Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 26, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba Alcohol abuse cited among Young by Doug Speirs More than Manitoba High school students May be physically or psychologically dependent on alcohol or about 75 people at tending a Public meeting on drug use among the Young were told last the estimate is based on Ontario statistics indicating that up to four per cent of that provinces High school students May have problems with drug Val a spokesman for the alcoholism Fourt Dation of told the meet a Survey conducted by the foundation in the late 1970s revealed that most students have decided to use alcohol by Grade and by the time students reach Grade 12 their drink ing habits Are almost identical with those of she and while about on third of All High school students Experiment with marijuana at some Point most con sume said alcohol is the drug of Choice in our society she adding that other drugs such As Ltd Are used As the incidence of alcohol poisoning among the Young is in creasing because Many Youthful drinkers Are unaware they can kill themselves by drinking Paape another foundation Elizabeth said because Alco hol is so readily available we tend to forget that when consumed in too great it can cause coma and to combat alcohol and other drug abuse among the it is Essen tial that Strong prevention programs be initiated in elementary and Junior High she Winnipeg free prove meet 1982 3 Manitoba to Amend charter violations the provincial government will Amend any Laws which clearly Contra Vene the constitutional charter of attorney general Roland pen Ner said we will Deal with the ones which appear to be most flagrantly in Viola Tion Penner he was commenting on statements by a constitutional expert who said sections of Manitoba mental health act contain some Clear breaches of the charter of Dale the University of Mani Toba Law professor commissioned by Penner to ferret out sections of Mani Tobas 450 statutes which might violate Wayne Foj november showers shrouded in air Canada officials inspect the results of a manmade rainstorm inside one of the airlines new Winni Peg the display was staged to test the deluge sprinkler which can dump As much As litres Gallons of water per the water is stored in a nearby Cas overloads inquest told lawyer says Agency sometimes Breaks Law in childcare emergencies by Pawl Moloney rather than intensify its search for More emergency Foster care the childrens Aid society of Winni Peg is resigned to breaking the Law by overloading the few Homes it an inquest was told if its to the Point they have to break the Law they should be doing something about said Larry lawyer for the natural parents of an infant who drowned in the Bathtub of a fort Richmond Foster Home last Allen said the Foster Francis and Elizabeth had been overloaded about six times prior to the death of 13monthold Priscilla Suther who had been left unattended in the 3 adopted children the among a handful in Winnipeg willing to provide emergency Foster had five Foster children in their Home at the time one More than the Law they also had their three adopted the speaking at the close of seven Days of described As unacceptable the position advanced by Cas at the inquest that there was no Choice but to overburden the Konopa provincial judge Arnold presiding at the suggested Cas officials Are in a legitimate Quan Dary when confronted with More neglected children than can be accommodated in the available i dont condone breaches of regulations but it appears to me they were speaking from a position of frus Public jailed 15 years for thre City spree by David Obrien a Man described in court yesterday As enemy of the Public was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading Ted Over none months in three after serving his Neil will be deported to a Caribbean Island which he left at age seven to provincial judge Sam Minuk was told Baptiste never became a Canadian and immigration authorities or veered him deported after he accumulated a serious criminal he was Given two weeks to leave the country in and that when he went on a crime spree that him running for his said defence counsel Jeff who was in fled to where he committed his first robbery in he was arrested Days but a he fled to where on he bound a Man in his apartment and robbed the next Day he robbed a cloth ing store and want heard from again icily to review hazardous pets ban the cites attempt to enact a bylaw Banning hazardous pets ran into an other Roadblock yesterday when a pet store owner warned the Law could Force to kill hundreds of executive policy committee agreed to have another committee take one More look at the bylaw after Robert owner of the wetland store in Eaton said 400500 animals May have to die if their owners cannot find Homes for them outside the Brissette said he received a phone Call from an elderly Man who has owned a spider Monkey for the past seven years and is extremely he Doest want to have it put to sleep and i dont blame Brissette under the owners would be required to find alternative Homes for banned species by july Brissette suggested a Grandfather clause that would owners to keep pets they already have until the animals die