Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 19, 1993, Winnipeg, Manitoba I Vilim by Provo cause puppis marionettes do a dance of Frank humor d1 56 pages vol 121 no 347 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get 4 Post 60c 4 get Post outside City delivery 25 05 in Winnipeg 30 Wev i s3 cd 4 Post of stifle City november confine births to study says legislature reporter a confidential provincial report has recommended closing the maternity Ward at Misericordia general Hospital and leaves the future of obstetrics in doubt at Victoria and Grace general a review of obstetric services in obtained by the free suggests babies would be safer if they were born at one of the cites two teaching hospitals than at inside Story reverse of Orchards plan 03 the smaller Community it also says significant cos savings can be made by closing the Misericordia maternity there is no economic or Quality care Factor to justify continuation of obstetric services at Misericordia general says the undated report by Frank chairman of the provincial obstetrics and gynaecology the report was submitted to health minister it states that babies born in Winnipeg Community hospitals have a greater Chance of dying due to Hospital error than those delivered at the health sciences Centre or Boniface general for the study reports that in 1991 there were two deaths among the deliveries at the Community hospitals classified As ideally error in by there were two deaths among the deliveries attributed to physician error at the two teaching the report shows there have been no deaths due to system failure at the two big hospitals from while such failures have happened at least once a year in 1990 and 1991 at the smaller the massive report suggests the Best Choice for health Reform is to consolidate birthing centres at Job with a Peel Marc free press Manitoba ramp assistant commissioner Richard Bergman unters prepared kilograms of pars Drew Tough duty at Headquarters in Winnipeg yesterday nips and turnips for freezing and distribution by the veg peeling onions for provincial soup police and Volt table project to help feed the end elitist9 pension pc Bac Bencher tells panel by Paul Samyn legislature reporter a tory la joined a number of private citizens yesterday in demanding an end to the elitist pensions paid to Manitoba Brian Pallister told a panel studying Las pay and Perks that the current plan allows someone at age with eight years of to be eligible for a fully indexed pension starting at a the Portage la Prairie la and others argued that the plan must be among other the current plan allows a former la to collect benefits even if he or she is earning a government practice known As double there is no place for Pallister told the Las pay stirs outrage b1 an advocated something like a registered retirement savings plan in which the members and provincial governments contributions Are he also noted the current plan is million in the Hole and suggested contributions be increased to cover the real Cost of Manitoba Las Are the lowest paid in the they receive an indemnity of and a tax free allowance of Cabinet ministers earn an additional while the Premier receives an additional Las Are also eligible for car allowances starting at a month and constituency allowances of about a the Public hearings were called last april after the free press published a series of stories pointing out that Las receive a portion of their pay and that not All expenses Are the stories also noted the pension plan was far Richer than what is available in the private pensions were Only one Issue raised during yesterdays hearings at the Winnipeg convention most presenters agreed All pay should be All expense claims fully documented and members pensions should be no better than those in the private Roy Price said the tax free portion of an Las salary is it is one of the reasons that some politicians and some Las Are thought of with such contempt and considered Price but Derwyn Davies saw things arguing they deserve a hefty a former president of the Manitoba proposed a formula that would see Las salaries determined by taking the average Between the poverty line and what top corporate executives when commission chairman Wally Fox decent pointed out that could add up to Davies said that would be All right by former Liberal la Herold Defeated in urged the commission to be noting the Days Are Long and arduous and Las get no overtime town stunned by schoolyard shooting by Bonnie Bridge reporter Lorette residents of this bedroom Community Are confused and shocked after two youths walked up to a 13year old boy in a pulled out a gun and narrowly missing left with few factual details from either the school or Resi dents say All they hear Are even students say they dont know what the teachers Are hush hush about and the police Are trying to keep it said a Lorette High school the Community of is located about 15 Kilometres East of an ramp spokesman said the shooting happened about wednesday on the grounds of Lor Ette when the victim left school to go Home to get while he was on his he was approached by two unknown males and shoved around a said Don Thibodeau of the Pierre Jolys ramp he said one of the suspects pulled a a Small calibre handgun and fired one the shot narrowly missed the 13year old but put a Hole in his students at the collegiate said two Winnipeg youths one of them claiming to be from the overlords in Lorette on the Day of the searching for some they stopped and asked a whole Bunch of were looking for some kid with a because they wanted their gun one student police have not released the name of the who was not residents questioned yesterday said they didst know who was shot or who had done the one Mother said Shes thinking of keeping her son at Home until she health sciences Centre and Boniface general move that would save million a a second option that would see Victorias Ward remain open does not solve the Quality care Issue nor realize maximal reduction in healthcare it that Model would save Only million a keeping wards open at both the Victoria and the Grace is the third but the report says that would require improved response capabilities at both officials from the Misericordia and Grace hospitals refused but the president of Victoria said her Ward has won Praise from parents and the medical i really believe we Are giving Quality care Marion Suski Mccrae said he will not make a final decision on the report until he gets feedback on it from the Manitoba medical association and the hospitals province dangerous for women As violence tops National average Manitoba abuse rate a Shock by John Douglas National reporter Ottawa women in Mani Toba were More Likely to experience abuse last year than in almost any other part of the coun a new National Survey has statistics Canada reported yester Day that in the last 12month 12 per cent of Manitoba women experienced abuse of some that compares to a National average of 10 per seven per cent in Quebec and 10 per cent in Manitoba was a More dangerous said Holly Johnson of the Ca Nadian Centre for Justice the rate is 12 per cent or almost women Over the last 12 Only British Columbia and Prince Edward Island had similarly High in the Survey of women across Canada paints a Bleak picture of the Way society treats one in every two will face some sort of sexual or psychological abuse during their the findings Are considered accurate to within one percentage 19 times in the numbers confirm what front line women groups have been say ing for the real Issue they is where Canada goes from weve got a new a new Start and its time for a National Effort with Lon term financing to turn this said Waltraud Grieger of the Selkirk women inside Story women demand action if were going to break this we have to get into the schools at the kindergarten level and give children different in their 49 per cent of Manitoba women will experience physical or sexual the Survey of 25 per cent will be assaulted by a 35 per cent will be sexually assaulted and 14 per cent will be physically this is a makeup Call things have to get Grieger our society is falling apart and needs attention even for those who Are not directly the Survey shows that nearly All women Are indirectly in women live in fear and tailor their actions Accord ing to i can see All of said Monica Feist of the Manitoba Council of i wont walk Down the Street after without my sixty one per cent of the women interviewed said they were afraid to walk in their own neighbourhood after while 40 per cent experience fear if left alone at night in their own More than three quarters say they would not wait for a bus after its really too bad people need a government Agency to verify this society treats its women said Susan Banks of the Manitoba action committee on the status of o d a finds out who was collegiate principal Robert Paquin sent parents a letter saying Only that a fairly serious incident took place involving a Stu Dent at Dawson Trail school next door to the residents said violence is rare in their out in Lorette nothing like that happens Jeannette owner of jays Ive never heard of any gangs in Lor Thibodeau also expressed sur prise at the its some thing you hear about but dont expect to see at our Rural quote of the Day four Days ago she looked like the Back of your stereo she had so Many wires coming out of Blue bomber assistant coach Mike Kelly describes How his infant who has had her pancreas looked before being placed on on Page c1 the weather today Cloudy with afternoon sunny 30 change of morning High tomorrow mainly Chance of Tun remt Vittli p Moon Altti inside Ann in sports ;