Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 7, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1991 Page 3 Brian City editor investors by Terry Weber Manitoba investors have launched a lawsuit Over a controversial Wooding sugar research project they say wrongly promised millions in tax the filed yesterday in Manitoba court of Queens is aimed at Walsh Micah and a Winnipeg Law and the accounting firm of peat Marwick and goal tip a Canoe both of which the 219 investors claim wrongly made or agreed with comments about the availability of tax credits to investors in organic research in the statement of the investors alleged both in a memo regarding the Sale of wrongly agreed investors in the company would be eligible for scientific research tax credits which were ultimately turned Down by Revenue according to the the memo stated As the partnership will derive All or substantially All of its Revenue from the prosecution of scientific the costs of distributing the class a including any Agency will qualify As current expenditures made in Canada on scientific research relat ing to the business of the partner judge jails liar for sex with All such amounts will be deductible by the partnership in computing its income for the fiscal period in which such expenditures Are organic research came under intense scrutiny several years ago when Revenue Canada labelled the firm was purportedly set up to conduct scientific research into ways to turn Wood into sugar a Sham and rejected million in tax credit claims from Winnipeg area investors who put amounts ranging from to into the in Exchange for the minimum 000 investors were told they would receive an immediate tax break and could reduce their taxable income by organic headed by Dara was to have repaid each investor As a capital for a ret Frt of original piously they Only Back on the investment Wilder has since with 248 counts of the cases the the plaintiffs losses As a group of attempt to silence women alleged by Ruth Teichroeb the University of Manitoba was accused yesterday of trying to silence women with proposed cutbacks that will chop the Core women studies program in a group of women studies students have launched a petition to try to prevent the 20yearold program from becoming a victim of the University budgetary i think its tragic in Light of events like the 6 1989 Cheryl referring to the Slaughter of 14 women at the University of if you Cut these youre silencing the program is vulnerable during Tough fiscal times because the University Hast provided Lon term another student How can the University not acknowledge that this is some sort of discrimination Sara its really its the women students and professors who Are losing about 180 students Are enrolled this year in Core courses of the interdisciplinary with a waiting list for some the program is popular because its one of the few places women perspectives Are an education student you dont hear the women Side of it in other Carol women studies professor Keith Fulton said the proposed Cut would reduce the Core program from 6 courses to four Par time instructors who have taught courses on a stipend basis would be Laid off leaving Only one full time professor to teach the remaining she it puts us in severe the chairman of women studies at both the u of m and University of its not a healthy Way to run a Prog Arn with Only one but acting arts Dean Karen Ogden said women studies is not the Only program facing were facing a really Bleak funding year i dont think this is an example of any kind of Ogden its unfair to say the program is being Cut in half because prior to this year it Only offered three she the program certainly Doest come to an she adding that courses offered by other faculties will Ken Toee press Drosdowich White and Greene want to save women proposed cutbacks condemned news of proposed cutbacks to the women studies program at the University of Manitoba was met with Strong the administrative coordinator of the Manitoba action committee on the status of women said the cuts Send the message that women issues Are not a its Zonny Woods As when there Are economic programs for women and children go Jeri a member of a woman group called the charter of rights said the proposed cuts Are a classic example of systemic its certainly quite Bjornson and 10 other women filed a complaint of systemic discrimination last year against the u of m and three other for a University that argued that it has no systemic this is a student who is finishing a minor in women studies also said the cutbacks reflect an attitude that women dont this is completely Fawn i i by fail i hiring essential positions can if Council is immediate up writer nominated for National award free press editorial writer and columnist Fred Cleverley has been nominated for a 1990 National news paper award for editorials on the provinces Tough drinking and driving Laws and How those Laws Are applied by civil Cleverley editorials dealt with the rights of a Manitoban charged with impaired driving under the new had his licence immediately suspended by the the Man went to court where the charge was yet the government insisted on continuing the suspension until he had finished an alcoholism evaluation another requirement under the new the editorials criticized the author of the new Justice minister Jim for allowing administrators to punish those found innocent by the the biggest National Story of the last Summers standoff be tween natives and the army at earned the most for Best spot news feature writing and among the 45 nominations in the awards 15 the Toronto Canadas Lar Gest garnered the most with the Globe and mail and the Montreal Gazette each had six coverage of the Meech Lake constitutional Accord won three Nomina including two in the spot news reporting category for the Globe and mail and the Ottawa the Globe swept nominations for the business writing with All three finalists in the Cleverley editorials by Radha Krishnan Thampi City Council has approved a slight thaw in a civic hiring freeze approved Only two weeks in a 205 Council authorized civic commissioners to hire new or special staff for emergency and essential the which passed with virtually no also allows a commissioner to fill other positions required under legislation