Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 31, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Crackdown officer by Larry Hill prostitutes will walk Winnipeg streets in retard numbers this summer if path aident tto Asni suon accept commons Justice Semmi fees Reeoma Menda Tiomno crack Down on the Sale of says a member of the Winnipeg police departments vice if we dont have any changes in the Law by this we expect a fair influx of girls from the the East and from a James i mid said mild Spring weather Ifft if Abby paves the my for molten the Ernie Fiffy their Street said there Are mete girls m the Street As seen As it he about Iso prostitutes Waffie Winnipeg streets up from about 20 during the Winter he another Iso or hookers work w Massage Parlours and through he most of the prostitutes work the old Market Square he More will join their ranks this summer unless amendments to the criminal me of Canada make it easier for police to Haw prostitutes said prostitution is Legal in but soliciting is tt6weverf police forget across Canada have complained Teddy about the difficulty of obtaining convictions for soliciting charges the supreme court of Canada has ruled prostitutes have to approach its in a pressing and persistent net w be convicted of included in the recent resp Ait by the parliamentary committed Are pro posed amendments which a duty make Bentfo pets statutes and clients liable to charges and make anyone who offers 8f accepts an offer to engage in Presto tuition in a Public place enable to a Fine or is Days m As anyone offering or accepting an offer to engage in prostitution with someone under is would be liable to up duplex fire a firefighter hoses Down furniture at 503 Dufferin Avenue were reported in the which caused damage which was hit by fire at about 9 no injuries and is being blamed on children playing with Hospital promises obstetrics Battle seven Oaks fears Northend health care to suffer if service phased out by Patrick Mckinley the Board of seven Oaks general Hospital has decided to fight Provin Cial decision to phase out obstetrical services at the Hospital this Board chairman Abe Yanofsky said at a news Yanofsky said the Board has asked to meet with Manitoba health services commission officials in Hopes of persuading the province to reverse the decision announced earlier this health minister Larry Desjardins announced March 15 that obstetrical services at seven Oaks and Concordia hospitals will be phased out and cases served by the two hospitals would channelled to health sciences Centre and Boniface general the move is geared to save a year for other health reneged on Promise Yanofsky charged yesterday the decision would reduce the Quality of care available to the North end of the he also charged the province reneged on a Promise to consult the Hospital Board before making any Deci Yanofsky said the Board believes seven Oaks should continue to handle Lowrick with High risk cases going to larger he said if neither the Hospital nor the government can be persuaded to change their the government should at least listen to people in the North including a Large number of Young couples who Are Likely to have children next few although the province provides most of the funds for Hospital Yanofsky said he believes the govern ment should stick to providing funds and let the Board decide How to provide health Robert president of the hospitals medical also was critical of the governments i think is a said adding the Money is not being Only shuffled to other Macdonald noted that obstetrical skinned carcasses found in fort Garry were provincial pathologists say four animals whose skinned car casses were discovered tuesday in fort Garry were provincial pathologists Jack director of the agriculture departments veterinary services said the carcasses were easily identified because they Are very different from most Mcphedran said City police lost in Terest in the matter once it was deter mined the animals were not the cause of death will remain unknown without which Arent Likely to be he he said the foxes were neither shot nor captured in but possibly were a Young boy discovered the car casses in a secluded wooded area near Allegheny and Dalhousie a cats wrapped in a garbage was found police Mcphedran said an autopsy deter mined the which was not had been run the bodies of All the animals Are to be Winnipeg police Wayne King said the Fox carcasses May have been deposited at the scene Over a period a the cat had been there for Only a few he obviously somebody caught the skinned them and then dumped the King he said it is not illegal to Hunt foxes As Long As the Hunter has the proper tuesdays discovery was the second of its kind in two six dead each of them were found monday abandoned South of the City near the Winnipeg services in the South and East ends of the City will remain in per haps he Desjardins feels closures in the North Are More acceptable than closures in the South and two family physicians charged last week that the closings May mean More births in taxis and that More women May choose to give birth at resulting in Ron head of the Manitoba medical associations obstetrics and gynaecology has defended the government saying some cities where obstetrical services Are centralized have lower than usual rates of deaths and complications in loader runs Over Foury Earold boy a Foury Earold boy was in critical condition in childrens Hospital yester Day after being run Over by a front end loader in a Lane Between Blanche Avenue and Grenadier police said William of 445 suffered a fractured Pelvis and undetermined internal injuries when the which was Clearing ice and Snow from the backed Over another child behind the loader was Able to jump Clear of the machine before it ran Over the Ford police to years in and the define Nan of a Public place would fee changed to in Sitkie meter and private places open the Public Wei Chatiuk strongly favored the committees saying such to the end anal code would improve the change of ing hookers for soliciting and help police Stem a growing tide of Prost Ittu Tion among Winnipeg me said the proposals also would help police Lay charges in eases where Womel and their clients discuss the Sale of sex within women rights activists some criminal lawyers in Winnipeg fave Erst Deiseh the proposals As futile and they say Tut Iofi will never be legislated out of existence and arpe that legalising the Sale of sex would allow it to be trailed through but Wolocatiuk said he would never agree with morally still he doctors told pay increase of offered by Manfred Jager the president of the Manitoba medi Cal association says the provincial government has offered doctors less than one per cent in pay increases for the coming no other occupational group has been singled put for nip government contempt the Way we Ivan Kowalchuk says in a letter to the Mas the association will be without a collective bargaining agreement As of it has been negotiating for a new contract since March 4 and its original contract proposal called for a fee increase of per Kowalchuk said the governments offer