Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 12, 1984, Winnipeg, Manitoba Nurse Trayner denies giving babies dioxin fraud artist offered Choice of jail terms by Murray Mcneill a Man who went on an spend ing spree with someone else credit card found himself in the unusual Posi Tion yesterday of getting to choose How Long a jail term he an accommodating county court judge Ruth Krindle told Douglas James Gilchrist he could choose be tween an 18month jail term and a two year prison judge Krindle noted that Gilchrist and his family now live in but if she imposed a term of less than two years he would have to serve his time in a Manitoba if she sentenced him to two years or More he would be sent to Stony Mountain from he probably could arrange to be transferred to another Federal prison in where he would be closer to his the judge As she noted he would have a better Chance of obtaining Early parole if he had ties in the Community where he was serving his she gave the 29yearold 15 minutes to make up his after consulting his lawyer and making Long Dis Tance Telephone Call to his Gilchrist opted for the 18month his Maria explained that Gilchrist is familiar with the Federal prison system and the red tape inmates must go through to obtain a Transfer to another in his it want Worth the although judge Krindle had recommended he take the two year she complied with his wishes and gave him 18 during yesterdays hearing Halkewycz urged the judge not to Send her client to jail at but rather to place him on a period of although Gilchrist had been repeatedly involved in crime during the she he has shown signs of changing his ways during the last he has made a new life for himself and his family in has been offered a mechanics and has severed his ties with the criminal sub see fraud Page 4 i rain tonight 3 showers tomorrow 7 april 1984 Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class mail registration number 0286 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets Dave free p Energy minister Jean Chretien picked up the support of Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs during Carstairs backs bid by Chretien leadership candidate promises change of style in Federal politics Liberal leadership d Turner scores where it 10 d Quebec English lobby chief d quitting Cabinet called by Gary Hunter Energy minister Jean Chretien came to Winnipeg yesterday with Little visible support for his Liberal leadership bid but left with the Back ing of Manitoba Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs called Chretien the Candi Date of compassion and his recognition that we must have Strong provincial parties in order to get greater Federal representation from the West in the House of com Mons of course strikes a warm response from she during a rousing Campaign Chretien offered Little in terms of new policy but said there would be a new style of leadership should he replace prime minister in action in very Quick to the he told a Young Man who asked How a Chretien gov Turner angers English in Quebec by the Canadian press Liberal leadership hopeful John Turner tested the Waters of Quebec for the first time yesterday in Mon Treal and the temperature ranged from hot to he found himself in hot water when he tried to come to grips with the language Issue in the question of language policy has dogged Turner since he kicked off his Campaign last month by saying that French language rights in Manitoba Are a provincial Issue and should be settled there politically rather than in the a week he said Ottawa must intervene at times to protect minority rights although the province has and he said tuesday it would be Good if Ontario offered French language services to its Citi he Drew criticism for his support for Quebec language Bill which made French the official language when it was adopted in Turner told reporters he endorses the controversial Law in though he supports federally backed court challenges to parts of Bill 101 which conflict with the charter of he also qualified his support of the Law by saying he thinks it would be better for Canada if the province provided English then Turner met with Eric Maldof f of Alliance the provinces major English rights lobby see Turner Page 4 Ern ment would differ from the pres ent Liberal you know despite his image As a hard he was he was a Man who always sought a he Trudeau sought the Consen sus to the Point that All the systems of government were oriented to have a and it slowed and the product sometimes lacked paternity because there were too Many fingers in the Chretien said he was perhaps More liable to make some Small but the decision will come there will be very few ill say yes and no he the comments were made at a meeting with about 70 Young liberals which followed a town Hall meeting in the ballroom of the Westin at the town Hall Chretien walked to the podium to a standing ovation from about 900 his 45minute speech was punctuated with repeated applause and laugh Ter As the my from Shawinigan used see Carstairs Page 4 Trudeau refuses to condemn the Over mining of nicaraguan harbours from the news services Ottawa prime minister Trudeau yesterday called the planting of explosive mines in nicaraguan Waters an act of terrorism but refused to condemn the United states for the claiming it was not proven the was we Are trying to ascertain who is responsible for this act of Trudeau told the if we can ascertain the act As coming specifically from the and we will condemn them As we have condemned the use of arms in the area by the United states and by Trudeau mining news reports quoted two senior administration officials yesterday admit Ting the mining was carried out under Central intelligence