Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 25, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A2 Winnipeg free june pm p f t t no More Waits Toronto up it Doest pay to wait in line at Toronto Dominion Bank any the Bank has quietly cancelled its policy of paying customers if there forced to wait More than five minutes for after almost four the Bank decided service was so Good it didst need the policy any spokes woman Cathy Bertini said weve achieved what we wanted she it was intended to Spur our transformation of the branches from administration to a service Cul that happened and our customers Tell us our service is Bertini refused to say How much the Bank paid it got hit with some Large Bills last fall when com Puter problems took thousands of Bank machines out of a a a los Angeles Canada news wire Luckman interactive a leading provider of software for the yesterday announced an easy Touse free Utility called Luck ans Anonymous cookie for internet privacy that allows internet users to exert immediate and total 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number of claims in Agathe 125 by there were 798 claims for the 1996 and the aver age amount was Pitura said its Likely the average claim amount from the flood of the Century will be the province has brought in 100 evaluators from across Canada who will begin a claim Blitz on while homeowners have been impatiently waiting for flood Pitura said his office is working As fast As it Pitura noted that in the 1979 it took almost 10 months for claims to be paid million has been distributed in the form of Advance Pitura said the letters now going out will allow homeowners to begin con As they can be used to secure lines of credit at Banks and credit Jackie the regional director of the red said yesterday the organization is still debating what to do with its second phase of flood about million has already been continued from a1 area 102 is bordered by the red and Assiniboine Graham Avenue and memorial Boulevard and includes the the legislative building and the business District South of Gra Ham crime there dropped by 81 per cent to 419 but area bordered by Balmoral notre Dame and Portage main Street and Graham and including the Portage Avenue retail strip and downtown saw reported crime increase by 46 per cent to the area is far smaller than the the statistics Are for the first 11 months of compared with the same period of because of delays in preparing the annual the police service has not released Statis tics for any period after december police say there Are a number of Rea sons for the increase in crime reports in the one downtown one being the addition of More Community offi cers when you have an increased num Ber of police officers in an area youll often see an increase in crime said Carl As peo downtown crime explodes according to police reported crime in the downtown area bordered by Balmoral notre Dame Portage main Street and Graham Avenue increased by 46 per cent in the first 11 months of statistics for december have not yet been made but Are not expected to alter the trends significantly District 103 1995 increase red River the following Are some of the significant increases sex offences 30 assaults 239 robbery 114 break and enter 129 Auto theft 170 theft under 1168 fraud 137 weapons charges 14 counterfeiting 1 wilful damage under 368 other criminal code 76 44 166 2s6 238 47 34 46 98 40 1520 30 215 57 35 150 27 2600 528 43 221 191 source Winnipeg police service statistical report pie become accustomed to seeing police in their they get More comfortable reporting Shier said that although police reporting boundaries were adjusted in some areas of the City Between 1995 and the downtown areas did not another reason for the dramatic changes in reported crimes May be displacement of Community police initiatives in other areas of the particularly in Point Douglas and the North push the criminal ele ment out of those police sweeps aimed at picking up Street people and drunks also drive up there Are also disputes As to exactly what the downtown a Biz spokesman maintained yesterday that downtown does not include the area around Central Park North of Ellice which has some of the highest crime rates in the Biz views that area As part of the West even though it is Only one Block from Portage Given Wright mainly to those j who could claim they had lost income j due to the ideas now being discussed by the red Cross include giving homeowners help with reconstruction such As covering the difference Between damages and the Cap the government has set to fix or paying the difference Between depreciated value and replacement value for dam aged Wright said red Cross officials will meet with municipal officials this week to see what is so As not to duplicate government the red Cross has collected about Mil lion in flood Aid so smugglers sentencing scheduled for today i by Leah Janzen for the free press one of seven Manitoban involved in a Multi million Dollar smuggling operation will be sentenced today after pleading guilty in court Armand Joseph had earlier admitted to nine other charges of possessing and Selling illegal Alco hol and tobacco in but held off on the final count until he could hire a new he now faces up to in Levreault was busted As part of operation decode an ramp investigation which uncovered hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of tobacco and vehicles in october the operation smashed a sophisticated smuggling network working out of the More than 40 ramp officers and Canada customs officials were involved in predawn uncover ing one litre bottles of hard liquor and dozens of cases of the operation also used an info who was paid to Nab the the four month investigation uncovered an operation which had been i business for Over a responsible for smuggling More than cases of liquor into the the other members of the smug gling operation pleaded Edward Joseph Lyne of the pm of Pembina is still awaiting 2 Days Only unfair ice la Bottom mount Aman 11 Maytag 2 save lowest prices in Canada guaranteed easy payments 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