Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 october local 25 years later uni City debate remains alive viability of one big Happy def is being matted into question by Kim Guttormson staff reporter ask the average Winnipeg Ger about uni City and they Likely think youre talking about a mall or a but uni City has a larger Impact on their daily from the bus ser vice they enjoy to the taxes they uni City was a unique Urban plan Ning concept that became reality 2s years ago when 13 municipalities wed their futures into one for better or for it became known As whether putting All the regions eggs in one Basket has created a blended Omelette where everyone shares in the same or a scrambled mess with increased costs and less is continually up for the original 13 Are now 12 heading Ley reformed its own municipality last year and with High crumbling roads and a Seesaw of what wading pools will be open the viability of one big Happy City is being called into would we have better More wading lower taxes had vital remained vital better off even those who say Winnipeg is better off with uni City agree that the founding 50 councillors and the province didst take advantage of the strengths of the new which is now left for is councillors to Deal Winnipeg economic problems in have been worse if not for says Alan who wrote a social history of Winnipeg and now teaches Urban plan Ning at the University of British but just because you have the right Structure Doest mean youre taking advantage of the opportunities that present Artinise thinks centralizing the cites government has done More to put the declining downtown on the Agenda than it would have been oth a Success 1 think it deserves considerable credit in making things like the Core area initiative he generally the City has been a Andrew Sancton Doest one thing Winnipeg clearly does is theres not a huge disparity in service Levels and tax says a political scientist at the University of Western Ontario who specializes in local govern its just that it in my Doest appear to save a great Deal of Money or make things More and the problem in the Core area is not especially bet Ter off than without Sancton is the keynote speaker tonight at the University of win kicking off a saturday Confer ence on the state of the Union hosted by the Institute of Urban Mary Ann Beavis says the 25th anniversary seemed like an appropriate occasion to revisit the Deci especially since other Canadian cities Are now looking at notably Toronto and its Megarity who Doest believe amalgamation is a Good idea in any said Winnipeg reasons Back in 1972 were More socialist than the ones touted these the motives for uni City were he common ser common you dont Joe ffffi6 press James became part of uni City when 13 municipalities hear that with or in Hall fax or new its much More about saving but Sancton Doest think one big Central government governing a larger area brings efficiency and lower and Points to Winnipeg As an along with University of Winnipeg professor Christopher says that uni City also took Power away from under the old different different areas of the City could have chosen to direct their Money different Sanc ton a common policy applies but the Downside is a Lack of a Lack of Adap because neighbourhoods Are Leo says the current government is Large and its not a Good representation anymore of Unic Ity was a Good but we blew we didst make the Best of Leo says the debate is in some ways opening up As win h nip Eggers flee the City for Cei Ved lower taxes outside the into areas that in become suburban e says whats lacking in this version of uni City is an Overall plan to manage the part of the blame for which he lays with the they have to decide what they want and have some kind of rules for the metropolitan he Artinise says uni City was ahead of its and by amalgamating 25 years its freed up a Quarter Century to talk about More important whether Treyve come up with any answers or what Winnipeg has been saved Artinise is 25 years of amalgamation debate that perennially goes on for More information about this weekends Call the Institute of Urban studies at the University of Winnipeg at Andrew sanctions address tonight is open to the s never Sale Price Chrysler Sale 97 Breeze 4dr Sale Price Bingo player robbed teens face charges three Young men Are in custody after an elderly Man was robbed outside a City Bingo Hall wednesday police say a 60yearold Man was leaving the Hall located at Sargent Avenue and Mcgee Street around when he was police arrested three sus aged and in the area a Short time the men Are charged with robbery and failure to comply with a girls arrested a pair of teenage girls have been arrested follow ing a series of assaults and robberies in the downtown area earlier this Between june and sep police tember there were numer Ous incidents of women being beaten and robbed by a gang of several other Young offenders have been arrested in relation to the the aged 15 and Are charged with numerous counts of woman killed a 51yearold big Hetty resident died wednesday in a fatal car pedestrian Acci Dent near the the ramp say Christine Annie Flett was pronounced dead at the scene of the Accident which occurred just South of Wanless on Hwy police Are insect study to Aid staff reporter Canadas it Clef medical examines and coroners Are hoping a study about what kind of insects invade pig carcasses will Lead to a National forensic entomology forensic entomologists will be studying pig carcasses in Halifax to determine How Many and what kind of insects initiate once the local species Are identified and researchers determine How quickly they the information will help entomologists pinpoint a time of death when other methods May for criminal they can usually find a Little closer time of death by using maggots and said Peter chief Coroner of new fourteen coroners and medical examiners Are in Winnipeg for an annual the group initiating the insect study was asking for the coroners financial support of about Peter Manitoba chief medical said police organizations currently pay for forensic entomology work in Manitoba and other police agencies should help foot the research forensic entomology work is used in homicide cases and poaching then we can go to court with some degree of certainty As to when the death occurred and that important for police to determine because its really related to the assault and it could put the person at the Markesteyn Manitoba May also be a future study site using pig carcasses because different temperatures and climates produce different Markesteyn said a database would be a useful we have a limited database we dont know How Many bugs or Type of flies and maggots we also on the coroners conference Agenda Are discussions about child abuse drug abuse deaths and the conference ends daily rental special Call is out to All grads for Sisters 40th Bash organizers of Sisler High schools 40th reunion next fall Are 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