Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 13, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press May Page 3 Foster Parent to get Deputy Premier defends bogus report leaves Hospital grapevines ablaze a false Story in the free press yesterday was a hoax that had Hospital grape vines burning All Concordia Hospital has not received provincial approval for an As the Story government and Hospital officials confirmed i would have been tickled Pink if it were Concordia medical Henry in the Dirks was quoted As saying that culture minister Bonnie Mitchelson had announced a Long awaited 60bed expansion of Concordia extended care unit at the Bush fire cause probed by Michael Boci Urkiw police and fire officials were investigating the cause of a massive Bush fire that destroyed several hectares of land in Southwest Charleswood the fire started about 4 and spread rapidly As High winds Drew it precariously close to Homes on Buckingham police advised residents of about 12 houses at the North end of the fire to leave in Case it spread into the More than 180 firefighters battled the which spread through the area bordered by Wilkes Glenbush Fairmont Road and Harstone residents refer to the area As the Charleswood about 18 police officers barricaded roads in the area to keep onlookers away from the but several children were Able to come within a few metres of the burning no injuries or property damage were although one fire truck had to be towed out of the officials said the fire was under control at about 7 assistant Deputy fire chief Ron Hamel said some Homes were evacuated Only As a he said High winds and dry weather conditions the last few Days allowed the fire to spread about an hour after the fire Start residents at Buckingham and Ridgewood Avenue began watering Down their Homes in Case the fire jumped the june a Buckingham Road said yesterdays fire was the second in one she said residents have voiced concerns 4bout the length of time it took firefighters to arrive on the a Ridgewood Avenue resident said City officials should push for the area to be developed to reduce the Chance of there is some speculation that yesterdays fire was ignited by Sparks from a passing the Bush near the tracks flared up sever Al times several residents said they suspect the fire was caused by youths who often party in the Concordia Hospital foundations annual Din but Dirks said yesterday he never spoke to a free press reporter or and that who was filling in for health minister Don had merely expressed sympathy for the Orchard and Mitchelson could not be reached but Deputy health minis Ter Frank Maynard and ministerial aides confirmed that no announcement was Maynard said All capital funding is on hold pending a review by Orchards health advisory which recently struck a task Force on the provinces extended care the Story was telephoned in by a Man who identified himself As Dirks said he and his wife spent the entire dinner sitting at a table with fellow doctors and their he speculated that someone at the dinner May have called in the bogus Story As a Way of pressuring the government to come through with the expansion in going to do a Little bit of research of my Dirks adding he plans to Check on people who left the room after Mitchelson but the medical director also seemed to take the episode in in not As disturbed about this As some people the ones who Are Dis Turbed Are the other Dirks and Concordia executive Sig said they fielded Calls from other hospitals upset because Concordia plans apparently had been approved by the govern ment in Advance of their spokesmen for two hospitals with major expansion proposals called the incident by that that really said Ted executive director of Miseri Cordia general he said Dirks speculation about the pranksters motives makes i know at times its fair to say Sorm segments of a Hospital put through the on maybe it was somebody mischievous Way of Doi if Trust Misericordia is in the third year o a it was a mistake and its too bad but those things in maj Irene executive director at Grace general free press chastised bureaucrat named judge Leo Marsh left helps Michael Slemko Hose Down his family roof at 846 Bristol workers grudgingly accept pact workers at Bristol aerospace have voted two Toone to accept a new but few will report for work with smiles on their it was the Best we could said Kevin a 28yearold but considering economic conditions in its Milvor was one of 827 members of the Canadian association of Indus mechanical and Allied work ers Union at pantages playhouse theatre yesterday to learn details of a two year pact that raised their pay by 10 per cent Over two years for fell Short on benefits and working sixty six per cent voted for one who opposed the pact said Hes among about 35 workers who must work tuesday through saturday or sunday through thursday recently adopted shifts that Many fear will spread throughout the the who refused to give his said he wanted something that would give him a More Normal working i have no social life he they used our department As the Guinea now it will spread throughout the but Jason said he feared for his Job in a which he said would have been followed by layoffs from lost the contract was said who like Milvor voted for id like to have seen but so would everybody wages under the contract that expired april 1 ranged from to an Cecila a Union staff rep said Union officials we rent Happy with the especially with its shortcomings on vacations and no Protection against forced weekend Cassista said the Union recommended members accept the con tract because management demanded it As a condition for paying a five percent increase in both years of the the last Bristol in lasted five by Gerald flood a Justice department official who was reprimanded for his handling of the so called ticket Gate affair has been named to provincial yesterdays appointment of Assis Tant Deputy minister John Guy was immediately criticized by opposition which voiced no concerns about a second that of lawyer Judith Webster As Manito Bas fourth female judge in Provin Cial i cant support the appointment of John Liberal Justice critic Paul Edwards As much As i know and like John he has been held up to Public scrutiny just a few months ago and his decision making was found this sends the wrong people must be assured that Mem Bers of the judiciary Are people who Are above Edwards who is a nip Leader Gary doer said while Guy had been that was in the past and no longer has any he said he had Noth ing but Praise for Guy and believed he would make an excellent tainted by rumours he the appointment has been tainted by rumours that Guy was being Given the Post to get him out of the Way in Advance of a management shakeup in the Crown attorneys appointments in the criminal Justice system must not Only be they must be perceived to be Guy did not return repeated phone Calls Edwards and doer said they did not know but heard she was Well regarded within Legal a Federal Crown attorney