Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january 1985 Page 3 unions oppose move to end free grit rebuilding pitch sign of party recruit drive up in air Winnipeg police May have to Post Pone a february recruitment drive hailed As an Opportunity to get More members of visible minorities on the police Dennis Scot Herridge said yesterday plans to hire a new class of recruits Are up in the air because of a City budget proposal to Cut 11 staff positions from the police the positions were created in last years City but were never Scot Herridge said there Are about 16 or 17 vacancies in the including which senior City officials propose to if we Are going to reduce those by 11 they Are going to be Down to five or six and we run a recruit he dispel impression a class is not run for fewer than 20 police had said last fall that about 20 recruits could be hired in Gebru at that chief Herb Stephen said the jobs would Likely be advertised in ethnic publications to encourage More members of visible minorities to although All applicants would be judged on their Reynaldo a Mem Ber of the Winnipeg police commis Sion Active in the ethnic said yesterday that Many had looked Forward to the february recruiting drive As a Hance to get More minor Ity representation in police while Pagtakhan said he does not favor passing Over More highly qualified candidates to hire minority the City has to dispel an impression that minorities Are not Pagtakhan said he plans to take the Issue up at the next police com Mission although he recognizes that it does not have direct jurisdiction Over the police the 11 police positions that City officials have proposed cutting were originally slated for foot City councillors will have to decide on the proposal before when the budget is local catching figures show More Manitoban married last but there we rent As Many babies there were births boys and girls in the prov Down from in including boys and throughout the province last year there were including men and Down from deaths in men and while births and deaths the number of Manitoban going to the altar with couples tying the knot last compared with in Manitoba population was 500strong in according to preliminary figures from the provinces vital statistics Marjorie head of the said the preliminary figures indicate few population shifts of any it will be interesting to look at the final death statistics when they come in to see if there is a change in the age of people dying and the causes of Kreton the final birth tally May Rise once final statistics Are compiled at the end of she in addition to issuing marriage licences and birth and death certify the vital statistics office handles Legal name in Manitoban paid for a new Down from applying for name changes in theres a fair number of people applying to change their childrens names because of a divorce or a second Kreton but this year weve had a few who have changed their names for numerological they say they do it to have a better which is determined by the letters in your Debbie Segal says petitions have been circulated in bid to get Doort door mail 3ld in fight City Man determined to Force Home mail delivery a mail hol Ivorah Iii to 11 a Charleswood says he is telling friends not to put Stamps on their mail to him to Force Canada Post to deliver to his and Brian Segal of Cheltenham Cove said he is willing to pay the double postage Fine just to get the mail delivered to his Segal said he must use a Canada Post located about a Block from his because the Crown corporation wont provide Home delivery to the subdivision where he he said that in recent months his family Hast received a family allowance Cheque and one court ordered maintenance Segal blame the losses on vandalism which he said he believes is caused by children in the the at Laxdal Road and Seiko have been knocked Over he have been num Bers have been removed or switched around and has been shifted from one Slot to an he Segal said what irks him is that residents living on nearby main such As Laxdal and Haney have their mail its funny were living in the City of Winnipeg and we dont get mail delivered to our he the paper boy delivers to the about 60 to 65 Homes in the area Are he who has lived in the new subdivision for about seven said he has complained about the situation to the Charles Wood Post the Central Winnipeg Post office and the minister responsible for Canada Post he said he was told the Crown corporation has a new policy of not providing Home delivery to new area residents also have circulated two petitions seeking door seals Charleswood resident Allen Willoughby said he sent a petition yesterday to Canada Post and his member of parliament complain ing the Post office Doest deliver to his who moved into a new Home on Brittany drive in said postal workers deliver on both sides of the but not in the Bay where his House and 29 others Are its he i want the same service As every body else he said he had also been told by Canada Post that it would not pro vide Home delivery to new devel Canada Post spokesman Allan Skrumeda said the corporation has a policy of providing Home Deli very where it has the manpower to do Skrumeda said it has extended the service to Points of Call in Winnipeg during the current fiscal it has been the position of the Post office to provide letter Carrier service where it is financially pos sible to do Skrumeda but letter Carrier service in the City has reached its he