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FAR! FH 1- rr Ti ii 1Mb laA.tl It, MUNIHhAL, WbUNtSUAY, JUNb A 3 Montreal limed IU ghettos in -city, poverty expert says JOHN KALBFLEISCH THE GAZETTE "Canadians are increasingly living in either extremely poor or extremely rich neighborhoods," Hajnal continued during the conference, held at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. "The total population of rich neighborhoods, where less than 10 per cent of residents were poor, grew by 1 3.2 per cent between 1986 and 1991. "Similarly, concentrated urban poverty neighborhoods grew by 17.1 percent. "By contrast, the total population of middle-income neighborhoods, where the incidence of poverty was between 10 and 20 over half the growth nationwide. "Concentrated urban poverty is particularly alarming and is qualitatively different from individual poverty," Hajnal argued, "because residents of these neighborhoods must also face an economic, social and cultural environment that offers few opportunities and provides serious impediments to success in mainstream society." Such neighborhoods, he said, are linked to excessive rates of delinquency, teenage pregnancy, school dropouts, low cognitive skills, political alienation, unemployment and welfare dependency.

per cent, grew by only 2.4 per cent." Originally from Saskatchewan. Hajnal is studying at the University of Chicago. He painted a picture not only of growing numbers but also of the growing physical separation of the urban poor in Canada, with newly impoverished neighborhoods taking root beside existing ones. "While it may be true that Canada's central cities are generally healthy," he concluded, "it is also true that a large and growing population is being increasingly isolated in a number of truly disadvantaged neighborhoods." In Montreal, where concentrated urban poverty is growing fastest, the problem is most acute in Point St. Charles, parts of Verdun, Centre-Sud, Mile End, Park Extension and parts of Cote des Neiges.

For Hajnal, "concentrated urban poverty" exists in neighborhoods where more than 40 per cent of the people fall below Statistics Canada's low-income criteria. From 1986 to 1991 in Montreal, the population in such neighborhoods grew by 59,609 to reach almost 370,000. This total is by far the highest in Canada, well ahead of Winnipeg's 75,000, and accounted for Canadian cities and especially Montreal might soon get a taste of the violence and poverty that characterizes ghettos in the U.S., a Chicago political scientist said yesterday. In a paper prepared for a conference of "the Learned Societies of Canada, doctoral candidate Zoltan Hajnal described the growing concentration of poor people in depressed, inner-city Canadian CN conductor crushed when truck hits train I BA 40-year-old CN train conductor I was crushed to death yesterday when a tow truck crashed into a train at a St. rat It- cv' 51 'n At Li MMMMiiMMiiinri imirf "ii Afr -r 1 Leonard level crossing.

A misunderstanding between the conductor and the truck's driver led to the accident, said Montreal Urban Community police. "They each thought they would let the other pass first," said Rene Mathon, chief inspector of Station 54. The conductor was directing traffic through the crossing on Couture Blvd. near Langelier Blvd. because construction workers were repairing the road.

Police identify man killed in cantine-truck blast Police have identified the cantine-truck owner who was killed Monday when his vehicle exploded in the east end. He is 42-year-old Andre Tremblay of Montreal. Claude Lachapelle of Montreal Urban Community police said there have been no arrests so far. The victim has no criminal record, Lachapelle said yesterday, and the motive for the apparent bombing is still under investigation. He said on Monday that a feud between cantine companies for business in the area might be responsible.

Professor gets degree A distinguished law professor who led an inquiry into ethics at Concordia University received an honorary degree From McGill University yesterday. Harry Arthurs, 60, a former president of York University in Toronto, still teaches law and political science there. In 1 993-94, he studied the state of scientific and academic integrity at Concordia following allegations by former engineering professor Valery Fabrikant, killed four colleagues. Barnabe restrained properly, trial told Academy instructor testifies LISA FITTERMAN THE GAZETTE A training officer at the Nicolet police academy testified yesterday there was nothing wrong with the way police restrained Richard Barnabe in a cell, but conceded it wasn't a masterpiece, either. Ronald Belanger said the procedure has been taught to recruits since 1992.

