Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 2, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 3 my a plan limits ads right to opt out of medicare hl7 d f Law irm info a Iii Row Roll l f by Joe Rubin a proposed Manitoba medical association policy on collective bargaining would limit a doctors right to opt out of but Only if the province agrees to contracts allowing for bind ing an Mma discussion paper on the subject also promises not to encourage doctors to opt out or interfere with health care delivery if a binding arbitration agreement were the sent last week to the associations was formulated after a number of resolutions intended to strengthen the Mas bar gaining position were passed at its last annual the five resolutions if in would turn the voluntary Asso free press citation into a Union Call for Legisla Tion making the association the sole bargaining agent for All Manitoba Doc tors and making dues the association executive has scheduled a series of 26 meetings with the provinces doctors Over the next two months to explain its position and determine the level of membership support for the discussion which is subject to calling the proposed policy Contro Mma president Frank Pearson said it will command respect in planning health care delivery As Well As bargaining for and provide the profession with the Spe Cial ingredient of Success the Cornerstone of the Mas pro posed collective bargaining policy is the passing of legislation to allow for binding in the event of an impasse in either party could ask for binding because the association views arbitration As a Means of resolving differ it is willing to forego the future use of pressure tactics to interfere with health care delivery in order to Force government to this would do away with work Rule campaigns such As the one organized by the Mma last june after a breakdown in Nego the proposed change which is Likely to spark the most controversy among Manitoba doctors is the provision prohibiting physicians from opting out of while a contract allowing for binding arbitration is in doctors not already out could Only withdraw following the termination Date of any although the Mma discussion paper reiterates the associations support for a doctors right to leave it nevertheless sees opting out As a form of pressure whose use is precluded by binding some doctors say this will Compromise a physicians Freedom of i think that this no longer gives us the Freedom we have not to remain within the said Ami lax a former Mma president and head of the Manitoba Branch of the association of Independent a National body of opted out Laxdal said the policy heralds the end of opting out since the government will not give doctors the if this Type of a contract would be smoke and flames outline two firefighters amidst twisted rubble of Dufferin Avenue warehouse in alarm fire guts warehouse by Gregg Shilliday and Andy Blicq a spectacular two alarm fire Des troyed a warehouse at 862 Dufferin Avenue yesterday afternoon As Black Clouds of smoke from the Blaze Drew hundreds of curious spectators from All Over the one firefighter suffered a slight shoulder injury when part of the Struc Ture fell on he was treated in Hospital and cause of the reported just after four was under investigation and no damage estimate was police said last night the building was rented by Gateway packers and contained paper processing a a fronted loader and Possi Bly a Sheldon owner of the company refused to comment last a second warehouse on the same rented by the provincial department of Public suffered slight police As an ambulance burst into flames near a crowd of onlookers at the height of the As the ambulance erupted in terrified bystanders fled the no one was injured by the expo a Winnipeg ambulance service spokesman said later that the vehicle probably exploded As the result of a Gas leak and not because of Sparks from the firefighters battled the stubborn Blaze for More than three hours but a fire department spokesman said no Accident victim still in Hospital a woman crushed against the Wall of a downtown building last month by an out control car is still in a Winnipeg a health sciences Centre spokes Man said Anna of Powell is in Good but the spokesman said she had no idea when Gravell would be and both Gravell and her physician refused to be Gravell suffered internal a broken left Arm and leg and a crushed Pelvis after being pinned against a vacant building at the Northwest Cor Ner of Portage Avenue and Donald Street she later underwent nine hours of the incident occurred during the lunch when the streets were crowded with Ernest Michael has been charged with criminal neg i update a followup to the bringing readers up to Date on stories that have appeared in the free gence causing bodily harm and Leav ing the scene of an Crown counsel Wayne Moshkowsky said Chiechie has pleaded not guilty and a preliminary hearing will be held later this Empire hotel plan near a special subcommittee of Winni pegs civic historical buildings com Mittee is expected to report within the next two months on the status of the Empire Charles the cites historic projects said the report wont be finished until after the 17 provincial he said the Century old Wlinich has a pressed Metal facade unique to Western is the Only Winnipeg building listed As historic under both the cites historical buildings bylaw and the historic Sites and Monument act of school closings rapped a parents group in Kamesas Sini Boia is organizing a protest against the school boards policy of closing Small Carl interim chairman of parents for better said the organization has about 120 Many of them parents of Columbus school the school Board voted in july to close Columbus after this school year and consolidate it with nearby Robert Browning contrary to a review committee report recommending it re main open until 1984 and that a study of the whole Columbus area be area families were evacuated because a southerly wind was blowing the smoke and Sparks away from Homes and Over the nearby car sever als railway cars containing chemicals were moved out of the the Arlington Street Bridge was closed for the duration of the fire As fire trucks and Many in halloween tied up tray scores of sightseers lined the Arlington Street Bridge to see the police several times gave up at tempts at Crow control As onlookers roamed the massive perimeter of the fire area trying to get a closer but As portions of the building began to sending showers of Sparks on to the police managed to move the revellers out of the fans at the Blue bombers game were told by the game announcer not to use the Bridge on their Way Home As smoke billowed across Winnipeg Sta fire chief Lloyd moist was paged during the Mary Reniak of 837 Dufferin said she was in her Home watching the Santa Claus Parade when she heard sirens outside her she said she looked outside to see the warehouse across from her engulfed in flames and firefighters