Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 4, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba In j Lily u u w u w vow Winnipeg free june Council decides to Start Bridge without Federal funds v we a it a a a 4 by Patrick Mckinley the City is to Start construction of a new Salter Street Bridge next month even though it May mean doing it without a Federal contribution to the at a special meeting City Council voted 154 to go ahead with the Bridge replacement this summer after being told that the existing Bridge could be shut Down in Little More than a the 51yearold Bridge is now under going weekly inspections to Monitor its Winnipeg free press decaying at traffic on the four Lane Span will have to be restricted to two lanes next councillors were Jim Ernst chairman of executive policy said waiting in the Hope of a later Federal contribution could delay completion by As much As two the existing Bridge is in such bad shape it May have to be closed before he at an earlier meeting of the policy mayor Bill Norrie said the City cannot assume it will get Federal funding for the Bridge if it goes ahead Manitoba has run out of funds under an existing Federal funding program for such and a new funding program the Federal government is considering would not be in place until next Norrie said to Date the Federal government has refused to guarantee retroactive funding for the Salter Bridge under any new he said in the Long run it May make Little difference because the City May end up getting equivalent Federal funding applied to other future a report by the cites Board of com missioners mentions bus conversion of some buses to a trolley and the proposed Keewatin Street underpass at the car main line As projects that could take up funds from a new Federal program in place of the but Joe Zuken Quay told Council the Federal govern ment is giving Winnipeg shabby treatment and said the City should delay the project a year As a Back Lane Flowers turf i Portage Avenue Portage Park plan site plan shows temporary summer Park under construes a plywood Art Fence and spaces for Street Tion at Portage Avenue and Carlton featuring a Cost of the including free noon hour 10metresquare 33footsquare a huge tent As Well concerts for three is estimated at court takes wind from fan firms Safe company new name skirts ruling As employees called Back to work by Kevin Prokosh the Manitoba court of Appeal has reinstated an injunction stripping Chi Cago Blower company of its name and barring the Winnipeg based firm from producing most of its shortly after the decision the firm changed its name to Northern Blower it plans to continue production according to Brian representative for the United steelworkers of Hunt said four employees already have been called Back to company president Gordon Christie refused comment on what immediate effect the injunction will have on the which manufactures and Sells blowers and heavy duty air moving loss of a business in an affidavit Christie had warned the injunction would bring about an immediate and Complete shutdown of Chicago Blower resulting in the loss of a year business and the jobs of 135 employees in the lawyer for the Canadian strongly urged the court that the injunction would mean the loss of a yesterday afternoon the company was answering its telephones with the name Northern instead of shutting the com pants stance now appears to have set the stage for a showdown with its former Chicago Blower corporation of in a unanimous ruling reached after about 10 minutes of chief Justice Alfred Monnin confirmed a lower court decision granting an in Junction restraining the fan manufacturer from using the name Chicago Blower More prohibiting it from producing for five years any fan lines using technology provided by the the injunction will be in effect until the lawsuit is probably in last month chief Justice Archibald Dewar of the court of Queens Bench granted the interlocutory but Chicago Blower Canada was successful in having it pending yesterdays during the Justice Roy Matas questioned whether the injunction was enforceable since it will be difficult to determine if the Canadian company is defying the injunction by manufacturing fans based on technology developed by the it the Case is going to be like a soap opera because it will be never Hunt it will be a soap opera with a lot More at stake than a lonely Hunt said the Union is miffed the disagreement has deteriorated so there appears to be More behind this than what the courts have its become Chicago Blower Canada was licensed in granting it exclusive rights to manufacture and sell in Canada equip ment designed and developed by Chi Cago Blower in a statement of claim filed in the american company alleged the agreement was breached and terminated because the Canadian firm failed to pay in royalties due a key clause in the agreement states if the contract is Chicago Canada must cease for five years from working on fan lines Deve loped from the company exper Walter counsel for the american claimed the Trou ble Between the firms began about the time Winnipeg lawyer Steward Martin became a majority shareholder in Chi Cago Blower Canada last year and began an attempt to squeeze out the Ritchie claimed the Canadian com Pany stole an exclusive dealer from the corporation and contravened the agreement by invading the mar Ket by Selling fans in conflict Bill called bid to deter wealthy