Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Inside Story Winnipeg free press r january conflict pm clams up Reeve wont discuss Case councillor jeers at charge by Allison Bray staff reporter a taxpayer suing a Rural councillor for alleged conflict of interest is crying foul Over the Way her municipality is being Adolphe resident Kathy Swartz said she and her Fiance Gord have tried for months to get answers from the Rural municipality of Ritchot Council about alleged conflict of interest infractions by Ray each time Council has its not our or Well get Back to the Reeve just washes his hands of said of Reeve Cyril who has refused Swartz said she hired Winnipeg lawyer Esther Matz to launch a civil lawsuit against a former Developer and Adolphe businessman who was elected to Council in Hes using his Power and influence to do things for himself and using our Money to do Swartz Swartz alleges Dumaine used his position on Council to vote in favor of rezoning a 32acre parcel of land he owns in order to sell the property to a Developer who wants to turn the lot into a multimillion Dollar seniors trailer she is also questioning Why including allegedly requested a Call for tenders yet never received them before the pm awarded approximately to build a Road and drainage ditch adjacent to Dumaine one of the according to Council is perimeter excavators a company formerly owned by Dave free press Gord who with Fiance Kathy Swartz opposes proposed housing stands on Dumaine councillor forgets rules a1 Dumaine and now owned by his Valere Valerie said she also has some questions about the Way Council has been Rutherford said whenever she has tried to voice concerns Over the housing project or raise allegations of possible she has been voted Down by Council or told to keep her Mouth were in hot water because were not doing it by the she referring to Dumaine failure to absent himself from the vote on the its hard to put a Finger on it except our Council is operating under some pretty sour she said other councillors have told her not to speak to the but Dumaine said he has nothing to fear about the lawsuit or the fact Pierre Jolys ramp Are investigating allegations of unauthorized municipal of think they bother with that he my argument is i have no conflict of my Only mistake is not removing myself from a vote on his property As Dumaine said Swartz and others opposed to the development project Are acting out y of spite for councils controversial bilingual bylaw adopted in there in opposition because there All god Damn he Dumaine Grant refused but Rutherford said Swartz and other vocal opponents of Council Are not the Only ones opposed to the housing theres no Benefit to the Community at the Only ones who Benefit from it Are the landowner and the she the provincial Rural development department opposes the John manager of the departments Community economic development services wrote july 15 to the Macdonal Ritchot planning District ultimately will decide the zoning application against the housing project without significant rethinking of the development Given present policies in the municipality the requested development should not Mcnair nay the Dumaine lawsuit is to be heard at the court of Queens Bench in Winnipeg later this police scour suspects Home police reporter Winnipeg police yester Day continued an intensive search of an Alfred Avenue Home where two women have died under unusual police sources say Homeowner Mohamed is a suspect in the deaths of his sister three years ago and his wife on crime Conrad Gislason said nine officers virtually the entire identification division have been combing through khans Home non Stop since Sureta was found dead in a Bathtub there doing a Inch Inch search of the entire Gislason were trying to ensure that if this turns into More than a suspicious death that we have every bit and scrap of evidence available to in khans sister Bibi was found dead in a Freezer in the Mohamed Khan has been staying with friends since his wife died tuesday police say they know his but have refused to disclose where he is to the friends and police say a landed immigrant from has travelled the world extensively Dur ing the past decade even though he is not believed to have Ever held a steady Job for Khan is known to have worked at a local trailer company in the mid he has lately described himself to friends As either a Mechanic or com Puter but police have found no evidence he has been employed in either sources say he has already collected in insurance Money in connection with Bibis and stands to collect another in the death of his Gislason confirmed police Are investigating the details of the two insurance policies but refused to Dis cuss third dead woman in a1 Industry delighted with Naftal provision software piracy antidote hailed tenders by Allison Bray staff reporter Naffa provision Banning rentals of computer software and audio recordings is Long Industry officials software piracy in the last five to six years has Allan Rey manager of the Canadian Alli Ance against software said in an interview from if software piracy was a Compa it would be in the Fortune whose association rep resents the largest manufacturers and distributors of computer soft Ware in the said piracy of computer software programs accounts for an estimated loss in sales each year in Canada and about 10 billion although the Industry introduced anti piracy codes into software pro Grams during the they were shelved because they made the pro Gram too he Les Complex technology that would protect programs from being copied has yet to be he if software piracy was a it would be in the Fortune Allan of the Ca Nadian Alliance against soft Ware theft but he said changes to the copy right effective that make it illegal to rent out computer soft Ware compact audio cassettes and Vinyl that can be copied will Cut Down on Home Pira several nations outlaw software rental piracy facts in 61 per cent of Canadian households had audio tape in the same 30 million Blank audio tapes were in there were 37 com Puter and audio rental stores across by that number increased to in the number of audio rental stores increased from one to in 1987 countries with copyright legislation forbidding the rental of audio recordings include United United countries with copyright legislation forbidding the rental of computer software include United United disaster for local a1 but Reynolds said the rental mar Ket int the biggest because its such a silent and in visible its hard to pinpoint any kind of but its significant enough that its Worth paying attention he but Reynolds said the biggest problem is soft lifting widespread piracy by companies and individuals copying purchased software on to discs without Pur chasing reproduction Brian president of the Canadian recording Industry Asso said Home piracy of audio recordings in the form of compact cassettes and costs Ca Nadian record companies and artists about million a he said surveys conducted by the association found about 90 per cent of rental compact discs were rented for the purpose of copy in for the rec ording Industry suffered a 70per cent decrease in cd sales before 1991 when rental rights were introduced in its got a direct relationship to decreasing sales in the Brian of the Ca Nadian recording Industry association weve seen its got a direct relationship to decreasing sales in the in Robertson he said the association had been lobbying Ottawa for the past six years to introduce copy right Protection for rented audio recordings and has recommended Royalty rights on Blank audio but the Naftal which harmonizes Canadian copyright Law with that of the United takes care of the he its moved us ahead fairly Quick Robertson Reynolds said his which has also been lobbying for re vamped copyright was caught off guard by the recent but he said it was a pleasant sur its Good we do believe software rental Breeds Manitoba Telephone system request for tenders the specifications for these tenders May be seen at the office of the construction program the Manitoba Telephone 233 main Manitoba r1a after january 1994 and copies May be obtained upon payment of Deposit per set of specifications which will be refunded upon return of the specifications in Good tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 216 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Eastern Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 245 Kilometres of buried Fibre optic Cable in our Eastern and Western regions to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 496 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Western Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 321 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Eastern Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of buried conduit under utilizing a fluid assisted directional Boring machine in our Western Region to be completed by october the work shall consist of placement of approximately 47 Crossings under obstructions and approximately meters of conduit in Urban tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 530 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Western Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 275 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Eastern Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of buried conduit under obstructions utilizing a fluid assisted directional Boring machine in our Eastern Region to be completed by october the work shall consist of placement of approximately 37 Crossings under obstructions and approximately 6500 meters of conduit in Urban tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tender contract sealed tenders will be received for the contract installation of approximately 344 Kilometres of buried voice frequency Cable in our Eastern Region to be completed by october tenders will be received up to february late tenders will not be tenders will be marked request for tender contract and addressed to the construction program the Manitoba Telephone system at the above a bid Bond in the amount of 10 percent of the tender is to accompany each tender As a guarantee that the if will forthwith enter into a written contract for the execution of the work and will provide a 50 performance Bondor the contract the lowest or any tender will not necessarily be Date november per Jojan Wilson construction program contracts the Manitoba Telephone system Telephone 204 7854236 ;