Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 13, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba S u Winnipeg free press March page3 funding limits Spur school Queens address focuses on 11year emigration Battle expected to end with by Lisa priest after waging an 11year Battle with soviet emigration Alia Wolfson says Shell finally be reunited with her Sisters family when they move to Winnipeg from Leningrad next my sister received a Call from Leningrad last week and they told her she can apply for a said last in two or three weeks theyl have their visas and in another month they could be Wolfson said her Lilia her and the couples and will stay with her and her husband until they Are settled in their new now were just waiting for a phone Call that says she bought her ticket and there on their Way she in so Happy i cant believe Wolfson and her soviet relatives went on a we Klong fast in january to gain publicity for their emigration As Many As jewish families staged rotating hunger strikes in a show of the soviets had repeatedly turned Down requests to allow the Rabinov itches to Emi grate to Canada because Wolf sons brother who worked at a radio equipment knew state but Wolfson has said her brother in Law knows nothing about radio technology that is not already common knowledge in he and his an lost their jobs in 1978 after they first applied to emigrate and have done unskilled work since they were told they reapply for a visa until Wolfson flew to Ottawa 23 to try and persuade soviet embassy officials to allow the Rabinov itches to late last Igor press at i next month tache at the soviet embassy in said the Rabinov itches could leave Leningrad As soon As they prepared themselves and bought airlines tickets on one of the two weekly flights to but he downplayed the significance of Wolf sons protests and said the outcome was exactly what had been expected All we said from the beginning there were no grounds for excitement or he it was just a matter of Obj press Happy trails Driver Karen Harrison steers her horses through the Snow at the the Diamond d which runs the rides Assim Boine Park yesterday As a Young passenger peeks out from May have to end the service because of warm group targets abortion clinic preacher reveals plans for operation Rescue Campaign in Spring by David Roberts a Winnipeg spokesman for opera Tion an antiabortion says the Morgentaler clinic on Corydon ave nue will be a target for civil disobedience this William Ehlers of Bethesda Church said last weeks supreme court of Canada decision not to accede to anti abortion activist Joe Borowskiy request for a declaration on the constitutional rights of the fetus has reinforced his own commitment to fight for the rights of the in Vancouver and opera Tion Rescue activists have gathered in Masse at clinic blocking a Cess and risking arrest for similar protests occurred last year in the United states and recently resulted in 102 arrests outside the Vancouver Ehlers said antiabortion including clergy from various Deomina began planning the first operation Rescue Effort in Winnipeg before last weeks court Fervour redoubled he refused to give a Date for the protest in but said the activists Fervour redoubled after the court refused to Rule on whether the unborn have a constitutional right to Ehlers said operation Rescue is not organized nationally but is a grassroots movement organized in various Urban centres by local antiabortion Ehlers said about 75 people attended the first orientation session for would be held at a local he said a lawyer told them what to expect when arrested and How to protest with a minimum of Ehlers suggested that the kind of near violent confrontations that occurred in Vancouver wont happen in we Are trying to do everything we can in the training to be nonviolent in action and he what we Are concerned with is that we present our Case in a Way that is very peaceable and Ehlers added that prospective rescuers Are screened to ensure no one will jeopardize the protests with the minister said Many christians believe abortion at any stage in fetal development is he some religious new Legal Battle by pro Choice forces expected by Alexandra Paul antiabortion crusader Joe Borowskiy defeat in the supreme court of Canada last week frees pro Choice forces to renew Legal actions for equal Access to and better funding of abortions in Cana Henry Morgentaler Morgentaler warned that he wont hesitate to use the courts to Stop anti abortionists if they use operation Rescue tactics against his Winnipeg and Toronto abortion an antiabortion operation Rescue protest is planned for Morgentaler Corydon Avenue clinic sometime this an organizer Morgentaler countered that militant anti abortionists will face injunctions if they Block the entrances to his we might have to seek an injunction in Toronto and we might consider it for Winnipeg if the situation gets out of he adding operation Rescue tactics Are Morgentaler comments followed a major antiabortion defeat last week when the supreme court refused to Rule on a charter of rights and freedoms Challenge by the same court struck Down the Crim Inal code abortion Law last year after Morgentaler warns militants Morgentaler challenged it As a violation of the since his supreme court Morgentaler has launched court cases against abortion policies in new Bruns Wick and both provinces have blocked the pay ment of doctors fees for abortions not performed in Morgentaler new Brunswick lawyers presented their Case last but Justice Ronald Stevenson reserved his the doctors Manitoba lawyers filed a notice of motion in court of Queens Bench last challenging Manito Bas abortion lawyer Greg Brodsky said the province has not yet responded to the people Are prepared to risk their reputations and livelihoods by breaking the Law on higher religious he said pro Choice advocates have found that one in five women pre vented from entering an abortion clinic give birth to their Ehlers said he wants to distance his group and its tactics from Borowski reacted to his supreme court defeat by threatening to stage operation Rescue style protests in front of court Ehlers said he opposes such tactics in the essence of operation Rescue is to Rescue unborn he this Issue is not civil disobedience to discipline politicians or Ehlers said he admires Borowski for taking the antiabortion cause to the supreme but stressed that Borowski is not associated with Winni pegs