Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Winnipeg free press May 1985 Page 3 behaviour warnings trial Morgentaler Appeal Case dog owner pleads for life of terrier in child attack Case april 9 visit to the Draper Crown attorney Karen Swiderski said the dog should be destroyed because it is a potential threat to including drapers own Twoy Earold in respectfully submitting that the life and Well being of children is More important than the life 6f a Swiderski who acted on his own promised to do anything to ensure another attack does not occur if the dog is allowed to judge Allen reserved saying he would Rule on the matter within 10 he ordered the dog to remain at the Logan Avenue but questioned whether officials have the right to charge Draper a fee since they Are the ones seeking the Ani Mals in unworn testimony Zoe said the which suffers from hip attacked after she tripped Over the she cited me when i fell Over the child said As she sat on her fathers she cited me on the her right Cheek showed a deep backward question Mark Zoe remained in the courtroom after her at one she waved at Valerie the dog owners Draper and Kim the Childs said Zoe had petted the dog earlier and the animal was Friendly toward the the two women said the trouble Ken Fife press a James Man pleaded yester Day for the life of his dog which inflicted a 60stitch wound to the face of a Foury Earold Shes not just a House Shes part of my Greg Draper told provincial court judge Frank destroying my dog int going to do Winnipeg Pound officials want the court to order the destruction of drapers Fivey Earold female pit Bull the dog bit Zoe Wattier during an officer arrested in school by Catherine Mitchell a Winnipeg police officer arrested while off duty will continue working until crime Des Depourcq said the has been ordered to appear in court May the officer was found in the Halls of Munroe Junior High school at Friday by police responding to an he the officer faces possible charges of enter with intent to commit an indictable offence and Depourcq refused to name the officer and where or in what capacity he saying suspects Are not named until charges Are this individual is being treated exactly As any other Depourcq Depourcq released the mans occupation during a daily news Confer ence after he was asked specifically about the breaking at the Munroe Avenue when asked Why charges had not been he said an investigation of the incident is taking time t7i 1 i j 1 i f 1 1 to 1 because of what he called extenuate Karly Birds looking Tor work were waiting at last night at the Canada employment ing Centre for 460 main the students planned to spend the night outside this Man was examined and then to get first crack at a Job through the which opened this that not your usual a Depourcq the found in the schools appeared to be under the influence of drugs or he police took him to health sciences Centre where he was examined and released later Depourcq when asked Why police took him to the Hospital he said indications Justi fied the he said that when the investigation is police executives will decide if the Man should be based on whether charges Are finance committee chairman Eric who had not heard of the said he would look into Why charges had not yet been Stefan sons committee is responsible for the police based on what youre telling me it does sound certainly out of the Ordinary but i want to comment until i get All the he said he would Why the press didst receive information about the arrest until there seems to be a Little bit of that happening As of the councillor there just seems to be a Lack of communication at the school was entered by a rear door that had its windows Depourcq the front doors windows were also smashed and a number of class room doors had windows windows of the River East school Board office on Rich Street also were found he principal Carolyn Facia said yesterday classes were cancelled Fri Day because of a today i service in Gimli and they Learned of the breaking damage is estimated at occurred just As the visit was about to they said Zoe was waiting for her Mother in the backyard with the dog when the child began defence witnesses described Sache As a Well behaved animal who often played with including the drapers Young Ive never seen her growl at said neighbor Ken Wayne a professional dog behaviour problem counsellor and said he examined Sache at the looking for work the majority of Winnipeg prostitutes surveyed Over a four month period said they hoped to go the funded by the Core area was released yester Day by the Owca and Elizabeth Fry society of Manitoba it was based on interviews with 54 of Winnipeg estimated 300 to 500 full time project coordinator Josie Hill said she was amazed at the number of children working the especially in the Austin Street a third of the prostitutes inter viewed were minors and two of them were under the age of the report estimates that 40 per cent of Winni Peg prostitutes Are under half of the 16 juvenile prostitutes said they were products of the Chil Drens Aid society the female prostitutes were inter viewed for the Survey in the areas of Austin and Albert streets Between mid october and Elsie executive director of the said most of the respondents told two interviewers they would leave the business if they landed a Well paying and interesting Job or married a Good there Are a number of women out there who Are working in danger Ous situations who feel caught and want out and dont see the Ferguson told a news con Ference most of the prostitutes said they