Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 2, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1988 Page 3 Norrie pledges fight to boost a waiter loses bid to recover pharmacists increase fees on some drugs Wavil a Lowacki w1nnipfo raft press some City pharmacists yesterday raised the dispensing fee on some prescription drugs by 75 cents to but have left the fees for others unchanged at or below the rate set by the pharmacists at three of 15 drug stores contacted said they had raised the fee for no formulary drugs those without generic counterparts but not for formulary the dispensing fee for formulary drugs is set by the fee for no formulary drugs is injunction feared bar to clinic by Alexandra Paul a Winnipeg lawyer says he is concerned the College of physicians and surgeons of Manitoba will not License the Morgentaler clinic be cause of a 1985 court order against its Greg Brodsky said the College obtained the still valid injunction preventing Henry Morgentaler from practising Medicine in Manitoba after it suspended his licence for performing abortions in the Corydon Avenue it had not been approved As a medical one of Morgentaler Manitoba says he fears the Montreal doctors failure to answer the colleges charges will play a role in whether the clinics application for a licence is but College registrar James Morison dismissed suggestions yesterday the colleges deliberations would be swayed by the saying the two issues Are not related and that the College has no grudges against he said the College would have the order lifted after Morgentaler appeared before an internal hearing on the 1985 charges of an eight member College commit tee was expected to Deal with the licensing application Brodsky the College is being asked to approve the clinic and the appointment of another Robert As its he although Morgentaler is not named As the clinics director in the application before the it is still considered his he lingering feelings of ill will against Morgentaler have left relations with the College the lawyer Morison refused to comment on the clinics chances for citing College but said the committee has several options after it studies a report on the they consider whether the inspection report is acceptable or if it requires certain he the application was filed after the supreme court of Canada quashed Canadas abortion a decision on the application May be made today or deferred to an other committee for More study at a later Brodsky if the College approves the it could be legally ready to do abortions As soon As he adding it would Likely be several weeks before the clinic covered under an agreement be tween the province and the pharmacists that expired almost a year the Manitoba society of professional representing 540 druggists in talks with the has rejected the offer of a 30cejit increase to in dispensing Clearing the Way for the society executive director Jack Davis has predicted prescription drug prices could climb by More than As a result of the the society is seeking a in crease in the each pharmacist can establish his own Davis adding he did not know How Many had raised their Bill Dixon of Dixons pharmacy said his store raised the fee for no formulary drugs yesterday morning to he said he haunt pushed it higher because of were Only interested in increasing the Price to show a reasonable profit and remaining in some druggists said they charge less than the allowed by the but refused to disclose the citing several said they Are continuing to charge the until they see what other pharmacists will Competition is said Harold Charlat of Hartford drugs in West Charlat is continuing to charge the fee and is hoping for a negotiated were getting Competition from the big there doing it As a predatory he the big stores have no with a 20to 30per cent Market charges an aver age dispensing fee of and says it does not plan to increase the fees at its four Winnipeg Safeway refused to say what dispensing fees its pharmacies saying Only they Are More than competitive with Charlat said smaller pharmacies Are being forced to Cut their hours and some May be pushed out of business unless they make a government gave us a Nickel a year they want to give us a dime its merely a he adding his staff of three pharmacists and three clerks have received salary increases since he last fee health minister Wilson Parasiuk said yesterday he wants to set up a task Force to examine wide disparities in drug prices charged by phar he said he has heard of situations where the Price of a single Pill will vary from two cents to 14 cents at different he also said he wanted to review profits earned by not ing they had increased 55 per cent in he last four or five but the minister rejected suggestions such an inquiry would Lead to government control of drug i Haven said that and 1 dont think that at he Parasiuk said the investigation would give the government information to examine pharmacists com plaints that they need 45percent dispensing fee increases to offset he said some pharmacies can afford to charge Low dispensing fees while others complain they cannot Meel costs without the pharmacist Harold Charlat has held Back on fee increase while hoping for an agreement trustee seeks task Force to fight racism in schools by Allison Bray the Winnipeg school Board should set up a task Force to promote ethnic relations and combat racism in Board chairman Anita Neville said