Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january Page 3 Patrick City editor complaining Pupil asked to grieving Mother pans youth court Nome defends North dismisses Calls for review by Ruth Teichroeb Winnipeg mayor Bill Norrie yesterday dismissed Calls for a Public review of the North Portage development saying he is con Vinced the corporations Board will spend taxpayers dollars wisely on the ill fated place i dont think it Public review is because i have Confidence in the Board of Norrie told the transactions Treyve entered into have been very Norrie accused other civic and provincial politicians of playing poli tics with their demands for an inde pendent review of the Tri govern tent despite other politicians concerns about How the corporation has spent Public Norrie said he has no plans to meet the Federal and provincial shareholders in North por Tage to discuss its financial that Why we set up an arms length to let them run he they dont report to we Haven had a shareholders meeting for a North Portage is in the midst of negotiations to try to Salvage the million it invested in the project through mortgages to the Village at Portage place housing the Developer defaulted on Mort Gage payments last putting North portages investment at Al Golden Gle Lawn said if Norrie refuses to step in and demand More Public hell ask Council to rescind the cites three appointments to the nine member i know i dont have Confidence in the Golden the Complex is slated to go on the auction Block wednesday unless a bailout is worked out among North the Federal and provincial Village at Portage and a third Norrie defended North portages 1986 decision to go ahead with the 376suite apartment Complex even Woehry free pbe88 unlucky truck workers unload Limestone from a truck that crashed through the ice on the Assiniboine River the truck was hauling Stone shoring for the Walkway Between the Forks and Osborne translation Issue Back to court by Zena Olijnyk the province and la society fran Comanito Baine Are putting aside differences to ask the supreme court of Canada How far the government must go in translating Cabinet orders written Only in in a spirit of we agreed the question had to be referred to the supreme court and it had to be society presi Dent Raymond Bisson the government and the society plan to work together to develop questions for a constitutional refer ence on How far the province must go in passing Cabinet orders in both English and Public the Sam cannot simply look at the Issue and not do anything about because it is an Issue of Public interest and Bisson the option of going to the supreme coun is the result of a 1985 ruling by the same court ordering Manitoba to publish All its legislation in both official in making its the court said affected parties could apply to the court later for an interpretation of the governments exact language some members of the francophone including a society Law yer who sits on a committee study ing the had last month suggested a court Challenge to resolve the they even suggested challenging the Validity of an ordering Council authorizing a Hydro Deal with As Well As hundreds of Filmon gave himself credit for suggesting the government and the society go to the supreme telling reporters yesterday the prov Ince faced the possibility of a Legal Challenge in the courts he said a Mati Toba court of a peal ruling last stating that an English Only Cabinet order establishing the native Justice inquiry was opened the door for any Manitoban to Challenge a Cabinet order regardless of whether there interested in French language in order to avoid future court challenges that might hold up Worth while such As the Energy Sale to Ontario we ought to have this and clarified As soon As he both languages the court of Appeal ruled in june that Cabinet orders must be in both languages when they affect the pub and Only orders dealing with internal administrative matters can be in English since the government has been passing about 20 per cent of its new Cabinet orders in both Lan but it has not begun trans lating the estimated unilingual orders passed since or the thousands of others before weve been spending the Money and resources on translating orders that francophone really have no interest Filmon plaque for City Hall wins narrow approval councillors voted narrowly yesterday to move ahead with a plaque to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the construction of Winnipeg City opponents of the plan said the expenditure is unacceptable in a year when the City is facing the Prospect of Large tax the symbolism of this i could do us a lot of Mike Oshaughnessy Jefferson i think its just we dont need and i dont want the proposal passed executive policy committee yesterday in a 64 the final decision is to be made by Council next Council Defeated the plan on and councillors questioned yesterday Why it was put Back on the Al Golden Gle Lawn acknowledged he is always eager for but said mayor Bill Norries desire to have his name on the Wall of City Hall shows he has an even larger even i cant support spending when were faced with these tax Golden former chief judges son faces drug charge the son of former provincial court chief judge Harold Gyles has been charged with possessing marijuana for the purposes of Grant Robert of Jessie was charged after Winnipeg police raided a House tuesday after noon and found marijuana plants growing in the basement aided by High intensity soil enhancer and Plant Winnipeg police vice Ray Johns said the which weighed was poor Quality and not Worth much More than Harold Gyles retired in May 1988 after he was demoted from his chief judges the demotion stemmed from a reprimand issued by the Manitoba judicial which ruled Gyles was unfit for his former office because he twice intervened in the judicial process on behalf of though rival Developer Martin Ber Gen had plans to build the 900suite fort Garry place the fact that they North por Tage got into trouble was a Market not an agreement prob Lem or a policy he referring to the current