Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 4, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba To o 50 wig Chy godot Ftp Kahti pitch for Joni Sutof ditto Pii Tott mpaoe8 vol 122 no 302 publications mail registration no 0286 Winnipeg free press 50 t get Post St Post Oto 1 Psi october 1994 i test to steer workers towards Lowe paying jobs by Ian Bailey Canadian press new fed eral plan will top up wages for up to canadians on unemployment insurance who take Lowe paying jobs in order to reenter the the scheme will be shinny stars Frozen out out towners get penalty Box by Nick Martin and Steven Forbes staff reporters some minor hockey players who live outside the City Are being body checked right off their by a new civic the directive prevents nonresidents from bumping Winnipeg Resi dents out of activities offered in civic catch22 takes to the ice Winnipeg minor hockey association officials said yesterday that Fri Days scheduled opening of the sea son May be delayed by As much As two weeks while coaches drop play ers from outside Winnipeg from their rosters and replace them with kids living within the City Bill Clement told protect Parks and culture committee yesterday City taxpayers Are fed up with people in heading Ley bragging about their Low taxes while their kids bump Winnipeg children from teams in Public Clement said his daughter and two friends were Cut from a Wingette team in which gave the spots to girls from they were displaced by kids whose parents dont pay one Nickel to the City of minor hockey who say How Many players Are told the committee the pol icy will affect the Best hockey play ers in East and West Paul and its not like we have a Choice in the Omha president Dale England the City has told us they will reallocate our ice if the teams dont one coach affected by the move was stunned by the Ive been coaching this team for six or seven years now and i cant Ever remember not having a kid from Selkirk on said Doug coach of the a a Bantam Winnipeg Hawks who will Nave to Cut one player from the displacement policy was part of the 20percent in crease in nonresident registration fees passed this Parks and recreation general manager John Hreno said minor hockey want notified until mid after the policy wound its Way through the nonresident children will be offered a place to play but skilled players at the highest competitive level May Nave to drop All the Way to the House league level be fore finding somewhere they wont displace a Winnipeg England said it could upset the competitive balance within the i no hockey Birch adding some Chil Dren will probably quit there s no Way a kid that been playing triple will voluntarily move Down to play on even a Dou Lea much leu a House league tested Over the next two years in parts of new Brun Nova Ottar Manitoba and human resources minister Lloyd a worthy said in announcing the plan Ottawa could Only afford to try the program in seven he vere trying to use this As a Stim a a lever to enable people to gain that Access Back into the Job the minister outlined the plan As he arrived in the Newfoundland Cap ital to meet government officials for talks on social Security Reform part of a swing that earlier took him to Prince Edward Axworthy was meeting with regional leaders to Brief them in and Vance of his release tomorrow of a paper on social welfare the wage scheme will be tailored to various in Atlantic Cana for it May focus on sea Sonal Axworthy recruits will be selected at ran Dom from those who file i claims in the test he other re t3m68 turned on Jim cd soldiers arrest a haitian policeman yesterday As they raid the Porta Prince head quarters of a paramilitary from which gunmen fired on pro democracy marchers last haitian police attempted to intervene in the please see Story on Page solutions angry electorate boots Progress police reporter the term Boot Camp has quickly become the most popular catch phrase of youth corrections in the its a political response to an uneasy electorate demanding Tough measures for a growing youth crime problem that leaves them feeling the trouble Boot Camps dont in both Canada and the United experts agree that changes to the traditional approach of simply warehousing criminals Are needed because it does nothing to address the Root causes of crime or to Reform of but critics say introducing Boot Camps whether real or in name Only is Little More than pandering to the baser whims of an electorate that has grown intolerant of what it perceives As social excuses for criminal behaviour the Boot amp idea is simply a politically expedient solution Toa last in the series University of Doug its like a walk Down memory Lane for harking Back to the Good old Days when a duds from the neighbourhood would go off and join the army and come Back As Good inside Stoi y jamming the revolving door b3 studies throughout North America