Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 27, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press local Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email b1 july 1995 so huh Bankers have hearts do Bank executives have hearts Are they capable of showing compassion sure they sure they the problem is they dont like wearing them on their it could be bad for business and cause a run on the so to we quite often help people out on compassionate said Darrel Ander Media spokesman for the Canadian Imperial Bank of we just dont want the Public to he said that Why he was reluctant to talk to me about the distress Cibic quite clearly had caused a divorced Mother of two when it instructed a Bailiff to seize her in holding Down three jobs to look after my then this she its my not my the seizure took place last month two years after Sylvie Boulanger former Hus band had deeded his 1987 Chrysler new yorker to her As part of separation you know what will happen if it gets out weve resolved this Ladys problem Anderson people will believe that if they scream loud enough and Long enough to Mike Ward or anyone else in the Media Well do the same for that our biggest i can relate to Anderson had a favor to would he emphasize that the Bank was 100 per cent legally Correct that All the is had been the to crossed and the car is ours i certainly i assured even though i want convinced that was the with that out of the we discussed what had happened to this unfortunate in the couple separated after 18 years of Randy Boulanger later agreed his wife could have the new she said the separation agreement papers were drawn up and he made a sworn Decla ration the car was free of All liens and so so Sylvie Boulanger went to Ranger insurance to have the cars registration transferred into her but because of the Cost decided to wait until the follow ing february when aut Opac renewal fell what she didst know was that during this period her sex had taken out a loan with Cibic offering the new yorker As col Anderson said the Bank was forced to seize the car after the loan fell into substantial Boulanger had quit his life insurance managerial Job for health Anderson is quite the Bank dotted All the is and crossed All the to before instructing a Bailiff to seize the new we checked with vehicle registration and the car was in his of was True at the neither Bank or Bailiff thought of checking again with motor vehicle registration to see if her former husband was still the owner before the seizure was execute yesterday i received a Call from an elated Sylvie Darrel Anderson has just called to say Cibic will release the car to me free and she he Hopes you will be Nice and easy on the Bank because he Doest want everybody asking for their seized cars but he also Doest want people think ing the Bank is he said mine was a very unique Situa indeed it victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy fax or email Mike Ward on the internet at f panel targets Goliath by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter a recommendation by the provincial Law Reform commission May make it easier for David to fight Goliath in in a 36page the Manitoba Law Reform commission recommends that the province allow some people who have filed civil suits to get interim payments of damages from defendants Long before a trial is Jeffrey executive director of the Manitoba Law Reform said interim pay ments of out pocket expenses proposal aimed at cutting delays in lawsuits would alleviate the financial pres sures that in the past have forced plaintiffs to Settle cases for less Money than the Case is Schnoor pointed to a first exposed by free press columnist Mike involving a Man burned by a steam Humidifier in Hospital in he still haunt received any payments from the Hospital in 1988 and the Case still haunt gone to the Case was settled shortly thereafter for an undisclosed there Are times when liability is not at Issue and the Issue is just How much should be Schnoor but he said the payments should Only be ordered by a court of Queens Bench judge when it is determined a defendant will be found liable for damages at the end of a Schnoor said the recommendation for interim payments would also discourage defendants from using procedural delays to their advantage in order to Wear Down were not saying All defendants will do that but it can he we feel this Levels the play ing Field and takes away some of the incentives for the payments would be for Spe Cial including lost wages and out pocket expenses result ing from the the pay ments would not be for general damages like pain and personal annoy Ance and Schnoor said there would be mechanisms put in place that would ensure any overpayment would be paid civil lawyers who act for Plain tiffs said the commissions recommendations appear to be a Good plaintiffs can be put to Erff Sec diary expense where Efcy Are forced to Rush a Case Beav Lethe Phil free press unplanned Stop Patrick Boivin talks to an ambulance attendant yesterday morning on Sargent Avenue near Erin Boivin was Cut off by a vehicle and forced into the Lane of another whose vehicle overturned when it veered into nearby supporting wires of a Hydro there were no injuries in the Church denies link to theocracy Call by Alexandra Paul staff reporter a tract sent to Winnipeg households this week denouncing the country monetary policies and urging theocracy As a better form of government is misleading because it implies the roman Catholic Church is behind a Church spokesman said the 16page tract called Michaels journal is published by the pilgrims of Saint Michael from the House of the immaculate in it was sent to 13 million households across but the Catholic Church said the organization is nothing but a fringe group that has operated without Church Sanction for i remember this sort of thing on my Doorstep in Montreal 25 years said Richard communications director for the roman Catholic archdiocese of this has no no nothing from the Catholic Jeanpierre who identified himself As a director of the said the group will Send one to every household before the end of the we published this to get the government to Stop Bor rowing Money from the the tract quotes Catholic Lead ers throughout including Pope John Paul ii