Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg fret press september 1990 Page 3 Brian City editor Trail of blood Giveaway for longer Hydro hearing local Board slashes assessed value the Board of revision has knocked More than million off the Grain Exchange buildings but it int lawyer Mike Mercury said the building was the first major Appeal of 1990 reassessments based Oil 1985 Market values to go before the the City had pegged the Market value at million while Mercury and building owner Helmut Sass had asked that the value be set at million at a hearing last Sass has not yet issued instructions on an which can be launched within 21 Days of the boards published decision some time next the reduction shows that the Board of revision is now looking at True Market although the Grain Exchange building is still too Mercury he said the decision would not be cited As a precedent in future appeals of the 1990 reassess each cases authority is based on its own Mercury said amendments to the assessment act in january require the City to assess properties on the basis of the Market value to a willing buyer and calculated Back to it was set by a complicated formula that updated previous considered rental in come and compared the building to numerous other properties the City judged Mercury said the Grain Exchange building changed hands in 1988 for about million and now has a conditional offer of Sale for the City had argued Sass put it on the Market for million earlier this the million was part of a much larger package the City had told the Board last the City had said Sass was willing to sell for million Only because he has significant Money problems that have forced him to Back to basics these children at uni City mall had a big hug for the tree yesterday after they were awarded cloth shopping bags for bringing in recyclable the Back to basics bags will be handed out to All shoppers bringing in items on All proceeds from the event will go to the fort Whyte tight tory fist invites unionist warns childcare Agency layoffs blamed on demand that budgets balance fired technologist wins right to sue clinic by Terry Weber a fired Laboratory technologist convicted of bilking the province out of nearly million won the right to take her former employer to court for wrongful in just a Jubi Lant Fritze sailing Beaton said yesterday moments after the were definitely going to fight All we Justice James Smith of court of Queens Bench yesterday Dis missed an application by the Assiniboine clinic Laboratory to have beacons suit against the medical group Smith said there were a number of issues in the Case distinguishing it from others in which employees were fired after being convicted for adding those matters must be determined in a full there May very Well be a serious misconduct under the contract that is set Smith told lawyers representing both there May these Are not the usual Beaton was Given an absolute Dis charge in March after pleading guilty to fraud Over related to the clinic overfilling the Manitoba health services commission for blood the the largest Case of fraud Ever involving the Misc came to Light in 1988 when the commission began questioning Why certain blood tests at the lab were not being conducted with More efficient further investigation Between 1982 and a total of tests were done on an Auto mated machine and recorded As being done report spurs denial of Sweet Deal for ads official Calls agreement Good for taxpayers Beaton was fired from her Job of 23 years at the lab in february but later filed a suit against the clinic alleging that others at the clinic were also aware of the prac Tice and had authorized during yesterdays Bea tons Darcy charged the system for analysing blood samples was already in place when his client joined the As he the program for the tests had been put in the machine at the specific request of the she carried out the instructions not fully appreciating the magnitude of where it might Lead Mccaffrey the height of irony would be if the employer insists and then comes along and says were going to Dis miss by Kevin Rollason the provinces hard line on Bud gets has forced the Layoff of six employees at a childcare Agency and May cause a social services workers strike next a Union spokesman said Canadian Union of Public employees local 2153 spokesman Sandra Oakley said the employees of the Bannerman receiving Home Are losing their jobs because of the tory governments decision earlier this year to Force child and family ser vices agencies to submit balanced budgets and not rely on financial bailouts when they go Over bad Omen she said the Issue of balanced Bode Well for March contract negotiations with social services we might have a major social services strike looming on the Hori Oakley is also concerned the Agency Only notified the employees about the layoffs and not the Bannerman Home serves As a temporary emergency receiving Home for up to seven children seized from their parents or picked up on the Street by it is slated to close on this family services minis Ter Charlotte Oleson announced Bud gets for childcare agencies would Rise by per cent Over last but critics argue the govern ments announced budget is actually an Overall Cut of per cent because it includes a More than increase for Foster Oleson also ordered All of the provinces child and family services agencies to submit balanced budgets by no projections Oleson said yesterday she still Hast seen any budget projections from Northwest child and family this layoffs May very Well be one of their but it May not be a proposal wed want them to Oleson Well have to look at their budget Tim executive director of Northwest child and family ser said financial constraints were part of the reason for the Homes but Maloney said the Agency has planned the move since the govern ment made it responsible for the facility last we didst create we inherited Maloney its cheaper to operate a Foster Home by about it will also be More of a Community based facility with the same person who puts the children to bed waking them up in the instead of what happens with Maloney said while