Felt forced into prostitution because they Lack the skills and education to obtain alternative physical and sexual family the stigma attached to their lifestyle and a distrust of sup port services was blamed by the prostitutes for their inability to re join mainstream almost 80 per cent of the respondents said they had been beaten or sexually assaulted while working on the most of the adult prostitutes said they had begun Selling sex when they were under 18 years old and had been sexually or physically abused As none said she had grown up in a healthy Ferguson said the Core area initiative has refused further Money for budgetary she said she Hopes the provincial government will come through with a oneyear or develop mental Grant to Start a oneyear support program for she the group Hopes to set up a crisis shelter for prostitutes and those trying to re sikh spokesman rejects complaints Over report Tan Jay criticizes racism charges Tan Jay officials yesterday criticized Union charges that racism has prompted the company to harass ethnic workers during the current labor company spokesman Pat Chapde Laine said in a statement that com ments by Union spokesman Leslie Spillett were local manager of the International ladies garment work ers said Tan Jay has used scare tactics against ethnic most of them women and new Comers to to Sway them from backing the in a letter to Chapde Laine said Spillette suggestion that the company is racist is out of touch with she noted that Tan Jay employs workers with roots in several including the the West indies and South Chapdelaine refused further com ment on the dispute because it is before conciliator Maurice eyolf Eyolfson has scheduled a meet ing for a report issued by City police to the Media stating a prostitute claimed a pakistani Man stabbed her with a Kirpan Early saturday has come under fire from several ethnic the head of the Winnipeg chapter of the world sikh Organiza Tion said the groups complaining about the police report Are not speaking on behalf of the cites 000 Kabal Singh said two of the groups have no More than 20 Singh was reacting to a statement by the Manitoba sikh federation and National Council of Khalis Tan asking the Manitoba human rights commission to investigate the police a Kirpan is Dagger worn by baptized sikhs for religious and cer memorial groups claim there speaking for the Community when they Only represent a fraction of the Singh he said he had no complaints about the Way police handled the Singh said two members of an other sikh the Khalsa Diwan have fraudulently filed a complaint to the commission on the society in an executive member of the society and As far Asim aware we didst take a position to go to the human rights commis Singh Kuldip a member of the three said the sikh Community wants an apology from police Over the he said the police violated the charter of rights and freedoms by mentioning the words Kirpan and pakistani in their Singh said complaints would be made to the Manitoba Law enforcement review the Winnipeg police commission and the Manitoba press Council because newspapers reported the Khalid president of the Pakistan association of said last night his group also May file a Mahmood said police have accused the entire Community by mentioning the suspect was believed to be a spokesmen for two other minority rights the forum for the awareness of the minority electorate and the Manitoba intercultural Alliance also say they have filed complaints with the mayor Bill who met briefly with three members of the sikh Community said he backed the police for reporting to the Media the information provided by the wounded but he said police should have been More sensitive toward the Pound monday and found her to be obedient and fairly submit Bellingham said he was unable to provoke her despite a number of the dog exhibits stable temperament reaction and basically a Good he said there is every indication the dog acted out of character when it attacked the child and that it could have been a spontaneous reaction to pain the dog Felt when the child tripped Over jobs key to quitting Survey of City hookers shows Norrie favors new Over tinkering by Patrick Mckinley tinkering with the cites form of government will not solve its prob but giving it More Money mayor Bill Norrie said yes in a Long awaited appearance be fore a provincially appointed com Mittee reviewing Winnipeg govern ment Norrie warned against major changes in the Way the City is but he said the City should be empowered to Levy its own income taxes and sales Norrie told the City of Winnipeg act review committee that Winnipeg has taken responsibility for a Host of such As ambulance service and social which cities never had to shoulder in the major Canadian cities cant plan effectively for the future when they have to depend on property taxes and Grants from senior governments that can change from year to he Norrie warned the committee against recommending changes in the Way the City operates merely for the Sake of he also made a Strong pitch to retain the cites fou member Board of the senior civil servants to whom All departments wiping out the As some City councillors and others have pro would mean stripping the City of Strong coordination at the Norrie City departments would to their separate ways with Little Overall Norries appearance yesterday came As the review committee wrapped up months of Public hearings and prepared to pore through thousands of pages of Tran scripts and written since beginning its the committee has heard publicly from