Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba August 1981 Watss subsidy program criticized fit Maha Bohuslawsky a Federal program which subsidizes employers of handicapped people is giving the handicapped a bad according to several the program for employment advantaged provides cent reimbursement of Gross wages for first 13 weeks of discretionary reimbursements of 50 and 25 t per cent for two additional 26week periods Are available for mentally and physically the maximum subsidy available is also besides physically and mentally handicapped Are a recipients of mothers Ance and and former inmates of penal Merv supervisor of adult services at the society crippled children and said yesterday the program suggests the handicapped have to be subsidized to get a rather than judged on their own mistaken message its like buying he to employment officer at referring to the additional he the Advertis ing for the program gives the mistaken message that handicapped can Only be hired with the effective since May will Cost the Federal government about million this fiscal about million will be spent in Manitoba subsidizing 600 about jobs will be so about 45 workers have been placed with employers in another concern is that the program does not serve those who really need namely the Frank of the Manitoba league of physically said the Only people being hired Are skilled and competent and the govern ment should not subsidize employers of competent Thomson said this is because there Are no specific criteria defining who the program should were finding that All handicapped Are automatically streamlined into the program regardless of the fact that Treyve just graduated from a Community College in the top 15 per cent of their he he also said employers can abuse the system by superimposing this program on a Canada manpower program which offers a subsidy for ont Ejob train although employers Are expected to continue the employment when the wage subsidy it is a not contractual Thomson said any employer receiving tax dollars should be formally obligated to continue Elmwood to get daycare Centre the civic recreation and social ser vices committee has recommended that a daycare Centre be built at the Elmwood Winter club in conjunction with the redevelopment of the Sites recreation the proposed to be funded by the Chalmers area Community improvement Calls for the demolition of the existing building and the construction of a about 465 Square metres would be devoted to the Cobourg Day care Centre which would serve 65 proposed ground development includes the addition of sports Fields and upgrading of the the City will give the daycare Centre an initial 10year with provision in the agreement for subsequent five year renewal the Public complexes operating costs will be borne by the East Kildonan Transcona Community Parks and recreation John Amer Dick was tending hives along flood Way when plane flew Over and bees started to angry beekeepers blame spraying for bees deaths the province resumed Aerial Spray ing against quinoes leaving dead Honey bees and angry beekeepers in its the co Nair dc6 aircraft carrying some Gallons of Bay on pesticide began its rounds Over East Winnipeg yesterday areas West of the including parts of Tran Windsor Park and East Kilton were operations resumed last night at on a North South line running Over the International Airport and working West at pm a provincial spokesman he said the original intent to Start from the area which had been completed in Eastern Winnipeg yesterday morning was frustrated by lightning and rain in that part of the City last acres left to do More than acres were expected to be covered last leaving additional acres to Complete when Bay gon Spray operations resume Likely at 6 weather the spokesman said there Are acres in the City to be covered and More than were sprayed yester Day a total of about acres were covered at the end of last nights John Amer Dick was out tending his hives along the flood Way yesterday morning when the plane passed nothing happened for a he then they started to their Heads Down and Strug i stand who has 125 hives in the estimated the pesticide destroyed about 15 per cent of his 5 million initial he will Cost about in lost John who is still hoping for compensation for damage done in the 1977 saw More of his bees drop dead they Are just wiping them said his son its Polusny filed a statement of claim against the province for compensation in his Case is expected to come up in court of Queens Bench later this beekeeper Larry Giguere also saw six of 13 hives damaged the bees were dropping in a neigh Boring Farmers said his even the dragonflies were effected by the Giguere said they will definitely ask the province for government officials have told Bee keepers they could prevent losses by retaining their bees in the beekeepers said they could Only keep their insects in the hives if they had at least one nights notice of when spraying was to the Aerial operations began yesterday morning with no Advance John president of the Mani Toba beekeepers said there is no Way beekeepers could lock up the you could Block them All in but they would All be dead he blowers described the advice the government offered to beekeepers As completely hospitals reported no in crease in the number of respiratory ailments brought to their attention yes emergency units at the Vic Boniface and Corcordia Hospi tals said they did not admit any patients with complaints that might have originated