Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Dici mbah 2000 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Margo Gooc hand 6977292 province eyes seizing vehicles of repeat drunk Drivers by David Kuxhaus the Manitoba government will Intro Duce new measures this Spring that could see repeat drunk Drivers lose their cars or receive lifetime driving suspend both ideas were floated by Justice minister Gord Mackintosh at a Confer ence yesterday involving groups such As its time that we raise the said there is a hard Core out there that is refusing to get the Manitoba had been known As a Leader when it came to Tough drinking and Dri ving but Mackintosh said the province has fallen for the lifetime ban touted is already in effect in Nova British Columbia and the Yukon for Dri vers with three or More impaired convictions in five so no jurisdiction is proposing vehicle Mackintosh said that More than two dozen states in the have such a Dale president of mothers against drunk said vehicles under the control of drunk Drivers should be considered forfeiting is just confiscating a weapon people Are using to com Mit crimes so they cant commit them any he but for these measures to have an the police have to be Given More Power to enforce the if people dont feel there going to get the sanctions dont mean Wilson said his group is supportive of the new he said offenders Given lifetime suspensions should be allowed to apply for rein statement at some Point As a Way to Dis courage them from driving without a Wilson noted that drunk driving is the 1 criminal cause of death in Manitoba already has the toughest impoundment measures in they came into effect 1 and Are in Addi Tion to existing sentences under the criminal the Law applies not Only to cars and but to of readers such As Snow mobiles and Drivers of dirt bikes and if a Driver is caught with a blood Alco hol level of or they will have their vehicle impounded for two if there caught for a second time with a blood alcohol level above per their vehicle will be impounded for six another two months is added for each subsequent Drivers who refuse blood alcohol tests will be subject to the same under the old vehicles were impounded for 30 Day for a first up to a maximum of 90 Mackintosh said yesterday that he is also considering ignition interlock devices which prevent a vehicle from being started if the Drivers blood alcohol concentration is above a preset the government has set up a web site where Manitoban can voice their Opin it is located at highways minister Steve Ashton said the government will also be stepping up efforts against unlicensed Ashton said details of the plan will be made Public in the near with files from Holli Moncrieff Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press City Parks employee Harlan Duguay works on the Assiniboine Park Toboggan run yesterday in the Ciccold get used to it its beginning to look a lot a typical Winnipeg Winter by Paul Mckie the steam and Spray Rose up and froze around Harlan Duguay he lugged the Hose through the Snow and sprayed More water at the Frozen the temperature was 25 Duguay was icing up the Toboggan runs at Assiniboine Park the earliest Treyve Ever been the Duck Pond is already Frozen and ready for last Blades didst score the Frozen surface until after but Duguay shrugged off the after minus 30 for three or four Days it All Kinda he said the Bottom line Hes a Parks employee and he has to work he dresses for the weather and bears it the Best he the worst thing is stepping out of that truck first thing in the once you get going youre if you can get Caa Manitoba reported that this is the busiest its been since Caa has logged about service Calls since that not phone that the number of times Treyve had to give a boost or a its just been going 24 hours a its not letting said Tom Caas manager of emergency Road want a boost Caa members have to wait about three need a Tow average response time is Sian Dahal Mark has a message to Manitoban Check your Block Heater you May be labour ing under the illusion that your Block Heater is he but that Cord flopping out of the front end of your car is the the Cord nearly always cracks or splits near the plug said John Vanvlack Doest worry about driving cars in the cold Hes More concerned about the dangers cars pose to Chil Vanvlack has been a school crossing guard for 14 Hes outside five Days a three times a Hes seen colder Days Over the he said yesterday at Mcphillips Street and Redwood Ive been through Many of them he wiping the Frost from his Over on Johns a garage fire was keeping firefighters a firefighter shrugged about the temperature As he monitored the water pressure in the its not that he environment Canadas Jay Ander son said we Haven broken any records people have forgotten what our Winters Are usually said the last few win ters have been so this Winter is More like he Over a Winnipeg International is running said spokes the Only travel problems were caused by a snowstorm in Southern Ontario that dumped More than 20 centimetres and caused flight in Toron Book said travellers were phoning ahead or checking the Winnipeg Airport authority web site for Winni Eggers must face other hard lows of 32 c and highs the term is used loosely in the Range of23 c will be with us through the cold temperatures May be an inconvenience for those of us sprinting from our Homes to our vehicles to our but some people live out major John Richardson at the salvation army said the William Booth Centre shelter is at there Are More people on the he and when it gets cold some of them want a warm so the salvation army has unrolled some Mats and people sleep where they Manitoba Hydro hit a Peak Power use on monday evening at of that broke the previous Peak set in january Hydro capacity is parents Given More Freedom in naming children the nip government yesterday introduced a Bill giving parents More Freedom in naming their right now children in Manitoba must be Given the same last or As one of their parents or a combination of the but not every cultural adheres to those strict naming following the Lead of other provinces the government is removing All naming restrict now people will be free to follow various cultural naming traditions this opens it up so that parents have said Caroline Kaus of the vital statistics theres no reason to restrict Peoples choir those who this Bill does affect will be very Kaus added that different cultures have other ways of naming their the new rules will Only apply to children born after the Law is Likely some time in the new the legislation will also allow unrestricted Access to birth records in Manitoba Over 100 years marriage records Over 80 years old and death records Over 70 years Zero tolerance abuse policy fixes urged policy Doest study says a new study says the provinces highly touted Zero tolerance policy on Domestic abuse needs to be revamped because it Doest in what started out As an examination of violent crime in the study authors concluded that Zero tolerance handicaps police increases the work Load of Crown attorneys and creates a backlog in Zero tolerance was a Well intentioned and Welcome initiative but it needs to be said Eliza Beth one of the authors of the Comack said that the study shows that police need to exercise their discretion on Domestic abuse cases the exact opposite intent of the Zero tolerance a professor of sociology at the University of said simply arrest ing More men and women Doest help couples Deal with Domestic adding she believes these people to be put in programs Oget adopted in Zer Toler Ance requires the police to Lay charges in All incidents of Domestic abuse where there is evidence of assault even if there is no Justice officials have blamed the policy for win Nipges standing As the most violent major City in a position that Comack and her two coauthors the funded by a Grant from the social sciences and humanities research Council and released by the Manitoba Branch of the Cana Dian Centre for policy alter looked at violent crime charges Laid by the Winnipeg police Between 1991 and the intent was to examine the patterns of Vio Lence where it occurred and who it involved and the degree of violence shown by men and Comack said the report found that there is a differ ence in the degree of violence displayed by women and serious the report found that men most often use brute Force holding and Stran the study tend to poke and and throw common household items which often results in More serious Comack said police define almost any household when thrown by a As a including pizza hair and to Remote con Comack said the study shows that while women Are capable of violent they Are not mens equal in Comack said the like others across the country and the found that most violent crime 53 per cent involves romantic partners Girlfriend and Hus bands and the study said that the least amount 16 per cent of Vio Lent crime involved 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