Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 30, 1983, Winnipeg, Manitoba Government prepared to fund Lead cleanup fhe Manitoba will pay the weeded to Fremow laminated soil from Winnipeg if that is what it takes to solve the environment minister Jay Dowan said Cowan said he asked mayor Sill Nome for a meeting to discuss the situation that has gone unresolved for almost a Gowan was pressed for action in the legislature by Harry Enns who reminded the minister that in opposition Cowan harassed the fief gov emment for not taking action the Lead the pollution is generally blamed of a Lead smelter operated by Canad an Brome the province already has paid Ood to remove contaminated soil from the Yards of houses in the area and Canadian Bronze cleaned up some nearby Cowan but Winnipeg Eity Council refused last summer to Home up with the needed to comply with a l request thai tote City remove soil from boulevards arb Tim the be Watt said he was sorry the if tee had not reacted with a Little More haste to the cites refusal to pay for the but he promised that something would be done we Are not going to let the matter of stand in the of the Cowan the cleanup will be if the has to pay for let it said right Here and now Tite provi ftps will pay for in i regret the Cowan i wish the City of Winnipeg had undertaken the inns said the government 6ould have used the it gave to help subsidize an International marxist convention in Winnipeg recently to pay for the removal of tue minted Winnipeg free March x go Calgi positions reduced Assiniboine South school Board plans to eliminate 12 of the 75 teaching positions in its two High Verna Van Board said yesterday that while details have not been the Board has approved a timetable change forc ing teachers in Shaftesbury and Oak Park High schools to spend More hours teaching and giving them less preparation Alan teachers association said High school teachers now get 75 minutes preparation time a compared with about half an hour in division elementary schools and about 40 minutes in Junior Mason said in an interview teachers believe education Quality will suffer if their workload is increased and they Are frustrated Over the boards failure to involve teachers More in decision he said while the matter was discus sed in a boar teacher Liaison commit the major decisions had already been in a Brief to the Board monday teachers asked that the timetable changes be delayed at least a year and that a joint committee with teachers be set up to look at ways to reduce education costs in the but Van Roon said the school Board is responsible for making in these she said in an interview the question of there will be layoffs will depend on How Many of the divisions 350 teachers resign or retire this similar teacher cuts Are not planned in elementary or Junior High she this years school division budget is about Peter division Secretary said that because the teach err eduction decision is effective in it is expected to save about this but at least next macs clerk charged with stealing a night clerk has been charged with stealing from a London Street macs convenience store eight Days after he started working judge Charles Newcombe set property bail for the former at the suspect was arrested Mon Day and is to appear in court april James press labor of love Tony Morien and Paul Latocki Are two of about volunteers who Are working to restore two Vintage aircraft at Winnipeg Western Canada aviation the two were working on a 1924 Fairchild 71c while a 1942 Fairchild 24 sits in the the project is funded by a new horizons abortion clinic delayed to april 18 Morgentaler says City regulations and renovations slowing opening by Tom Goldstein Henry Morgentaler now says he Hopes to open his Corydon Avenue abortion clinic about april Morgentaler had planned to open the controversial clinic at the beginning of later saying it would be at the beginning of it just takes longer sometimes than i thought to do he said in an interview yesterday from the City has been insisting that every paragraph in the Book be com plied with so we just have to comply with Morgentaler said he never intended to open his Winnipeg office on Good Friday april 1 was just a Date i it want meant to be directly on Good he we didst want to irritate our friends it was just an approximate Morgentaler said that even april 18 is not there May a be receptionist there before he renovations to 883 where the clinic will have to be completed and furniture must be moved the City also must Grant an More dogs found killed in wooded area by Greg Bannister Winnipeg police and University of Manitoba pathologists Are investigating the grisly deaths of four skinned dogs and a found yesterday after noon in fort a police spokesman said the four discovered by a Young boy in a secluded wooded near Allegheny drive and Dalhousie were taken immediately to the University of Toba for examination by police said they Are hoping to find out from the University the cause of the spokesman said Only the found in a plastic garbage was not he said there is no apparent connection Between yesterdays discovery and another monday when six dogs were found shot and abandoned South of the City near the Winnipeg flood Way in the Rural municipality of the spokesman said it was unclear How Long the dead animals had been in the wooded we dont know at this Point if they had been there a Day or 10 its kind of hard to Tell anything when they Are in that there is also some Chance the Ani Mals May not be dogs but coyotes or said the he said it is hoped University officials can provide some positive identification on the Jim Neufeld of the University pathology Section refused comment last night on the animal Paul manager of the Winnipeg humane said he had not been informed of yesterdays grisly but would pursue the matter with University officials occupancy permit before the service can Morgentaler opponents of the clinic plan to continue their fight to Block Pat spokesman for the league for said her group is exploring some she re fused to Soenen added continual changes in the clinics opening Date make her wonder if it Ever will in getting to the where ill believe it when i see roman Catholic archbishop Adam Exner of Winnipeg has written priests in the urging them and their parishioners to give special consideration to abortion and pornography Dur ing the current preaster protests Are not he perhaps we have not paid enough attention to the need for prayer and the diocese has not specifically condemned Morgentaler but has supported the protests of antiabortion an 18page advertisement containing More than names of abortion opponents appears in today free starting on Page nip is urged to delay action on pensions by Cecil Rosner the Winnipeg chamber of com Merce had a Blunt message yesterday for a commission holding hearings into provincial pension Reform dont do anything until the problem is addressed the chamber sees Little sense in Manitoba acting on its own when governments and business Are close to consensus on the said Gerry chamber we feel it would be most appropriate for the government of Manitoba to defer amendment of the pension benefits act until such time As All Levels of government across Canada recognize the need for collective legislative action to resolve pension prob the Chambers presentation was one of More than a dozen yesterday to the pension commission of which is asking for comments on a report into pension Public hearings continue today and tomorrow in report criticized Kendall criticized Many