Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 9, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March Miff an Alberta medical school Dean disputes a claim by a disgruntled Winnipeg diabetes expert who claimed this week he is moving his lab to Calgary Foothills University of Calgary medical school Dean to Watanabe said no agreement on the move has been statements about the move by the Anders have raised eyebrows in Watanabe in surprised he would release a state ment like that unless he is trying to Dicker with Manitoba Over what they might have offered Watanabe what an absolutely tasteless thing for him to Watanabe said his faculty is negotiating a move to Calgary with his Ann partner Doug and their combined 15member research Noth ing is Watanabe provincial Aid timing draws fire from Mil by Glen Mackenzie the Manitoba federation of labor and the province Are at loggerheads Over the governments treatment of workers idled by Plant labor ministered Connery said yesterday Ern ment committees to inform workers about social assistance and openings work interviewed after meet ing with Mil said his department takes the although adding workers food and housing Bills Are paid by Federal programs like unemployment soften blow Mil president Wilf Hudson argued the province could give extra help to workers such As those who lost jobs when Canada packers closed its poultry those losing jobs at Ogilvie Mills and those who May lose them at carting okeefe breweries Western and Mol sons Manitoba brewery Active government involvement comes Only after the fact and is limited to measures to soften the blow and mop up the the Mil said in a Brief to programs to facilitate the search for new jobs and help people survive the new employment Are important in but they Are no substitute for the action that should have begun before the closing was the government knows its ind Hudson said after the closed meeting with he also said Many workers who got or an hour in food or Beer plants will have to take or province asked if the publicity has jeopardized the proposed Watanabe said its certainly making people reassess the whole Watanabe added that it would be Prema Ture to say if the offer will be shelved because of the he said he wants to discuss the Issue first with the two officials in the medical faculty who have been negotiating with Sima and Watanabe added that Sima and Greene have held Only preliminary discussions for funding with the Alberta heritage the heritage Money is not necessarily guaranteed for diabetes Watan Nabe Sima denied using publicity As leverage to secure an agreement to bring Greene to after two years of fruitless Sima said he and Green have Given up on the University of Manitoba and the health sciences we tried every possible Avenue to swing this in but there comes a time when you say youve spent enough time and you give it Sima he acknowledged he and Greene have no signed agreement in we have not signed it but its in the 1 talked to the people in Calgary two or three Days ago about Sima he said he anticipates being named pro Fessor of pathology and being accredited to Calgary general Hospital and Foothills Greene will be named professor of medi he Sima said he is in the process of applying for Grant Money from the heritage fund in anticipation of the he said he expects to receive final word on heritage funding by Watanabe said he did not know of an agreement being mailed to Watanabe said the officials handling the his Heads of Medicine and Are out of town and cant be reached to confirm if an agreement is in route to Winnipeg and Ann in simultaneous news conferences last sep Sima and Greene announced the discovery of a promising new diabetes drug called at the Sima said the drug could be u u disputed v used to treat up to one million North Ameri cans suffering from a debilitating diabetes related nerve Sima blamed the Calgary move on a Lack of leadership and direction at the of Manitoba medical school and the health f sciences 1 University and Hospital officials countered that Sima and Greene turned a offer Down because Calgary promised More j Sima said the Ballpark figures discussed1 with Calgary include a Grant of up to million Over five years from the heritage fund and the Promise of about 900 Square metres of lab space at a new research he was offered million Over three years by the health sciences Centre research conditional on successful fundraising Lack of interest kills free Trade workshop Connery process working an hour in service which will Hurt Manitoba whole Connery said the province does what it can to create Well paying jobs for those idled he and Hudson also clashed on the controversial final offer selection arbitration which the government pledged to abolish and introduced legislation to do Connery that rather than avoiding the Law simply pro Longs them from perhaps 30 Days to when a Union can apply for but Hudson said 15 per cent of requests came from the government wants to keep us out on picket lines until we he that is what there Doine it Hudson also said some unions initially opposed to final offer selection have since changed their still opposed Maureen a staff representative for the Canadian Union of Public the largest Union in the province opposed to said opposition Hast changed at the unions provincial or Federal Hudson said the Cabinet gave the federation a fair but Noth ing came of there is a difference Between hearing and i dont think you could say they were listening to by Zena Olijnyk even the Promise of hearing two top negotiators who helped Hammer out the free Trade Deal want enough to lure Winnipeg businesses to a seminar on the topic a scheduled Daylong free Trade workshop was cancelled for Lack of organizers it seems people either wanted specific information related to How free Trade would affect their particular or they Felt they had already been inundated with information on the said organizer Bob a Winnipeg Law Gordon Canadas Deputy chief Trade was to have dealt with the free Trade agreement from an historical Wil Liam one of the chief Ameri can was to have focused on the Deal from the stand other topics included a look at How to develop new sources of supplies and the distribution of i guess people Felt this approach was too Broad a perspective on free Goodwin said in an inter workshop organizers needed a minimum of 100 people to attend the but even after contacting businesses by mail and following up Over the they were Only Able to come up with 40 tentative Many of the people contacted said they were already involved in Trade with the and were reason ably Well versed on the said Cost not Factor he said the Cost of attending the seminar didst seem to be a big Factor in deterring Goodwin said other businesses in dictated they had no intention of getting involved in Trade with the we organized the quite because we Felt there was an Opportunity to gain some business from companies planning to use the free Trade agreement to expand into the Goodwin 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