Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 26, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Deadly theatre Julio Diaz brings authenticity to salvadoran refugee drama animal antics Marine Parks thrill but worry activists 753 a step up couple moves on up by staying put in a starter Home super coach giants Bill Parcells loves to rattle his players chains 761 weather flurries today 12 Cloudy tonight 16 Sun rises sets Moon rises sets 744 native Justice inquiry seeks deadline Extension by Dan Lett the aboriginal Justice now expected to Cost about has asked for another six months to Complete its which will in clude a written report and a video Tom executive director of the said associate chief Justice Al Hamilton of court of Queens Bench and provincial court associate chief judge Murray sin Clair wont have their report ready at the end of As had been anticipated last it could be a number of months before its Mcmahon its a rather imprecise Sci ence to determine when a body of work As Large As this will be these dates get chosen rather Arbi started in the Spring of the inquiry has already overrun three deadlines 1989 March 1990 and the latest Cost estimate is about More than reported last at a total Cost of about Mil the inquiry produced More than 67 written briefs and pages of if the final report is completed in it will have taken three years to Complete the comprehensive investigation of the Justice systems treatment of aboriginal Justice minister Jim Mccrae said the commissioners have requested an Extension to july Cabinet will have to approve the new deadline sometime before the end of this Mccrae said because of the inde pendent nature of the it is up to Hamilton and Sinclair to deter mine How much time they need to Complete the nip la Oscar Lathlin the Pas said that because of the Mas Sive amount of information being considered by the commissioners and the importance of their recon saturday free january or free press vol 119 no i he supports Hamilton and Sinclair taking As much time As they these Are very Complex Lathlin they Are going to come out with some pretty dynamite recommendations and they want to make sure the report is carefully worded and can be implemented by chief Phil head of the Assembly of Manitoba said see native Page 4 saturday Only Home delivery wo6kly Lloyw do Fry in Winnipeg outside Winnipeg Mam switchboard 9439331 Home delivery 9570580 classified 9562330 Kuwait line bombarded d scuds kill saudi Oil Iraq newest weapon Saddam blames for Slick from Iraq fought Back with missiles and Oil hitting Israel and saudi Arabia with a flurry of scuds and laying a Blanket of Oil Over the persian Gulf in the path of a possible amphibious assault by Iraq blamed the United states for the Oil saying it was caused when bombers hit iraqi Oil tankers in the the scud missiles killed one person and wounded More than 60 in in the saudi capital of one person was killed and about 30 injured when a missile hit a government Iraq defensive line in was being hit heavily by Roundt Hemlock air the coalition it cited evidence iraqi soldiers Short on food and Ridden with lice that the bombing has Cut off supplies and made conditions grim among the Dugin Clear skies allowed the coalition to step up its see Clear Page 4 War Gulf Canadian airmen meet no resistance on sweep missions in Gulf j Bush Broadens americas War turns his artillery on Saddam support for Federal conservatives gets boost As fighting erupts Rescue workers carry wounded Man from rubble of saudi government building in Riyadh after tories approve sending patients out of province Day 26 classified crossword deaths editorials Fajth food 33 travel the provincial by Aldo Santin the Filmon government has approved demands from doctors to Send patients out of province for urgently needed surgery move condemned by the Manitoba nurses health minister Don Orchard said the surgery backlog had reached such numbers that it was no longer considered Safe to delay any we have agreed to commence the process of bringing Manitoban in need of surgery to facilities out of Orchard said late yester Day that will begin As quickly As Orchard said the Manitoba health services commission will pick up All costs of sending patients to other including transportation he no one will be sent to facilities in the United Orchard said he believed Only those patients needing heart or can cer surgery will be the transfers will he regardless of whether the strike is settled this the number of patients needing he could not be handled even if All hospitals returned to Normal in a statement released last the nurses Union said the talks to end strike by nurses in province was using patients As bar gaining chips in the Orchard has chosen this very sensitive time in negotiations to announce to the Media that Misc will fund the Transfer of patients to other he recently stated that there is no More Money to pay yet it would appear that there is Money to prolong this the release also stated that or Chard was using the announcement of patient transfers to Sway Public a move that could turn into a very dangerous waiting seven Oaks general Hospital executive director Nick Kalansky said see ads Page 5 chained by tax watchdogs quit by Donald Campbell two a mounties lured by the finance department last year to Chase unpaid sales taxes have frustrated by a toothless approach that let some compan ies walk away sources auditor awaits department and other sources said the former ramp officers departure is related to internal problems the government has chasing companies that Are not turning Over sales tax to the provincial they left on a matter of integ said one source familiar with the they stand the governments selective taxing policy of forcing some people to pay and letting others go a second source confirmed the two former who both had lengthy ramp were bothered by How the government acted on tax cases that were in i know they Felt some people with Money were getting away with keeping the taxes but the Little Guy was always getting the source adding that the two men took their com plaints to finance minister Clay see province Page 4 Pollock affair Sparks firestorm Crow police relations hit Al time Low in Wake of botched sex Case by Paul Wiecek and Bruce Owen the Harvey Pollock affair has sparked a political firestorm with police blaming the the Crown blaming police and City Hall demanding its Pound of its been More than three months since the prominent Winnipeg lawyer was charged with sexual assault and More than a month since the Case against him collapsed Midway through a preliminary since the relationship Between the players entrusted with enforcing the Law in Manitoba has reached an Al time Crown officials admit Winnipeg police officers who Deal directly with prosecutors on a Day today basis Are upset and bitter about the Transfer of High ranking officers and the crowns handling of the Pollock its one Crown adding the element of mistrust interferes with the administration of Justice in some officers admit the Winnipeg police department May have erred by not consulting senior Crown attorneys when they first Learned of the complaint against demoted officers file we made a one officer at the same nobody went off but what should have happened is that the Crown should have been approached but it was chosen to do a source said the Crown was not consulted because of hard feelings going Back to the so called ticket Gate affair in which saw Winnipeg police arrest 18 people on obstruction of Justice charges after a lengthy and costly which garnered Only three guilty pleas and one the remaining charges were those hard feelings were to be manifested again the Day Pollock was arrested in haunting the highest Levels of the police in the last two a Deputy chief has been forced into retirement and the three officers heading up the Pollock investigation shuffled off to less controversial the official word from the police department is that the rolling Heads have no connection with the Pollock sources Tell a much different spelled out one police officer when asked for his explanation of the in numerous interviews this sources told the free press that police chief Herb Stephen was pressed by senior City Hall officials to get rid of the officers responsible for the Pollock sources say Stephen was issued an ultimatum either clean up the entire crime starting from the or step sources say Deputy chief Paul who see Stephen Page 4 Stephen Given ultimatum ;