Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 15, 1980, Winnipeg, Manitoba I i St vital school tax going up Winnipeg free March 9 by Nancy Birks the average vital with a House assessed at faces a school increase of about this vital school divisions 1980 spend ing estimates total More than almost 14 per cent More than 1979 while school trustees budgeted million for actual spending was close to Board chairman Lawrence Harrison increased interest rates were the biggest contributing Factor to the 000 Harrison increased busing costs and costs of equipping the new Victor Wyatt school were other major increased interest payments represent of the estimated Mil rate division Secretary treasurer Ron Mann exact increases in Mill rate and school tax wont be known until later in the he vital taxpayers will raise million of the total spending compared to million in Harrison said vitals 198fr school tax increase May reflect a Little higher increase than that of some other metro Winnipeg school Divi but spending in vital division Over the past three years is close to other greater Winnipeg divisions during the same time Harrison vitals spending is higher this because trustees delayed spend Harrison finally it delaying spending does catch up to you and you have to re Harrison another added Cost is the landscaping and drainage system at Victor Wyatt the divisions share of the joint project with the City is Mann no remedy for concourse Issue by Tom Goldstein limited Access to the Portage and main underground concourse discriminates against the physically Handi but there is nothing the Mani Toba human rights commission can do to remedy the theres no doubt that if the Struc Meldrum circulation director Meldrum named head of circulation publisher Donald Nicol has announced the appointment of James Meldrum As free press director of Meldrum had held management positions of increasing responsibility in the newspaper publishing Industry in in his new he is responsible for both sales and distribution of the Winnipeg free Ture were under construction now it would be in violation of the human rights commission chairman Sig Enns said must go underground the As it was provides Access for the physically handicapped from Only the North East and Southwest Corners of the famous pedestrians must go underground to Cross the intersection which is barricaded at All four Corners at Street told a news Confer ence the commission could not Rule on the matter because work on the con course began a few months before the physically handicapped were covered under Manitoba human rights Legisla the free press reported the com missions verdict in a Story a week the decision was made just Over a year after the facility was the commission began Moni Toring the concourse after it opened to determine if the rights of the physically handicapped and Blind were being lodged a complaint Dave an architect and a member of the Manitoba league of the physically lodged a complaint a few weeks in a prepared Enns said the commission launched a full investigation which included lengthy inter views with City a review of the architectural plans for the concourse and an Independent engineering assess ment on the facility architectural and structural the probe revealed the City of Winni which approved the had complied with All legislation which then existed regarding facilities for the but the plans and initial construction permits predated the physical Handicap provisions of the human rights he police ignore new rub bylaw by Pamela Fayerman although the courts have yet to Rule on an injunction to prevent enforce ment of the new Massage Parlour police Arent going to waste their time and manpower laying charges under says vice squad Dan police Are proceeding against the businesses in another laying charges under the poster and Handbill Jones said yesterday that 20 charges have been Laid in the past two a hearing for two firms world of men and eve studio charged under the poster bylaw was remanded last week to the maximum penalty on conviction is a Fine six months in in a statement of claim which was filed this lawyer John Scurfield asked the courts to declare new amendments to the Massage Parlour bylaw invalid on the grounds that the City enacted oppressive regulations designed to eliminate or prohibit the carrying on of their lawful Busin the action also seeks an injunction to prohibit the City from enforcing the new Jones said he want concerned with the newest Challenge to the Jones said he has received no official order from the cites Legal department on the we could possibly have started sur Verlance but whats the use in tying up our men were so Busy with these other Down under All that Hustle and Bustle near Portage Avenue and under it and the Assiniboine the million main part of is designed to help avoid workers Are installing a the cites million storm Relief plan for the West end major new 10footdiameter sewer line linking Weston Street parallels mands Creek running under Strathcona unemployed May get help Board recommended to Aid Core area residents a Winnipeg chamber of Commerce committee has recommended a Board or committee be created to help unemployed Core area in a report headed draft Only not for the Chambers Core area committee proposed the body include representatives of Indus try and of primarily a which help Core area unemployed the two Page report concluded that a Pilot project involving about 20 trainees could Start As soon As the proposed body established a training it also concluded that the project could become a Model for other training Large numbers there Are in Winnipeg a Large num ber of unskilled individuals in the Core who Are mostly of native these on the would accept employment if Given the necessary Opportunity and the report committee chairman Andy Schaen said yesterday the draft proposals would be considered at tuesdays chamber Council Schaen said the 12member commit tee was established last fall after chamber members expressed con the report said Many Winnipeg industries import workers for jobs that skilled local people could do if they had the Manitoba Metis federation president John Morrisseau said the proposals sound Good but there have been so Many things that sound Good for our there Are a i6t of dogo oders the emf has been screaming for years about High unemployment and maybe we have gotten through to i have no hangups about working with the chamber of com Merce to help our Bill executive director of the Indian and Metis Friendship Centre of Winnipeg expressed the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce swings a lot of weight we will support them All we the committee report suggested the proposed body consider seeking tech Nical and financial assistance from various agencies and including the emf and Friendship but both Morrisseau and Robinson said their organizations had no Money to Morrisseau said unemployed natives face two major barriers Lack of skills and oppose enforced continuing education by Manfred Jager a majority of Manitoba physicians Are opposed to mandatory continuing medical a recent Survey this was revealed yesterday when the Manitoba medical association made Public More data it obtained from 427 of its members who replied to an extensive questionnaire sent to them just before a full 77 per cent of the doctors who completed their questionnaires said continuing medical education courses should be strongly recommended rather than the form had been sent to All members of the replying to their Survey 66 per cent of the doctors Here said some of the speakers at scientific conventions present their material sixty three per cent said that doctors from Remote areas dont have the time to attend courses in the of those who replied to 41 per cent said they find medical Library facilities in Manitoba courses praised sixty five per cent of the physicians who participated indicated no formal continuing education program is needed since there Are regular courses on almost every topic now and 68 per cent praised courses they had 80 per cent of the 427 doctors agreed with a question which suggested that there is More general awareness of a need for continual Stu Dies of medical registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba which licenses physicians in this said earlier this month the College intends to have the Manitoba medical act amended during the current session of the provincial legis obliging doctors to take Manda tory self study of scientific literature and attend scientific meetings annual the Issue has occupied the medical profession Here for More than a year despite College claims that mandatory continuing medical education has Long been a fact of life for More than half of the physicians in the United seventy one per cent of the 427 Doc tors who replied to the Survey agreed that the present fee Structure causes some doctors to carry too heavy a patient Load to make extra study Cove the medical association ;