Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba The nation Winnipeg free press a o january Canada at a glance Union Battles for Gay rights from the Canadian press Otta Wathe largest Union in Canada will go to court april 26 to Challenge Federal tax rules it says discriminate against homosexual the Canadian Union of Public employees is challenging income tax act provisions prohibiting registered pension plans that provide spousal benefits to same sex Arafat to visit head of the palestinian liberation is scheduled to visit Canada this officials have he is expected to meet prime minister Chretien and other top Federal officials during a Brief dates have not been Call for Unity Saskatoon agricultural groups must work together if the Public is going to take Farmers says the president of the Canadian federation of people need to be afraid of the farm Jack Wilkinson said at the National Farmers Union annual meeting they Arent the Otta abased federation represents cooperatives and various provincial and Federal agricultural albertan warned Ralph Klein is warning albertan to Brace themselves for Hurt and pain As he prepares to take to the airwaves to sell the next phase of his cos cutting setting the scene for next weeks province wide television said yesterday his message will be Tough but Rae sings Premier Bob Rae took his show on the Road appearing on National television to sing a self penned tune that one nip worker says is similar to an older Folk mom stubborn woman who kidnapped her daughter and sent her into hiding rather than let the child live with her father was handed a sixth con Tempto court conviction yesterday for refusing to reveal the Childs Jocelyne Champagne has already served More than 18 months in jail for kidnapping and the other five contempt Park planned area about half the size of Prince Edward Island will be designated a provincial Park with surrounding areas reserved for resource extraction under a plan announced yesterday by the creation of Sylos provincial Park in Central British Columbia follows two years of search ends Halifax the search for a Small plane that disappeared Between Newfoundland and Quebec this week was called off yesterday after debris was spotted in the a search and Rescue spokesman in Halifax said there was no sign of survivors from the which was carrying two men when Contact was lost late a Choice for women supporters Praise birth control cite Lon term Protection by Rod Currie Canadian press Toronto supporters of the norplant system of birth approved for Canadian the Low dose set of six implants As the most innovative concept in contraception in the last 30 the sanctioned for Sale in Canada starting in is prompted As a progestin Only contraceptive that is a viable Choice for women who should not use its also one that does not require Active participation by the user once the silastic capsules Are a flexible material also used in vein replacement permits the capsules to continuously release a Low dose of the progestin this is a synthetic form of the female hormone which acts to inhibit ovulation and thicken the cervical making it impenetrable to although new to spokesmen at a norplant news conference yesterday said the system has been tested worldwide for More than 20 has received Market approval in 33 countries and is used by about two million women norplant remains the subject of complaints and scattered lawsuits since it was approved for use in the in under the the six As thick As a narrow drinking Straw and centimetres inserted under the skin of the inside upper Arm in a fan like each is deposited through the same tiny incision by Means of a hypodermic like despite High Praise by Chicago lawyer jewel Klein says she represents about 50 women in a class action suit against the some claiming they have lost the use of an Arm due to muscle norplant spokesmen say the system is not for everyone and agree that Side effects May include irregular some weight gain and acne in some but they say the procedure for inserting and removing the capsules is simple if doctors Are properly were not exactly talking brain surgery said Robert chief of obstetrics and gynaecology for the Kaiser Permanente medical group in he said the insertions Are not into the muscle or Bone and the Job takes less than 10 up photo the norplant system consists of six capsules that Are inserted into the under local Wyet ayerst exclusive marketer for norplant in is implementing an instructional program for physicians and a spokesman although not on the Canadian Market norplant says the implants will Cost about which they estimated at less than half the Cost of the contraceptive Pill for five provinces will decide later whether costs Are covered under health once the capsules Are hardly even in summer said Kay Kleinman of Kansas who told the news conference of her experience of being on norplant for a Little Over two when she quit to have another she experienced some bleeding while on she which i had been warned about in asked How Long it took her to get pregnant after having the capsules Kleinman said about four adding but my husband was away on a trip for three native tax strike urged to protest Lack of housing by Karina Byrne Thomson news service Ottawa native Home owners should Stop paying property taxes until the fed eral government funds More offre serve native housing a spokesman for a National native housing group Pat president of an Ottawa native housing cooperative and spokesman for the National aboriginal housing association was on parliament Hill yesterday to criticize a recent state ment by housing minister David Dingwall that the Federal govern ment will not fund of Reserve native its our As a National or to make sure that we do the Job for our and if that Means we have to ignore All the rules set Down by bureaucrats in of we Apikian told report if that Means that we have to withhold taxes to City which we pay to the tune of Mil lion a then that what Well while Apikian admitted that he did not speak for All 130 native housing authorities across he said he will advocate that members of his cooperative Stop paying property taxes to get the attention of Ottawa Carleton Region and he called on other housing authorities to do the the Liberal governments lion infrastructure program proves that the nations mayors have the at Tention of the Federal Apikian if native people refuse to pay their taxes and anger their mayors to be heard by Din Walls of so be he Mathew another spokes Man for the said there Are currently native families about people on waiting lists for housing across the figures from the native Council of Canada show the figures to be or about Apikian said his group May Start to disregard certain financing rules set Down by Canada mortgage and housing native housing groups could get by on their current Levels of funding if these rules were not in he but he was not specific on which rules he proposed to according to figures from the native Council of 76 per cent of Canadas native people live offre serve if current trends Contin 85 per cent will be living offre serve by the year legion Branch votes to fight headgear edict Canadian press a Royal Ca Nadian legion Branch in Brit ish Columbia has voted to oppose a National order allowing sikhs and other religious groups to Wear headgear in legion about 95 per cent of Kelowna Branch members voted quietly this week to fight the order from the legions Dominion the Branch is abiding by the National order to exempt religious headgear from the ban on hats within legion premises while it lob Bies to have the order on Kelowna Branch president Syd Pratt said Only that members meeting tuesday night had criticized Dominion command for treating the turban Issue As a Cri but in a subsequent interview yesterday Pratt acknowledged 95 per cent of members present had voted to oppose the National Pratt said he Doest see the ban on sikh turbans and jewish Skull Caps As religious Bias since the legion has a policy of requiring patrons to remove berets and other headgear As a sign of respect for those who died in were not concerned with some ones Pratt were simply calling it a Rule that applies to Ive read that sikhs dont con Sider it part of their religion and i know of sikhs who Only Wear their turbans at night and to were not bringing religion into it at air Force group to Wing it alone Canadian press North Branch of the Royal Canadian air Force association in this Northern Ontario City plans to break out on its own after the National body voted to drop the word Royal from its North Bays 406 Wing is the Only one of 79 branches in Canada to take such action against the body which will become the air forces association of Canada on july there like a runaway said Ron immediate past president of the National association and a former member of 406 Why would All the others accept and not them the decision to withdraw from the National body 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