Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june 1987 Page 3 marketing Board fears unemployment education i councillors risk court in standing firm on police age limit by Gerald flood the cites executive policy com Mittee yesterday decided to risk court action rather than change a policy barring 18yearolds from the Winnipeg police the decision was made despite advice from the cites Legal depart ment and the Manitoba human rights commission that the prohibition contravenes human rights leg i guess our feeling is if the courts want to Rule we should be putting 18yearolds on the Street As fully armed police Weh have to abide by the Don Mitchelson Henderson but we dont think its a prudent and responsible position to so were saying we want to keep it at 20 years of Mitchelson said the councillors were not attempting to provoke a he they want to uphold their responsibility to legislate according to what they believe is in the Best interests of recruits and Citi the Board of commissioners had recommended the committee scrap a 1984 policy requiring police recruits to be at least 20 years in a the Board said the Manitoba human rights commis Sion complained to the City the age Rule is it said the cites Law department and its equal Opportunity employ ment coordinator agreed the policy cannot be supported under human rights Gerry free press Bank employee Olive Mcdonald shows off the Looney due for release Looney reviews mixed reinforced pockets cited to accommodate Coin by Shane Minkin Canadas new Dollar Coin dubbed the Looney Drew mixed reactions from Winni Eggers offered a sneak preview last in going to have to reinforce my pockets if in going to carry around a pocketful of Robert Cook Ernie Hawrysh agreed when you put a Bunch of these in your youll have to Wear sus Penders to keep your pants the new with a picture of a Loon embossed on one will enter circulation next a reporter obtained one of the coins from a Bank and passed it around at the red River exhibition yesterday for local the 11sided Coin was originally to Bear the same Voyageur illustration found on the larger and heavier Silver the Dies for that Motif disappeared somewhere Between Ottawa and Winnipeg last year and were never to prevent the government decided to replace the Voyageur with the Only in can we lose the original Dies and replace them with a John Sinclair said last Leblanc said the Canadian government is Looney for phasing out Dollar i think they Shoul Dve kept the Dollar Bills because they Are easier to the new made of 88 per cent Copper and 12 per cent tin electroplated on a Nickel will gradually replace the Dollar Bill which is to be phased out by the end of Bob Lane said while he likes the he fears it will Lead to increased prices in coi operated vending Dan Blowe of the Ca Ken free press Bob Lane likes what he sees in the new Dollar Nadian automatic merchandising said the Coin will mean better not higher the Coin Means we can sell More expensive not raise our lawyer David Asper welcomed the new Dollar its great because now you can buy a pack of smokes from a machine using just four Hersh Odwak said he thought the which is slightly larger than a is too Small to represent a Coin expert Ian owner of Gate West stamp and Coin said canadians should get used to the new there forcing the Coin on us by forcing it into circulation and forcing Dollar Bills out of circular he Laing said the which costs about 12 cents to will have no value to collectors because about 150 million Are being mint he said the Dollar Coin brings Canada in line with european such As Ger Many and which have had mass circulation coins for he commended the government for not making the same mistake the americans made when they introduced the Susan Anthony Dollar several years the americans put that Coin into circulation alongside paper Money and the Rule of thumb has been if there is coins and paper currency at the same the paper drives the coins out because people wont use Laing added he Doest expect Dollar Bills to increase in value after Peop Are going to put them but they wont be Worth anything except sound stress tolerance and other indicators of maturity Are not necessarily age the re port the report said age 18 could be defended because it is the minimum age for entering licensed premises and for obtaining a class 4 Drivers both of which Are police Job human rights commission chair Man Claudia Wright said the Agency will take action on the but first it must be she said a commission complaint to the courts is mayor Bill Norrie said he was surprised by the committees Deci voted on without i dont think its he the major reason is its an Aca Demic the average age of the last class of recruits was Norrie said successful applicants for the jobs Are be coming University educated or have Job the fact of the matter is were not going to be hiring so Why flog a dead horse Protection commissioner Bob Ney said the committee has put the City in a vulnerable the Board is of the position we should comply with the said the former chief of the Edmonton police we could not defend a so we want to proceed City solicitor Frank Steele said the committees decision will have to go to City Council where it could be Pawley avoids ejection in Battle with speaker by Patrick Mckinley Premier Howard Pawley narrowly avoided being expelled from the legislative chamber yesterday in a Dis Pute with speaker Myrna Phillips Over comments he directed at conservative tempers flared As the opposition grilled government ministers for the third straight Day about charges that John Buck Laschuk ordered a 1984 coverup of million in Manitoba Public insurance Pawley found himself in a Confron tation with Phillips after tory la Jim Downey Arthur charged that minister responsible for misled the Downey also charged that Buck Laschuk bungling of Pic was preventing him from doing his duties As minister of municipal Pawley said the tories were spreading prompting them to demand he withdraw the com he withdrew but said instead that they were spreading Gross and reckless an nip la whom Pawley appointed to the speakers year Post in May stepped into the ordering him to withdraw any inference the tories were engaged in deliberate misrepresent Cowan rebuked under legislature Las can be accused of misleading the House but not of doing so a tens faced Pawley said he did not mean to imply it was but then repeated the charge the tories were spreading Gross and reckless Phillips again told him to with draw the comment in a Liberal enough manner to satisfy Downey and when government House Leader Jay Cowan spoke on Hawleys behalf urging the speaker to read Han the