Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 1, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March province fears Federal development fund cuts by Gerald flood the Filmon government is worried Ottawa May Cut economic development agreements Worth million As part of a Federal deficit reduction an official in the pre Miers office said the who requested said there have been unusual delays in getting Ottawa to renew eight economic regional development agreements that expire in 30 theres a worry certainly that the Erda system May be a target of the official its almost but Why Hast there been any announcement the official said the delay is causing increasing concern and prompted Premier Gary Filmon to raise the Issue with prime minister Mulroney at a first ministers meeting the delay is highly to say the he eight eras Worth about million expire March As does a Northern develop ment agreement Worth about renewal of the five year pacts was expected to be an almost routine matter As they Are part of a 10year umbrella agreement signed in the official if they dont continue the it will a significant loss of Federal sup will it support continue in another form that is the open Ottawa contribution to the agreements has been million since Manitoba put up the remaining the official downplayed the possibility the delay has resulted from the Filmon govern ments decision to withdraw support for the Meech Lake constitutional observers have predicted Ottawa would use Finan Cial pressure to Force Manitoba into the the official said Saskatchewan is facing similar problems and the delay More Likely resulted from the Mulroney governments commitment to Cut the Federal which has sparked a massive amount of review of government spending in Advance of a budget expected next when Filmon raised the Issue in he was told his concerns would be partly addressed next monday when he and other Western premiers Are to meet with Charlie minister in charge of Erda agree ments in the Filmon met last night with his caucus to discuss the governments strategy on the Meech Lake those talks were expected to continue at a Cabinet meeting government sources have said Filmon can be expected to change tactics on the Meech Lake Accord now that the first ministers conference is out of the the meeting ended in a with Manitoba and new Brunswick refusing to join Ottawa and eight provinces by signing the Accord without Filmon said monday that scheduling Public hearings on the which were can celled when he withdrew support for the Deal in was one option that would be witnesses versions of events contradictory Dave free press continued from Page 1 matches in the witnesses gave contradictory testimony about events leading up to the Fairford chief de Anderson told the inquest that the band had not asked the Ltd to suspend services the previous but both an Indian affairs department official and Gypsum Villes fire Murray testified that a band Council Mem Ber had made that request in May under band Council member Thomas Woodhouse told the inquest he didst make it Clear at the May meeting that the band was Only asking the Ltd to not respond to summer grass which could be controlled using the band fire Anderson the band had instructed Woodhouse to Tell the Ltd that they would pay their Bills by when Indian affairs refused to give the band More Money to pay the Anderson said he told the department it would be responsible if anything the matter was in their Indian affairs he right up to the time of the we were refused its unfortunate that we should experience a tragedy be fore Indian affairs should but department Murray Morison said the band had been Given sufficient funds to pay its firefighting Bills and to build a heated garage for the firetruck the band had at the time of the the truck be used because its water pumps were when the band didst pay its Bills after repeated Morison said his department finally stepped in and told the Ltd just a few Days before the Sumner boy died that it would cover firefighting Bills Start ing in the band paid the Bill after the fatal fire and signed a firefighting agreement with the Ltd in very Anderson said Hes worried about the agreement and plans to meet with the Ltd soon to clarify his its very if we haunt signed wed be critic we signed that simply to save he said he Doest like the fact the agreement allows firefighters to give priority to fires in Gypsum during the Volunteer firefighters described How they at first decided to go to the fire de spite the lids orders because lives were in just As they drove through Jackson flagged them Down Judy Sumner listens to evidence at her sons and told them to turn Jackson said the Ltd had sent him a letter at the end of october 1988 instructing firefighters not to go to the Reserve under any Cir they made it quite Clear to us not to Jackson test identifies killer disease boys inherit from mothers Ward air employees emotional after meeting with executives continued from Page 1 during the Brophy employees were told the airlines daily flights to and from Toronto will along with its Les frequent flights to by next Ward air had 15 domes tic flights out of Winnipeg each the Winnipeg service will cease completely by april when War Dairs charter service to Honolulu is Only a few staff will be kept on until Brophy Ward air employees in Winnipeg didst have much to say noting they were told not to talk to the they referred All questions to Ward airs Public relations after the two hour meeting in Ward airs vip lounge at Winnipeg International Many employees walked out with red faces and eyes bloodshot from its just not one female employee told her District sales manager Bryan Hardy said passengers would be compensated for Ward air tickets Al ready purchased for flights scheduled after operations will Curley said the decision to Cut Ward air service is a result of the airlines disastrous earnings performance in an auditors report released Friday showed the company lost million on operations last compared to a profit in Curley would not indicate what other Ward air operations would be hit by Job but said the number of flights Between Toronto and Ottawa and to Britain will be Union officials said they were told daily nights out of Ottawa will be reduced to one from five by but the company would not confirm the number or Ward air spokesman Linda Lee said in an interview the decision to eliminate jobs but adding that the airline needed to streamline its operations in order to but angry officials of the Canadian Auto workers which represents Ward air said the decision to Cut service probably has More to do with the proposed million Sale of Ward air and with deregulation in the airline Indus despicable this is just said Lynn an official with the unions airline we were Given no no Chance to negotiate with the Compa we just find out today that More than 500 people Are losing their jobs with no other Brophy said in an we were told not to that everything was then they do this to us rather than sit Down with the Union and discuss the she she added the Federal government approve the Ward air Sale until the company agrees to do More to protect employees continued from Page 4 the Mother is the Carrier and Only the male children inherit the Dis Jacobs he compared did to which is also passed from mothers to mothers with the genetic fault Lave a 5050 Chance of giving birth to a did Jacobs knowing the worst at birth allows to prepare for life with a handicapped Jacobs Early detection also helps parents decide whether they want to take the Chance of having More he my advice is that they should undergo genetic counselling Jacobs a baby with did appears healthy at but gradually grows weaker As his Muscles deteriorate and Are replaced by stiff which Lead to by the time a boy with the disease reaches his Hes usually in a the life expectancy for victims of the incurable disease is 20 Jacobs said he cant take the cred it for developing the blood which is also used in France and i do not want to make a false Jacobs crediting an american paediatrician for publish ing a proposal that led to the Hans of the univer sity of proposed such a test in a paper published in but it was never developed because other North american doctors ridiculed the Jacobs Jacobs called the almost Universal condemnation of Zellweger propos Al a he recalled critics saying that parents wont be interested in find ing out if their Newborn sons had Jacobs tests the blood of boys born in Manitoba each in addition to the test is also used for some boys born to parents in Northwestern Saskatchewan and the Keewatin re Gion of the Northwest Jacobs the test was developed with the support of More than in Grants from the Winnipeg childrens Hospital research foundation spokesman Gerri Thor Steinson ungrateful teen deserves Good Swift judge says continued from Page 1 youre probably one of the most ungrateful Young persons i can remember seeing in the can you Tell me any other 18yearold whose parents bought them a House you deserve a Good Swift Berglind told Newcombe yesterday that he made the death threats because he wanted Money after his adoptive parents kept his who noted that his own sister had been said the incident cannot be blamed on the fact that Berglind was adopted at birth and plans to return to his natural parents on a Saskatchewan Indian this int the the Issue is he who acknowledged he originally was so angry he was prepared to jail instead gave him a oneyear suspended Berglind pleaded guilty last january to uttering court had been told that Berg Lind went to his adoptive parents Home drunk and passed out at 1 last court heard that the next after Berglind woke and was told to leave the he phoned his Mother and sister three times each asking for the family finally called police after he told his sister in going to kill them his Par Winnipeg police later arrested Berglind after his sister gave him opting out policy questioned continued from Page 1 three 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