a natural the bylaw would ban All venomous reptiles and Sev eral species of until March 8 when he was arrested in Winnipeg and returned to on March he was taken to Hospi Tal for treatment and escaped Crown attorney Rick Saull said Baptiste returned to Winnipeg and went on another crime committing Sev eral property robbery and assaults with guns and on May alter another be was taken to the health sciences Centre for psychiatric observation after pretending to have attempted he escaped by attacking and choking a guard he committed More breaking and a robbery before he was arrested May 30 after a 49block car on he used a Hacksaw to break out of his heading Ley jail cell and helped another Roy Hoff break out of his the two battled several in Juring four of before being sub Dued for the last said Gindin said Baptiste didst commit any violent crimes until after the deportation which would have re moved him from the Only country he considered Baptiste became a desperate Indi prepared to do anything to avoid arrest and Gindin judge Conner what Are they supposed to do Allen suggested the Agency could develop Community hospitals to care for those children who must be taken from their natural parents on a Short term emergency Cas could buy a House and appoint staff to provide the emergency he Cas lawyer Douglas Yard said social service agencies dont have unlimited budgets to pay for Community Hospi tals with enough staff to give As much attention to children As Foster parents Allen said his proposals be prohibitively expensive and would be far Superior to placing a couple such As the Konopasek in an impossibly Over taxed he quoted Sally a paediatrics As testifying that no woman alive can look after that Many children in View of their Ages and the eldest child in the House was the other children ranged from less than one year to one of the children was Blind and another was legally Blind and a third had an intestinal and Bowel Allen said his criticism was aimed squarely at Cas and not the Konopa whom he described As an exem Plary judge Conner said he would submit his report in about two Export packers striker hit by car crossing line a picket at strike bound Export packers yesterday was struck and injured by a car crossing the picket a police spokesman confirmed that Allan was injured after being struck by a car about 3 no arrests had been made by late last although police said they knew the identity of the cars who was briefly knocked suffered a minor concus a Cut to his Scalp and a bruised he was kept in Hospital for observation the has urged that the mental health act be rewritten to eliminate conflicts and clarify other Sec Penner said yesterday he int bled by Gibsons statements because he had no doubt at All that he would identify a number of statutory provisions which have to be the exercise would be fun Gibson had estimated hundreds and possibly thousands of sections of Manitoba statutes might be in conflict with the Penner said he will await Gibsons expected within a before deciding How to Deal with sections of the mental health act and of other statutes which Are identified As Union the government could introduce a series of amendments to individual or it could introduce an omnibus Bill which would Amend All the offend ing i will want to discuss that with the he adding that if an omnibus Bill would make life too difficult for he is prepared to Amend the legislation with individual police wont change lineup procedures City police said yesterday they wont change their procedures for identifying suspects because they already Are As fair As we think we have a Good system and i dont see us making any said Herb on two men were acquitted of sex related charges in separate hearings because the courts found the police methods used to identify them were in a split Manitoba court of Appeal acquitted Ronald of two counts of indecent assault because it ruled his identification by a female complainant was fatally weakened by the conduct of the police in another chief judge Alan Philp of county court acquitted vietnamese refugee that dihn ton of several including after ruling the complainants facet face identification of the accused at the police station destroyed its Justice Charles Huband said the police lineup in the Faryna Case was invalid because most of the men in the lineup bore no resemblance to the Deputy attorney general Gordon Pil said yesterday he will ask for a report on the two Stephen said he comment specifically on the cases until he reviews but he said police Al ways make an Effort to make lineups As fair As in cases where the suspect is Orien Stephen police have gone into the cites Chinatown Quarter and recruited volunteers for As he police regularly use civilian employees inside the pub Lic safety building and undercover police officers for Pool suggested he said it is sometimes impossible to find nine other people that Are similar in All respects Justice in his said that because of the inherent prob lems with identification from improperly conducted Canadian courts have taken that such identification is to receive Little or no in the county court defence lawyer Jim Macdonald argued that the Way in which ton and the complainant were brought together