Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 26, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Rank Desjardins takes a mat supermarket clinics by Catherine Mitchell health minister Larry Desjardins says he wants to eradicate Walkin clinics that treat health care like a business after learning a supermarket Chain plans to get into the Desjardins said it would be disastrous if West fair foods opened medical clinics by fall in All its Supe Valu he told the House his department is studying the Impact of the chains plans and he Hopes to have Legisla Tion addressing it in the next ses he said he wants to wipe out privately owned but Ive got to provide something that will take care of the Good things that there the minister was responding to a concern raised yesterday by Marty dolls who asked who would Monitor the Quality of care at a clinic to be set up by Supe Valu and a Calgary based Clin a newspaper advertisement recruiting entrepreneurial physicians announced tuesday that me Stop medical clinic is opening a clinic in the Supe Valu located at Mcphillips Street and stardust Avenue in sep i wonder whether there going to put the physicians Between pablum poultry Dolin till probably be Between Washer and windows since were talking about Walkin Desjardins the Walkin the minister pose additional worries As they Are concerned about making a profit which can Lead to abuses such As unnecessary a committee has been struck to review How to control the growth of clinics but it May come Down to passing he said Hes been told of doctors being ordered to work up charges of at least per regardless of How minor the Mala bombers win 55 Blue bombers hold off Toronto argonauts 3830 in season opener Cloudy tonight 8 Clouds tomorrow 21 press final Home delivery 9570550 classified 9562330 second class Wail rigistr4tion number 0286 rises sets Moon rises sets Ken free press 12 arrested As Union rally turns violent police seize picket As rally at Supe Valu store on Grant Avenue in support of striking workers turns Kesler found not guilty of murder Man who killed fleeing drugstore robber feels just great Calgary up drugstore owner Steven Kesler then punched the air with a fist like a victorious Boxer As he was acquitted yesterday in the Shotgun death of a Man who robbed his store last no Relief flooded Over Neslers face As the Foreman of a court of Queens Bench jury announced the verdict of not guilty on a charge of seconded Gree you Are said Justice Arthur Lutz after the verdict came thank my replied minutes As he left the Cal Gary courthouse flanked by his Jubi Lant daughters and a he told a mob of waiting reporters the verdict was a great a great Burden was removed from me and the life of my family with that the slightly built1 41yearold said in his yugoslavian whatever you think 1 i feel just Kesler refused to answer repeated questions about whether he intends to keep a gun in his store from now he said he simply wants to get his family life Back to defence lawyer Jim who held his head in his hands As the verdict was told reporters he Doest think the verdict is a Indica Tion that storekeepers across the country can take up people that know the full facts of this i dont believe for a minute see acquittal Page 4 minority language rights get boost by Brian Cole Winnipeg free press Ottawa the Federal govern ment introduced legislation yester Day to strengthen minority Lan Guage rights and provide million to promote Billii dualism at the provincial and municipal the Bill promotes bilingualism in the Federal workplace and in service to the and provides for Feder Al assistance in the development of either official under the individuals will the right to minority language services and information from fed eral As the legislation gives Feder Al employees the right to work in the official language of their Choice and commits the government to promoting bilingualism in the individuals will be Able to use the courts to support demands for their the Bill also gives the Federal Cabinet the responsibility of defining where minority language services must be extended and under what circumstances a Federal employee May work in the language of his this Power has the potential to limit the rights contained in the but it also makes the decision making process politically respond thereby allowing any group to make an argument for Extension of services directly to the legislation also guarantees individuals the right to have criminal code court proceedings conducted in see Bill Page 4 lovers Tiff ends in graduation party tragedy by Jack Lakey and Aldo Santin a lovers Tiff Between two High school students on a graduation party River cruise ended in tragedy police divers dragged the red River Between the Provencher Bridge and the Alexander Avenue docks for several hours before finding the body of Kenneth Vannus just before yester a Grade 12 student at West Kildonan collegiate was at a party on the River Rouge cruise boat wednesday police said the boat was return ing to its mooring around