Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 3 school trustees to stick with Charleswood conversion by Glen Mackenzie Assiniboine South school trustees indicated last night they will stick with their original decision to turn Charles Wood collegiate into a Junior High trustees Jack Dave Morris and Verna Van Roon told about 50 parents attending a Public meeting at the collegiate they have Strong reservations about a Community task Force recommendation that the collegiate be converted to a grades 7 to 12 trustees Noel Ron Stath am and Myrtle Zimmerman said they Glenn free press wanted More information about the affect of a six Grade school on Youn Ger but none displayed much enthusiasm for the Statham said the recommendation bothers me and i am still trying to grapple with while Zimmerman said she had the same major doubts other trustees trustee Ted Ewashko was Hunt heaped abuse on the 102page task Force calling it hastily the task for what Ever failed to come up with alternative Hunt said a grades 7 to 12 school would strike at morale of teaching pose budget problems and Hurt students in the lower would you your 11yearold child in a school with a 19yearold he Bob co chairman of the task said in a later interview he Doest see How 31 meetings since april and about 100 hours of work by the group can be described As he said fears about Adverse effects on children with great age differences in the same school Are citing the existence of kindergarten to Grade 12 schools in Rural Bill also said any one Factor could change enrolment projections for the so a flexible system is but residents dont believe every optional course should be maintained if there Are few students in a he who is also Board said flatly he will support the original Board decision that the collegiate be converted to a Junior High with Charleswood students in grades 10 to 12 going to High school or Oak Park Morris said that since the task Force attentive audience monster Bingo caller Boyd Thorn last night enjoyed with at More than Bingo something few Public speakers the total attention of his players Hung on his every word at the convention aerospace site still up in angered Federal minister by Ron Campbell the Federal government has not decided yet where to locate a proposed National aerospace training employment and immigration minis Ter Lloyd Axworthy said a Cabinet committee is studying Ca Nadian aerospace problems the minister but he could not say when it will be finished or when the government will make a decision on the training speaking at a press con Ference in was angered by a free press Story yesterday quoting sources in the powerful Quebec Liberal caucus As saying Winnipeg would not get the training the report is its mis Chievous and its not a worthy adding that he deplored this kind of trying to set one Region against people who have nothing better to do on weekends than write that Type of article better find another occupy the minister it was unfortunate they would be engaging in that kind of because it could create false impress ions in the minds of which would be he Axworthy has been saying since april that Winnipeg is the Likely Loca Tion of an aerospace training Centre despite opposition from including Premier Rene Levesque and Montreal business the Montreal chamber of Commerce objected to the Winnipeg location in saying about 50 per cent of Canadas aerospace Industry is in que mainly in Axworthy announces Prairie Extension to computer Job Bank by Ron Campbell an million Extension of the computerized Federal Job placement and unemployment insurance services to the Prairie provinces was announced yesterday by employment and Immi Gration minister Lloyd a computer in Winnipeg will service the three Prairie provinces and the systems Are expected to be operational by with 400 computer Termi nals in 47 Canada employment com Mission offices across the by the end of the department Hopes to have a countrywide system in place terminals connected with five regional computer form ing the Backbone of the National labor Market top department staff from Alberta and Saskatchewan As Well As Manitoba were on hand for the announcement in a computerized Job placement ser vice was tested in Hamilton in 1976 and has since been extended to Toronto and put clients in touch a computerized unemployment insurance service was tested in Hull the same year and is now in Ottawa and the Atlantic the Job placement function is de signed to put Canada employment commission clients in touch with jobs and Job seekers across the country Axworthy said the Prairie system will eventually become part of a computerized National Job he said that in the system was found to be four times faster than the former manual 67 per cent of clients were referred to jobs within six hours and nine per cent More people were hired on first because of the staff can devote More time to specialized Job recruitment and a computerized National Job Bank will give the department a More effective data base for labor Market Man Power planning and policy adjustments can be made More a worthy Canadas system of apprenticeship and higher education is not geared to the Job Market of the he he said the department has been studying the problem for several months and will soon make proposals to Cabinet to remedy the computerized unemployment insurance system is expected to Speed up claims processing and client in a Federal