workers ready for strike at Safeway stores both sides in the Canada Safeway contract negotiations said yester Day they Are ready for a strike at the company 31 in Winnipeg and in a prepared indicated it will not Bud Gefrom the offer it submitted thursday to the Manitoba food and commercial work the company anticipates a strike in Winnipeg and Selkirk if this offer is rejected by the the statement it is our opinion that a strike is inevitable because of this last Union president Bernard Christophe it was a very poor he we considering this last offer and considering our reply to were seeking another negotiating meeting with Safeway and the Concilia Tion officer to give our any strike notice will come sometime after that reply is a Date for this meeting Hast been he the employees want wage increases of 12 and 10 per cent Over two the company has offered to paid Tell ers per cent this year and per cent in Safeway said it intends to operate stores in the event of a As it did during an eight week strike in we consider any customer crossing picket lines to be siding with the com Christophe he added the Union will give the company seven Days written strike by Murray Mcneill proposed conflict of interest Legisla Tion for Las and Cabinet ministers is an attempt by the nip to dissuade the wealthy from running for Public a tory la charged Gary Filmon said the requirement that provincial politicians disclose All land hold share holdings and Large gifts held by them or their dependents is intended to intimidate people who have done Well for this is clearly just an attempt to try and paint people who have achieved who have made As unfit to hold Public Filmon said the financial position of a politician should not be a matter of Public concern or a criterion for elec and it certainly is not a matter of conflict of Filmon said the proposed legislation also contains Large he noted it does not Deal with Poten tial conflicts of interest involving civil servants or senior officials of Crown corporations and As it does not cover so Many matters of obvious conflict of interest such As the trading of influence and the ability to get personal gain through relationships with government Mem Filmon he said if the province is intent on having politicians list their then the act should allow for Oral rather than written he urged the government to substantially revise the Bill or scrap but new Democrat Conrad Santos argued there was no need for if you Are not doing anything then a politician should have no qualms about his Filmon intimidate Santos also rejected claims the act amounts to an invasion of the la for Burrows said politicians give up their right to privacy when they enter Public and be cause they Are in a position of Public Trust they Are More open to the legislation would also require Las and Cabinet ministers to disclose any interest they May have in a matter being discussed by the a legislative committee or and to withdraw from the members who violate the Law would be disqualified from office and might be ordered to make restitution if any one profited from their Penner reviewing judges protest gag order by Mary Ann Fitzgerald attorney general Roland Penner May try to have lifted a judges order preventing any further protest at the legislative building by Jake Kehler until after charges against him for violating Winnipeg anti noise bylaw with his bullhorn have been Kehler had his Case remanded to next thursday after he pleaded not guilty in court to charges of breaching the i have the matter under Penner told the legislature after conservative Legal critic Gerry Mercier suggested the judges ban contradicts a fundamental right of canadians to peacefully picket and demonstrate on the grounds of legislative Mercier urged Penner to review the possibilities of varying the judges order with the Crown attorney responsible for the Penner said he would discuss the matter with the Deputy attorney Gordon he reminded the House that under judges granting bail have the right to impose whether a condition imposed is within the Law is not for me or anyone in this House to the 40yearold mans protest against his failure to gain workers compensation for a Back injury he claims to have suffered in 1975 went peacefully until he rented a bullhorn this week to amplify his Calls of rip off and the loud Hailer disturbed two judges at the Law courts one believed to be chief Justice Alfred Mon whose complaints prompted Jack general counsel for the attorney generals to Call Oehlers arrest on the grounds of the legislative building angered he said police violated the protesters constitutional right to Freedom of expression when they arrested him with out a warrant wednesday for breach ing the municipal Winnipeg police chief Ken Johnston maintained the police acted properly and have the right to arrest under the bylaw under certain Ukens suggestion was not backed up by other North Winnipeg councillors attending the Helen Promislow Park said the City should Start the Bridge now rather than risk depriving people in the Northern part of the City of a route Council voted 163 against a motion by Harold Macdonald Corydon to wait 30 Days before Mak ing a Macdonald had argued that the delay would allow further talks with the Federal Jae Eadie chairman of the works and operations said earlier that it is urgent to award tenders soon if construction is to be finished on schedule in no the Bridge project