which cannot be temporarily filled from existing the Only stipulation in the motion is that the commissioners report All hiring an explanation immediately to mayor Bill who opposed the hiring said yesterdays decision was an improvement Over the original but some councillors said the hiring provisions Render the freeze they the mayor and the bureaucrats Are playing said Harry Lazarenko who voted against the Council approved the freeze 13 in the Hope of avoiding layoffs being projected in the 1991 the administration has suggested layoffs and service cuts in a bid to hold this years property tax in crease at per Peter Diamant universe who helped initiate the hiring freeze and is chairman of an and hoc committee on service said councillors will still have control on future civic the administration will have to justify All Diamant adding a total freeze is unrealistic because it could shut Down some emergency or essential Council also appointed an acting City auditor Norrie said Phillip a former Centra Gas accountant hired last fall to a newly created audit managers will take Over from retired auditor de the administration also unveiled a 1991 audit plan for the City yesterday that proposes efficiency audits of at least eight departments including Winnipeg Tran sit and Winnipeg the City is legally obligated to do value Cormoney audits under provincial legislation that tightened the City auditors the audit plan recommends management audits and special investigations be considered High risk that raised concerns that the reports would be kept from councillors As they have been in the Lillian Thomas Elmwood and Evelyne Reese Langevin sought Assur ances All audit reports would be made available to Norrie said that wife and councillors chive unedited versions of of tit Park wanted to know whip the be subject to the this Notrie said an air Mittee chairmen anti Vic made the Lazarenko said about a clause in the prepared by we dlr the final decision for the c projects contained in plan rests 1 but coun Stevenson Grants Tanii Greg Selinger tache plan is a i a use pay Disma so has been put on City Send the Tants study Back operations committee Lorenc Sisler Lier that they should not the the questions answered by the Coristo Lorenc if the we wont be in to make but Alan Wade Dame told councillors the should be unanimously to charge and Deler being clean is ludicrous in currently it costs the million a year to collect in a to City Marks and attitudes about use pay garbage system buted to him in a my r on any accusation or Winni Eggers Are Vii while it is True and 1 do that the by it was the interview Axin Jesi Rathe stolen cheese f in going to give a Young woman what she claims was denied her by her former employer an impartial and open so Here it instead of me telling you what i ill let you readers decide if she was fairly treated after being along with her of stealing a Block of had they been charged by police with had their Day in court and been acquitted or i have any problem about using their they we rent and this is what this column is All in i wont identify Shes hoping to enter the school of nursing and Hes a prison now Bear in in not asking you to judge if this couple is guilty or not guilty of this int the in asking you to decide if they should have been banned for life from shopping at econ Mart and Supe Valu without being charged by police and appearing in a court of Law by the same should she have been let without by West fair foods ladies and is what happened on when the couple Mike Ward went shopping at Supe Valu on Mcphillips walking along the shopping the who at the time was employed by West fair foods As an strictly recognized two Security but didst approach either because she thought they could be keeping a customer under after finishing their the couple went to the checkout area and Between them transferred their groceries from the cart to the Cashiers while the lady was watching the items being As most women the Man was bagging the food As it came Down the conveyor Belt and then placing it into the after paving for the the couple headed for the at this they were approached by a loss prevention officer who told them he believed one of the bags contained an item that haunt been paid he searched a bag and produced the Block of As were not dealing with guilt or ill just record the undisputed fact that the Man offered to pay for the denying he had intended to steal it when he placed it in the he thought it had been paid for and had fallen from a bag he was packing when a couple of other items fell the woman said shed seen the cheese in the cart but explain Why it haunt been checked the couple went to the stores Security office to be questioned by two loss prevention officers who accused them of conspiring to steal the saying it had been deliberately left in the cart and covered by three shopping bags the woman had if we Are being Call the i want the police the Man the police we rent the couple were told they would be banned for life from shopping at All West fair food and were escorted out of the the following the lady was called in to see her Cathy and asked to give an explanation As to what after repeating that neither she or her Fiance had deliberately taken the she was suspended pending an two Days she was the loss prevention officers and Cathy Gates were the jury and the woman if they Felt they had a then they should have called the police and had us my Fiance asked them to do to find out Why this didst i called David who handles West fair Public one of his responses kind of surprised not All shoplifters caught at econ Mart and Supe Valu Are charged and he gave three reasons for not involving the police it Doest make sense clogging up courts Over or judges being too lenient on and West fair foods sometimes not having airtight cases that would Lead to a conviction in we recognize that a certain amount of evidence is necessary if we have reason to believe that somebody is trying to steal from v us and we have the our stores without adding that i she was with hint As he she was tet goof i dont he let me leave you with Banning shoplifters for the question place of prosecution in this Ladys important pm her on Stoff after a Junta stores by Nebo Wys no i was she treated i victim of an in wont if ;