It involves one police officer at the suspect's head, two holding the arms, one at thigh level and one or two holding down the legs. The recruits are also warned that it can be dangerous, said Belanger, co-ordinator of physical intervention courses at Nicolet. Five Montreal Urban Community police officers -Michel Vadeboncoeur, Andre Lapointe, Manon Cadotte, Louis Samson and Pierre Bergeron are accused of beating Barnabe, a cab driver, on the morning of Dec. 14, 1993. There are four steps to re- straining a suspect successful- ly, Belanger explained: gain KSCfUltS are control, get handcuffs on, check vital signs, then conduct Warned that a search.

When prosecutor Jean Lortie procedure can read Belanger an excerpt from his own writing about keeping be dangeWUS, distance between oneself and a suspect while assessing a situa- trainer SOVS tion, Belanger replied it doesn't always work that way. "It's a question of perception, a question of whether time permits it or not," he said. "It really depends on the circumstances." Also yesterday, a heart and trauma specialist testified that Barnabe probably suffered three broken ribs when he fell on to the asphalt while resisting police attempts to handcuff him. The courtroom's lights were dimmed as Dr. Leon Dontigny, who practices at Sacre Coeur Hospital, showed slides of Barnabe's injuries and X-rays.

He suggested the X-ray of Barnabe's face, which showed a fractured nose and fluid in the sinus cavity, indicated what he called a "direct trauma" say, from a fall. He also presented two other scenarios where Barnabe could have had his ribs broken when Vadeboncoeur kneed him as he lay on the ground after falling, or when Lapointe placed his knee on Barnabe's right shoulder blade while in a cell at Station 44. Bamabd, who was arrested in his brother's Laval driveway following a car chase from Montreal, suffered cardiac arrest and severe brain injuries after being taken to the cell. He remains in a coma. The trial continues today.

GORDON BECK, GAZETTE A protector tweaks the ear of an effigy of Premier Jacques Parizeau during a march to save the Reddy Memorial Hospital. Expect more hospital cuts: Rochon Another 2,000 beds should be closed across Quebec, he says terday chanting "Parizeau has to go" and demanding that the Reddy Memorial Hospital stay open. "Cut bureaucracy, not hospitals," read one of the placards as demonstrators paraded down Ste. Catherine St. from Phillips Square to Premier Jacques Parizeau's offices in the Hydro-Quebec building on Rene Levesque Blvd.

At the head of the march, demonstrators pushed an effigy of Parizeau, wrapped in bandages, behind the main banner proclaiming "dignity, respect, compassion" the guiding spirit of the 125-year-old hospital. It is one of the nine hospitals scheduled to close in Montreal. Health board will listen. PAGE B3 PHILIP AUTHIER and IRWIN BLOCK THE GAZETTE The 2,000 Quebec hospital beds being closed are only half of what is needed, Health Minister Jean Rochon said yesterday as he warned of further cuts. Rochon said all the studies by experts show Quebec should really be cutting or transforming 4,000 beds to adapt to the changing needs of the population.

He said despite the uproar the cuts have sparked in the population, Quebec is actually proceeding "wisely and conservatively" in its plans. "All the studies show the surplus is in reality around 4,000 beds," Rochon said. "So we're doing 50 per cent of what could be transformed. We'll start with this and when things go better and the system operates very well, we'll see where we're at." Rochon was answering a question from Liberal health critic Pierre Marsan, who accused the Parti Queb-cois government of hiding its true intentions. He said they should admit the 1,200 bed closings in Montreal should be doubled.

Instead of nine hospitals cut in Montreal, it should be 18, he said. Quebec City has the same problem, Marsan said. The real number is 1 ,200, not 600 beds; eight hospitals, not four. "Does he have the courage to say in the daytime what is said at night?" Marsan shouted in the legislature. In Montreal, about 500 people marched through downtown streets yes Winning numbers Tuesday, 950606 La Quotidienne-3 Banco 4-6-3 (in order) 1-2-5-6-8-13-19-25 La O.uotidienne-4 28-38-45-47-49-50 6-6-7-5 (in order) 53-55-56-61 -62-64 The Toopes are remembered as far away as Newfoundland couldn't do a thing for a week," Coleridge said.

"They were great people. Everyone said so. I'm not just saying that because they were from here, or because they were murdered." Today, the museum houses retired dorys, scale models of schooners and the tragic record of ships and men lost on the high seas. But in a town where public buildings are at a premium, the pavilion also contains government offices, retraining classes for cod fishermen whose boats are in drydock and the Burin Peninsula Soccer Hall of Fame. Once a From a distance, the white AN peaks of the roof look like sails PEGGY CURR he might be anxious to get home.

