Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1985 Page 3 Deputy ministers real Power on sex abuser threatened court property reassessment announcement throws lawsuit into doubt Tkv Patti or to order the Rita to Nooh in it Fly Patrick Mckinley a proposed lawsuit to Force the City to update its tax assessments could be quashed now that the City has announced plans to reassess All taxable property by says a Legal Aid Manitoba Arnie director of the Agen cys Public interest Law said yesterday a court could refuse to order the City to Speed up its reassessment in Light of the announcement he said Legal Aid will have to look at whether the City is moving As quickly As it can before deciding whether to seek a court until an assessment freeze was put in place in the City was legally obliged to update All jts tax assessments every three the City has not done this since Legal Aid has been looking at seeking a court order of Manda a writ requiring the City to fulfil its Legal a court Doest usually give a mandamus if there is no refusal to perform a Public Peltz said doing it too slowly or halfheartedly could still constitute a breach of he added certainly it becomes a different Case than if they were absolutely refusing to do any Legal Aid began looking at the Case after Alan director of the University of Winnipeg inst Wayne free press a siberian Tiger and her three cubs take a stroll outdoors at the Assiniboine Park zoo during a break in the weather this the which were born in Kitty litter have been kept inside during the Winters extremely cold weather but Are old and furred to stand Milder compensation sought for witnesses two Public interest Rouns Nair m a i Onni two Public interest groups paid an Ontario professor to inter Vene at a greater Winnipeg Gas rate hearing because they find a Manitoban for the Winnipeg lawyer Arne Peltz said he told the Manitoba Public utilities Board he find any suit experienced witness to re search and publicly Challenge the firms rat increase application last scrapping c victims of crime will be the real losers in the cites plan to scrap the hiring of 11 More police the president of the Winnipeg police association said Norm Wickdahl said the proposed Cut wednesday As part of a draft City budget is particularly unwise at this the demands for police service Are increasing year by he a Legal Aid lawyer who rep resents the Manitoba society of seniors and Consumers association of said he talked to some local academics and but found no one he thought could argue persuasively at Issue yesterday was the boards decision last August to give the groups Only half the a Day they paid Lawrence the Mcmaster University business professor who pleaded their the Board reserved decision on pelts Appeal for full Bompensa Peltz said Public interest groups whose interventions help the Board make decisions should be fully compensated for reasonable it is very important for you to know what other Points of View even if they Are totally opposed noting the cites growing crime Wickdahl said the Cut Means the department probably will be forced to reevaluate whether to respond to certain he said current demands on police resources Are such that some investigations already Are Cut acting police chief Stan Scarr said City Council last year approved the 11 Constable positions for the plan criticized formation of a permanent Portage Avenue foot Scarr said he was disappointed with the planned but added that the foot patrol May be implemented on a periodic Wickdahl said the Force now has officers from Constable to staff sergeant 17 below the number authorized by City Council last tight Security expected for doctors visit to what you ultimately decide to he in a letter to Peltz last pub chairman Murray Donnelly said the Board did not feel Goulds testimony was particularly useful in helping the Board arrive at a fair rate of return on even though Goulds recommendations and conclusions were not his efforts were recognized and in that regard he was paid a sum that the Board considered fair for his Contri Peltz said Good expert witnesses charge to a Day to pre pare for and appear at such hear although he agreed with Don Nellys suggestion that is a Little Donnelly said Peltz cited National while actual fees vary from Region to some Winnipeg lawyers Are paid half As much As Toronto lawyers of the same Quali he Security was expected to be tight for Henry Morgentaler arrival in Winnipeg this morning for a week end a Winnipeg police spokesman con firmed last night the department has made Security arrangements for the abortion advocates Ellen spokesman for the coalition for reproductive said she believes Security will be satisfactory for the which will include Public she refused to specify what Type of arrangements had been Kruger said she knew nothing of reports that Morgentaler had hired private body guards during his swing to Western Canada to lobby support for More abortion an ramp spokesman at Winnipeg International Airport said last night he want aware of what kind of Security if were being Morgentaler Security has been a concern because