Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Kaplan to let ramp break minor violate minor taws in the Public Mitef est or More in what the members of the organization decide is in the Public interest then an attitude arises that makes it easier to tolerate violations of major Kaplan told a news conference that both he and the Justice department disagree with judge i think theres a lot to be said for the present system where the police have to believe that its reasonably sary to take that exceptional step in the course of Law he the Alberta judges made Public after a fou year also failed to remove doubts about the extent to which Trudeau knew of the ramps illegal former ramp Security service director John Starnes said yesterday that Trudeau once gave him personal approval for a delicate operation that the prime minister said he would deny if the mounties got sought pms approval during a Csc television Starnes said he went directly to tru Deau to seek his explicit approval of an operation of a delicate i remember saying to him prime you should know that there Are risks involved and that we May get prime ministers reply was if you Are of course i shall have to deny any knowl Edge of Starnes gave no specifics about the operation and would not say if it involved illegal acts by the closing of files pledged Ottawa up solicitor general Robert Kaplan said yesterday the ramp Security service will be forced to close some of the files systematically collected during the years on Union a Blacks and Kaplan also said new rules will be drawn up to put tighter limits on the forces ability to open new the vast collection of individual files about indexed names came under Tough criticism in a report tuesday by the Mcdonald Royal commission on the the report said the mounties had unnecessarily opened files on a Broad Range of including per sons travelling to communist coun maps and dissident election Candi there was even a file on individuals who had criticized the Secu Rity theres going to be quite a change in the Way in which files Are opened under the new Kaplan told a news files will Only be opened on individuals who Are legitimate but he said he was not certain How to Deal with the vast collection of files now held in Security service dont think it should be but in not prepared to indicate today exactly How it will be disposed the Mcdonald report said there is widespread fear about improper use of Security a risk made More serious by computers which allow Quick Corre lation and retrieval of personal inform of the Security service from had told the Mcdonald commission that he in formed thu Diu in 1974 that mounties had been doing illegal things for 30 although the commission accepted Starnes its report said tru Deau was not told specific details about lawbreaking and apparently did not mounties May face charges the Csc also reported that about n present and former mounties May face criminal charges As a result of the commissions findings and another 100 face disciplinary former solicitor general Allan Lawrence said tuesday that the Mcdonald commission was told about Trudeau personal involvement in the planning of surreptitious Security operations and accused Mcdonald of leaving the information out of the com missions Lawrence didst give any further saying he is prevented by the official secrets act from releasing the information apparently Given to him while he was solicitor general in the Clark government in Trudeau shunned questions about the Mcdonald report yesterday in Montre Al where he took part in the opening ceremonies of the fifth world sport psychology plans news conference brushing past inquisitive reporters at a suburban he quipped you cant be is that All you Guys can think of right now Trudeau asked reporters if they wait a Day or two for his comments on the Mcdonald his office said earlier he would hold a news conference at his news Kaplan also challenged judge Mcdonalds propos als that a new civilian Security Agency be kept in rein with a tight mandate and an extensive system of checks and the appearing with Fred the lawyer who will head the proposed said the Mcdon Ald proposals May not be a flexible mandate would be needed to allow for mandate criticized he also indicated that the tight Man Date judge Mcdonald proposed to keep the new Agency honest is the judge criticized the 1975 mandate Given the ramp Security service by the Cabinet As being so Broad it invited he said parliament should approve a mandate for the that clearly defined its responsibilities and contained a limiting clause to pre vent Gibson added we cant tie this Agency up in red the mandate had to be but Gibson said his transition which is to report to Kaplan by next will take a hard look at the Mcdonald asked whether he could make the proposals he replied in Reading through the that was the ques Tion Foremost in my at another news new Democrat party Leader de Broadbent criticized Kaplan for rejecting judge Mcdonalds conclusion that institutionalized illegality marked the Kaplan everything Zisfine now attitude was Broadbent said a parliamentary committee should be assigned to re View the Mcdonald proposals and re port on if the government was serious about com ing to grips with its own failure to direct the Security it would do Albert Wolf ram stands by new foundation to accommodate House in House must be moved Back 35 bureaucratic foul up stalls dream House continued from Page 1 capital Gary streets and Bridges work is not Likely to begin until the City is in the process of expropriating