last what in suggesting is a comprehensive task Force to say the school division does not tolerate any kind of racial innuendo or Bias in any she the Volunteer task Force would examine the boards curriculum to ensure it is free of racial stereotyping As Well As Brief teachers on Cross cultural she Neville said while she is unaware of racial prejudice by teachers to Ward the panel would set policies to promote racial Harmony among teachers and the task Force which would consist of school adminis teachers and Community members would also create pro Grams for children to develop Posi Tive attitudes toward diverse Cul religions and ethnic Neville the committee would examine such things As textbooks to ensure faces depicted Arent All As the task Force would re View student assessment procedures to ensure there is no unconscious Sears closes cuts 25 local jobs about 25 Sears Canada employees will be out of work in May when the Winnipeg accounting office closes As part of a Cross country administrative a company spokesman said Sears is trying to streamline its administration and has decided to base accounting and credit operations in six cities instead of the current Public affairs spokesman Walter Pridham about 500 full time and 600 part time workers will lose their jobs with the closing of accounting offices in Vancouver and and credit offices in Montre Al and Quebec he under the accounting centres will be located in Montreal and while credit operations will be based in Ottawa and kit about 600 new positions will be created in the Pridham were probably looking at adding jobs in Vancou Ottawa and displaced office workers will be offered jobs at the new centres and will be Given a moving allowance if they decide to the company said in a Sears employs about people in its 79 retail stores and catalogue outlets across Pridham said about workers Are Over 55 with 10 or More years of making them eligible for a new Early retirement plan that coincides with the office some openings created by workers who choose Early retirement May be filled by displaced office said he estimate How Many jobs might be involved because workers have until Early May to decide if retire Bias by teachers in placing students in certain she because of the diversity of our teachers would Benefit by being better sensitized to the traditional and cultural practices of certain Neville said while her task Force proposal follows recent incidents of violence with racial overtones in the it is not being set up in reaction to it look at isolated Inci dents but would establish Board policy and procedures on How to Deal with she the proposal is the divisions Sec Ond initiative to Deal with problems encountered by students of ethnic the Board recently established an internal administrative commit tee to address the educational needs of intercity students who Are tru socially disruptive in school or Are engaged in antisocial activities outside while Board officials have denied reports of asian gangs in the there have been several incidents in the division involving racial minorities a 17yearold native youth had part of a Finger chopped off and suffered a fractured Skull when he was jumped by about 10 Oriental youths wielding knives and wooden Sticks near Arlington Street and Wellington Avenue in a 22yearold native Man suffered cuts and bruises when he was at tacked by three Oriental youths the same night in the l an 18yearold vietnamese youth pleaded guilty recently to possess ing a weapon dangerous to the Public peace a baseball Bat in the 5 stabbing of a White student at Gordon Bell High another vietnamese is to appear in youth court next month on charges in the funding Promise upheld by John Lyons the province owes an East Kil Donan company about for refusing to Honor an election Day Promise by the former conservative Manitoba court of a peal ruled the court ruled 21 that some Vitu Delkin industries is entitled to plus the which makes fast food was promised up to in 1981 to buy and modernize a Plant by the economic develop ment minister Frank chief Justice Alfred Monnin said the former government had approved the leaving Only the formality of a signed order noun cil to make it Somerville Belkin was treated badly and treatment of kind should not be Monnin said in his fou Page the former conservative govern ment was led by the Premier Ster Ling who has since become an Appeal court he did not hear the Justice Gordon Hall said government funding of businesses enhances the provinces wealth and Job it is in the provinces Best interest to Honor such he the rulings uphold a decision last july by Justice Kenneth Hans sen of court of Queens Hanssen found the company suffered financial losses after it began to modernize a Plant and the promised Money did not Justice Joseph in a dissenting said the commit ment was not Complete without a signed even though Johnston assumed such an order would be Somerville Belkin bought a Gol Spie Street Plant formerly owned by Continental can court Docu ments firm approached the tory government first approached officials about the possibility trial Grants May be available if Somerville Belkin bought and modernized the company lawyer Robert Adkins said Somerville Belkin sought Grants from the Federal and provincial governments to pay for hiring and training moving trained and Startup costs for new court documents Federal funding never material the company planned