Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local november 1995 Reynolds Youthful criminals Are our own kids l Aura Browns first e mail arrived on i am writing to you about the ongoing debate Over youth crime and youth i was very upset to hear that a 12 year old girl was beaten by three adults who claimed she had damaged their Brown was referring to the attack on Young Shanna the Northend girl battered 22 by four Stellar citizens who thought she had vandalized their she but the mob still grabbed her at a bus assaulted her and stole her i was not but fur ther dismayed to read a letter to the editor on 2 which stated that maybe the beating was wrong but it is the result of Peoples frustration with youth that written by the ironically named peace said the assault was an excellent indicator of the blown frustration level of Many Law abiding taxpayers in were fed up to Here with the North american Justice sys tems laxity in punishing youths rising disrespect of Law and order and Good old Ash toned wrote Brown Wake up these Are not alien these Are your children and mine your neighbors and mine the Only Way to Stop youth crime is to prevent not Barri Cade your Homes and not declare War on anyone under if you really care about Mak ing Young people Stop minding your own Busi if you see someone hitting a Tell them it is if you see kids fighting in a Park or step let the kids know they Are a part of a Community and you care about their behaviour and their if we continue to Foster this attitude that they Are infringing on our adult you can kiss your car stereo and in particular the City we live i thought Browns words were interesting and somewhat then i heard from her again this week and her words became even More in the time Between her first email and her Laura Brown was on our Home was broken your Basic b with the video camera and jewelry she said in mondays aha and did the personal violation alter her Liberal views of crime and criminals i stand by what i wrote Earli vengeance and punishment Are wrong Only a Community which watches Over each other and its children can Cut i thought of Brown and her Brush with crime when i heard about the 14yearold boy charged with robbery and carrying a concealed weapon after he allegedly robbed a 12year old of his halloween the victim ran got his father and the pair found the then they held him until the police that they held they didst pummel they didst steal his they didst extract their own they didst take the Law into their own which is what the people who assaulted Shanna Kirton they grabbed an innocent kid and beat they thought they were fighting Back against what they were doing was attacking an 85pound girl who was standing at a bus Laura Brown is there Pur and if we Start beat ing the ones we think Are Crimi were committing a crime worse than the ones we suspect speaker survives racist ruling resonates Lacquay endures no Confidence motion by Paul Samyn legislature reporter a visibly shaken Louise Lacquay yester Day survived a no Confidence motion that one political expert says has clearly weakened her position As speaker of the Manitoba political scientist Allen Mills said Lacquay will be Hurt by the no Confidence motion that would have forced the Rookie speaker to it is very the University of Winnipeg professor Mills said political parties generally Grant the speaker a great Deal of latitude and deference and no Confidence motions Are Only made Over allegations of in a rare nip Leader Gary doer yesterday called for Jacquays removal after she ruled to limit the use of the word racist in the House a move doer said was undemocratic and we do not feel the decision made and the precedent set will allow us As members of the House to represent our doer starting a debate that delayed question period for almost an doer argued Jacquays ban of the word racist to describe the government or its poli cies would fudge the facts of history that show natives were denied the provincial vote until 1954 and that jews were once prevented from attending certain University the Dps motion was Defeated 3020 As All government members and the to free liberals voted against the last time a Manitoba speaker faced a non Confidence motion was in when then nip speaker Jim Walding was accused of siding with the unusual Challenge the spark that led to the unusual Challenge to the speaker occurred on wednesday when nip la Oscar Lathlin was ordered to leave the chamber for the rest of the Day after Refus ing to apologize for using the word racist in an 11 question about fishing in Lathlin had asked natural resources minister Albert Driedger if a policy on fishing quotas was unfair or Lacquay ruled the word racist cannot be used in the legislature to describe another a party in the chamber or the How she said it can be used to describe governments and parties outside of Mills said the ruling is far too restrictive As the word racist has become part the discourse of modern Lathlin said he was not about to be muzzled by the the ruling is not going to Stop me from ask ing questions and representing the constituents who sent me whether i Call government policies racist again remains to be lath Lin but its not going to restrict i lost Confidence in the speaker because i thought she was going in the wrong direction and i dont think she can do her Job Given the tory House Leader Jim Ernst said the ruling did nothing to interfere with Freedom of adding Lacquay still has the Confidence of the i think the speaker has been reasonably fair and i dont see any problem with her continue Ernst Jeff free press Tepee were set up at the Forks to protest housing in sofa will make tent living a Little volunteers help deliver furniture to Puk protesters at the Forks by Tony Davis staff reporter Les Richards did the Hein Wiens did the and a half dozen volunteers helped deliver two pickup loads of donated furniture yesterday to Pukatawagan protesters camped out at the Forks since i decided to donate my time and Energy to said a wholesale agent who makes his living helping the poor find Good bargains on furniture and but he didst charge