Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 3 or o a Dubonnet residents question decision by province a by David Obrien a group of Lac Dubonnet residents says a provincial government decision has paved the Way for the use of dangerous radioactive materials in their area by atomic Energy of Canada the Federal Agency has leased about 400 hectares of provincial Crown land near the town to build a research Laboratory to test the feasibility of storing nuclear waste under the original 21year lease agree ment stipulated no dangerous radioactive material was to be used or stored at the but the safeguard was deleted recently by the province and a new one inserted permitting decl to use radioactive tracers and sealed Walt spokesman for the committee of concerned said yesterday the group fears the introduction of radioactive materials May dam age the environment and threaten the health and safety of area we will not be used As human Guinea pigs for aels scientific sex Robbins said in a letter to Junior High classes urged at collegiate a task Force set up in february by Assiniboine South school Board has recommended Charleswood collegiate extend its classrooms to grades 8 and 9 the school Board had said last Winter it wanted to turn the collegiate into a Junior changing the collegiate status would have caused the shifting of hundreds of students and was pro tested by students and parents during a series of meetings earlier this the task Force was set up to look at the Charleswood collegiate situation along with other proposed ideas for reorganization in the school task Force chairman Max Zoldack told a meeting of about 150 parents last night at Dieppe school that the two phase proposal minimizes negative Community Impact and will expand academic options for Junior High Stu dents affected by the he described the package As one which would be easier to sell than any of the four other options for restructuring division schools which the task Force one of them recommended the closure of Charles Wood the task Force has recommended that Tuxedo Shaftsbury school become a combined Junior and senior High school under the plans second because of expected declines in enrol ment and demand for French immersion Dieppe which now includes kindergarten to Junior High would become a French immersion elementary school under Tho parents at last nights meeting had a mixed reaction to the task Force Arlene whose children will be directly affected if the recommendations Are said she is worried Junior High students May be exposed to drugs at an earlier age in the High school but she said they May also Benefit from a wide variety of sports facilities and academic options available to them at a High Well just have to it could be Good or she Irene Gordon shared Cherepak reluctance to forecast the Success or fail ure of the its hard to the demand for French immersion in the future and housing starts in the area could change she the recommendations Are expected to be considered by the school Board at its 30 Csc Union objects to oath of secrecy the National Union representing Csc newsroom employees is objecting to an oath of Fidelity and secrecy the corporation is asking All new staff Mem Bers to sign when they Are the oath Calls for employees to swear they will not communicate any information relating to the affairs of the corporation to anyone outside the Alain president of the Ca Nadian wire service local said yesterday the oath is similar to one which president Ronald Rea Gan used to fire that country air traffic controllers several months he said the oath would prevent employees from discussing the affairs of the corporation in the Csc could forbid publish material that an employee May want to put before the Cossette the local Guild has sent a letter to All employees advising them not to sign the oath or to at least sign under Dave abcs manager of human said he has not heard about the Guild he said requesting employees to sign such an oath is not unusual and it is not intended to stifle its just to Alert people that they have certain responsibilities As Csc employees and they should take them he Chomiak said he didst know if the oath was binding legally and added that it was not Likely to be used to prevent employees from discussing important issues concerning the Csc in Cossette said the Guild decided to take action against the oath after the Issue was raised at a National meeting a few weeks Chomiak said the oath has been a requirement of employment for sever Al years and he has not received any complaints about it from new employ insane axe killer ordered deported by Pamela Fayerman a Man found not guilty by reason of insanity of killing two people in West Paul was ordered deported yester Day to his native Jatinder pal Singh has been held in custody in heading Ley jail since when a jury made its finding in the axe deaths of his sister inlaw and her the deportation order by an migration adjudicator will take effect As soon As a provincial Board of review authorizes his release from heading Sodhi will be escorted by ramp officers Back to adjudicator Kevin flood said in an