Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press october 1989 Page 3 Patrick City editor police take Antidrug programs to Manitoba tops murder rate local Connery contemplates legislating travel insurance consumer affairs ministered Connery said yesterday he is considering legislation to protect Manitoban when travel compan ies Connery said his department is consulting tour operators and travel agents about a system wide insurance which could be similar to one in to cover costs incurred when a travel company suspends resistance to such legislation is but it would become accepted As it has in he at first everybody gets but once you do it people Start to live with Dennis president of the tourism Industry association of said those in the travel Industry would rather set up their own travel insurance plan than have one imposed by Dempsey said with a Little through discussions with the self regulated insurance would probably come nip consumer critic Jim Maloway said system wide insurance is exactly what he has proposed in his private members Maloway said he believes some Manito bans were stranded in Honolulu after holi Dair airways suspended flights earlier this an Edmonton tour company was forced to cover costs for the travellers re Maloway said Manitoba needs a stabilization such As one set up by the Ontario government about 10 years into which fees from the Industry Are with the know Feltt press escape in Good cause Dean Gunnarson gave a display of his skill by eluding City police yesterday at a variety club fundraiser for the Rainbow after officers chained up the escape artist in the Pool area at the International he hovered for a moment by the dry ice fog shrouded Pool before taking the at last he cheerfully shaking his Filmon shuts door on daycare pay Rise by Catherine Mitchell a on Day walkout by the provinces Day care workers was virtually assured yester Day after Premier Gary Filmon rejected demands to increase worker salaries again this As Many As children will be without Day care 17 unless the Filmon govern ment has a change of executives of the Manitoba child care association theres a lot of discussion around it a people Are angry enough and frustrated and parents Are support ing association executive director Dorothy Dudek go for it parents Are if it takes a go for and ill be calling the premiers office every Day to support but Filmon said the workers will be walk ing out in vain because his government int about to increase salaries again this he also criticized the association for being adding he would meet the group privately Only if it cancelled the threatened even if they do the Issue of salaries wont be Filmon the association must Stop being just simply militant and but recognize the salary Issue is one of Many problems that require an overhaul of daycare funding to he he repeated his Bottom line there is no More Money for worker salaries in creased by each earlier this Hilmons comments came in response to the associations letter this week calling on the Premier to meet and discuss demands for another wage at a news Dudek said the membership would be closing Down the centres it represents on 17 for a mass March of parents and Centre Board members on the Glenn free press association officials Dudek left and Carol Draper discuss a ballot on the move will be held but the association believes it has already secured support from its members for the a mass protest would show the Filmon government daycare who earn an average of have the support of the Community in their bid for increased a Dudek if the protest Doest convince the province to boost the salary enhancement Grants it a longer walkout could she the association wants the government to increase salary enhancement Grants it gives to nonprofit centres by the per work or currently at a is passed directly on to Dudek said because the association is not a it does not want to risk breaking provincial labor legislation by calling for a under the terms of the labor relations any action by the no unionized Day care workers must be taken with compliance of the employers the centres boards of directors avoid potential fines or in she at the also members of the Are behind the workers Dudek angry residents Jam Hall to condemn plan to build office Tower Over Creek about 100 angry residents packed a Community club last night to vent their opposition to a plan to build a 16storey office Tower Over mands Liberal Justice critic Paul Edwards James said his constituents Are deeply opposed to the plan by Steve owner of Rae and jerrys restaurant on Portage to construct the office Tower and car Wash Over the Creek on a 46metre strip of land he owns North of i have had More letters from constituents on this than any other he said last Edwards said the proposed site of the project is immediately North of Bluestem which the province paid million for two years ago after another Deve Loper threatened to build on the he said residents and environmentalists Are concerned the project would upset the ecological balance of the deprive residents of the Little Gree space in the and be a blight on the although the province has agreed to the cites request to conduct an environmental Impact study on the project before it can go Edwards said residents expressed concern that the area would be devastated by the the passionate stories told last night about their love of the Creek were quite he adding the residents who attended the meeting gathered names on a petition opposing the City shuts Down Savoy hotel As cleanup called inadequate the cites health department has closed a hotel for the first time since at least the Winnipeg chief health in Spector said Gary Solkoski said the owner of the Savoy hotel at 686 main Street had made few improvements after a routine inspection two months ago found an infestation of mice and an order then and another a few weeks later to Clear them out and to make numerous repairs to the floors and ceilings failed to produce significant re sults by the time another inspection was done so the built Early this had to be boarded sol Koski the owner asked for More he but officials decided another Exten Sion be reasonable under the he the owner appeared