and associated Street widening Are now expected to Cost about Norrie said part of the Cost will be covered through a provincial contribution of about million towards the cites 1983 capital budget of Mil in the Cost of the Bridge was set at meeting slated to determine Schwartz role by Maureen Brosnahan Betty executive director of the childrens Aid society of is to meet monday with the new Cas president John Sinclair to discuss her future with the granted a four month leave of absence for health reasons Early last has been under pressure for the past 18 months be cause of criticism levelled at the Agen especially by native she had requested the leave to seek treatment at the Mayo clinic in Roch Sinclair said he had been trying to reach Schwartz during the past i spoke with her this morning and weve planned a meeting on he said ill probably have something to say monday after Sinclair said he planned to discuss Schwartz future with the but denied she has been Given notice to leave her Schwartz could not be reached for Sinclair made the comments after a news conference yesterday at which he criticized the provincial governments plans to alter child welfare legislation in Manitoba and defended the Agency against Public we feel weve been kicked around and that the Cas is not fighting he he said Hes concerned the govern ment May be planning to social ize child welfare in Manitoba by Dis banding the childrens Aid society and taking Over direct such a sys tem would make decisions concerning child welfare fettered with Sinclair also said he supported Many of the changes recommended in judge Edwin Kimelman interim report on placement and adoption of native Chil we did everything in the past that judge Kimelman proposes except Contact the he said that want done because the native people have Only come to be interested in this in the last year and a he said the Agency in the past year has tried to work with newly Stab listed native child welfare agencies and offered them the names of 320 Indian children in need of he said Only 20 of those have been but he also admitted that More Chil Dren were not placed because their names were not Given to the proper authorities in the native Community and there was never any Sinclair defends Agency Sinclair also admitted that native child care workers who did receive the names found it difficult to place the children because Cas staff was reluctant to provide additional information necessary to find appropriate Homes on he also rejected the Kimelman recommendation that six child welfare agencies should operate in a proposal which would Cut the size of the Winnipeg Sinclair said the Cas has a representative on the legislative re View committee which has been meet ing to discuss the progressive he said the Cas has been Progress adding that Many of the suggested changes were proposed and supported by the but he blamed the government for the Lack of preventive programs within the i want to set the record straight As to who is at fault in he we should not be criticized for a Lack of preventive programs which we do not have the funds he also said the Agency is trying to strive for fair representation from the Community on its in the he Board members were selected among a Small group of but he suggested that perhaps they should be elected by the in the people came to the Board by that worked Fine for almost 100 years but its not going to work any he Cas ordered to return baby to natural Mother by Pamela Fayerman a judge has ordered the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg to retrieve a Fourmont Vold baby from its adoptive parents and return it to the natural Mother because she did not surrender the child Justice John Scollin said the however failed to provide Ann Marie with enough information about the options open to her when the baby was so her agreement to surrender the child could not be considered who lives common Law with the natural was ecstatic about the ruling when contacted Al though she said she was sympathetic toward the adoptive the baby was put up for adoption at a week but Ross surrendered the child As a result of incomplete advice from a Cas social she was told she could either keep the child and receive welfare or give it up for adoption through the she was not advised that private adoption was Ross approached the Cas when she was faced with the dilemma of raising a child on a limited she had requested Foster Home believing it was the same As private until she and the father could save enough Money to provide for the judge Scollin said Ross lacked understanding about the private adoption because the society had told the Mother nothing at All about the sub the judge said that while the inter ests of the child Are Paramount under the child welfare it does not erode or diminish the duty to assist the Parent As he said that duty implies full disclosure of information so the Mother knows the implications of her this Doest mean the social worker has to hold herself out As a Legal adviser to a beleaguered Young the judge but it does mean that Basic Lay information should be judge Scollin said it is incongruous that criminals Are guaranteed the right to be legally represented but there is no guarantee in situations such As he said if women like Ross were provided with Legal advice in Advance of signing such situations might be Cas lawyer Doug Yard said a Deci Sion about an Appeal will be made next ;