Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 2, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free june paqe3 religious leaders Pray for academic pans uranium local ambulance service complaint probed by Lisa priest the director of Winnipeg ambulance service is investigating allegations that two attendants refused to take a bleeding woman to Hospital until they had her Manitoba health services commission As Jake Enns said yesterday he will look into a complaint that the attendants went through the woman purse for her medicare card while she Lay bleeding from the unable to we certainly want to hear the other Side of the he whenever somebody in the Public is not Happy about the level of ser we Insun Park said yesterday she complained to critic attacks misuse of Grants by Catherine Mitchell Winnipeg private schools Are using Grants targeted for learning disabled pupils to Cut deficits and boost teacher an nip la charged former education minister Jerry Storie a Deflin flon said he wants provincial auditor Fred Jack son to investigate How the schools Are using the new introduced earlier this year and made retroactive to last Storie tabled in the legislature a letter sent by the laureate facade which caters specifically to learning disabled telling parents it would use the Grants for to reduce its he said he has heard from other parents who have children in an other private school which he re fused to name that the Grants were to give teachers he said Grants and their mis use Are another example of the tory governments misguided decision to increase funding to private schools without demanding the accountability required of Public disturbing education minister Len Derkach said the new Grants targeted for special needs children Are part of his party Campaign commitment to increase funding to private schools to 50 per cent of the amount going to the Public school the for Mer nip government gave private schools Only 29 per he he said he found stories allegations disturbing and would while private schools Arent required to submit individual Educa Tion plans for each of their special needs students As do Public schools each student applying for the additional Grant must be assessed by the education department before Money is he laureate Academy executive director Edward Scully said the school needed to put the it expected to receive in the special needs Grants toward its deficit Scully said the James schools program has Cost More than the tuition fees have garnered and it decided to run a deficit rather than boost fees or clip its the deficit was accumulated through serving he and thus new Grants should be used against Ems Over the service her Mother received three weeks ago at the family Northend grocery the mood was coming out in Park said of her she had had four nosebleeds the week before and we were worried it might have something to do with her bad heart when ambulance attendants arrived at the Park they were bothering her Mother for her address and medicare my Mother said she could not talk Well at Park said she had her hand Over her Mouth and there was mood in it and at the Back of her Park said even though her Mother motioned to the men she could not they insisted that they have her card before they take her to the health sciences she pointed to her purse and they rummaged through she and they look at All this when they came across her Park said Hospital staff later discovered that a vessel in her mothers nose had we think the Peoples behaviour was Park she was not in any condition to talk and they should have taken her to the Hospital right Enns refused to discuss when it is appropriate for attendants to demand a medicare card or hidden aspect to land Deal alleged by Catherine Mitchell housing minister Gerry Ducharme is hiding some aspect of the provinces controversial land Deal with lad co nip housing critic Jay Cowan charged yester Cowan Churchill said he rejects Ducharms offer to go through the working papers on proposals submitted by lad co and two other firms bidding jointly to develop land in lad co won the Deal after offering to return million More to the province than the firms closest the government Cowan said Ducharme should table the working papers in the instead of insisting on a meeting in his office Why june 6 Why does he Ducharme have to be there Cowan they want to keep something under wraps until june he said he did not want to join in the liberals accusations that Money the tories received from donors connected to lad co in 1986 and in 1987 influenced the governments he his willingness to defend the integrity of the govern ments decision was tested when he Learned the Borger family part owners of lad co and another firm related to the family donated to the tories in last years election the government can Clear the air Over the Deal Only if Ducharme tables the proposals submitted by a consortium of companies called Nowc and Gen Star develop ment for his Ducharme said june 6 was the earliest he could schedule a he said he wanted to be in on the to be attended by Manitoba housing and renewal because As chairman of the corporations Board he is responsible for the working he again refused to make the proposals saying Gen Star has said it Doest want its offer re but opposition critics will see nothing was hidden and that the lad co offer was Best when they see the Ducharme he dismissed allegations the Polit ical donations swayed the land Deal stressing he had no idea How much the company or its owners gave to him or the local tunesmith on the Ball the Worth of a Winnipeg songwriting couple will soon be heard before Blue jays games televised on ctr after their theme Long Waschisen among 15 other publicist Fred Glazerman of Harford productions said insurance Salesman Ken Carriere and his wife a music teacher with the setae River school were thrilled to learn their ditty will be aired on the National television network prior to Blue jays the theme which he described As an uptempo will also be broadcast during the Toronto sky dome on he said die fort who write songs As a were paid about for the song by Blue jays sponsor Lavatts Angle who hails from a family of fiddlers in music in her Glazerman noting her Brothers and Sisters performed during president George Bush he said while the couple write songs As a they Are now going to devote More of their spare time to it Lack of funds kills courses in child care of to end degree plans a few bars rest Karen Carlson rests her Chin on her cello during a Suzuki music performance yesterday at Portage the Young musicians put on the mall concert As part of festival Japan which features various events around by Patrick Mckinley the provinces refusal to fund a childcare degree program at the University of Manitoba will mean elimination of existing courses and Hurt daycare facilities on the Cam the University Dean of human ecology said Berry said the faculty will close its child development