Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 15, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january paged health groups join nip in lobbying abortion and refusals raise Egorow skis Bureau angers woman a Winnipeg Homeowner says she is infuriated with a provincial Agency inability to help recover thousands of dollars she lost to an insulation Lena Mykytyn of William ave nue said subcontractors have placed two liens on her claiming they we rent paid for work in helping to remove urea formaldehyde Mykytyn said she hired a firm to remove the banned insulation from her Home last she said the result was a series of headaches and problems that Are still no matter who you turn to and Tell them your they Tell you to get in touch with your she adding that she is especially angry at the Provin Cial Consumers there not protecting the con there protecting the big Mykytyn said she hired renovators to remove the insulation from her Home and do other work late in More problems she said she paid them which represented the first instal ment of the but didst hear from the firm for the next the woman said that after the contractor finally came and re moved the a Host of problems remained and he didst do All the work the contract re Mykytyn said there Are holes in the Walls of every room of her House from the As she said cold air is pour ing into her Home from the ill fit Ting aluminium doors the contractor and the firm neglected to replace attic insula Tion or rebuild the Chimney As Mykytyn said the Consumers Bureau has been next to useless in helping her resolve the a letter she received from the Bureau yesterday says the con tractor Hast replied to a letter the Bureau wrote him in late no it adds that a numerous Telephone Calls to the company and its Don have gone due to this Lack of cooperation on Goodman the by pw93 Lena Mykytyn shows liens placed on her Reau would at this time Complete its documentation with respect to this Bureau officer Aurele Tiffaine said in his further mediation would appear to be Tiffaine said in an interview he discuss specific details about the noting the Bureau can Only provide a mediation role in such there has to be a willingness on the part of both parties to resolve the Tiffaine if one of the two parties is totally unwilling to do then at that Point we do close the mat a spokesman for the Federal consumer arid corporate affairs department said the complaint is a contractual matter Between the customer and so the government Doest get he said the work was inspected and the actual removal of the insulation was found to have been done Mykytyn said she paid the con tractor about in but it will Cost another to Settle the a Federal urea formaldehyde insulation Grant will Only cover 000 of the she Mykytyn said she has to take care of her disabled husband and Doest have the time to Chase after the Goodman be reached for comment dogs destroyed for distemper the supervisor of the Winnipeg Pound says 13 of the 23 adult dogs seized from local artist Michael Tonie in december have been Des troyed because they had Doug Smith said veterinarians found the distemper in the dogs while examining them prior to their Sale As its Good that it comes out before we sell Smith you dont want to sell a dog that has Smith said the dogs May have been incubating the virus when they were brought to the Pound on police found a dog carcass when they searched tonies apartment be fore removing the other we have to assume the dogs were carrying it for a Smith renewed we Haven had any distemper Here in any of the other Ven Middlesworth of the Pem Bina veterinary Hospital said a dog May show symptoms of distemper anywhere from a few Days to More than a month after initial if the dog has Street immunity from prolonged and constant expo or if its immune system is then the symptoms May not show for quite a he it depends on the health of the the distemper virus can be transmitted through the air or through body secretions or Middlesworth Winnipeg humane society general manager Paul Griss said the Pup kept separately at the were vaccinated against distemper when they were brought into the society shelter in Griss said four of the puppies were placed As pets he said puppies born two weeks ago will be kept at the society until they Are old enough to be weaned from their and then will be put up for Smith said the rest of the adult dogs Are free of distemper and can be bought by anyone willing to pay accumulated Pound Tonie was Given a deadline of last Friday to indicate what he wanted to do with the the dogs were seized when police found them in a Selkirk Avenue apartment building while investigating a foul odor Asoline Price War getting official says the Price of a litre of regular Gaso line dropped to cents yesterday morning at a number of Winnipeg service five cents less than what it was Selling for two weeks the Market has been slipping on tenth to four tenths of a cent daily for the past seven or eight Keith a Gulf Canada in a Telephone interview from Cal Turner said he predict which Way Winnipeg volatile Gaso line prices were i would Hope it quits dropping this is getting he air Canada employees vote in favor of contract a 25month contract ratified by Union workers in the finance depart ment of air Canadas Winnipeg offices will result in no salary de a Union spokesman said last Clarence Bremner said last night 86 per cent of the 475 members voted in favor of the retroactive to the a local of the International association of machinists and aerospace represents finance agents and word processors at the Winnipeg air Canada Bremner said that although cur rent employees receive no decrease in salary under the new employees will Start at a lower hourly the new hourly rate for the ing level of finance agent is Down from an he but the top scale paid to level six finance agents remains at he employees will receive a Cash settlement in amounts to a increase in pay during the last 13 months of the he bargaining for the next contract will be based on yes current salary he Bremner said the company with Drew under conciliation an earlier proposal that workers add 30 minutes to their the workers received improved life insurance while Long term workers received increases in longevity pay and vacation he my crossing guard dispute frustrates school Board Winnipeg school Board is frustrated with delays in settling a four year old dispute with the City Over who should pay adult crossing chairman Mario Santos said Santos said although the school Board insists the City should it is now willing to share the costs to get the longstanding Issue he said while the school division believes traffic safety to be a City the school Board alone has had to shoulder the salaries of traffic the division expects to spend 200 on 14 crossing guards this he noting the locations Are among More than 20 where guards Are Santos said if the division can get the City to train the guards and pay half their that will be better than the current right we Are saddled with 100 per cent of the the City and school Board have been wrestling Over the Issue since two years the City set up a special committee to resolve the but the committee met Only once before fading out of Santos in a letter to mayor Bill Santos has asked the City to give immediate and serious attention to the Santoss letter is to be discussed tomorrow at a meeting