from the Aerial Spray suspected cases up North Dakota officials said yester Day suspected cases of encephalitis Are up in that state sanitarian Ken Tardif said yesterday 73 horses were suspected of having Western Equine no confirmed cases have nor have there been any cases of the illness in spraying has begun in the Weyrum and Yorkton areas of Saskatchewan with the toxic chemical Lyon decries High interest symptom of Ottawa Premier Manitoba Premier Sterling Lyon lashed out yesterday of the usurious rates of interest set by the Federal government but stopped Short of prom Ising any provincial action to help alleviate the Lyon told a press conference the High interest rates and other problems Trou bling the Canadian Economy Are a symptom of the 10 to 15 years of spend by he said it was no use tinkering with the symptoms but the time had come to get the Economy under at the same Lyon said Provin Cial plans to help first Home buyers or other measures which might be taken to alleviate the Impact of High interest rates can have Only a peripheral of programs to assist Home purchasers in British Columbia and Saskatchewan Are having Only a minimal he the Premier said most countries of the Western world were guilty 9f Simi Lar mishandling of their but be praised United states president Ronald reagans approach to economic and said Ottawa should also Start exercising some restraint in its Lyon said the Economy would be one of a Host of subjects on the Agenda at next weeks annual premiers meeting in the Premier said the provinces Are still eager to meet with Ottawa to discuss economic he said provinces would be prepared to work More closely with the Federal govern ment on economic with the Dollar hovering at posted pression lows despite Federal govern ment efforts to support its International value through interest rates and spending of its several pre Miers expressed worry this week in pre conference British Columbia Premier Bill Ben who will be chairman of the meeting in the legislative said he is concerned about the instability of the repressive interest rates and the uncertainty they were his remarks were made before the Bank of Canada jumped its trendsetting interest rate thursday to per up seven tenths of a percent age in spite of the the Dollar opened at cents Fri Day on Exchange in the face of these some premiers and other provincial spokesmen said they hoped the prov inces will reach some agreement on the Economy which can be recommended to the government in the declining Dollar is of particular concern to the provinces and their corporations because they Are traditionally heavy borrowers of foreign funds through Bond other issues Likely to arise Are Feder a provincial pos sharing arrange ments for such programs As medicare and pos secondary the Constitution and resource Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed said this week he expects concern Over the Dollar and the Economy to be the main issues at the Victoria Confer ence and said it would not be unrealistic to Hope the provinces come up with a consensus on what the Economy needs that can be relayed to the Federal Newfoundland Premier Brian Peck Ford said in an interview the country is in the worst economic shape since the depression of the 1930s and the pre Miers have agreed to discuss what action can be taken to resolve the a spokesman for Quebec intergovernmental affairs minister Claude Morin said his government is especially upset about the Dollar and interest which Are pushing up the Public As an he each cent the Dollar loses increases the debt of a provincially owned by but some premiers warned not to expect too much from the pre Mier Richard Hatfield of new Bruns Wick said All the provinces can do is give the Federal government their and Bennett said there will not be a rash of magical cures flowing from the meetings to be held wednesday to the answer will have to be a Well reasoned and disciplined midterm Eca nomic program in which ail 11 governments not Only in its preparation but also in carrying it he Job markets getting says Pawley fit Cecil Hosner High Ufa employment Levels in Peg and the rest of the province Are an indication that Manitoban Are find ing it increasingly difficult to move elsewhere in search of opposition Leader Howard Pawley said yester Pawley said the dispute Over Energy pricing coupled with High interest rates and other economic problems Are tight ening up the Job markets in Saskatchewan and As Well As Man Manitoban dont have the alternative any More of simply moving and getting a Job farther Pawley the problem of out migration of the last few years May now change to one of increasingly escalating Unzem he Pawley was reacting to statistics Canada figures released yesterday which show that Manitoba was one of four provinces recording an increase in jobless the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for july was per compared with per cent last month and per cent in july of last the unemployment rate in Winnipeg soared to per cent from per reaching its highest level in a decade or Pawley said Manitoba has just about the worst Job creation record in Cana Premier Sterling Lyon brushed aside suggestions that the unemployment statistics represented any problem with the governments economic per he called the figures a statistical you really cant develop any idea what is happening in the workforce unless you look at the Yort and the trend shows the province to have the third lowest unemployment rate in