Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 10, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free december 1981 3 90 complaints filed against Manitoba ads in 1980 by Joe Rubin complaints ranging from inadequate explanation by doctors of medical treatments to actual deficiencies in care were among the 90 heard last year by the Manitoba College of physicians and the number of written grievances lodged in 1980 fell Short of the 115 received by the College in Pri Marily because paperwork com plaints about medical reports were excluded from the 1980 said assistant registrar Ken the the medical professions regulatory held two formal in quiries last year stemming from com plaints lodged in no complaints filed in 1980 went to formal a quasi judicial process which May Lead to suspension of a doctors right to the colleges complaints committee sorts out grievances by patients and ensures reasonable action is taken and medical standards Brown said the committee May reprimand a but its a Small r repro a formal reprimand should come from the colleges the largest group of complaints heard by the committee last year cases involved alleged clinical Defi Machete off police catch robber by Murray Mcneill when Charles Monkman set out to Rob a Sherbrook Street jewelry probably the last thing he expected to come up against was a Machete throw ing but that exactly what he encountered during the 16 Rob Bery and it was fortunate for him the jeweller had a bad provincial court judge Charles Rubin was told yesterday the Machete missed its Mark and Monkman got out of the store with not Only his hide but a briefcase full of stolen jewelry As As he soon the escapade was doomed be cause detectives had him and an accomplice under surveillance even be fore Monkman entered the and they arrested him soon after he ran yesterday the 30yearold father of three pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and using a firearm during the commission of an indictable of Fence and was sentenced to four years in misery of jobless lamented in a world where unemployment or underemployment affects at least one third of a resolve to change is of Paramount John Canadian director of the International labor said last this resolve to change must be brought about by Public awareness of the he told a human rights symposium of the Winnipeg United nations the in association is holding a we Klong series of talks at the univer sity of to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the dec signing of the Universal declaration of human the right to employment is a Funda mental human Whitehouse yet people in the Northern hemisphere and almost in the Southern hemisphere Are Unzem an offence against human dignity and the right to founded in 1919 he said the founded in 1919 and now containing 146 member seeks to establish labor programs and to provide technical and advisory assistance in implementing before a member state can ratify one of the Ilos 153 legislative bodies within that state must once compliance is monitored by an Ilo committee and if it is being the Case May ultimately be brought before the International court of Whitehouse although the Ilos conventions on Basic human particularly free Dom of Are the most popu Lar and most frequently ratified by member continuing persecution of worker organizations reflects glob Al deterioration in this he Canada has not ratified the Freedom association Whitehouse since the Ilos committee to Monitor Freedom of association was established in More than cases have come before he said Ilo monitoring has positive in the last four More than 400 Union leaders have been freed from others have been returned from workers have been rein stated in jobs and antiunion Legisla Tion has been repealed or modified to make it conform to the Freedom of association Cien cies on the part of these varied from incidents where a doctor was unaware of the Inadequacy of his treatment and subsequently apologized to his to cases where the Public May have been put at determining whether a physician should have known enough to avoid making a mistake is a lengthy said he noted the committee referred a number of such cases to the colleges executive for As a sever Al doctors had medical audits of their six cases heard by the committee last year involved doctors with poor usually caused by emotional problems or chemical some were referred to the Manitoba medical associations physician sat risk program while others were repro Brown said Many complaints lodged against physicians have an undercurrent of anger or resentment stemming from unmet expectations on the part of a patient or his Brown cited the example of a physic Ian who kept a Tonsillectomy patient in Hospital for two extra Days for More tests without explaining the reason to his the delayed release from Hospital angered the prompt ing them to complain that their con sent was not sought for the extra treat an investigation into the Tonsillectomy Case taught the doctor to keep his patients and their relatives better in formed of his Brown seven complaints were sparked by angry or worried relatives whose expectations of medical care May not have coincided with those of the a the