Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free March 1988 police defend forces record of race relations pc Flemm unlike most other major Canadian Winnipeg police do not have an ethnic relations Reglita police Brett one of the forces two cultural Spe said Hes surprised Winni Peg does not have such a unit Given its size and significant native and immigrant if you have open minded police that were trained to be sensitive to other cultures it matter where what race Hes Tay Lor adding the Regina program has improved police relations with natives and other visible minorities in its four years of he said Regina police have just hired a native woman As a Liaison with native groups in the As the Force has mandatory Cul Tural awareness training for All offi woman death probed continued from Page 1 i dont think she Higgins was aware of the sunken area until she was Gosselin she said the witness told her Higgins stepped off the escalator from the second level and was heading toward the exit when she fell Down the Cadillac a Toronto based real estate refused comment until All the facts in the Case Are i dont think anyone can Tell you what happened until the investigation is operations vice president Jeff Harrison he said he was informed of the Accident two Days after Higgins Issie president of the North Portage development said he will be watching the Case Coop said he was told by mall officials that Higgins May have had a fainting spell seconds before she Harrison said mall officials have talked to several people that crowded around the elderly woman after her Accident but he refused to Dis close what they Coop said the corporation would be among the first to Call for action to prevent another Accident if it can be proven that Higgins died because of the nothing about the design or construction of the sunken court Yard contravenes building Regula Coop Welch said the Ceramic floor tiles and the sunken pit Are Well known i dont think any place with Ceramic tiles is Safe to walk the Coroner Cen and provides interpreters and other help in investigations involving natives and racial Winnipeg police staff Don Peters said Regina is in a different situation because it has a higher percentage of native Peters said the department has addressed cultural issues by trying to recruit More than its 12 native officers on the Force of the Regina Force has nine native officers out of Taylor Peters said new recruits receive cultural awareness instruction As part of their a lawyer for the Island Lake trib Al Council said yesterday the City and officer involved in harpers slaying May face a in giving the City notice that in holding them responsible for the death of said lawyer Harvey Treyve taken the life of a 36yearold a husband and police and coworkers say Harper went out for a few drinks tuesday night after a Day at the so what if he went out for a couple of he worked said a coworker who refused to give her Harper spent his last working Day planning a chiefs said Jonathan tribal Council assistant executive Harper left the office around 4 to meet with one of the he didst say anything to me about How he was going to spend the Peters said Harper was expected Home around 5 but never a Early Harper was walking to his Elgin Avenue Home from a Keewatin Street bar when he was confronted by a uniformed police officer looking for a 19year old Man who had earlier fled from a stolen car abandoned police chief Herb Stephen has said Harper was uncooperative with the officer and pushed him to the during the struggle which the native Leader was shot once in the Chest at Point Blank harpers death has outraged native leaders and plunged the communities of Island Theresa Point and where Harper was into they Are still trying to Cope with this not Only his family but the whole said who escorted harpers remains to Waas Gomach a father of was highly regarded in the Community and was considered a role Model for the Waas Gomach of which he was formerly he was hardworking and he was fun to be he used to help everyone with their said Tommy no the leaders Winnipeg coworkers said he always had time to help you ask for a better Pat Byer he always had time for anything and anybody who came in from the commune palliative care bed waiting for woman who died at Hsc continued from Page 1 resuscitated after her Ronald this was unfortunate and should have been she was dying of a disease that was the doctor didst mention Why the dying woman want transferred to other than to say the Hsc Doest have an effective palliative care program and that it will be a priority for this in a phone conversation he told me i cant give you a direct answer to that because i dont i know that they have palliative care at Boniface which is excellent and i agree with Brenda Kalynyk it was designed for where her Mother should have but i dont there is nothing in the record that i saw that this had Ever been discussed with the Elizabeth Kalynyk was first diagnosed As having cancer of the pancreas last after exploratory surgery at specialists concluded nothing More could be it was arranged she attend the health sciences Centre the following january for radiation therapy to retard the my mom was in Boniface Hospital for quite awhile and you have asked for a nicer Brenda Kalynyk because my moms cancer was bad and nothing More surgically could be done for her also it was one of the More painful types of cancer it was decided that she qualified for the palliative care unit in they said