Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Do d if by Minai bulletin idea stirs concerns up a propos Al to regularly mail Aylmer Resi dents bulletins bearing photos of the towns habitual Crimi rials is causing a commotion among Quebec lawyers and civil rights the plan of Aylmer police chief Andre Langelier is to be discussed tonight by town which will decide whether to approve it or Langelier says he Hopes his plan will inhibit the criminal element of this town about 10 Kilometres West of Ottawa and maybe even Force the bad apples to move worried that Council might accept the and that other Quebec cities could copy an association of Montreal defence lawyers and Vari Ous Quebec human rights groups have asked Sam provincial Public Security to inter the groups say such mailings would be a violation of constitutional including the right to Priva Aylmer mayor Constance Provost and the towns nine councillors Are to study Langeliers proposal at a private caucus meeting Gerald former chief of detectives of the Montreal said in an interview saturday that the Force considered such lists in the Early but scrapped the idea when its lawyers said they would open the City to now a radio personality in trois Cholette recalled one in stance before his 1985 resignation that convinced Montreal police that habitual criminal lists were indefensible in in one police the director wrote an internal memo saying a burglar had gotten out of jail and that he should be one officer who didst like the director mailed the memo to the the burglar and the City had to pay Cholette said if Montreal lost a lawsuit Over an internal then the Aylmer if will surely end up costing the towns taxpayers Many thousands of dollars in Legal these lists Are Cholette in a Small you dont need because everybody knows who the criminals and in a big there just Anonymous the defence lawyers group approves of mos wanted lists but is worried that someone who is not actively under investigation by police could end up on a habitual rim Inal list by simple virtue of his past criminal while neither Elkas nor Langelier could be reached for comment on the Langelier was quoted Fri Day As saying he is not interested in circulating the photograph of a person who committed a crime five years ago and has been quiet Ever since Hes Welcome in but Camille president of the Union of Quebec municipal said he has difficulty with the Legal ethics of Langeliers you have to respect the i Dividu despite his criminal said mayor of the Eastern townships town of and you have to respect up photo Vander Zalm worker Lauretta Devries holds log of Calls supporting changeable Vander Zalm keeps everyone guessing by Gerard Young the Canadian press Vancouver Premier Bill Vander Palms usually Loose lips have been unusually tight the last month As he pondered his future a future that May become Clear wednesday when he makes a prov inc wide televised but dont bet on Vander Zalm has a history of Chang ing his mind at the last i anybody who trying to guess what Bill Vander Palms going to do is trying to follow the flight of a said his main and Mike Leader of the new democratic Vander Zalm decided to make the speech after his social credit party lost its sixth by election in a Row to the this want just another seat they lost on it was in Oak Bay Gordon Vir Gin territory for the Harcourt said sacred acquaint ances told him that Vander Zalm once indicated to them he would not run for mayor of but 10 minutes later entered the he was soundly beaten by Vander Zalm also flip flopped about running for the social credit leadership in the summer of 1986 before jumping in late As the 12th and final Harcourt prior to the latest sacred Bye Lection Vander Zalm told re porters he expects to be around for a Long time for an other 10 or 15 looked Defeated but he was discouraged and de Fate looking when he said the loss could not be ignored and he had to discuss it with speculation about the Content of Vander Palms speech has ranged from having him quit to having him stay to having him Call an Are betting on what hell say because of his Vola tile asked Point Blank about his he told reporters the Days for All of us Are becoming the loss in Oak Bay Gordon head and squabbling inside the social credit party May suddenly have gotten to said Paul political science professor at the University of British co he is the Type who can who needs this but the 55yearold Premier is a shrewd who May have been buying time after the devastating by election Tennant Elwood International business and immigration minis thinks his Boss mulled Over his future out of concern for the prov Bill Vander Zalm is not a common Hes it takes an uncommon individual to be a said an outspoken Vander Zalm he thinks the Premier will caucus chairman Jim Rabbin said Vander Zalm has made up his mind about the although he said the Premier has kept his decision to Rabbitt Dis missed speculation that the pre Mier will 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storage tanks have done More environmental damage to the country than pcs Ever said Kelly head of environment Canadas Oil and Gas there Are an estimated underground storage tanks in the country and at least Are leak it is believed Many of the tanks contain heating Oil main problem or poly