Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg Pratt May Page 3 Getty conservatives hang expo 86 welcomes Millionth local taxicab Survey withheld by Doug Spears the results of a controversial Winnipeg chamber of Commerce Survey on the Quality of the cites taxi service May never be made former chamber president de Martens says it will be up to the business groups Council to decide whether to release the results of the March undertaken to deter mine whether complaints about filthy rude Drivers and slow service Are he said the chamber has agreed not to release the or comment further on the until after a meeting with the Manitoba taxicab Board and cab Martens said the purpose of the meeting is to discuss problems in the Industry and How they can be re the which Drew about 500 asked members How often they use the condition of How Long they Are kept waiting and whether Drivers get to a Destina Tion without Martens said the taxicab Board feels problems with Winnipeg cab service Are not As bad As the Cham Ber he said the timing of the Survey was unfortunate because of the Stab Bing death last month of cab Driver Gurnam Singh although publicity on the Survey has raised some Martens said it has drawn attention to Long standing the Chambers taxi task which prepared the sur has warned that the organizations feud with cabbies has taken on racist the task forces concerns were reported in the minutes of a recent chamber Council the chamber seems to be headed on a course in some has Lead to a confrontation with the the minutes the Issue has taken on racist the Issue has been taken up by the Community at the recent tragedy in the Industry the slaying of Dhaliwal has created additional the chamber should exercise extreme care not to further inflame Public sentiment or provide a focal Point for those in our society who wish to Sling racial the task headed by Cham Ber Vic president Mark also said the taxicab Board has Little Power to regulate the its report claimed immigrants tend to find their Way into this Industry this is not confined to the current immigrants and can be traced Back Over several immigration the task Force conceded the Cham Ber Survey is less than but there is no denying the Broad concerns which have come to it said the main problems found include the cleanliness of Cour Tesy and knowledge of Drivers and Drivers language swabbing the deck they get the driveway to Kerri Peers overboard at Shirley Lesage yesterday afternoon As floods boat ready for the voyage from dry Dock on their Jubilee Avenue summer sailing on Lake of the court urged for truants charging parents social worker says by Catherine Mitchell a social work director says Chil Dren who Duck school should be hauled into Hugh Curtis said its ridiculous that a 12yearold can be held legally responsible for crimes like robbery and but not i know very Well some of these judges would like to get their hands on these Curtis i think its totally Curtis of the child guidance clinic said Are charged under the Public schools act if their children refuse to attend he said the clinic should have the Power to decide which children should be taken to the clinic asks the Crown to press charges against the which monitors truancy for Winnipeg school began bringing parents to court this school year to crack Down on chronic who coordinates the truancy said nine parents have been charged so he said at any time five per cent of the divisions students Are with up to two per cent 600 to 900 students seriously enough to involve truancy out of 800 cases investigated this Curtis 550 have been closed with the student returning to school or he said in Many the Chil Dren ought to be hauled before judges to account for their a Mother of four was Given a six month suspended sen tence with supervised probation be cause her 13yearold son would not go to provincial judge Robert Trudel said a probation officer could pro sign plan called intimidation a plan to name people who oppose the cites Mosquit fogging program is aimed at intimidating them into dropping their a critic i think what there proposing totally violates our Rose Mary Jodoin of the Safe Mosquito abatement committee were just not going to let them get away with Don Mitchelson Derson has said the City will consider putting signs on the Homes of objecting residents so their neigh Bors will know whom to blame Tor the Lack of a new provincial regulation allows opponents to have their property and a 100metre Buffer zone excluded from the who Heads the cites recreation and social services com claimed this Means that 500 Winni Eggers could deny spraying to More than who want he said City Council also will look at publishing the names of objectors and May do so if its found to be but Jodoin said the plan makes Council look foolish and what there saying is we dont want the province or a to Stop us from doing what we want to no matter what their rights she resentment Jodoin said she believes the plan will stir up a lot of resentment against Council because no one likes it when a government does that Type of thing its she said the Public will realize that councils aim is not just to keep the Public but to cause dissension in neighbourhoods where opinion is