Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 6, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March Page 3 Eastern strike strands immigration increase urged by local professors to Monitor effect of free Trade on Manitoba by Zena Olijnyk Winnipeg University professors have formed a group to Monitor the effects of the free Trade Deal on Manitoba we want to find out All we can about How especially those in will fare under free said Jim a University of Manitoba professor and spokesman for the called Manitoba the group also intends to hold regular Public forums and put out a quarterly report of its findings on the Glenn free press Silver said the professors Hope to develop a Pool of expertise that can contribute to Public debate on the he said the group was born from the professors feeling they we rent getting enough information about the Trade one of the most dramatic things with the last election Campaign was the Way people just swallowed what information they could they had a ravenous As recent mergers in the Oil and brewing Industry have made concerns about the free Trade Deal even Silver Plant closings in including those owned by Molson brewery Manitoba Ogilvie Mills and Canada packers have also contributed to a sense of he Silver said the group is comprised mostly of professors from the University of Manito University of Winnipeg and Boniface most of the members have agreed to look at a specific area of Industry and How free Trade will affect areas that have been targeted for study include in telecommunications and the group will also Monitor other such As social services and Day Silver said that while the group is com posed mainly of people who Are either opposed to the free Trade Deal or at least have concerns about there Are some members who favor a minority were actively opposed to the most of them have concerns about the and theres another minority who favor the but realize there will probably be negative Silver said some members Are afraid Manitoba Monitor will be labelled As simply an ant free Trade we had quite a bit of discussion on and some people were afraid being part of the group might make it hard to conduct he one University professor who is part of Manitoba Monitor refused to be interviewed unless his name want it might make it very difficult me to do my he Dev an assistant economics pro Fessor at the University of Winnipeg and an advocate of the free Trade said he feels it is important to Monitor the effects of the Deal regardless of ones opinion of you have to assess the effects of free Trade with he truss me a Large Mobile Crane is used to erect steel trusses around the the 33storey Toronto Dominion Bank Tower which Core of the former a nip telecommunications building on the is a joint undertaking of in real estate and the Bentall group Northwest Corner of Portage Avenue and main work on is expected to be completed by the Spring of greatest to pay Early in aids cases by Alexandra Paul greatest life Assurance will pay death benefits to policy holders with acquired immune deficiency syndrome or other terminal diseases before they the company chief Canadian executive partial or full advances on life insurance policies will follow the formula adopted by Prudential insurance of John great wests executive Vic president and chief operating officer in Prudential is the Only insurance company in Canada to have released benefits to aids policy holders before their one of two National insurance companies based in is the Only other life insurer in Canada to have agreed to pay out the benefits the second Manitoba Wawanesa Mutual insurance appeared to dismiss the Wawanesa Vic president Les Goddard refused comment on the elsewhere across the Public demand could eventually push other insurance companies into making similar said Charles Canadian life and health insurance association Vic president of insurance in Green said greatest Hast made any payments weve never been asked by a person dying of aids or any other terminal illness for an Advance Green we would do it if All the right conditions Are it wont Hurt the balance he adding such policies have to be honoured so it Doest make any difference to greatest if they Are paid out although greatest has no written policy on the Early Green said the company will demand medical proof the policy Holder has a terminal disease and written permission from the Benefi Ciary to release the Money a National aids group welcomed great wests we have no argument against it if it provides a better Quality of life to people with Canadian aids society spokesman Grant Mcneil the representing Community aids organizations like Winnipeg Vil Lage believes most aids victims live out their lives in there is a dire and if some one can Access a portion of the policy before death its a compassion ate response by the Mcneil Iun by Randy Turner Manitoban will be Able see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun at lunchtime tomorrow when a partial solar eclipse reaches its the eclipse will be less noticeable Here than in Points but the event will be Worth a said Manitoba planetarium spokesman de if the sky is Well get about 30percent said there will be a definite he but not a great the eclipse will