Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 3 citizen group to investigate conditions at remand Centre by Brian Cole a local penal Reform advocacy group has established a committee to investigate reports of overcrowding and inhumane conditions at Manitoba major remand Dick president of the John Howard and Elizabeth Fry said the committee will remand centres at the Public safety heading Ley jail arid the Portage correctional Institute for the society is concerned that suspected criminals possibly Are being held in worse conditions than convicted Chenier said at a press conference there have been an alarming num Ber of reports of and that remand prisoners May have less Freedom and poorer living conditions than people who Are he the which will be chaired by federation of labor past president Nels Thibault and which includes lawyer Jeff Gindlin and Winnipeg Magazine editor Paul Sulli will talk to prisoners and other officials associated with remand axed by nip to get 42 Days pay ballot final Riding tallies due next month official recounts in some provincial Ridings wont be tallied until next month when final results from tues Days election Are in for All 57 chief election officer Richard Willis said Willis said some of the Hospital bal lots still were being counted and sent to local returning he said final counts in All Ridings wont be official until 27 and should be released by from the Day of the announcement there is eight Days in which to file a request for a Willis while there Are automatic recounts in Ridings where the vote spread is less than a recount can be done in any Riding if requested by a candidate or member of the he recounts Likely an automatic recount Likely will be held in the River East Riding where nip candidate Phil Eyler took Only 49 More than tory Harold Thompson is another Riding where a recount is former conservative labor minister Ken who won the Riding handily in was Defeated by Steve a striking Inco worker and the unofficial tally shows Ashton with Only 61 votes More than Macmasters other Ridings where the plurality was less than 300 include Rose and Swan formerly held by Deputy pre Mier Don was captured by Doreen Dodick of the nip who won 243 More than who Macmaster lost by 61 votes had held the seat since in the two candidates battled for the but Craik easily won with almost votes More than Veteran la Pete Adam was re elected for the nip in a Riding which changed significantly since 1977 because of first elected in Rose in a 1971 won the Riding this time by 212 votes Over conservative candidate Ivan who took Swan a longtime tory was won by former conservative municipal affairs minister Doug but with Only a 265vote margin Over the nip candidate Leonard Harapiak who took the two had also battled for the seat in but Gourlay won it by a 730vote police cant police themselves lawyer of shot Man says by Kevin Prokosh a court decision finding a Winni Peg vice officer want justified in shooting a Man during a main Street altercation clearly demonstrates the police cant police the victims lawyer said this Case shows that the police Are not competent to police their own said Norm Cuddy client David Organ was awarded by a county court judge who ruled William Bell used excessive Force when he shot Organ during a dispute near the Occidental hotel but a week after the a Board of inquiry consisting of police officers had the same evidence from the same people and concluded Bell had been justified in using his re said that was such a he because of the manner of investigation it want a hearing but a inquiry convened the police department inquiry was convened on the Day of the shooting but had to be adjourned until since a statement haunt been taken from said police investigators re turned the next Day and were told by the officer he recall the events in his memory explained was due to the blow he suffered during the scum on Bell did furnish a state ment of the circumstances sur rounding the but before he gave the who had been with the Force 10 spoke with his while on the stand last month Bell testified he talked to his lawyer about launching a civil suit in the inquiry concluded after the shooting Organ had police babysitting him for five hours taking statements from him but with Bell they dont try to talk to him for two said on 14 the Board of inquiry unanimously came to a conclusion Bell was totally justified in Dis charging his the thing that makes this whole thing stink is that the reports they had before them included All the statements from everyone who testified at the trial last said the Cuddy said the Board knew about All the evidence and testimony which contradicted Bells version of the events version most of which was rejected by judge Jewers in his decision this they made a finding of credibility that contradicted most of the evidence they had before he that what makes it so All the questions raised in the Case Are he to demand a change in the Way police invest Gate but its pretty Clear they Are not going to do it said its going to have to be a police spokesman refused com ment on the by Mary Ann Fitzgerald about 20 executive and special Assis Tants to Cabinet whose jobs will end when the conservatives leave office will get 42 Days sever Ance Saul head of the incoming nip governments Transi Tion said they will also receive any accumulated Holiday and sick Cherniack said outgoing Premier Sterling Lyon has agreed to pass the traditional order Council ending the jobs of executive and special As we will leave the numbers up to he there Are 20 executive and special including those attached to the premiers Lyon want available for comment in the outgoing nip govern ment of de Schreyer on 