Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 21, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press a o november Canada at a glance Farewell for nip from Canadian press Calgary after almost 10 years of guiding the Alberta new democrats to their greatest electoral victories and worst Ray Martin quietly slipped away yesterday to make room for a new i had a tear in my Eye and i didst expect he a new Leader is to be chosen at a convention next helped Pilot the party for 19 first As Secretary and then As president before he won the party second Ever legislature seat in illness baffling grand the Burin Peninsula health care Board put its disaster plan into effect after More than 40 children at Parana Academy elementary school were hospitalized with a mysterious the children Are suffering from stomach diarrhoea and fever and health officials Arent sure whats causing the at first officials believed it May have been food but now they think it May be some sort of Shes old news Vancouver books written about Canadas first woman prime minister Are going fast on Bookstore Back to discounted in bins and trucked to the a major Book out on Kim the making of a by Robert the shelves in july and sold but now hundreds of copies Are being returned by her Tom said Harper Collins will try to discount the Book first before its trucked to the liquor seized Niagara More than million Worth of untaxed liquor destined for Canada was seized from a Buffal area warehouse officials the booze was destined for one Case at a said investigators with the Federal Bureau of tobacco and distillers were told the booze was being so taxes we rent said investigators say they believe canadians were picking up the liquor in Small batches from the Stinky mystery someone is stealing hundreds of dirty disposable diapers from a City Nursery and officials Are at a loss to explain the Stinky its not because they need a vehicle to move said june owner of Thomas Day the latest diaper raid was earlier this when someone hacked off the padlock on a Large garbage Container and took Only selected garbage bags containing police Are Filion Lostay Manitoba tories expect Premier Gary Filmon to Lead them into the next senior conservatives insisted last after the party executive Council met with executive member Terrance Sokolyk denied reports that tories Are questioning Hilmons healthcare policy was discussed As Well As the conservatives poor showing in five recent he but insisted no one demanded a dramatic shift in tory Ken Lollon la Winnipeg press High Steppert Jae Park left gets airborne yesterday in a demonstration by the Tae Ryong Park Tae Wondo and Hap Kido Academy at the shoppers Paradise Christmas Sale at the the free pres sponsored event continues minister wants Assurance system fair Canada not ready for refugee Deal Canadian press Ottawa immigration minister Sergio Marchi says he wont sign a controversial Refuge sharing agreement with the until Hes satisfied the Ameri can Asylum hearing system is in not prepared to water Down our standards to satisfy an Marchi if their standards Are i want theirs brought up to the so called Safe third country agreement was a key part of the for Mer conservative governments refugee a draft agree ment was but has not been signed by either the Deal would allow Canada to turn Back thousands of refugee claimants at the forcing them to claim Asylum in the under the refugees would be required to seek refugee status in the first Safe country they about on third of the people who claim refugee status in Canada each year travel Here through the Marchi said liberals will stick to their Campaign pledge of maintain ing immigration Levels at about one per cent of the Canadian Canada now accepts about immigrants a Marchi said he personally believes refugee claimants should be allowed to but any change would have to be approved by Cabi claimants cannot work until they have been approved As legitimate it takes an average six months for a and most claimants Are forced to collect Wel fare while they Marchi said it Doest Breed Good attitudes when refugees find one of their first contacts in Canada is with the welfare but he wants to study the draw backs of changing the making work permits easier to obtain might attract bogus refugees to Canada for the Opportunity to work even for a few he the number of people claiming refugee status on their arrival in Canada fell almost 50 per cent since the new immigration act was implemented at the end of Janu immigration department Fig ures from february to the end of octo a Little More than people claimed refugee status compared to about in the same nine months of j the new immigration act includes sections designed to make it easier to Weed out undesirable immigrants and refugee it includes provisions limiting the right of rejected applicants to a requires All claimants to be fingerprinted and gives senior Immi Gration officers the Power to make the initial decision on charities multiply in recession Ottawa Abandons Barley Challenge Canadian press Halifax charities Are facing some Tough a lingering recession Hast made canadians less but the number of charitable organizations has mushroomed to meet the increasing needs of society in the Margaret head of the Canadian Centre for philanthropy in says people trying to raise Money for worthy causes Are having problems because the pie is Only so when you look at there was a total of registered charities in Vogan in its and the figure we have in 1993 is rounded off to significant twice As Many charities Are fighting for about the same amount of she the increase in the numbers of organizations concerned with welfare and communities is Vogan says that while people have continued to give give the Many More charitable organizations have been some services once covered by government agencies