Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 10 Winnipeg free toil sculptor Lea Vivot relaxes on the popular sculpture she planted in sculptor carves controversy artist plants work in front of National Library without permission Ottawa up about a year a Large truck rolled up to the National Library a few blocks from parliament Hill and a 315kilogram Bronze statue was it is now thought the watchmen assumed that some bureaucrat or dered the a life sized boy and girl perched on a Park but nobody and since this is Ottawa where bureaucracy everybody assumed somebody else would do something about but nobody its been there Ever the artistic coup was carried off by sculptor Lea who trucked the sculpture from her Home studio in just North of the building needed something and i dont feel that artists have time to go through the bureaucratic she in the same amount of time that it would take to go through All this Bureau Cracy i can cast another sculpture and enhance another costly sculpture the the secret Bench lost took nine months to Complete and is Worth at least it is inscribed with the most secret Hopes and fears of 80 York Region elementary Stu selected from classes in which Vivot worked As an Art i wish my mom and dad never broke up because i love them very wrote eighty Earold a Grade 1 boy wrote when i get i want to live somewhere where there is Vivot says the sculpture is a rec Ord of our times seen through the eyes of Library spokesman Randall Ware says people love the statue and he Hopes bureaucracy Doest intervene so its just left where it cars Are always stopping so people can get their picture taken on people eat their lunch on kids climb on its not everyone loves the sculpture and the 38year czechoslovakian born Vivot has created controversy in the past by installing her work in Public places without in Vivot created a furore when she staged another of her artistic coups in downtown Toron the two tonne Bench scene depicted two nudes locked in passion ate with a second naked woman beside them either Yawn ing or screaming in Vivot was eventually ordered to move this is not a naive says Francine of the University of Ottawa visual arts de there is an attempt Here to gain a profile through self who is listed in the who who of american dismisses the i offered the sculpture for she Why cant it just be accepted As it is government officials say there Are no plans to move the Sculp a fundraiser Starr charged with fraud by Suzanne steel the Canadian press to conf 0 former Liberal fun Draiser Patricia Starr was charged yesterday with defrauding Ontario ministry of citizenship and appeared downcast and was accompanied by two lawyers at a downtown police where she was charged with one count of fraud Over for making false representations to the the penalty for which is a maximum five years in she left without speaking to re she is to appear in court on the charge on May the ministry has said it disco Vered in an audit that the Toronto Section of the National Council of jewish women collected almost More than it was entitled to receive for renovations to its offices under a provincial Grant in a statement police said their investigation of Starrs activities is for a they have been investigating allegations that Starr Don ated More than to politicians from the coffers of the Toronto Sec Tion of the which she head under the Federal income tax its illegal to use charitable funds for political most of the Money had come from a fund set up for a nonprofit housing project the Charity had been working on and went largely to Liberal Cabinet ministers and other members of the Ontario on april the supreme court of Canada quashed a Public inquiry into the Starrs Barry filed notice the next Day in Ontario supreme court that he intended to sue Premier David attorney general Ian Scott and the Liber Al Swadron accused the government yesterday of initiating the charge against his client in order to Retali ate for the whatever charges Are against her Are in connection with events that happened a year Swadron if there were to be Why we rent they Laid then police spokesmen and Scott have said that investigations began before the inquiry was called and that the two were Starrs lawsuit says the govern ment set up the terms of reference for the inquiry for an improper she is asking for compensation for damage to her loss of income and Legal fees Esti mated to be several Hundred thou Sand House painted Peterson announced the inquiry last june after his executive director resigned Over reports that he accepted a refrigerator from Starr and reports that Starr had also paid for his House to be the Premier said the inquiry was designed to restore Confidence in the integrity and institutions of govern but the High court ruled the prov Ince did not have the jurisdiction to hold the inquiry since it too closely resembled a criminal Starr told a news conference after that decision that she was stunned to learn police were considering Crimi Nal charges against to be throwing around things like criminal charges and All manner of things seems to me a Little unfair when you remember that we Are All volunteers in these roles with Only the Good of our organization and the people we were trying to serve As our main she judge resigns during inquiry Montreal up Quebec court judge Claude Leveille re signed from the Bench yesterday As the provincial judicial disciplinary Council investigated three com plaints involving his conduct on and off the Leveille regretfully announced his decision to step Down in a letter dated yesterday to Justice minister Gil in a statement that accompanied the the judges lawyer Gabriel Lapointe said he agreed with the decision and said it was taken to uphold the Honor of the on March was found guilty of being found in a common Bawdy House when police raided a Massage parlor in suburban he was Given an absolute on March fellow Quebec court judge Yvon Mercier filed a com plaint against Leveille accusing the judge of granting a restricted Drivers licence in 1985 to his son who had lost his permit for three months because of Demerit then on a third com plaint was filed by an Anonymous person against Leveille alleging that he was drunk while hearing a 1987 preliminary hearing in Southeast of lawyers at the preliminary hear ing told the Justice department that Leveille was in an obvious state of All three complaints have been under review by a disciplinary coun cil said judge Bernard Secretary of the Lapointe said Leveille will now not have to appear before the a judge for the last nine has not sat on the Bench since March 12 but has still been drawing a salary of a husband jailed in squeezing death up a Man who squeezed his wife to death was sentenced yesterday to six years in Thomas okeefe of nearby missis Sauga was originally charged with second degree murder in the 1989 death of his Karen he pleaded guilty last month to he told police he didst mean to 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