begin shortly before noon in and the maximum coverage of the Sun will be evident about 50 minutes said the eclipse will last nearly four the planetarium is preparing for people who want to watch the Barker said staff members will be on hand at the facility solar Telescope tomorrow to offer visitors information on the solar telescopes touted he noted the eclipse should not be viewed with the naked saying solar telescopes provide the safest 14 unfiltered arc elders if used proper also allow earthlings to safely follow the Moons path across the he residents of Calgary will have one of the Best seats in the House for the partial said Dave con of the Alberta science Centre and Centennial Calgary is at a position where Well see about on half of the Sun covered at the maximum Conley told Canadian watching a solar eclipse with the naked Eye is but contrary to popular the Sun does not Emit unusually hazardous rays during an he the Sun is just the but because theres something there you want to you Force yourself to stare at the Sun and you damage your Conley said anything less than 14 arc elders which has been deemed Safe for use in viewing allows too much Light looking through layers of exposed film or smoked Glass also is he unfiltered telescopes Are extremely dangerous be cause of the Large amount of Light focused on the Back of the he a solar eclipse occurs Only when the Moon comes directly Between the Earth and the or at the new Moon because the Moons orbit is slightly Only two of 13 new Moons a year result in a solar at other the tilted orbit causes the Shadow to fall above or below the Winnipeg 28 Cost Seattle 56 Post Eugene 54 Elief Post Denver 17 most Minneapolis 15 Cost san Francisco Salt Lake City 36 most 1230 Cost los Angeles 37 Post Tucson 23 most Anchorage 80 Post q source sky to Otoscope protocol to abort lawsuits rules to ease Access to medical records by Alexandra Paul new guidelines for the release of medical records will ultimately save patients court costs in malpractice a lawyer who helped draft the recommended rules they will allow patients and their particularly where theres a better Access to the records without having to medical lawyer Ernie Wehrle a joint committee of the Manitoba medical association and the Manitoba bar association released the guidelines after two years of Mma spokesman Jane Stewart said the two Page protocol is being mailed to All doctors in the who handles malpractice and other related court was one of eight members on the joint he said that in the absence of a Clear Many hospitals and doctors become nervous when confronted by grieving the families angrily accuse the institutions and doctors of malpractice in the deaths of their hospitalized relatives and then demand to see the pertinent medical he in our in a number of what often happens is the family becomes very Wehrle they scare the hospitals and the doctors and everybody gets the confrontations then end up As malpractice suits in Wehrle families feel pushed into launching court action when they would rather Settle the Issue without the expense and time of a Legal he the guidelines will give hospitals and doctors a Chance to adopt the conciliatory attitude such families Are looking Wehrle both sides will have Clear benchmarks to he nothing to fear Wehrle said most doctors have nothing to fear from the the Odd doctor who is nervous about his skills should have something to he if there Are we dont want to hide he Bill one of four doctors who represented the Mma on the praised the guidelines As a Welcome Aid for doctors Are often confused about their Legal responsibilities in releasing medical records to patients or third a health sciences Centre physicians Are a bit unsure about How much information they can Pope he said the guidelines Are based on patients rights to see their medical we Are aware that physicians have the responsibility to the patient to let him have As much information As Pope the guidelines suggest procedures for the release of information to patients and third Par often insurance companies or employers involved in compensation health sciences Centre spokesman Jim Rodger said the protocol is similar to one in use at the with one the new protocol includes an Appeal process for patients who Are denied Access to All or part of their Rodger said no Appeal exists at where the decision of the medical Vic president is consid ered that May Given the new Rodger it makes on the face of to have such an Appeal that the one Point which we May want to consider rodger1 the Mamba guidelines suggest Hospital administrators appoint three member Appeal Federal government praised for payments the Federal government is doing a Good Job of living up to its commitments on the compensation program for japanese canadians who suffered during the second world a spokesman for the group that negotiated the compensation Art president of the National association of japanese said More than of the approximately eligible canadians have and More than 200 have received the Deal negotiated with Ottawa Calls for such totalling about plus million for a Community those eligible were interned by the Federal government shortly after War broke out against Japan and were deprived of their ;