Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 16, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1089 s antiabortion doctors threaten Legal action against College w v by Ctol Man Tobi physicists far life has lodged i formal complaint and is theft Emiitt court action against the College and surgeons Adf its recent bylaw change on Colin spokesman for antiabortion said Ter Day the group is angry that proper procedures we rent followed ing the provincial colleges weekend meeting which removed abortions front the list of practices that must be performed Iff 1 the College fails to reverse its merry his group will give serious consideration to Legal tin in court of Queens merry said the College Council was originally to consider a proposal to tighten the regulation i biting abortions in freestanding Clin an amendment was proved to do the the doctors group says that proper notice of motion was not Given for the thus violating the col Leges it also complains that copies of relevant information we rent made available to doctors who attended the meeting As non Taing Spectra although they were handed a few pages of limited we consider this action by the College autocratic and totally Unac the doctors group said in a statement concern was also expressed at the presence of 0r Henry Morge tasers Greg in the corridor outside the but James registrar of the said he believes All the proper procedures were there was a nonet of meters to Amend the he although notice related to a propped tightening of the it was sufficient to Alert members the bylaw Section would be under he the vote at the meeting was is to 8 in favor of removing abortions from the with seven the antiabortion doctors say the Large number of abstentions is evidence that not enough information was made available before the the colleges decision has led to of feet puddle proof poodle its been raining cats and dogs the last few forcing owned by Sylvia to Don his Slicker and rubber booties to meet the elements head a total of Millimetres Inch of rain hit the streets this Honrie wins nip nod in Norquay opponent charges native Leader shown favouritism by nip executive by Patrick Mckinley native Leader Audreen Hourie won a bitterly contested fight last night for the nip nomination in Norquay where communist City councillor Joe Zuken is Ukens planned retirement this after 21 years representing has opened the possibility of an nip Victory in the Hourie and oppo nent Larry Grzymek have been locked in Battle for the nip nomination since native involvement was a prominent Issue in the at last nights Grzymek referred repeatedly to the importance of representing All people in the Grzymek also cautioned the audience of about 200 people nearly half of them Indian or Metis keep an open mind and not let prejudice Blind you As to who is the Best he charged later that the meeting was stacked and that the Dps municipal executive showed favouritism to Hourie by rescheduling the Nomina Tion meeting to allow her time to build up her Grzymek said he and about eight Corrin Calls for government probe of discrepancies in property taxes mayoral candidate and new demo crat la Brian Corrin has called for an inquiry into a report showing Winni Eggers who own expensive Homes pay proportionately lower property taxes than less affluent the study is finding theres a Dis parity Between upper and Middle in come homeowners to the detriment of the Middle income Cor Rin that is obviously something that should be stemmed or he said an which should be done jointly by the City and could confirm whether the findings Are valid and suggest interim solutions without requiring an overhaul of the cites tax assessment the provincial he is currently wrestling with a report recommending assessments be re vamped but this could take years to implement and something should be done in the Corrin was referring to a report by a Toronto research Agency which disco Vered 1983 taxes on suburban Winnipeg bungalows equal per cent of the Homes Market value while owners of More expensive two Storey Homes pay Only per the by the Bureau of Munici pal also found the disparity is he for an South Dale Bungalow has seen taxes go up by since 1979 while the increase on a two Storey in the same area has been Only mayor Bill Norrie said the City is prepared to bring in a reassessment of Winnipeg Homes but the province has Frozen assessments while it studies recommendations of the assessment review by former Premier Walter province pressured we actually have a reassessment in place which is designed to Deal with that question and the downtown area As Norrie weve been press ing the provincial government to lift the Don chairman of the cites finance said Corrin should take his concerns to the Provin Cial which has delayed acting on the Weir he being an if he wants to go about it can approach a standing committee of the legislature and he can approach the where it really Gerrie accused the City of hiding behind the provincial govern ment review to explain its failure to propose interim improvements to the current there May have been sufficient concern by the City to have reports done which from the politicians View Point didst lend themselves to Public he what you get from the Bureau of