of statements by antiabortion crusader Joe Borows who has repeatedly warned the Quebec doctor could face trouble if he returns to upon learning of Morgentaler intentions to reopen his Corydon Avenue abortion clinic in Borowski said he was concerned for the doctors if he wants to commit then theres nothing i can do about his life has been threatened attorney general Roland Penner has publicly warned Borowski that he could be charged with a criminal offence if he is linked with a physical attack on Morgentaler has said he occasion ally fears for his but is willing to become a Martyr in his bid to make easily accessible abortions available to All Canadian in Toronto Ontario supreme court chief Justice Gregory Evans put the latest abortion charge against Morgentaler Over to May 16 for a trial Date to be tute of Urban suggested it consider a lawsuit on behalf of aggrieved property Artinise was one of the authors of a recent report which said Many intercity owners Are carrying too heavy a share of the tax Load be cause of outdated the City plan Calls for data to be collected on property values this Public education programs would be developed in 1986 and car ried out in 1987 to let taxpayers know what to some officials have predicted the reassessment which involves set Ting property values on which taxes Are based will mean higher prop erty taxes for some suburban Resi dents and lower tax Bills for Many intercity doctors request for ballot recall turned Down Morgentaler fears for life by Maureen Brosnahan a request by some Winnipeg Doc tors to recall their votes on a pro posed agreement Between the Mani Toba medical association and the government has been turned Mma president Derek fewer said last night the association will not consider the doctors fewer said it can Only be discus sed by the associations Board two Days after voting at a hastily called meeting doctors voted 8529 in favor of retrieving their ballots from the accounting firm Thorne which will be tabulating the which is being vote atm by Mailin would see doctors give up their right to extra Bill patients and opt out of medicare in Exchange for binding arbitration to Settle fee it also would Force All full time doctors in the province to pay annual Mma dues of fewer said about 600 of the ballots already have been he called the request ridiculous and said he sought Legal advice yesterday on the we went to our lawyer and told him of the hed never heard anything like that in his fewer said the doctors motion could be since Many of those who voted at the meeting were not valid members of the Winnipeg District of the there was no registration at the there was no record of the people were voting who were out of the he said the meeting was filled with members of the association of Independent a Small group that opposes the agreement and wants to retain extra fewer said doctors have been notified that an official information meeting of Winnipeg District doctors would be held other meetings Are being held across the province to discuss the proposed fewer he said he was confident that the which also Calls for a increase in physicians will be fewer denied charges by some Board members that the Deal with the government was negotiated in he said All the issues in the agree ment had been discussed by the Board in the past three As in a referendum last 75 per cent of Mma members voted in favor of trading their right to extra Bill for binding some Manitoba Doc tors May vote on principle to reject the proposed said the president of the Manitoba physic ians for Colin merry said some doctors say they do not mind paying the Mma to negotiate doctors fees and conduct other Union Type but they do object to the use of their fees by the Mma to take stands on moral and ethical issues with which they merry said the Mma and its Par ent the Canadian medical As have taken stands on Sev eral issues in recent years including some of us object to some of the statements they come out he adding that some antiabortion doctors want to discuss this with the some of the stuff Treyve come up with would be acceptable to most doctors such As Seatbelt legislation and helmet said who is not an Mma but he said some policies adopted by Cha and approved by the such As providing minors with birth control pills without parental con sent and referring pregnant minors to North Dakota for Are objectionable to the medical profession no longer has a common code of he Crown drops fraud charge Over scheme the Crown has dropped an at tempted fraud charge against the owner of a business that sold Coupon books for designer jeans in the name of a Gary Jerome was charged in october 1983 after it was Learned that officials of Ronald Mcdonald House had not Given his Hydra for Mal permission to use its name in a Jean Selling the Charity is a nonprofit Home away from Home for families of children undergoing treatment in Winnipeg under the Hydra Tele phone solicitors offered Winnipeg Gers a Coupon Book which entitled them to buy one pair of jeans for and get a second pair for each Ronald Mcdonald House was to receive and Hydra Crown