Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 30, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press june Page 3 Public Filmon Mma says payment delay costs local animal control officers attacked in capture of pit Bull by John Lyons two animal control officers Chas ing a pit Bull terrier yesterday were attacked by the dog before it was subdued with a shot from a tranquil Lizer Winnipeg Pound animal control officers received a complaint at that a pit Bull had attacked another dog in the 2000 Block of Strathcona Pound supervisor Dave Prudhomme the pit Bull was cornered shortly after 10 on the porch of 1252 valour Road after it had attacked two Ani Mal control officers involved in the neither was seriously prud homme an animal control officer received a bite to his right he he ended up on the hurting his the other officer was Able to fend off the dog with a pull which is a pole with a wire on it used to grab and hold Prudhomme Pound officials Werte not Able to locate the dog that reportedly was he Well definitely use a tranquil Lizer on a dog if a person is in Prudhomme the pit bulls owner had not been found by yesterday the owner May riot even come Forward if he feels he has to pay for Prudhomme beating tax deadline Winnipeg property owners line up at City Hall yesterday to pay their today is the last Day to pay taxes without having to Shell out late payment pathologists refuse to do autopsies on aids victims some pathology department personnel at Boniface general hos Pital Are refusing to perform autopsies on aids victims for fear of contracting the a Hospital spokesman said on june five pathologists submitted a letter to department head Ian Carr asking not to do the four of the five have since taken their names off the said Ross acting medical Brown said he does not know what the remaining doctor plans to but he expects to find out at a meeting thursday on the Carr could not be reached for Brown said two pathology Assis Tants also signed the letter and kept their names on Brown said because the two Are members of a the Hospital must prove the work does not endanger ads blame work Low pay in resignations four doctors in the emergency Ward at Grace general Hospital have tendered their resignations claiming they Are overworked and underpaid compared to doctors at other Winnipeg Alecs head of emergency services at the said the doctors want salary parity with other City particularly physicians working at the cites two teaching Treyve decided there not Ca Pable of resuming duties july Chochinov said last what we want to see is some sort of equitable situation and remuneration fair enough to keep these people in the specially of emergency medi two weeks officials at Misericordia general Hospital announced they would have to close the hospitals emergency department because they recruit new last the hospitals Board approved salary increases of about 40 per cent for its nine emergency Ward Chochinov said Grace emergency doctors want the same but even if we had a settlement like they got at i have no guarantees the doctors will come Back to the physicians have indicated they will resign regardless of the Chochinov said what the Grace doctors find most disturbing is that they have been Loyal to their Hospital compared to doctors at other hospitals who have used scare tactics such As threatening to close Emer gency they Felt their polite approach want working and it was a hard lesson for them to he said if suburban hospitals cant offer competitive Quality of emergency service will Ive maintained All along that there should be across the Board so that All hospitals in the City would have similar remunerations for similar health minister Larry Desjardins said although he sympathized with the he is angry Misericordia approved the raises without govern ment i dont think Treyve done that purposely but Treyve put us in a difficult he said he does not expect this to be difficult to Brown refused to name the three professionals who have kept their names on the an autopsy involves a microscopic analysis of tissue and organs to determine cause of there is blood because you Are cutting through the Brown the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus is known to be transmitted via Brown said doctors would be at minimal risk of contracting aids while performing this work because they Are masked and wearing he said their fears were heightened by the recent reports of three health care workers who Are believed to have become infected while caring for aids none of the three was wearing the appropriate protective clothing for dealing with such an autopsy on aids victims is not routinely Brown adding that Only two of eight patients who have died of aids at Boniface have been so Brown said the Hospital called the centres for disease control in Atlan after receiving the he said no one there could Tell him exactly How Long the virus lives in a dead but he said he believes aids is a fragile virus and depends on living tissue to Brown said the doctors move sur prised him because the same physic ians signed a february 1986 Resolution saying they would work on aids i think its an emotional re Brown he said other such As hepatitis Are More contagious than but the fatal nature of the aids virus makes it More even to health care with this disease you get it and it Doest seem to be a Chance of he the dog was placed in quarantine at the Logan Avenue Well have to take a look at it and decide what were going to do with he Prudhomme said City Pound officials receive three or four Calls a Day about pit bulls running there were 150 dog attacks from january to May this in there were 379 the pit Bull ran Loose in the area around Clifton and the schools principal praised the efforts of Pound the Pound came Over and in formed us there was a dog running around the they suggested until it was caught to make sure the kids stay Dale Scott they handled the situation very and called us Back at to let us so the kids had recess As last mayor Bill Norrie said the City will seek advice on whether a bylaw Banning or confining pit bulls is Vancouver enacted a bylaw last week to muzzle or confine vicious including Edmonton and Are consider ing similar although no deaths have been re ported in Canada As a result of pit Bull 12 people have been killed by the dogs in the United states in the past 18 judge orders freeze on child abuse registry by Andrew Duffy expressing Surprise the province would consider using its controversial child abuse registry despite a court ruling it violates the charter of rights and a Manitoba judge yesterday ordered a freeze on the Justice Robert who last week declared the list Union Stith said he wanted to Send a Clear message to the department of Community i do not want those people listed subjected to the use of the Carr the court of Queens Bench judge rejected a motion from the attorney generals department Donna asking for a stay of his order until new legislation is enacted to legitimize the a stay of the judges order would have allowed the province to use the old registry and place new names on the Miller i cant imagine the government would take that but if they i would like to Correct Carr told Miller argued Community ser vices needs the old registry to