official yesterday said it will allow immediate adjustment of which will save the unemployment insurance fund million a year by earlier stoppage of payments to clients no longer eligible for he said the department envisions that Job information from the computerized government system will eventually be displayed on Large screens in shopping centres and Post offices through the federally eve loped computerized information retrieval there Are plans to integrate the computerized Job placement and unemployment insurance functions into one delivery they have been developed in parallel and can operate independently but have compatible computers and can share communications channels and at the same the Montreal Board of Trade said an aerospace training Centre in Winnipeg would be pointless when 92 per cent of the Indus try is in Montreal or in a federally appointed task Force on Canadian Aero space Industry matters chaired by Allan Mackenzie recommended Winnipeg As the site of a National Centre for High technology training to meet the Industry passed Resolution in Early the 74strong que Bec Wing of the 147member Liber Al government caucus passed a Resolution asking the Cabinet to locate the Centre in Quebec caucus members said their province was promised the As Well As a United nation funded inter National air traffic association train ing school now slated for As part of a 1976 settlement which brought striking Quebec air traffic controllers pack to despite the longstanding opposition from i assess the chances As pretty Good that Winnipeg will have an aerospace training a worthy said the Quebe cers made representations to the Cabinet on the training Centre he but other regions made bids As he Axworthy said the Issue will not be decided on the basis of which faction has the most numbers in it Doest come Down to it comes Down to arguments and the ability to make your Toronto and Montreal already have aerospace technical training he but they Are students must go to Britain to get certain modern High technology training in the Axworthy said a decision on where to put an aerospace training Centre will cheer Board begins annual Appeal drive the Christmas cheer Board of greater Winnipeg annual Campaign is under a Board statement said deliveries of food hampers to needy recipients will begin those interested in working As Drivers should Call 9436476 to last years Holiday Effort helped 276 including single couples and donations May be sent to the boards Headquarters at 667 Ellice Avenue to postal station Winni r2l 2a5 or to free press sports editor Hal Sigurd sons spirit of Christmas Effort at the free press 300 Carlton r3c 6 be part of an Overall National Job training program to remedy the coun try skilled worker the min ister said he is discussing such a program with Cabinet and Hopes to have proposals out before another problem with a High techno orgy aerospace training Centre is fund he the Mackenzie report estimated it would Cost million to establish the Centre and predicted a million annual operating the report recommended it be financed jointly by Ottawa and the Aero space but no private Money has been forthcoming to i guess we have to see the color of other Peoples Money before we decide Axworthy saturday Start of parking ban Winnipeg overnight parking ban effect at Satur a spokesman for mayor Bill Norries office said the ban Means no one May Park for More than hour on a Winnipeg Street Between 3 and 6 she said the ban is expected to last until May but could be lifted sooner if warm weather arrives report was released a couple of weeks he has had Calls from numerous parents whose children Are in Junior High or soon will he said kindergarten to Grade 12 schools Are natural in Rural but the different environment of an Urban area requires a different who is also president of the Manitoba association of school said Rural trustees Are concerned about the Lack of optional courses in their Multi Grade Bill said he Doest have particular worries about his Grade 9 daughter going to Charleswood collegiate because Junior High parents dont worry about their children going to movies or roller skating rinks with High school they worry about them going to school with them Morris said the division could pro vide Quality programs with Many options in three High schools if the Pupil teacher ratio were Cut to accommodate declining he said the Board will make a Deci Sion on the collegiate question at its 11 insurance companies blast budget by Gregg Shilliday life insurance companies in Canada fear the recent Federal budget will Cost them millions of dollars in lost business and put hundreds of employees out of As part of a policy to reduce tax the new presented to parliament proposes to eliminate income averaging annuities and to tax Reserve buildups on new whole life insurance although Industry officials Are Hesi Tant to project actual losses at this Early it is known that almost Worth of face value death benefits for whole life insurance poli cies were sold in one spokesman said if we even lost 10 per cent of our projected new that would mean millions in lost As curtailed sales of annuities and whole life policies could result in a significant employment drop among agents and Industry insiders insurance company executives Are in the midst of a fierce lobbying Effort aimed at convincing the Federal finance department to Amend the pro As they plan to meet with department