from 1976 to 1987 when she became counsel to the Law society of Mani said she was delighted by her i feel very she its quite i want to be fair and apply the Law fairly and that about As far As i thought about she doer said websters making her the fourth woman named to the provincial Bench in 15 was a move in the right the until a few years looked like a dinner at the Manitoba club he Justice minister Jim Mccrae said criticism of Guys appointment was irresponsible and he said Guy has had a 20year including such posts As director of prosecutions and responsibility for every major facet of administering Justice in i cant think of a More natural progression for a person of his Backi ground and Mccrae said the fact Guys Posi Tion As assistant Deputy minister is being eliminated in a departmental restructuring had no bearing on the decision to name him to the Justice department sources have said the restructuring had pitted Guy and prosecutions director Stu Whitley in a Battle for a new position As director general of but Deputy minister Gordon Piu key said yesterday no such position is but he confirmed that Guys Posu Tion will be eliminated As part of a departmental and that a Titley will be Given a new title of director of Public Whitley will oversee three new who will have responsibility for prosecutions in Rural Manitou in and special pro Grams and the new which puts a management level Between Crown attorneys and was recommended in a re which was trigger by a review of the ticket fixing scandal in Winni Peg Early last former court of Queens Bench chief Justice Archibald Dewar said problems with the prosecution of those alleged to have had traffic tickets were in part due to a poor management and reporting Structure in the attorney departments prosecutions he also faulted both Guy and Whitley for not bringing in a special prosecutor to handle allegations of ticket fixing involving judges and departmental spying it should have been Clear there was potential for conflict of of 18 people Only four went resulting in three guilty pleas and one Whitley and Guy were reprimanded after the Dewar report was re leased last first contract Call puts end to strike a strike at a Winnipeg nursing Home ended yesterday when management asked the Manitoba labor Board to impose a first the 41 nurses at the Maples per Sonal care Home had been on strike since a spokesman for the Manitoba organization of nurses associations said staff would return to work this Manitoba first contract Law allows labor or management to ask the Board to impose a contract if the two sides cannot reach epileptic derailed years in bid to regain Job Barry Guild has to its no big Deal because with can be that not the Way up rail sees after suffering a his first in he lost his Job As a Boxcar understood and appreciated the company feared he could endanger the lives of other so he asked for his old cleaning sweeping out offices in now this is where it gets just Plain up management ruled he want medically fit to Wield a handle a vacuum cleaner or a polishing guilds George described that As absolute nonsense and told the company the mans epilepsy would present no problem As Long As he continued to take so up rail then told the Man there want a cleaning Job but As soon As one became available he would be that was years can you believe that in All this not one up rail cleaning Job has become available not in a Branch Plant of a Mammoth organization that takes up close to 3 columns in the Winnipeg Telephone Mike Ward directory not anywhere in Canada who kidding whom George the company Manitoba Public relations said part of the problem is up rails we have separate each responsible for their own instead of making All these departments aware of guilds desire to find work As a cleaner right from the up rail has left it to the Man to phone or write tie company from time to keep in touch with his Union or study the classified columns for any Guild concedes he didst Tell up he was an epileptic when he first started working for the company in i haunt had a seizure for Many years and As i was Only cleaning i just didst say anything until my probation was after a couple of he was promoted to his epileptic attack came after his shifts were in order not to lose Money As a result of the he worked a double id been off medication for two years and i guess doing those extra hours brought on an when it became Clear the company want going to reinstate Guild to his former cleaning his the International brotherhood of firemen and Allied took up his Case and filed a grievance in Union Boss Dominic Mancini said that about a year a Date was set for it was postponed at cps another was set and postponed by the a the same this is How it was when Guild called me a few months after i spoke to Smellie about the latest postponement the company lawyer apparently wanted More time to study the Case a new Date was set for this now that been put off until this the Federal labor Board arbitrator due to hear the Case has been Guild also got the Canadian human rights commission they did Sweet he they ruled it want a Case of of Hes going Back to see the commission on tuesday to have another shot at getting some Hes got my theres no doubt in my mind that in this Case up rail Hast any Conception As to what human rights Are All like treating a person with understanding and if i were i want to go Back to work for an organization that dishes out this kind of a i understand where Hes coming Hes a Short order Cook earning considerably less than what he made at up its hard for a person like me to make a Good up provided that As Well As a Good All he needs is for someone with any clout at up rail to read pick up the phone and bring this nonsense to an maybe Smellie might drop it on that persons desk and do what up rail pays him to do Tell the company what Good Public relations is All Odd just when i think Ive heard everything there is about the silliness of government regulations and along comes something the provinces department of economic recently folded into the newly named family services wants a 43yearold paraplegic to get a doctors certificate before it will consider an increase in his clothing i got the feeling that department spokesman Janice Little was a Little embarrassed when she got Back to me to say this was a Standard department Little explained that Allan Nordal would have to obtain a medical recommendation for his clothing Money to be increased because 1 it was health related and 2 such social assistance comes out of the departments health component a paraplegic from the age of 1 told me he needed the extra Cash because his sweaters and jackets wore out More quickly than an average persons because of constant rubbing against the Back of his this is he dont the people who make these rules know that doctors Are there to treat the not write letters about clothing like the Man getting a runaround victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy Call Mike hell look into ;