interview last night that his decision to Deport Sodhi want terribly hard to Render in Light of the fact two people Are flood said he based his decision on the opinion of two medical officers played by health and welfare Canada who after Reading a psychiatric that Sodhi is a member of an inadmissible class because he poses a danger Sod his Ken Zaif said he takes with the decision because the doctors who made the determination never examined they relied on the report of one psychiatrist whose assessment was nearly 10 months Zaifman i want even allowed to subpoena the doctors to Cross examine Zaifman said the possibility of re Venge the family of the two de ceased in India poses a threat to during the the jury was told that Sodhi was terrified and extremely depressed that he would have to go Back to India when his entire family lived in at the psychiatrists described Sodhi As a paranoid psychotic it in statements to Sodhi admit Ted to the said tie tested the deceased were plotting against him and so acted in self Zaifman and lawyer David Margo us did not dispute that Sodhi was responsible for the deaths of Maninder and Sarabjit environment minister Gary Robbins said his group wants a meeting with Filmon to request Public hearings into the Agency proposals and establishment of a monitoring Egon aels head of Public affairs for waste said the company proposals dont pose a threat to the clause on dangerous Materi als was deleted because the citizens group Felt the term dangerous was open to he in its the company asked the government to spell out specifically what the project would namely the use of radioactive tracers and sealed sources of Freeh explained that radioactive tracers will be used like a Dye to measure the Speed and direction of underground water As a radioactive substance will be sealed in a Metal pipe which will be dropped into a Hole bored through the purpose of this is to determine the extent to which Radia Tion penetrates the Freeh said the radioactive life of these substances is less than two he said the quantities would be comparable to the amount used in medical f can state there is no not even to the people using he the experiments pro posed by decl Are part of a geological and hydrological process used he but Robbins said the firm has ignored a Large body of scientific and medical opinion that there is no Safe level of radiation and any amount cause cancer and birth Robbins said the company still has not said what radioactive substance it will use in the sealed Freeh said project engineers Haven decided this he said the company will not begin construction until 1983 and the entire Experiment will have to be licensed by the atomic Energy control with approval from the Federal and provincial environment de an aide to Filmon said the province inserted the new clause to clearly identify aels obligations and limitations in the Jim free press f v golfers swing away ice Cream court told by Pamela Fayerman ice Cream bought from dutch maid Dairy and ice Cream and Analysed by Federal health officials contained bacteria counts up to 92 times More than the permitted a provincial court judge heard yester in the first Day of trial of the company on a food and drug act court was told that samples of Vanilla ice Cream taken from dutch maid on april contained counts ranging from 33 col form organisms per Gram to 920 per the permissible level under the act is per col form is the Type of bacteria nor Mally found in the intestinal tract of human beings and the court was the located at 197 Osborne has not entered a formal plea to the charge of Selling ice Cream con Taining col form organisms above the allowable Federal Lorne a Federal inspector with the department of National health and testified that he went to dutch maid on april 23 and paid com Pany president Donald Bass for samples of ice Cream which were being manufactured in the Back of the bad news two Days after receiving test results from the departments Micro biology he called Back Tot say he had bad news the Vanilla ice had High col form Veshka said Bass responded by say ing he didst know what he would do next to reduce the bacteria Bass was upset and said dutch maid had done everything to reduce the bacteria and we still have the Hesh Kameshka said Bass told him the Vanilla ice Cream made on april As Well As a Batch of Maple would be thrown out so customers would not buy samples of banana ice Cream and of the mix dutch maid receives from its modern did not exceed Veshka under Cross examination by defence lawyer Greg Veshka said no samples were taken from the front of the where the Public purchases ice it was taken Only from the Plant where the ice Cream is Federal analyst Roger Foster said he could not remember whether the samples he received were Frozen or the dutch maid charge was initially quashed by provincial court judge John who ruled the charge did not provide enough but in Jan the Manitoba court of Appeal overturned the ruling by judge Enns and reinstated Crown prosecutor David prayer said the Crown is proceeding by Way of summary the maximum penalty for a corporation is a Fine or three