Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free press november Page 3 accused fire Story disputed by Canada packers to Lay off local More Money wont fix child agencies funding Hemphill says in in Ratiani tit tone to inc for in Mats for those she said the Boal by Janet Mcfarland Community services minister Maureen Hemphill said funding problems at the nine provincial child and family service agencies will be but not by handing Over More Hemphill said the agencies cannot expect to have the child welfare budget increased without first looking at ways to use the Money More we dont have an open budget violent attacks on seniors raise fears Byjah Clakey a pair of violent weekend purse snatching have police and spokes men for seniors worried that attacks on the elderly Are it appears the percentages of those types of crimes Are and in afraid its because the elderly Are seen As easy staff Don Peters seniors have been preyed upon in a number of different but now were seeing significant num Bers of attacks on seniors involving Peters said a 78yearold woman was beaten and robbed outside an elevator on the second floor of a Colony Street seniors Block Satur Day he said a witness leaving the Block at about saw a Man stand ing Over an elderly woman lying on the hallway her face covered with the witness struggled briefly with the but the Man was Able to break free and escape with the woman which held a Small amount of Cash and As far As we know it was just a but who knows what might have developed if he haunt been noting the attacker managed to enter the Block despite Security door her recollection of the attack is poor judging by the amount of blood at the she was obviously struck in the face with something or punched by the the woman was taken to where she was treated and re police Are looking for a suspect described As a Black male in his late of Stocky wearing dark pants and a shiny Blue in a second incident earlier the same a 60yearold woman was walking through an Alley Between Mountain and Troy West of Mcphillips when a youth on a bicycle Rode up behind her and snatched her purse from her the Force of the youth grabbing the purse knocked the woman to the causing minor injuries to her hip and Peters if she had been an older in sure her injuries would have been much More he the Best advice we can especially for is not to fight if somebody is going to take your let them have it because struggling with them is just too a caretaker at the Colony seniors Complex said the attack has left some residents fearful of strangers and unwilling to go outdoors unless it is while the Block has a Security system a Buzzer door lock re leased by a Button in each tenants apartment uninvited visitors regularly find their Way into the build the caretaker Barbara a counsellor with the older victim services program at the age and Opportunity said assaults often have a traumatic effect on the numbers Are not a Large proportion of what i Deal but they Are Russell noting police regularly refer victims to the we Deal with seniors who have been victimized in All kinds of but when violence is the trauma is often differ ent people react in different but when elderly women Are in it can be and we cant have a process in which people submit Bills and we pay them no matter How much there Hemphill Jane executive director of the Manitoba Foster parents Asso said streamlining and More efficient use of Money int i firmly believe that we must put More Money into Foster Earle i in quite convinced from the Calls were getting that Foster parents Are not having their needs met at the current level of a Story in sundays free press quoted the co chairman of an association representing the nine child welfare agencies As saying the Agen cies Are in a funding crisis and need million by March to erase debts and cover future Dennis Schellenberg said three agencies have taken out Bank Loans of to each to cover after the department capped Agency spending for Specia needs children Hemphill said she established a Board in october with representatives of Foster Homes and her department to look at ways to solve the funding she said the Board has not finished its report but has examined the following ways to curb costs d reallocating funds from group Homes and institutions into More Foster cafe Foster Homes Are cheaper and More she d speeding up transition from inst Jeff of free press Tut ions to Foster Homes for those children who must be placed in d sharing including available Foster across Agency d creating written guidelines stat ing when children can be taken from to keep the system from becoming unnecessarily overcrowd d controlling expenditures by try ing to find less expensive forms of treatment or by using More efficient she said the Board faces no dead line for its study and but is working quickly since funding prob lems have become Hemphill said she expects the committees report to show How the agencies can use their current Bud gets to cover the debt and anticipated operating costs for this estimated at about Hemphill said since the 1 spending agencies have been Given an extra million about million of which was used for Spe Cia needs group threatens new court action to Force tax shift an intruder beat and robbed an elderly woman in Colony Street Block despite by Gerald flood the City will end up Back in court if it tries to wriggle out of a Manitoba court of Appeal ruling that will Lead to shifts in property a spokesman for a group of Home owners said we Are absolutely furious about said Jim Vic Epresi Dent of the Germaine Community we took them to we got a favourable ruling and now they Are trying to disregard what the court Saidl they Are trying to weasel out of their statutory responsibilities and cheat Shapiro group took the City to court earlier this year arguing the cites 1987 property assessment was unlawful because it was based on 1975 property not current values As required by the City of Winnipeg they argued that if the City used current their property taxes and those of hundreds of other Winnipeg property owners would be Cut significantly because of changes in property values since the court of Appeal last week agreed with the group and ruled the City assessor had failed to carry out his statutory duties by using the 1975 value base in the 1987 tax but the court dismissed the groups request that the 1987 Roll be declared saying this would create it ruled All future assessments must be carried out on the basis of current the did not say what future and both elected and administrative City officials say it could mean the City does not have to update property upon which taxes Are until 1989 or they say updating the 1988 Roll is All but impossible and would require Large including Bor rowing costs that would result if the tax Roll was delayed and City coffers dried up during City officials also Point out the ruling says that if the City found it administratively impossible to up Date its