remoteness of being a third party not Only heightens relatives but also seems to add to the misunderstanding they tend to develop regarding what is taking Brown it is usually some specific instance possibly death which Trig Gers the complaint by the he added that misunderstandings May arise when a patient chooses not to reveal the True nature of his disease to a Brown said everyone who sends in a written complaint receives a written report containing the committees conclusions or an our policy is to say nothing to the physician which is not said to the said the patient gets As full a report of the committees conclusions As Ken free press Crown counsel Bruce Miller told judge Rubin police began their surveillance of Monkman and an accomplice a Short time before the Rob they had watched the two pick up a briefcase from some Bushes at the rear of a Wellington Crescent Home and begin walking North across the Mary land Street they saw Monkman Don a Balaclava part Way across the then saw Monkman and his Friend Stop to talk to another Man in the parking lot of the Westminster they then watched them go to the Chain Man jewelry store on Sherbrook walked into store while the accomplice waited out Monkman walked into the store carrying the briefcase and a loaded Miller he confronted the proprietor and ordered him to fill the briefcase with the jeweller handed Over the con tents of one display when he open a Monkman smashed the Glass with the revolver and began helping while he was doing the jeweller bolted to the Back of the picked up a Machete and went after Monk Miller in his haste to get Monkman acc Dently discharged his revolver but the Bullet lodged harmlessly in a Book on the count As Monkman fled for the door the jeweller hurled his Machete at but it missed the Mark and crashed into the court was the who had been stationed not far from the saw Monkman running chased after him and arrested him minutes later in a Lane off landside the revolver and briefcase containing about Worth of jewelry were recovered from a near by garbage court was previous convictions in speaking to defence counsel Sheldon Pinx said although his client has been in trouble with the Law since the age of Mostof his convictions were Tor relatively minor property he had several previous assault but none for Rob Pinx also noted his client had never been sentenced to More than a one year jail term in the past and a three year term this time would be enough to drive Home the message that he has to straighten judge Rubin said he did not think much of the jewellers conduct during the robbery and even less of Monk i certainly cant give the proprietor of that particular establishment any credit for trying to Stop you in the foolish manner that he the judge but we simply have to discourage people from committing he particularly those who also use loaded a Man charged in the robbery has been remanded to when a trial Date will be Christmas deposits employees of a downtown used to taking deposits from made some of their own last night As they took turns putting decorations on a 14foot Christmas about 30 employees stayed after hours to finish the police defend response times after Man complains to commission by Kevin Prokosh it takes Winnipeg police an average of six minutes to respond to emergency although it May be almost an hour before officers arrive to answer no priority police depart ment statistics police chief Ken Johnston requested statistics on response times after a Man complained to the Winnipeg police commission yesterday that police arrived 40 minutes after he called them about someone throwing a Beer bottle at Charlie in charge of police told the com Mission the average police response time for All Calls was minutes Between january and june of this Paramount in their he there is nothing More annoying than waiting for but Moore said he does not think the Public would favor a tax increase in order to improve response Hill said the average response time jumped from minutes in 1979 to minutes last year before improving to in he blamed the increase in 1980 on Startup problems with the new computer aided dispatch but Hill said the efficiency of the much maligned communication sys tem is apparent now because it took six minutes off average response times this year while Fielding an increase of per cent Over Maxwell Meikle addressed the com Mission to Register his concern Over the increase in crime in the he said he had been burglarized four times in the last year As Well As being the target of a Beer bottle near the Maryland in the latter incident police arrived 40 minutes after his he Johnston told Meikle his Call was probably designated priority 2 and that he want surprised if it took police 40 minutes on a Busy Johnston cited the departments manpower constraints As the reason for poor response times to Low priority following the meeting Meikle said rising crime statistics mean the City is going to have to decide whether it wants a Safe City or save if we cant afford to keep a City then whats the Point he handled faster the police response time to Calls deemed top priority Are handled much the officer Hill said the figure included the six minutes it took police