Over the past is in an apparent attempt to lend Church credibility to the groups righting political weve had Calls from parishioners asking if this is coming from the we Are saying this is not coming from the Osicki the tract quotes material by demagogue and roman Catholic priest Charles Coughlin who died near his longtime Michigan Parish in the Canad Anborn priest gained notoriety As a radio priest in the depression for his fiery sermons denouncing capital labor unions and so called Wall Street the Church silenced him after his tirades grew increasingly anti semitic during the second world one woman in Winnipeg who received a copy of the tract in her daily mail said the quotes from Coughlin made her father Coughlin supported he agreed the nazis were doing the right thing to the Patti Malochy i myself am not a but in just shivering Over Malochy said she believes in free speech As guaranteed in the Cana Dian charter of rights and free Doms but without a rebuttal there is no balance to the tracts senti it advocates a doctrine of christianize social credit As the cure for the Bankers Are the creators and destroyers of the creation of Money is an act of sovereignty that must not be linked to the the tract it uses a quote attributed to a French Bishop in 18s6 As spoken to Napoleon Iii that god has the right to command nations As Well As in an inference that theocracy would serve Canada better than Case against Van passengers full of twists in Spence killing by David Kuxhaus staff reporter w they willing accomplices or just out for a lat night cruise its the question police Are trying to answer in the fatal drive by shooting of 13yearold Joseph Spence last the slaying has been linked to a feud Between two rival a 15yearold has been charged with first degree but none of the other youths Riding in a Van with him have been its been reported there were As Many As eight but police have yet to con firm that police have interviewed some and Are still trying to locate we have to determine what is their involvement and what is their knowledge of the Jack Swatski of the Winnipeg police service its the real dog work of the its a scenario authorities Are increasingly presented with As Gan related crimes Winnipeg defence lawyer David with More and More were seeing things done in Phillips there Are a number of different ways a per son who Doest directly participate in a killing can be Phillips conspiracy to commit murder helping to plot the act is its usually Laid Only when the plan goes in the Spence the most Likely charge Laid would be parties to an that would involve those in the Van helping out in some Way such As supplying the accused with a gun or encouraging him to carry out the but if the accused out of nowhere told oth ers in the Van he was going to shoot somebody and they did they cannot be held criminally Phillips theres no obligation to prevent a crime except in very specific such As if youre a police officer or a lifeguard and you dont jump in to save someones Mere presence at the scene of the crime int sufficient for criminal they Are required to participate in some the same holds True after the crime is committed there is no Legal responsibility to Tell the Driver of the Van if he was not the shooter could be charged with being an accessory after the but that would depend on Phillips were you the Driver trying to help the shooter get or were you simply trying to just get yourself away there Are a lot of quirks trying to figure out who knew what is made even More difficult because gang members Are often reluctant to provide its an Uphill Battle and very difficult to Bill senior attorney for Legal aids youth cant afford it to lawyer Jeff Harris there have been Many cases where people have been driven into the ground during the years of but Harris said he would want to see tight controls placed on Plain tiffs so they themselves create delays after receiving some lawyer Rocky Kravetsky said he Doest believe its As big a prob Lem As the commission feels it theres already one mechanism when defendants make Advance the prejudgment interest stops running that an incentive right Kravetsky arson count exacts toll family will reunite by Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter Annes Man whose personal life and work were ruined for two years when he was charged with arson has been acquitted of torching his own in exceedingly a Smil ing Chester Lehmann said yester minutes after Justice John Scollin of court of Queens Bench acquitted now i can get rolling on get Ting my Lehmann five seized by child and family services in have been cleared to be returned to Lehmann for some but not while a criminal charge was still hanging Over his defence counsel Michael Cook Lehmann not Only lost his kids but was fired from his Job As a custodian since he could not be bonded with a criminal charge against a collection Agency is after him and he has been on social Assis Tance for More than a its an out pocket loss which int subject to Cook the ordeal has also exacted an emotional toll on Lehmann mar Treyve Hung in there together a Long Cook and Lehmann civil suit to get compensation for the House fire from his insurance policy has also been on hold awaiting the outcome of the Crim Inal Scollin said he cannot in conscience convict Lehmann of setting the May fire at his Anne but that didst mean Scollin was it i end up with a grave but no the judge certainly his conduct tended to Point to his the holes in the building we rent As incriminating As first court was told Lehmann Home suddenly caught fire about half an hour after a neighbor saw him leaving the both firefighters and fire investigators became suspicious about arson when they saw rectangular holes in the floor on the main and second which they believed was caused by a person cutting holes to allow flames to rage throughout the but much of the crowns Case against Lehmann went up in smoke when court was told the holes in the floor were actually the remains of heating ducts from the heating system before Lehmann moved the House from a nearby Village to the Cook also argued successfully that Lehmann have waved to a neighbor if hed just set a fire in the he said he and Hia client remain convinced the fire was deliberately set but by somebody ;