a Telephone interview from Ottawa yesterday the need to break the Power of newspaper chains has been made even More Clear by the severe criticism of his report by Many newspaper owners and Kent said he was surprised by the ill advised vehemence with which his report has been met by newspaper owners and the tone of Many editorials printed this which said the reports recommendations were massive vindictive and an idiots clearly show the Lack of professionalism in the news paper Kent i think its a fair comment to say that the nature and Quality of Many of the editorials fully confirms the Analy Sis of the state and problems of the newspaper Industry in the report the Lack of professionalism in ism which arises from the Inadequacy of the resources that Are put into the editorial Content of he Kent said he was particularly disappointed by an editorial in the Globe and mail which criticized the inquiry recommendation that Thomson news papers which owns the newspaper through its Canadian newspapers company be forced to sell either the Globe or its 39 other dailies across the the editorial said anything which interferes with the globes lifelong dream of serving canadians from coast to coast is not for discus i dont think anybody would regard that As a comment that would be made by a professional in the discussion of said who added that the editorial showed a closed the comment that this is not debatable is an extraordinary polish Union put to test continued from Page 1 we shall regain authority As a Union when we give cigarettes and so on to the the government has offered Only stupid Solidarity last week called for a two month moratorium on the strikes and Street marches that swept Poland in july and Early August in protest against food shortages and Price in although the government has tried to blame Solidarity for the food they began As a spontaneous Public reaction announcements that the meat ration was being Cut More than a half a kilogram a month and prices of Staple foods would go up As much As 400 per special shipment Churchill touted As alternative Thompson staff in the event of a tie up in the flow of Grain through Thunder Bay and the Lawrence Federal authorities have been asked to dive tall possible shipments through the port of in a telex to transport minister Pepin and Esmond chief commissioner of the Canadian wheat Isabell president of Norman regional development Cor said that if the threatened strike terminates the Grain movement All possible should be done to divert shipments for Baltic and Mediterranean destinations through Churchill to the limit that facilities and arteries of the Northern Manitoba port can practically port manager Don Figurski said that the third ship of the 1981 season is preparing to he expects another nine or 10 ships to utilities face higher costs on volatile Money markets choose from 1981 Sapporo 10 Standard features litre silent stereo radio Power front disc brakes Power steering electric Remote control mirrors t rear seat entry system fuel filler just to list a Tew Pius Pius ask about negotiable finance rates a gift for mom and baby continued from Page i Vincia government in a Wpm minion Bond Issue in new its will get Hydro receives million while the remainder will go to the provincial Deputy finance minister Charles Cyrtis said yesterday the when it went to new York in late was Lucky to get the Fiso million loan at a 14 per cent interest several Days later Quebec Hydro was less Fortu Nate on the same Money Market and paid per he said but Curtis admitted that with the recently spiralling interest future borrowings could be at rates of 18 per cent or trick is to keep your Eye on the Curtis although numer Ous Loans have been taken out in the past in Japan and the govern ment now is giving preference to keeping its Loans in or Canadian he said once construction on the Limestone Hydro generating station Whiteb Tbs government his hinted could be an estimated billion will have to be raised on the assuming an 18 per cent interest it would mean carrying charges of j360 million a Curtis said negotiations on West empower Grid will mean Saskatchewan and Alberta will in effect be sharing the Cost of future capital Hydro construction in the although details Are still being he said there May be the possibility of Lowe interest Money being available from Albertas heritage the its spokesman said the Crown corporations ratio of debt charges to total expenditure deft Aitery has to go up w View of the necessity to Reff Nance Loans at higher the phone system has a 115 million loan coming due dec5 and another million maturing he said the million which was recently acquired will help refinance the pee Ember loan and cover the com pants capital costs for the while me Kean agreed the refinancing will Cost Hydro Money in debt servicing he said it represents just 3 Small fraction of the Utility total the period of really heavy borrowing and debt financing occurred in the 1970s 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