assessment Rolls it should Appeal to the province to change the Law to eliminate the cur rent value Shapiro said if City councillors agree to put off updating assessment Rolls for either the group will take the City Back to any attempt to negate the Deci Sion and not carry out their statutory responsibilities will result in an immediate Challenge in he Shapiro said he expected that if the City manages to thwart the councillors will pay the Price at the ballot the stink the decision raises will be reflected in the next he City assessor Ike Funk said yesterday four Days after the Appeal court ruling was issued he was still weighing his options and awaiting a report from the cites Legal department on the implications of the Eric Stefanson Charles said while he agrees assessments should be based on current he disagrees with Shapiro interpretation of the my interpretation is that they the Appeal court have Given us a reasonable time Frame to carry this he if they Felt we should do it in it would have said he if the Law department agrees with the City will Appeal to the province for legislation relieving it from having to update the 1988 would be refugee detained in jail since August we l Al i sij1 t 11 i Al pm t n o 1c mid by Kathleen Engman the Manitoba medical association wants the province to cancel All medical exemptions that allow motorcyclists to ride without More than 320 Manitoban Are listed with the motor vehicles Branch As exempt from the Highway traffic act requirement to Wear mama president Jack Arm Strong his group and the Cana Dian medical association believe the by Janet Mcfarland an 18yearold kenyan Man who sought refugee status after entering Canada without a passport or identification has been held in a Winnipeg jail since Emile who Speaks Only had stowed away on a ship and claimed refugee status when he arrived at the port of said his Renate but he has been held in a cell at heading Ley correctional Institute because officials dont have proof of who he she it is the second report in a week of Winnipeg immigration officials jail ing a refugee claimant for not hav ing a South african Man has been held since 16 because he destroyed a passport he used to get out of that he was returned to jail a week ago after an immigration adjudicator ruled there was no proof of his identity and no reason to believe he would show up for further hear John manager of the Canada immigration Centre in win said refugee claimants can Only be held in jail if they Are considered a danger to the Public or if there is reason to believe they wont show up for later Stevenson said Lack of identification alone is not a sufficient reason to keep an immigrant in but he would not explain Mikaeili Situa if i was reviewing i just look at that one allowed under the pose an unnecessary from the medical Point of its Felt that it bareheaded Riding leads to problems that Are prevent surgical problems and life threatening he there Are mixed views on the safety value of William head of the University of Manitoba Road safety research has said a study of motorcycle fatalities indicates Vir identification he the adjudicator makes the decision and has to be satisfied the claimant will not show up for further Francis president of the kenyan association of said Mikaeili had planned to stay on the ship after it left West Ger Many but decided to get off at Chur chill after Crew members began harassing he is Young and Kungu i dont think he is that knowledgeable about they threatened so he decided to get off at the next port of he said Mikaeili distributed pamphlets for an antigovernment group in but was not a Mem he decided to leave the country when his employers were Kungu i dont think Hes committed any crime in Canada to warrant the Type of punishment he is going Krause said Mikaeili was to appear before an immigration adjudicator refugee claimants Are allowed to appear before an adjudicator every seven Days for a re View of their Ken free press supreme court refuses to hear adoption Case a City couples five year Battle to bring their adopted son from India ended yesterday when the supreme court of Canada refused to hear their the High court yesterday denied Harnam and Narinder Dhillon leave to Appeal a ruling that their adoption is not valid under Indian even though they have a valid adoption certificate from authorities the Dillons expressed anger at the which they saw delivered in a close circuit to link Between Winnipeg and theres nothing More to Narinder said after speaking with lawyer David who argued the Appeal by we Are very very it was totally in a decision last the Federal court of Appeal upheld an immigration Appeal Board ruling that the couples adoption was not the court upheld the right of the tally All would have occurred even if the victims had worn As John past presi Dent of All bikers aimed towards said deaths in motorcycle accidents actually increased after police began enforcing the Law on april Prest said the fatality rate in motorcycle accidents Rose to per 100 accidents in compared with two years Brian a rider who got a medical exemption because of a spi Nal disease that makes the weight of quasi judicial immigration Board to determine whether Indian adoptions Are valid by applying Indian the Dillons adopted the in 1982 at the age of now he lives in India with his natural the who Are unable to have say Harmams sister offered her son for adoption because she already had two Canadian immigration officials rejected the boys visa Applina although the adoption was registered in India and the couple has a valid in january the immigration Appeal Board ruled the adoption was invalid because hindu Law prohibits a Man who already has sons from adopting Harnam a City cab has two sons from a previous mar he says Indian officials approved the adoption because his Sec Ond wife is unable to have Harnam right and Narinder Dhillon watch proceedings a helmet said the Mas position is what there saying is that their own who gave these sex dont know what there Segal instead of cancelling the exempt the helmet requirement should be he riders have also received medical exemptions after saying helmets left them with stiff rashes and but Arm Strong said those reasons dont hold James registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of said the province should cancel the exemptions or at least put a time limit on Morison said the College takes a dim View of doctors signing the exemption last year it investigated and reprimanded one doctor who had is sued 98 at the Morison said other doctors also were signing but Only a since the College has adopted a formal censure measure which is one disciplinary step below a formal inquiry and involves record ing questionable moves by but he halting the exemptions is the governments re its their not he highways minister John buckles Chuk said he is aware of the Mma and College but Hast yet decided whether to put the matter before the nip caucus for ;