about 215 groups and individuals and has held private sessions with City officials and other it has until August to prepare its recommendations to the Provin Cial Norrie told the committee yester Day that the cites taxing Powers make it too dependent on the Provin Cial and Federal on relations with the he noted that we have had provincial governments in the past that wanted to run the City and we have had provincial governments that wanted to run away from Norrie said the nip government Doest seem Able to decide How involved it wants to be in City on one hand it wants More control Over but on the other it is not working with the City As closely As it should on fiscal he is withdraw ing Money from improvement pro Grams that have made a real differ ence in inner City and older parts of the City Are suffer ing for he despite Norrie said the three governments have never worked More closely than in the past three years through the Core area Initia Tive and the North Portage develop ment he said this has entailed a shift in cos sharing arrangements so that the City is now expected to pick up a third of the costs of major instead of 25 per cent As in the without the Power to Levy its own sales and other taxes be sides property the City simply does not have the resources to go on contributing equally to such pro he on the Structure of City govern he said Council could be reduced to about 18 councillors in Stead of the present he said larger wards could be each represented by several instead of the current system of individual councillors from smaller Norrie also said the City could be carved up into pie shaped wards radiating out from the so each councillor would represent some intercity territory As Well As a suburban Norrie called for More Powers for the saying he or she should head the cites executive policy committee and name at least some of its he warned against having the mayor appointed by councillors from among a change the review committee has discus Norrie said Winnipeg voters Cher ish the right to elect their mayor and he challenged the nip to make it an election francophone groups shun Pierr Jolys language dispute spokesmen for two Manitoba francophone groups Are being close lipped about demands of French parents in Pierr Jolys that their children be taught More courses in Charles Gagne of la society fran co Manito Baine refused last night to comment on the possible Impact the parents demands could have on the Sims longstanding fight to extend French language services in Gagne said the Pierre Contro Versy is a local a statement at this time would be he Well not be making a comment until the red River school division Board decides How to Deal with Sam will be watch ing the situation he Gagne also denied claims by some parents that the red River school boards language policy is controlled by his he repeated earlier statements by red River trustee Emile Huber chairman of an and hoc com Mittee to review the boards Lan Guage that the Sam has no influence Over the Roger executive director of la federation province Date Des co mites de also refused com ment last Dubois said the federation would not react because it also Felt the Issue is Parent spokesman Marie Hebert charged at a committee meeting monday night that a Small group of trustees and administrators affiliated with the Sam have imposed on the division their views of French language about 85 Pierre most of them appeared at the meeting to demand that More Core subjects be taught in the parents have proposed that by Brian Cole Premier Howard Pawley said yesterday his Media Secretary erred in preparing political information on government Letterhead and sending it to civil to Correct the Pawley said he would pay for expenses incurred in preparing and distributing the material to the nip its just a few ill Proba Bly put it up he it probably be Worth asking the nip the packaged by Garth was sent to executive assistants and communication a memo accompanying the material stated attached you will find eight fact sheets recently pre pared for use in the party Spring advertising Campaign they have been forwarded to you for your information and possible the nip executive has authorized a Spring advertising Campaign that makes use of the same material in extolling government while special assistants and executive assistants Are political a communications directors Are civil Pawley and Cramer admitted yesterday in separate interviews the material should not have been pre pared on government Letterhead or sent to Cramer said the material was pre pared by the nip and that he made photocopies of it for use by minis special assistants and executive the inclusion of communications directors was an he Gerry Mercier Norbert demanded the new democratic party reimburse the government for expenses in preparing the Mercier also questioned whether the inclusion of communications directors meant those individuals were considered political allies of the there is a natural suspicion they have been appointed because they Are partisan supporters of the gov he said in an Mercier emphasized in the Legisla Ture the information on government Letterhead was clearly he asked Pawley if it was govern ment policy that executive Assis special assistants and communications directors be asked to work on political campaigns at govern ment Pawley replied it adding Sim the 75 per cent of courses taught there is a responsibility for every in French at the elementary and minister executive Junior High Levels be reduced to 50 special assistant to know the ;