Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 26, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg pm August 1983 mismanagement of Trust funds at Ontario r Foro to cps Frost funds of a of senior citizens in a rest in Northern Ontario were managed by the Romes says a confidential Flent Hie draft report by the Ontario ministry of Community and social leaked yesterday by Liberal Leader David lists a number concerning Trust accounts of residents at the Feck Pioneer residence a nonprofit facility in if Roland Lake managed by a Munich Pally appointed Community and social services min ister prank ores said in an interview that although Jack the tomes former administrator who died last didst follow proper nobody was being siphoned of their Armstrong cited health problems when he re signed in 1911 toe prepared by the ministry last says no mechanism existed until to assure the Home complied with provincial regulations concerning residents Trust under provincial when seniors enter one of Ontario 182 rest Homes they must Transfer their Finan Cial assets to a Trust fund administered by the maintenance charges Are taken from each residents fund until the account reaches a minimum usually about when the province pays the at that residents Are not charged any fees and their remaining Cash is saved for funeral any Money remaining after the funeral is to go toward unpaid maintenance the report in the Kirkland Lake Home indicates that in Many cases the remaining funds were paid Back to relatives of the deceased to says that since the Home was founded in the ministry and the town of Kirkland Lake have had to pay More than million in resident maintenance costs that were not this Guy Armstrong was just playing Robin said who added he want condoning Arm Strongs actions but that he is con Vinced there was no criminal what was happening was that the Money was going directly to the families instead of the which is q were press bankrupt shoe Chain leaves million in unpaid debts and the future of 230 workers in shoe Chain employees owed vacation pay continued from Page 1 owes about million to a Long list of unsecured including a 283 Bill to Brown shoe to juvenile shoe and to the company assets Are estimated at including about Mil lion in but that Falls consider ably Short of the million in Strang said the status of wages and benefits owed to employees has not yet been documents show the company owes its employees about in wages and vacation but they Are classified As unsecured Credi tors and will have to wait until about million is paid to the Banks and other secured the employees Are now considered to be working for Clarkson and will continue to get paid until the trustee decides the future of the Strans the company underwent a major expansion in after president lome Mitchell and other investors bought out Chai founder Irving Cal in that year it opened a Square metre reboot warehouse and office at 1741 Welling ton where shoes were brought in bulk and sorted for each store in the last Sterling bought out the eight store reason shoes of Brit ish in the last two years Sterling added about 20 stores to its company officials refused comment on the bankruptcy referring All questions to the huge Manila crowd marches in memory of slain Aquino continued from Page 1 tidied gun Anas he was escorted from Airliner that brought him Home after three years of self imposed exile in the United Aquinas political opponents of the and columnists in pro government newspapers pressed Marcos to mount an Independent and thorough Fernando said the commissions first open session May be postponed to from monday to allow Aquinas relatives to attend the Inqui which he said would be ind Epen thorough and t tie delay was needed because Aquinas funeral would take place he a massive crowd estimated at up to one million marched through the streets of Manila yesterday to pay tribute to chanting the slain philippine opposition leaders name and demanding an end to Marcos authoritarian walking As Many As 25 abreast and stretching for More than one kilo the throng escorted the Flag draped coffin of the 50yearold former senator from his Home in suburban Quezon City to the Church of Santo Domingo for a requiem crowds lined the Boulevard and hundreds More leaned from windows and perched on lampposts and estimates of the turnout ranged from to one Veteran observers said it was the biggest outpouring of Public emotion in recent even though the Funer Al was still five Days tight the marchers chanted Aquinas nickname and cheers and shouts of Ninoy and fight Rose from the watching crowds As the Hearse bearing the cof with a smiling portrait of the slain Leader in the passed groups of students raised clenched fists and revolution Revo Lution As some of the onlookers a but there was no As there has been none since the assassination last no uniformed Security police were and the holsters of the traffic police were last Howe dozens of troops in combat dress took up positions around Marcos a Laranang a Palace spokesman said they were having a dry Fidel chief of the paramilitary philippine said the government had been told there might be student dem and his troops were ready to handle any during the requiem mass attended by tens of thousands of people yester Aquinas political allies brushed aside the they said it lacked Independence and five Days after the assassination at Manila International the government still had not announced the identity of the Man it said fired a single shot into Aquinas head and immediately was killed by Security window Factor in woman death Toronto up a dangerous third floor window and unfamiliarity with a new Home were major factors in he death of multimillionaire Edward Bronfman Girlfriend when she fell from their fashionable Midtown Home last a coroners jury decided Delores Ann a bom air Canada flight died May 23 from internal Haemorrhaging caused by injuries she suffered when she fell eight metres 26 feet from a third floor the two woman jury decided after the on Day hearing that the which was Only 24 centimetres inches off the was the major Factor in the woman they also decided that unfamiliarity with her surroundings the couple had lived in the rented Home in the posh Yorkville area for just four Days the darkness of the the fact Ward air jetliner forced to land up a War Dair charter flight from Calgary to Condon was forced to make an Emer gency Landing at the Canadian forces base Here Early today after a fire indicator Light went the Light signalled a possible fire in Tjie baggage compartment of the which was carrying 297 Pas the Pilot fired an extinguisher bottle by Remote control and the Light went the which was not yet Over the Atlantic when the indicator Light went diverted South to about 175 Kilometres North of Quebec the passengers waited aboard the aircraft for about 20 minutes before being evacuated by base personnel using makeshift including a cargo while the plane was surrounded by emergency no injuries were the flight had