Bannerman House is cutting it is not closing its doors the Home is being converted to a Foster care facility with room for four children instead of he Maloney said he will be meeting with cupe next week to discuss the Layoff notices and labor colleges new chief thrilled wit Job the provincial government yesterday appointed the Vic president of an Ontario College As head of red River Community Anthony currently academic Vic president of Niagara College in takes the reins of the College effective next in an interview from said Hes looking Forward to his new in very its a College with a Fine reputation across the the first thing in going to do when i get there is education minister Len Derkach said Hes pleased Knowles has accepted the All of the candidates for the position were but the search committee Felt Knowles possessed the right combination of management and academic experience to Lead the College through a period of Derkach said in a the minister was referring to an announcement last month that the provinces three Community colleges would be Given More autonomy by establishing their own Board of gov the Board of to be in place by april will be responsible for the Overall administration and financial management of the the colleges Are currently administered by the Edu cation Knowles is a graduate of the University of where he earned his honors degree in science and a doctorate in physical he also has served As Dean of Niagara colleges applied arts and technology department and taught at loyalist College in Belleville and Ridley College in Knowles replaces the retiring Ray who leaves the College after 35 years of service with the 20 of them with the col by Alexandra Paul Manitoba Deputy health minister Frank Maynard scoffed yesterday at reports doctors fees will soar 25 per cent under a Deal with the Mani Toba medical i dont see that is Maynard giving a Short in an unusual display of Solidarity with the Maynard depicted the fou year binding arbitration Deal that ended a today doctors strike As Good for taxpayers and the medical we Are saying we mutually agree it is a win win situation and the Manitoba taxpayers Are Maynard the Deputy minister also stood by negotiator John Laplume the same Man who he squared off with repeatedly at the bargaining we accept the Mas word that they did not make those state Maynard also Mma executive denied a report in yester Days Globe and mail in which an unnamed Mma source gloated Over the calling it the sweetest Deal in the its not Only its Laplume but later yesterday Laplume con firmed part of the saying he knew four Days in Advance that Premier Gary Filmon would drop the election writ i bad heard from multiple sources that the Premier would be an election on la he maintained the knowledge had no Impact on the doctors strategy that had called for strike action since but it was not until 3 same Day Laplume said his sources tipped him that the Mma plotted details for its strike at a Board Laplume confirmed the Board reached its strike decisions on Globe reporter David Roberts stood by his Story Refus ing to identify his unnamed there Are no factual errors in the Roberts the Story quo feed the source saying the Mma expected to win nothing less than a 25percent fee increase by 1994 through binding on Manitoba Doc tors earn annual Gross fee incomes estimated at with overhead and other expenses said to eat up 40 per cent of the a 25percent increase Over four years would bring the average Gross income to the source was also quoted As saying the Mma had an election Call Tipoff that guided its strike strategy the source was also quoted As saying assurances that taxpayers will be protected from paying huge fee increases Are smoke and Mir if they Mma Are denying in not Roberts but maybe they have said it in the first the Mma source depicted doctors Bank accounts As the winners in the fou year Deal that Calls for a three percent fee increase this year and binding arbitration to Settle disputes in the other the Deal was signed after a Mara Thon conciliation talks As doctors staged a weekend strike during the provincial election in a bid to win binding nip Leader Gary who criticized the Deal said the state ments by the globes unnamed source have the ring of i agree its a sweetheart that we cant afford it and we Are not going to have specialists be cause of doer doer said the Deal gives taxpayers no control Over costs in arbitrated i thought the government waited too Long to Settle and they caved in totally to the doer Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs dismissed the idea of soaring arbitration citing salary awards below inflation for but she said she was disturbed Over the Mma boast of a Tipoff on the election she hotly criticized the govern ment for letting the dispute end in a Filmon was just prepared to employ his confrontational Roll the die strategy right up to the very Carstairs Laplume insisted both sides have an equal playing Field under the Terras of the dears binding arbitration the government is not going to be behind the eightball before the Board of binding la plume Dave free press spanking new Span traffic will soon be rolling across the red River on the Kildonan which is scheduled to open on the Span will link Henderson Highway with main a convenience for motorists in the North of the Rock shatters adult video shop window a controversial adult video shop had its front window shattered by a Large Rock tuesday four Days after it owner Randy Jor Gensen said Jorgensen opened his latest adults Only video store Friday on facade my Road just West of Queenston it was a pretty one thrown by a male teenager about 10 Jorgensen the teen took off with adults Only video staff in hot but he outran Jorgensen he said he is treating the broken window As simple vandalism rather than a political about 30 parents blocked traffic on Academy at Brack Street so their children and school safety patrols would not have to Cross at a signalled intersection in front of the video they have appealed to various Levels of government for help in moving the shop out of the residential neighbourhood and away from Queenston ;