19 three Days before it left office passed a similar Cabinet order ending the jobs of 22 executive and special assistants to Schreyer and his minis that went into effect Premier has right Cabinet clerk Derek Bedson said yesterday that in it int traditional for Deputy ministers to offer resignations when government but he said that by the Premier has a right to ask for resignations because Deputy ministers Are appointed by Only Deputy cultural affairs minister Rene Prefontaine has offered his Resig Cherniack its a very helpful he Pawley aide Dan Oconnor said yesterday Pawley Doest think it is appropriate to Deal with those things until after he is sworn a former nip finance minister who didst seek insisted the incoming government int looking at the names of people we want to get rid of we Are looking to see what people in place want to stay and if some want to stay and we feel there is a we want to talk to humane the incoming government wants to Deal with such people on a humane basis and not repeat the nature of changes that took place in after the 1977 Lyon fired three Deputy ministers before his govern ment was sworn into the transition team has added Hans commissioner of to its chairman of the manage ment committee of Cabinet under the former Schreyer is very knowledgeable about govern ment Cherniack Saul also a former finance min who didst seek is the other member of the transition Pawley is taking a couple of Days off to select his Cabinet and Cherniack said the transition committee is recommending he keep the initial number of ministries to about 12 or to allow time to assess the abilities of new and until it is decided if there will be any government re there Are 18 members of the Lyon including the Pawley was to address an All chiefs conference in Winnipeg today and will meet officers of the nip he will also keep a speaking Date to a Manitoba mayors and municipalities meeting in Brandon on United Way the eight member com Mittee will investigate d inhumane conditions and Over crowding in remand d whether individuals in remand spend More time in custody than those convicted of d whether juveniles Are kept in Cus Tody without just although Chenier said he didst want to prejudge the remand he noted that the number of informed reports outlining poor conditions at the institutions Are cause for he noted that a provincial govern ment report in 1978 outlined several improvements that could be made in the remand the Chen Ier seems to have been ignored and it is Safe to assume the conditions have the society has written to the provincial government in an attempt to establish a government citizen com Well As to All the prov inces political they Haven received a reply from government or from any of the parties provincial corrections officials have said they will cooperate with the Al citizen a report is expected within one Sheu of its former self a wrecking Crew turned an Eaton garage into just a Shell of its former self this once the demolition is completed the site on Graham Avenue at Carlton Street will be turned into a paved parking Engineer shortage feared Meg demand predicted by engineering spokesman Kef f cd a 1 i i i 4 with its 1381 Campaign officially the United Way has reached per cent of its goal of by Ron Campbell there Are not enough engineers in the province to meet the demands three proposed Meg projects will Cre says the newly elected president of the Manitoba association of professional Ken a contract Engineer with the operations Branch of the provincial highways was elected president of the association for the next year at the associations 62nd annual meeting in an he said that if Mani Tobas Meg projects the Alcan Alu Minum International min eral and chemicals Potash mine and the Western Power Grid Are started within the next two engineers will have to be imported to service though the associations member ship of registered professional engineers has remained about constant in recent University engineering graduates find it hard to get jobs in the province and go Jardine Winnipeg chief commis Nick told 175 people at the luncheon meeting yesterday tax revolts Are having a devastating effect on Public works taxpayers demand perfection in Street water sewer service and other he yet the proposition13 syndrome and reaganomics Are having a devastating effect on cities and Public works de bloody Public works have become a dark and bloody he spiralling Energy double digit rebellious Burden some regulations make it hard to raise enough Money to maintain existing facilities and acquire new and replace ment capital Diakiw he blamed this on the Lack of Engi neers at the policymaking we have to face the fact that the modern Engineer is not providing a Standard of guidance and leadership commensurate with the Impact of his work and the importance of his profess one of the reasons is the great expansion of technical isolating the Engineer from the Broad Range of Public the further our technical Hori Zons the narrower becomes the View of the individual if the trend becomes we will find ourselves operating in a technological confined to executing the Means without being Able to discern the the urgent need to pre serve Public maintain the built environment and halt Urban decay Means engineers must explain and justify highly Complex technical pro Grams to the Diakiw to create a professional Engineer with the Broad Outlook necessary for Public leadership Means University courses in the social sciences and the humanities will have to be added to the traditional technical Diakiw he said multiple first in then in political science or business adminis will one Day be essential in Many areas of professional Engineer ing ;