landed in Saskatoon before heading for she had been drinking earlier in the evening and want wearing her con tact lenses were All factors in her during his 35 minutes of who is said to be Worth said he went to bed around Midnight but Sherkin stayed up to watch a few hours about 4 he the woman still haunt returned to bed but he saw her standing by the a few moments he heard moans coming from the 1 my it sounds like Bronfman told the his voice occasionally i jumped out of pulled Back the curtains there she lying Down on the the jury recommended the Provin Cial government change building code regulations to require a railing for windows that extend to within 76 Centi metres 30 inches of the floor and Are More than metres six feet from the hardly something be held countable for in tie other irregularities in the report include d the payment of estate funds to people who claimed to be the sole beneficiaries without any investigation As to the accuracy of this inform while in other cases funds were released to persons claiming to be the executors without proper authorise d one residents property was sold for shortly after moving into the then resold within a year for d funeral directors were apparently told by Armstrong How much Money was in the Trust funds of deceased residents because the amount of funds available approximates to Dollar the amount paid to the undertaker for funeral d relatives were often Given Money from residents Comfort allowance special fund which was supposed to be used by the Resi dents for personal expenses like cigarettes or the report also shows that in 1973 a properly Worth was transferred to Armstrong one year after the death of a former resident who owned the but Drea said it used to be common practice for some especially those without to Transfer their estates to rest Home admin Stra tors for the Money would then go towards their outstanding who called for a Public inquiry into the operation of the said the Feck example raises questions about the ministry ability to protect the interests of residents in Homes for the Drea said a final report by his ministry Wilt be delivered to Kirk and Lake Council next the minister said officials will seek repayment from relatives who were inappropriately Given estate Money if there in a position to repay officials at the Home declined to comment on the release of the but town treasurer kick Liebig said All administrative problems have been tightened up and the Home is running school officials wary of research requests continued from Page 1 information Anderson adding that her personal View is that the school system is one place to gather that she said the result of Barness sur vey in the unnamed suburban which Barnes described As Doest astound Anderson said liquor is accessible to Many students and they Are quite prone to Experiment with however Jack the Winnipeg division superintendent who vetoed Barness study at Gordon said that while students May drink Ort weekends or in the drinking is not showing up As a major problem during school High school superintendent for the said the number of research requests and the potential disruption of classes Are the main reasons most Are turned fear of controversy but there is always that fear of controversy and sometimes things Are taken out of context and he Smyth said the school division was disturbed when one group of re searchers published results of a study on racial prejudice in three Junior High schools without first letting the school division look at the he said the school division was Dis Turbed that much of the information in that study was presented in a rather negative George chairman of the Jame Assiniboia school said the division normally turns Down re search requests because otherwise schools would be he said there is no question that the school Board would be under pressure from parents if a study resulted in negative publicity about a particular Sara chairman of the seven Oaks school said the Board turns Down research requests because of the need to protect students Tregubov questioned the results of Barness saying that in More than a decade on the seven Oaks school Board she has never seen statistics indicating such a serious drinking asked How the Board would get such statistics if it Doest allow the re that produces Tregubov agreed that could be a she said she thought Princi pals would let the school Board know if they thought the drinking problem was that Tregubov said she would have to be extremely naive to think that no drink ing goes on in its happening in every school in the she denied that school boards Are trying to hide from the facts by not allowing its not a matter of hiding anything because certainly most schools know what is happening re Garding she Crown considers Mackasey Appeal continued from Page 1 Mackasey eyes brimmed with tears As hugged his Ive been very Lucky As the Irish tend to my for the Southern Ontario Riding of said outside the courthouse this is one birthday ill remember for the rest of my i will return to my seat in parliament where i at the preliminary hearing which could not be reported on at the time because of a publication ban testified he visited Les Ateliers at Mackasey request in the company was interested in win Ning subcontracts on the cf18 fighter plane but Blais said that even he had no influence Over which companies won named minister of defence in a Cabinet shuffle two weeks added that Mackasey had exerted no pressure on on the testimony showed that a company owned by Mackasey Robert Harri borrowed from the Bank of Montreal in to buy the maps Stock valued at Only half that the was Given to the Bank of Montreal As a payment on a debt owed by the Bank accepted a settlement from Mackasey on the remaining but Only after he quit the House of commons committee on Les which had backed the loan with a1 promissory went bankrupt in and the Bank wrote off the judge Schecter said the Bank had been simply grasping at hoping the arrangement would improve its chances of recovering the in reality no Money changed hands whole transaction was done on he described Mackasey As a help less a puppet in the judge Schecter was highly critical of Crown attorney Michel say ing with a hint of sarcasm that neither the prosecutor nor the ramp investigators had fully understood the Appeal Saintcyr said he might Appeal judge Schecter he said he will proceed with charges against har Rison and Jean the former president of Les who Are charged with trying to bribe a pub Lic official their preliminary hearing is to begin Early next outside the Mackasey spoke bitterly of the Montreal a whose reports earlier this year his dealings with Les Ateliers led him to request a House of commons inquiry into his referring to the Gazette As that goddamn he said he had not yet decided whether to the commons inquiry by the com Mittee on privileges and elections was adjourned May 24 when the ramp Laid charges against Liberal Maurice the 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