Are no longer offered As budgets have been trimmed and funding and High profile charitable organizations Are being stretched to the the demand for services is pretty much up right across the most pronounced in emergency Vogan so charities Are having to work Many of them Are revisiting their their to determine ways in which they can be More Many Are seeking outside help in terms of strategic Many Are forming alliances with like minded those charities have to divvy up a pie Worth about a figure based on what canadians claimed on their tax returns in about 85 per cent of that Money comes from with religious institutions proving the main gaining a Lions share of about the math Means that nonreligious institutions have billion to work according to statistics corporate donations amounted to million in in it actually went up to even though profits were dropping by about on third during the same thanks to a persistent at the Canadian Centre for we were really quite pleased that corporations were Able to maintain that level of Vogan noting that companies usually reduce charitable gifts when profits by Michael Macdonald Canadian press Ottawa agriculture minister Ralph Goodale has abandoned a court Challenge aimed at ending the Canadian wheat boards monopoly on Barley sales to the United we made it Clear during the re cent election Campaign that we in tended to take this Goodale said in a statement we have looked at the situation closely and have determined there Are no Legal reasons to prevent Dis continuing the the Appeal was launched in sep tember by the former tory govern ment after three Farmer owned Prairie Grain pools succeeded in overturning a Cabinet order that Al Lowed Farmers to sell Barley independently of the before the Farmers were free to strike their own deals with american for six Farmers and private Grain Compa Nies sold upwards of one million tonnes of backers of the old system say the wheat Board can use its monopoly to get better prices for but opponents managed to convince for Mer agriculture minister Charlie Mayer that the wheat Board is a cumbersome bureaucracy that has failed to exploit the the tory Cabinet ended the boards bar Ley monopoly in Goodale has said he favors letting Farmers Settle such issues with plea Ontario raises Legal smoking age under new anti puff crackdown Canadian press Toronto the Legal smok ing age in Ontario will be raised to 19 from the Sale of tobacco products will be outlawed in and cigarette vending machines will be banned under new antismoking the to be unveiled to follows a provincial government pledge to Cut cigarette con sumption in half by the year 2000 and to reduce the annual toll of people who die prematurely because of tobacco the proposed Law is viewed As a National Trendsetter because it is so far reaching and includes a ban on pharmacy it would be the toughest Provin Cial Law in the country and it could have some International precedents in terms of tobacco con said Garfield executive director of the nonsmokers rights Ontario proposed tobacco control act continues a trend of Stron Ger antismoking measures across the the new Law also requires All stores Selling cigarettes Post prominent health warnings about the other provisions include q a new health warning Label on cigarette with a Maxi mum Fine for repeatedly failing to q an increase to in the maximum Fine for a company that Sells to from the current q closer government monitoring of tobacco sales by distributors and lawyers pay Price for dishonest Peers Canadian press Toronto the number of complaints against members of Ontario Legal profession has jumped by 51 per cent Over last and when it comes to the Price of the Law society of upper Canadas annual report paints a picture just As during the society paid out the largest amount in compensation to clients of dishonest lawyers since a fund was set up for that purpose 30 years discipline a total of was paid out to the who Are limited to a maximum of no matter How much Money they lost As a result of their lawyers and 370 term used by the society to describe disciplinary charges formally Laid against a Laid this year As opposed to about in Michael senior discipline counsel for the said the increase is a result of several these include a significant increase in our investigative the Elevation of the profile of the Law society among the Public and the Legal profession in and the Brown not All of the complaints involve allegations of extreme said Harvey chairman of the society disciplinary about 60 per cent of the complaints Are related to lawyers failures to submit fees or financial reports to the society and were launched by the society Strosberg said a lawyer can be suspended for not making the filings and this can Lead to serious problems for a Mcteer suspended two of the More prominent members of Ontario Legal profession to he suspended recently for nonpayment of fees to the society were Maureen wife of former conservative Cabinet minister Joe and Peter a member of the provincial the City of Winnipeg works and operations division streets transportation department Public open House Portage Avenue at mands Creek rehabilitation project the City of Winnipeg proposes in to carry out structural rehabilitation of the Portage Avenue Culvert at mands As Well As Asphalt resurfacing of the Portage Avenue underpass Roadway Between Empress Street and Strathcona the project is included in the proposed 1994 capital program of the streets and transportation preliminary plans have been prepared and the Public is invited to View the proposed plans and to offer their suggestions and these comments will then be addressed during the final design of the the open House will be held on Date november 1993 time to place Portage Avenue mennonite Brethren Church 1420 Portage Avenue everyone Welcome ran n rim i n ;