to be interested in doing More work and if he complies with the the hotel will be Solkoski said he didst know How much the required work would he said the eight to 10 hotel residents were dispersed to other the owner be reached yester Day for Solkoski said he has worked for the department for 14 years while health officials have closed some hotel suites in that they have never shut Down an entire Ontario travellers Are automatically he Connery said he is contemplating such a the Cost of travel would probably Rise to cover the fees under such a he but it would Likely be cheaper than the Price of individual travel insurance Manitoban must buy for Protection he major project review favored Ransom says pub should be involved by Patrick Mckinley Manitoba Hydro chairman Brian Ransom recommended last june that the province pass legislation allowing the Public utilities Board to review in Advance major Hydro in my it is entirely appropriate for Manitoba Hydro to be required to defend its major capital expenditure plans before the Public utilities Board and to receive their comments and Ransom said in a june 9 memo to Energy minister Harold the memo says the step would improve Hydro accountability to the it says the pub should not have final approval Over construction but should be Able to review Hydro Neufeld told the legislature wednesday that letting the pub scrutinize Hydro plans would cause unacceptable delays in con he rejected Liberal la John Angus Call for such saying it was a foolish Ransom said yesterday he has no objection to legislation allowing the pub to review Hydro i think its in the Public interest however it comes about and if its legislation then its he finance minister Clayton manness who has Overall responsibility for Crown corporation accountability took a different approach yesterday to Neufeldt earlier manness said in an interview he would not quarrel with Neufeldt concern about but he is prepared to see the pub review Hydro projects in Advance if the govern ment retains final Liberal Bill manness said he has made no decision on a Liberal Bill that would require Hydro to submit plans for pub but leave the government with final say on whether the projects Angus Norbert said he expects to introduce the Bill for first Reading he said it is based on ransoms june recommendation to the Manitoba court of Appeal ruled tuesday that existing legislation allowing the pub to approve Hydro rates does not give it the right to approve or reject Hydro construction which can add to the rates Hydro customers there is a flaw with this chief Justice Alfred Monnin the ruling came in response to a request by lawyer Arnie Peltz for a court decision on the who is representing the Manitoba society of seniors and the Manitoba Branch of the Consumers association of said yesterday he would prefer legislation giving the pub the right to approve or reject Hydro he said the legislation the Liber als Are proposing is better than who has already offered to put Hydro plans before the pub later this said yesterday the court ruling has not altered that both Peltz and Angus said legislation is needed because Hydro management May not always be so willing to submit plans for we have Brian Ransom now and he is very but it May not always be Brian Angus nurses concerned As mystery leak returns by Alexandra Paul a persistent leak at Misericordia general Hospital is worrying who fear it is tied to their health including two their Union said i know the nurses feel it is a toxic solution that has been giving them some unpleasant said Vera Cher president of the Manitoba Organiza Tion of since complaints of upper respiratory Eye and nose irritations and nausea have come from the 30 nurses on Sherbrook a medical Chernecki two nurses on the Ward had spontaneous abortions Over the fou year she nurses have linked their health problems to sporadic leaks dripping from the ceiling above their nursing Chernecki they believe the leaks were from Chemi cals used to process xray film on the floor above Chernecki another Mona Darlene Ron said the Union is commissioning a study to find out if the nurses suspicions Are the concerns reemerged this week after nurses spotted the leak following extensive renovations that closed the Ward All Chernecki the unit was closed for repairs but As of there was another leak and nurses Are still saying there is a definite chemical Chernecki this time the spill amounted to about a litre of Union sources Art Misericordia assistant executive confirmed the leak occurred yesterday after the renovated Ward was but Hiebert insisted that the leak was water that spilled out after xray developing equipment on the floor above the Ward was flushed he said the spill was not from chemicals used to process its unfortunate that it happened As the Ward was being Hiebert Hiebert said that in addition to extensive work on the ceiling to prevent further the Hospital also moved the nursing station from the area where the leaks occurred the former nursing station is now an empty storage area and that is where the latest leak Hiebert Hiebert said the Hospital will examine the plumbing in the area in an Effort to find the source of the latest i want to get Down to the Bottom of it so we can solve the problem once and for Hiebert environment department safety and health director Ron Glassford said his officials will inspect the area of the latest leak some time we thought this leak was solved but apparently it Glassford workplace safety inspectors examined the Ward this Spring and suggested the Hospital make repairs to Stop the he Misericordia closed the 36bed Ward Early this summer to renovate the area As part of a project that will renovate another Ward this Ronald and sources in the Hospital and the safety and health division said they could not identify the chemical associated with past spills by Hiebert said that the chemical linked to the past leaks is no longer used in the he said renovations on the Ward also included work on the structural shortcomings that were not related to the the Ward is in a part of the Hospital that was built in 1915 and had to be brought up to modern he citing installation of new enlarged doors and a paint ;