came during a negotiating session Between the association and the Mani Toba health services commission on March that Kowalchuki letter the commissions chief Gerry May As Well have come to the meeting medical negotiators were told the provincial Cabinet has budgeted a pay increase of for each fee for service physician earning More than a Kowalchuk with about doctors in this the fee schedule payout would increase by just Over for an average before expenses yield of less than one per cent per with average expenses running to at least 40 per cent and the 1982 inflation rate established at per your yearly take Home income would automatically shrink by Many thousands of Kowalchuk arbitration desired the Mma president said pay in creases for doctors Are five per cent in in january per cent in in april three per cent and per cent respectively in january and april in Ontario and six per cent in Nova Scotia Tomor Back you and i Are offered less than one per think about How would an arbitrator Deal with this kind of evidence Kowalchuki letter yet arbitration remains High on the Mma negotiating the presi Dent on March our negotiators said the Mma might accede to the govern ments poor financial condition this but Only if a realistic form of binding arbitration was in place for future Penner gives consent to prosecuting Sun attorney general Roland Penner has consented to a prosecution under the Manitoba human rights act against the Winnipeg Sun and columnist Peter Warren for comments published last week about permission was sought by the lawyer for the pegu is Indian band and its Louis consent of the attorney general is required before the commission or any one can launch a in giving his Penner said the human rights act provides a defence relating to the free expression of opinion on any but Penner said it is up to a judge to decide whether the statements contravene the lawyers for the pegu is band were to meet today with the Manitoba human rights commission to discuss possible Legal action As a result of the published lawyer Vic Savino said in an inter View yesterday he had met with pen Ner on behalf of the band to request Penners consent for a Warrens March 24 the Sec Ond of a three part evoked a barrage of criticism from spokesmen for Indian and human rights protest letters were sent by pegu is band lawyers to the Manitoba and Canadian human rights in our clients the article in question indicates discrimination and exposes or tends to expose both individuals and an entire class of persons to hatred on account of their race and National one letter the Sun said today the Perquis band had filed a complaint with the Manitoba commission stating Warren and the newspaper contravened 2 of the Manitoba human rights As a the band is seeking prosecution under 33 of the Savino said the Canadian human rights act provides Little basis for complaint or the act is sort of toothless when it comes to this kind of outrage in the the pegu is band requested that the Federal commission develop an information program to Foster Public understanding of the act and Public recognition of its Law society probes Northern Union Trust complaint by Mike Ward the Law society of Manitoba is investigating a complaint concerning a Winnipeg lawyers knowledge of the movement of Trust funds earmarked for Northern Union insurance prior to the Manitoba government revoking its the company was ordered to cease business shortly after the Toronto do minion Bank blocked a Transfer of million in Trust funds belonging to its Parent Park Lane group because it had not met interest payments on a to million loan and line of the society chief executive offi Graeme would confirm Only that an investigation into a Law yers alleged use of Trust fund information began last refusing to disclose further said All i can say is we have received a complaint from a client concerning matters of Trust accounts and whose Trust accounts can or not dealt it is a question if a lawyer comes across any Trust fund knowledge and uses that knowledge in another sphere of the according to a free press source who asked not to be stems from hearings be tween consumer affairs minister John by Palaschuk and Northern Union directors held two Days before the government took professional ethics it raises the question of Legal coun Sel from the same Law practice representing or haying an interest in opposing sides of a potential Ross Nugent of the Law firm Dorfman and Sweatman Northern Union at the a senior partner in the Alan is a director of Ronto Dominion Garson said he could not respond to a specific conflict interest Situa nor could he divulge whether the Trust knowledge probe involved lawyers working for the same he said that generally it was part of the society code of professional ethics that a Law firm cannot represent both sides in a Dis Pute or possible there is the question of conf its just not said Gar adding the society will look at All facets of the complaint including a possible conflict interest Nugent said he was asked by lawyer Hugh a Northern Union to represent the firm at the two Day government i dont think there has been any except one that developed and then i had to with Nugent said in an i think the Northern Union people understood if a conflict developed during the hearings our firm would have to at the Point where there appeared to be Battle lines that were going to be drawn Between the Bank and Northern i told the Fellows 1 be Nugent said that up until that Point the hearing was Only concerned with the company Sweatman said yesterday he comment on any matters relating to Northern Park Lane chairman and Northern Union director David Miller said he didst know who complained to the Law society As he had just returned from a six week California that is something for the Law society and others to get involved he i wont i Tell you where it the complaint comes but 1 think it is a legitimate Miller said Park Lane had Transfer red Trust funds for More than a year without any problems with the common knowledge1 it has been going on for a Long we were electronically moving Money continually from one account to it was a Normal Way of doing Money into a Gen eral account and switch it Over to a Trust Miller said he knew that Sweatman was a Toronto Dominion but that he know about Nugent working for the same Law i have dealt with lawyers for years enough to know the same Law firm two that common knowledge its not a matter of what went on Ive no idea what went on Mcdonald said he asked Nugent to represent Northern Union at Millers but said he comment acting superintendent of insurance Earl Lye Gih said that government appointed liquidator Pyn Woody and is seeking a Legal opinion on the legality of the Trust fund inspector general of Banks William Kennett said the question of a Bank using Trust funds to satisfy a debt is a question for the courts to this is not the kind of question 1 can answer the top of my he Adit is an interesting Legal question and is not covered by the Bank Kennett said Banks have a common Law right to held in Deposit accounts to satisfy Carson Trust knowledge i i i 1 ;