High vacancy rate for apartments in the Down he also supported the corporations Choice of even though Village at Portage place directors ran into serious financial difficulties with other Imperial group companies before the place promenade Deal was they Imperial had had some very successful he they North Portage must have Felt at the time that there was sufficient equity there to lend them the an official from Canada mortgage and housing has said Village at Portage place and the numbered company that was its guarantor had Little City reopens Charleswood Bridge Issue executive policy committee denies Street paving request by Janet Mcfarland City councils executive policy committee has agreed to reopen the three Earold Charleswood Bridge Issue and switch the alignment of approach roads on its South but the committee yesterday Defeated an additional request to spend million paving Haney Street on the South Side of the Assiniboine River where the Bridge would now be councillors criticized the proposal to direct traffic Down a gravel that would be the worst of All Ernie Gilroy Daniel Mcintrye the switch still has to be approved by City mayor Bill Norrie condemned the switch to but was Defeated in a 64 Norrie said he favors the align ment supported by Council last april that would have seen the Bridge end at the Charleswood Golf course on Roblin traffic would have had to turn left or right on the South Side of the during an Norrie said the original proposal was less risky in the future for area residents who do not want the Bridge turned into a major transportation dispersed traffic he also said traffic would have been More dispersed when it came Over the rather than leading most of it Down some time in the Haney will have to be paved at a lion he if Council puts million into our it Means we have to Priorie that Money or reduce our budget by reducing other Bill Clement Charles who led the fight for the Issue to be told the com Mittee most of the traffic would have gone Down Haney anyway if the original alignment had been he said Haney would have to eventually be paved under either but his proposal makes More sense than veering the approach toward the Golf its an unpaved it Doest have a sidewalk and the traffic is going to be fairly he the proposal to pave Haney was Defeated in a 55 tie vote of the Al Golden Gle Lawn said he believes either proposal would eventually Lead to a major transportation but the original plan is unnecessarily he said Clement is Correct that most traffic would have gone Down Haney original proposed Access Winnipeg free press All youre doing is building an Golden said he thinks traffic would disperse Down several streets under the original rather than All heading Down i bet Money this will pass he area residents who appeared be fore the policy committee yesterday warned councillors not to leave open the possibility of a which Ever alignment they Allan spokesman for the keep Charleswood Green commit said he supported the Haney alignment and believes it will be less Likely to Lead to a unlike the Golf which is on Cit owned Haney would re quire expropriation of private Homes to Widen the Street and turn it into a generosity brings tears to mothers eyes by Zena Olijnyk when Joan Connell thinks about the generosity shown by Winni Eggers towards her and his need for a double lung she finds it hard to contain her i started to cry yesterday when i realize How kind people Corys Mother said yesterday after learning has been raised so far through a fund set up to help pay for nonmedical expenses related to waiting for the transplant in of that was raised who needs a portable oxygen Supply to help him has been at the health sciences Centre since his lungs collapsed Christmas the 15yearold is being quarantined at the moment because he has been exposed to the Chicken pox and Hospital staff Are taking extra in Cory is to travel with his to where they will wait As Long As 18 months for a their expenses Are estimated to be at least a among donations received yesterday was in pennies from three Sisters in along with their contained in an old Bubble Bath bottle shaped like a was a note to Cory saying one of the Sisters has cancer in her leg and had been in the same Hospital As Cory for five Days earlier this we Are poor country so we have some animals that had so we Start pennies for any one who came Over to look at our they gave us i Hope you get better my sister is getting in Dan Senton of the Garden City Community club phoned the free press yesterday to say his group will be holding a social for Cory on 17 at its Centre on Kingsbury tickets Are with the Hall holding about 300 anyone wishing to contribute to the fund can Send a Cheque or Money order to the Cory Connell transplant care of the Winnipeg free 300 Carlton other donations include from the staff at the Manitoba lung who have been dealing with Cory and his family on a regular basis since a fire 10 years ago severely damaged the youths tax receipts will be issued through the Lions foundation of Manitoba and Northwestern which is administering the fund set up by the free those whose donations were received yesterday include Diane Danny mar Lorle Morlanne Ron Doris Joyce Peter it Sonia Tannus Martha Gladys it Elizabeth de Lorraine Sheree Rose Marie Robert wit distributors Rani Joyce George Don it Linda Paul Marie miss Nellien Michael it Catherine Edward Ollie Shirley Anne it Olga it Edna Christine Walter j10 James Jean Verla it Lucille Peter Helen Emily Hubert it Murfello it Gail it David Pur it Charmaine Laura Chesley it Sadie Leo it Margaret Ida Nathan it Carolyn the Lena John it Beverley Helen Carol it Roger hoc Marlon Lilian Bonnie George it Iris Gladys it Leroy Roy it Adeline it Jim Bob it Marilyn Robert it Gloria it James it Norma James it Janet Yvonne Hazel Pearl the thursday morning breakfast the it Constance to Mary it Gord Dora we Inez Joy it Louis John von Dohren it Jack it Blanche Joy Ted it Joy it Catherine june Andrew it Pat Louise Robert it Jean Lena Rick it Mary it it and Dawn in memory of Diane today total ;