Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 14, 1978, Winnipeg, Manitoba Alice Krueger elusive accounts Trie letter looked legitimate not joke the usual advertising of promotional junk mall one normally otherwise it would have been tossed out right Han addressed envelope and even those Clever devils at the the were pleased to be handling your Bank account and just want you to know that were ready to help you other ways if you need extra Cash any we Hope youll feel free to talk to us about a Scotia plan and so the closing line read As a valued Scotla Bank we can Likely arrange a Scotia plan loan for you quickly and just talk to us whenever you need if youre a Scotia Bank regular and you got that in your youd probably just Chuck it in the garbage without another or run Down to your nearest Branch for a but imagine the Surprise and bewilderment of some one who Doest have an account getting one of these letters As several Winni Eggers did this what is one to think at first you figure it must be an old account you be forgotten after racking your brain for a you cant remember Ever having done Busi Ness with the financial institution in an that someone has left you a bundle and this is the Banks Subtle Way of telling you about How at the end of the letter they say valued this is no Ordinary chequing you say to it must be a Small on the other if its that much Why Are they offering you a loan so you Call the Good Good could you please Tell me the balance on my account theres a Long the Bank employees finally returns to the Telephone with word that she cant find any record of your then she admits that its a promotion to get people to borrow the dream was Good while it now imagine the potential Domestic strife if the letter were found by your husband or you know your family has always done All its banking at the Toronto Dominion or Bank of Montreal or whatever the you find the letter from Scotia Bank on the and its addressed to your you the rat has been holding out on Hes got a secret Bank its a misleading and questionable Way for a Bank to do and Barry assistant manager of the Banks Avenue he was at a loss to explain How the letter was sent out to someone without an or where the Bank received its mailing he said the Bank is sending out All kinds of propaganda these Days in an Effort to solicit More some of the mailings Are directed at existing others to attract new some mailing lists Are taken from the voters others Are just names picked at random from the Telephone what Likely happened is that someone mixed up the he Warbis had no idea How Many of the letters May have gone out by but so far the Bank has had at least three Calls from puzzled 1 dont approve of he offering apologies to anyone who May have gotten the letter by a recent column about postal service in Canada has opened the floodgates for a Stream of other among them was a letter from Stuart King of who relates the following experience two weeks ago i on my return to Kenora from that i had forgotten to leave important keys in the i immediately made a Small parcel going directly to the Kenora Post mailed same to the Winnipeg two Days later i was again in Winnipeg and was unhappy to find the keys had not nor had the keys arrived on the following monday three Days Lateran five Days after on inquiring at the Winnipeg Post j was told that Normal delivery service from Kenora is seven to 10 Days and that no search will be started for missing mail for 15 Days after mailing 1 find that Standard of service completely a accept forty years ago we had overnight service and twice mail delivery except saturdays when Only morning delivery was i can understand mistakes and lost mail on Occa 1 cannot accept the standards which our Post office declares adequate int it time that private initiative be allowed to take Over mail service in Canada with the incentive of private business would surely improve hold costs and pay taxes on the just a note Kings letter to the free press Post marked july 12 reached us in record the next by Post office it have arrived until sometime in late in there was one letter from a Winnipeg Ger defending postal but whoever it was didst bother to sign the therefore it cant be free press july City news 2nd Weiass men registration number 0286 it leaves you out to Nail Down specifics of waste group takes own at Taxman by Ron Campbell the Toronto based Canadian taxpayers association knows theres something wrong with the country tax situation and its trying to find out George Toronto Public relations said in Winnipeg Mclean is a founding member of the association started eight weeks ago and is on its six person preliminary Board of the association has five study committees attempting to Nail Down the specifics of tax waste and remedial proposals and Mclean said he Hopes the first reports will be Avail Able in four or five the association May have 50 committees studying various aspects of my provincial and Federal he it will take years to pinpoint the prob but already we can the politicians to were shining the Light of Public opinion on continuing tax the five committees now formed Are Stu dying medicare related provincial legislation to require binding referendums on major municipal capital expenditure propos the cos benefits of Royal the growth of All tax forms at the three Levels of government and the subject of municipal property when the associations specific tax recommendations Are there going to be Well researched and Mclean the object is to Snow them with to arouse Public pressure on politicians to slim Down and Harden up its the same tactic civil servants use when they want to create or keep a he we Are not a proposition 13 he referring to the overwhelmingly successful California referendum last month to reduce property taxes in that we Are not advocating Radical tax what we Are advocating is reasonable con duct by provincial and Federal so that we get Dollar value for our Over administered and duplicated health and welfare programs at All three Levels of for Are hundreds of millions of dollars of taxes an Mclean were not against were not against health As Long As they give Dollar his own pet Peeve is Royal which he said do nothing but delay politic ally hot issues without resolving yet the Cost is the Federal ant inflation program is com yet the ant inflation Board still has 700 he a proposed million Grant to the Ford motor company to locate a parts Plant in Ontario seemed to Mclean like a consider Able amount of tax Money for he said Canadian National railways and the Canadian broadcasting corporation Are yet dont Mclean said the taxpayers association int suggesting Crown corporations be put into private but they must be run some government departments and civil servants Are doing fantastic he others Are incredibly bad from a tax photo by Gerry Cairns George Mclean of the Canadian taxpayers association in Winnipeg cos Benefit the taxpayers association has Between 298 and 304 Mclean membership is a there is a special membership for and a business membership costs the Money goes toward tax research and is not tax the Only paid people in the association now Are an