aspects of the commissions which he said would weigh heavily on Manitoba Many of the commissions proposals would carry a hefty Price tag which businesses cannot he pension As proposed by the would add an even greater Burden on employers and be a serious detriment to economic develop ment in Kendall among other the commission has recommended employees be Eligi ble to join plans at an earlier that funds should be locked in or vested in plans More that employees should be Able to Transfer plans from Job to that pension benefits be indexed to account for inflation and that companies contribute half of the deferred the Chambers plea to hold off on All changes until there is a National consensus is Likely to go labor minister Mary Beth Dolin already has promised the government will bring in pension Reform legislation during the current different message organized labor had a different Mes Sage for the commission praising Many aspects of the report and suggesting ways to improve the system even further for the great pension debate has gone on for too Long in Canada within All said Dick presi Dent of the Manitoba federation of he called for Quick action by the commission and the government in reforming the commission chairman John corp made a Point of asking both the Busi Ness and labor representatives whether they would be willing to pay for any increased costs which might result from pension Kendall said it depended on How and when proposals were while Martin said the Issue would be largely argued in collective Karen of the Manitoba association of women and the said employees should be eligible join pension plans at age 18 rather than 25 As suggested by the the prime working period for most women is in their with Peak participation Between 18 and so the cur rent system excludes most women from pension for the same there should be provisions for vesting of benefits at an earlier she Home care fees called too Low personal care Home fees in Manitoba will Rise by 20 cents a Day May but health minister Larry Desjar dins says it int in an he indicated he is unhappy with the governments elec Tion Promise to tie the increase in fees to the Cost of living because it Means the province must pay eve increasing subsidies for personal care Desjardins said he has asked the social resources committee of Cabinet to review the but no decision has been we anticipated we would have More if we stick to our we Are getting less that will create a Desjardins said in an while in new democrats denounced As excessive the former conservative governments plan of raising fees by 50 cents a Day every three months and threw it out when they took office in under the revised personal care Home residents will pay a Day on May it is the second increase this year rates went to from on the government has budgeted million for care Home subsidies for the coming year an increase of conservative health critic Bud Sherman forecast a Sharp in crease in the fees the residents pay before with an inadequate 20cent the government is just postponing the evil its like chinese water Tor there will be a or in crease in one Sharp Levy before Long and that is what we were trying to avoid with our regular 50cent in Sherman the former health minister said the upcoming increases Are jeopardizing the unwritten Rule that taxpayers will pay 77 per cent of the costs of personal care Homes and residents will pay 23 per u of Manitoba will charge supplementary fee this fall the University of Manitoba has announced that starting this fall it will charge so called supplementary course services tees beyond the increased Reg ular tuition fees students must the new reported to be the first of its kind at any Canadian replaces incidental levies which had been made in the announced yesterday following a u of m Board of governors decision late last the fee will be charged on a Mercredi Thour with a Normal study program in arts and science consisting of 30 credit Standard tuition payable by All regular session students regardless of the program in which they Are Regis will be increased by per cent this year under budget arrangements approved by the provincial govern ment earlier this the package also provides for a in crease in Grants from the universities Grants at the u of the tuition fee increase will mean students who paid an aver age to a year last fall will have their fees raised to an average to a year in disabled celebrate changes in act to protect handicapped by Andy Blicq a group of disabled people gathered in a downtown bar yesterday for a Champagne lunch to celebrate the passing of amendments to the Federal human rights act which include new Protection for the it took five years to get the show on the Road so we deserve a Little said Pat a re searcher with the coalition of Provin Cial organizations of the Handi the passed in the House of commons ensure equal employment opportunities and Access to goods and services for the i i mentally and physically under previous Only the physically handicapped were protected in the area of equal up to a month it seemed the commons would not pass the Amend ments because of opposition from human rights activists to a paragraph which allowed employers to reject potentially disruptive How the paragraph was dropped from the the new which needs Senate approval and Royal assent before it becomes forbids discrimination against both mentally and physically handicapped persons in All aspects of life under Federal As the amendments spell out 1 the concept of general include a Section dealing with sexual harassment and help clarify discrimination of the grounds of childbirth and family Pill National coordinator for the called the passing of the Bill a historic today is indeed a Day to Cele he during the next two disabled people will be working with the Cana Dian human rights commission to develop guidelines which will Tell How the act will ultimately be administered on a Day today although they hoped to see parliamentary debate on the Large television screen in the hotel bar where the group the Bill passed final Reading in White commended All three Federal political parties for recognizing the importance of the Protection provided in the new but he said the Bill has some weak including the definition of a the Cabinet will make regulations concerning but a breach of those standards will not constitute Legal grounds for discrimination consequently we will actively Monitor any standards of accessibility the government sets under the provisions of the White an information network will have to be established to inform and Edu us Cate disabled people about the new legislation and How to use said Allan past National chair Man of the Federal jurisdiction affected by the legislation includes railway Federal Banks and insurance he the new Bill provides disabled peo ple with to per cent of what were Simpson i feel said Jim chief development officer for disa bled Peoples if discriminated against by a Bank or an ill be Able to have some Confidence that the Law will protect my right to have equal i it will give me a sense of conf he in the some times Ive Felt like Ive been in a Canoe without a paddle going Over the while the Bill will not affect mat ters falling under provincial Juristic luckily Manitoba has legislation that parallels the Federal Derk sen i dont see myself using the Holmes its More the fact that on paper youre no different from anyone yesterdays Victory Marks the be ginning of another fight to make sure that the Bill is she we have a we now have to fight for the i ;