land for the and some of the built before the project was near Wolfram site will either be moved or Wolfram agreed the Road widening project is but could not understand How the City could Issue a building permit and then order work stopped just a few weeks i can see if it was five years Down the but a couple of months that he Ken the cites transportation planning agreed a building permit should not have been issued for the site where Wolfram began building last it essentially was an administrative misunderstanding Between depart ments in the Rosin he explained that the lord Selkirk West train families leave area continued from Page 1 caustic soda were from his firms a Dow emergency response team flew to Saskatoon from Edmonton to help railway and Saskatoon emergency measures organization teams with the the teams were equipped with protective clothing and breathing in a full Page newspaper and published earlier this month in Dow said Vinyl Chloride is a color less Gas that is flammable in High Contact with it can cause dizziness and Lon term exposure to Vinyl Chloride can cause a rare form of liver the and a grass fire started after the derail eight prisoners but was extinguished a Little a Saskatoon fire department spokesman no injuries were re ported in the both car and Dow were involved on March when 31 rail cars derailed near the sout Central Mani Toba Community of Macgregor and litres of Vinyl Chloride the incident led to an inquiry by the Canadian transport commission that criticized the railway for inadequate safety procedures and communicating poorly with the Public and the Kildonan operations department and the cites department of environmental planning approved the building permit without knowing the property was to be expropriated for the Road construction he said those departments should have been made aware of the but were it was just an he adding he could recall Only one similar mistake having occurred within the past five we have a system in place to see that it Doest but it he he said the system has been reinforced because of the Wolfram in adding that a similar mistake is even More As a than in the Robinsons warehouse is feed Calgary up eight prisoners orchestrated an escape from the Cal Gary correctional institution last night during a concert by the Calgary Phil harmonic the prisoners made their escape through a first floor bathroom window in the North Wing of the building shortly after the show said Tom drum director of the the convicts broke four panes of Glass in the window and crawled through a Hole about 50 by 35 Centi the men escaped through the detention Centre were having a store wide warehouse clearance Shock of Tribune closure still haunts staff employees of the defunct win but i hardly dwell on Obrien said newspaper As Thorn Nipes Tribune say time and new jobs in somebody Menson newspapers and Southam have helped them shake their initial toned to me today that tomorrow was were charged with offences under right you can save 30 to 50 off list prices on a Ware House sized selection of table out door dining room Kitchen one of a kind scratch and Dent Mer Chandise weve never had so much to come to our showroom and see for the prices Are really excellent bitterness Over the newspapers closing ago its just one of those things that said Pat former Treft one assistant City i was shocked like everybody was like being hit by a put you know youve got to make the Best of a youve got to pick yourself up by the Bootstraps and Snake the Best of went to Edmonton after the 90yearold Tribune closed before returning to this City to work for the Winnipeg launched last no it the closing was harder on my Flynn every time some body phones with the possibility of a Job she gets a Little concerned about the time also has led Pauj a Tribune reporter for nine to regard the newspapers passing As his fhe 28yearold journalist spent five weeks looking for a Job before Landing ont with the Brandon he moved to the Winnipeg Sun last there is still some sadness the anniversary and i Haven really thought about it too Flynn said he heard the news on a radio in Ottawa the night the Thomson organization had announced the closing of the Ottawa the shutdown of the two newspapers left about 810 full time employees at the two closet newspapers without though most have since found the closings also prompted Royal commission into the concentration of Federal anti combines although some were originally of Many Tribune readers have found a Way to continue life without the but they still one woman attempted to place an advertisement in the free press Classi fied Section in memory of the trib she was refused because the paper Only prints memorials to former Tribune employees Are hold ing a reunion saturday 4 charged with attempted murder Maxim we Robinson lighting two adult and two juvenile males from Thompson have been charged with attempted murder following the beating of a Cross Lake Man Early according to the Gilbert of Cross was picked up in Thompson during the Early morning hours tuesday by a group of he was taken to an area several Miles West of the City off Highway was beaten and the youths shortly returned to the found Ross walking toward beat him again and left him in a Bush he finally made it into the City and is now in serious condition in Hospital those charged appeared yesterday in Thoopson provincial judges court and were remanded in custody to monday without charged with attempted murder Are John Christopher and Robert in Winnipeg 7745277 in Brandon 7286840 4 ;