municipal re search May have been known to the City three or four years Corrin told a nominating meeting in Norquay Ward last night that More police would be pounding the beat on foot if the new democratic party had their Way at City the foot patrols of past decades were a Good Way of cutting crime because police officers got to know the people they were dealing with and had a better understanding of where the trouble spots Corrin others had originally set the nominating meeting for who stressed native involve ment in civic politics in her admitted that she had supporters among the nip but she denied they showed favorit she said she lined up her own canvassers and did not have help from the party Central office As she recruited party Hourie said that while she views greater political involvement by natives As extremely it is also important for the areas councillor to represent unemployment and other issues that affect natives Are also common to other residents of the she our problems Are not of color or she party officials refused to release the number of ballots cast for each of the two however Hourie claimed credit for most of the 380 new party members recruited during the and Grzymek said he had no doubt before the ballots were counted that Hourie was going to i stuck it out because i want going to give her the satisfaction of with Grzymek Mouries nomination Victory last night comes nearly six months after she was beaten 4942 in a bid to unseat Veteran Alan Wade As the nip candidate in notre the Chal Lenge to Wade was the first of a series of unsuccessful nomination challenges to Veteran nip Hourie will carry the nip Banner in the 26 election against Mike i Secretary of the Union of unemployed who inherits the labor election committee nomination from and against Independent Candi Date Harry a former nip councillor for the defunct lord Selkirk Hemphill trustee says by Glen Mackenzie education minister Maureen hem Phill is trying to run school boards by ministerial a Boniface trustee has Renald a said that while hemp Hills May 3 guidelines on usage of closed schools dont have the same Force As a Law or the province can get around guideline violators or illegalities simply by passing but guidelines Are better for a minis Ter because they can be issued without Cabinet or any other a Guay said at Issue is the boards desire to lease Prendergast closed in because of declining who Doest plan to run for said his Board had a Cool and polite meeting with Hemphill but left Hemphill labelled quays charges of ministerial decree say ing school boards still have Complete decision making Power if the school is leased for an approved the guidelines simply Lay Down a she said Hemphill said guidelines were picked to provide greater flexibility and to avoid having to go through the Legisla Ture to change she said Manitoba school boards have More autonomy than their counterparts in any other in a june 22 letter to the Boniface Board questioned the guidelines among other order school boards to try and lease schools they close to Community groups with cultural or heritage the letter said the frequent use of the word shall in the guidelines implies they Are mandatory rather than Volun in her 9 Hemphill said she thinks a school boards relation ship to the province is the same As that of a principal to his school and that her guidelines Are comparable to the policy manuals Many school boards have Guay said the comparison int valid because a principal is a school Board employee and a school Board is a level of elected by and responsible to the George Manitoba association of school trustees said he regards hemp Hills school Board principal analogy As i think we need a minister who enunciates Broad i dont think an education minister could take a school Board he Hemphill said she was simply using the analogy As an adding it really int relevant to the renewed Falls Adf of finial government Csc edition of the Mergenthaler but health minister Taffy bes Artkins has said will stick 16 hit position net id Grant the facility status As Artap proved Morison also discounted the notion that doted is we rent properly informed before the its hard to believe that any Doc Tor in the province was unaware that abortion was an he but Morison conceded that the non voting College members who attended the meeting didst receive All the Docu mentation made available to Council he said it would have been impractical the print copies of All the material for everyone in attendance As for son said the lawyer never entered the meeting another lawyer who did come into the meeting was quickly asked to Morison said the doctors complaint haunt yet been received by the but when it it will be dealt with by the executive and a Legal opinion will probably be he local Wiiri speggers face shortage of apartments by Doug Speirs housing experts say Winnipeg apartment vacancy rate is the lowest in five years and construction Industry officials warn apartment Hunters May face an even bleaker picture in the its going to make things tight for renters in we will have in october a rate amongst the lowest of major cities in said Mark a Winnipeg Market Ana Lyst with Canada mortgage and hous ing in terms of a person seeking an its going to get a