months in jail on first and a Fine or six months for a subsequent v r j Mue not provide enough but in Janor three months in mail on i Federal analyst Roger Foster said the Manitoba court of Appeal and a Fine or six i he could not remember whether the overturned the ruling by judge Enns subsequent spoiling of Young children emotional group told treating a child like a Crown Prince everything he wants in order to prevent Opochinsky said much emote so there is wonder in every breath he upsetting abuse can take place before a Chi in o firm a i treating a child like a Crown Prince so there is wonder in every breath he draws is a form of emotional child abuse which May be More dangerous than Derivational says a Winni Peg Seymour Opochinsky told a group studying emotional child abuse yesterday that parents May be said to abuse their children by not encouraging them to face for he some Well meaning parents will not raise their voices to a child or will give him everything he wants in order to prevent upsetting that May be an even worse form of abuse because it Doest prepare him for the world that Opochinsky adding the child is in for trouble when he gets to school and finds he must the psychologist said children subjected to Derivational abuse Are usually easier to spot than those unduly coddled by their they Are also easier to treat because theres a Way in to financial problems cited reason for store Holdup Van unemployed Niverville Man Dis covered yesterday he probably have chosen a worse Way to solve his financial problems when he decided in july to Rob a Winnipeg grocery Grant appeared before provincial court judge Charles Rubin yesterday and was Seh tended to two years less a Day for the judge Rubin was told Mcnaughton explained to police following his arrest that on the Day of the robbery his brother had telephoned to say his Bank was after him for he didst have a had no Money to pay the so i figured id get some Quick Cash by robbing a marys Road grocery Mcnaughton the Holdup netted him and he May have gotten away with it were not for two court was told a Man and a woman who were in the store followed Mcnaughton As he sped off on his they trailed him for about three until he stopped to remove a cloth he had placed Over his licence the witnesses wrote Down the licence telephoned police and it want Mong before they traced the motorcycle to Mcnaughton and arrested him at his Niverville Opochinsky said much emotional abuse can take place before a child is for parents May decide to have a baby to save their the child is brought into life with a said if some thing goes wrong with the the child is a child May be named after a childless relative in an Effort to Cash in on his the child could be blamed if the Money does not come one of the things i always ask parents is How the child got his the psychologist love him children May also be subjected to institutional Opochinsky Labelling a child As untreatable at an Early age can be very debilitating professionals have been known to Tell parents that their kid Hast got the smarts to make it very far so just love him what we ought to be telling people is that were not smart enough to treat them their children he adding that children must be protected from our own placing limits on a child give him a Chance to go very he said Opochinsky gave his talk to the working group on the emotional abuse of a group of Manitoba medical and social service profession als studying the Issue with a View promoting a healthier emotional Cli mate for Fairweather warns provinces against opting out of charter Fairweather fair notice provincial governments will opt out of the proposed charter of rights at their Gordon chair Inan of the Canadian human rights said interviewed after a luncheon speech to the National conference on Multi cultural education in fair weather said voters deprived of human rights As a result of such opting out would be justified in throwing govern ments out of he said he was giving politicians fair notice that this could Premier Sterling Lyon has not said whether Manitoba will opt out of Char provisions if his government is Lyon strongly opposed an entrenched charter on the grounds it would violate provincial but endorsed last weeks constitutional package which included a charter with opting out Fairweather said he prefers the pro posed charter to no charter at but he does not like the opting out provi he told the conference luncheon that racial bigots Are Bora and not made and said teachers Are ideally placed to sabotage the Assembly line which Cre ates Tony ethnic services coordinator for the Nova Scotia education told a panel discussion educators face a catch22 situation with people say we live in he but when they go Home and find their daughters pregnant or children on they say Why dont you teach family life education or that drugs can were not part of but were supposed to cure Johnstone said teaching history divides people racially because White people either go on a guilt trip and say Why should i Bear the guilt of my ancestors or accept the Burden to civilize minorities and enjoy superiority at the same ;