Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba La Winnipeg free press january Page 3 Patrick City editor aboriginal hearings on Bill 31 wind Reserve police station blasted by local women charge unfair Campus hiring by Zena Olijnyk a coalition of women groups has lodged complaints with the human rights commis Sion in a bid to change hiring practices at four Manitoba the commission is now in the position to Start investigating our complaint that women Arent being treated fairly within the University Bev speaking on behalf of the charter of rights said in an while the coalition gave notice last March that it was taking its complaint to the Manitoba human rights the formal complaint was Only launched this Suek said time was needed to word the complaint properly and research the situation at All four she noted this is the first complaint of systemic discrimination to be heard by the commission since changes were made to the provinces human rights the changes authorized the commission to review complaints of discrimination against groups of people who say they have faced Lon term discrimination for social and institutional Suek said two complaints have been launched against each of the four universities in the province the University of Mani Toba University of Winnipeg Brandon University and Boniface the first complaint deals with the Lack of women in full time teaching and administrative while the second looks at the poisoned atmosphere women Are subjected to in areas where they traditionally Haven been represented she noting this includes the Issue of sexual harass the women groups Are hoping their com plaint will Force the universities to introduce affirmative action programs to increase the number of woman employed by the universities and in positions of More urgent than Ever we feel there is More urgency to this complaint than especially in Light of the tragic events in she refer ring to the massacre of 14 woman Engineer ing students in while women make up the majority of students at All for the majority of teaching positions Are held by for about 18 per cent of teaching positions at the University of Manitoba Are held by with Only per cent of them in tenured at the University of the corresponding figures Are 20 per cent and six per University of Manitoba president Arnold Naimark said he haunt been formally served with the he added that his University has been trying to do All it can to put More women into teaching posts and positions of but faces the problem of not enough vacancies and a Scarcity of women with the qualifications to take such theres a great demand for qualified he noting that the University is also competing with the private which also wants to hire More believe if there is a qualified woman for the she receives Many commission executive director Durlene Germscheid said now that a complaint has been an investigation will be conducted by the if it feels the Case has it first asks the two parties involved to resolve the Situa Tion if it cant be dealt with this the commission has the right to appoint an adjudicator who will look at the she the adjudicator can either dismiss the or Issue a legally binding decision to rectify the Glenn free bks forlorn signs advertising space for lease Mark the otherwise Lank shop windows on the ground floor of troubled place Coop says debacle Bergens fault Glenn free press ii i of h t x v is the apartments Are the heart of North Issie Coop by Aldo Santin and Ruth Teichroeb Winnipeg Developer Martin Bergen says Federal officials knew months in Advance he was going ahead with a Mammoth project that would Hurt the viability of a pro posed apartment Block behind Portage owner of fort Garry said he told a Canada mortgage and housing official in late 1985 that he was going ahead with his plans to build a 900unit apartment Chc came to me and asked me if i was Bergen he if youre then we wont insure the Village at Portage Bergen said he could not believe the news when Chc announced its support for the place promenade he the Chc official told the politicians overruled chm insured an mortgage provided by the Manitoba housing and re Newal corp and provided a incentive loan to the Village at Portage place housing North Portage took manage ment of the Complex in May after the Developer was unable to make mortgage and lease Roy Chc provincial and Issie executive director of North por said they didst know for sure whether Bergen planned to proceed with his in any Coop said even if Bergens plans had been it have made a difference to his plans for North we didst have a development unless we had the first stage of housing Coop it was Central to our our mandate was to provide a mixed use housing was the Raison Detre of North everything else the Portage place mall was to enhance the Quality of life for every one living in the just because someone stands up and in going to build a thousand suddenly North Portage should have said we better we better change our whole Winnipeg City Council had approved Ber Gens project in january six months before North Portage signed a development agreement with Village at Portage place Developer Martin Bergen asks How can they blame me housing Coop said he blames the financial difficulties of the place promenade apartment Complex on youre trying to blame us for Martin Bergens Coop i suggest to you that it was he who destroyed the Market Coop said North Portage started negotiations with the developers on place promenade in we were Well on our Way before anything became Public about Martin he came along after he knew we were going he knew what the Market was and he went ahead and dumped units of housing at one time onto the Market when it stand and everybody suffering because of that Why is North and Issie Coop being held responsible for those actions i really dont Bergen said he gets angry when Coop and others blame him for flooding the