Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba D Kim i 4 Winnipeg free september 1989 workers say via use rises continued from Page 1 he said ridership is up across can Ada by 13 per while in Western Canada ridership has increased 31 per its strange to see a reduction in any personnel with increases in ridership like he the prime minister said use it or lose the Public is using it and still there Are cutbacks in staff that will Only Lead to reductions in transport minister Benoit Bou Chard told the commons the layoffs were part of the Day today operations of via and had nothing to do with budget but for the first time since the government announced in april that it was slashing its support for Bouchard tried to shift some of the blame to finance minister Michael Wilson and his officials who decided that support for via would be Cut to million in 1993 from million last year As part of the tory Campaign to reduce government spend opposition members charge the layoffs Are Only a Small part of massive cuts being contemplated in a Cabinet document leaked to the free press on it Doest Surprise me that there Are layoffs because via is obviously positioning itself for drastic cuts effective some time Between Jan uary 1 and said Winnipeg North Centre Liberal David for that we think that they Are going to Start hitting people in the marketing area and manage ment because they Are no longer needed with the cutbacks Conte a two Page inner Cabinet Docu ment reveals a plan to eliminate 13 of 24 unprotected routes in every Region of the country and hints More cuts could be possible if three lines Are the plan would reduce maritime service to one end passenger service on Vancouver Island and leave Canada with Only one trans Continental train operating on a twice weekly severe cuts Bouchard refused to confirm or deny the but made it Clear that severe cuts Are after saying he rejects the he quickly backed away from saying that it was that is a leaked document and i never give any importance to that kind of Bouchard As soon As the announcement is it will be based not necessarily on the Winnipeg free press but on a document which will be prime minister Mulroney told re porters he expects canadians will react negatively to the canadians do not respond Well to cuts to but this is nothing he said on his Way into a weekly caucus we have a very serious problem that we have to Bouchard said while he does not the cuts to the National passenger rail service to be he Hopes canadians understand the need to pare Back the Money los ing Liberal Leader John Turner said if the government follows through with its parliament will run minister out of town on a he said under the plan the Only Way someone could take a train from Toronto to Niagara Falls would be on an american publicly owned rail on this Issue canadians have said enough is Turner american express is going to run our Amtrak is now going to run our rail service and canadians Are beginning to wonder when the United states postal ser vice is going to deliver our die in free press a Winnipeg Man says his estranged continued from Page 1 Deine laced contained the Hospital instructions return to the Man said his wife left him Librium and 282 me last Friday with a note indicating the drugs were for his anticipated labels on five other vials showed they purported to contain antihistamines and anti nausea the Man said he and his wife enjoyed Many mood altering occasions with drugs stolen from the pharmacy and from a Misericordia director Ted Bartman said if the allegations Are the nurse will be she also could have her nursing licence suspended or revoked after a review by one of two provincial nursing Bart Man Hospital officials have asked Winnipeg police to Bartman after yesterdays the Hospital also began its own internal review of inventory control i decided to blow the whistle on the Man said he said his wife has been supplying the pair with stolen prescription drugs for at least five these drugs have left a Mark on my he adding he plans to move from Manitoba to wean himself off the nurse refused to comment the couple have not been living together for a the husband said he sought retribution against his wife after she and a Boyfriend removed some furniture from his Home want her to get in punishing he i want her to get i want to get my Pound of her Job would be in jeopardy i would imag the Man said that As Well As supplying the pair with drugs for mood altering social the nurse also brought drugs Home for medi Cal these included its too bad i didst keep them All Over the i could fill a Green garbage bag he the nurses order More than they need or they dont give the patient a full he adding a nurse could pocket narcotics after giving a patient half the prescribed he said theft of Hospital drugs by nurses is common in Winnipeg its common for nurses to he there under a lot of stress and they think they can manage but some nurses also steal drugs for my wife ships them to her Mother in he Bartman said the review of drug inventory control at Misericordia will extend to All Hospital other staff May be he adding while drugs Are strictly even More stringent measures May be you put in All the controls you he but in the end it comes Down to trusting the professionalism of the licence in jeopardy he said he was unable to explain precisely How vials marked for return to the pharmacy could find their Way out of the he that pharmacy staff May Overlook some instances where the no returned drugs Are common painkillers such As 282 Irene director of the Manitoba organization of nurses said the nursing Union is obligated to defend the inter ests of its members and should the Hospital take any action against the nurse in Verna director of the Manitoba association for licenced practical said it is unusual for nurses to actually get caught stealing when it they usually lose their licence to Holgate among some of the drugs the Man says his wife obtained illegally were d valium a prescription