Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 28, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press wednesday february 28, 1979-1 i City health school budgets Rise Sherman million increase by John Sullivan the High priority Fields of Educa Tion health and Community develop ment will eat up about 00 per cent of Manitoba government budget in the next year according to spending estimates released tuesday by finance minister Don Craik. Health minister Bud Sherman has convinced his Cabinet colleagues to add million More in fund ing to his department in 1979-80, an increase of 7.23 per cent for a total of million. However employment services to the handicapped have been Cut by 37 per cent to million and corrections administration and staff train ing will receive 11 per cent less fall ing to funding for Community psychiatric services for children and Public health nursing slightly As Well. Meanwhile education minister Keith Cosens Overall budget will Rise 6.4 per cent million to million including a 5.9 per cent in crease in support to Public schools to million. With our increase of about six per cent i Don t think we re really shift ing the Burden to school Craik told reporters. He added that the share of education costs now absorbed by the province would re main about the same. Grants to universities will go up 5.8 per cent to million next year but Community colleges will receive Only 4.6 per More or about million. Red River will get the highest in crease 7.3 per cent while Keewatin and Assiniboine colleges will have to make due with .9 per cent and 1.3 per cent respectively. Capital construction for universities has been slashed by More than 20 per cent to million and Community College expansion will be pared slightly to just Over million. As Well native education programs have been Cut by 22 per cent to next year earmarked for Community education has been axed completely vocational services will drop 7.15 per cent to and for a training improvement has been eliminated. The government plans to increase health care payments by the Manitoba health services commission to million an increase of 8.4 per cent. This includes funding for the personal care Home program up 7.3 per cent to almost hospitals up 10.5 per cent to medicare up eight per cent to million and Pha Macare up 2.15 per cent to Public health services will get 000 More for a total budget of just Over million while funding for the provincial Home care program will Rise to million a 2.7 per cent increase. As Well Day Janes will be increased 4.6 per cent to million and the alcoholism foundation of Manitoba will receive million about More than in the cur rent fiscal year. The province will pay out million or 14.3 per cent More in welfare and social allowances next year and will contribute million toward municipal welfare expenses up 17.1 per total income Security programs will Cost the prov Ince million up 11.8 per of which million is recoverable from the Federal government. The Manitoba school for Retar dates in Portage la Prairie and two other retardation centres Are slated to receive million next year a five per cent boost while funding to the mental hospitals in Brandon and Selkirk will increase just slightly. Stclair the paint paper people Tea Bishea Bice Garden City shopping Centre 2305 Mcphillips St. 338-4776 monday to Friday fc30 to to Craik denies province shifting costs by Mary Ann Fitzgerald Manitoba finance min ister Don Craik tuesday denied the province is shift ing costs to municipal governments despite a million drop in municipal and Urban affairs spending forecast for the coming Fis Cal year. Grille said if school boards keep within the 6.4 per cent spending increase allowed by the government "1 Don t think there will be any shift to municipal for the first time the City of Winnipeg will get a Block fund of million from the senior govern ment covering All previous specially ear marked pro Grams. It is a drop of about million. However Craik said the drop was due to completion of route 165. Without that expense he said Winnipeg would have received million in the present year. Grants in lieu of taxes to municipalities will Rise million to slightly Over million. Urban transportation Grants for Brandon and flin flon will drop to policing services for out Side the City will Rise by million to Mil lion. Under the Northern affairs department Esti mates the allocation for local government develop ment will grow by 13.6 per cent to million. The government has set aside million for Northern affairs an eight per cent increase. The Federal and Provin Cial governments will spend million under the Canada Manitoba North lands agreement of which the Federal govern ment will pay Mil lion. The two governments will also spend under a special Arda agreement of which 000 will be funded by Ottawa. Costs of the Canada Manitoba Legal Aid system Are expected to Rise 11 per cent to a total million in the coming year. The Federal government will pay 700 of the total. The administration of Justice through All Levels of the court system is expected to Rise 13.6 per cent to a total million. The province s spending on tourism will be up 800 to a total million in the coming year while Cul Tural Grants will Rise 100 to million. The government s spend ing on mines natural re sources and the Environ ment will drop million in the coming year to million. The biggest drop is in capital programming Down to million from million while other areas Are mainly up some what. Parks development is up slightly to million. Fitness and sport a new department created last fall will have a total million budget up from the current year s budget for the same Pur poses. As the province moves along in its rent decontrol program it has slightly in creased the budget for the rent stabilization program to the government has ear marked about the same As this year for flood control. The Manitoba Energy Council s budget has been increased by 36 per cent to Cowan blasts pcs9 North policy the progressive conservatives "refusal1 to gov Ern has Cost millions of dollars and resulted in in calculable human suffering in Northern Manitoba Jay Cowan said in the legislature tuesday. Cowan speaking at the conclusion of the throne speech debate said that in the last 14 months approximately million has been spent to assist North Ern Manitoba families at a time when population in Northern mining communities is declining. He challenged the government to take immediate action to counter loss of Job opportunities increase so Cial assistance and unemployment payments and re verse the trend of increasing social prob lems. Using statistics obtained primarily from University research documents Cowan told the legislature that a comparison of 1977 and 1978 figures for North Ern Manitoba communities suffering economic Cut backs show a 59-per-cent increase in welfare 100 per cent increase in unemployment insurance Bene fits 29-per-cent increase in criminal code offences 43 per cent increase in non criminal code offences plus increases in child abuse incidents depress Ion mental breakdown and general stress. There is a general in crease in the level of suffer ing in the North and the Public has to pay for Cowan said. Over the past 16 months the government has literally decimated Northern he said claim ing the population in the Thompson Churchill min ing Region has dropped by he said the situation in Northern Manitoba de serves More than a we in study it response from the government. Cowan s criticisms were later rejected by highways minister Harry Enns who said Cowan merely listed problems and did not pres ent any possible solutions for what is an admittedly serious a Tost for smokers who want to quit smoking i this test is being offered to All smokers by the anti tobacco propaganda Centre. You can do it at Home. It is an easy no risk i lest. You will find out if you can i eliminate your urge to smoke. You will be the one to judge. It a Small aromatic Plant based Tablet. It does not make the taste of a cigarette Sunbear i Able. You will be Able to smoke i a usual. Hut. Will you want to j you will soon find out. 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