Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg press september Page 3 Brian Cole City editor wait to judge politicians native right to Hunt upheld by i local evidence required for mayor says by Pauline Comeau you need More than rumours to justify calling a Public inquiry into the relationship Between developers and City mayor Bill Norrie there would have to be some definitive evidence of undue and not just simply Norrie said he said his experience has been that everyone who appears before Council is treated on new democratic party Leader Gary doer said he would spend to launch a Public inquiry into the incestuous relationship Between Council lors and in a Csc radio debate doer cited the recent Case of councillor Mike Oshaughnessy who introduced a motion supporting a Linden Woods develop ment after receiving a phone Call from the the motion overturning an opposing decision by the cites planning a week City Council postponed voting on the controversial development after a Story appeared in the free press about the phone a former Urban affairs said this Case and others have been floating around for some time and should be aired in a Public it int doer the fact is that Council int following its own what is the mayor afraid of doer said several City councillors have indicated they would like such a Public but Norrie said a mid70s inquiry into land pricing in Winnipeg looked at the same Issue and failed to find any evidence to support claims of deals Between developers and nothing Ever came of Norrie in the 1976 Winnipeg land pricing inquiry examined whether councillors were making financial gains on land sales because of insider information provided by Deve the inquiry determined there was no conclusive evidence any councillor had made major if Money was the inquiry it was a Petty Norrie said doer should produce evidence councillors Are being i think it is very unfair to Blanket councillors and say there is evidence or a Rumor that councillors Are under the influence of developers or Norrie was Nee Frt be press fun fuel Eugene the German Cowboy Coltman belts Back a gulp of brew from his three tier Stein at the opening of Canadas largest annual indoor Beer at the convention former City doctor admits pilfering pills by Bruce Owen a former Winnipeg doctor facing lawsuits from 12 former patients and a disciplinary hearing by the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba pleaded guilty yester Day to stealing a pack of provincial judge John Guy gave Mohamad Afifi a oneyear conditional discharge for the Crown attorney Bob Gosman told court Afifi was charged after he walked out of the shoppers drug Mart Branch at 471 River Avenue without paying for a pack of Worth Gosman said Afifi was seen by a store Security officer removing the pills from the then dumping them into his pants pocket before leaving the he said when confronted by Afifi said i was going to show them to my son at Home and come Back and pay for them if they were the right the oneyear conditional discharge Means Afifi will be placed on unsupervised Proba Tion for one year and must stay of out a warrant for fifis arrest was issued last month after he failed to appear in his lawyer at the Jill said her client was out of the country and believed to be living in the Middle a court Date was arranged for Afifi last week when it was known he would be Back in his current Gavin could not be reached for Ken registrar of the College of Bishops Back native cause churchmen seek Federal panel to Settle aboriginal disputes by Kevin Rollason physicians and said a formal Public inquiry into fifis conduct will be held As soon As a Date for the inquiry will be set Afifi was suspended by the College last March As a result of patient lawsuits filed against Afifi in court of Queens Bench contain allegations of incompetence and unnecessary surgery that left patients with Lon term or permanent Disasi the College censured Afifi last announcing an unnamed orthopaedic surgeon with a mental illness and chemical dependency had been censured for injuring two in statements of defence responding to some of the Afifi denies Respo Sibil Phil free press four Manitoba Catholic Bishops called on the Mulroney government yesterday to appoint a commission to Settle longstanding aboriginal issues and through peaceful immedi ate concerns and Lon term settlement of land claims and self government issues must be pursued without Winnipeg Arch Bishop Adam Exner told about 400 people at an aboriginal peace rally at the we Pray and urge that current situations of tension and conflict be resolved through peaceful Means and not by armed the Well being and safety of All concerned should be this is an important time for present decisions and events will have significant and far reaching consequences for the future of our we Pray that we will not be found Exner said Antoine archbishop of Boniface Peter archbishop of the Pas and Myron auxiliary of the arc Eparchy of Winnipeg for the Ukraine All agreed the Federal government should appoint representatives from native nations to the Phil Leader of the Assembly of Manitoba said he was saddened and angered to read the results of a free press poll that suggest the Manitoba party leaders silence was an accurate read ing of the Public mood an overwhelming majority of Manitoban dont care about native it tells me that at some we have to take a Fontaine at some we cant be what the White people want us to be Good Little at some Well have to do something and never mind Public never mind what no aboriginal people i want to make it Clear we will do what we have to do and we will do it As forcefully As we have but Fontaine was Quick to remind the crowd that whatever action the native people decide it will be peaceful and the crowd swelled to about people As a demonstration through the downtown Core followed the the which occurred with out stretched along three City including representatives of the anti apartheid carried ban ners and posters pledging support for the Quebec mohawks and demanding prime minister Mulroney get directly involved to ensure a peaceful settlement to the other speakers at the peace rally were Quick to Lay the blame for the Mohawk standoff in Quebec on the Federal govern ment and Hes abdicated his said Long Plain chief Peter i dont think we even have a prime minister in this the prime minister should before the eyes of the Hes laying shame upon this pegu is Indian chief Louis Stevenson said native people have nothing to whatever course of action they decide to if the Federal government betrays us one More i cant guarantee it will be As peaceful As this the next Stevenson natives March through the 513 porn counts Laid video store owner eager for court Date by Paul Wiecek the owner of a local Chain of adult video stores was charged yesterday with 513 counts of Possession of prohibited materials and ramp say obscenity charges May also be Randy owner of