Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free it january Agency future Cloudy mull Awa Siss role by David Roberts the director of the troubled Wasis Agency of Northern Manitoba is gone and Board officials to meet in Winnipeg today to discuss decentralizing the Childrel fare Agency that once served 25 Northern Indian executive director Dave Tranteau left the Agency by Mutual agree ment in Wasis Board member Philip chief of the Barren lands Indian said last who could not be reached at his Thompson has been replaced by acting director Victor Michel refused to say Why Pran teau left the we had a Mutual agreement i didst want to see him but apparently some people so that what i wish it had been Awa Siss chief Jim to Bacco of the Moose Lake re fused comment on the but Board member Sidney Gar Bloch said Tranteau More or less partly because of Nega Tive publicity the Agency garnered in recent years and because several bands left and later started their own child welfare Northern bands tobacco confirmed the seven member Wasis Board was to meet today to determine the future of the the discussions will cover the Issue of one of five Indian child care agencies in was created seven years ago to serve Northern bands represented by the Manitoba Keewatin now Okima kanak its Sevenman Board is from Northern the Agency has been under close scrutiny for the last two years after several of its wards were Vic Tims of crime or involved in serious criminal matters nine bands have either withdrawn or declared their intention to with draw from Wasis to set up Independent childcare its something that really started two years ago when the swampy Cree tribal Council in the Pas wanted their own Michel Island Lake also expressed a desire to Start up its own has to be decided among the chiefs today is whether you want More control among the Vari Ous you have to remember Wasis is a big Agency it covers half of Northern with tobacco and Michel on the Wasis Board Are chiefs Rodney Spence of Nelson House Jerome Dene Cheshe of Lac b Rochet Sidney Garrioch of Cross Lake Ken Woods of Theresa Point and Marcel Okimow of gods lawyer seeking trial in French continued from Page 1 came under fire when lawyer Mary Jane a member of Detour nays announced she would seek to have charges of assault and break and enter against another client quashed because of lengthy court Bennett has said her clients constitutional rights were violated be cause the Man had to wait about 1 years to have his Case tried in the Only French speaking member of the provincial Bench in has refused to hear cases from Jenaine Labossiere because of a perceived conflict of interest due to her husbands Bennett has said As Many As 20 other cases have also been remanded for lengthy periods because of the Lack of a second French speaking a spokesman for Tiffaine Labos Siere confirmed Betournay was being represented by the firm in the but refused to discuss the when contacted yes refused he would not say whether the delay in hearing the Case was because he was seeking a French details of the allegations against him we rent a court source con firmed the matter was being continually put Over for the same reason As the other cases being handled by the he wanted to be tried in French and Hes waiting for a new appoint ment of a the source its the same problem As All the other except its a better Justice minister Jim Mccrae reacted with Surprise yesterday to the news that duals husband was among those awaiting a French but added he supports the judges refusal to hear the Mccrae maintained he and chief provincial court judge Kris Stefan son Are close to solving the Boniface but refused to my lome Nystrom smiles outside court yesterday after not guilty verdict defence of absent mindedness wins continued from Page 1 he had intentionally pocketed the a Cool and composed Nystrom responded in not that kind of i have never done that and i will never do Lennox accepted the defence of absentminded saying Nystrom explanation was More than i am on the basis of his evidence that it is Mindy a drugstore Security had testified she watched last 29 As Nystrom picked up a package of Lens cleaning took the two disks from the Box and put them in his he then put the package Back on the display she on his Way out of the Nystrom paid for two but not for the under intense Cross examination by defence Law yer Clayton Gosman rejected the idea that Nystrom had been merely if it was an honest i would have known it was a she but Nystrom said he was preoccupied with thoughts of the nip leadership convention then coming up in and tired after Long hours on a committee studying the governments proposed sales he also was bothered by Eye trouble that might have been an allergy and might have been an he said he opened the Lens cleaners to see if they were the kind he decided against buying and thought he had put the disks Back into the Box before returning it to the when Gosman chased him outside and suggested he had stolen some said he checked his pocket and was horrified to find the i have no idea Why i put them in my its just a Case of being an honest mis mobbed by reporters after the Nystrom said he was glad to be rid of the Case and the heavy publicity it its More horrible than 1 can even because it was so in terms of my friends and my family and my he known As one of Canadas highest priced criminal refused to estimate his Bill for the nor would he talk about the Cost for an array of expert including a drugstore owner who discussed his own experiences with shoplifting and a commercial designer who expounded on the packaging of Contact Lens in sure it will Cost me a fair Nystrom said with a nod toward his but when youre in trouble you go for the Man stuck 20 minutes Muf Fuciu from Page 1 20 Rodger said the Man had been seriously injured in a car Accident earlier in the adding it is not known if he would have survived a family spokesman confirmed that William Edgar was the Man who died in the the spokesman refused to comment about the Rodger said the mans heart had stopped once in the emergency room but he was revived and was being rushed to the seventh floor operating room when the elevator became stuck Between Rodger said the elevator stopped metres Short of the seventh a doctor and two nurses were in the elevator with the he but they were unable to resuscitate him after his heart stopped Rodger said inspections of the ele Vator since the incident have not found what led to the unexpected we have not