Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Desjardins denies designs on cancer group health minister Larry Desjardins has dismissed three quarters of the members of the Board of Manitoba cancer treatment and research raising fears about the future of the seven of nine Board members have been replaced on the provincial program for cancer treat ment and Desjardins yesterday denied suggestions by at least two replaced Board members the move is aimed at eventually bringing the program Clear tonight 10 Cloudy tomorrow 21 directly under departmental con there be anything fur ther from the Desjardins said the Board Mem who had served anywhere from four to 20 had fulfilled their its no reflection on members of the he 1 dont pretend we didst want new sources said it is the first time in the 57year history of the foundation the minister has replaced a majority of the Board without consulting the chairman and Board members Are not the which operates receives its lion budget from Manitoba health services As it receives up to a year for research from private donations and another million annually in research funding from the nation Al Carcer the medical re search Council and the National Sci ence foundation chairman William Milne and former Board member Robert Cook said yesterday they have concerns about the future of the of concern is the question of whether the present government administration intends to revive the abortive attempt made in the Early 1970s to scuttle the foundation and with it the provincial cancer pro a chartered account Lyonel the foundations executive said he believes private funding would dry up if the foundation ceased to exist As an Independent see motives Page 4 y6u Firon ideas front the salad sate to june 1987 free press Sun rises Moon rises sets final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Mah it 1r number 0286 free press letter carriers with police at main Post office yesterday during first Day of walkout in Winnipeg postal pickets arrested local Union Leader warns of violence As strike enters second Day swearing and shoving bouts broke out yesterday at postal station picket lines As Winnipeg 700 letter carriers and Drivers joined the rotating National eleven pickets were police adding most were released on their own one Man was charged with Caus ing a two others were charged with common assault and obstructing police and a fourth Man was charged with obstructing Glen Ash three men arrested last night face charges of assaulting police officers and Ash no serious incidents were report but a Union Leader warned the potential for violence at the cites 13 postal stations and 10 letter Carrier depots grows As the Winnipeg strike enters its second How can you control the Vio Lence asked Fred presi Dent for District 7 of the let Ter carriers Union of what do you expect when a com Pany advertises for scabs and tells everyone there going to move the mail come hell or High the potential for violence is pay tops a seventeen police officers had to Clear a path for vans and trucks making deliveries yesterday at the main Post one picket banged his sign on a Van threatening next time till be your you mail dropped on townhouse Steps a fort Rouge Man says he arrived Home yesterday to find mail normally delivered to a locked Box lying on the front Steps of his i got Home and saw some Guy just drop a letter on my said Quentin a student at South Winnipeg technical it was a Cheque from my dad for its not the kind of thing i want floating so anybody can pick it up and Cash Crawford said mail delivered to residents of the River Avenue town House Complex where he lives is usually deposited in a Central group Box near the managers residents must use a key to open their individual head Ding mail was left on the Steps of Homes throughout the Complex just before 5 my Cheque could have just disappeared that or else it could have been blown across the Yard by the Crawford he said a neighbor told him she was sitting on her Steps when a Man delivering mail asked her if she knew where to find a person for whom he had a workers compensation the letter who was not in left the Cheque with the Crawford asking her if she could see to it that the Man received the what kind of a Way is that to deliver mail Crawford its not the service were paying if i get important i would think other people and they want it delivered so Sloppy Randy a resident of 1680 marys said he was Dis gusted to find a letter Carrier left pieces of mail on the front porch and in railings outside its really bothering me because i know the mail int these Are people who obviously we rent screened because they dont know what there a video visible from a fifth floor suite of adjacent place Louis recorded pickets banging on Nam calling and Yelling threats at Canada Post re fused to say if it had hired the camera two other cameras one operated by the Union and another by City police also recorded tempers flared at a main Street postal station when a striker armed with a Board tried to attack a Van loaded with replacement witnesses said trouble began when two vans carrying temporary work ers tried to Cross a picket line at a station at main and Armstrong ave nue just after 1 they tried to get in the front but the strikers stopped said Sam who owns a restaurant across the Street from the one Guy had a two your and be looked like he was going to use the vans just kept circling around after that until the cops got a police spokesman said the Man was charged with obstructing noting the Van was not damaged and no injuries were the workers were escorted inside by police without further Canada Post spokesman Allan Skrumeda said businesses had Deli very yesterday and 25 per cent of see replacement Page 4 Alberta told to Settle Gas Row by John Douglas Winnipeg free press Jasper the Federal govern ment issued Manitoba and Alberta an ultimatum yesterday Settle the natural Gas Supply dispute or face federally regulated speaking at the Canadian Gas association