he to a statement released cultural affairs minister Norma Price said the influx of students and other summer workers into the labor Force was the major Factor for the increase in she released some ploy ment statistics on behalf of labor minister Ken who was away on vacation last Price said the provinces manufacturing and transportation sectors Are showing Strong employment increases this she added that the pro Vinces unemployment rate is still below Canadas per cent level in Manitoba now has a record number of people in the labor but of them Are unemployed and looking for Marion coordinator for the Canada employment Centre for Stu said about students have registered for work in the Centre has made about Job place ments and found casual jobs lasting five Days or less for another about 20 per cent of the placements have been in the retail sales with 15 per cent going to manufacturing 16 per cent to casual 16 per cent to federally funded and government created 10 per cent to the food service and restaurant Indus four per cent to Day care and the rest to office and business sector Forest fire outbreaks fewer than last year with the Forest fire season about two thirds forestry officials re port Only half As Many fires have broken out in the province compared with this time last Forest Protection Branch worker Tom Hopko said yesterday that initial fears of a disastrous fire season similar to 1980 have proved unfounded As 532 fires have been reported compared with last Hopko said conditions Arent Asfa Morable in the Northern half of the province where rainfall slower and Remote lightning strikes make fire fighting More the South is there Are no fires of any but some of the Northern areas Are giving us trouble because of the dryness and the Light he added there were 17 fires either out of control or not being none were major he some 365 men Are currently fighting along with 13 helicopters and six in Northern where conditions were also very bad last officials report a marked improve Gordon Fenelon of the Ontario ministry of natural said yester Day the Forest fire situation there is in real Good the Best it has been for some Alberta sour Gas plants violate clean air act Edmonton up Alberta sour Gas plants violated clean air act Stan Dards for potentially health threatening Hydrogen Sulphide times in 1980 without being the documented in a provincial environment report obtained by the Edmonton represent emissions that exceeded the Hydrogen Sulphide ambient Standard or ground level readings in the Vicinity of the Field site of 10 parts per billion for a one hour a previous journal Story indicated Alberta sour Gas plants violated stack standards for Sulphur dioxide times in 1980 without being prosecute Hydrogen Sulphide is considered More dangerous than equivalent concentrations of Sulphur the which smells like Rotten was responsible for several occupational deaths in numerous Short term health effects have also of in for the occupational health and safety department reported 92 medical and los time claims related to Hydrogen Sulphide both inside and outside Plant the Gas is particularly dangerous because at Levels of 10 parts per Mil it saturates a persons ability to smell the noxious a worker might enter an area with High a concentrated Levels of Hydrogen Sulphide without being aware of the environment department report shows most of the violations in j980 did not result in emissions Large enough to be considered immediately threatening to nearby effects of chronic Low level exposure to Hydrogen Sulphide have not been documented but a Gebru Sulphur research pre pared by the environment suggests that the situation in Alberta not be taken lightly until further re search is although the environment depart ment has not prosecuted any of Alber tas 130 sour Gas Al chief air Quality control said the situation is being closely were quite concerned about it be cause it is very said its not practical to prosecute a company for violating ambient standards because it is almost impossible to Trace the emission to its exact Schuiz defended the departments policy of cooperating rather than prosecuting companies because the threat of Legal action might tempt companies to suppress for he Imperial Oil Redwater Plant violated ambient standards repeatedly until but after several meetings with the environment the situation improved dramatically in Chevron Standard Kabob South 3 near Fox Creek and Whitecourt in Northwestern has violated the on hour ambient Standard for Hydrogen Sulphide 242 times in and despite numerous meetings with the environment depart the violations continue into rethink rail Cut Manitoba the cutback in via Hail service in Northern Manitoba puts citizens of the area in the position of being second class Manitoba labor minis Ter Ken Macmaster said in a Telegram yesterday to Federal transport minis Ter Jeanluc this is because the train is the Only ground link to the outside world for Remote communities Between the Pas and which will be most affected by the reduced daily via bail runs Between those two centres will be reduced to three Days a week under proposed Federal people from these communities going to Thompson for supplies will have to stay thus increasing their food and lodging mamas Ter the reduced service will also be a blow to Northern which has been increasing in recent he he asks Pepin to reconsider the via rail cutback and maintain full Passen Ger train service to All Northern communities now serviced by ;