Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 25, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg Fec Augurt Asoline once sly to jump Lead cleanup workmen wearing special protective suits manoeuvre a giant the cleanup which will be completed was vacuum cleaner around to suck up Lead concentrations ordered by Manitoba environment minister Gary Filmon after yesterday on the North Side of Weston school at 1410 Logan hazardous Lead Levels were discovered in the informer almost shot by victims they stuck a gun right in my says much travelled police Snitch continued from Page 1 though later the police arranged for it the Fine to although going through the courts with his victims can be a lot of its sometimes he you really got to protect your ass on something like that cause its really to illustrate his he described a time about five years ago when he had his Only experience so far in almost being nailed by the people hed been paid to and he admitted that at the time he was they stuck a gun right in my he and demanded to know if he was the they were very Good friends of but they were also the kind of people who would Stab you in the Back the same time they were calling you he he somehow managed to convince them it want and they let him he since he he has developed a keen sense for knowing when to go through with a and when to Back if i feel theres any Chance of get doctors determined to fish government on medicare system continued from Page 1 taken the resolutions reflected a health care system far different from the vision seen by Feder Al health minister Monique begin and a few of her provincial begin has Long advocated having medicare financed from Federal and provincial coffers almost exclusively and has criticized monthly medicare premiums paid by residents of Alberta and British she has also called for an end to extra Billing in All its varieties and has hinted that Ottawa May consider cutting off Federal funds to provinces that refuse to ban those the doctors determination came through in the Way a few of them made their Points this motion is not Isaac of said of one Resolution on extra its a signal to our divisions to take to the trenches and defend the last former presi Dent of the medical said his provinces decision to ban extra Billing this Spring was an Omi Nous the medical profession is threatened with virtual extinction of As we know he the cams chief complaint about medicare is what it sees As a severe shortage of government funds a situation that could be eased if More private Money was As chairman of the associations Board of told reporters governments cannot afford to pick up the whole Tab for every last Nickel of healthcare the Resolution calling for an end to medicare As a government monopoly did not say what kinds of private funds should be Mandeville personally favors letting insurance firms provide individuals with Broad supplemental the Resolution passed on collective bargaining followed from the 1980 conventions Call to explore the possibility of Union organization if governments insist on eliminating extra chairman of the Cha Council on told report ers that collective bargaining implies some kind of Union it also implies the possibility of Job including the ultimate weapon of Doc tors withdrawing some of their services to get their demands Ting it wont go ill pull he As an he cited one of the two cases Hes been involved in since he arrived in Winnipeg about three months hed arranged with Mem Bers of the Winnipeg police break and enter squad to set up a Small group of acquaintances who had committed at least 200 b and is break and enter and 12 or 13 armed robberies in the City in the last two Tom before the setup could take he realized the Deal was too risky and backed there the Type of Guys who dont Trust he Ani Mals and they kill you just like the other Case involved setting up some local drug traffickers by pos ing As a buyer and tipping off the vice squad hours before the Deal took for his role in the he expected to receive some Money from the a spokesman for the Winnipeg police vice squad yesterday would neither confirm nor deny Toms version of his involvement with the the head of the vice Clark said in an interview that his squad does use All policemen Are encouraged to develop informers if they Peck Over he added its a very difficult subject to discuss he admitted in some cases the department pays informers for information they out in Many in stances the rewards Are less he cited As an example residents who have a neighbor they know is dealing in drugs or fencing stolen they want it cleaned up and they want him out of the Peckover so they feed police information that can help Lead to an Winnipeg police crime superintendent Herb Stephen also confirmed that his men have a regular group of in formers they often tap for inform every department uses Ste phen they have but was reluctant to discuss the subject in its very easy to scare them he there paranoid enough As it he agreed that some of them do it for Money and some of them do it for personal such As to get even with As for those who do it strictly for theres not that