split on the a lot of people who dont want their property sprayed wont say anything if a sign is being put on their Home because they wont want to have their neighbors mad at she they should have the right to exercise their rights without that Type of Jodoin said she plans to meet City officials to discuss their new tactics in the War on Abe executive director of the Manitoba association for rights and said Hes unsure whether his group would oppose the publicity but its a silly attitude for the Council to he its like there trying to punish people for saying they dont want their Yard sprayed by trying to get their neighbors mad at vide the woman with help to ensure her who has not been to class since starts attending Curtis said he would rather have had the boy in not the int suffering the Mother is he adding the clinic had known about the Childs truancy for about a i know the boy is out of her Curtis said he would be willing to use 12 As the age at which children become legally responsible for their As does the Young offenders he said truancy can be a sign of deeper problems with a but noted Many troubled children continue to attend Curtis said the results of the charges will be compiled in a report at the end of the year and the clinic May urge changes to the schools spokesmen for other Winnipeg area school boards say Treyve rarely had to charge parents for truant Romeo attendance offi cer for Seine River school said his Board depends on counsel Ling of families with truant Chil it often takes return visits to Homes before the problem is he manaigre said hed like to see a return to the practice of withholding Federal family allowance cheques to parents of truant children As was done years Jame Assiniboia school Divi Sion refers an average of 120 Stu dents a year to truancy attendance officer Shelby flood the which has a student population of has pressed charges against parents in the but its flood councillors firing sought by police Union by Don Retson Winnipeg police association wants Harry Lazarenko dumped from the cites police commission for criticizing two District 3 offi association Vic president Allan Galbraith said the Public criticisms were unfounded and make Lazarenko unfit to continue serving on the were not taking this lying Down and were not kissing anyone least of All Harry Galbraith said if he thinks his feathers were ruffled he May end up getting some feathers Galbraith said he and association lawyer Al Mcgregor were to Dis cuss today Legal options available to the says he will ask mayor Bill Norrie today for a copy of a police report on the last the councillor claimed a District 3 police officer screamed at him when he asked to see the duty sergeant about the policy for ticket ing cars parked in ambulance a report on the incident was pre pared by police chief Herb Stephen at the request of executive policy now in the hands of chief commissioner Nick the report is to be Given to finance committee Lazarenko said Diakiw suggested to him Friday that he might want to look at the report prior to its Diakiw told him it was not in my favor at All and could be very embarrassing to he Lazarenko said he can Only As sume Diakis comment Means the police report is a distortion of what took although two people were ahead of him at the District 3 station Lazarenko says he did not abuse his position by asking to see the ser Geant he also criticized the duty ser Geant he want interested in hearing his complaint about the conduct of the Junior Galbraith said a police association report on the incident shows la Zarenko was the one stepping out of line and being very even if the councillor apologizes to the two the association still wants him to resign from the police he Hes let the cat out of the bag and shown his True Galbraith noting Lazarenko made a num Ber of disparaging comments about police in general in a recent free press he cant make Fairand impartial Galbraith said even if Kos criticisms were it is wrong for a councillor to air com plaints publicly before they Are dealt with Lazarenko said Stephen has writ ten him suggesting he take his com plaint about the officers conduct to the Law enforcement review Agen Stephens letter said Lazarenko comments to the free press appear to be a formal complaint that should be dealt with by the labor Law fight set for court Manitoba court of Queens Bench will hear landmark challenges to the provinces labor Law in a Case set to begin next month after a judge re fused to allow the matter to be dealt with at two separate the Case involves challenges to key sections of Manitoba labor relations including those on compulsory checkoff of Union compulsory Union use of arbitration to Settle contract Dis Putes and the Manitoba labor boards authority to impose first lawyers for the several unions and the attorney generals department had asked the court to hear arguments in two they said a court should first decide whether the charter of rights and freedoms applies to the Provin Cial labor and then deter if if it violates the but Justice Patrick Ferg of court of Queens Bench said last week those challenging the Legisla Tion including metropolitan stores a group of Eaton employees in Brandon and Mike a free