effectively protect children against abuse until the new one is in said the depart ment is Well equipped to fight child abuse without the i think it is important the Regis try be suspended Carr he ordered the registry not be used until it is either through the Appeal process or new Community services minister Muriel Smith introduced a Bill yesterday to make the abuse registry refusing to detail All the said changes to the child and family services act in clude establishing an Appeal the province made application yesterday afternoon to Appeal Carrs original decision striking Down the she Carr ruled the registry violated an individuals constitutional guarantee to Security of the As the judge the Regis try was not in accordance with fundamental Justice because there was no Avenue of Appeal for someone whose name was the constitutional Challenge was launched by Agnes who tried for 18 months to have her childrens names removed from the registry before turning to the the Glennea woman son and daughter were added to the list after a child and family services Agency investigated an allegation the boy had sexually abused his John director of child and family removed the Hilaire names from the list june saying Lee Hilaire was wrongly suspected of the 16yearold registry includes about names of people convicted or suspected of child As Well As their the list is not but is Avail Able to child abuse the police and government including those responsible for approving adoptions and hiring child welfare in ordering the list not be Carr said he did not want people denied adoptions or social work jobs based on an unfair Hilaire Alain had asked Carr to order the seizure of the list and All related Docu he said Carr must give bite to his adding the registry is a dangerous document to have floating around the Only Way to ensure an effect from this judgment and to Demon Strate Justice has in fact been done is to have the registry physically de Hogue Miller argued Hilaire did not have the Legal right to ask for a freeze on the adding such an would not flow from Carrs doctor criticizes cancer foundation Board appointees by Catherine Mitchell the former chief of radiotherapy at the Manitoba cancer treatment and research foundation has criticized new appointments to its Board a clerk in the foundation is hardly in a position to address the chair Man of the Board on a position of Jim Gillies said yester Cheryl a Vic president of the Canadian Union of Public employees and a clerk at the foun was appointed Board last month when seven of nine Mem Bers were Gillies also questioned the Wisdom of two other Peter a school principal and for Mer nip school Board was named to the Board along with Jules a machinist who has worked at the foundation for 31 Legal has been a new Democrat for 17 Gillies said Legal has done a Good Job As head of the biomedical de vices i dont see that that qualifies him to sit on the he also questioned what expertise a school principal would bring to Board who suffers from Luke has said he was told by health minister Larry Desjardins office staff they were looking for a Strong party supporter and a user of the who took Early retirement from the foundation in welcomed the boards he said the old Board essentially rubber stamped the wishes of foun Dation executive director Loriel Gillies said he took Early retire ment because of a longtime dispute with israels on How the foundation was being also appointed to the Board last month were nip constituency association president Beverley Ian head of radiology at the health sciences and Marilyn a past presi Dent of the Canadian cancer so Cletys Manitoba William univer sity of Manitoba professor of medi takes Over As re placing accountant William Gillies applauded the Choice on Macdiarmid and Desjardins said he approved of foundation staff sitting on its Board and offered no apology for their political he said he believes the Board needs to be represented by staff As Well As by the professional As it is a of political life that one Doest appoint those of different beliefs to run institutions linked to he Gillies supported Desjardins ear Lier statements that the foundation was hit with dissent Between radiology specialists and chem Othera Gillies said the foundation was biased against his there has been a lot of bitterness Over the years because of this Bias stemming directly from who has denied Desjar dins allegations there were prob lems Between the could not be reached for comment in the legislature Des Jardins took As notice a request for the findings of an internal audit into the foundations Charlotte Olesen said she understood an audit was completed Early this year and wanted to know what recommendations were made and whether they were acted Desjardins said outside the House he didst know of any audit but would look into Olesen said a number of foundation workers have said they participated in the audit but Are unaware of its judge queries reliability of unsavoury witnesses by Andrew Duffy the reliability of evidence provided by several unsavoury witnesses in the Waldemar Matz arson Case should be carefully a jury was told yesterday before beginning in his instructions to the seven woman Justice James Wilson said it would be risky to rely on the testimony of John John Anthony Hunt and Joseph Bruce Murray to convict Hunt and Murray Are perfect examples of what most people say Are people of unsavoury charac Are not the kind of people you would invite Over for a game of Wilson the Crown says the three men conspired with Matz to commit arson and fraud Between 1979 and Matz is charged with 14 arson and Frau related offences involving fires at four City buildings dating Back to the Crown says Matz arranged for the fires to be set so he could profit from More than in insurance while the defence argues Matz was set up by Hunt and its our Case that these three Guys Are lying to save their own Mats lawyer Hersh Wolch Murray was Given Complete immunity in Exchange for information against and the two others were Given consideration by the courts in being sentenced for conspiracy to commit Wolch 15month term despite a previous record for Hunt was handed a 15month term and gained parole after five months while Pauls was Given a six month term and served Only one Wolch in his address to the Wilson said Pauls testimony tumbled to pieces on the jury began its deliberations at 7 court heard that Roger Gillis seized documents from Mats Mon Trose Street Home during a raid in october after receiving information from the mans business As but Wilson warned the jury those taken by cannot convict they All could be read As a perhaps unusual but perfectly Hon est Wilson it is Only through the evidence of the police and other witnesses that doubt is cast on the meaning of the Docu he told jurors they can draw inferences from Circum Stantial you Are entitled to draw an infer ence from what you have heard you Are entitled to draw an infer ence that something was wrong about All of he Matz is charged with counselling to commit four counts of two counts of conspiracy to commit four counts of two counts of conspiracy to commit the charges relate o fires at buildings on Machray be Verley Mcmillan Avenue and Strathcona Street Between 1979 and i i i ;