his usual commission when he decided to scour Winnipeg looking for furniture to help make the lives of the Pukatawagan people just a bit More they have been eat ing and living in a tent City pitched along the Banks of the red River just South of the Provencher the Encampment now covered in a wet Blanket of Snow is part of their protest against overcrowded housing conditions at the Mathias colomb Cree nation in in one of these in said who got to know the people of Pukatawagan when he owned a furniture store in Leaf concerned about the conditions the Puk people Are living Richards approached his Hein the owner of Market furniture at 524 Sar gent for a Wiens came weve Given them a double and a Queen a a table and some Wiens said at his crammed with old shortly after two pick ups spinning their tires to plow through the thick Snow covering the Forks grounds pulled up to a 10metretall Tepee dubbed the Community Hall and delivered the Ever since we arrived we have been amazed that peo ple in Winnipeg have showed so much chief Ralph Cari Bou said yesterday after meet ing with officials from the department of Indian the meeting produced Little about 40 Pukatawagan residents Are currently camped at the and they were to meet last night to Dis cuss their next we Are going to decide whether we will pack up and go to Ottawa and pitch our tents at we dont have a lot of so if we decide to we might have to asked if he was serious about walking All the Way to Ottawa in Caribou replied if we just go Many of us will end up with to and hepatitis and drug dealer loses his Caddie by David Kuxhaus Law courts reporter a shiny Black 1992 Cadillac Seville has become the first physical asset to be seized in Manitoba under proceeds of crime Laws passed in the luxury car was Pur chased by convicted drug dealer Franco Viandante three years ago from a Steinbach the 32yearold put a Cash Down payment of on the despite the fact that from 1990 to 1992 his reported earnings totalled the though Circum is convincing beyond any reasonable doubt that the accused did not have funds sufficient to pay Cash for the Cadillac and which crime paid for judge rules funds could Only have come from an illicit Justice Daniel Kennedy of the court of Queens Bench wrote in a decision released i am unable to come to any conclusion other than the monies used to acquire the Cadillac in these proceedings were from the proceeds of even though the Cadillac was registered to Viandante Kennedy said police surveillance clearly demonstrated the vehicle belonged to the authorities have seized Cash obtained through crime but never a material object or were pleased with the judg ment and the willingness to take alleged profits from those Crimi nals who commit said ramp Wyman sometimes its the Best punish ment that can be placed on an Indi a lot of times they return from pick up their and carry the car will either be sold privately or auctioned the proceeds will go to the Federal the six Earold legislation allows investigators Access to documents like Bank records in an Effort to link assets to criminal Viandante was convicted in sep after police seized 48 kilograms of marijuana that came from Quebec to Winnipeg in 1993 in a recreational Viandante lawyer had argued the Cadillac was purchased before the drug bust and therefore could not be linked to criminal but Kennedy ruled that the Large amount of drugs involved in the operation dealer bust and the sophisticated courier scheme indicated Viandante had been a Long time player in the drug an ramp officer testified it would take about five years for someone to make those kinds of Kennedy also pointed to a taped phone conversation Viandante had prior to his in which a Friend warned him an event would be crawling with think but dont say it Here is a sampling of unparliamentary Lan Guage Las cannot refer to each other As a bag of wind inspired by fort Rod whiskey talking twaddle a trickster a dimwitted Saboteur coming into the world by Accident a blathers Kite Las also cannot use the following expressions evil Genius has not got the guts trained Seal pompous ass Black sheep the pig has nothing left but a squeak ignoramus does not have a spine source Beauchesne parliamentary rules and health issues up in air future Mccrae warns by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Hospital administrators got a blueprint for healthcare Reform yester Day Complete with a partial timetable As health minister Jim Mccrae Laid out the first Inte grated plan of changes to be presented in the past there was plenty of Money for now there Are More reductions in Federal Transfer payments coming and Between escalating health costs and dramatic reductions in Rev Manitoba is faced with some big Mccrae Mccrae targeted four confirming some initiatives and offering updates on others plans Are on course to make appointments to the provinces first regional health authorities throughout Northern and Rural Manitoba by the end of the nominations to the 10 boards close based on advice from District health the authorities would set All health related Bud gets and the final authority still rests with the the purpose is better not to take any accountability Mccrae said in response to a reporters its still the government that is raising taxes and if something goes it is going to be the government that people look Mccrae the provinces capital construction budget for hospitals and nursing Homes is under a sum of million has already been permanent curbs of emergency room services and the Fate of five Community Hospital Emer gency rooms Are to be settled by Early following reforms in Rural areas and emergency health care services in Brandon and Winnipeg Are to be sized up according to a 13point plan released yester the Only constant around Here is change for the foreseeable we have to strive to be More Mccrae yet in the there was Little reaction from the administrators on the second Day of a three Day conference by their umbrella the Manitoba health organizations mho members Are sometimes quiet because they have a lot to be quiet joked Edwin a trustee for Concordia general t ;