In Montreal, we've made an art of whining about the weather and the economy and the endless political prattle over sovereignty. Try someone else's troubles for a week. Quebec's obsession with referendums past and future won't seem scary just silly. In fact, Newfoundland has scheduled its own referendum to reform the education system, because it can't afford to keep financing four types of school boards. The majority of fishery workers in Canada's other "distinct" province have been ordered to take their boats out of the water indefinitely.

Many are enrolled in retraining programs or make-work projects intended to tide them over until they qualify for unemployment insurance or miraculously the fish come back. There's growing resentment among people in other trades who complain they are being bumped off hiring lists in favor of fishermen and fish-plant workers. Some towns are so broke they've turned off the electricity until people pay their property taxes. The natural beauty of Newfoundland's rugged coastline, of icebergs the size of churches, moose on the highway and humpback whales in the bay are offset by the desperate poverty of outports far from St. John's, where a really big town means there's a Wal-Mart and a Tim Horton's.

In the capital, the trees are only now coming to life. Farther north, packed ice still prevents sealing boats from leaving port and snowstorms in June are not unheard of. Flying home, it seemed Montreal had never looked so green and prosperous. Rosalind Coleridge runs a bed-and-breakfast nestled along the sheltered shore in Trinity, Nfid. She remembers when the Rev.

Frank Toope and his wife, Jocelyn, came to stay for a week three years ago this month. The Anglican priest from Beaconsfield had been invited to take part in centennial celebrations for St. Paul's Church, the splendid wooden church at the end of the road. He used the time to get reacquainted with the picturesque fishing village where he grew up. i Toope was born in the house that now serves as the town's museum, and went to school with Coleridge's husband, Boyd.

He asked Rosalind to cook traditional Newfoundland dishes like fish and brewis, but she didn't charge him extra. "I thought it was something I could do for him, seeing as it was for the church." Coleridge spent a lot of time chatting with Jocelyn Toope, "a real lady," and was sorry to see them go. Co-teridge has a shop behind the where she sells handmade quilts and socks and mittens, so before she left, Jocelyn Toope promised to send some craft books she had lying around the house. The books never arrived, although the Toopes sent a card each Christmas. But one day this spring, there Vvas a bulky parcel waiting for the Coleridges at the post office.

Jocelyn Toope apologized for taking so long to send the books, then spent the rest of the letter praising Coleridge's young niece, Jennine, who helps out at the guest house every summer. The package arrived in Trinity on Monday, April 3. The night before, Frank and Jocelyn Toope had been bludgeoned to death in their West Island bungalow. "I week, someone from the motor-vehicles bureau shows up to test prospective drivers. Which might explain a cryptic sign posted in the museum's parking lot: "Learning to drive is prohibited between 9 a.m.

and 6 p.m." "The thing about travelling is that you know where you want to be in life." The grumpy man across the aisle from me in the shuttle bus from the Halifax airport knew one thing. He didn't want to be here. Our plane had been late taking off from Dorval because of mechanical difficulties and now he was grounded overnight, hundreds of miles from home with lukewarm salami, cheese and a box of soggy cream puffs from Niagara Falls. Personally, I was just as happy not to be airborne when they discovered the fuel gauge was on the blink. However, after I'd been on the road for a week, I understood how against the gray sky and the rocky coast.

Quite fitting, since this building in Grand Bank, houses the Southern Newfoundland Seamen's Museum. Yet this building actually started life 1 ,000 miles away as the Yugoslavian pavilion at Expo 67. After the world's fair ended, few exhibit halls were left standing in Montreal. The French pavilion served as the glitzy Cine-Citd and museum of civilization before it became the Montreal casino. Abandoned after a fire several years ago, the old U.S.

pavilion finally reopened yesterday as the Biosphere. Most other buildings were dismantled, sold to anyone interested enough to have them shipped and reassembled. The arts centre in the pulp-and-paper town of Grand Falls, was once the Czechoslovakian pavilion. The seamen's museum in Grand Bank spent two years in storage in St. John's harbor before the provincial government agreed it belonged closer to the heart of the province's traditional fishing grounds.

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