Legislatures official publication before taking further she rebuked him and repeated the order to Pawley he again said he withdrew any inference the tories were engaged in deliberate Misrop but this time he did not repeat the offending Downey told Phillips he was Satis fied with the opposition Leader Gary Filmon said the showdown Between Paw Ley and Phillips was a further Indi cation How the mood of the House has soured because of the Buck Laschuk he said the tories have no intention of backing off from their no daily demands that buckles Chuk he said he would re serve judgment on buckles chunks charge yesterday that million of the million that Pic has now lost on reinsurance transactions arose from contracts signed under the former conservative govern ment of Sterling Filmon said Pic sources have told the tories 75 per cent of the losses arose from contracts signed under the he said he will seek further information from Pic officials at a committee meet ing this morning to consider the corporations 1986 the tories also will use the meet ing to try to establish that other government ministers knew about the million in losses in 1984 or when the losses were left out of Pic Buck Laschuk has said that Vic then minister for Crown was the Only other Cabinet member he told about the losses in Downey said the Pic scandal has cast a Shadow Over buckles chunks ability to serve As municipal affairs he said buckles Chuk has missed three meetings with municipal councils because of his other Cabinet responsibilities and must be replaced by someone who can handle the he said Rural Manitoba municipalities Are fuming because of the ministers decision to restrict a school tax assistance program to Farmers who actively farm their he said the provinces decision is an administrative headache because municipal staff have to spend their time checking if individual Landown ers Buck Laschuk refused to consider allowing All owners of farm land to saying he believes most Manitoban support restricting the Aid program to the prov inces Active police officer charged with uttering threats a Winnipeg police Constable has been charged with uttering threats to kill and will remain on Active duty until a trial Date is staff Don Peters said Jerry of Ashburn a nine year member of the Winnipeg appeared in provincial court yesterday and was remanded out of custody for one Peters the decision to keep Keenan on duty was made tuesday night by a suspension hearing panel made up of senior officers and Mem Bers of the Winnipeg police Asso the Union that represents most Peters said the Board decided not to suspend Keenan because it Felt the fact he faces the charge would not interfere with his if Fie pleads guilty to the charges next Keenan will have to appear before the cites Board of commissioners who would decide if he should be us Peters Keenan was arrested following an incident in which a 20yearold Man was sitting in the bar at the Westbrook inn on Keewatin Street last saturday with his Mother and her the Kevin said he was having a drink when an other Man threatened Vermette said he had complained to the Law enforcement review Agency about a Winnipeg police officer following an Inci Dent in City threatens to pull games application the City is threatening to with draw its application to Host the 1990 Western Canada games if the prov Ince does not quickly choose Between applications from Winnipeg and the chairman of executive policy committee said we made our bid four months Guy Savoie at the time the province told us we had to hurry that we were being tardy four months later the province still Hast approved a Savoie tache said if the prov Ince has not made a decision before the next Council he will move the City withdraw its Applina if the games Are awarded late and we dont have time to prepare and the games Are not a then Winnipeg will have a Black he Don Mitchelson Hender son argued against threatening the he said sports minister Larry Desjardins indicated recently a decision could be made by Cabinet As Early As theres nothing gained by the City taking an antagonistic tack with the provincial government were supposed to be doing some thing he the committee adopted report that recommends tuesday As the deadline for deciding on the cites the City also has applied to Host the 1995 pan american games and is hoping to use the Western Canada games As springboard in preparing for George spokesman for the Manitoba sports noted yesterday the cites application does not include proposals to build any new sports he said the federation recommends the City consider construction of a training a common Fea Ture at International heavy Metal occult linked to trial told by Andrew Duffy heavy Metal combined with a belief in the occult and mind could have thrown two teen agers Over the emotional a psychiatrist told jurors at the Mur Der trial of two teenagers yes in my the Constellation of the three make a persons mental health James Curtin told the court of Queens Bench the jury will have to decide whether Robert Mathhew and Francis Darren were legally insane when they killed George on both teenagers have pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to first degree murder in the slaying of Curtin said the condition of emotionally disturbed such As Chaulk and could be made worse to the Point of mental illness through such pastimes As the occult and listening to heavy Metal Rock in my these three things Are dangerous in Many ways and dangerous to mental Curtin said during the last Day of Testi court has heard Chaulk and mor Rissette were fans of such heavy Metal groups As Black Sabbath and grim one of their Ronald testified he participated in a candlelight seance with Chaulk and and other witnesses have said both teenagers believed they had the ability to control events with their court has also heard both teen agers believed they could communicate through levitate objects with their minds and slip into a Twilight zone where they would be coordinator of forensic psychiatric services for Southwest Ern said it was his opinion the slaying was not entirely motivated by the teenagers delusional belief they would be rulers of the world by killing the killing on that Day was just As much a product of their Basic attitudes and value systems As a product of their he Testi they Chaulk and Morrissette have said they were they had nothing else to do on that he Haywood was he was a another Basil told the jury he thought the slaying was not an integral part of the teenagers delusional it was related to but not compelled by the Orchard the Crown and defence lawyers were expected to make their final addresses ;