Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May paged firm faces possible loss Morgentaler Appeal decision local Manitoba gains 19 Federal civil servants despite jobs freeze by Mary Ann Fitzgerald almost one out of every 100 Mani to bans works for the Federal civil according to 1984 figures released a report of the Public service commission of Canada says of the country Public servants were located in Manitoba of them in despite Ottawa temporary Hir ing new civil servants were hired last year with Manitoba gaining 19 of parents criticize merger bid by Maureen Murray a jewish parents group has harshly criticized Winnipeg school division for considering a move to absorb three private jewish schools into the Public school where in gods name is the Board going to find the Money to fund private jewish schools in this City a group spokesman said last the groups children Are enrolled in the divisions publicly funded he brew heritage language Michael Goorvich of the action committee for jewish education said a takeover of the private schools would jeopardize the boards hebrew language Goorvich said the jewish private schools curriculum is religiously while the hebrew language program is culturally he said religion is going to be injected into the program if three private schools operated by the Winnipeg jewish Board of education Are amalgamated into the there is a place for but it belongs in a parochial Goorvich the Public be picking up the Winnipeg division trustees earlier had passed a motion to appoint a committee to meet the jewish Board about possibly expanding the Divi Sions hebrew bilingual Brian a trustee who opposed the said the jewish school Board ultimately wants the division to pay its while main Taining Complete autonomy in operating its in not going to let them run a private school in a Public Dickson two years ago the jewish Board approached Winnipeg school Divi Sion to take Over its schools but the Board Dickson said the jewish Board was inflexible in its demands then and he has had no indication that position has jewish Board superintendent Baruch Rand said the criticisms of the Board were Rand said the jewish Board wants input into the divisions hebrew Lan Guage but is not trying to take it the number of women and Franco phones working for Ottawa in Mani Toba Rose last per or of Manitoba Federal were women gain of a total of women were employed by but they still lagged behind men in senior Posi the report shows that 299 of the Federal governments manag ers were francophone held 851 of those top an overwhelming per cent of Federal Public servants in Manitoba were the report the number of francophone Rose by 11 to in per cent of All Federal positions were filled by Ang the report commission chairman Edgar Gallant said in a preface to the report that bureaucrat Bash ing escalated during last Falls election Gallant blamed on sided Media reports of inter est groups and others who see weak Nesses and imperfections in the civil he said they have Given the service a negative when this climate is talented people Are increasingly dissuaded from while those within Are inclined to become Dis Gallant he noted a decline in the num Ber of Canadian graduates of universities and pos secondary institutions joining the Public if the situation remains the same Wayne free press on thin roof oblivious of Industry minister Eugene Kostyra prediction something will break shortly on the Fate of the Institute for manufacturing install skylight Over atrium atop the Kostyra refused yesterday to reveal the Ellice Avenue centres future but said an announcement was injured Man appeals benefits loss claimant denies compensation Board allegation he refused Job by Catherine Mitchell a Man says Hes been told his workers compensation benefits will end Friday because he turned Down a Job he was never Stuart said yesterday he is appealing the workers compensation Board decision to Cut off the Benefit he receives for a 1975 Pearse said it is the third time he has appealed a Board a letter from the Board dated april 23 says Pear ases compensation is to Stop Friday because he told a prospective employer he Start work due to phys ical Job not offered but Pearse said he was not offered a Job in an april 12 interview with the manager of Progress Plas tics and therefore could not refuse he led me to believe he didst want Pearse adding the the interviewer didst seem interested in hiring him because he asked for about an he said the interviewer told him the Job paid an so he told the manager to arrange to have the compensation Board augment the Pearse said his benefits equal about an 75 per cent of what he earned As a construction worker before his he said he suffered Chest injuries after he fell from a ladder he said a coworker didst secure pro he said he also told the interviewer he didst know How to use the measuring tools the Job Pearse said the manager never offered him the but said he would talk to the Board worker who set up the he said the worker phoned him twice april a but he want he said the worker told him before the interview that the manager was her Friend and she had a hard time convincing him to give him a on week Progress plastics manager Dale Sukhdeo refused to talk about Pear ases Board chairman Sonny Arrojado also refused to discuss Pear ases citing confidentiality Arrojado said calling people on a sunday int usually but might be a recourse to a worker who cant reach a person during the Pearse said he take a Job paying minimum wage because if he want hired the Board would reassess his Bene fits at that hourly Pearse has a five children and his oldest sons wife and child living at his wife earns about a month working As a Par time people in the rehabilitation pro Gram sometimes have to Start at jobs paying wages lower than compensation Arrojado she said the Board makes up the difference until the persons pay reaches the same level As the Bene if a person is let go from the Job because he handle the he would have to Appeal to prove he want placed if the Appeal is benefits would be based on the initial wage claim to the Pearse is waiting for a Hoard hearing on an Appeal made earlier this year when his benefits were suspended because he refused to attend the boards voluntary Job search he said his Cut off in Glenn free press Stuart Pearse shows scar from workplace were restarted in Gebru doctors said he want Ary after he attended a Pearse said his benefits started in 1982 he asked for an again in september 1982 after