Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 1, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 8 Winnipeg free August 1991 v Toronto the Good lurches towards most murderous year by set Lith if by Michael Smyth the Canadian press Toronto Kent age skips smilingly through an apartment build ing lobby and Points to a spot his friends Call the blood that where they found the Little boy pointing to a Dingy he was trying to get out that but he was shot in the there was too much for shootings like the one that killed his 21yearold Marcey Are becoming part of life in his its a crime riddled Section of an increasingly violent City that once took Pride in its Prim and proper last police found the strangled body of a wheelchair bound 34yearold woman in nation a downtown they arrested her common Law it brought Toronto 1991 homicide count to 53only seven away from the annual rec Ord of with five months left in what will surely be the cites most murderous observers offer different explanations for the Sharp increase some Point to gang warfare and the slumping say the numbers dont prove criminologist Neil Boyd warns that this years murder rate May just be an relatively Large swings in homicide rates Are not Treyve happened be Boyd said councillors reject extending water rebate its certainly cause for but is it a cause for panic its too Early to statistics dont mean much to who lives in the notorious Jan Finch a Tough Northend neighbourhood of faceless there have been five recent murders in one housing development alone and neigh Bors have banded together to fight the crack dealers who work the areas mean crack cocaine int the Only problem Trou bling investigators said last week Toronto has become a major International distribution Point for and a police sergeant raised some Eye brows recently when he went before a crime inquiry and cited statistics that Point to chinese and vietnamese refugees As being the ringleaders in gang violence affecting Toronto on Ben eng received an official reprimand for releasing crime statistics based on you cant have a fragile psyche in this Job not with the number of murders rolling sighs Neale head of investigations for the City police depart ments homicide this upswing in cases has put a big Strain on our we have other officers transferred from other departments but there not trained homicide we struggle chief William Mccormack has been press ing civic and provincial officials for More Money to Battle the crime plague in the in Many areas of the gunshots Are heard every Mccormack told the crime inquiry this Tony Warr is in charge of the Marcey Bent one of 13 homicides this year that remain theres a lot of fear in the Community and we believe people who know things Arent coming Warr said of the suspected drug related he was shot in a stairwell at seven Oclock in the evening and everyone says they didst hear a i refuse to believe a 10year homicide says the most disturbing aspects of the rising murder tide Are the soaring number of firearms incidents and motive less there have been 25 firearm killings this year compared to just nine All of last said a 39yearold with Wispy Brown hair and a permanently serious express by Kevin Rollason Winni Eggers not connected to City water wont be Able to dip into the same water rebate program heading Ley residents and heading Ley residents them selves could see the taps run dry on their own annual water City Council decided yesterday not to extend similar compensation to All residents in the City not connected to the cites water mayor Bill Norrie said yesterday it was a unique situation when Hea Dingley residents were Given the water rebate last it was Given As a gesture of Good Faith when they threatened lose Norrie but property taxes Are based on the value of not on the number of services so it was Proba Bly not the Best decision in the Alan Wade notre Dame said he could have told City Council at the time that tax rebates because of reduced services would come Back to haunt Wade said the City should also review the heading Ley Given that the residents want a referendum on secession from last night Council referred a motion to rescind the heading Ley Grant to executive policy the City now pays each heading Ley Homeowner per year to offset their water the five year in its Sec Ond will Cost the City about its estimated it would Cost the City million to extend water and sewer services to the brokerage firm reprimanded by Paul Samyn a Winnipeg brokerage firm has consented to a settlement and received a reprimand from the Manitoba securities commission for excessive and misleading promotion of a British Columbia Gold mine the settlement agreed to by mid land Walwyn capital was approved by the commission during a hearing into whether the invest ment dealers registration and that of Charlie one of its senior should cancelled or Midland acknowledges the con Cerns of the Manitoba securities commission and agrees that there Are certain things that it ought to have lawyer Thomas Kormylo told the the hearing centred on the firms actions As Manitoba agent for Gru win dam limited partnership and Gold Ridge resources which were seeking investors for the Light Ning Creek Gold mine in Midland had applied to the Mac in october for an exemption from cer Tain registration requirements for the offering which was seeking from each in while that exemption was granted the Mac subsequently Learned of a third party while part of the was not Dis closed in midlands it is the position of the commis Sion staff that the loan is not a qualifying liability1 and that the offering was made the settlement it said Midland has consented to put in place certain procedures to prevent such a problem from Hap pening the Mac still has a number of concerns about the con duct of who was handling All the trades in the Gold in Mac counsel Loretta Macdougall said Spring should not have distributed a promotional brochure in connection with the of Fering trumpeting it As a rare investment 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