attorney Clyde Bond said yesterday that Crowdis had approached Charity officials before launching the promotion in july 1983 but had not reached a for Mal agreement with Charity officials notified police of the scheme after a Hydra employee became suspicious and called the Bond said although Crowdis clearly did not have formal approval to proceed with the he had obtained a civic charities endorse ment As about had been set aside for Ronald Mcdonald House and the jeans were available for pickup by those who had Pur chased Coupon he i dont know if we could have established any fraudulent Bond so the Crown decided to stay the charge on the understanding that the will be turned Over to Ronald Mcdonald Crowdis said outside court that he never intended to defraud anyone and that the problem arose because of a ruling by Fred Youngs people who Are affected by the decisions of provincial agencies have a right to know Why those rulings were says the Manitoba Law Reform As the commission recommends that 61 government commissions and tribunals be required to publish their proce Dural the recommendations Are contained in a 182page report on administrative Law and government issued the commission is preparing a second report on administrative Law and the judicial the report urges the government to set up a monitoring mod Elled on the ombudsman that would approve and enforce rules for Crown while common Law and natural Justice do not require a tribunal to provide reasons for a re searcher Donna Miller said the commission believes people have a right to fair play requires that parties should know at the end of the Day Why a particular decision has been the report written reasons allow a person to determine whether there Are grounds for Appeal and ensure an Mency is not overstepping its a it Deputy attorney general Tanner Elton said his department is study ing the report and implementation of its recommendations Likely will come Over the report says the government commissions and tribunals that should publish their procedural rules Are those that can directly affect the rights and interests of individuals and among the 61 agencies cited Are the criminal injuries compensation Board Manitoba human rights commission Legal Aid Manitoba Manitoba police commission and the workers compensation Miller said the commission believes published rules of procedure Are necessary to ensure fairness and natural Justice for people appearing before most government agencies do not have written said who wrote the if they do they Are she its a matter of concern that so Many agencies do not have Miller adding that each Agency should be left to develop guidelines that Best suit its the report says the rules should be drawn up with three criteria in mind efficiency and acc it rejects umbrella Legisla fee sought for appeals of variance decisions civic officials want to slap a fee on people who Appeal City denials of zoning one City councillor at tacked the proposal say ing it could deny people the right to a full that is so wild i wonder How they could even consider said coun Harvey Smith the proposed Appeal fee comes after complaints from some City councillors that its too easy for residents who Are turned Down by one committee to go to another in Hopes of a different civic officials also have proposed a fee for neighbors who Appeal decisions to allow such City Council has yet to decide on the applications for variances such As those to build a garage closer to the property line than normally Al Lowed or to have eaves first dealt with by City councillors from the if an application is turned it can be appealed Freeo charge to another committee made up of councillors from across the Alan Wade who recently called for limits on the right to said yesterday the fee idea seems to be a step in the right he said the fee should not be set too some of the appeals Are he sometimes a group will just decide to Appeal it for no other reason than they just want to hear Wade said the Appeal committee May not understand the area and May allow something local Council lors turned Down for Good Rea said he would not want to see Cost deter people from pursuing their right to to have a fee of for someone who just wants to solve a problem with their garage is he lion similar to that in Ontario and Alberta As too ombudsman Gordon Earle welcomed the reports recommend saying their implementation would make his Job Earle said he has made similar recommendations when problems with a government Agency have Arisen in the citing the rental sans office and Legal Aid As two he said a uniform set of rules for each Agency would ensure consistency in decision making and leave less to the discretion of Agency administrative Law is a relatively new Field that int As organized or Well founded As criminal Elton it has become an area of concern because Many government agencies and quasi judicial tribunals can have As dramatic an effect on a persons life As a he Elton said Many recently established government bodies have incorporated procedural the question now is to catch up on some ones that weve already i ;