Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 19, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 44 pages vol 122 no 138 publications mail registration 0286 free press st Post Post outside City 75t in Ontario weekly Home delivery Way Post in Winnipeg wkly Post outside City april 1994 Mccrae tangled in rope As doctors fight tug of War by Doug staff reporter doctors and nurses Are ready for a turf War and health minister Jim Mccrae said he feels like a the provinces unionized nurses threw Down the Gauntlet at their annual general meeting offering tens of millions of dollars in savings in return for greater responsibility and More input into the Way health care is Manitoba nurses Union president Vera Chernecki said Many of the procedures currently done by doctors can be done equally As Well by at a fraction of the there is a better Way of providing health care in and nurses Are Central to she said after unveiling a 72page report on How the government should continue to Reform the healthcare but doctors say they dont plan to surrender their hold on the practice of the Medicine in the province any time nurses Are not trained As physicians and the nurses have to understand said Ian head of the Manitoba medical the Public already understands it because when they need health care they go to a not a Chernecki said expanding the scope of nursing to include More procedures could save the government More than 10 per cent of medical costs and up to 24 per cent of the Cost of ambulatory care in the healthcare she said the figures Are based on studies done on the cos effectiveness of nurse practitioners elsewhere in but Goldstine said that allowing nurses to carry out More procedures or diagnose and treat patients would Only add an additional layer to the you have to ask yourself if Consumers would accept seeing a nurse when they require health care or if they would want to still see a he were All for Ken free press Blaze rages members of the Winnipeg fire department had their hands eight apartments of the 36unit Aksum no one was full last night battling a fire at 310 Aksum the injured in the which was fought by 36 which was visible for several destroyed at least damage was estimated at see Story Page self government in three years Manitoba grand chief says yes Indian affairs needed to protect Sioux Valley elder says by Don Langford free press correspondent the Pas dismantling Indian affairs and implementing native self govern ment could take As Little As three says Manitoba top we dont want a drawn out said Phil grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba chiefs we want to bring about this change Over what we con Sider a very Short period of very in tense the idea of a three year time Frame has sent a shockwave through first nations for three years is far top we need Indian affairs to protect our rights As Indian protect our said Eli Tay a respected elder from Sioux Valley first if were going to get rid of Indian then they should give us our land Back before they do aboriginal leaders from across Manitoba begin a three Day Confer ence in the Pas today to discuss How the dissolution of Indian affairs should proceed Indian affairs minister Ron Irwin said in Early March that Manitoba would become a Pilot project for re moving Ottawa control Over first nation Irwin has said that phas ingot process could take More than 10 but Brenda regional director of Indian affairs in said she believes the process could be completed in three within a month we should be Able to come to an agreement on a work plan and actually get the work Start Kustra but again i would put a caveat on that that it is at a Pace acceptable to first Alfred another Sioux Val Ley said first nations people could suffer from a Quick move to self government because of prob lems with the existing where chiefs and band councillors make decisions about the Community in the absence of any form of official the aboriginal Council of Winni Peg has expressed dismay Over the exclusion of Urban aboriginals from the current round of while another native group has called for a moratorium on Neotia shops class carving new role no wore cutting boards to whittle As classrooms go High tech Bald Santin education reporter Public pressure to ensure children Are technologically literate is forcing change on a classroom in a handful of Junior High schools across the teachers Are incorporating old time shop skills with modern technology and problem solving techniques to better prepare students for a rapidly changing it used to be that any mechanical problem could be fixed with a said Ernie who Heads the Industrial arts teacher education program at red inside Story building for the future River Community but in today information society we control computers that manipulate year after students mastered the machines and turned out the same cutting Salt and Pepper but knowing the difference Between an Allan wrench and a Monkey wrench just wont do any Bart said the traditional shops Arent enough on their own to prepare students for the changes that lie instead of relying on mastering old shop skills As an Bart says students should be taught to use those tools and skills As part of comprehensive problem supporters of the new curriculum technology say it better prepares students by integrating the old skills to address today Bill Manitoba spokesman for the Canadian manufacturers said schools have so far failed to instil knowledge of a manufacturing culture in adding that technology education appears to fill that eight two per cent of students the team concept but every team has a and in this Case that Leader is the Mccrae said he feels like a referee caught Between the feuding but pledged to bring the sides together to nip health critic Dave Chomiak said nurses in other provinces Are being allowed to do immunizations and take on More so Manitoba should follow Gorade could die tonight serb shells rain Down on City in helpless As Safe zone Burns tons until the rights of Bill c31 peo ple who recently regained status As been the focus of today conference is a discussion paper pre pared for the am by Don a former Deputy minister of Indian the paper sets out a de tailed and exhaustive work plan to dismantle the regional office of in Dian affairs in the Federal government has said the inherent right to self govern ment but they said this without defining Goodwin said in a Telephone interview from what this paper tries to do is pro vide a process to define what these Powers might be or should be its an attempt to help identify the pow ers of will not find a University related said general manager of Pritchard these students need to be technically a technically minded group of technology education stresses four areas and in a Grade 7 technology education class in students Are using computer simulation and engineering kits to design and build laser Security air planes and a Range of innovative devices that respond to their Byro Gutman new Day Germany bosnian serb defying world wide yester Day rained thousands of shells on Gorade and fired rockets at the bosnian government held enclave As their tanks and infantry moved into the heart of the City officials and local journalists the City is in mayor Izmit Briga said via an Amateur radio Hookup Early he said the serbs were firing artillery and Rock High explosive and phosphorus and their tanks were moving in and out of Gorade at he said the Hospital was under massive and the bodies of the wounded were being blown in every shortly after mid night local a serb Shell hit a storage tank filled with ammonia at a factory near beside the which bisects ammonia Gas is now flooding out of the tank and is it is flow ing into the River Drina and is spreading in the Briga he also said that serbs had fired shells containing some sort of Gas last night that forced residents out of the cellars where they were hid people have lost their Orienta Tion and Are coming out of their houses into the they Are likelier to be killed there by the Artil Briga Gorade could die he bosnian serb forces said they had taken Over most of the Gorade in other than the Centre of town terror in Bosnia in outwitted moms take Hope in hands a8 and a stretch of eight to 10 Kilometres along the North Bank of the Dri acknowledging its inability to enforce Safe zone status it bestowed on Gorade last the United nations yesterday flew out All but five of its dozen the town is at their said the in commander for it sir Michael we Are on the Edge of a major humanitarian late in Secre tar general Boutros Boutros Ghali asked nato to authorize air strikes to protect All the a designated Safe areas in a move that would expand in authority to Call in nato there was no immediate response from Briga issued a direct Appeal to president in the name of the More than citizens of you Are killing innocent people of Gorade in the worst what has happened to civilization this is the night of pain and it is the night of fear that we will and civilization is Briga in officials said the serbs had fired three shells a minute into the City local journalists said there had been a Shell about every 20 in the City every House has been said Enes mus a local o d a quote of the Day they con kill us but they cant Bent Shreveport pirates Darren Smith has a warning for running bade go Fenerty about the teams tight Qetami on Page d3 9 Ann Bridge c3 classified c8 comics 09 computers b10 crossword c8 deaths entertainment Horoscope c3 in c7 Monty Spirtt ;