he Appeal of a 1979 Board decision to proved his injuries with medical Cut off his payments because Board 4 for any length of he the Public service will be deprived of its share of Canadas greatest resource and thus May have real difficulty in responding effectively to the Chal Lenges of As Gallant expressed con Cerns about relaxing the present limited political rights of Public ser he said the proclamation of the charter of rights and freedoms coupled with two Federal leadership contests and last Falls election have brought pressure for our review of developments in some provinces and in other coun tries has convinced us that full participation in partisan politics by Public servants does undermine the impartiality of the Public service in impedes career development and stability of employ he under the present Federal Public servants May make financial contributions to candidates or Politi Cal parties and May attend political inmate bragged of killing witness testifies by David Obrien a bloodstained prisoner bragged about delivering fatal Stab wounds to two Stony Mountain prison guards last a jury was told yester i killed those a convict testified he heard Walter Sinclair say after the Parvis Mazel Umbour said Sinclair then threw half a pair of scissors out of a cell Mazel Umbour said he was serving an Lightyear sentence for Man Slaughter when the stabbings occurred july Daryle Don Ald and Frank have pleaded not guilty to two counts of first degree guards Joseph and Rudy were slain at about 11 while attempting to lock up prisoners for the Mazel Umbour testified that Kent also told him two goofs Are he said he heard Gode say some thing like we got pm or i got another David said Kent asked him to get rid of his blood covered pants and but he before the Wiebe said Kent asked him to spread the word there was going to be a riot that Mazel Umbour testified he saw the four defendants Rush out of a Shower room when Wendl and Friesen entered their cell he said Hoard and Sinclair at tacked while Friesen was jumped by the other two he said he saw Sinclair make a jabbing motion with a knife like of but did not see at whom the thrust was Kent began Yelling come lets come out of your Mazel Umbour adding that he left his cell because he feared retaliation if he Wiebe said Kent told him that Hoard had kicked one of the fatally wounded guards Down a flight of some testimony yesterday contradicted evidence heard when inmate Marshall Duke said he saw Only Sinclair and Kent come out of the Shower room and attack the Duke said he saw Sinclair Stab Wendl in the Wiebe said the four accused were drinking Home brew together in a cell before the he said Sinclair told him he stabbed a guard but not to Tell Kent also warned him not to give a Wiebe four inmates have testified at the trial so the inmates have been called liars under vigorous Cross examination by four defence Wiebe refused to answer some accusing lawyers of play ing he testified that a few weeks be fore the he had asked to be placed in isolation for his own Protection because he pay an other inmate who sold him Marijuan Kents Tim pointed put Wiebe had testified at a preliminary hearing that he went into isolation Over a gambling Wiebe said he had lied because he was afraid corrections officials would charge him with drug of repairs spending defended the head of the cites housing Branch has defended a Core area initiative program recently criticized for spending More than half its Money fixing houses outside the inner Tom Yauk said that by fixing these houses the Core area Home repair program has helped contain the spread of bad housing conditions to areas that Are still in reasonably Good Yauk said that halting the deterioration will enable the City to focus on intercity areas in future without having to tackle As Many areas at the same a recent evaluation said 53 per cent of million in Home repair Loans under the program have gone to areas outside the about 92 per cent of the Money has come from complementary fed eral with the initiative contributing the although the programs original guidelines allowed spending in peripheral the evaluation said Many rental units in the Core area Are going without it recommended increased incentives to landlords to fix their proper higher Grants also would reduce rent increases imposed by landlords who use the program to carry out the report it noted that one Survey found average rent increases in the first year after repairs came to nearly 28 per Yauk said the who Are exempt from Normal rent controls for the first now Are being limited to rent increase of 15 per cent except in unusual Mercier questions hiring of sociologist attorney general Roland Penner has hired a sociologist on a oneyear contract to evaluate the programs of his Penner said Steve a pro Fessor at the University of will be asked to assess programs and recommend conservative Justice critic Gerry Mercier said yesterday the appoint ment was particularly in Light of the governments tight Finan Cial Penner said the department has a number of such As the victim witness assistance which Are established with certain he said that in Many cases programs Are continued every year without analysis As to whether they Are working or still but Mercier said the government has sociologists in other depart ments who could be Penner said his department required its own sociologist for the noting other departments also have evaluation he said Brickey was chosen be cause of his background in evaluating criminal Justice Mercier also criticized Penner for putting a virtual freeze on the Law Reform commissions budget for the second consecutive while Hir ing outside consultants to do Legal work for the the commission will receive about this up from last it has lost two com missioners and its research fund in the last two Mercier said the commission has done exemplary work and should be Given higher my concern is that it is being underfunded at the same time As the attorney general is handing out Money to groups to do research the charter of rights and free Penner said he realized the com1 Mission has suffered he said it was important to beef up analysis and research segments of his As he said during his depart ments estimates that the govern ment had decided to contract out some constitutional Law work be cause the commission does not have an expert in the commission chairman Cliff Edwards acknowledged in an interview the shortage of funds has caused some but that the body has been coping ;