annual meeting fed eral Energy minister Marcel Masse fired off a warning to both govern if the government of Canada is forced to intervene once again in the natural Gas we come equipped not with the latest techniques of but with the Rusty Chainsaw of a regulated he takeover Deal this will Lead to a situation where no one will win and All of Canada will while saying the two must reach an agreement Masse made it Clear Manitoba had the Legal author Ity to establish its own Utility and that Alberta was not within its rights to regulate inter provincial Masse is a Federal it is the first time Masse has commented on the Manitoba take Manitoba touched off the Battle Between the two provinces by announcing it was negotiating the Pur Chase of the ice utilities distribution network with the intention of negotiating new Gas Supply con the province signed contracts for a 15year Supply of natural Gas with about 150 smaller distributors at less than per cubic feet per cubic feet less than ice utilities now pays Tran Canada pipelines see minister Page 4 abuse registry violates judge rules by Andrew Duffy a court of Queens Bench judge has struck Down Manitoba controversial child abuse registry As a violation of the charter of rights and the negative implications and consequences for an individual listed on the which contains suspected and confirmed far outweigh its obvious jus Tice Robert Carr Appeal option in a 17page decision released yes Carr said the legislation which created the list violates 7 of the charter of rights and free Doms by infringing on an individuals right to Security of the the legislation could easily have been drafted to meet its laudable objective without so completely interfering with the rights of the gated Carr other Legislatures within the Canadian democracy have done Carr concluded the legislation is not in accordance with principles of fundamental Justice because it does not provide an Appeal process allow ing the removal of a the 16yearold provided for under sections of the child and family services includes about names of people suspected and convicted of child abuse As Well As their the list is not but is Avail Able to child abuse the police and government including those responsible for approving adoptions and hiring child care Lee and Susanne May have been deprived of certain rights by having their names added to the Register in october the judge their Agnes tried for 18 months to have her Chil Drens names removed from the Reg finally launching a constitutional Challenge in Carr said the registry infringes on the Hilaire childrens rights by possibly harming their causing them to possibly suffer a loss of dignity or by restricting their employment if the rights infringed in this Case Are not protected by that phrase Security of the it is difficult to conceive of any rights that Carr Agnes Hilaire said yesterday Shes Happy for her children but see removal Page 4 Mulroney denounces death penalty by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa in a speech As Elo quent As any he has prime minister Mulroney yesterday came out strongly against rein statement of the death Call ing it repugnant and profoundly in the prime minister left no doubt there would never be an execution while he is prime even if parliament were the death penalty Back on the but his though provoking Recita Tion in the commons appeared to have Little Impact on those in his caucus who favor the death including two from health minister Jake Epp and Selkirk Interlake my Felix Holt Mann said last night the prime ministers speech would not persuade them to reconsider their support for the death they said they didst expect Mulroney speech to have much of an Impact on other tories who favor the death polls have shown that in a free vote on the a majority of maps thanks in part to the huge tory majority in the commons would vote in favor of reinstating capital Mulroney said capital punishment was morally wrong and and said it is up to supporters to make a Case for changing the he also raised the possibility that an innocent person could be executed by the saying he found the see deterrence Page 4 Carney denies charges boards on Trade table by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa a leaked congressional memo has raised new fears about whether the Powers of the Canadian wheat Board and Market ing boards in general will be trimmed under a free Trade Deal with the United the memo suggests the Reagan administration wants to eliminate the protective Powers of the wheat Board and suppl management boards governing Canadas Dairy and poultry written by a congressional official briefed by Deputy chief Trade negotiator Bill the memo also states Canada is willing to do away with All including Mea sures in the Auto the leak sparked a furious round of questions in the commons yester Day As Trade minister Pat Carney denied allegations that the Auto the wheat Board or marketing boards would be undercut by a free Trade Deal with but the opposition dismissed car Neys with some maps outside the commons accusing the minister of misleading and lying to canadians about the nature of free Trade opposition maps said Carney has always maintained a free Trade agreement with the United states would not undercut the Auto the wheat Board or marketing they noted she has always said the issues were not on the How can canadians believe any see opposition Page 4 rained out a consistent downpour cancels the entire schedule of opening Day matches at Wimbledon Strong denial Public works minister Stewart Mcinnes emphatically denies contravening conflict interest 4 code 1 dance legacy Gene the second Best known film dancer of his once referred to the late Fred Astaire As one of the some time that 50 years from the Only one of to Days dancers remembered wih be Fred Astaire Safe Haven Sutti korean Are beginning View Canada As a Refuge for investment sweeping changes civic committee endorses 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