found anything that would suggest it would do it again but we dont know what caused it legislation urged Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs raised the Issue in the legislature saying government action could have prevented the Inci during question Carstairs said the former new Democrat administration weakened elevator inspection regulations and the tories have stopped carrying out Why Hast the Hsc elevator not been inspected since april Carstairs Carstairs said the government should immediately pass legislation that would require annual inspections of elevators that Are five years or labor minister Genie Hammond replied the department did not have enough staff to inspect every Eleva Tor every adding the Hsc has its own maintenance workers who examine the Rodger said a Complete overhaul of the six Bay elevators off the Wil Liam Street Entrance would Cost million and take two weve done everything we feel we can Short of a major he we have to keep them running knowing the same thing can happen noting the history of the elevator in Rodger said in one Inci Dent a woman in a wheelchair rolled out of the elevator which had stopped several niches above the she tipped Over and suffered a the Hsc has no Choice but to keep the elevators Rodger adding maintenance staff will Check them on a regular chief medical examiner Peter Markesteyn said he believed an in quest into the mans death would be adding information is still being Smith was involved in an Accident on the morning of 30 As he was leaving the Polo Park Park tag the car he was driving was hit broadside on James Avenue by a northbound Halfton harsh discipline1 now called abuse continued from Page 1 Krindle also said if the woman had testified during the trial that she believed she was using Correct disciplinary measures to punish the Chil a finding of guilt would have been More difficult to i am not condoning what she Krindle times have philosophies have Twentyfive years ago this would not be seen As now we Call it Krindle also sentenced the woman to serve 200 hours of Community suggesting she do the time at a shelter for battered women and children to show How severe the affects of abuse can the charges were Laid after the children complained they were disciplined with a Belt and a which sometimes left police were called to the family Home after the woman slapped the eldest causing the girls lip to Crown attorney Neil Cutler urged Krindle to consider a jail sentence for the make absolutely no apologies for this Cutler told if there Are other people who Are abusing other children and not being brought to that info Stu the kids Here were in an entirely vulnerable Cutler refused to say whether he would consider appealing the presidents visit viewed As futile by Warren Canagata the Canadian press Lithuania leaders of the lithuanian communist party indicated yesterday that there is virtually no room for Compromise with soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev when he arrives Here this week to try to Stop the Republic from breaking with the this is a problem of Gorba Chev and the cps communist party of the soviet Union what kind of decision to said Eduardas a member of the politburo of the lithuanian communist the party declared its Independence from Moscow last month and has stated its intention to Lead the Lithuania to Vladimir the second Secretary of the said we Are convinced that we Are that we have made the right Gorbachev arrives in the lithuanian capital this week in another at tempt to convince his lithuanian comrades to Back off their goal of an Independent last he called the lithuanian leadership in for a Kremlin Chat but failed then to change their lithuanian communists View Gor Baches trip As a Chance to change his communist party officials said Gorbachev is not expected to arrive until tomorrow at the elsewhere in the lithuanian demonstrators confronted the visiting Kremlin ideology chief yesterday and demanded Independence for the you want to leave the soviet Union Vadim Medvedev asked a crowd of protesters on the snowy Square near Lithuania second largest a woman responded that she favors Independence within the framework of the soviet federation of 15 but in a scene Broad cast on soviet repeated the question and before receiving an other said for being inde having so that sovereignty was filled with real we Are for we Arent against we Are for that and that what reforms Are Ford makes the cars w Parkside makes the difference 2000 main 3392001 Gorbachev can do Only so much continued from Page 1 right now there is a lot of eco nomic problems my friends write to Tell me there int enough food and other things needed to live they Are More free to speak their said who served in the russian Imperial army during the first world before Estonia had won its Independence from who can Trace his family tree Back to later served with the estonian another father Justinus Bertasius of the lithuanian Catholic Church on Elgin sees limits to Gorbachev we have seen some drastic changes under Gorbachev in the last couple of he but he is Only one and one Man can Only do so much unless the rest of the communist party supports Marius president of the Baltic federation in Winnipeg and a member of the cites lithuanian said he is optimistic Lithuania will gain its ind Epen the lithuanian people have Al ways fought to keep their cultural and hopefully they Are now in a direction toward greater Politi Cal he it All depends on How flexible Gorbachev Timmermans 65yearold said the situation in Lithuania is important not Only for the lithuanians but for All the other nations that Are now in the soviet she said the Baltic republics in some ways have a better Chance of gaining their Freedom compared to other republics because they have Only been under communist Rule since and historically have Al ways looked toward the West rather than Eastern Charles a representative of Winnipeg latvian comm said one of the things making it difficult for that Republic to fight for greater Independence is the Large number of russians and nonfat vans living with some Esti mates of this population exceeding 50 per this compares with which is composed of More than 80 per cent ethnic and which is More than 60 per cent ethnic estonians easier to when you have so Many people who Arent its easier to control any sort of nationalist feel Ings amongst the he what happens in Lithuania will be a testing ground for 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