Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Wynn Pitt Auguat former ramp official notes i an operation of dolt Date i remember saying to Hin prime you should know that there Are risks involved and that we May get the prime 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 in closing of files pledged Ottawa up solicitor general Robert Kaplan said yesterday the Romp 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 vast collection of individual flies including about indexed names under Tough criticism til 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 on individuals who Are legitimate but he said he was not certain How to Ideal with the vast collection of files now held in Security service i dont think it should be Tat in not prepared to indicate today exactly How it will be disposed the Mcdonald report said there is fear about improper use of a risk made More serious by computers which allow Quick Corre lation and retrieval of personal info controls we believe that controls Are needed to prevent a Security intelligence Agency from maintaining files on thou of people who Are not threats to the Security of the commis Sion the report said policy should be set opening of new files to cases when any of three following conditions Are met is reason to a person has been or will be in activities that parliament has defined As a threat to Canada there is reason to believe a person with Access to classified information May be blackmailed or become indiscreet or dishonest so As to endanger National Security the person is to be investigated for Security screening the commission said that jew files were opened Between Jan and the Security service destroyed about during the same but that number included some files on questionable or operations it was trying to cover the report Vorves illegal Acu by the of the service from had told the Mcdonald commission that he in formed Trudeau in 1970 that mounties had been doing illegal things for 20 a Ait Doug Starnes its report said Deau was not told of specific details about lawbreaking and apparently did not the cd also reported that about 90 present and former mounties May face criminal charges As 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 Mcdonald report yesterday in Montre Al where he took part in the opening 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 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 new Agency 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 Fine now attitude was Broadbent said a parliamentary committee should be assigned to re View the Mcdonald proposals and re port on them by if the government was serious about com ing to grips with its own failure to direct the Security it would do Albert Wolfram stands by new foundation to accommodate his House in House must be moved Back 35 snafu Means House to be moved family planning to move in when administrative error surfaces continued from Page 1 Early the restaurateur sub contracted and supervised the Job him Interior work was about to begin at the end of june when the City issued its Stop work we were just going to begin Wolfram said we would have been finished in the Middle of the unfinished House lies tilted with its front end in the a steel beam has been thrust along the ground through the structures midsection wooden struts stand like exposed and the double garage is Bankers Challenge Whelan continued from Page 1 est rates As High As 23 per Whelan told reporters he is pressing the Banks to share what he called excessive but would not say if Ottawa would Force the Banks to use the Money to keep banners in representatives for the Banks disputed whelans saying they cannot to lower interest right now were paying about 19 per cent interest on savings deposits and 18 to 21 per cent on Lon term said Ben Vic president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of we cant lend Money for less than we pay for it Lynne a spokesman for the Toronto Dominion disputed a criticism by Whelan that Banks have been reluctant to finance Farmers through special Low interest Loans called Small development the House is being readied for the 35metre move to a recently poured Concrete Wolfram estimated the move will Cost about he said the City agreed last month to pay but he has yet to see the the Road widening project was approved by City Council As part of its 1980 capital said Gary City streets and Bridges work is not Likely to begin until 1983 the City is in the process of expropriating land for the and some of the Homes near Wolfram built before the project was will either be moved or Wolfram agreed the Road widening project is but 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 it essentially was an administrative misunderstanding Between depart ments in the he Rosin explained that the lord Sel Kirk West Kildonan operations depart ment 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 that he could recall Only one similar mistake having occurred within the last 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 incident and a similar mistake in the future is now even More Robinsons warehouse is feed were having a store wide warehouse clearance Shock of Tribune closure stud haunts staff right now 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 some employees of the defunct Winnipeg Tribune say time and new jobs have helped them shake their initial bitterness Over the newspapers closing 4 year ago its just one of those things that said Pat former trib Une assistant City i was shocked like everybody was like being hit by a but you know youve got to make the Best of a youve got to pick yourself up by the Bootstraps and make Best out 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 future time also has led David a Tribune reporter for nine to regard the newspapers passing As his the journalist spent five weeks looting for a Job before Landing one with the Brandon he moved to i Wii Utich sum list there is still some sadness but i hardly dwell on Obrien said in somebody mentioned to me today that tomorrow was the anniversary and i Haven really thought about it too Flynn said he heard the news on a radio put Obrien recalls vividly his colleagues Shock and disbelief As Gordon president of Southam stood on a newsroom desk and announced that the Banner of the Tribune was about to in Ottawa the night the Thomson organization had announced the closing of the Ottawa journal the shutdown of the two newspapers left about 810 full time employees at the two closed newspapers without though most have since found the closings also prompted a Royal commission into the concentration of newspaper As Thom son newspapers Ltd and Southam were charged with offences under Federal anti combines although some were originally of Many Tribune readers have found Way to continue life without the 4 charged with attempted murder Robinson lighting two adult and two juvenile males from Thompson Nave been charged with attempted murder following the beating of a Cross Man Early the names and Ages of those charged were not immediately available from the 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 went 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 3 Bush he finally made it into the City and is now in serious condition in Hospital those charged appeared yesterday in l67sherdrookst in Winnipeg 7745277 113618thst in Brandon Thompson provincial judges court and were remanded to custody to without ;