clambering control the it was better than watching the i can Tell onlooker Jake Unger said he was driving in James when he saw the billowing Clouds of at first i thought it was some kind of training exercise at the but pretty soon i realized it had to be one Heck of a big so i hurried right up arrived at it would probably be one which would be kept in he once the policy is accepted it will never be the number of opted out physicians would decline by an opted out Opeth Asmolo criticized the Mma for not sup porting his organization which represents about 103 Manitoba doctors practising outside he said his request to have opted out doctors represented at the Mma was turned i presume that once we Are a Section of the Mma it Means they accept the principle of opted out phys he the proposed policy also Calls for specific legislation making it Manda tory for the Manitoba health services commission to make contract arrange ments with the such legislative changes would recognize the association As the Only bargaining agent for the provinces doctors receiving other kinds of remuneration academics and physicians on for example would also be represented by the association if a majority requested As All physicians in Manitoba would be required to contribute to the Cost of negotiations by paying an amount equivalent to an Mma Mem a year for a practising full time dues would automatically be de ducted by the Misc and forwarded to the they would also be prorated retired for exam would pay Nee Potash of in treat by Andy Blicq every year Jules Lajoie carefully checks his two daughters halloween this year he found somebody dropped Small vials con Taining granulated Potash in both his daughters treat police said last night there was one other complaint about granulated Potash from another area of police said they received eight re ports of suspected or foreign articles found among the fruit and pop Corn collected by children across the there were two reports of pins and Needles in one of chocolates with a strange no injuries were reported and no charges have been Laid although investigations were continuing in to some of the police of Cherwell Boni said he was disappointed some one in his neighbourhood would give his children the Potash came in Clear plastic containers which were about 5 Centi metres High and centimetres in diameter and looked like Medicine Bot he Holiday nurses reach Lith hour Accord the bottles contain son of a Pale red material and some Crystal he As the bottles were labelled As containing it said it was Potash and something he Lajoie said after he discovered the Potash he phoned his neighbors and told them to Click the treats their children had brought police said it was a relatively quiet halloween other incidents included a complaint from a Matthews Avenue Parent about someone handing out condoms instead of during an attempted robbery Satur Day one of two armed men wearing halloween masks fired an air powered Pellet gun at a female at the champs food systems store on Grant police said two one armed with the the other with a entered the store at about and demanded the female clerk pushed the pistol aside and the Man the Pellet struck a Metal Button the clerk was wearing and she was not the two men fled on foot empty police Are an let hour settlement saturday averted a strike by 18 registered and 14 licensed practical nurses at the 155bed Holiday Haven nursing the tentative settlement was reached at 5 just an hour before the nurses were to set up picket Irene executive director of the Manitoba organization of nursing said sunday the nurses negotiating committee was satisfied with terms of the agree ment and added that ratification was expected within a she said terms of the contract would not be released until the ratification but nursing Home owner Robert Robinson said yesterday the most contentious negotiating that of length of had been resolved through a he said management had wanted a five year con tract while the nurses were asking Lor 18 we ended up settling fur a three year it was a satisfactory conclusion for both the settlement with Monas local 64 conies after 13 months of negotiations with the nursing Home at 5501 Roblin the Union was certified As bargaining agent for the nurses on Robinson said sunday he had taken the precaution of hiring about 30 nonunion nurses in Case negotiations had broken Down and a strike took customers were in the Drivers seat at two car sales in City Wayne free press Cliff Pepper relays bids to auctioneer during auction saturday at Southwood thews by Greg Bannister bargain conscious Winni Eggers got some of the Best automobile deals in town this weekend when More than 100 new and nearly new vehicles went on Sale at two car shoppers had the changing tides of Fortune in the Winnipeg automobile Trade to thank for the an estimated people jammed the former service Bays of Southwood Chevrolet on Pembina Highway to bid on 71 new and used the vehicles were auctioned off because Southwood had been placed in receivership several weeks across the City at Holiday Chevrolet Oldsmobile on Portage sales men were being kept busier than usual by buyers examining some 40 late Model autos repossessed earlier this year from a local re Tacar the the ads were being offered for Sale at bargain sunny skies and warm temperatures brought a wide variety of buyers to take advantage of the bargains up for grabs at the auction run by Ken Knight auctions of the auction had been authorized by Dunwoody the receiver manager for Southwood Chevrolet which ceased operations last month because of financial difficult among the vehicles up for auction were passenger four wheel drive a diesel tractor a motorcycle and a by Over 700 bidders had registered with the auctioneer and people were still pouring into the bidding tended to reflect current trends in new car More fuel efficient cars seemed to be the most sought Hea vier cars with v8 engines proved to be a 1976 Low mileage Dodge loaded with but burdened with a Gas guzzling eight Cylinder engine went for a 1979 equipped with a v8 engine and All the Power accessories a luxury Loving Motorist would Ever was sold for a new depending upon your negotiating could Cost anywhere up to according to random quotes from several City didst have it easy in the dealings on Small and compact cars like the Chevetta and the front wheel drive Competition fur these fuel efficient vehicles was one Man who outbid All competitors for a 1981 Chevetta paid according to a Check with other car dealers in the City a new Chevetta can Cost More than depending on several 1980 front wheel drive citations were auctioned off at prices ranging to com pared to about for new at Holiday a Dealership spokesman said about 20 of 40 repossessed cars had been sold by Early a Dealership spokesman said the cars had been repossessed from econ ombre Tacar formerly of Marion Street after company leases fell in the authorized by the was on Only for the ;