Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 3 Lawtey thinks Homie Moonis aids deaths spark massive local Norrie fears credit rating backlash could Hurt City on borrowing Market mayor Bill Norrie says a drop in the provincial governments credit rating could Cost the City Money later this the which has had a better credit rating than the province for the past two plans to apply to have its credit rating upgraded this fall to aaa from the current the fact that the provinces cred it rating has been downgraded May very Well mean that we cant get an increase in Norrie said yes the City depends on the province for about million of the million it spends Norrie said ail upgrading in the cites credit rating would Cut its interest payments on Money it Bor rows by Between per cent and one per that would save the City about to a year on the roughly million it borrows an he said for a big Borrower such As the the savings Are signify Moodys investors Syndicate of new York downgraded the pro Vinces credit rating this week to Al from its former rating of in Standard and another credit rating Down graded Manitoba rating to a minus from the drop in the Moodys rating is expected to Cost the provincial government about million on this years borrowing judge waxes nostalgic Over old films As he dismisses Case against new ones a Winnipeg judge pined for the Golden age of movies As he Dis missed charges yesterday concerning two films he said were but provincial judge Law Fie Mit pondering the Case against electric Blue 007 and dirty complained there Are no such things around anymore As singing in the Lassie or anything like he said he walked out Halfway through the Box office smash be verify Hills cop because of the amount of swearing in the that particular Standard is not he it Sells movies and is but he dismissed obscenity re lated charges against a City video tape saying the movies involved were but not obscene by today in a decision this judge Mitchell said trying to determine what is beyond tolerance across Canada really boils Down to the tolerance level of the judge hear ing an obscenity judge Mitchell dismissed two counts of Possession of obscene material for the purpose of circulation against ass stores and owner Harvey the judge said the movies were less offensive to Community Stan Dards than deep Throat and inside Gloria neither of which Manitoba courts have found be biting dog minister wont be specific on funds must judge says Gerry free press by Murray Mcneil a provincial judge yesterday or dered a pit Bull terrier to be Des troyed because he attacked several people last judge Robert Kopstein said it was Clear from evidence heard Dur ing a on Day hearing last week that the Twoy Earold dog is while saying he wished he could have found another the judge said the Only Way of ensuring the dog does not harm anyone else is to have it the Carmen began sobbing when it became Clear that judge Kopstein intended to impose the death lawyer Frank Bueti said Hankins and her common Law Jim have 30 Days in which to decide whether to Appeal judge Kopstein judge Kopstein told the couple the named will remain in the Pound at least until the Appeal period Pound officials applied to have Pagan destroyed after it crashed through the window of Hankins Morley Avenue Home March 20 and attacked a Man and a Bohdan la Dashevsky told the court his left forearm was seriously injured and the dog also lunged at a woman who was with ripping the Lapel of her coat and knocking her attacked policeman the pair called and when they arrived the dog attacked one of the judge Kopstein noted the dog repeatedly lunged at the and bit him on the the policeman warded him off with five or six after which the dog ran Hankins refused to let police search her Home later that evening for the when they returned the next Day with a warrant she had already taken the animal to stay with a although Hankins described the dog As a loveable pet who had never before bitten judge Kop Stein said Pound officials described it As ferocious and Hankins proposed her dog be spared and returned to the breeder from whom she bought but judge Kopstein noted the breeder did not come Forward at the the judge ordered Hankins to pay restitution to la Dashevsky for damages to his shirt and a bag he was and to the woman for the damage to her following Abell remarked to Bueti that he found it amazing that judge Kopstein would order Pagan destroyed when earlier this week a provincial judge spared the life of another pit Bull which had attacked a Fivey Earold girl and inflicted a 60stitch wound to her in that Case the girl tripped Over the animal during a visit to the owners provincial judge Frank Allen said the which suffers from a hip reacted spontaneously to the he said the attack was out of character for the and he could not say that it is a dog that requires destruction to protect the Kostyra says Hes disappointed at lukewarm science Centre stand construction workers take break to listen to science minister Tom Siddons Evans Trade barbs on new Manitoba jobless data by Fred Youngs the latest unemployment Statis tics touched off a verbal Battle in the legislature with the opposition claiming they showed the Pawley governments Job creation policies were not conservative critic Gerry Mercier said the april figures show Manito Bas is increasing while the National average is drop Manitoba Job creation record will be the worst in Mer Cier citing statistics Canada figures that showed unemployment rising among Young provincial government policies of imposing a payroll of their labor of their Antibus Ness attitude Are failing the Young people of this Mercier used in creases in both the actual and seasonally adjusted employment rates to question employment services and economic Security minister Len his charges brought an angry response from who said the Job creation record of the previous tory administration was this government has taken a very positive attitude to Job Evans were doing our this summer alone we Are put Ting More Money than Ever into Job the Federal mean is cutting Job creation spend ing in Manitoba by he unemployment total labor Force percentage of jobless people april 1985 seasonally adjusted figures graph shows jobless drop he also said the november eco nomic statement of Federal finance minister Michael Wilson has Cost Manitoba go ask the people of go ask the people of Gimli or Chur where Are their he the statistics Canada figures showed there were More people unemployed in Manitoba in april than in the same month in the actual unemployment rate had risen to nine per cent from per while the seasonally adjusted level was up per cent to per the nine percent level in april is Down from per cent in Manitoba ranked third in Canada in both having been second in april though the provinces rates were increasing compared to last the National seasonally adjusted average declined to per cent from per cent in there were More than million canadians looking for work last the rate for Winnipeg stayed the at per cent in the year overhear the future of a new science Centre in downtown Winnipeg is still in even though a Federal minis Ter flew in to Winnipeg yesterday to make an announcement about Federal science minister Tom Siddon left the City refusing to reveal the level of funding he will commit to Winnipeg Institute for