Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (Bird/Standard Broadcast News) Newsgroups: clari.canada.briefs Subject: Prairie Province Briefs Keywords: canadian broadcast Message-ID: <3Rprairies_a8@clarinet.com> Date: 1 Feb 90 16:22:07 GMT Lines: 28 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com Location: manitoba ACategory: reg-headlines Slugword: prairies-2 Priority: regular Format: headlines X-Supersedes: <2Rprairies_a8@clarinet.com> ANPA: Wc: 282; Id: z1836; Sel: mbn..; Adate: prairies-2-1aed Codes: jn..hmbl Note: Prairies-2 (Farmers) The Supreme Court of Canada has handed down a decision in a case involving farm loans. The court has ruled banks don't have to give notice to farmers before taking equipment that's been put up as collateral. The case involved a Saskatchewan farmer who took the Bank of Montreal to court for seizing one of his farm machines. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal had ruled that banks must notify farmers... but today, the Supreme Court has overturned that decision. (Porno) A group of five-thousand people wants the Manitoba government to clean up the province's video stores. Spokesperson Carolyn Keith is attacking porno video outlets... saying that kind of trash should be swept out of our society. (Police) The head of the police force in Winnipeg is moving to the Toronto area to run the Peel Region force. Fifty-six-year-old Robert Lunney will take over in Peel Region in April. He moved to Winnipeg in 1987. (Teachers) Fifteen-hundred teachers in Regina's public school system could launch strike action any time, now. The teachers have voted in favour of job action and they're holding a strategy meeting today. Class preparation time and extra-supervision duties are at the centre of the dispute.