press editor be greatly inconvenienced by delays if the Case were Ferg said his decision Likely will be appealed to the court of Appeal and the supreme court of and it could be three or four years before the first Issue was settled and the second stage could the Canadian press reported that the supreme court of British Columbia has ruled the Char Ter does not cover the use of Union dues for political Justice Albert Mackoff ruled last week that what a Union does with its dues is the activity of a private organization to which the charter does not use clothing distributor threatened with collapse a Volunteer project providing clothes to the needy is in danger of its organizer Hilda who manages peo Ples said the City has told her she can no longer use a Cit owned King Edward Street for the last nine Wood has gathered a team of Volun Teers to collect used clothes and distribute them to needy the program has used an old Gas station and garage at 1831 King Edward to distribute the clothing every but said the City has sold the building and says it wont be available to the project after May if we have to close its going to Hurt an awful lot of she City officials offered Wood an alternate location on Cumberland Avenue a few months but Wood said she decided to remain on King it now appears the Cumberland spot has been sold and is no longer she Wood said she and the Volun Teers Are asking the City to come up with another location for the without a Cit paid venue and free she said they cant continue the the project gets clothes from private Homes and any where else it can find Wood said Many natives come from reserves for the free cloth and its also a great help to welfare single Moth ers and raised at Start of cat scanner Campaign a fundraising Effort to buy a second computerized Axial tomography scanner for the health sciences Centre has raised More than so a Centre spokes Man Ian who Heads the radiology said activities this year will include Walka swim Athons and other projects to acquire the needed Sutherland said the sponsored by the Lions clubs of Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario and the kiwanis clubs of Northwestern on May take two or three years to raise enough the Effort began three weeks although several clubs had Contri buted before he the province has two cat scan at the Hsc which is aging and prone to breakdowns and update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free one at Boniface general hos health minister Larry Desjardins said the government has already purchased a new cat scan to re place the one at the when three additional machines Are the province will have More than doubled its number of the High tech xray machines to Desjardins with two at both the Hsc and Boniface Hospital and one at Brandon Gener Al Sutherland said the province will contribute million toward the Purchase of three and the fundraising Effort will raise the other refunds calculated the taxation data Centre in Winnipeg has paid out million in income tax refunds this reve nue Canada spokesman Brenda Scarcella she said returns have been processed and More than 80 per cent yielded the average refund has been compared with a National average of Scarcella explain Why Prairie residents get More but speculated that higher provincial tax credits in the West May be she said about taxpayers out of three million in the Region Haven filed although those who get a refund didst have to file by the april 30 Reserve hires teacher a former gods Lake Narrows school teacher who lost his Job for saying the Reserve was unsafe has a Job with another David began teach ing recently at broke head 65 Kilometres Northeast of Winni Peg everything turned out Muirhead i have a totally different opinion of reserves reserves in the South Are much different than reserves in the Muirhead was ordered april 17 to leave Remote gods Lake about 550 Kilometres Northeast of after he said it want Safe to go out after his Home had been broken his students had threatened him and bullets were fired at the school three times in three closing the school for two Muirhead added that his experiences during two years of teaching there convinced him he was dealing with a dying race of although chief David Nassie called the remarks broken head chief Jim Bear said his band needed an extra teacher and offered Muirhead the i interviewed him and he seemed very he the students really seem to like Muirhead said he will stay until the end of june and May pursue his teaching career in British co Lumbia in agreements reached about three quarters of Manito Bas 59 school divisions and districts have reached 1986 collective agree ments with their a Manitoba teachers society spokesman said 44 agreements have been four divisions or districts Are still six Are in conciliation and five Are headed for the five arbitration divisions and All in Rural Are red River and Tiger Hills divisions and Churchill and Gypsumville the spokesman virtually All contracts include a three percent pay increase and no significant changes in working con the spokesman Ray Manitoba association of school trustees chief Nego said fort Garry school Divi Sion earlier went to everything is pretty Well wrapped Whiteway i ;