Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 2 Julian provincial editor civil service faulted in Forest project by Aldo Santin provincial bureaucrats Are under mining the intent of environmental legislation to protect big business an environmental group spokesman said Brian Pannell said senior officials within the environment department Are removing obstacles within the environment assessment review of the Recap enterprises Mill expansion in the this is extremely lawyer for a coalition of 13 environmental the government has Given Recap 19 per cent of the provinces total land mass and per cent of All the its the biggest private development to be conducted under environmental All the behaviour of the depart ment of the environment Over the Recap project strongly reflects the governments intentions on seeing the project go Pannell said environment officials have gone Back on their word to ensure full Public input into setting the guidelines for the environmental review of the forestry aspects of the environment officials Are using the discretionary Powers of the environment he to avoid close scrutiny of the Recap a senior environment department official said Public participation in the process has not been adding no promises were made and none were Norm director of environmental management said his staff Are still reviewing Public comments on the proposed environmental review Montrea based Recap bought the Crown corporation Manfor last March for million million Cash and the rest a share double production Recap promised to expand the existing Mill and build a second Plant which would double its production in the province signed Over cutting rights to 41 per cent of the Manitoba Forest to the pulp and paper Recap announced in november that it wont proceed with its expansion plans until it gets environmental approval for All phases of the despite the opposition of Environ mental the province allowed Recap to submit each phase individually for a separate the clean environment commission has already approved the initial existing Plant Pannell said environment officials held Public meetings in Early de adding participants were promised they would have input into creating the guidelines for further provincial officials said draft terms of the guidelines would be issued within 10 he and More meetings would be held to discuss the now Treyve changed their Pannell no one has received any draft guidelines and Treyve also decided no More meet Ings on the Issue will be Brandson said no commitments were made at the december meet Ings to provide individuals with copies of a second draft of the guide adding also no Promise was made to hold further our staff indicated there May be an additional meeting but there were no he a second draft of the guidelines has not been he adding he Doest know when it will be Small town resident attacks gossip we Fott press by Randy Turner Winnipeg free press kernels court action buttoned up wagging tongues in Deg Virden Edna Kernel is a hot topic of conversation in this Small recently put coffees hop gossip on trial and won the first civil defamation jury trial held in Brandon in 50 although the award was nominal in damages plus court costs Kernel says the verdict should be a lesson to residents of Small towns who generate or pass on malicious i dont know if it will have any but it will certainly make people she said in an and if they do talk before they they might have to worry about it a lot of people talk off the top of their head and not even think about the she there can be there can be marriages ruined be cause of gossip that not it has been almost two months since the six member court of Queens Bench jury agreed that Kernel had been maliciously de famed by her former 71yearold bar Bara macintosh was also ordered by the jury to apologize for telling local residents she had heard Kernel was fired from her previous Job As a nurses aide at Virden wrongful dismissal macintosh made the comments Over a fou year period while both she and a life skills were employed at Virden association for Community Kernel launched the defamation suit two years after she was dismissed from the association and one year after she won a wrongful dismissal suit filed against the she works As a Cook at a local she has begun to repair her life in the Community of about located 75 Kilometres West of for the Case underlines How such gossip can affect people especially in Small towns where the rumours follow the past four years were a night Mare for me As Well As my said married with a 16yearold daughter and 20yearold it hurts everyone it slowly eats away at i was physically and emotionally worn out from it i wanted to pack up my family and move away from the Community in which i have lived in for the last 15 despite the lawyers who represented macintosh and Kernel do not predict similar cases will although the potential is i think there is probably a slander committed in every Manitoba town every said kernels lawyer Randal every Day in a Small town you hear somebody did you hear about soands and if its Juicy it spreads like special person but Kernel notes that while slander May be committed with alarming it is difficult to prove a Case in for what were the exact words used was the gossip intentionally Mali Cious who was told because of these most such incidents Are settled out of Smith there Are a ton of potential cases out but it takes a special person to care enough about their reputation to go through with Smith the thought of losing a Case like this is enough to scare anyone when your reputation is at you cant afford to Fay who defended said the damages awarded Kernel were too Low for others to take the i cant imagine a person who would put themselves through such a trial and come out with Lowes if the award had been 10 times the Impact of the verdict might have led to More she the message from the jury was not loud and it Hast created enough to Kernel and her the verdict was when the verdict was i had no she it was like i was i guess it was hard to believe the Nightmare was now i feel i can live i can still walk proudly in my native parents want strict school reopened by Maureen Houston parents on a Northwestern Ontario Indian Reserve Are petitioning to reopen a mennonite boarding school tvs Cene changes today go nil football pfc divisional Minnesota at san Francisco 330 for dreams am Charles in charge 321 Ediff Knight rider 421 in two spider Man tomorrow football pfc divisional los Angeles rams at new York giants acs nil live orb nil football acc divisional Pittsburgh Steeles at Denver daily Deal yesterdays results Are Queen of 6 of Jack of clubs and 10 of a match of All four playing cards on one Selec Tion wins times the a match of three playing cards wins 30 times the and a match of two playing cards wins three times the that has refused to abolish the strap and is under investigation for alleged child the private run by a Funda mentalist religious group called Northern gospel closed last fall after funding from the Northern native education coun cil was Cut off because of the schools stand on Corporal punish the Council provided about one third of the schools the chiefs got but we do anything about the mennonites Back Raymond a former student and staff member at the several neighbouring bands boycotted the school in Poplar about 250 Kilometres Northeast of Winni last probes child abuse Reg weeks of the Sioux look out Northwest patrol of the Ontario provincial police said his detach ment has begun investigating allegations of child which he said were connected to the Corporal punishment but we have no idea How Many years they might go said this is going to take a considerable amount of Howe said children would be held Down Over a table and hit on the buttocks with a 46centimetre leather when i went to school they would hit the kids up to 20 times in one but now its Between three and five Osnaburgh band chief Roy Kami Naraish said parents want the school reopened because they have no he said Many children Are simply not attending our local school on the Reserve is not big its decrepit and its not suitable to accommodate the existing he about 40 Osnaburgh children at tended the Poplar Hill said while just Over 100 attend the Public education Council asking that the until the Issue is settled As to Merle director of the school be even though the whether parents Are in charge of said a group from the of mennonite group has put the build their childrens education or Naburg he band has written to the ing up for we wont consider he deaths classified death George of of widower of Katharine of Winni of Rose do formerly of widow of Valmor Arthur of of wife of Benjamin Sydney Carol wife of tre Vor Diedrich Dick of husband of Dora Leon Joseph Roland of husband of Mae widow of Michael James of husband of Martha of wife of Fred widow of Joseph husband of Rita Christine widow of 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