Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 11, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free january secrecy called regimes Refuge by Bud Robertson staff reporter canadians have to beg or fight their governments to see information the Public paid for should be Canadas information commissioner said Ive always said its patently bizarre that canadians Are being denied information about themselves when their own Money is being used to pay for that John Grace said following an address to the Canadian club who began his seven year term in is an Independent ombudsman appointed by parliament to mediate complaints relating to the Federal Access to information his office took the Federal government to court to get details of polls the Mulroney administration conducted on the constitutional debate in several groups requesting the information eventually but the information want made Public until after the referendum on National secrecy is the traditional Refuge of governments under Grace and sooner or later All governments consider themselves under other As Grace patently bizarre Public servants and politicians expense also be routinely he he added information which can be released should be done so much More the act gives civil servants 30 Days to respond to they must either provide an answer or serve notice an Extension is he that time limit is frequently not since the Law was enacted a decade requests have been made under the Access to information one in 10 requests resulted in a complaint to the commissioners More than requests were received last of More than half came from business and special interest about 10 per cent were filed by harbouring runaways results in Fine for woman by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter a Winnipeg woman was found guilty yesterday of har Boring two runaways from child and family Suzanne was fined by provincial court judge Brian runaway children Are among the most exceptionally vulnerable peo ple in Corrin As Long As i can there have been reports of children of this sort being abused in a number of ways by exploitive members of Sci its a major you Are not allowed to substitute your value system for Legal the judge also levied a surcharge of which goes to fund a pro Gram for the maximum penalty for the offence is a Fine and three months in court was told the girls aged 14 and 12 at the time were apprehended by cos Winnipeg in february after allegations arose about their older sister being sexually assaulted by their a court of Queens Bench judge granted temporary guardianship of the girls to cos in october on the 14yearold ran away from a group a few Days her 12yearold sister left the group Home she was acting on a police apprehended them at Volovich House on Aaron Volovich asked the judge to Grant the woman a conditional discharge because she thought the girls were being mis treated while in the care of As London said the girls Stepfather was later acquitted of sexual assault police seize Arsenal Winnipeg much criticized in recent Days for their inability to halt a motorcycle gang announced yesterday they had seized an m16 Mili tary assault Rifle and the makings for several powerful it was going to be used in the biker vice Ray Johns were very Happy to be getting it off the but he refused to disclose where they found the weapons Friday night or How they knew where to look for saying Only that the seizure was the result of intelligence Gath ered by the departments biker the seizure included eight Sticks of two Kilos of plastic sex an assortment of Detona a 12gauge sawed off a sawed off a fully automatic assault Rifle and 500 rounds of the assault Rifle is of the m16 style used by the american and Ca Nadian All the weapons seized Are the announcement comes Only Days after a free press Story out lined vocal criticism of How effectively the police Are handling biker Johns said the seizure proves theres nothing wrong with the approach City police have taken to the War and he said it particularly vindicates the woman biker this seizure was the result of their Johns their Job is to gather intelligence and funnel it into the investigative unit and Treyve been doing that very he he accused the unnamed critics of sour grapes and challenged them to make themselves four admit to scam four of five people accused of running a Home renovation Scamon seniors pleaded guilty leaving just one to face Murray Sharon Eric Smith and Donald Bowden pleaded guilty to numerous including conspiracy to defraud people through Home improvement they will be sentenced next a fifth person charged with the of Allan Quirie has pleaded not his trial is scheduled to begin next the five were operating under the company names of Safeway build ing s s Lincoln construction and and Donegal it is alleged they targeted elderly Selling them overpriced Home renovations which were either not required or never probe to be lengthy it will be weeks before investigators determine what caused a Man to plunge 25 metres into a mining excavation 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Hyundai 2001765 Sargent Winnipeg 7745373 advantage Hyundai 1630 1st Street North Brandon 7268199 Vladimir Shewczuk Church mourns tireless cleric by Alexandra Paul staff reporter father Vladimir so a tireless priest credited with almost sin Glen Anderly building the ukrainian Catholic faiths most important Centre in can died 6 of he was Shewchuk death is being mourned this week in dual City masses in Ottawa and Winni where his monuments Are the churches he he almost single Anderly built the ukrainian Catholic shrine in Manitoba archbishop Michael Bzdel said of Shewchuk legendary fundraising in that As in his pasto ral duties in the Telephone Book was his most important the Parish existed in name Only and it was up to Shewchuk to found a Congre when he organized a Par he would go through the phone Book and look up any names that sounded Ukraine recalled father Cornelius who had known Shewchuk for 50 Pasichny is the Parish priest of Nicholas which Shewchuk relocated to its cur rent Bannerman Avenue address 30 years Shewchuk developed his Telephone Book technique in where he rebuilt Nicholas in and later honed the method in Vancou ver and Toronto Shewchuk persuasive Powers proved so valuable that in 1979 he was transferred to Ottawa to build the biggest ukrainian Catholic Church in whats on ready to throw in the butt the Manitoba lung association is offering three 7week courses this month and next for smokers wishing to clinics will be held on tuesdays from 7 to 9 at the Kinsmen refit Centre from 25 to March 8 and at Gordon Bell High school on wednesdays from 7 to 9 from 2 to March smokers using nicotine patches and gum can join a support group run thursdays from 7 to 9 at the pan am Pool from 20 to March Cost is for More Call 774 trivia Challenge the extent of immigration from Ontario to Manitoba Between 1871 and 1885 is revealed by the increase in the number of protestant common in 1871 there were How Many were there by 1885 67 128 427 today answer skua pjs 6l6 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