Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sunday store charges dismissed info Lup by Paul Moloney a state charged with operating unlawfully of sunday won its Case by default yesterday after someone forgot to summon the crowns wit provincial judge Ian Ubienski refused a request for an adjourn ment and threw out two charges against the homies store after learning the prosecution witnesses had not been Ubienski said adjournments Are sometimes granted when witnesses have but in this 6ase they were not even sure its aft Crown attorney Murray Conklin said after the aborted charges being dismissed for want of prosecution that a bad lots of Little things can go wrong this one had More serious consequences than Charles defence lawyer for the homies outlet at 43 Marion said late con lift didst realize his witnesses had not been subpoenaed until he arrived for Phelan said he was pleased by the sudden although adding his client had a Strong defence to the Laid under the retail businesses Holiday closing we were confident we would have won he Wayne director of criminal said the at Torney generals department views the incident seriously and is trying to pinpoint what went our Man Conklin mistakenly thought the subpoenas had been is he the Case failed for that were not very pleased with the whole were lawyers we want to see cases adjudicated on the we dont like to see them fail for administrative Moshkowsky said routine instructions to Issue subpoenas had been see store Page 4 Han printed designs make Dothe works Clear tonight 10 sunny tomorrow 25 August Home delivery classified 9562330 second class Mai registration number 086 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets City capital plans jump 42 per cent in budget by Patrick Mckinley homeowners could face higher tax increases for at least the next five years because of a Sharp increase in City spending on roads and other construction citing lower interest rates on Money the City borrows to finance the Board of commissioners yesterday proposed launch ing a More ambitious construction program Between 1987 and the Board Felt that with the improvement in the economic Outlook Over the last couple of this was the time we could afford to suggest an increase in our capital chief commissioner Nick Diakiw he unveiled a five year capital budget calling for spending nearly million up 42 per cent from the previous plan approved last it would mean major improve ments for dilapidated particularly in older parts of where some streets have collapsed because of excessive but it would also mean higher tax increases to pay for interest charges on the higher mayor Bill Norrie the City has imposed tax in creases of about four per cent in each of the last two if you really want to do these things you Are going to have to accept the principle of a or a five percent increase on an annual Norrie that is something that the City councillors Are going to have to wrestle councillors will be going into a civic election Campaign in less than a said the Public has been pushing for Many of the projects included in the five year and the likelihood of higher taxes would not necessarily harm councillors seeking Diakiw said that for the last few High interest rates have forced the City to focus much of its spending for roads and other con free press traffic stopper a tactical police helicopter is trucked out of the convention Centre Canadian association of chiefs of police the chiefs yesterday after exhibition in a Trade show associated with the yesterday changed their argument favouring capital Parasiuk comeback precedes audit report by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Wilson cleared of con Alicto interest and impropriety allegations by a commission of Inqui will rejoin the Pawley Cabinet tomorrow Days before the Provin Cial auditor delivers his report on the opposition Leader Gary Filmon and Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs say Premier Howard Pawley should have waited for the second Filmon and Carstairs said Al though the prepared by for Mer Manitoba chief Justice Samuel has exonerated Para they would oppose a govern ment move to pick up his Legal costs for the Pawley said earlier yesterday the government is considering paying the Bill in addition to the Cost of the it would appear not to be fair on the basis of this report to stick Parasiuk with the Pawley the report is so but Filmon and Carstairs noted Parasiuk sought the he should pay the costs of his own Legal Carstairs the size of Parasiuk Legal Bill is not the conservative Leader said the commission had stuck to its narrow terms of reference and not commented on patronage or other mat Carstairs said she was disappointed Freedman had not called for tougher conflict Freedman said the inquiry was concerned with existing legislation and not with proposed amendments to strengthen the conflict Law now before the his 43page report was tabled in the legislature yesterday by attorney general Roland this is no borderline nor a Case in which the either in volume or confronted the commission with a difficulty of freed Raan pronoun cing Parasiuk not condemning the scurrilous charges and innuendo that prompted the said he will reinstate Parasiuk to the Energy and mines portfolio he has held since the new democrats formed the govern ment in he criticized the role of the Media see partnership Page 4 inquiry witnesses uniformly sympathetic by Bob Cox Wilson Parasiuk saw a lot of Friendly faces on the