Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 23, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Right to mail right to by David Obrien a worns was brutally assaulted monday by a t and statistics far this yeat indicate such crimes May be on the Rise in Fiffi ily needed seven stitches to Eliose a head wound and both eyes were swollen shut As a result of the attack around in front of Mcclure 833 Greenwood a senior citizens such incidents were rare 10 years but police say and robbery incidents involving old people Are facets mtg Deputy police chief de Igelski blamed the trend on alcohol and there were v Statch figs in the first two months of compared with Only four for tie same period last crime Herb Stephen said it is too Early to say whether the increase indicates a trend for the remainder of the there were 132 Ings in Down from 202 in said her ant follow net Ante a transit Buss in the is followed her off tote bus and trailed her the seniors i want really worried until 1 was almost said i an interview at her daughters the Man punched her in the knocking her w the where her glasses broke against her he took her purse and pursued by a Ness who soul Dale catch police later recovered the Money and credit they were a suspect but m charges Haa been Many attacks occur in the downtown and they often come from youths looking for Money to play video said staff Cal Hughes advised older women to carry clutch purses Stead of bags with straps to avoid being pulled to the ground during he said women should carry Money and identification in an inside pocket and Eyer resist Clear tonight 14 Cloudy tomorrow detail Orne delivery 9570650 classified second class mail registration number 0286 dualism report claims Al Ottawa up several Federal government offices Are in almost con Stant violation of the new Constitution by failing to provide bilingual services to the says Max official languages failure by a Federal office to provide services in French or English where there is significant demand for them is in breach of the Constitution and an action for redress can be brought be fore the Yalden says in his annual report released As the following sections of this report will there is no Lack of substance for such an action a Good former spending watchdog Dies Canada has lost a great Canadian James dead at Ottawa seeks Canadian for track Job by Mike Ward employment and immigration min ister Lloyd Axworthy has ordered his staff to look for a qualified Canad an to fill an executive position Given to an american by the Manitoba horse racing the request follows an admission by commission chairman Ron Keenberg that the americans appointment ratified by Muriel minister responsible for the Manitoba horse racing Industry was officially con firmed without first checking with a worthy Keenberg said yesterday the unfortunate oversight has been corrected and employment and immigration officials have been asked to support the commissions he said the racing commission was see Canadian Page 4 Many Federal offices Are in almost constant violation of those in linguistically mixed regions of for services to the French speaking minority remain anaemic and if not downright Yalden in Quebec Gaspe Anglo phones Are a Long Way from being Able to take services in English for Grant West of French services Are in the poort nonexistent among dozens of specific deficiencies cited by Yalden Are the refusal of the government Oil com to make its French Only signs in Quebec bilingual and a refusal by air Canada to install French speaking staff at its operations in where per cent of the residents Are judicial football attempts to secure rights guaranteed in the Constitution for bilingual govern ment services and minority language education could Herald a new Era of judicial football for language Yalden having been told often enough that their linguistic future hinges to a Large extent on the Law and its our minority language communities Are impatient to find out what that there already Are signs of that in the supreme court of Canada has been asked to Rule whether the City of Montreal can legally Issue a parking ticket in French Ontario courts Are expected to be asked soon to Challenge the provincial governments refusal to establish francophone school but there is also another Side to the 13 complaints the Canadian human rights com Mission is investigating 13 complaints that Over zealousness by some Federal departments to increase bilingual staff has resulted in ethnic discrimination against and Yalden Points out that the costs associated with Many government Lan Guage programs Are bound to seem provocatively High in hard economic times and everything must be done to hold them in for Yalden perennially criticizes the Cost of bilingual Bonus paid annually to Public an average sized government the department spends million to Mil lion annually simply to administer its official languages program about 25 million words Are translated Many unnecessarily by the government each year at a Cost of three cents a word excluding is paid to provide six months of full time Lan Guage training to one closing of intensive care unit worries flin flon residents by Bob Lowery and Fred Youngs flin flon residents say they Are concerned following the death of a heart attack patient who was being transferred to Winnipeg because the intensive