if we control moms pain or vomiting at Home that we were allowed to Telephone ahead to the Hospital and take her right up to the Ward and there would be no problem going through the red tape to admit she said in Early her Mother was sufficiently stable to Start her radiation therapy at Hsc but her condition quickly deteriorated forcing doctors to inject morphine so Friday 29 a doctor said they had located another blockage in my moms stomach and it didst look i told him that mom had a bed waiting for her in the palliative care unit in Boniface and could we please Transfer he told me to wait until monday and they would try to bypass the get her stabilized and he would look into moving her to the palliative care Elizabeth Kalynyk died the following i feel her daughter we have had a few cancer patients in the family and we were always called in the last hours or getting the victim of an injustice that bureaucracy seems shy about remedying give Mike Ward a hell look into renegade new democratic la Jim Walding Speaks with reporters wedged into his legislature office nip accused of abandoning roots party Laws singled out specific interest Walding says continued from Page 1 away from the harassment that Fol Lowed his obscene phone Calls were left on his Home answering which he said he asked his son to reports that Walding vote was bought by the tories immediately followed the Dps a tory source has told the free press that Walding rejected an offer for a private sector Job in British Columbia in Exchange for support on a previous no Confidence a tory party organizer said while members tried to win Walding their Hopes were quashed be cause bribery is a criminal Walding denied yesterday an offer had been made for his he he would have to consider any Job including a Federal appointment or private Sec Tor employment with tory sup when asked if he could be Walding said with a laugh Start at million and work Down and youll soon fellow Bac Bencher Harvey Smith said he was approached with an offer from a tory la two Days before the non conf Dence Smith Inkster said the who he told him the tories would make it Worth his while if he voted against the he said the member asked for his phone number and gave it out of but heard nothing speaking on his disenchantment with the Walding said he be came disgruntled Over the years As the party moved further from its roots in the cooperative common wealth the Kcf believed in Equality for All and legislation to Benefit All not Laws that singled out specific interest he he said the Dps human rights code and affirmative action pro Gram favor certain Walding said he was Hurt by the heat he took As House speaker for allowing the Bells to ring during the contentious French language debate and then being passed Over for a Cabinet Post once he returned to the nip he said i was not Ive always tried to act not in a vindictive Walding said he was surprised Premier Howard Pawley accepted personal responsibility for the governments he refused to say who he supported to take Over the leadership of the nip and said he will not take part in election this is the end of my political previous ruling gives prisoners right to cast ballots in election continued from Page 1 election Palmyn were not forcing anyone to i suspect there will be those who Are autistic or just generally apathetic who wont they can be just As apathetic As the 30 per cent of the people who dont vote government officials said prisoners in Federal and Provin Cial jails in Manitoba will have the right to vote april 26 by virtue of a 1986 court of Queens Bench Willis said a ruling by Justice John Scollin that found 31 d of the elections act unconstitutional still the Section had prohibited in mates from voting in previous elec Scollin ruled prisoners could vote in the 1986 general but he stopped Short of ordering Willis to put the election machinery into motion so inmates could exercise their lawyer Arne Peltz the prisoners appealed Scollins cup of Tea squares Drakes Bill London a the expense account was filed about 400 years late and the government dispensed Tea instead of Money As a group of people dressed As elizabethans tried to recover the costs incurred by sir Francis five devotions from Drakes to recited his rhyming claim thursday for shillings and four Pence from the British the expense papers were found in a museum in at his office in Whitehall Treasury chief Secretary John major listened to the plea for come up to my office for a cup of responded the 2 Man in charge of Britain i after John a shop keeper dressed As wearing Doublet and a tall hat and carrying a said it seems that All were going to which later was Crossas pealed bar the attorney generals department which wanted the ruling the Case has never been heard by Manitoba court of Appeal because the government but failed to elections act Amend ments addressing the question of the inmate Peltz and Toews mental patients differ from prison Palmyn saying he didst see any connection Between the inmates Case and the mental health association mental patients Are completely innocent and they Sim ply Are he adding the question of prisoners rights focused on the loss of their rights by virtue of their criminal Willis said his office would not have a logistical problem in allowing mental patients to vote at the three centres if the court so but Palmyn said a decision must be made whether patients would vote in the hospitals 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