officials in Ottawa next week to make Clear Industry objections to the leads ant budget lobby Harold president of Mon Arch life and chairman of the Canad an life and health insurance Assoc a is leading the lobby against the in a Telephone interview from Toron he said the Industry primary concern was with the social injustice of the new our average policyholder earns less than he takes out life insurance As Protection for his not As an and under this the Cash value Reserve buildup in his policy will be not his not his it is extremely unfair for the As Well As the com Thompson said a meeting has been set up with finance minister Allan Maceachern in two at which time Industry representatives will de Mand the new proposals be we feel the current system whereby if you decide to Cash in your policy you can be taxed is but if you Are maintaining your whole life Why should you be taxed Wayne Bergquist of the greatest life taxation department says the Bud get proposals came As an a absolute to the Industry when they were were still in a state of we expected some changes but nothing like employees warned a greatest life internal memo circulated after the budget came Down warned employees that the budget proposals would d reduce the amount of Premium in come available for investment in Mort gages and corporate debt d prompt a further shortening of Mort Gage maturities d reduce employment in the Indus try d prevent policyholders from buy ing new As the memo provided an example of a nonsmoking male buying a whole life policy by year 15 of the paying an annual Premium of while being taxed Bergquist said if taxation on Reserve buildups was to go insurance agents would be hit first and hardest by the subsequent drop in demand for whole life with Many of them going out of agents generally get a larger com Mission from whole life policies than from term policies and they also sell More of within a couple of the slowdown would hit the probably even forcing some layoffs of it could be very Bergquist said he hoped the Federal government would respond to Industry but if it whole life policies would have to be a spokesman for the finance depart ments tax policy Bureau said the life insurance companies were offering bogus arguments because they were scared of lets face this 80 per cent of their policy holders that earn under wont be taxed much its Only the big policy holders that will get a big he added that the companies were apprehensive about Competition from Banks and said the Industry was going to have to recognize that whole life insurance was regarded by the govern ment As investment you a person can always get term its just As Good and you wont get degree nursing program urged for Boniface by Joe Rubin a Boniface general Hospital task Force on nursing manpower has recommended the establishment of what is believed to be the first no University degree nursing program in Jan task Force chairman and the hospitals Vic president of said a program leading to a bachelors degree in nursing and based at Boniface would attract potential As Well As retain and upgrade existing current training methods and educational structures Are not adequate to Supply nursing manpower to the level of skills required in a healthcare system which has exceedingly Complex and which places Ever More responsibility on its nursing the report a fou year degree program is currently available at the University of other nursing schools in the including the one at Boni offer two year diploma pro a Boniface baccalaureate nursing program would be patterned after that of the University of Dick said were suggesting a variation of that which will take into account the hospitals association sceptical the task Force recommendation was met with some scepticism by the Manitoba association of registered which believes that All nursing Educa Tion should be based within an educational for Boniface to Grant nursing degrees a function restricted to universities would be most said Marn executive director Louise Tod said Marn Likely would support a degree program in a University set Ting with training at the hospitals Board of directors has struck a nursing education committee to review the task forces recommend Dick said input from the member nursing staff at the Hospital also will be released the task Force report also recommended improving continuing education programs to teach specific ont Ejob skills required to practise nursing on certain if the new degree program does not come then continuing education must be expanded to meet current and future the report the nursing manpower task Force was set up in at a time when Winnipeg hospitals were experiencing a nursing the report concluded that manpower problems Are due to cyclical variations caused by enrolment in nursing schools and the economic these cycles tend to create perceived shortages and perceived sur pluses rather than actual shortages and the report noting that perceived surpluses depress enrolment which May prompt a subsequent the report recommended eliminating cyclical swings by improving the hospitals management information systems to identify and Analyse nursing manpower As the task Force stressed the need for a nursing recruitment pro Gram and increased emphasis on development of career opportunities in clinical practice and the report suggested improved Means of funding so changes in Levels of care and volume Are matched by More nursing ;