Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 fief August 1581 Proy vices possible charges against ramp j by the Canadian pms Justice ministers Tai British and Ontario Are considering charging of temp officers with conducting illegal activities in their provinces As a result of Given to them by the Mcdonald commission into ramp Manitoba Gerry mercies said yesterday he is not yet prepared to comment Oft the report me Premier Sterling Lyon May raise the matter at a press Confer ence in Morden Green in provincial Justice minis Ter Marcandre Bedard said yesterday he has asked Ottawa the make sum of the commission report a top item on the meeting Afeltra of and provincial Justice ministers in no Bedard also said he has made a similar request regarding the Agenda of a provincial attorney general meet ing 14 in he said he intends to ask that resp Oft Sivility for investigating illegal ties by the ramp fall within Provin the commissions final leased tuesday after a life million investigation of the person Mance of the said there had been a willingness on the part of member of the Force to deceive those outside the a Dice who have some sort of constitutional authority or jurisdiction Over them or their the Cost fission withheld pan of its findings and gave them to provincial ministers for possible Legal since ministers in some prov inces including Newfoundland and Pranee Edward is land have said the commission did not hand Over incriminate my in Rma Tion pertaining it their in British Era Roy Williams said the commission has prompted a new investigation by provincial authorities into Covert ramp particularly Tion which involved secret action by the forces Security although Williams has asked Federal Justice minister Jean Chretien to commission transcripts of secret he admit cd that it May of Titi w possible gather enough evidence to make one 6f the difficulties that faces of the attorney general in Canada dealing with operation checkmate is that Back in 1973 virtually ail of the files associated with this operation were Williams Williams also said the delicate a Tufe of the evidence of the Impact it might Havie on National Security Tould Rule out any criminal to the executive assistant to attorney general Neil Crawford Slid the province was United last summer to consider charges against the Force for illegal activities in the although evidence at the time was not Strong John scrimshaw said yesterday the province will take another look at the to attorney general Roy Mcmurtry office has admitted it is looking into charging the ramp or its officers for illegal up photo an Al Manitoba police an Al Manitoba police Force should be considered As an alternative to an expensive contract with the1 Federal government for ramp Mani Toba progressive party Leader Sidney Green said he was referring to the recent 1ft provincial Federal agreement which will eventually Dun the province and municipalities for 70 per cent of ramp costs in Manitoba rather than the 56 per cent they paid under the former Green was addressing a Public meet ing of about 60 people in the Gateway Community Gateway Road and Bonner traffic matters progressive party candidates Jose Phine Young Concordia Lind say Ulrich River East and Merv Unger Rossmere also Green said no crime primarily traffic could be handled by a policing for criminal the prov Ince could contract with the City of which already has an Excel Lent criminal investigation in an Green said policing in Winnipeg would remain As it with ramp handling strictly Federal mat his dual police Force idea would apply Only to those areas outside the provincial eliminating the need for ramp services he he said he had discussed the idea progressive party candidates Bud Murdoch Mackay and others and believed it would be favourably received within the no Cost estimate has been adding that it is Only an alternative to be he told the meeting the progressive party is now known by Over 90 per cent of Manitoban and this had Cost Only about school division sued Over injury Legal action has been launched against Winnipeg school division by a woman whose daughter suffered irreparable damage to her right Eye when another student Flung a paper clip with an elastic band at in a statement of claim filed in the Manitoba court of Queens Magdalena Morton said her Gayle was struck by a paper clip As she left a restroom at Gordon Bell High school in the girl was taken to Hospital and remained there for three but the claim did not specify her statement said the injury was caused by the negligence of the school division in failing to supervise the students and in failing to control the activities of the student who launched the paper she is seeking an unspecified amount in special and general work Crews Are tackling the Mammoth task of Clearing the main rail line near Saskatoon following a 29car chemical spill danger downgraded Saskatoon up spilled Chemi cals from a derailed Canadian National railways freight train Are not As Dan As first officials said