Many and nobody makes enough to live off just being an Stephen Peckover said the ramp also use probably even More than local but an ramp drug squad official in Winnipeg flatly refused to discuss the Tom plans to continue working with the Winnipeg police on a few More but its the ramp hed like to get involved he working with the you can make one hell of a Good living at he its a dangerous Ottawa up the Price of Gaso line will almost certainly jump cents a litre next a Federal Energy official said the increase will push regular Gaso line to cents a litre a up from cents a litre in decent or a 65percent it includes a Rise in the Federal Oil import compensation charge a retail Price increase and a pig Gyback both by the Oil companies and most provinces a cent litre tax the Rise in the Oil import compensation charge is to meet the Cost of importing additional higher priced foreign crude needed in turn to offset a Cut 1 in Oil production by the Alberta govern it will be the third Cut by the Premier Peter Lougheed Early this year threatened the to Talling barrels a unless an Energy pricing and Revenue sharing agreement is reached Between his province and the Federal definite and Alberta Energy minister Merv Leitch said monday the 1 Cut will definitely go Leitch is meeting later this week with Federal Energy minister Marc Lalonde to continue negotiations towards an but Leitch said he cant foresee any agreement coming soon enough to pre vent the Cut in both Lalonde and Leitch said after their last meeting in july that there was still much to be done before any agreement could be the retail Price in crease is to match the july 1 barrel increase in the wellhead Price of crude under a voluntary agree Oil companies wait 60 Days to pass on wellhead increases to allow existing gasoline stocks to be but at the same time they usually piggyback another increase onto the wellhead theres no doubt the Oil companies will add on the extra said the Energy ministry official who asked that his name not be its the smart thing to he based on previous piggyback in it is expected to be cents a most provinces have an and Valorme tax on As the Price of gasoline so the in Ontario and Quebec tax is about 20 per cent of the retail Price less other which Means cents a litre will be tacked onto next weeks smaller chains to match pact continued from Page 1 super Valu stores throughout the prov under the the stores will match settlements made with the two big Union and management agreed there would be no or lockouts for six the Winnipeg food workers have been without a collective agreement since May contracts with workers in Brandon and Thompson expired Hogan under that Cashiers earned an food clerks made and meat cutters and Bakers earned Hogan said yesterday the last Union Given to management july called for increases of per hour in each of two years for food clerks and per hour each year for As he the Union was seeking a per hour increase in each of two years for skilled Christophe said yesterday the last Safeway Dominion contract offer stands at Between and an hour for each of two with an additional five cents an hour night shift differential and two cents an hour to be applied to the companies dental the supermarkets today indicated they were not prepared to make any additional Christophe he said no further negotiations Are planned this Winnipeg experienced its last super Market strike in when the food workers struck Safeway settling after eight the last strike against Dominion stores took place in 1973 and lasted six Mcdonald Likely to criticize senior mounties Mcdonald two continued from Page 1 their his Royal commission was appointed july and spent More than 300 Days questioning mount ies and in an earlier report published in emphasized that Cabinet ministers must take responsibility for the actions of agencies such As the if he continues that theme in today the result May be Sharp criticism of prime minister Trudeau and a slew of former solicitor general for turning a Bung Eye to the inherent contradiction the fact that Secu Rity men must sometimes break the Law to do their Job it was raised before a Cabinet committee late in it is will also be hard on senior ramp officers while urging Security service agents to disrupt so called subversive evidently kept politicians ignorant of i the details breaking and in theft that now Are haunting the the Alberta supreme court Justice handed his main report to the govern ment and it has been edited for Security reasons by a platoon of officials for the last seven Mcdon Ald Only a couple of weeks ago approved the edited report for publication with his signature and that of Deputy Guy Gilbert of Montre Al and Donald Rickerd of a Security service at ramp head quarters said he am others Are wonder ing whether be hired by the Agency when it takes Over from the pm member ramp in 10 per cent of the Force May be looking for new Mcdonalds Core report also will effect the police site of the it is expected to include proposals for Hir supervising and promoting Breslauer Warren established 1919 434 Portage next to the pay and at Eaton place Choice for diamonds ;