of the cites executive policy Jae Eadie chairman of the special City committee that was looking at the said the committee proposed sharing costs but ran into an impasse when the school division re fused to look at the Issue just seemed to kind of fade away after he he said he believed the City would be prepared to take an other Eadie said he does not believe the City should cover the whole Cost because it could be faced with unrealistic demands from other Santoss letter cites the newly re built intersection of Salter Street and Logan Avenue As one example of How City traffic facilities can affect schoolchildren the intersection is next to Dufferin which has students from Nursery school to Grade Santos said to Cross the intersect children must Cross two and in some cases three turn lanes where traffic is controlled Only by yield he said a child was killed in the intersection before it was altered for the new Slaw Bebchuk complaint prompts talks Agency seeks solution in car Sale by David Obrien the provincial Consumers Bureau will attempt to negotiate a Settle ment involving a senile Man who purchased a car for the Dealership that sold it and the Bank that provided the a spokesman said yesterday the Bureau will try to Settle the dispute following a complaint from the mans Gerry Bureau acting director Dennis Robidoux said the depart ment Doest have the Power to Force a noting that no Law appeared to have been Robidoux said if a settlement cant be Papps alternative May be to have the contract declared void if it can be shown his father didst understand what he was Papps was sold a 1984 Pontiac Parisienne station Wagon last july at Mcnaught Pon Tiac for Papp said his father put his life savings of Down on the car and agreed to make pay ments Over four even though his Only income is a Papp said his father has been senile for the last year and a a doctor has diagnosed him As suffer ing from severe mental declination and possible alzheimer he said his father Hast had a Drivers licence since and the Salesman involved drove him Home in the new car and took the mans 1981 Impala As a he said family and friends pro tested to the which re fused to cancel the i dont know How he got a Papp said the Bank should have known he said the car was financed through a Dealership plan with the Canadian Imperial Bank of com which authorized the loan on credit information supplied by the Papp said the Bank has threatened to repossess the Bank spokesman Charles Ashbee refused comment when asked Why the Bank authorized the Deputy attorney general Tanner Elton said yesterday he would make inquiries into the Papp said several neighbors and friends have volunteered to picket spokesmen for the Domo station on Marion Garden City Esso on Mcphillips Street and College Heights Gulf on Pembina Highway said they had rolled Back their Price two tenths of a cent yesterday morning to bring the Price of a litre of leaded gasoline to prices started dropping in Winni Peg on after peaking at More than 50 cents a Industry spokesmen said the most recent round of Price cutting results from the competitive Market fuelled in part by the Large number of private Brand Ian chief of research and planning with the provincial department of consumer and corporate said the recent gradual Price drop is part of a pattern that has been going on for there has frequently been a Price declining period followed by a Sharp he the Price cutting at the pumps has come at the same time the major Oil companies have moved to boost their wholesale since the major Oil companies have announced increases in their posted wholesale Price of be tween and cents a they said it is to cover increased delivery and admin Stra Tive As Well As a increase in the Federal sales company owner Gordon Mcnaught has refused except to say hed been told the staff involved in the Sale thought the Man was Andy presi Dent of the alzheimer society of said yesterday that other victims of the disease have been sold expensive including Harris said he has intervened in several such cases and the Busin esses cancelled the the disease progresses slowly and leads to total dementia and eventually he in the Early people with alzheimer disease can seem quite coherent and Normal to people who dont known even though there Harris Elton to make inquiries Bias charge i in obese clerks firing by Paula Martin a City woman who was released from the armed forces because she was overweight was not discriminated the Canadian human rights commission has Merna Chernetz was not treated any differently than obese male col the commission said in a recently released summary of 10 cases decided last Chernetz refused comment on the commissions decision when reached in Ottawa last its old she counselling who was a pay had medical and administrative counselling on her weight problem since but had always weighed up to 60 pounds More than the maximum 170 pounds the commissions report although her Job performance was described As Good in department of National defence Chernetz was excused from physical duties and once was asked to return Home Early from an overseas posting due to her the report the commission investigated five of nine male colleagues who Cher Netz believed to be overweight and whose names she submitted in sup port of her discrimination upon one was or dered to one volunteered to diet and later one received a warning and and one re the fifth Man did but retained his position because his weight problem had not affected his the report the commission said and figures showed that in the past three nine out of 68 obesity cases have involved this is proportion Al to the number of women to men in the armed the report in another the commission awarded compensation to a Thunder Bay Colleen who was fired after four hours on the Job when her Boss found out she was when the office manager found out Pruys was pregnant after her first morning on the Job As a Par time clerk with King Sway freight lines she fired her without finding out How Long or when she would be on maternity the report Pruys was awarded for humiliation and for lost artists drawing shows the new look of Polo Park shopping Centre after mall change expected by year end the first phase of a expansion of Polo Park shopping Centre is expected to open late this Larry a spokesman for Canada Safeway said yester Day that is when the Chain plans to open a store on the East Side of the the store will be about twice the size of a Safeway store that moved from the mall last Mclen Nan David a spokesman for Cadillac Fairview which owns the shopping said a Date for the Start of construction has yet to be but it is the expansion will add about 100 new he the project is to be finished in the fall of besides the Safeway store vacated last weekend and a lob Laws store which closed a restaurant and lounge business is the Only outlet closed to Date because of the Bentall he said other tenants will be Shuf fled around and some could close temporarily to allow but he knows of no others closing Pearlys Coffee shop and ivys licensed dining room and lounge closed Early this month after Cadillac Fairview refused to extend their Bentall said the restaurants space was needed for Mclennan said the Safeway store that closed had roughly 75 employ he said the company has placed All the permanent employees in other stores and plans to do the same for Par time ;