to answer emergency Calls where there was imminent danger to life and the average minutes which elapse be fore police arrive on the scene of priority 1 incidents such As violent bomb threats and serious crimes still in Progress Are rated priority the rest of the Calls for nonviolent disputes or breaking where thieves have left the Are designated priority 2 or 3 and the police response is commission chairman Jim Moore said after the meeting that the people who complain most often about How Long it takes a Cruiser to arrive Are those making no priority for whatever reason they it is police officers bid to overturn forced retirement Rule postponed Winnipeg police Constable Stanley miners bid to keep his Job past age 60 was put on hold yesterday in court of Queens Bench judge John Solomon decided not to hear the Case at this time after Marvin lawyer for the argued the court has no jurisdiction in the Samphire said the provincial human rights which forbids employers to dismiss people because of re quires Miner take his complaint to the human rights commission Chrys miners said a Case similar to has clients has been tied up for three years in the adjudication process outlined in the human rights act and shows few signs of soon being he said who was forced to retire three Days after his 60th birthday earlier this would like to win Back his Job without unreasonable a 35yearveteran of the Miner has been described by his doctor As being in excellent physical and mental health and Able to perform his role As a police Appeal process Samphire told the court the supreme court of Canada determined in a recent Ontario Case that complainants should go through the Appeal process in that provinces human rights he said the same should apply to Miner because the Law Here sets out a similar a person can Appeal to a judge Only after this Avenue has been he Iwanchuk said the Manitoba court of Appeal decided tuesday courts have the Power to hear a Case involving Dwight who had lodged the same complaint As he said the Ontario Case was differ ent from that of Parkinson and Miner and therefore the supreme court Deci Sion does not but because of the judge Solomon said he would wait until Manitoba High court hands Down its decision on the Parkinson Case before ruling on miners who was stripped of his operating privileges at health sciences Centre when he turned is asking that the hospitals retirement bylaw be declared Miner is seeking to have the court throw out a similar City bylaw covering police officers on the basis that it contravenes the human rights workers sentenced after store robbed Blind by Steve Pona two former employees of a Down town clothing and gift Ware store who filched in merchandise because everyone else was doing were sentenced yesterday to perform 200 hours of Community service Manuela Angelika and Christine Lorraine who worked at Fash 405 Portage were sentenced by county court judge Alan Philp after they pleaded guilty to court was told an inventory of Mer Chandise at the store last sparked by a confidential tip from a former uncovered the loss of in clothing and another in furniture and Crown counsel Bob Morrison said the former a approached police to say that As far As he there were massive thefts going on at the store and Many of the employees were five people were arrested and charged in the thefts and All of the general staff was 1 think it is fair to say in colloquial terms that the store was just being robbed Blind by its Morri son told the former manager Arlene Atkinson said in an interview yesterday she knew absolutely nothing about the thefts while they were going on and was floored by the the girls mentioned everyone in the store was aware of what was going but Atkinson they would approach others and do you want in on so to who now manages an Ori Entique in added she does not know How Many people in the store actually were involved in the the Only ones we came up with were the ones who were Morrison said Erdmann and Kirk Wood were arrested on the Job april 21 and admitted their police recovered in merchandise from Erdmann apartment and Worth from Kirk Woods Barry said his client initially resisted the temptation to but the word around the store was that other people were doing and she Felt she could get away with both accused were said to be remorseful and have apologized to the store for their a former assistant Man told a probation worker she was Only earning 25 cents More than the minimum wage and Felt she want being paid enough for the Job she was Morrison quoted her As saying if her working conditions had been bet she would not have the charge against the two women said the thefts were committed be tween and april in speaking to Morrison strongly urged judge Philp to impose jail saying the accused were in positions of Trust at the store and had abused judge Philp noted erd Mann and Kirkwood were Youthful first offenders while there must have been a great degree of planning or awareness of what they were the offences did not warrant you both have a lot of growing up to he told in addition to the Community service which will be performed under the direction of probation he sentenced the accused to two years ;