Gordon a Public relations spokesman for Dow chemical of Canada said instrument readings indicated no traces of Vinyl Chloride a cancer causing were leaking from derailed Tanker cars 12 Kilometres West of we have not been Able to detect a Vinyl Chloride Monomer Butte spills of ethylene glycol and caustic soda were confirmed but were being contained by dikes built by a team of emergency workers wearing oxygen masks and protective other overturned cars contained nitrogen aromatic concentrates and Dieth Ylene Saskatoon emergency measures organization had feared a Vinyl Chloride after 29 cars of the 92car freight train bound for Winnipeg from Edmonton went off the Vinyl Chloride is a colourless Gas that causes dizziness and nausea on Contact and has been linked to a rare liver Emo director Bill Parker said pre cautions were taken in response to the possibility the most dangerous product on Board had seven farm families in a four kilo metre radius were evacuated and ramp blocked off Road and air a Cess into the sparsely populated Grain farming reporters were not Al Lowed near the but the Emo called off the evacuation and blockade after it was deter mined the chemicals on the ground didst pose a said Saskatoon rail superintendent Gerald Ripley said the area was cordoned off because of the possibility of an an Sparks Given off by the trains brakes ignited a grass fire that burned to within 30 metres of the spill before it could be it sounded just As if they had put on their brakes real said Dale who witnessed the derailment while i saw one end of it at the rear raising then everything disappeared in a Cloud of it made mess of the the whose House is about 300 metres from the were one of the seven families a sad place for indians by Bob Lowery Winnipeg free press Thompson Thompson is a sad place for Indian people to live Victor John executive director of the Keewatin tribal told the new democratic party roving task Force on economic sur Vival of the family Martin said people of native ancestry face when it comes to getting houses and in dealings with some sections of the business it seems very strange that in a City there Are hundreds of vacant apart our people have such a rough time getting a place to he Martin proposed that Canada mortgage and housing corporation turn Over blocks of apartments As Well As individual Homes to an Indian housing we would be prepared to undertake the administration and also to police the tenants to be sure they kept the apartments in top he Banks Are probably the worst offend ers in putting obstacles in the Way of indians trying to establish you literally have to have a Bank account for quite a few months before they will condescend to let our people write Martin it seems that we Are tabbed with a Label that Means we have to prove ourselves before we can be trusted As far As the business Community generally is Martin they Are ready enough to take your but that where the relationship Martin was concerned that Only three per cent of the Inco metals work Force were of Indian he said new ways must be found to help people from the reserves and Remote communities establish themselves in the mining 1981 wild Rice Royalty shelved by province the Manitoba government has cancelled royalties on this years wild Rice Harvest pending consultants report on the Indus natural resources minister Harry Erms announced the which netted the govern ment Between and a were based on five per cent of net but inequalities have Enns said in a a departmental spokesman said that a million pounds of wild Rice were registered last but a considerably larger amount was probably sold privately without registration an without Royalty consultant Harold Ross was recently appointed to study the wild Rice correction Lucky Dollar and Lucky Dollar associates flyer for week ending 29th cabbage 2 79 should have read cabbage 2 29 we apologize for any inconvenience caused our Bausch lomb 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83cents on foreign currency markets the which has traded at near rec Ord lows since closed at cents yesterday after zipping to an afternoon High of and gaining More than three quarters of a cent wednesdays close was another trader noted Chat although the Bank of Canada had fractionally increased its trendsetting rate yesterday the in crease would not be Large enough to be passed the rate moved up slightly to per the level it was at two weeks following two weeks of marginal declines from its record High per cent set also new higher Hanover postal rates will be announced by the Federal government in about two postmaster general Andre Ouellet said Ouellet said in an interview the postage rates increase will be the Public would have 60 Days warning before they take Ouellet said he is still working on the figures with postal they will be final next then screened by Cabi he characterized As reports that firs class postage will go to 30 cents from 17 i want to say its too High or too As 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