Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ment Appeal deadline by Patrick Mckinley the province was to introduce legislation today giving Winnipeg property owners until june 12 to Appeal their new the legislation would also allow the City to phase in tax increases Over a three year period for those hardest hit by the first citywide reassessment in 25 Urban affairs minister Gary doer said yesterday he Doest want to raise false Hopes the Bill will offer Large lot suburban homeowners any apart from the three year phase in reassessment will mean Sharp tax increases for some such Home he its time we started telling people tas increase owners of Large residential hold Ings in South vital and South heading Ley have complained they May be looking at tax increases of 70 per cent As a result of reassess doer said the City May offer assessment reductions to areas that Lack full City the City also has discussed the possibility of de Ferring taxes until the properties Are doer didst Rule out the possibility of later legislation to enable such he said residents whose property values have risen sharply have to recognize their taxes will go up As a Many of these people were really under paying for doer recently refused to create an additional assessment category for Large lot suburban properties to allow City councillors to set a lower Mill rate on such he said the june 12 Appeal dead line was picked because Council will have set property Mill rated by then end sent out 1987 tax he said he has yet to decide on a City request to extend the March 31 deadline for setting the Mill rates by another two allowing More time for City and school Board Bud get liberated boys Dice away sexist stereotypes in Home sunny today 6 Clear tonight 18 Winnipeg free press car Felt 4 t a Hunt 11k cum Ricoo a m 5ote Toft n m Mode Picoc 1an n m Rote Raa a m March 1987 vol us no Sun rises sets Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second cuss mail registration number 0280 Ken free press chief Louis Stevenson welcomes ambassador Babb to Peg Iris yesterday amid tight ramp and Indian Mulroney shakes up political staff of Al Al Doucet loses Gratton forced out to boost sources say Ottawa up prime minister Mulroney has shifted his top adviser out of his dumped his press Secretary and promoted his communications director in a shuffle of his senior Mulroney announced late yester Day in a statement that senior adviser Fred Doucet will lose his powerful Post As the prime minis ters key political adviser and be come chairman of the Little known organization committee for International Summit meetings in communications director Bill Fox has been appointed special adviser and his duties Are being taken Over by Bruce press attache at the Canadian embassy in washing ton and former ctr Ottawa Bureau press Secretary Michel involved in a controversy late last year Over sexual harassment Allega has voluntarily left Mulron yes office for an unspecified Job in the private the statement a source said Gratton was forced out of his Job in the Hope of improving Mulroney image and Mulroney has been under intense pressure from senior conservative strategists to fire his senior Many of whom Are close friends who had Little political experience before the tories won their landslide Vic tory in office closings sought Ottawa up Canada Post wants to close 200 Revenue Post offices Over the next year and by the time its new business plan is fully implemented in a confidential Post office document Indi a Revenue outlet is defined by the Agency As a Rural Post office located on the premises of the Post either in his residence or in a Small business operated by the the postmaster is the Only corporate employee in such the leaked yesterday to opposition postal says closure of Small Revenue or offices in close proximity to have been an average savings of per office has been determined for 198788 the amalgamation or closure of these offices often causes severe political and emotional responses Best handled by our Media and government Liaison it is therefore important that we have a Well developed and integrated strategy for dealing with this the closing projections Are listed in a table setting out general goals for reducing the number of outlets in the Agency National Revenue office communities to be affected Are not entitled operating plan the document is part of a five year plan approved by the tory Cabinet last november to wipe out Canada posts operating deficit by March it is dated and signed by John National general manager of collection and delivery for Canada leaked from the Agency foot Hills division in where a target of 24 closings is assigned for the coming the document was made Public at a commons commit tee attended by Harvie the new minister responsible for Canada Liberal Alfonso Gagliano St Leonard Anjou and new Democrat Cyril keeper Winnipeg North Centre gave the figures to Andre after the minister had assured the committee repeatedly that there is not a secret Canada Post closings the development also occurred after Andre attacked his critics and the Media for allegedly spread ing false and misleading information about the Post office closing he was especially irate at the see postal Page 4 two top senator Norm Atkins and former Newfoundland Premier Frank Are reported to have said Mulroney troubles Are partly attributable to political Greenhorn in the prime ministers Mulroney did not fire or shift top aide Bernard Roy to another position despite criticism from Moores and other tories about the principal Secretary Lack of political Doucet has been reported to be on the hit list of senior party officials and Cabinet who believed he was responsible for Many of the policy setbacks the government has endured in recent Doucet duties As key adviser on British and francophone relations appear to have been left to the external affairs Fox takes Over responsibility for the prime ministers personal sched ule and he also be comes top adviser on communications a position he apparently held As communications the unilingual Phillips has Long been considered a Likely replace ment for who has been blamed by tory maps for the governments inability to strike a chord with a recent Gallup poll showed tory support among decided voters had