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A4 The GAZETTE, Montreal, Friday, February 1 9, 1 982 Party formed to battle merger in east end Press council beset by financial problems plaints from the public about the media and issues rebukes where it feels they are warranted, but hi-s no power to impose sanctions. It is financed partly by voluntary contributions from associations of daily and weekly newspapers, journalists' professional groups, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and Radio-Quebec. It also receives funding from its own foundation set up to solicit dona-; tions and provide the council with revenue from investments. Baillargeon said that if the founda Vanier said Benoit may face civil charges brought by the municipal council relating to events that took place under Benoit's stewardship of Pointe aux Trembles.

Benoit's administration was thoroughly investigated for mismanagement by the Quebec Municipal Commission in 1980 but the justice department ruled there were no grounds to prosecute the former mayor. Vanier says the Benoit administration cost taxpayers millions of dollars and he has ordered the municipality's legal advisers to look at means of bringing a civil action against the ex-mayor arid other former administrators. Benoit described Vanier's move as "harassment." He said he is considering legal action of his own to defend his By DAVID WIMHURST of The Gazctt A new political party was launched yesterday in Pointe aux Trembles to oppose the incumbent mayor's project of merging the east-end municipality with one of three adjacent communities. The Relance Municlpale (Municipal Renewal) party was set up to campaign to retain Pointe aux Trembles's independence and will soon be choosing candidates to run in November's elections, party official Gaston Charland said. Mayor Maurice Vanier, who refers td the new party as "Revanche Municipale" or Municipal Revenge, has proposed joining Pointe aux Trembles and either Montreal East, Anjou or the city of Montreal as a solution to the long-term debt and development problems of the municipality.

Charland, who spoke on behalf of the party's 11-man provisional committee, said the solution to Pointe aux Trembles's financial difficulties is to stop spending, not to merge. Charland criticized the Vanier administration for overseeing an average increase in the town's operations budget of 19 per cent a year for the last four years, expanding this budget to $12.6 million in 1982 from $6.2 million in 1978. "Waste is the principal trademark of the present administration," he said. Among the party's possible candidates in November's municipal elections is Bernard Benoit, mayor of Pointe aux Trembles for nine years until 1978. Benoit, who denies he will seek office, came under attack this week from Vanier, the man who replaced him as mayor.

The Quebec Press Council is living such a hand-to-mouth existence that its bank recently threatened to bounce its cheques. Secretary-general Jean Baillar-geon got out of the scrape by getting backers to advance a portion of their contributions to the journalistic watchdog agency for the next financial year. "It's been like this every year In the eight years we've been operating and it's got to stop," he said yesterday. "To make ends meet until the end of the fiscal year in March, I always have to go to our contributors and ask them to give us a portion of their dues for next year so I always end the year with a deficit of $3,000 or more." The press council examines com tion meets its current campaign objective of $1.5 million in donations by next July, it will be able to give the press council $100,000 which, coupled with the $140,000 expected from direct media contributions, would give the council an adequate operating budget. MAURICE VANIER Under firt Opposition party vows 'to put up struggle' CANDLE LIGHTING TIME For the for change in city-provincial tax agreement TOY HARVEY SHEPHERD record in Montreal-provincial rela these proposals include different tax rates for different classes of proper AS." FRIDAY EJiECOTTOE In 4 panes: A review of the week's statistical highlights, both economic and social Ciranhs and charts 5:10 SABBATH ENDS Fab.

20 6:10 be "an administration of struggle," pressing the Quebec National Assembly for basic change in the system. On another subject, MCM President Jean Roy said talks with the other city hall opposition party, the Municipal Action Group (MAG), aimed at a merger or other co-operative arrangement in the November election are still under way and the results are "sufficiently positive" to continue." The MCM is preparing its electoral organization to contest all 54 seats on the city council plus the mayoralty. tion. is "rather negative." Both the MCM and Drapeau have long advocated replacing property taxes with a portion of income-tax revenues as the major source of funds for Montreal's city government. Bennett made his comments after reporters noted that several of the tax policies in a draft MCM program for the municial election next November could not be put into effect without action by the provincial government.

In addition to income-tax funding, of Tht Gazott A Montreal Citizens Movement (MCM) administration at city hall would mobilize the citizens of Montreal to demand that the province change the tax system, Arnold Bennett of the party executive said yesterday. He told a press conference the MCM, now an opposition party, would reverse Mayor Jean Drapeau's practice of working out arrangements with the provincial government and then presenting them to the population. He said Drapeau's track ty (such as residential, commercial and industrial), permitting pensioners to delay paying property taxes until they sell their houses and tax breaks for renovations. Michael Fainstat, sole MCM representative on the present city council, said MCM proposals to improve property taxation would only be "compromises" pending a replacement of property taxes by more "progressive" forms of taxation, such as ingome qnd sales taxes. An MCM admininistration would WESTERN KOSHER MEAT MARKET LTD.

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Postal code Pierrefonds staff threatens strike Pierrefonds' 115 blue-collar workers will go on strike in two weeks if negotiations today and Monday between their union and the city fail. The workers, members of the Syndicat des Employes de la Ville de Pierrefonds, have voted 64 to 15 to give their union executive a strike mandate. But city officials said yesterday they are confident a return to the bargaining table today will avert a strike. The main issue outstanding in the contract talks is wages, Pierrefonds city manager Gerry Lepage said yesterday. The union has asked for an 18-per-cent increase in a one-year contract.

The city has offered 10 per cent in each year of a two-year contract. Workers now earn $8.50 to $10 an hour. A strike could shut down the city's arena, filtration plant and snow removal services and affect the maintenance of sewers, Legape said. "We're particularly worried about the filtration plant," Lepage said. "You can always live without skating, but you can't live without fresh water." Canadian Jawish Congress and Canadian Zionist Federation invito you to a COMMUNITY BRIEFING TUESDAY, MARCH 2nd AT 8:30 P.M.

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Police said Dianne Aubert, 23, was found dead in her apartment early Tuesday after being stabbed 121 times. Her roommate, Maryline Grenier, 41, remained in hospital yesterday after undergoing surgery for more than 30 knife wounds. Both victims were stabbed repeatedly in the back. Police were unsure of the motive of the attackers, who were believed to have used five kitchen knives found near the victims, said police official Claude Lemire. Police confirmed that some very valuable items jewelry and furs were missing.

Police were summoned at 1:21 a.m. Tuesday to an apartment building in the northeast part of the city by a tenant who said she had heard moaning. They found the apartment in disarray and Aubert lying naked in bed. Grenier was found partially clad in night clothes, in bed as well. Lemire said police did not realize the pair were transsexuals until their arrival at a hospital, where staff members discovered they had had sex-change operations.

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