drug mostly taken to relieve it contains diazepam and acts As a sedative and muscle d Librium an Antianxiety prescription closely related in effects to it contains a drug called d282mep a drug that contains Caf Feine and 15 milligrams of which Means it is a narcotic and closely monitored through one of the first mild tranquillisers available on the 282 meps has been largely replaced by valium and Librium to relieve anxiety and muscle aches and d Bena common overt counter antihistamines that tend to relax Muscles and prod uce mild drowsiness and used for d erythromycin is an Antibiotic prescribed to people with veneral diseases or respiratory infections who Are allergic to drugs con Taining National officials threaten to seize a allotted poppy revenues continued from Page 1 year to straighten out their funds or we would take it Over for a comparison of National and Manitoba poppy fund statements shows that Manitoba branches distributed less of the Money they collected than the National a spokesman for the legions Ottawa office said legion branches distributed 58 per cent of poppy funds collected last Boyer said 47 per cent of the Money collected in Manitoba and North Western Ontario was the poppy fund collected million and distributed in the branches collected and distributed Boyer said if the branches do not meet new distribution guidelines this the provincial command will help spend the if they dont spend we would move into that area and invest he Well see if there Are areas that they can spend it Boyer said there is almost another of poppy funds set aside in Cash accounts or proceeds from annual poppy sales support needy veterans and their last National legion officials became worried that the organizations charitable tax status could be endangered because some branches poppy funds were getting too Boyer said he expected the branches under his command will increase their distribution figures during the following year to match National weve informed them that Treyve got to spend More he i expect the distribution figures will change next in addition to helping veterans and their Boyer said poppy funds can be used to Purchase Spe Boyer said expenses for last years Cial Hospital including the Cost of the some branches have been holding amounted to 44 per cent of on to their he in Antici the proceeds pation of new Hospital construction expenses accounted in their for 41 per cent of total proposal critic says continued from Page 1 after the decision on reforms will be up to the opposition critics zeroed in on the proposed foreign i dont believe its a step said Liberal John Nunzia saying Canada Doest need peo ple overseas planting bugs and stealing the recommendation really is new Democrat John Brewin was More saying it might be on a Caseb Case to collect intelligence but he rejected the idea of continuing i certainly think its going to be a hard Brewin welcomed the proposal to do away with snooping on people defined As Domestic meaning those who work for the overthrow of the Sis and its the ramp Security have been accused of using the Loose definition to harass labor peace groups and political the former counter subversion Branch of Sis was shut Down two years and the Atkey committee said the time has come to repeal the Legal authorization that might other Wise allow the service to resume such both Brewin and Nunziata welcomed the idea of greater oversight for other intelligence such As an ramp unit that collects intelligence on National Security and the communications Security is the Ultra secret a Branch of the defence works with the United states and other allies to Monitor soviet Mili tary communications and traffic at foreign embassies in Canadian Banks mum on laundering continued from Page 1 report and cited it As depicting a Friendly country whose Bankers Are thumbing their noses at our banking in Toronto and officials at the Canadian Bankers Assoc a a lobbying and Trade Organiza Tion that represents the nations largest declined to comment on the report or on Kerry re members of the subcommittee staff said representatives of Canad an Banks had declined invitations to appear at the no specific Canadian Banks were identified in the report As being intentionally involved in laundering drug unlike in the United the Canadian banking Industry is heavily concentrated around about a half dozen leading the report indicated that both Large and Small Banks were being increasingly under a provision of the Antidrug abuse act of the Treasury department must negotiate with for eign countries to obtain stronger cooperation and coordination of Money laundering investigations and the Treasury is required to Issue findings this year on Progress it has made and on nations that should be sanctioned for failing to the office of National drug control directed by William is expected to announce the formation of a committee next month to identify International and Domestic Money laundering prob various departments the committee will consist of senior officials from various Federal departments and including state and the National Security and its find Ings Are expected to form the basis for policy and specific regulatory within the last year Canada has adopted Laws that permit officials to freeze suspected assets and have them forfeited for convictions of Money the new Laws also makes Money laundering a crime for the first time in several recent Money laundering investigations have disclosed significant ties Between Money laundering operations by drug dealers in the United states and latin America that have made use of Canadian Federal authorities say that operation Polar the largest Money laundering investigation in Ameri can uncovered More than billion that was laundered Over an 18month some of which went through Banks in in that Canadian Lawen for Cement authorities working closely with american officials received million from assets that were forfeited 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