Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ice invites scrutiny plans convention by Ron Campbell in a move to bolster sagging voter City councils Independent citizens election committee has decided to allow Public scrutiny and there has been a perceived concern by a number of most notably in the last that the ice was not said Deputy mayor Jim ice councillor for Grants working on plan Ernst denied the ice was a closed and added that organizational revamp will prove Over the past year an ice caucus committee comprising Ernst and councillors Bill Harold Birt and Larry Fleischer have been working on a plan to improve Public perception and Neville perception wrong the ice now has no objections to being called a political they said and it wants to create a democratic and account Able political Between now and the 1983 civic elec the organization intends to establish Ward ice associations to nominate candidates and to t hold a citywide Conven Tion that year to establish policy direct Ion and elect an executive or steering from now ice candidates will be selected at the Community level in open Public a group of five Izec councillors said yesterday at a press a Public meeting will be held at Westwood collegiate 4 to Nomi Nate ice candidates for the 1 municipal by elections in the vacant Stevenson and Charles for a Ward residents can come to the meeting and vote for the candidate of their Public meetings where in the some candidates were endorsed by a committee of Pri vate All future endorsements will be done at Public nominating said the ice statement Ead yesterday by caucus chairman of Crescent Heights the councillors said disclosure of the source of All Campaign contributions Over whether to an individual candidate or to the ice will now become the consistent with City councils guideline on Campaign in the the ice has pumped Money into the campaigns of Candi dates it endorsed without telling the candidate where the Money came Ernst said it was fair comment to say the results of the Winnipeg municipal election prompted the organizational the ice has seen its portion of City Council seats steadily decline since the first uni City elections in the fall of that year it elected councillors in 36 of the 49 in the 1974 the number fell to in the election to the reorganized 29member Council in the ice took 15 but in the 1980 it took Only but election results Are Only part of the Story of the ice councillors latest councillors i think in some ways the ice has been a Sphinx without a said Bill of Tuxedo Heights he said there has been a perception of something being hidden when in fact nothing up to the organization has been successful mainly in the More affluent James and fort Garry areas of the cites South and West it is our intention to go citywide with those types of Ernst he said ice councillors must go out and provide impetus to create the new Only the East Kildonan Transcona Community does not have an ice he Macdonald said if the group could elect a councillor from the cites poor Central that will enrich the discussion within said Birt i feel you have to get More people involved in the its just part of a natural ice critics who say it is too pro Developer and is heir to the committee of formed to combat the labor faction during the 1919 Winnipeg general strike should take another the councillors if people see us going Back to then the world is Flat said Macdon As for being it was the 100 per cent ice executive policy committee which approved plan win the cites inward looking 20year development Ernst before unified City government a decade each Winnipeg municipality was vying for development to build its tax base and the councillors they elected reflected he he said that the plan Winni Peg thrust to curtail suburban fringe development and concentrate on revitalizing the older areas makes More Helen new democratic party councillor for Kildonan Park Ward and caucus whip for the seven nip was doubtful the ice changes will be More than cos my guess nothing much has they Are refitting the old they Are getting a new coat of paint and putting some new decorations on the ice councillors Are still really liberals and progressive conserva Tives and the closer you get to an election of any the stronger the differences of View and approach be Promislow the difference in priorities Between the nip and ice and the difference in attitude to private Enterprise and Large business interests always come into she Winnipeg free december 3 police Constable James Hanson receives congratulations of fellow officer following acquittal on indecency Hanson cleared of sex charges judge tells cheering courtroom complainants testimony suspect by Pamela Fayerman a packed courtroom cheered yesterday when a judge told a Winnipeg police Constable youre free to go after acquitting him on charges of Gross indecency with a Young i cant say its the happiest Day of my James Norman told reporters As he struggled to avoid while about him tears flowed from the eyes of friends and relatives who were behind me right from the Day i was arrested in without i probably would have had a he said of the dozens of supporters who attended his trial every i mean in Happy with the results but in not Happy anybody had to go through this and i dont think any body was a Winner in this Hanson said while his jubilant wife hugged county court judge George lock Wood said he was acquitting Hanson because he was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt by the crowns he said he believed the complain John 18 under oath on at least one occasion during the and compounded with his admittance of lying about issues not related to the sexual Alle destroyed his the Case is fraught with sushi Lockwood a member of the police department for said he Doest know about his rein statement by the police department will be a matter left largely to chief Ken who told reporters yesterday he would not comment on the Hanson Case until next problems not Over i dont think my problems with the police department Are Over in sure there not finished with Hanson referring to the out standing internal disciplinary matter which must be resolved if he gets As Hanson said there May be other charges by the the court was told during the trial that Hanson breached the terms of his recognizance by meeting and speak ing with judge Lockwood said yesterday it was Clear Hanson lawyers encouraged him to meet with the com breaching terms of his bail to get tapes which they hoped would prove his such reflected poorly on him during the As for Back pay from the Date of his arrest March Hanson said he will actively pursue it because Ive got to pay my lawyer some Hanson praised the work done by his Al Mcgregor and Paul who also handle Legal work for the Winnipeg police of which Hanson is the former i want to put him Mcgregor on the spot when i was charged but i went to him because i was so close to it had to be a difficult position for him and i believe he put himself out on a limb for me by taking the Hanson former tory minister demoted by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Reg chief executive officer of the Manitoba health services com has been named Deputy health minister by the new nip bumping Tor appointed George John son into a new role of medical Consul Tant to the health in not worried about the demo said a former health minister in the Roblin who has served As acting Deputy minister since in delighted to serve in areas i am interested his salary remains unchanged at about a Edwards retains his Post at the health services but his salary