Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 9, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba I controversial Charleswood Bridge leaves Many residents bitter d6 la 36 pages vol 122 no 39 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get Post get Post outside City 754 in Ontario weakly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City budget blamed for biker War by Paul Wiecek police reporter Winnipeg police Are blaming tight budgets for their failure to Stop or even slow Down a local biker War that has seen seven people shot in less than two it All comes Down to the budget crunch is causing us problems and preventing us from doing some things wed like to vice Ray Johns inside Story War goes Back 20 years a5 id love to have our Guys sit on these gang members 24 hours a Day but that just not possible any Johns was responding to increasingly vocal criticism from within the department that his divisions efforts to Stop the ongoing War be tween los bravos and the spartans motorcycle or even gather intelligence on the gang have failed critics say the vice division responsible for policing outlaw biker gangs has adopted a reactive approach to the resulting in a fail ure to predict when violence would occur and failure to make any arrests when it the critics Are particularly hard on the two full time members of the divisions biker unit they have not gathered any use Ful these Guys Are shooting up streets and shooting up hotels and shooting up restaurants and what Are we doing about it since there have been three Bike related one turned into a running gun Bat the on a Busy another took place in a crowded restaurant with a third last month in a hotel parking there have been no but Johns noted drug and prostitution investigations have resulted in four members of los bravos and two members of the spartans going to we have been making lots of he but some of whom have made their views known to the exec said the time is Long overdue for a coordinated police crackdown on both gangs similar to crackdowns during the cites two other biker during the 1970s when the spar tans and bravos last fought a the entire vice division was assigned to harass the two gangs with every thing from liquor control act War rants to nitpicking Highway traffic act then in the mid1980s when the bravos and silent riders went to a dozen members of the vice division performed the same Johns wont say How Many men he has devoted to the current but sources say Only two of the vice Divi Sions 54 men Are assigned to investigate the matter Wendell free press of my the wife of a Driver whose car was in collision with another apparently questioned an eyewitness account of the mishap car before knocking Oyer a traffic Light stares in disbelief As and argued with police report Only minor injuries in she arrives at the Accident scene yesterday she the Accident at Salter Street and Inkster miners warn of Green chill Industry wants Parks says too Many curbs drive out investors by Randy Turner staff reporter the Prospect of Environ mental curbs and native land claims is scaring off investors in Canadas mining operations and costing some companies millions of dollars in Industry spokes men said that concern has prompted min ing officials to Call for unrestricted mining in designated areas of Mani Tobas provincial there is the potential for a lot More Barney executive Vic president of the Manitoba mining they provincial Parks should not be in regions with the highest Poten tial for Kovacs said a Large share of Mani Tobas prime Mineral producing formations can be found in provincial mining officials fear some of that land could be restricted from exploration under reformed Parks act which will be written in the next six to 12 under the areas within provincial Parks can be categorized to protect undisturbed lands or to Al Low resource environmentalists have been vocal in demanding that All mining and logging operations in provincial Parks be members of the Manitoba prospectors and developers Assoc a who met in Winnipeg yester said mixed use of the Parks is and would help sustain Mani Tobas flagging mining in they claim the potential that major Mineral finds could someday be ruled off limits has Al ready taken a toll on the Industry elsewhere in people have spent millions of Dol Lars making a then finding out the land will be turned into a provincial James regional exploration manager for Falconbridge its led to a Lack of nobody is going to put Money into exploration unless they can mine Robertson pointed to a Case in Northern British where Falconbridge discovered what turned out to be one of Canadas largest Copper deposits in an other company spent million developing the but the property was turned into a Park before it could be he said Falconbridge has since closed Down its Vancouver and opened another operation in where the company located a significant Copper Manitoba has so far been relatively unaffected by the land tenure he in it is one of the few provinces that still allows min ing in provincial Parks on a conditional mining officials say the re form initiated to solve the dispute Between environmentalists and Industry could help lift any reservations investors or companies have about exploration Ontario move stuns pro lifers injunction Aims to bar protests by Lorna Dueck free press correspondent police made it easier for Leona Chalmers to picket the Morgentaler clinic on Corydon gave her a printout of her rights and assured her there be no problem if she stayed on Public they showed me exactly where i could go and where i where the Back Lane Boundary was and said a weekly regular on the antiabortion picket since the late Shes proudly demonstrated her Freedom to express her View on but this week the congenial grandmother hesitated to go frightened by an Ontario government move that has shocked antiabortion forces across the in what lawyers Call one of the most important civil rights cases in Ontario in the the antiabortion movement is facing a sweeping restraining order from the attorney general of of course in said Barbara who organized several months of recent picketing at Boniface if this moves out of our democratic rights Are just especially when you consider euthanasia is right on our if we cant speak out on euthanasia will be the next Ontario nip government maintains antiabortion activities interfere with free Access to a Legal medical Susan Baker of the government run women health Bureau in Toronto said an injunction is needed to protect women seeking its a healthcare and they be both the patient going for the service and the people providing the she said the injunction Aims to Stop anyone in Ontario from but specifically names 18 people ranging from Young philosophy students to a 67yearold cleric who has never picketed but has preached from his pulpit against in a so called free to limit this Freedom Means a Gross said Darry Busby of Elim Chapel in we should be stunned that people cannot express their antiabortion pickets appear to have ruffled few feathers in frankly we Haven seen them in Over a they Are not affecting a Morgentaler clinic spokesman Vic the provinces former director of constitutional called the Ontario court Challenge a remarkable and almost unbelievable what they Are challenging is a constitutionally held Toews but you have to understand the Ontario and this is consistent with their social because court proceedings on the prolife injunction begin Manitoba Justice minister Rosemary Vodrey refused t o d a quote of the Day Ive had too Many other experiences to jump Back into the role of mad former conservative Revenue minister Garth who has returned to his old career of business journalism says he wont encourage a tax revolt As he did before entering details on Page a3 the weather today blizzard i Light blowing and Drifting Snow in the wind South 30 to 50 Low windchill near Tomor Row High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on Page b9 inside in sports to Yard becomes iceberg As hydrant blows its lid Bipat Zytnick free press correspondent lotteries lotto Bonus afire hydrant blew its lid and transformed part of a Northend Street into an iceberg water shot 10 metres into the air for nearly two coating Trees in thick layers of causing some branches to break and crash to the fire Crews broke the hydrant while mopping up after a fire at 247 Manitoba its a helluva said Darrell Warren As he looked out on the steam rising from the newly formed Lake in front of his across the Street from the scene of the water from the hydrant in front of Warrens House had Frozen into a thick layer of ice in the in very he Ive got water running in my basement coming in from All directions and no one seems to know what firefighters were called to the House fire shortly after 2 two hour wait no one was injured in the third floor which was started by children playing with matches and caused an estimated the damaged fire hydrant continued to spew water High into the air until emergency workers repaired it about two hours the City shut off water to neighbouring houses for about 30 minutes to repair the said John spokesman for the cites emergency the cause of the hydrant breakdown int he we get Watermain Breaks All the but this kind of thing is Warren is waiting to hear who will pay for the damage to his Ive called my insurance company but Treyve never dealt with something like no one seems to know who if mayor Susan Thompson was Here right now id say give me and the City can figure it Warren said he wont know the full extent of the damage until what is the ice and water Gonna do to my stucco and what about my Toofan Patio Ken free press damaged hydrant havoc ;