witness stand while sitting through the inquiry into conflict interest allegations against in his report released former Manitoba chief Justice Samuel the Oneman inquiry said he heard mainly from one kind of witness people sympathetic to Freedman said the phenomenon of a on sided presentation became discernible Early in the the witnesses and their counsel All seemed to be on the same the Side of he this was a Public with Public notice that the commission would receive Oral or written sub missions that were relevant to the but no ant Parasiuk wit Ness made an Freedman said this May have been due to a genuine absence of evidence against but that the other Side still had to be he said he was confronted with the Prospect of hearing Only one Side of the and he credited commis Sion lawyer Ray Flett with partly balancing the when Parasiuk took the wit Ness Flett assumed the role of opposing counsel and subjected Parasiuk to a Cross examination that was searching and Freedman Parasiuk May have been taken by Surprise by the turn of but the commission is see witnesses Page 4 Striction on intercity the proposed five year plan still channels Money to the Core but will allow construction of Bridges and other transportation projects in the suburbs which the City has had to put off for he to do borrowing would shoot up to million next year from million this year and As see City Page 4 House 16 Bills die Johns up the current session of which had been scheduled to resume is Deputy prime minister Don Mazankowski announced the move effectively kills 16 government Bills and a raft of other Public business and private Mem Bers forcing the govern ment and individual maps to drop them entirely or reintroduce them and Send them through the entire legislative process and it also sets the stage for an economic by finance minister Michael although it is not Clear whether the statement will contain changes in fiscal policy or other budget like the Bills to die include Tough new Laws against motions formally authorizing income tax changes announced in the last Bud Bills regulating financial inst insurance and Trust companies and a Bill streamlining procedures at the supreme court of Mazankowski said a new session of parliament will open 1 with a throne speech setting out the governments legislative priorities for the final years of its in the government is planning an economic statement of some possibly before the new session begins and possibly Wilson said he had not yet decided on a Date or on the Content of the he would not speculate on whether it if presented in the contain changes in fiscal policy a move which in make the statement a Wilson said some sort of statement has been made necessary by recent slippage in the Canadian econ apparently a reference to speculation that the budget deficit for the current fiscal year May run higher than Manitoba woman stable after hear lung Transfer by Catherine Bainbridge a Manitoba woman who Recei Ved a hear lung transplant at the University of Chicago medical Centre was in serious but stable condition last Hospital staff Marlene of Snowflake was flown to Chicago from the health sciences Centre last week and had the emergency operation she is conscious and breathing on her Nancy a medical Centre she was very close to so this is very exciting Wayne a Salesman for a Brandon flew to Chicago with his their three and Are stay ing with their aunt in were All very Alvin a we heard she was up and around in a wheelchair he said Funk was admitted to see heart Page 4 Unk up and around Deans joins Federal payroll nip House Leader continues to have difficult with tories Ottawa up Ian the Florid faced nip House Leader who five months ago found it hard to stomach the conservative gov signed on to the govern ment payroll yesterday for a year As chairman of the Public service staff relations i have had and continue to have difficulty with the Way this govern ment is the Silver haired told reporters after prime minister Mulroney announced the appointment in but As chairperson of this Board i neither answer for nor to the govern it is a quasi judicial it is a dispute settlement the appointment was announced the same Day As Kay a former tory women was Given a civil service Job in the office of the status of it also followed by two Days the appointment of former conservative president Dalton Camp As a civil service adviser to Mulroney and his a move roundly criticized by both opposition parties As politicizing the Public but the normally talkative Deans refused to speculate on whether he and other new democrats appointed to government posts Stephen Lewis As ambassador to the United Dennis Mcdermott As ambassador to Ireland be used in the next election Campaign to Blunt opposition attacks on tory patronage i suppose Well see when the time wont we the scottish bom former fireman will resign his seat effective Deans had already announced in March that after six years in the commons and 13 in the Ontario see Deans Page 4 budget cuts Winnipeg school Board approves million in budget but some trustees say its a meaningless Market Hunt Graham Walker of the Canadian wheat Board uses weather charts to find markets for this years record Grain Libya move Libya has moved its military command Centre away from the Western diplomats pottery Western express 2894642 lotto West winning numbers 52 Bonus number 45 lotto winning numbers 40 Bonus number 32 Index Ann 21 7 28 43 24 43 6 39 7 Jumble 47 21 sports record 61 29 33 to 21 ;