when Vannus went overboard after arguing with his his body was still Clad in shoes and a suit when it was staff Don Peters said the boat stopped and the Crew trained spotlights on the area where Vannus entered the Passen Gers spotted him momentarily about 100 metres from but then lost sight of police refused to say if alcohol was but classmates on the cruise said Vannus had been earlier students and police thought the incident might have been a prank and combed the Shoreline for he you cant blame anybody for it was just an said the youths Halley she said she received a Telephone Call about yesterday from a Friend of her asking if he had returned when i said no and asked him what it was All about the boy said Ken would explain it to me when he got Home in the then the police came to the door about three Oclock and said see argument Page 4 Vannus drowning victim by Shane Minkin a Union Solidarity rally for strik ing West fair foods workers last night turned into a Battleground As at least 12 people were including Bernard presi Dent of the Manitoba food and com Mercial workers police said whose Union is engaged in a bitter three week strike against was charged with mischief and re As three police officers forcibly handcuffed he said a car ran Over a picketed three times and i was just trying to Stop them and this is the kind of police brutality were More than 500 workers represent ing at least two dozen unions con verged on the Supe Valu at Grant Avenue and Kenaston Boulevard shortly after 6 in a show of Solidarity for the striking West fair police began receiving complaints from the company less than an hour later and responded in Force by sending More than 20 police Cruis several motorcycle detectives and a Paddy the first people a Man and were put in the police Wagon around As the crowd chanted let them minutes another Man and woman were followed by the arrests of three More two More women were followed by another woman and two two Young who attempted to drive their car through the picket were set upon by outraged pickets who surrounded the vehicle and began pounding on customers escorted police formed a wedge through the crowd and arrested the two men inside the Don Wardrop said police arrested Between 12 and 15 people at the four hour rally on charges including obstructing mis dangerous assault and Possession of a dangerous Wear he said most of those arrested were processed and police barricaded entrances to the and escorted customers and employees to their one barraged with obscenities As she left the con ceded it want Worth the ill shop at Safeway from now she others were less easily i think management has every right to limit employee hours just As i have every right to shop where i said one who asked not to be inside the there appeared to be More employees trying to keep Busy than there were before his Christophe said customers who Cross the picket line Are siding with the i cant help the theres a strike on and when customers choose to go in they Are taking sides what they have to do is stay away from the store until the strike is he vowed there would be More mass pickets and he blamed picket line violence on the company Refus Al to negotiate a i think theres no question the company is contributing to the flare ups and violence on the All their actions have inflamed the David Industrial relations manager for called the Union rally a childish Manou i think its a really sad Day when unions believe they can disregard the Ryzebol these types of terrorist tactics cannot be tolerated in our he said Christophe should be set Ting an example for his members and instead he got he said company officials would discuss their next move adding an injection preventing mass see pleas Page 4 Bill touted in Wake of clash by Patrick Mckinley picket line violence at a super a la store last night might have been averted if a government labor Bill was already labor minister Al Mackling said the violence in the Between Manitoba food and commercial workers Union and West fair foods erupted As a legislative com Mittee sat to conclude Public hear Ings on the controversial the minister said a form of bind ing arbitration called final offer be proposed in the would provide a peaceful alternative to two of the nip governments leading labor Union supporters of final offer selection attended last nights bitter confrontation Mani Toba federation of labor president Wilf Hudson and a few president Bernard see violence Page 4 Gorbachev proposes reforms Moscow a Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday urged the communist party to revolutionize the soviet Economy by free ing managers from red removing wage ceilings and making every factory pay its own communists lose in in a lengthy report to the semiannual session of the communist party Central committee he criticized the party for lag Ging behind the social and spiritual processes taking place in the soviet Union and said negative trends had been revealed in the armed 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