Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Automotive showcase in our classified Section 011 entrepreneurs thrive of venture c 40 Fages vol123ki030 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post get 4 Post Oul Sifi City 75c n Otain weekly Home delivery 53 25 lt3 05 20 Post in Winnipeg 53 Ai 09 Psi outside cily december attacking the virus that Bug is no cold pneumonia studied Here by Catherine Mitchell staff reporter you know the it goes like this Ive never had a cold like this its really levelled me and i cant seem to shake it has been a bad year for really bad but maybe that bugs no chlamydia pneumonia snug Gles Down in the popping up As sore throats or the Odd bout of bronchitis in about 70 per cent of but for this cough will develop into some of the groundbreaking re search on this relatively new Bug is being done in Winnipeg by Rosanna a scientist with can Adas Laboratory Centre for Dis ease control who moved her work Here in Advance of the labs relocation to unnamed scheduled to open in the Asye unnamed Centre is still a mass of Concrete and steel at the Corner of Arlington Street and Al Gin but when the Slick Monument to medical science is it will be Canadas and perhaps the worlds bes dressed disease control while the spotlight will inevitably fall on the deadly viruses the lab will Only a Small portion of health Canadas work will be done in the hot lab and less by agriculture which intends to use the lab Only to respond to it is work like peelings that most readily translates into Street level chlamydia pneumonia is relatively new to the medical having been identified As a Patho Gen less than a decade but More and More doctors Are looking at it when patients keep returning with the persistent Marc free press Canadas leading expert on has moved her research to the As construction continues on Winnipeg National disease control and research reporter Catherine Mitchell examines the importance of the world class medical and agricultural work to be done in our inside Story deadly viruses on their Way b3 i dont know whether the bugs have become More virulent or whether its just a cyclical thing like said Cana Das Foremost expert on Clamy both the pneumonia causing Strain and the one causing the sexually transmitted disease of the same a pad Grad of the University of peeling was wooed to Ottawa in 1990 by a cd and hired to establish the National lab for sexually transmitted the most common cause of infertility by infection in peelings work is a Good example of the Cross pollination of ideas Between the lab staff and the medi Cal and University communities Many have she was a graduate student of Robert the head of medical microbiology at the University of student and teacher now her new research on pneumonia is moving into the bugs connection with heart and lung Dis she is testing serum from asthma sufferers at the request of a leading allergist and is working germ grows in human toward a project with Nicholas Anthonisen in which blood Sam Ples Anthonisen collected for a separate study will be tested for clip aut Opac adjusters Appeal court tells legislature in Kevin Rollason Law courts reporter a tupac adjusters have too much arbitrary Power and the legislature should clip their the Manitoba court of Appeal but even if the government takes the courts it will be too late to help Paul Malcolm the court could offer but no after aut Opac rejected Macon ads insurance claim for a car Accident he didst even though Macdonald was the victim of an april automobile and had paid in aut Opac premiums each year since moving Here in aut Opac rejected his claim because he haunt paid about to get a valid Manitoba Drivers licence and insurance Justice Charles who wrote the 12page decision released said the present system of allowing an adjuster or supervisor to have the discretion to reject same claims without giving the courts the Chance to review the is a recipe for favouritism and if there is to be an equitable the refusal to exercise it in favor of a claimant should be reviewable by the Huband justices Alan Philp and Kerr twaddle they called on the government to Amend the Law to give the court of Queens Bench the Power to overturn Manitoba Public insurance decisions where it is just and equitable to do mp1c president Jack Zacharias said there is already a system in place to Deal with people who feel their claims were unfairly he said the bulk of the decision making Power lies with division managers and the Vic president of the individual of people still dont agree with the they can ask the courts to Rule on whether aut Opac was within its rights to deny the Zacharias said the judges now seem to be saying they want to be Able to Rule that aut Opac was within its rights to deny a but that the claimant should still be there is a Relief procedure in place to handle the Grey he lie very few cases go to j dont see an the system has been in place for 23 Pic minister Glen Cumnings could not be reached for Huband said if the court had the Power it would have ruled in favor of it had to overturn a decision earlier this year in favor of Macdonald by Justice Wallace Darichuk of court of Queens it has been a Nightmare since Macdonald said after court was told Macdonald moved Here from California in 1989 and began paying about in aut Opac premiums each because Macdonald was trying to reconcile with his wife in but still had a residence and business interests in he kept his California Drivers Macdonald was injured and his 1988 Oldsmobile Worth was written off after an Accident with two other although another Driver was found to be the cause of the and Macon ads premiums were up to Mijc rejected his claim for in damages because he failed to take out a Manitoba Drivers licence and a Drivers insurance certificate when he moved Here in welfare targets fall Short Only fraction of recipients got infrastructure jobs by Stevens wild City Hall reporter the Cit is facing an additional million in welfare costs because it got barely a tenth As Many welfare recipients working on Federal infrastructure projects last summer As it had fore Only 141 social assistance recipients were employed on the far fewer than the people City Council estimated would be put to according to documents to be tabled at tuesdays finance commit tee As a the City will save just Over million in welfare ear Lier this it estimated a lion additional funds because of the the social services department needs an additional with the province bearing just Over million through cos sharing Terry chairman of the works and operations commit attributed the shortfall to the infrastructure programs late Start and to Federal and provincial fund ing that was less generous than an we were hoping that it would put a major Dent in our welfare said Duguid North we were hoping that on the scale and timetable we had we would save million on he said the City had submitted million Worth of projects but just million was of million was budgeted for the Kenaston Boulevard which has not yet and because the funding agree ment Between the City and the prov Ince was not signed until project starts were delayed until sum he welfare recipients expected to work was based on a larger program and an earlier starting dug did we were our assumptions did not work in Only one project was directed at welfare recipe through a program run by the of some million was Actu ally with the work directed at to save million on we were our assumptions did not work Terry works and operations committee chairman repairing sidewalks and Al Duguid said much of the other work done the Infra Structure which was tend ered to private employed construction workers on Wel fare or those nearing the end of their unemployment in people were employed on the projects throughout Duguid pointed out that the pro Gram removed 141 people from the welfare theres been a lot of concepts about putting welfare people Back to work weve actually done Bruce Mcphail of the cites operations department said most of the welfare recipients worked As skilled with some of them receiving training from the Chris Lorenc of the Manitoba heavy construction association agreed that the program got unemployed construction workers Back to but he said an earlier Start to the program would have meant even More City budget director Mel Shibley said general improvement in the Economy cushioned the blow from the disappointing infrastructure Fig the number of welfare recipients declined to cases at the end of from in the Onset of the late Winter caused Wel fare Rolls to increase to at the end of officials to a quote of the Day the main problem now is not to raise the Industrial but to save people from freezing to Ukraine Deputy prime Anatoly comments on the country Energy the weather today mainly 3q Chance of Flur Low tomorrow Clearing in the after High Sun rests sets mean of to 25j inside diversions far Side and Ann in sports to t 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