Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 3 Brian City editor stupid slashing attacks net evacuated mohawks stay off h Reese denies permit motion debate by Janet Mcfarland a recommendation to give City bureaucrats the right to approve River Bank construction permits is opposed by the chairman of the civic committee that recommended Evelyne chairman of councils Riverbank management will ask the cites executive policy committee tomorrow to reject the change because it was not supported by her committee and was sent Forward to the executive committee by but another councillor on the Riverbank As Well As the committees says there was no the item was supported and the recommendation had been Reeves idea in the first they she brought the whole thing up to give administrators the right to approve these permits so people have to Dono Van Timmers Westminster who supported the idea and moved the motion at the meet ing to Send the said he Doest understand i remember it he committee clerk Bill Lyons said Reese also supported the motion when it was dealt with by the cites planning committee last week be fore advancing to the executive Reese is also a member of the planning they passed both Lyons maybe she is insists she would never have supported a proposal to take accountability for Riverbank development in Winnipeg out of the hands of elected i think there has been a misunderstanding with the committee Reese Langevin theres no Way we the River Bank committee Are prepared to accept that Reese said the committees recent refusal to Issue a permit for construction of the Kildonan despite requests from administrators in the streets and transportation illustrates the danger of letting administrators make the permit theres already too much Power she said the idea to give administrators authority was not but that it was a recommendation from a Riverbank committee report before she was appointed in that item i dont even recall us discussing Christine Mckee River chairman of councils planning committee and also a member of the Riverbank commit be reached another member of the Riverbank Roger Young Pembina Riverview said he re members it being but cant remember the motion that was Young said he definitely supports giving administrators the authority to approve the Riverbank which Are required for any stabilization or dumping on i dont think its necessary for City Council and its committees to participate in every decision that needs to be Young Young said the committee Mem Bers currently follow the advice of the Rivers and streams authority Engineer in the planning depart so decisions Likely be much different if department officials made Reese and other members of the committee do agree that they re commended a subcommittee of the Riverbank committee should be set up temporarily to allow permit approvals to be heard taxing times it was chaos at the Revenue Canada office on York Street yesterday As information and tips As they tried to beat the Midnight there was Las minute income taxpayers were forced to wait in Long lines to get tax also a crush to mail returns in a Slot outside the judge loses bid to Stop inquiry by Terry Weber provincial court judge Frank Allen has lost his bid to keep the Manitoba judicial Council from looking into comments he made Dur ing three separate but lawyer Randy representing said yesterday the matter still int adding the fight will now move to the provinces highest jurists lawyer plans to Appeal decision i have instructions from my Cli ent to Mcnicol Refus ing to comment further on the mat in a written decision released Justice Charles he band of Manitoba court of Appeal denied the motion that challenged the councils authority to hear com plaints about comments made by alien during the three Huband was brought in to hear the Queens Bench motion because the chairman of the judicial Council is that courts associate jus Tice Richard there is no doubt that judges enjoy immunity from any civil action brought against the judge for his or her conduct in acting with in Huband said in the but we Are involved with a civil students soured by Low paying jobs Jeff de free press Brown got interview at Supply firm by Stevens wild students seeking summer jobs were treated to donuts and a selection of Low wage jobs As the Winnipeg employment Centre opened its doors yesterday approximately 250 Young people were in line at the centres 460 main at about 50 Job seekers waited All several students scanning the centres Job postings complained about the limited selection and the Low pay of the available Eleonora an University of Manitoba science said she was disappointed at the i thought there would be better jobs and better selection and better paying who was in line at said most of the jobs should have paid More for the Type of work a lot of people Are looking for per five dollars per hour just wont Cut what can you do another University of Manitoba Lori said there was a Large selection of but they did not pay it seems to be pretty Good in food but they Are generally lower paying jobs and they go Tamara a University of Manitoba history said she was Satis fied with the available youve got to have experience for some of she its harder for arts students to get Szajewski said she would probably have to take a Par time Job during the Winter to make ends some such As Mike of the University of were happier with the Job selection at the a management said he received two Job referrals yesterday the pay will be its just a matter of whether ill be Bruce a geography student at the University of said he had found several interesting research positions posted at the i think ill find something if i look hard enough and Long Dominique of Boniface also said she had found a suitable Job i think some employers offer minimum wage because they know people have to take the Jeff who spent the night on the main Street sidewalk so he could be the first Job applicant to said his cold Vigil was Worth the it was Worth Brown i want doing so All i did was get a Little Browns tenacity was rewarded with two Job one As a sales clerk and the other in shipping and he had an interview yesterday afternoon and another is scheduled for this he said people who were looking for Highway ing jobs would be Well advised to lower their