operation Rescue i dont want to appear to insult but Hes been known to use inflammatory techniques that do a Disser vice to the Ehlers police say they Are not watching the Morgentaler clinic and have planned no strategy to Deal with antiabortion pro tests those situations can be dealt with on the Spur of the staff Don Peters Peters said police dont believe Borowski has broken any Laws with his Call for National civil disobedience and huge i dont think theres anything illegal about what Hes Peters adding that Borowski has not counselled any individual to break the protesters at the clinic would have no problem with police if they keep moving and dont interfere with anyone entering or leaving the he ads urge vaccine coverage insurance refusal puts babies at my a says by Alexandra Paul the provinces refusal to insure a lifesaving vaccine is exposing babies to needless risks for a fatal form of the Manitoba medical association every year that goes by with the stuff not insured we feel there is a Small but significant number of infants that Are going to be Mma president Martyn Thornington Twenty babies contracted meningitis last year in Manitoba after being infected with Hae Ophilus influenza Type b All but the Odds were against some of one of every 10 die from Hae Ophilus Hae Ophilus bacteria strikes children up to age with the majority of cases occurring under 18 the Mma thinks the provinces position flies in the face of policy elsewhere in Manitoba and Prince Edward Island Are the Only v provinces that dont cover the charge for the vaccination under according to Mma its an accepted vaccine that provides decent Prstec Tion against a disease that is a serious killer in Thornington he said the vaccines Cost discourages parents on Small fixed incomes from protecting their the other thing about the province not paying for it is it sends a negative message implication being that they dont endorse the vaccines effectiveness disputed most medical including the Canadian medical association and the Canadian paediatric believe the vaccine is effective up to 90 per cent of the he they think this stuff is a worthwhile really at a very modest Thornington said he pleaded the Case directly to health minister Don Orchard in but nothing has the province has had real doubts about the vaccine since it appeared on the Market several years the provinces communicable disease director there Are two reasons for not proceeding too Dili gently with Public Margaret fast studies on vaccines effectiveness contradict each she an alaskan study found that the vaccine want effective in children under 18 but another one in Finland found it did she the province wants a foolproof vaccine that everyone can agree she the current vaccine is also Only licenced for use in children 18 months of age and she that leaves a gaping Hole in the vaccines safety net since most cases occur in younger from two months and she Thornington said the provinces perfection robust insistence exposes an estimated 35 per cent of children Over 18 months to the the provincial policy is not carved in fast adding officials Are taking a Waitan see two in critical condition after crash with police car two people Are in critical condition after a Winnipeg police Cruiser rammed a car As it entered the intersection of Portage Avenue at Vaughan Street the patrol car Siren screaming and lights flashing going through a red Light at Vaughn Street when a compact car turned into its path and was hit witnesses to the 3 Accident one Man estimated the patrol car which police said was responding to a burglar alarm reached a Speed of 80 Kwh after turning on their emergency equip ment about five blocks two passengers in the Joel and Barbara both of were in critical condition last night with head and internal the Andrew of Pembina and a third Kenneth of were treated at Hospital and researcher assails Access to universities by Allison Bray Middle and upper income students still dominate Canadian universities despite efforts to increase Access for those from minority or working class a former University of Winnipeg sociology professor there have been modest increases in but after 30 years of Effort in this we Haven made great said Sid who now teaches sociology at the University of As he the number of female students in postgraduate studies lags far behind despite recent gains in the female population at the undergraduate Gilbert said who now represent about half the undergraduate Are being steered into specific occupations and areas of such As education and the he said comparatively few enter the faculties of business or or go on to doctoral or professional such As Medicine or we need to look at the gender and racial he told a gathering of faculty and students at the u of w last who is conducting research on University accessibility throughout said the modest improvements of recent years have levelled off in some prov including while Access has declined in some places such As British he said barriers to accessibility the ability to enter and graduate from a pos Sec Mondary institution with equal educational regardless of ethnicity or gender related to ethnicity and social class still in he As enrolments at universities increase and provincial financial sup port accessibility will Likely de Nolan chairman of the a offs presidents task Force on said provincial governments have been pouring Money into programs aimed at increasing but it Hast made a substantial the task Force believes accessibility has to be an orientation of the whole he adding the Issue is not one of ensuring students get but rather that they stay in and the 13member task comprised of University officials and will present a preliminary report this Spring to address the it will offer recommendations to improve the a history said universities should ensure that the Range of student counselling and support services they offer Are attuned to the needs of the entire not just a homogeneous for he universities Arent culturally students from minority groups Are typically steered away from a University education while they Are still in High he while he said the a of has initiated several programs aimed at increasing a such As a program with intensive academic advising to help students with a c average attain better other universities across the country Are doing very lit most universities in the country Are going in the exact opposite direction and Are becoming increasingly he ;