want series of appointments in a series of appointments yester Premier Howard Pawley also announced that David nip candidate in River Heights and former assistant Deputy will become Deputy minister of Urban which will be restored to a full depart i am not going to hold party credentials against Pawley told denying he was politicizing the civil service by Sanders appoint George a former Cabinet minister in the Roblin government is being charged with very major responsibilities that tie in very closely with commitments we made during the election Johnsons main duties will involve distribution of medical manpower in Rural and Northern areas and proposing methods of preventive health Pawley described Sanders As a Ca reer civil first named by the Roblin he is competent by Way of contribution both to the former conservative and nip govern ments and is someone committed to the kind of program thrust that As will have to do with the Winnipeg Core initiative program Pawley from 1976 to Sanders had been Deputy minister of Urban but was demoted to assistant Deputy min ister when the conservative govern ment combined Urban and municipal Deputy ministers salaries Range up to about a Gerry who has been Deputy minister of the amalgamated Urban and municipal affairs re Mains As Deputy minister of municipal he said yesterday he is Happy with the new division of Respo Sibili the decision to reestablish a full fledged Urban affairs department was welcomed by Winnipeg mayor Bill the problems of Urban people Are very different from the problems of Rural Norrie said Pawley said his government is also exploring the Block funding arrange ment to the which was instituted by the conservative the Premier said his government int committed to Block but recognizes the problems of attaching too Many strings to the Marjorie Earl has been told she will retain her Job As communications offi cer with the health former conservative health minis Ter Bud Sherman said he was Happy Johnson and Earl had been retained by the new Trievel meeting makes Little Progress on Core plan by Ingeborg Boyens provincial and Federal representatives for the Core area initiatives program agreed on Little yesterday other than to take their time in implementing the there was still no decision on the appointment of a general manager to oversee the Trievel agree both Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie and Federal immigration and labor minister Lloyd Axworthy said they understood that Eugene the provinces new Urban affairs min needed More time to review the this was the first time the three met since the plan was presented in some City councillors have already suggested the program has been purposely Axworthy said the criticism was unfounded since the provincial govern ment was caught in the Middle of an a decision on the general manager will be made very he Norrie said he was feeling very unhappy that Kostyra had Cut Short yesterdays meeting because of other i was hoping quite frankly we could become a Little More particularly in regards to the general manag the mayor he said the naming of a general manager is his 1 priority for the but Norrie said he was placated by assurances that Kostyra will have time next Friday for another neither Norrie nor Axworthy said there was any shift in the provinces commitment to the Core area initiatives with the change in slum landlord Label judge rules during the election the nip pledged to renegotiate the agree eliminating programs which would displace people from their David the bureaucrat who negotiated the Deal on behalf of the former conservative was an nip candidate in the Campaign and was named yester Day As Deputy minister of Urban of there was no suggestion there will be a major renegotiation of the agree Axworthy Norrie said the new governments commitment was one very Happy Fea Ture of the Kostyra say he would like to review the proposals for the Logan Industrial Park which threaten to move some West end residents from their Norrie by Steve Pona a court of Queens Bench judge ruled yesterday the Csc was justified referring to City lawyer David mor Pearlman As a slum landlord and said he could honestly be described As Man without principles or in his Justice Peter Morse dismissed Pearl mans defamation suit against the Csc and Peter and awarded them i court costs in excess of the limit fixed by the Queens Bench act and Pearlman had claimed the Csc and a freelance Story pro brought him into Public scan ridicule and and damaged his career by Labelling him a slum landlord in a in a 45page Deci judge Morse ruled that evidence at the trial established beyond question the truth of the words slum landlord As they apply to the plaintiff the judge said the defendants could honestly describe a landlord such As the who acted As he did with respect to his properties and his ten As a person who had no principles or the words used in the the judge pointed out he was not embarking on any general condemnation of or his standards of behaviour with family and he said he was Only referring in his judgment to his conduct As a judge Morse ruled the Csc Broad cast was and posed legitimate questions of Public he noted Pearlman was not the Only landlord singled out by the Csc and Carlyle Gorge for Pearl mans Wilfred de had argued that while some of the houses his client owned and rented out May have been no tenants Ever suffered injuries As a in reviewing the judge Morse said Pearlman was the owner of Many properties in Winnipeg which could fairly and properly be described As being and which he rented to usually recipients of Wel one such a House at 11 which the broadcast mentioned in was described by a Public health nurse at the trial As a place so deplorable it is difficult for me to the City ordered Pearlman to make 43 repairs to the but instead of fully Reading the order or doing any of the Pearlman filed a notice of objection arid left on his Winter the judge judge Morse said if there was any criticism to be directed at the City of it is that the City allowed the property to remain in a state of disrepair and permitted welfare recipients to live when Pearl mans houses were never securely boarded and they constituted a especially to neighbourhood children who might have been attracted to them and who might have been injured or killed if they had he the judge said the work Pearlman did on his properties was Slipshod and unsatisfactory at and most of the people who dealt with him As a landlord had Little Good to say about Pearlman treated various work orders and notices he received on his property As harassment and sued City and provincial officials without doing anything properly to repair or to secure his this endangered the health and safety of his tenants in the Case of vacant created dangerous and hazardous the judge said matters actually reached the stage where the City inspectors had to obtain a warrant before entering and inspecting any of the plaintiffs and then they had to have police the judge noted that Pearlman on occasion removed unsanitary notices the City had posted on his houses and rented them out Degraves had argued portions of the Csc broadcast were and the defendants had failed to prove other judge Morse and on one of the said there was evidence to justify the inference in the 1977 broadcast that Pearlman was anxious to make a financial killing in his investment in rental the judge cited the relatively Small amounts of Money Pearlman paid for Many of his the manner in which he looked after his properties and his eagerness to collect the Morse the words apply ;