be extended until at least after March our present position is that we have fully committed our present resources and that commitment will remain until at least the end of the present fiscal he you Only have so Many letter Segal said he is not impressed with Canada posts adding he feels he is being discriminated against and being taken advantage he said he is also trying to have All the family mail rerouted to his downtown charges urged against lawyer claims by Paula Martin the Winnipeg police commission recommended yesterday disciplinary charges be Laid against a City police officer for failing to show his badge number and for swearing at the Man who asked for the mans lawyer said last lawyer Jerrold who represented Dale Jasson in his complaint that he was physically and verbally said the commission threw out his clients allegation that he was roughed up by the police commission chairman Don Gerrie refused comment on the recommendations last abusive language anything that has transpired in the police commission is a matter in Gerrie View that the Way it Gunn said the commission directed charges be Laid against the con stable for breaching police regulations requiring him to provide his badge number and his identification or warrant for using profane and Abu Sive language to a he they did not order that charges be Laid for excessive claimed the abuses occurred in the Early morning hours of May 25 at the scene of a trocar collision near Cumberland Avenue and Balmoral Jasson said he stopped at the Accident scene to help the crash but was roughed up when he asked for an officers badge number after the officer swore at he claimed the officer hit him with the door of a police car and ordered him away from the Jasson was charged with obstruct ing a police but the charge was later although Jasson could not be reached for comment last Gunn said his client was satisfied with the he Doest want the Constable to lose his Gunn he just wants to eliminate the practice of police not giving acting police chief Stan Scarr said last night he was unaware of the commissions Scarr said penalties for internal charges that result in a guilty find ing Range from admonishment to a recommendation for it would depend on the extent of the involvement of the Scarr City police officers carry a War rant card with their name on he they also Wear their badge numbers on their Harvey Smith gent Park said he will recommend to civic finance committee that City Immiti by Patrick Mckinley All landed immigrants should be Able to vote for their City councillors and school a committee reviewing Winnipeg civic govern ment was told Mario chairman of Winni Peg school said landed Immi Grants contribute economically and socially to the but because of discriminatory election they Are not allowed to participate in the decision making he Santos said he want speaking As Board but on behalf of friends and members of the Public who had expressed con Cern to him Over the he said landed immigrants who Are British subjects can vote in civic elections if they Are 18 and have lived Here six months or own property in the City or school touted those from other countries have to wait a minimum of years to acquire Canadian citizenship be fore they can Santos i clearly discriminates against those who have chosen Canada to be their new Home but Are not British he City clerk Bob Fergusson later confirmed that in City Council and school Board British subjects have the right to vote while method of obtaining evidence criticized police must not be allowed to take blood and urine samples from suspects without search warrants or a lawyer told the Manitoba court of Appeal Rocky Pollack said judges who allow illegally obtained evidence in trials Are inviting police to ignore the Canadian charter of rights and he said allowing police to breach the charter with impunity is a temp tation to overzealous officers in Pursuit of the lawyer made the comments during appeals into charges of impaired driving against two police obtained blood and urine samples from the accused with out a search warrant and without their knowledge while they were in Hospital with injuries from single vehicle Pollack said the Sample seizures were arbitrary and deceitful and should not be condoned by the even if it Means freeing accused on Legal decisions in the cases were re in the first a blood Sample belonging to Craig Howard Ramage was obtained while he was unconscious and being treated at the bal Dur Hospital in May Crown counsel George danger Field conceded that while the Sample seizure May be under the circumstances of the Case the police conduct was fair and Dangerfield said the police officer had no other Choice than to ask a doctor to take a blood Sample be cause the Man was in the second in May had a nurse obtain from the juvenile accused a urine Sample from a bag attached to a the charges against both accused were dismissed at the provincial court but Crown appeals to higher courts were successful and new trials were other landed immigrants do Richard Manitoba chief electoral said British subjects can also vote but will lose that right july in Federal Only Canadian Citi Zens can Santos said rather than stripping British subjects of the right to vote in City and school Board he believes it would make More sense to extend the vote to landed Immi Grants from other he said Many landed immigrants pay City but it May take them years to become Canadian citizens because