Agency super i while the White House issued a statement that did not admit or deny Cia participation in placing the expo the new democratic party has been hammering the government for Days on the demanding that Trudeau follow the Lead of other including by stating publicly that Canada condemns such hostile Active Trudeau not Only but until yesterday even declined to answer the the Liberal Trudeau has been very forceful in condemning the use of arms in the Central american Region both by backed guerrillas seeking to Over see pm Page 4 Pacific Ocean puerto Corinto motion to Cut councillors salaries fails by Patrick Mckinley a motion to Cut City councillors pay met its death last night when Council lors avoided taking stands by merely receiving the Touchy proposal As info councillors closed ranks in an 186 vote which effectively prevented them from having to vote on the pay Cut the vote to receive the motion As information Means Council has technically dealt with the pay Cut As a the pay Cut will not appear again on City councils Agenda unless a new motion is Larry Fleisher in Crescent who proposed the pay Roll said later he did to make a new As councillors clearly demonstrated last night that any such motion would Fleisher disturbed Fleisher said he was disturbed with the Way councillors chose to handle the Harvey Smith and Sargent one of the few to support Fleisher described councils decision As Fleisher motion would have rolled Back a seven percent raise which councillors received in the Rollback would have remained in effect until the City has settled wage negotiations with its unions and would have been reexamined the City is asking the unions to agree to a wage Fleisher said Council lors should be prepared to Settle for whatever the unions he said taking a wage freeze pending the outcome of negotiations would demonstrate coun cil is serious about the move defended Gerry Ducharme in Seine chairman of councils executive policy de fended blocking the Ducharme said the wage freeze question should be left up to the consciences of individual about nine including do have instructed the City pay master to hold Back their 1984 you dont have to be a grand said just go in there and say i want to Roll Back my the average councillor now gets about with the latest Deputy mayor Jim Ernst and the chairmen of councils four standing committees get and mayor Bill who unlike the others works full time for the gets Ducharme is entitled to As policy committee chairman but is Only accepting about councils refusal to take a stand last night came after a two month delay during which civic officials say Fleisher motion went astray and ended up being referred in error to the wrong the motion was supposed to come up at City Council for a vote it was referred to councils and hoc pension the one responsible for the councillors pension which has been widely criticized As being Overly All wiretap bids win approval by Cecil Rosner Manitoba Crown attorneys had a perfect batting average last year when it came to convincing judges to Autho Rize the use of the annual report on wiretapping shows judges approved All 15 applications from Crown attorneys last allowing the installation of bugs in 15 seven commercial establish one vehicle and three other in judges also allowed All 18 applications for the it would appear that the Crown attorneys have the procedure Down Pat so that All their applications Are Grant said Harry head of the police Powers monitoring committee of the Manitoba association for rights and Peters said any court of Queens Bench judge can approve the use of a wiretap during a hearing with Only the judge and Crown attorney he said the danger always exists that Crown attorneys can engage in judge shopping to ensure that their applications do not hit stumbling while he didst claim the practice went on in Peters said the criminal code wording allows the Dan Ger of judge shopping to the code allows a judge to approve wiretapping Only if other investigative procedures have been tried and if other investigative proce dures Are unlikely to or the urgency of the matter is such that it would be impractical to carry out the investigation of the offence using any see All Page 4 farm credit sees arrears jump 50 per cent by Bob Cox the amount of arrears Manitoba Farmers owe the farm credit jumped More than 50 per cent last a farm credit spokesman the arrears Rose to million on March from million a year said Ron appraisal and farm services officer for farm about 16 per cent of the corporations accounts of accounts were in arrears compared with per cent of the accounts in Withers Poon it int a terribly big increase except in Dollar he Manitoba Farmers have borrowed about million from the most of the payments now in arrears were due last last per cent of accounts were compared with per cent a year earlier and 11 per cent in Witherspoon he said the number of accounts in arrears will jump again when the next payment is due May adding this is about As Low a level As we expect arrears to farm leaders said the Rise in unpaid debt was not All i can really say from the conversations i have had with Farmers see farm Page 4 impression the image of a woman being raped in a bar while onlookers cheered lingered Long after it was shown to be no show health minister begin was criticized for missing a medicare debate but the ministers office says she turned Down the invitation last Good bet the Canadian government May Start Selling sports Pool tickets before a court Challenge scheduled for May 1 close Call two canadians driving North from Southern Africa say they escaped Western winners 1621480 2745767 1139269 Index Ann 44 53 67 66 67 45 7 43 Jumble 71 21 61 sports record 79 54 to 21 ;