downtown Market and causing the demise of place he said he began building fort Garry place in How can they blame me for it they knew very Well i was going ahead with he said he was risking his own Money on the not asking for government bitter angered by seeks new shop by Paul Wiecek the owner of Honeyman grocery says enough is Bahl Raj has been robbed six times in the past two years three times in the past two months two robbers with a Butcher knife pushed him Over the Edge last monday in looking for another i work Long hours so my customers respect and then these Guys keep coming and steal my said yesterday from behind the counter of his crowded id give this store up tomorrow if i had the but i dont so i guess ill just keep Raj said the last Straw came when two one armed with a Butcher entered the store and demanded Money and Raj what else could i do one of them stuck the knife he pointing to his and said if you move you i gave them everything i made that plus about eight packages of i dont make much to begin with and then they steal from its hard to make a Raj is no stranger to married with Hes tried to squeeze out a living from his tiny which he rents from the owner of the House that surrounds but the More hours he puts in and the harder he the further he gets Raj noting he had a knife put to his Throat late one night in 1986 As he left for the i try to work longer so customers will come and that what i get Raj said in Rajs sister inlaw was also the victim of an armed robbery As she filled in for and if that we rent his store has also been broken into three times since including twice in two weeks late last it seems like at first it was just once in but now its like every couple of Raj citing a break Andente at the store on another 19 and then mondays the events have so unnerved the soft so Ken Man that Hes even started to keep a Lead pipe under the i keep it just in he rolling the bar with his asked if Hes used it a customer answered for him not she said with a Raj Doest Friend of officer set up memorial fund Ken Dowson widow and his Best Friend Are establishing a memorial fund to recognize Winnipeg police officers for the kind of excellence Dowson represent the family lawyer said yes Paul Mckenna said Jill Dowson and staff Rex of the Winnipeg police want the Veteran inspector remembered for the Good he did and not for the Way he committed suicide a few hours before he was to testify before the aboriginal Justice inquiry that was look ing into the death of native Leader whose killing by a Winnipeg police Constable sparked the Dowson headed the initial investigation into the Harper shoot Mckenna said Money from the which has no set target will be used to Send Winni Peg police officers to training Mckenna said these could in clude ramp courses in Ottawa or Federal Bureau of investigation courses in the United Mckenna said fund organizers will Appeal to the general Public for the fund will be administered by a which will include a member of Dowson one representative each from the Winnipeg police association and the Winnipeg police senior offi cers and two Mem Bers of the suit on sex assaults nears end by Donald Campbell a tentative settlement has been reached in the lawsuit launched on behalf of a girl who was raped by a group of men after being sent Back to a Northern Manitoba Reserve against her will in Manitoba Public Jayanti who pursued the suit on behalf of the said details of the agreement still have to be presented to court and Raichura said one of the terms of the agreement was that no details of the settlement be made lawyers for the provincial and Federal who Are de Pendents in the suit along with the Wasis refused to comment on the Ive got Good news the Case is said adding that he was pleased with the it was reached some time before when pressed for further Raichura said i can answer no More he did not know the Date of when details from the civil suit will be presented to the court of Queens the lawsuit stems from the Deci Sion in 1986 to remove a 15yearold girl from a Foster family in Alberta and return her to her natural parents Home on the Lac Brocket in Dian opposed move both the girl and the Foster who had cared for the girl for 13 said they opposed the the suit was launched in october after the girl testified in a series of sexual assault trials her natural parents did not speak English and that an Wasis worker did not help her adjust to life on the isolated More than 400 kilo metres North of Between july 1986 and january 1987 she said she was sexually assaulted 17 times involving six assail ants three adults and three Juve Niles on the All six accused were later found the attacks came to Light when a nurse noticed the girl had a sexually transmitted the girl was returned to her Foster Raichura said in a past interview the family sought a financial Settle ment in the six figure in its statement of Wasis said the girl was partly to blame for the assaults because she didst do enough to protect the child care which pro Vides family services to most of Northern Manitoba 25 Indian said the girls Foster parents were also responsible for what happened to the girl on the the Foster parents suggested and consented to the plaintiffs return to the the statement of de Fence read in the provincial and Federal govern ments have also denied any responsibility in the in its statement of the province denied knowing of the girls plight or that she suffered any of the suffering and damage or incurred any of the in juries or loses the Federal government which was being sued in Federal court denied any responsibility for it said it funds the Agency but Doest Monitor its Barb a lawyer with the Federal Justice said yesterday she could not comment on the we Are in discussions that Are highly she said Kevin a lawyer with the Manitoba Public insurance who is representing the provincial also said he could make no ;