John the centres student placement said his staff would interview 500 people by this he said another 400 jobs would be available by the end of the this would be in addition to the 400 jobs posted he City eyes Tough stand on dumping chemicals illegally by Janet Mcfarland the City wants people who dump chemicals into Winnipeg sewers to face fines up to or maximum six month jail Chris Lorenc chairman of the cites works and operations said the executive policy committee has been asked to consider the recommendation As part of the cites response to sewer explosions in this the Fine is a substantial increase from our but it probably Doest go High Lorenc said he said the City is constrained by the City of Winnipeg act from charging fines higher than dumpers of hazardous wastes face maximum fines 30day jail Lorenc said the existing penalties Are not Strong enough City inspectors believe 12 explosions in the Maples area in August which severely burned a 65 year old woman and caused the evacuation of 650 were Likely caused by gasoline poured into a this is aimed at that kind of plus dumping of toxic Materi als or Lorenc he said the City is aiming its enforcement efforts not Only at in but also at private Home owners who use the sewers to Dis pose of gasoline or used engine under the proposed corporate dumpers could be fined up to individuals could be fined up to courts could impose Maxi mum six month jail terms and dumpers could be forced to pay for any damage they cause to the the increased fines follow other recommendations for reforms suggested in a 1988 civic report on the sewer last councillors agreed to build a dumping Centre for liquid wastes next to the sludge de watering Centre at the North end pollution control the facility is to be used by con tractors who haul sewage from Pri vate holding the City had stopped Al lowing dumpers to use two unmonitored manhole locations in the Maples and in dumpers had to use sewers at the cites three water pollution control but the Sites were not us the new dumping facility will be monitored 24 hours a the Battle Over the judicial councils authority was launched earlier this when was called to respond to complaints stemming from comments he made about women involved with the judicial the initial complaint was filed after in a March 1989 told a Man charged with assaulting his Girlfriend that from 60odd years there int any woman Worth the trouble you got yourself after two More complaints were Justice minister Jim Mccrae complained about comments Allen made to a Thompson lawyer in Early 1989 when she failed to appear for a court Case because she and her nursing baby were extremely Allen told the woman that she Best find someone not trying to be a Mother and a lawyer at the same time to help her a complaint about a 1984 in which the judge allowed a Man to change his plea to not guilty on a sexual assault stems from remarks Allen made to a Crown attorney who opposed the changed court transcripts show the judge said you would have to be living in a vacuum not to know in Many cases women Are first to resist and later give in to persuasion and some times their own during a hearing of the Case against the judicial Council held in Early Mcnicol argued that judges have absolute immunity when speaking from the Bench and Only a higher court can question their no matter what the provincial court act established the judicial Council it has no right to override common Law and require a judge to answer for com ments made from the mini col if that judicial immunity were not in judges would Stop com menting or thinking aloud when Ren Dering out of fear of hav ing to account to interest individuals or others who he said at the As he judges Are barred from commenting on Deci Sions or reasons for meaning Allen could not defend himself at the councils the judicial councils Brian countered during the Queens Bench hearing that the legislature has the right to empower a judicial body to review provincial judges conduct and that includes conduct in or out of Huband said a judicial hearing Doest necessarily preclude Allen from explaining his noting some of the comments were not integral to his reasons for the decision in a Ken free press Glass Mark orgy of violence blood spatters window Frame after youths by Paul Wiecek criminal charges Are pending against a 16yearold youth who went on a bloody rampage Friday night in an intercity apartment bloodstained windows and floors As Well As shards of Glass were still visible yesterday in the building at 755 Ellice Avenue where two Days earlier a youth flew through two broke another two doors and assaulted a female resident for no apparent he was just freaking he must have been High on some kind of a building resident said yes a police spokesman said there appeared to be no motive involved in the rampage and did not confirm the drug its one of the stranger we Haven seen one like this since Angel dust was police spokesman Eric Turner refer ring to a highly addictive drug popular in the 1970s and known to incite brutal violence in Turner said the incident began shortly after 11 Friday when a youth entered a suite in the apart ment building by hurling himself through a main plat Glass once inside the vacant the youth began smashing Caus ing an estimated damage to the suite and he then went into the buildings hallway and smashed the wire reinforced Glass of two fire doors before activating the buildings fire he then forced his Way through the door of another grabbed the 41yearold female occupant by the threw her to the floor and struck her in the face several Turner said the woman was not seriously she broke free and the bleeding from numerous cuts on his face and chased her from the building until he was scared off by fire trucks responding to the earlier false he then returned to the building and barricaded himself in the woman the fire department called police for assistance and just As cruisers were pulling up to the the youth again hurled himself through a Mai floor window and landed on the sidewalk outside where he was he was taken to health sciences Centre and admitted in stable Condi Tion for treatment of cuts to most of his charges of breaking and entering with intent and assault causing bodily harm Are pending against a 16 year old Turner ;