care unit at the flin flon general Hospital was this whole thing is a hell of a said Dallas area representative for the United steelworkers of if we have a facility there can be no valid reason Why it be the unit was closed from March 1014 because qualified nurses were not Alvin Nystrom died March 13 after doctors have him admitted to the and transferred Glenn free pr6ss dark economic Clouds the planned abandonment of the rail line in the Fisher Branch area scares but it int going to make that much difference to the tiny Community of Broad it will be just one More economic storm the town has had to says Myroslaw Mechanic and grocery store Gas rate increase sought new Price would add a year to Bills by Mike Ward the greater Winnipeg Gas company is seeking a rate increase which would add a further to an average annual Home heating Bill of the which has been granted five increases totalling 26 per cent in the last 15 is to appear before the Public utilities Board next month to request this latest in its application to the the company refers to a possible restructuring of rates resulting in a greater contribution from commercial and residential customers and a lower contribution from bulk Gas users to improve dwindling Industrial the company maintains that the in crease is needed to offset known and measurable expenses and losses of Industrial the company last increase was approved by the Board 26 to cover anticipated increases in the prices of natural Gas and propane As Well As higher transportation the new rate also took into consideration a decrease in the Federal excise tax on natural during a 27 hearing the Board heard interventions from 11 parties with one Man saying it was time for the Board to take note of the people who can least afford greater Winnipeg Gas made a profit of million in company spokesman Bill Salo was unavailable for comment this morn speedy thieves lift radar fro police car two men with speedy hands stole radar equipment from a police Cruiser monday a police depart ment spokesman said the radar head was lifted around from a traffic Cruiser parked near the Winnipeg transit garage at 421 Osborne police the officers assigned to the car had been inside the garage at the but the snatch was spotted by a transit offi Cial in the said the two both described As in their Early have not been arrest what would you do with it the radar said a police spokes Stop speeders and collect fines from them Safeway buys two City Dominion stores by Tom Goldstein Dominion stores of Canada began liquidating its Western Canadian operations yesterday with the Sale of six two in two in Regina and two in Thunder to Canada Safeway the Sale is expected to be completed this spokesmen for each Chain refused to disclose terms of the sales employees at the stores affected will be Able to keep their the Winnipeg stores Are located at the Polo Park and uni City fashion Square shopping and will give Safeway 33 Winnipeg plus two food barn discount Dominion is continuing to negotiate the Sale of its other 16 stores in North Jim its senior Vic president of financing and corporate said we Are in discussions right now with other interested i dont want to reveal who they Williams said from some Are chains and some Are Indi he adding one party is considering buying 10 Dominion while the others Are interested in Pur chasing individual or groups of its very unlikely Safeway will buy any More of dominions Western Cana Dian said Jim Safeway National Vic president of pub Lic weve studied the potential for the 22 stores Dominion has stated it wishes to sell and weve come to the Cinelu fit into our Waters said from the Dominion purchases will in crease to 80the number of Safeway stores in Northwestern Mani Toba and it would have a tots of 301 stores from Southern Ontario to Dominion decided to get rid of its Western Canadian operations in Light of flagging sales which prompted the company to consider shutting some of its including four in but the company was not considering folding any of the stores involved in the Safeway Williams ail of these stores Are quite Good in terms of the volume they Dominion will Likely set a deadline within the next few months when the will be Williams he did not Rule out the possibility that if a Small number of stores remain they would simply be shut but he said Dominion would continue to operate them for the Sheable according to the Manitoba food and commercial workers which rep resents employees of both supermarket dominions Marion South Dale and courts of James stores were the most Likely candidates to be closed before the company decided to sell its Western Canadian Union president Bernard Christophe said he was pleased with the transact the employees jobs Are protect Safeway is a very viable a Good operator and a Leader in the no promises prime minister Trudeau refuses to Promise hell bring up the cruise missile Issue with Vic president George House probe a commons committee will investigate allegations that Liberal my Pryce Mackasey was a paid Ottawa lobbyist for a Quebec olympic plan Sam chairman of Canadas olympic hockey yesterday outlined the plan for Canadas involvement in the 84 bystander Canada is an innocent victim of the subsidies Battle Between european economic Community and the in the Grain Index Ann 48 24 59 24 40 7 Jumble 27 43 43 sports 57 49 33 to 21 ;