lab which provides drop in Day care for 60 Small children next septem in it will phase out elec Tive childcare courses offered As part of its family studies degree she the decision comes after the prov inces universities Grants commis Sion refused to provide for the childcare degree program the faculty had proposed setting up next a childcare task Force established by the Filmon government recommended last month that the province provide funding for the new degree but education minister Len Der Kach yesterday refused to intervene to reverse the ugh in the Wake of the ugh the University has refused to reallocate existing funding to ensure that the new program goes Derkach did not Rule out providing funding for the program in but Berry said it will be too the time was right for this i think we would have a hard keeping the momentum limping along for another were very upset about it its such a piddly amount of Money in the University budget or the provincial govern ments she the Manitoba child care Assoc a representing childcare work wrote to Derkach and University president Arnold Naimark this urging them to reconsider their fifteen of the 20 students the new degree program would have accommodated have already signed up for classes this and teaching Candi dates Are ready and waiting for the letter careers curtailed it says that without the career advancement opportunities for childcare workers will be cur hurting the Quality of Manito Bas daycare 1 nip la Judy Wasyly Ciales Johns raised the Issue in the legislature yesterday and berated Derkach for refusing to Tell the Grants commission and University that the program is a High govern ment the proposed degree program would have provided specialized training in infant childcare management and dealing with Spe Cial needs she but Derkach said he would rather see scarce dollars go into existing diploma programs at red River and Assiniboine Community colleges be cause they will get trained daycare employees into the workforce fas Ter and alleviate a shortage of child care although we would like to do everything at once and the child care association would like us to do everything at that is hardly he Berry said about 15 to 20 students annually have gone through the existing degree program with the aim of becoming certified childcare but the province recently in creased certification requirements and has Only agreed to recognize the existing program until will graduate for students that we currently have in the program we will make sure that they graduate and that they will receive she the University of Winnipeg can celled its diploma program a year ago when Federal funding expired and the province did not renew its the provinces refusal to fund the new bachelors degree program Means plans for a masters program will also have to be Birry she added that closing the Day care which doubles As a learning Laboratory for University will leave a serious Short age of daycare facilities on Cam the faculty of education recently closed a similar Laboratory that provided Day care for older she lung group to Honor Epp for tobacco Law the Canadian lung association will Honor Energy minister Jake Epp for guiding a tobacco Law through parliament during his term As Federal health an association statement the association will present Epp with its Connaught award of Honor at its 89th annual awards banquet in Vancouver the statement the association named Epp As responsible for initiating and Spon Soring Bill the tobacco products control last the state ment the act called for All forms of tobacco advertising to be phased out in Magazine advertising and sponsorship provisions of the legislation took effect but tobacco companies can continue promotions using their corporate names without reference to their the statement the advertising ban includes the use of tobacco trademarks or Brand names in sponsorship activities and related promotional it put project gets godhead a Pilot recycling project in the Wolseley area has been endorsed by the City and is expected to be in place in 400 Homes in City Council on wednesday approved the experimental project to place special Gar Bage bags and containers in a Small Section of the the project will be expanded to another Homes in Wol Seley and another area of the City three months u the provincial and Federal governments come through with Winnipeg will Advance or the project this year and another next year to cover Startup and equipment i police fight Oneman report cars by Terry Weber an arbitration ruling allowing an extra Oneman report car in each of the cites six police districts was beyond the boards Juris diction and should be struck from the forces a court was told its intensely important in our View As a safety Al lawyer for the Winnipeg police said during a motion to have the provision removed from the its so blatantly Clear to me that they did act beyond their he said the Section was wrongly added to the even though neither Side asked the tribunal to consider the Issue of single Man report by addressing the matter during talks last i he the Board overstepped its during the City had been asking for Oneman Cruiser cars be used in responding to crimes in Progress the arbitration Board gave it Oneman report he there is a very distinct difference be tween the two cars and their he told associate chief Justice Richard Scott of Manitoba court of Queens they went Forward and answered a ques Tion that had never been put to its like going to court and asking for one specific remedy and the court putting Forth a differ ent lawyer Marvin representing the argued the distinction Between cruisers and report cars was minimal and said the clause should remain in the its the cites Point of View that its a very technical and legalistic Type of he All my Friend is saying is there is some magic in the words Oneman report he also said it would be impractical simply to quash the the ruling should be sent Back for he since Oneman report cars have been dispatched in each of the cites six police districts to respond to Low priority such As Darold during the tribunal ruled that the department could double the number of Oneman report cars to two in each of the six the move was designed to help the department avoid sending cruisers with two officers to do work that could be done by one since the matter has been under the department Hast exercised its option to use the additional Oneman in an John police association said there int enough crime in All districts to warrant the addition of the extra Oneman they probably be implemented in All the he said he noted the Appeal comes at a time when the association and the City Are trying to schedule talks for their next collective agree i would like to see negotiations begin by the end of he acting police chief Paul Johnston said the extra cars could Aid police Oneman report cars would certainly be an advantage to the City under the right he Scott reserved his ;