organization and one and a half Mclean said he pays All his own travelling and accommodation expenses on behalf of the most of the membership so far is in the to he chapters have formed in Cath marines and with chapters soon to be formed in Kingston Mclean in the purpose of his trip West is to help a chapter get started a number of the associations members Are from British he and chapters in the Moose jaw Regina in Halifax and Quebec May be the associations motto a government that big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything youve insurance workers approve contract by Scott Edmonds the 700member Manitoba Public insurance corporation component of the Mani Toba government employees association has approved a new oneyear collective a Large majority of the component membership voted to ratify the new con tract which provides for a six per cent Bill association said Jackson said he expects the agreement will be signed Early next the insurance corporation negotiates separately from the civil service Compo As do 11 other smaller groups organized by the representing about next in for ratification votes Are the nine agreements a master contract and eight con about All provide for wage increases of six per the maximum allowable under the final year of the ant inflation the results of the civil service ratification votes will be made Public july Jackson Jackson has said he believes workers will accept the the insurance corporation and liquor control commission Are the two largest components outside of the regular civil the 400 liquor commission workers have not yet reached a settlement with the government and have rejected a one year agreement and six percent wage in crease but it is hoped talks will Start again some time next Jackson said the 80 member museum component has also just ratified its new contract with the it provides for a six percent wage increase and includes an improved Job Security Job Security became an Issue with the component earlier this year when museum workers staged an informational picket Over the Layoff of four Jackson said further have been postponed to allow the museum Board time to review the necessity of the staff the association has also filed formal most of the associations 20 have negotiated new contracts and a Are still covered by agreements not expiring until the one group of workers still having lems Are the 60 employees of Selkirk Linen the operation supplies clean Linen to a number of provincial hospitals and other Jackson said the workers have so far Only been offered a wage increase of two per Hospital care increases with fewer employees Winnipeg municipal hospitals provided More Days of year than in when the figure stood at yet did it with five fewer staff Mem the hospitals annual report for last year the average number of employees during the year was compared with 669 during the report there were 759 813 in 1976 patient admissions in the hospitals chronic service last 32 28 in 1976 in the respiratory average stay of patients in chronic care increased to 161 Days from 160 the annual report said the Hospital operated on a Bud get of last up from in expenditures were More than the the Hospital received from the Manitoba health services com the workers compensation the Federal gov through nonresident insured resident revenues and miscellaneous other Alcock said the waiting list of municipal hospitals during the year averaged 120 personal care Home placements continue to cause a b8ckjog of patients occupying Hospital Federal nurses picketed the Kensington which has Federal offices in at Portage Avenue san not in the wards of this but apparently in Street at noon without a contract for 18 the nurses Union wants pay parity with their nos Ajtai facilities at least in the Winnipeg Ai provincial counterparts and paid among other thin sit has held several rotating strikes cock More canadians hired to fill u of m faculty vacancies Levun b efforts to improve the University of Manitoba track record in hiring Cana Dian academics appear to have met with some Success since last Falls controversy on Campus Over the appoint ment of foreign Ralph University pres said in an interview few non canadians have been hired since last last a controversy was sparked on Campus by the hiring of four foreign professors in the psychology depart to Campbell proposed a More Hir Canadian policy to the Hoard that policy must yet receive final approval from the Hoard and but it appears that Many of the changes it proposed already have been incorporated into the search for new Aca Campbell said he added that appointments of non canadians Are Safru United thoroughly by the administration and the Hoard before being approved no Central registry is kept on applicants by the University since much of the hiring is done by committees at the faculty department thus Camp Bell want Able to indicate whether foreign applications continue to out number Canadian ones or what factors might have led to the improved hiring officials Are now trying to assemble Hie the hard data to determine whether More canadians Are being hired from january to november last 40 of the 61 or about 6fi per cent new appointees to full time positions were canadians As of last about 71 per cent of the University full time Aca Demic staff Reid Canadian Cut Enship even though in 1874 and w5 the proportion of canadians aired versus nonce radians dropped Well below the nation Al average Lor the controversy Over the hiring of the four foreign psychology brought into question the University then Hir Canadian policy which had been in effect for Only about a the policy necessitated in part by More stringent immigration regulations required that vacancies be advertised widely in Canada Canadian candidates be chosen when roughly comparable to not canadians landed immigrants be considered As canadians and the Board be informed in de Tail on to hire non in Campbell proposed seven changes to strengthen this he rejected suggestions the univer sity apply quotas or hire canadians first even if they met Only minimum his proposals included changes in advertising More aggressive search activities by hiring committees a requirement that the top Canadian Candi Date be interviewed a proposal that no canadians he recommended Only if clearly Superior and consideration of special arrangements where in Breeding would be a concern in hiring the University own the proposals were endorsed by the Board and Nave since been submitted to the Deans the University of Manitoba faculty association and other groups for Campbell Doest think the controversy last year has led immigration authorities to Monitor the University new appointments More closely than Normal under new officials require that certain criteria be met before they will allow a foreign academic to enter the at u was thought the policy would apply Only to academics hired on a permanent but it has been extended to apply to the various Short term Campbell Aid he added that the provincial govern ment which is drafting an i Migra Uon agreement to he signed with Otta indicated that it Vitt not fee getting involved in the hiring of foreign ;