to hire Iso but it didst believe it could expand its operations without governments financial court documents the provincial Treasury Board and the cabinets economic develop ment committee approved a loan of up to on election Johnston wrote the company and assured them they would get the Lyons tories lost the a bureaucrat assured the company in december 1981 that the nip would Honor the the same bureaucrat told company officials in february 1982 that they would get no government lawyer Glenn Mcfetridge argued in court last month thai the letter approving the loan want legally binding because funds cannot be released without a signed Somerville Belkin employs 150 company spokesman Ian Macdonald said last dance school out of step with new legislation Orlando Athayde is soul responsible for policing the private vocational schools act the acts intent is to ensure that training provided by private vocational schools is of High providing an individual with the skills and knowledge needed to obtain the fines Range from and three months imprisonment for a person operating without a licence and up to for a corporation Athayde says his Only Way of ensuring the Law int being broken is to study the classified ads in Manitoba daily weeklies and magazines to see if anyone has set up shop without obtaining a licence As the act requires one such and published on out two or three Days at a m last year who has no missed one of by not spotting Alhade Lell a number of Ball pm i Luike Sui Keiiti wondering if tuition fees lunging from the paid Ken Mathews dancing school last Yeai was Money Well spent nine students complained then instructors were unqualified and that alien they had completed then Cucui Thev didst believe the school had gun Illein value for Mike Ward 1 was leaching within three former instructor Chris Bis Mic one girl trained for a week and before she knew she was teaching people that were spending j37 an the and that Drew Bis Mic to the school Lead looking for a new exciting become a professional dance instructor Ai Ken Mathews dancing experience not required Lia Nung provided for those accepted Wesley Savoy was another instructor at the Hal grave Street school 1 saw head in the paper and was accepted i didst have any experience 1 went thou Glia training program Ana within six weeks t was teaching in some other students were teaching after three or four weeks one couple was stuck Wilh Fiu new inexperienced teachers in a Mallei of months Bis Mic and said the Sidn i a diploma the Weie professional dance instructors at the end of their none of the teachers received any proof they were Savoy Wendy who signed up for a ballroom dancing course with her said they had a student teaching them at the same time she was being taught to be an the contract we signed said we were going to be taught by qualified she we put All this Money but didst feel we were getting any they kept telling us we were going to get but we just the teachers were too the other students told similar the school was bought by Nancy arid Ken both experienced ballroom dancing from Ken Mathews in 1986 when Mathews operated the studio it was registered under the former private Trade schools but when he sold the u want preregistered to comply Wilh the amended legislation thai changed the name from Trade school to vocational school when i first contacted Nancy Miller about the teachers and students she insisted we Are not a vocational school the Public the student teachers dont they have to qualify and get paid when they Aie t rained 1 checked with my lawyers about the wording of the after contacting Athayde to she called me Back to say Ive been not realizing 1 should be a vocational 1 was just absolutely my my Ken no one said a i didst know anything about it i have been operating All this technically 1 shall have to Stop training until i become Miller said she had problems with her training program last with about 15 student teachers dropping out after a few months 1 had a lot of teachers last a lot of but now 1 have some Good people working for me she said it takes about six to eight six hours a for to Quality to teach beginners and a full year to a strut t advanced Athayde is a Oneman show because of concedes there could be main Small private vocational schools in the prov in e operating without a licence the legislation a lot of it ensures vocational school student s i the Best possible Lia Nung and the Pauli gels a Good Deal but what do Iii i make in the provincial government Doest police it with a Little More i i r the phone has been ringing off the Hook will Calls from people being Given the runaround by the unemployment insurance commission after the plug lit of Joseph mar incl was chronicled in this column last saturday youll recall the advice Given by commission Public relations Offei Jilbert Savard was for people to Contact a supervisor if they were in financial difficulty because of delays in then claims a Savard would be i men out one Reader followed that she was Lold by a clerk that the Suleim would gel Back to her in w working Hui it didst Register at Bui when she Pui the phone Down she realized that is working Houis translated to aim thai i and then some i he who a liked i hit in if identified because she recently obtained Job with the had waiting weeks for Money after a computer i Mai so whats Alioth i in winking Houi in Cuico i Linin Iii i Iiri nut it Iii ill to u ;