Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 free september 0 q t study recommends no cuts in social services Flag i Riding in the report mid the Federal provincial social programs Are fundamentally sound in Many the envy or other Federal but suggested some changes d doctors should not be allowed to charge patients More than fees set under medicare schedules negotiated with the the majority decided Over the objections of the two progressive binding arbitration should be used to Settle Dis Putes Between the doctors and prov All parties that the Federal government should use the threat of withholding medicare funds As a Way of putting pressure on the provinces to improve the entire sys d Ottawa should get More credit for the funds it should be More involved in defining the goals of the programs and should ensure the prov inces Are accountable for the Way they administer the Money and provide ser funds for medicare and pos second Ary education that now Are provided in a Block should be split into separate programs As part of this and should not be maintained at current at least until negotiation Between Ottawa and the provinces later this d the Federal and provincial govern ments should hold continuing consultations on pos secondary Edu equalization and other social a parliamentary committee should review them annually and pub Lic hearings should be held every five j Only those resource revenues used for Normal provincial spending should be included in the formula used to calculate equalization payments to the six have not that would sex for the huge Alberta heritage As an Energy Bank jointly operated by Ottawa and the provinces is the Only acceptable method of Shar ing resource the study group said in rejecting an Ontario proposal which would have siphoned off billion a year from resource Rich prov the group also said the current sys tem of splitting 5050 the Cost of welfare and other social programs should be Vic chairman of the said in an interview the report basically represents tory thinking on the issues Blaikie said in a statement he is pleased the group disowned the notion of itself As an instrument of Allan Maceachen misguided plan to solve his deficit problems at the expense of the social the finance grappling with a deficit expected to be billion in the 198182 fiscal year which ends March has said he wants to restore the balance to federalism and get the provinces to carry More of the Burden for programs essentially under their couple Given runaround while House burned Jam gun ends Tehran cemetery yesterday mourn slain president All Rajal and prime minister Javad continued from Page 1 once that is the government will make arrangements to elect Rajas the source it will be the third presidential election since the monarchy was overthrown in Khomeini is still recuperating from lung and Throat wounds he received in an assassination attempt june his aide declined to say Why he will not become prime minister As Bah Onar did after he became Secretary general of the but he indicated there was a trend in the party to separate the two posts even before Baho Nars Tehran radio reported that Howato Heslam Seyed Naser Bani the internal affairs director of the court combating sins of commis was killed yesterday afternoon by imperialist the broadcast said a court guard was killed with but it gave no Tehran radio also announced that be iranian Leader of the revolution Ary would hold a memorial service at Tehran University today for Rajai and who were killed by a bomb at Baho Nars office sunday Rajai and Bah Onar were buried yesterday after a funeral oration in which defence minister Syeed Musa Namhuy said Iran soldiers of islam will launch an onslaught against America and its they will not rest until the revolt Lougheed walks into press Montreal hotel Tion achieves reports from Tehran said a million people chanting death to America packed the streets around the Parlia ment building where the bodies of the two leaders Lay in after Namhuy spoke from a Balcony of the the bodies were carried through the City to the Behest Zahra an employee there said the crowd swelled to about million by the time the cortege reached the Ceme continued from Page 1 fire Cowan a House operator whats the sir Cowan i think it would be us operator hang up again and 111 put you through to the fire Okay Cowan frustrated and in a panic after the Call was Cowan said he flipped through the Telephone desperate for another number to Call the first he came to was an emergency number listed under the heading teletype for the Cowan told his wife to Call the num Ber As he raced outside to see if there was anything he could do at the but when Madeline Cowan she too was told she was calling the wrong on another Call to the 911 she got a sergeant a supervisor of the computerized emergency said the actions of the opera tors handling the Calls contradicted the policies and procedures set out by the police in All the operators should have taken the information without delay and without giving the matter any second he George Cowan told the inquest he understand the reluctance to respond to his didst remember Call after the first two i figured there want much he if i had to make any More phone Calls the House even be under questioning by judge Delores the operator who handled the first 911 said she explain Why her actions were less than while she was Able to identify the dialogue Between herself and she said she did not remember the who was assigned to other duties following the said her training on the emergency system was minimal basically Muriel the operator who took Cowans nonemergency police said its quicker for a caller to hang up and dial 911 than it is for her to Transfer him to the fire she also she ran the risk of cutting him off in the transferring pro pcs s lawyers for both Sidorchuk and Welwood requested their evidence be Given under Protection of the Canada evidence which prevents their testimony from being used to establish their liability at a subsequent civil it want obvious didst it appear obvious that by telling him to hang the Call would be disconnected judge Conner asked it want she judge Conner also asked Why she didst Tell Cowan to dial but Wel Wood provide an in another matter involving the Dis Patch of emergency equipment to the the inquest was told that a fire department dispatcher informed the Winnipeg ambulance service about the fire but didst Tell them that a Man was inside the As a an ambulance was not dispatched to the scene for about 15 using common do you not think that it would be a goo fact to pass on to the ambulance judge Conner asked fire dispatcher Steve Cane but he added that the fire department is Only obligated to notify the ambulance ser vice of the fire and what they do after that is up to judge Conner adjourned the inquest to september 8 when he plans to listen to the master tapes of the emergency Montreal up Alberta pre Mier Peter Lougheed caught everyone by Surprise when he arrived in Montre Al late sunday night to Confer with his delegation at the Oil pricing Neotia but Lougheed himself was caught of guard when he Learned that the suite he had taken at the downtown Ritz Carleton hotel was directly across the Hall from a room occupied by Jennifer Lewington of the Toronto Globe and he was slightly More surprised to Leam that Lewington allowed a half dozen of her colleagues to occupy the room and comfortably sip while peering through the doorway to keep an Eye on the albertan an Alberta Security officer outside Lougheed door realized that the pre Miers party was talking rather loudly and that snippets of conversation were reaching the starved for any developments in a six Day round of talks in which neither Side was willing to when Lougheed was overheard say ing something about the minimum positions of both the Lougheed to meet continued from Page 1 per barrel a year in each of the next three which currently gets Canadian a insists on moving closer to the world Cana Dian a the province argues for a higher Price on the grounds that Oil is an exhaustible while Ottawa contends that such an increase would create a serious imbalance in the National another Issue in the talks is a new Federal Levy on natural Gas which Alberta and the producing provinces argue is that dispute is the object of several court in the release of the annual report of the Petroleum monitoring Agency on Industry profits scheduled for yesterday was the Deci Sion reflects the sensitive nature of the present said chair Man Harold Security Man nervously entered the premiers suite to advise his Boss to keep it the Alberta Premier was further foiled in his efforts to maintain secrecy when a room service waiter who had just delivered Coffee for six to the Alberta suite delivered More Coffee to the reporters everyone looked smug Al the waiter said about the Alber the room service waiter returned to Alberta suite the voices had by then ceased to filter through the door 12 bottles of Mineral glasses and apparently Ner Vous that he was violating the privacy of hotel the waiter declined to provide More firsthand reports on what was going the albertan meeting broke up shortly after noon yesterday with Barry the provinces Deputy minister of leaving the room and refusing to comment on the Progress in the next to leave was Energy minister Merv just As tight lipped As a grinning Lougheed left saying Only that he was planning to have lunch and read newspapers in his heres a Fence that will give you the res Urlile dub offers ear of p for donation to tories Barkman precast fencing continued from Page 1 his ministers honorary chairman Duff in another wrote that the club will provide an Opportunity for Manitoba business and professional leaders to meet with the Premier and some of his senior ministers on a regular basis to discuss key issues affecting our prov Premier Lyon wrote Riley Back to thank him for the special Effort 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