chlorinated Riphen were once widely used As Cool ants in electrical transformers and have been linked to cancer in Laboratory contamination of which can persist for 100 is one of the main problems created by leaks from the groundwater contamination has the greatest effect on Rural areas that draw their drinking water supplies from the damage caused by these tanks will surface 50 years from Karr its an insidious but the leaks will Likely continue says Dan an ecological consultant in Ottawa who has done environmental assessment work for both governments and the private some of the tanks Are old and dont have leak detection systems and governments do not carry out Rou Tine spokesmen for the Ontario govern ment say it Doest know How Many storage tanks there Are in the installation is checked by the ministry of consumer and commercial relations fuel safety Branch but no regular follow up inspection is leaks from tanks Are a problem for says Bob head of the provincial environment ministry Ottawa District More than half of the 200 to 300 spills his office investigates each year Are from fuel cleanup can also be it october it Cost million to remove a Blob of Coal tar the size of a football Field from the Bottom of the Rideau the tar had leaked from abandoned under ground storage tanks at a former Plant that produced Gas from Brunton said the problem will continue unless stricter legislation governing underground tanks is signal devices storage tanks containing danger Ous chemicals should not be located near he they should be above ground and surrounded by a containment they should also have devices that would signal when leaks Are when the leak detection system is an Oil delivery Man looking Down a manhole and seeing the fuel escape then we have a environmentalists also want an inventory compiled of the thousands of underground some of which were abandoned in the 1980s during the switch from Oil heating fuel to natural that problem is being taken care of on Federal said Environ ment Canada spokesman Ron another major worry is tanks that Are no longer used but Are still full of heating often Long those tanks Are discovered Only after they Start Nobes said there Are no Federal Laws governing underground storage Only a code that has Little Legal but he sees that Chang ing As provisions Are brought in to equip new and older systems with leak detection the costs of tank safety such As putting double containment Walls around older Are mini Mal compared to environmental damage from a he Copps Hopes to make up Copps announces separation Hamilton up Sheila who is expected to announce her candidacy today for the Federal lib Era has separated from her husband after years of mar says a spokesman for her she is hoping for a re Concilia Hamilton West my Stan Keyes told the Hamilton Spectator in a dispatch from and her Ric have one who will be three in Copps has custody of the the Hamilton East my is ready to answer questions about the separa which occurred three months at a news conference today to declare her intention to inn for the party Keyes Copps met Marrero in Florida while she was vacationing there in March when she was still a member of the Ontario she and an american who worked As a sound editor for a television station in carried on a Lon distance courtship until they were engaged in Marrero left his Job and moved to Canada after the couple was mar ried in Tampa in july the marriage is Coppess in she married Bill an american but the marriage lasted less than a woman killed in lifesaving attempt Canada from the Canadian press a Man watched a truck plow into his Good Samaritan wife As she tried to free a Driver injured in a car crash near say Jacqueline and the Driver she was trying to Leah were killed in the Acci Dent saturday on the Queen Eliza Beth both women were from missis Sau drugs in mail seized Vancouver Canada customs is cracking Down on drugs being sent through the our seizures have doubled Over the past two years and we Are step Ping up our Wes chief of the Canada customs mail Centre in in officers made 53 the largest was 680 Grams of co Caine valued at about last there were 107 the largest seven kilograms of heroin Worth some million discovered last new House tops list Edmonton a Quebec Man flown to Edmonton for a nationally televised lottery draw leapt to his feet and threw his arms up in a Victory pose after winning million saturday i Only bought one Pierre Thomas said after Cele bration an inter provincial lot Tery nationwide its been very Giard and wife Carole Cloutier said one of their first purchases will be a the couple rent a Small apartment in a suburb of police car hits Man a Man crossing a Street died saturday after being struck by a police police said in a news release yester Bart of was hit by the Cruiser at about and died later in the news release who released few details about the scheduled a news conference for Quarter nearly fatal Toronto a Man has been charged four months after a Passen Ger in a cab was savagely beaten in a 25cent fare police Kenneth of is still recovering from the 9 attack that left his Skull broken in 25 investigators said he was clubbed Over the head with a tire Iron because he was 25 cents Short of the cab Luis Campos Neto of Toronto was charged saturday with aggravated ;