manufacturing now called science place i know of an but in not prepared to discuss that Siddon the institutes future became clouded last november when the Mulroney government said it would finish construction of the Ellice ave nue but afford its million annual operating Siddon said yesterday there was a misconception in Manitoba that Ottawa was insisting the province share in the operating costs of the research Council we have never insisted that Manitoba help share that he the said Ottawa merely wants to see the provincial research Council locate in the at a press conference he said a team will be set up to investigate a program for the inst a financial and business plan and the level of provincial govern ment and private sector Particia provincial Industry minister Eugene Kostyra said later that Siddons reluctance to identify the Federal governments commitment is a Dis but Kostyra said the announce ment of an implementation team demonstrates some level of support from in pleased to see the Federal government has made a commit ment they Are going Kos tyra that commitment has not been clearly made since no Siddon said he would have liked to have held a joint press conference with the but was unable to because there is no final agreement yet on provincial he said he expected the agree ment to be final within Clear indication but Kostyra said the province wants to see a Clear indication of Ottawa level of funding before such an agreement can be the province is willing to move part of the Manitoba research Council operations into the but no final decision will be made until definite Federal funding Levels Are Siddon said there Are a number of private sector firms interested in taking part in the but no firm deals have been the minister said the new plans for the building represent the governments philosophy of doing More by spending he said the new program will be much More broadly based than the original which proposed a close door facility for the exclusive use of the National research coun Martin former Dean of engineering at the University of will head the implementation team which is to present an interim report by the final report is due by the end of the about the same time the building will be Wedepohl said he Hopes that with in five years the Centre will be largely funded by the private Sec funding priority criticized by Maureen Brosnahan the provincial government appears to be making Little More than Token gestures to improve Community mental health services in Mani a Canadian mental health association spokesman Bill Martin said yesterday that the governments health budget this year accentuates the imbalance in the the budget provides million for Community mental health and Between and million for Capi Tal projects for mental health inst if we continue to build the inst we just contribute to said executive director of the Manitoba Branch of the Martin said the association will be discussing the thrust of the govern ments actions and will seek ways to improve services in the Community at its annual meeting this Little Money he said that while the government claims to have endorsed the 1983 Pascoe which recommended More emphasis on Community based mental health it appears to have committed very Little Money toward the Pascoe report also recommended that to upgrade mental health the government should be prepared to spend million annually for the following five years on mental health ser this the report should be spent to develop local men Tal health boards to determine men Tal health needs and hire Community mental health workers to provide care for people in their but the governments commit ment of million this year is really a Small gesture toward improving mental says Bruce a professor of psychology at the University of Manitoba and incoming Cha he said the sum is less than the amount the government will col Lect in charges from Lon stay patients at both the Selkirk and bran Don mental health rights not violated in arson court rules by Murray Mcneil the Manitoba court of Appeal has ruled that despite a delay of nearly five years in bringing two persons accused of arson to their constitutional right to a trial without delay has not been Violat in separate written decisions re leased a three member panel of the Appeal court unanimously agreed there were special circumstances to warrant such an unusually Long they ruled that provincial judge Arnold Conner erred last april when he quashed the charges against the two and granted the crowns Appeal of that Deci the two Robert Victor be Loii and John Arthur were charged in june 1980 with breaking into and setting fire to the Cando sportswear 60 Para mount v the following month the Crown also charged Fowler and five other men with conspiring to defraud eight insurance companies of in connection with the the Crown opted to delay prosecuting Deloli and Fowler on the charges of break Andente and set Ting fire1 to a substance until after it tried All seven men on the conspiracy for a variety of that Case didst come before the courts until five Days into the the Crown agreed to stay the conspiracy charge against All seven accused because of Lack of it then proceeded with the initial set of charges against Fowler and but at their october 1983 preliminary their lawyers moved to have the charges quashed on the ground that their constitutional right to a trial without delay had been violated by the lawyers argue the lawyers argued that although their clients did not object to the repeated remands and adjourn it didst mean they were consenting to the Perolis Jay said the Crown unilaterally decided to delay the trial on those charges until after the conspiracy count was dealt Prober said he Only agreed to the delays As a professional Cour Tesy to the although judge Conner accepted that argument and ruled the delay was the Appeal court judges Justice Alan Philp said the Crown could not Deal with the first set of charges and the conspiracy count at the same time because they were charged in separate in he also said the Crown had the right to unilaterally elect to Deal first with the conspiracy the attorney Genera Lias the authority and the duty to carry on criminal judge Philp he has Broad Powers in prose tutorial matters and in the enforce ment of criminal Laws in the he noted that although the accused had the right to object when the Crown informed them that it planned to remand the first set of charges for at least six neither they nor their lawyers did so at that thrown out it was Only after the conspiracy charge was thrown out and the first charges went to preliminary hear ing that they voiced their object judge Philp said the professional Courtesy argument was without and should not have been accepted by judge he also noted the accused and their lawyers were responsible for Many of the delays in getting the conspiracy charge to and the subsequent delays in getting the original two charges to preliminary in his separate written decision on the Appeal court Justice Joseph Osullivan said he agreed with the conclusion of judge Philp and Justice Roy Matas to Over turn judge Connors he criticized the Judi Cial delays in dealing with the he said neither the seven month delay in judge Connor reaching a nor the Appeal courts two month delay in delivering its written reasons were consented to by the two ;