Little tougher than in the last five you could go Back As far As Thor Valdson a 1 Chc Telephone Survey of about 300 apartment complexes with More than units revealed Winni pegs vacancy rate dropped to per and construction officials predicted yesterday the rate May soon drop below one per the min Survey is representative and i think what it did is confirm what our predictions we predicted in the previous Survey that the vacancy rate would drop to about one per Thorvaldson but the Chc statistics Are disputed by Sid president of the Manitoba landlords their figures Are Silver Man the vacancy rate is Over two per cent right now and ill bet anyone it will be Over three per cent by Silverman said Chc surveys Are biased because the Crown corporation Only surveys apartment owners who have taken out National housing act Loans under i have mortgages from private lenders and so do a lot of other he he said private landlords Are suffer ing the highest rate of apartment a the government is building All these Lowental units by the time they Are completed in the fall Only one thing can happen people will move out from private units into the govern ment the government is competing with the private but a National Chc Survey re leased in june found Winnipeg vacancy rate was per cent in compared with an average per cent for 24 major metropolitan areas throughout bucked trend Thorvardson said the results of a macs next National Survey of apart ment vacancies will be released at the end of which has apart ment had an apartment vacancy rate close to five per cent three years but the City has bucked a National trend toward Irwin a Chc housing analyst in said yesterday that City had a vacancy rate of per cent in but our expectation is that it will go Down slightly maybe to per lit Wick said a rate Between per cent and per cent is considered acceptable by housing Ottawa Chc analyst Ron Kelles Tine said the Ottaw Hull area had a vacancy rate of per cent in the lowest in the weve been extremely Low for quite a we anticipate a pit of an upwards trend Over the next year be cause weve get a fair bit of rental Kellestine he predated the vacancy rate in Ottawa would Rise to one per cent in october 8pd Between per cent and two per pent by the end of Brian a spokesman for the Manitoba Home builders blamed the decrease on the nip ver ments rent control saying it has discouraged the construction of new the rent control program is just going to stifle the its keeping it very next year were not going to have very much built and that vacancy rate is going to drop below one per Hastings the province has announced it plans to limit rent increases to a maximum six per cent in1984 per cent below this years guideline unless a landlord can justify a higher rate be cause of increased operating housing minister Jerry Storie could not be reached for comment yester Gervin executive Vic president of the Winnipeg construction said few apart ments have been built in Winnipeg for about three years because investors Lack Confidence in the unemployment Greasley said unemployment in Manitoba depressed construction Industry now is at 17 per cent fan estimated work its higher than its Ever been atthe end of the this is Good Thorvaldson blamed Winnipeg Sag Ging vacancy rate on the sparse num Ber of units added through construct a trend toward condominium conversions and the cites rapid popu lation growth in the past five while the analyst offered Little Hope of improvement in the rate for some he said a Federal loan program for builders should prevent it from de he said the government has allocated Loans to rental developers who qualified under the Canada rental Supply which pro Vides builders with interest free Loans of up to per unit for a period of 15 Cable to rates to Rise by Paul Moloney Winnipeg Videon and greater Winnipeg Cablevision have received approval to increase monthly Cable television rates by six per cent effective the announced yesterday by the Canadian radio television and telecommunications Wilt see the monthly fee Rise to from crts spokesman Larry said the increase was allowed because of the Good Quality of Community programming offered by the Cable panties and the commissions desire to encourage further with subscribers West of the red will see revenues jump by a month under the new Cablevision customers East of the River will pay More each we simply say its justified by the performance of the Community pro Christie wed certainly be pleased if All of that Money were pumped Back into Community which was granted a 50cent monthly hike in will probably phase in the increase to match the company Billing company Vic president Jack Baigrie Baigrie refused further saying he haunt received a copy of the commissions Cablevision president Hugh Comack be reached Gutc denied the companies request to increase the rate to a month in years the commis Sion hats that based on the second increase is Apt Christie he added the commission didst Sches Jurie Public hearings on the rate requests because it appeared there want Shuffi pint opposition raised by customers to warrant Christie also said the commission Hast been deluged with complaints about poor picture Quality Over the summer on Cable channels supplying american network ;