Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ivi o sri e if 56 pages vol 120 no 295 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press weekly Home delivery in outside City september 1992 deeper Hospital layoffs mooted by Alexandra Paul medical reporter Boniface general Hospi Tal staff have been warned of possible layoffs Over and above announced bed closures As the Hospital grapples with a lion projected budget shortfall this a senior official Cut the Wina prize thin tank offering Cash for Sharp ideas by Stevens wild staff reporter got a Way to Cut the Cost of making Nickels it could put in your pocket and win you the undying admiration of government spending critics in general and the Fraser Institute in the Vancouver based political thin tank is offering a total of in prizes for the Best ideas to reduce government spending at the provincial or territorial level without cutting the first prize is and the senator Stan Waters memorial prize for Economy in named for the late Reform party the said Fraser Institute policy analyst John is to find ways to Cut spending while maintaining the High level of government services that canadians have come to expect and the starting Point is there is an irresistible Force of desire for services from government and the immense objection of willingness to pay Robson we Are trying to close the last years first prize went to an idea to replace the Nickel in the five cent Coin with a cheaper because it costs six cents to produce each five cent the entry also called for the elimination of the which costs two cents a last years second prize went to a plan to have All Federal spending approved by a Central Treasury Robson said that Means everything Down to pencils and government forms would have to be approved on an items item that Way they will have to think out what really needs to be Robson the nation is split into seven regions for a preliminary with the Best entries in each Region going to the National part of our mandate is to see that the Flaky ones dont get out of Manitoba and to see that Good ones go said Gordon managing partner of the Winnipeg office of Price and chairman of the Manitoba which will also handle entries from the Yukon and Northwest last years Best entries were submitted to the Federal government but to no ones Surprise nothing much has Robson the entire staff was notified of the possibility yesterday in a fou Page memo attached to in certain other layoffs May be necessitated by the need to balance the hospitals 199293 Bud the memo on the memo sparked fears among everyone from nurses to Power Plant everybody is living on the everybody is waiting and tense and stressed said Shirley a Manitoba nursing Union official working on a joint management Union committee at the the letter said the measures Are not related to plans announced ear Lier this year in conjunction with provincial in order to attack a balanced Bud get this the Hospital has to save something in the order of Mil executive Vic president Jack Litvack the Hospital is juggling two Cost containment efforts budget re lated constraints and the provinces proposed he depth of despair a Young somali boy tries to Rouse his who grimaces in pain at the slightest move at a feeding Centre West of the it is an area of the country that is one of the hardest hit by the famine and Rural dwellers continue to flock to feeding centres and kitchens run by foreign id groups seeking to relieve the continued High unemployment forecast Banks resisting pressure to increase interest rates the Union management commit tee is formulating programs from resume writing to information on new kinds of jobs to be available soon under Reform details on budget cuts set Hospital Rumor Mills one Union reported the budget shortfall at Between million and another Union said it was Canadian press Otta Wathe Bank of Cana Das key Bank rate took its big Gest on week jump in 2 years but chartered Banks resisted pressure to boost their consumer and business inter est analysts were concerned about How Long they could hold in the conference Board of Canada warned it will take an other five years to chop the unemployment rate to the level it was at before the the sickly recovery Means unemployment will stay above 11 per cent through next said Jim chief economist of the Independent research and forecasting it will be 1997 before unemployment Falls to around eight per where it stood As the downturn be Gan in he said at the organizations annual Outlook a major Cut in unemployment re quires sustained economic growth Over a period of he while the recession technically ended in april theres been Al most no growth in the past year making this the weakest recovery on its a Skinny the Bank of boosted its Bank rate to per a Cut linked to an additional 115 bed Litvack pinpointed the number at million and said bed closures Arent part of budget the Hospital plans to close us Beds and Cut an undisclosed number of jobs by March As part of 240 bed closings with health sciences violent offences increase across Board Young thugs worry police police reporter a crime wave among the Young this a sophisticated break and enter ring busted wednesday has crime statistics soaring and police trying to figure out whats become of youth i wish i knew Why those statistics Are so much higher this then we could address youth Lou Spado said what also concerns police is an across Leboard increase in Virtu ally All forms of violent the statistics for the first eight months of this year Tell a Bleak Sto the number of youths arrested for robbery has More than sexual assault arrests Are up Over 40 per aggravated assault arrests Are up almost 50 per and breaking like those on Are up More than 10 per crime Ron Dawson said the made up of two a 17yearold and a was As sophisticated As they using stolen he the youths would Case out three or four targets for a night and then come Back the next Day and finish the Job by smashing a door or window and making off with As much As they could Load into a in about three weeks this police the ring knocked Over 26 Homes and Mak ing off with Over in cigarettes and electronic equipment while causing another in while the total number of Young people arrested this year has remained roughly the same As last Spado said Hes concerned by the violent turn youth crime seems to have weve been seeing it in society in general and i guess were seeing it now in our Young Spado youth crime violent crime among youths is up dramatically this heres a look at the number of youths arrested for violent offences during the first eight months of this year As compared to the number of arrests during the same period last crime 1991 1992 assault 244 291 aggravated assault 13 20 sexual assault 32 46 robbery 51 105 posess weapon 27 37 source youth Winnipeg police Gordon free press the other Factor is More sociology Spado anytime you have bread people out of these Are the times that crime goes youre never out of work As a police the worse the times the More there is to but Rick criminology pro Fessor at the University of Manito said Hes not so sure the sluggish Economy can be blamed for driving Young people to theres a lot of unemployment this year but there was a lot of unemployment last year i dont think its fair to blame an increase like were seeing on the Quito of Day inside Ranal Ann vhf unit a Henderson Highway hair in Crossw pro i in Lynn the Maeo Raf Isal to Nama Nair on wimm Miv refusal the name Goyn cillers she a Cyses of of uni harassment see Page 81 r up from per cent last week to prevent another drop in the Vola tile Canadian after taking a beating for three Days and falling a cent and a the Dollar finally did firm a bit yester but Only after the Bank of can Ada gave a Strong push up on inter est the Dollar closed Down at cents us from the Bank rate Rise of More than on third of a percentage Point was the largest since february but Bob chief economist at Deacon Barclays Dezoete Wedd said Bankers will try to hold the line on their interest rates for fear of losing scarce by Milf Khz of a v i Only 4 Days left see the win for life again and on Page b3 of today paper ;