adults Only video said he was formally served with charges relating to the customs act yester Day afternoon at ramp Over six months after police raided his stores and seized More than its Nice to know were finally getting our Day in Jorgensen said in an inter it certainly took them Long enough to Lay the he ramp spokesman Wyman Sangster said the number of coupled with the volume of material that needed to be re accounted for the in addition to the 513 customs act Sangster said officers Are consulting with the Crown attorneys office about the possibility of laying a further charges under the obscenity provisions of the criminal depending on the outcome of our discus those charges could be Laid he Jorgensen said he will be pleading not guilty on All 513 counts when he appears in court Jorgensen said All the tapes seized by the ramp were legally purchased in British Columbia and Quebec and he said he sees no reason Why they would be illegal in Manito if there going to charge me under Federal i dont see How that Law could be different in different parts of the if there Legal in British they should be Legal he Sangster said the charges were Laid in close consultation with the we received a Legal opinion and chose this course of he Jorgensen said he thinks the ramp Laid the charges yesterday because a Courim posed deadline to proceed criminally or return the tapes by mid september was i think they were running out of time and instead of admitting the whole thing was a they just decided to Lay As Many charges As they could and Hope one Sangster denied the arguing the sheer volume of tapes seized in raids on six local stores and one store in Brandon 28 necessitated the when you take into account the volume of material and amount of analysis that needed to be i think you can understand Why we needed until he unstable suspect escapes from Hsc Winnipeg police Are searching for a 26 year old Man who escaped custody while under psychiatric observation at health sciences police spokesman Eric Turner said yester Day a Canad wide arrest warrant has been issued for Floyd William who was awaiting trial for fraud and is considered mentally unstable and he said who had been under Obser vation at Hsc since escaped thurs Day afternoon while being escorted by a Security guard to the Leech is described As 160 with Black hair and Brown web miscommunication finally clarified every so i go through a totally absurd ritual with the workers compensation its that time the Board has this rigid policy of not discussing claimants files with the that i can understand the need for medical its a Little silly when claimants already have disclosed this information to the Uke when Jane Rochon recently wrote me on behalf of her injured who been told by his counsellor hed be Cut off from benefits within two months if he didst take part in a Job search i faxed her letter to Alan the boards anticipating hed now discuss the Case with me far More come up with a reasonable explanation As to Why this unfortunate fellow was being Given a i should have known better on both i cant talk about this particular Scramstad no doubt there appears to be a major i dont happen to think theres no doubt in my mind that 51yearold Jean Rochon understood quite clearly what was in store for him if he didst do As he was Why on Earth would his wife write asking Mike Ward for my help it this threat want hanging Over his head Why would the couple consult a Legal Aid Manitoba lawyer we sure could use your help because we Are very she we Are having a lot of trouble with the workers compensation they say that if he Doest go for work search they will Cut him off that All we have to live so can you help us right somebody out there i Hope can we Are i ask does this sound Uke someone who has misunderstood what was being said of course it i bounced this thought off i Deal with people every Day who have been told or think they have been told he we Check into them and find that sometimes theres been a miscommunication that the responsibility of the they Haven spelled things out sometimes i was going to say hear what they want to but nobody like Rochon wants to hear that they have got Only eight weeks on i dont have any conclusion who misled at the risk of sounding i but what really gets to me More than anything else is when vulnerable people like the Roc hons get this kind of a they dont need these kinds of Rochon first injured himself in he slipped and cracked a disc in his Back while loading garbage at the Winnipeg convention where he was employed As a eighteen months after extensive therapy at the rehabilitation he returned to work for almost a the problem disc became he was placed in traction for 10 Days before being operated on at health sciences Norman Hill the surgeon removed a very larg Jane Rochon said in her it had my husband suffers a Hill told him and i at the time my husband would never work he said he would have to stay on workers compensation until he my husband has to use a a special toilet seat and a lot of other gadgets to help every he cant do anything around the he lives on pills and Needles from the they said if he does anything strenuous he could end up in a he has pain All the time and a lot of numbness in his As you can the who live on a week compensation Are having a Tough time of doctors have placed restrictions on the Type of work he can he int allowed to lift More than kilograms or to sit or stand continuously in one position for More than two Uke he there Are few jobs around for a person like nor is he eligible for web funding to obtain his Grade if he had this level of funds would be available for him to be trained for some kind of Light office or factory now this Laurie Gilbert at workers compensation is telling him Hes got to Start looking for work or Cut him his wife my husband said hed Start but that he didst think hed find Laurie said he had eight weeks to come up with she said a parking lot attendant could be we kind of work that would be to his Scramstad looked into the matter the Day after i contacted his it appears what Gilbert failed to mention was that this Job search requirement in order to maintain compensation benefits would Only kick in after hed undergone an occupational assessment at the rehabilitation Hospital and a decision was made on what kind of vocational training would be and that is a Long Way Down the not eight Pat who is helping Scramstad Clear up his backlog of complaints Doest that Tell you something about the web called the Roc hons to explain this so called she was very helpful and very Jane Rochon except she said Laurie Gilbert haunt told Jean that he would be Cut off if he a Job i said she certainly were not telling Why should we she also wanted to know Why i had to go and get you what were we trying to prove or something like i said that pretty int it id say victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy write Mike heu look into ;