fallen to 22 per making the government the most unpopular in see Doucet Page 4 false abuse report blamed for investigation by Maureen Murray a Gimli woman says child welfare officials gave ramp erroneous in formation which led to an abuse probe and a social workers examination of her Foury Earold Darlene Hogue said police began investigating her and her common Law husband after child welfare officials told police her son was in Hospital with a hairline Skull Hogue said a police report she was shown by Gimli ramp indicated officials from the department of Community services suspected child the Mother of two said the doctor who looked after her didst give authorities any information to Back their Andre was admitted to Gimli Johnson memorial Hospital on 21 suffering from an upper respiratory infection and what his Mother believed were seizure like sym Patel who treated the said rays were taken to Rule out any possible disorder and they showed no he said he informed a Public health nurse who inquired about the toddlers condition on 24 that the boys rays were Hogue said Patel also told her a social worker went to her fou year old son Josephs Day care the same Day Community services reported the incident to police and examined the older child for signs of he the social worker walked into the Day care and examined Joey without telling she Hogue said the boy told her the social worker inspected his genitals and he took him in a room asked him some questions and looked Down his Community services minister Muriel Smith said she has asked her see couple Page 4 Babb receives ovations from natives by Dan Lett Winnipeg free press pegu is Reserve South Afri can ambassador Glenn Babb was treated to standing ovations and hugs from pegu is band members As he completed his tour of the Indian Reserve almost 400 indians packed the reserves Community Hail to hear speeches from Babb and his chief Louis Babb told the cheering crowd he was visiting their Remote Reserve on a fac finding Mission to help his own government in its task of Dis mantling Babb made the 150kilometre Jour Ney from Winnipeg to the Reserve by roads into the area were blocked in fear of disruptions from anti apartheid construction equipment and the reserves fire truck blocked the a Cess Road to the Community while band police and ramp maintained watch throughout Babbs during Babbs 18month term As ambassador to he has evoked Strong protest and condemnation from Canadas anti apartheid including death threats and one act of violence against him in the ambassador told indians yesterday he Felt the problem of under development in South Africa was not but shared by Many coun both developed and under in listening to chief Louis Steven i found Many t nos i could listen to with my head Babb lets face we Are not dealing Here with a local problem we Are dealing with a worldwide problem of underdevelopment next to Stevenson invited Babb to visit the Reserve after the ambassador com pared conditions of Canadian Federal reserves to South Africa town prime minister Mulroney has denied any Babb said even though the Federal government was Quick to deny the he feels politicians and the Media have ignored the plight of the i wonder if there have Ever been As Many journalists As there Are today on an Indian Reserve Babb refused to directly link conditions on the Reserve to those in the South african denying a Magazine article he wrote made such a who spoke before see chief Page 4 Media invade Reserve by Maria Bohuslawsky Winnipeg free press pegu is Reserve it was a publicists dream come about 30 journalists photo graphed and scribbled every word uttered by chief Louis Stevenson and Glenn South Africa ambassador to in what some consider a Brilliant publicity Stevenson invited Babb to visit the pegu is Reserve to see native living conditions after the ambassador compared them to those in South Africa Black Babb accepted and the Media descended in vans and in the Case of the Canadian broadcasting two its pretty resident Percy said As he watched the pushing and shoving for position around the two the journalists represented newspaper and wire service outlets in Eastern and Western can along with two journalists from South based in i spoke to Babb yesterday and i think he is quite surprised at All the attention this is Alan foreign correspondent for Argus an ind Epen traditionally antigovernment newspaper Chain in South he thought it would basically be see Stevenson Page 4 social spending increases predicted by Radha Krishnan Thampi the provincial budget could ear Mark about million More for health and social programs for the coming fiscal according to Cabinet they said the budget could have at least million in new while the Overall deficit would be lower than the current fiscal years projected the sources said the Cash Short government has allotted about million More for about million More for education and about million More for Community services for the next fiscal starting april the proposed they will be enough to cover last years inflation rate and aver age about four per cent to five per cent More than the three depart ments allocations this details of the spending increases for health and social programs will be made Public monday night when finance minister Eugene Kostyra unveils his second Kostyra confirmed there will be increased spending for social pro Grams including education and Community he refused to give citing budget Secre this fiscal the province has allocated billion for million for education and Mil lion for Community spending by the three depart ments accounts for More than half the years provincial in his budget Kostyra Likely will outline a number of pro Gram reviews in the three depart ments aimed at reducing Overall costs without indiscriminate cuts see Community Page 4 teacher cuts Winnipeg school Board trims its budget by cutting eight teaching jobs Worth playoff bid the new York rangers try for a playoff spot by acquiring Marcel the Nils second Al time spotlight High expectations of a free Trade Deal put prime minister Mulroney and Ontario Premier David Peterson in the Church split roman Catholic theologians Are split on the Vatican new document on human Index Ann 17 24 40 39 40 6 34 7 38 Jumble 43 36 sports record 50 25 29 to 17 ;