was unfair and prejudicial because it was planted in the woman mind that he was the Man who raped Nome stands firm on Logan land use by Patrick Mckinley although Winnipeg mayor Bill nor Rie is reportedly ready to agree to some housing in the proposed Logan Industrial the mayor has again pleaded with councillors to maintain the Basic Industrial intent of the the Success of Job creation efforts under the Core area initiative agree ment depends on having land in the inner City for Large Norrie told executive policy committee yes he said the Core area must be Able to attract industries that would each employ hundreds of intercity you cant do that on a Corner he you will never solve the employ ment problems in the inner Core by talking about four jobs 10 jobs Here or 16 jobs planners sceptical the free press reported yesterday the Core which is supposed to find jobs by has found Only 16 permanent jobs even though the program is almost a third of the Way through its five year Norrie said planners Are becoming very sceptical now about the Core area initiative being Able to create the kind of jobs on the scale that we Norrie refused comment on another free press report which said yesterday he is ready to agree to a residential area in the Industrial part of the Core agreement Between the provincial government and the Norrie said he has been holding talks with unnamed parties and he did not want to jeopardize the asked by reporters if he has reassessed his earlier opposition to a residential Norrie said if were looking for solutions to problems every position has to be residents of the area North of Logan Avenue have been fighting to keep a residential Section in the councillors yesterday were unable to get Norrie to reveal details of his Norrie is supposed to take the Issue to City Council next what the hell is it asked an exasperated Harvey Smith new democratic party Sargent City supports hotel proposal the cites executive policy commit tee has again taken the Side of East Paul councillors in their Battle with area residents Over a proposed the City committee recommended yesterday that City Council approve a zoning change to permit construction of the the Lagimodiere Boule Vard Structure would include a pub and licensed dining nearby residents oppose the hotel because they claim it would increase traffic accidents in the City which has zoning authority on portions of some municipal referred the proposal Back to the East Paul Council Early this fall after residents claimed some East Paul councillors had changed their minds about supporting the the municipal Council again unanimously supported the which goes Back to City Council next judges instructions leaving probation officers in a by Christie Mclaren probation officers Are getting conflicting instructions from different juvenile court judges about whether they should meet juvenile delinquents be fore a meeting of Manitoba probation officers was told some judges ask probation officers to prepare pre sentence reports on the Young while others lean to Ward new Federal legislation yet Law which limits Contact with most youths until filter their the meeting was Ron president of the 70 member Manitoba association of pro Bation said the discrepancies cause his colleagues confusion and get two Points of View from different he in an inter sometimes you get two comple Tely different there is no policy governing How judges should handle the said family court judge Bonnie Helper and Les senior Crown counsel in charge of juvenile Kee said he has written senior family court judge Edwin Kimelman ask ing for but has received no so situation right now is one of Parkinson described the problem As a Damn dilemma for us the sin Gle biggest difficulty facing probation officers daily right the controversy stems from philosophical differences Between the new Young offenders act which took 10 years to draft and Likely will be pro claimed As Law in 1983 and the old juvenile delinquents Stillin the new act substantially reduces the time probation officers will spend counselling offenders under they will see juveniles before their trials and Issue reports Only at the request of a senior civil who would have received the request from a under the old they meet and counsel offenders almost from the moment they Are the Issue was hotly debated a panel which included Kee and defence lawyer Bill the new act indicates we Are mov ing from the social welfare approach there Arent bad Only misguided kids a system which is much More legalistic and which will hold a child much More accountable for his said a member of a provincial task Force studying the new Legisla he added he is not the greatest fan of the new but who also serves on the task said probation officers should Only Deal with Young offend ers after the when they Are placed on the province should see that other social agencies such As childrens Aid societies Are responsible for guid ing the juvenile through the court pro he several probation officers jumped on his wheres the sensitivity to help a person get to a social Agency when Hes really upset and he really needs it asked Tom in the weeks and even months before their Jennings juveniles need help of another kind than they can get from ;