Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Al Winnipeg free january Agency to police Casino sought Liberal lotteries critic Richard Kozak has called for an Independent gaming commission to oversee running of the new Crystal Casino and other provincially run Kozak along with the Manitoba government employees association and a gaming agreed yesterday that taxpayers need to be assured the Casino is beyond Kozak said unsubstantiated allegations of malfeasance came to him in the last few weeks concerning the operation of various games and lotteries run by the Manitoba lotteries we need an Independent gaming commission with a carte Blanche to the method of opera Tion of any and All gaming in this he i feel very strongly about its in the interest of the Public to ensure that when allegations arise there exists an Independent commission to assess the appropriate operation of the Kozak would not elaborate on specific except to say that even when the Casino was operated at the Winnipeg convention there were suggestions that consistent winners were Steve a staff representative for the which bargains for Casino also said the Crystal Casino needs inde pendent he said there is a concern about the Casino being policed by the same lotteries officials who run the Ca the problem i have with it is you have the Fox guarding the the lotteries people will be the ones to do any investigation and they were the people who set it you and i will never know what the payout rate is and we understand How to Check when it comes to they dont have an outside Hamon said concerns about impropriety we rent As prevalent when the Casino offered mostly card games because it was easier to Trace what the payouts they can say the payoff is this but unless you stand there and you have to Trust their word the Slot machines Are set Earl a professor in the University of Manitoba faculty of has studied the mathematics of gaming in the United unlike Las vegas or Atlantic he Manitoba has no inde pendent gaming commission to ensure Casino operations Are above we have a conflict of we have the government running the Casino and doing the a gaming commission would protect the Public he said there is so much Competition in Las vegas that most Gam bling houses Are forced to pay out a reasonable rate and even advertise they have the highest payout women pay equity urged Ken free press addict gets 10year term for murder by Terry Weber the trial of a cocaine addict charged with the brutal stabbing of a Winnipeg woman in her own apart ment came to a sudden end yester just moments before Crown attorney George Dangerfield was to Call a key witness in the Glenroy Courtland Wheeler changed his plea to guilty and was sentenced to life imprisonment with no Chance of parole for 10 pleaded not guilty in november to the second degree murder of Diane in her Gagnon Street apartment in october Polar picnic Jorge owner of Picasso restaurant on Sargent serves a steaming hot lunch to patrons who yesterday ate outdoors on the restaurants the seventh annual Polar lunch was attended by about 60 regular customers and was by invitation drug defence succeeds in homicide Case the slaying of a Winnipeg Man was not be cause the two killers were High on the provinces highest court ruled in a written Justice Kerr twaddle of Manitoba court of Appeal said evidence presented at the trial of Robert Norman and Leslie Kevin was wrongly put to the jury As expert testimony regarding the two mens level of impairment at the time of the Gray and Schinkel had been convicted of second degree murder in the 1987 stabbing of Russell although both accused admit the they said they haunt in tended to commit murder and had acted under the influence of Talwin and ritalin and twaddle said the trial judge erred in allowing evidence from Peter chief medical examiner for the and a police sergeant to stand As expert Testi even though neither had any special knowledge of the in these it would be wrong to let the verdicts twaddle a further hearing to Deal with sentencing the accused has yet to be on both men were sentenced to a mandatory term of life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 10 years the minimum Legal a month after the trial a Friend of wheelers came telling the Crown he had been told by the accused where to find the murder weapon and was asked to clean any blood or Finger prints off the damaging evidence the Man was to testify yesterday when Wheeler changed his the knife was also to be entered As an no blood or fingerprints were found on the although the witness statement want called into defence lawyer Jeff Gindin said outside court that the mans testimony would have been fatal to the even without the Crown had a very Strong circumstantial Gindin throughout the the eight four woman court of Queens Bench jury heard evidence High on had broken into Chrusch apartment in search of Money to buy More although Wheeler told police he remembered taking a knife into the apartment and being startled to find Chrusch at Home in he remember stabbing the he also told police of bizarre dreams about the incident spurred by a weekend half of freebasing cocaine which he and another figure in the apartment were paralysed by a Bright Chrusch body was found several Days after she missed a dinner engagement at her parents she had been stabbed about 20 an upstairs was charged with the killing several Days outside Dangerfield refused to discuss yesterdays turn of events and release the name of the crowns after dismissing the jury and proceeding to Justice Daniel Kennedy spoke harshly of drug use and said he didst want his sentence to appear to condone chem ical its not difficult to feel very aggravated by the circumstances which led to this Kennedy told one has difficulty really imagining anything More horrible than being startled in your own Home by a person breaking Gindin had asked the court not to impose the maximum penalty of life imprisonment without parole for 20 citing his clients addiction As a mitigating Reading from a letter his client had written to his Girlfriend two months before the also noted Wheeler had been frightened by his problem with i dont know How to ask or what to Gindin read from the let i think i have a i have been doing drugs and its really if it was just Weed it be so bad but its other things two charged in thefts of cigarettes a 20yearold Man and a 17year old youth have been charged with stealing More than Worth of cigarettes in two separate incidents in the last Winnipeg police say two people carrying More than Worth of cigarettes were arrested Early wednesday morning outside the k Mart store at 3395 Portage just minutes after the stores front window was it was a simple they were in and out in a couple of police spokesman Eric Turner he said police have linked the same two men to a similar break and enter last in that the window of the Zellers store at 3332 Portage Avenue was smashed and More than Worth of cigarettes the two have Are charged with two counts each of enter and the Canadian press the Manitoba government should pay women As much As men in health care if it wants to have its commitment to pay equity taken the Manitoba federation of labor president if the government Doest take this it is saying human rights and fairness Are Only of when it is Susan har Kulbaba said it is saying it is All right to discriminate at will against More than half of this is totally her comments were directed at a ruling from the Manitoba labor the Board accepted a plan pro posed by the province instead of one suggested by healthcare although the Board admitted it will leave female employees about 25 cents an hour behind their male counterparts at the end of the four year pay equity pay equity legislation was introduced in 1985 to close the gender based wage Gap in the Public Sec healthcare workers and the government have been fighting Over the interpretation of the which set a ceiling of one 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