of difficulties with linguistic and cultural the appointed by the is to recommend changes in the Structure of Winnipeg government by it is holding a series of Public the association of Manitoba a a professional called on the committee yesterday to recommend tougher guidelines for the preservation of City the association said in a Brief a committee to oversee the handling of documents should be set up and City officials barred from destroying or removing any documents without its police officers Wear name badges on their shirt or jacket As Cal Gary officers Smith said the Winnipeg police association is opposed to the preferring to have their members identified by number i think either will but i prefer the name because its easier to remember than a Smith he said police officers seem hos tile when asked for their they assume you Are going to complain about landlord faces civic charges a Winnipeg landlord who rented a condemned House to a family last week is facing about 12 bylaw charges for doing the same thing to other a City health depart ment spokesman said de assistant chief in Spector for the said the Nora is to appear in City bylaw court an additional charge will be Laid As a result of this latest Grabinski if Duch could face a Fine of up to on each the House was condemned and placarded by City health inspectors on 1 because of its deteriorating condition and the fact it is infested with cockroaches and other Grabinski placards removed on a number of occasions since City inspectors have visited the House and found the placards removed and tenants living he Grabinski said that on each Occa Sion they charged but she has continued to rent out the its an unusual he said in i cant recall anything like this happening he said All the inspectors can do is Check the House and charge Duch until when they can apply to the court for permission to demolish the Grabinski said inspectors had been stopping by the House about twice a but now will attempt to Check the House every the family who rented the House last week say they Are scrambling to find Randy his wife their 11monthold daughter Christa and Cheryl retarded brother Are staying with Cheryl older and her 11yearold said yesterday that when her relatives moved into the House last saturday they were unaware the building was its clean she by walking into the place youd never know its she said the family paid Duch for a months a dam age Deposit and spent to rent a truck to move their Linda said they went to ducks Home yesterday to try to get Back their Money but get an she said they also attempted to find another House or apartment for the but without even if they find another they wont have enough Money for rent and a damage Deposit unless they get their Money Back from she she said they asked the provincial rentals mans office for but were told the office do any thing unless Duch refuses to return the a spokesman for the office said yesterday that if the family is unable to get Back the Money on its it can file a formal complaint and action will be taken against when contacted by Telephone yes Duch denied the House was condemned and Hung tourism project urged for downtown wasteland by Rene Mauthe the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce has proposed a major tourism development project for the Junction of the red and Assiniboine it would encompass three pro Grams or agencies already in place the North Portage develop ment the Core area initiative and the agreement for recreation and dealing with Riverbank works and take in Cana Dian National railways East the Chambers report proposes that the network of rail abandoned buildings and wasteland of junk and weeds be the issued would Clear the Way for a vast beginning at the Forks of the Rivers and sprawling North be Hind main if coordinated with the other plans and development agencies Al ready in place the plan could provide a major focus for Winnipeg Gers and for visitors the proposed Centre could be used As a starting Point for tourist forays into the rest of the report the report was a joint Effort by the chamber of Commerce and the Winnipeg convention and visitors Bureau to provide travel Manitoba with suggestions on How to adminis Ter a Federal provincial tourism development the five year program was to have expired in March 1984 but was extended to March the prov Ince is considering renewing the the report says the existing pro Gram lacked Bot Tomline results predicated on a Lon term single goal or Winnipeg should build on its according to the which it says include a Strong sense of a history rooted in transportation and a cosmopolitan chamber president Keith Godden said the report was designed to develop a focus for tourism attraction in Godden said the proposed project could attract tourists like the West Edmonton which has been a popular attraction since it opened in the report said All agencies and organizations involved with tourism should coordinate efforts to secure successful completion of the private sector participation is essential to the Success of the pro the report without private sector participation the plan will not the costs of the proposal were not mentioned in the which is being sent to provincial officials for provincial and Federal officials have been discussing the Fate of the car East Yards area for previous proposals for the site have included a Public Park and recreation a major office shopping Complex and a commuter transit i ;