Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 25, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Tempo licks and liqueurs City firm licensed to mix booze with ice Cream 29 focus deep crisis soviet unions Economy nears total collapse tribute to a cop baseballs Fay Vincent salutes a real hero 45 Winnipeg free press in Lucky 34 showers today 19 showers tonight 10 second cuss Mai registration number oj86 free april Sun rises sets Moon rises sets outside Winnipeg weekly Home delivery in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg main switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570550 classified 956233o City asked for report to end All reports a senior Winnipeg civic bureaucrat has come up with an answer for the growing Mountain of reports his beleaguered staff Are being asked to Supply to Council a report on the works and operations commissioner Rod Mcrae proposed the report on reports yesterday during a meeting of civic works and operations i would appreciate the Opportunity to report on this whole Mcrae told its getting to the Point where we cant respond to All the re quests for reports we Mcrae report will include a list of All reports his department has been asked to the amount of time required and the source of the the report on reports is expected within a Chris Lorenc works committee expressed Ive totally lost track of what is being studied and where these things Lorenc court strikes Down group Home curbs bylaw termed people zoning Dave free press by Catherine Mitchell Winnipeg group Home bylaws amount to people zoning and Are the Manitoba court of Appeal said yesterday in striking Down the zoning the decision was heralded by pub Lic interest lawyers and group Home advocates As a precedent that will eradicate people zoning through out the Appeal delivering its decision six months after hearing the said restricting where rehabilitative and care Homes can set up by requiring them to get the approval of Community committees is contrary to the charter of rights and freedoms Equality former chief Justice Alfred Mon writing the unanimous said the bylaw As written amounts to people zoning and under the charter and its current interpret is objectionable and Dis Crimi who heard the Appeal before expressed reluctance to strike Down the bylaw noting the High stakes in the urged the City to take the ruling to the supreme court of can Ada for this will affect not Only Manito lawyer Yude who represented the Canadian mental health Winnipeg re i think this is a decision that is far reaching in its consequences All across Henteleff and Arne director of Legal Aid Manitoba Public inter est Law said the decision will undoubtedly be upheld by the supreme court has consistently ruled on the Side of broader charter rights if appealed by the lets face Peltz if the see judge Page 4 tax list reads like City who who by Radha Krishnan Thampi some of Winnipeg most prominent businessmen Are on the latest list of property owners and manag ers who owe the City or More in realty Back a civic released for the first time identifies 20 properties on which the City is owed million in Back As of this the City is owed a total of million in tax the list includes shelter of Canada which owns or Man Ages companies owing about Mil lion and Grant Park ventures a company owned by Izzy mar Vin Shenkarow and Joe which is shown As owing As two companies owned by businessman Martin Bergen owe while two firms owned by Cornelius Martens Are shown As owing the list also shows Quail Ridge properties owned by Law Michael see landlords Page 4 weak Filmon leadership cited in Meech impasse things Are just Ducky Blue bombers placekicker Trevor Kennerd Hast really gone he just joined some we footed friends yesterday to announce the heart and stroke foundation of Manitoba annual Duck the event gets under Way at 1 june 10 at the Assiniboine Park foot by Pauline Compau Premier Gary Filmon was denounced by former attorney Gener Al Roland Penner yesterday As a weak Leader who has failed to take a leadership role in the Meech Lake Accord Filmon wants to be Premier of a provincial government with a majority after september of this Penner said after making a pro Meech Lake presentation to parliamentary hearings on the Accord held Here plot claims he is not a Strong Leader and is not capable of showing leadership on a number of of which Meech Lake is the most the former nip Cabinet minister told the House of commons commit tee that the time has come for Filmon to separate from the com Mon front in if to put the provinces Bottom line on the it is up to the Premier to Stop obfuscating and say directly what he would like to see linked to the a he such a move would allow Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa to re possibly breaking the impasse on the he Penner later said he understood the torys minority position made it difficult for Filmon to move uni la but said it is still the premiers Job to move Forward with a minimum if the three Manitoba leaders see elected Page 4 Penner Stop Shoal Lake mine faces environmental review by Donald the Federal government will con duct an environmental review of a Gold mine proposed for Shoal environment minister Lucien Bou Chard confirmed the announcement was welcomed by the Winnipeg water Protection which is fighting to have the development the More this thing is looked company chief project critics pleased3 the More pleased we Claude mpg but the president of consolidated professor mines which wants to develop the mine on Stevens was surprised when told about the review last that contrary to anything weve Richard Dunlop said from he said the project is subject to scrutiny under Ontario Environ ment legislation and he has not been advised any the free press obtained a copy of a letter the mpg received from Bouchard yesterday explaining his the minister was responding to a formal question tabled in the House of commons 14 by Liberal my John Harvard Winnipeg who asked what action the government planned to take to Eval uate the the written sought by har Vard on behalf of the states the department of fisheries and oceans is applying the Environ mental assessment and review pro Cess to the in if there is a require ment for an approval under the navigable Waters Protection the department of transportation will also apply the Bouchard letter concludes environment Canada officials will participate actively in Ontario Public hearing process and will ensure that the project meets the requirements of the Federal Metal mining liquid effluent the decision follows a landmark ruling by the Federal court of a peal in March that halted Albertas Oldman River dam see alarmist Page 4 Index Ann 17 40 39 40 33 Jumble 50 35 sports 48 18 29 to 30 3 eat save the world Washington a so you thought you did your part on Earth Day by picking up litter now the physicians committee for responsible Medicine claims if you Are going to be an environment you have to be a in other Chew vegetables and eschew hot dogs to save the Canadas cattle ranchers says its a Load of but the president of the physicians com Mittee insists if youre a meat you Are contributing to the destruction of the whether you know it or clearly the Best thing you can do for the Earth is to not support Ani Mal said Neal Ber a 1980 graduate of George Washington University medical he cited statistics to make his Point d producing enough food to feed a meat eater requires litres of water a Day to feed a vegetarian requires d nearly four billion tonnes of top soil Are lost each year in the United chiefly because of overgrazing by livestock and unsustainable methods of growing d it takes 39times More Energy to produce beef than soybeans hav ing the same caloric d tropical rain Forest is being cleared in latin America to raise cattle a Pound of hamburger represents Square metres of burned off Bernards group observed Earth Day on sunday by passing out Reci Pes for such dishes As Black Beans and Rice and vegetarian Bernard said most environmentalists dont catch the connection Between eating meat and polluting the but Are pretty sympathetic when it is spelled they picture a pastoral a few cows grazing and a few Chick ens he Little do they know that cows Are raised on enormous feedlots for a portion of their lives and you cant keep the manure from running off into by and raising animals for food is a very unfriendly Industry from an environmental he said research suggests meth Ane Gas an inevitable byproduct of cud chewing animals contrib utes to the greenhouse the National cattlemen association disputed the committees the claim that to be a proper environmentalist you cant be a see cattlemen Page 4 ;