have consistently shown Boot Camps to be no More effective than traditional prisons in preventing convicts from offending positive goals the consensus among those who have studied youth crime is that real answers come Only with progressive solutions giving kids positive goals and role increasing their and following up after their release from corrections on a larger dealing with societal ids like poverty and but because the Justice system is ultimately run by such ids usually get Short Public at Large Doest buy emits will be enrolled and studied for the Sake of the supplements will make up three quarters of the difference be tween earnings in a new Job and the participants previous to a Maxi mum of a participants will be eligible to receive supple ments for up to two Axworthy also said Ottawa will spend More than million on a Broad Range of other employment assistance a spokeswoman said from Ottawa the initiative will be funded through to april 1995 with Mil lion initially targeted to on Tario is next with million Avail Manitoba is tentatively slated to get million in the the simple fact is there just Arent any votes these Days in wanting to do something progressive with these said David former head of the Agassiz youth Centre in Portage la Prairie who now works for a private youth corrections company in the the attitude is lock pm up and forget about them and that what the politicians Are a recent interview with a Maryland youth Justice official provided a rare glimpse into the cold politics of youth Mary Ann Secretary of the Maryland department of juvenile was explaining a new Boot Camp the state recently set up to Deal with Young instead of modelling the Camp on a Marine style Boot Camp that already exists in Saars people opted for a gentler youth in Saar said the new Maryland Boot Camp int a Boot Camp at really a More highly structured and regimented youth its similar to a new Manitoba hot Camp approach introduced but month at the Agassiz youth the in Jmatty window we gave it the name Boot Camp Fryml Gysel that what the Public wants to hem Samov admitted water Bill to soak the proposed increase would hike homeowners costs 43 per cent by Stevens wild City Hall reporter i will deluge Hurt Winnipeg residents could see their water rates increase by 43 per cent Over the next four while some Large local businesses would face in creases of More than 100 per a proposal to be considered at to morrows regular meeting of the civic executive policy committee recommends increasing single fam ily residential rates from per 100 cubic feet to for an average Home using 600 cubic feet of water a that Means an increase from to about a month by the Basic commercial rate would increase per cent to per 100 cubic feet from the biggest commercial such As manufacturers and would see a portion of their rates in crease 128 per cent to from 90 cents because a Large volume Dis count would be the reason for the hikes City councillors and administrators Point to the growing Cost of maintaining the cites infrastructure and the need for greater there Are massive expenses required Over the next decade with respect to the Aqueduct and sewage said Terry Duguid North chairman of the works and operations the Only Way to pay for these massive expenses is to increase the he the rate increases Are estimated to boost the cites Revenue from water use by almost million in 1994 to million by but Jonas Manitoba chair Man of the Canadian manufacture quote of the Day this is another Grubby Little a Buckingham Palace spokesman deplores a Gushy account of Princess dianas alleged affair with her former Riding which sold out of its first Oopik within hours of hitting British ers said the More water costs the More firms will Start looking elsewhere to do Busi weve heard from our Mem its just a another problem in terms of being John executive director of the Manitoba hotel said water Bills for some hotels would double if the Large volume discount is one reason for the proposed in crease is the cites plan to spend million by the end of the Century to refurbish the Aqueduct to Shoal Lake the source of Winnipeg drinking the City is also creating a Reserve fund to finance future water treatment Duguid said the Cost of upgrading sewage treatment facilities to and Here to tougher Federal guidelines will Cost at least million Over the next 10 councillors Are also look ing at using uniform rates that would eliminate the substantial discounts currently Given to Large commercial and Industrial us ers and abolishing varying rates for multifamily and Commer Cial the new rate Structure places emphasis on water Duguid the new rates would take effect in Steve director of water waste and disposal depart said the Cost of service will reflect the new rate it reflects the policy of user Why should the big users get a break inside diversions site and Ann in sports to ;