Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 6, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Automotive showcase our classified Section c9c10 increasing danger doctors who perform abortions Are living under the gun As the debate turns ugly a9 w 40 pages vol 123 no 36 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press 4 get psf get Post weekly hone s3 25 atly 05 20 in Winnipeg 51 30 ivly s3 09 21 Post outside City january a amazing dummies off to grammy Alt by John Lyons Mush reporter Winnipeg own crash test dummies were nominated for three prestigious grammy awards yesterday most of any Canadian the band is in preparing to film a video today and Tomor Row sofa new the Ballad of Peter in a statement Lead Singer Brad Roberts expressed new net traps saving plan would Cut social spending by John Douglas business reporter Federal officials in Mani Toba have drafted a pensive Reform proposal that would Cut social service spending in if All the suggestions made in an internal discussion paper were in annual social program spending in Manitoba excluding payments to seniors would drop to million from about Mil inside Story improved safety net the savings would mostly come from a restructured unemployment insurance an altered Wel fare system and a streamlined delivery critics decried the suggestions yesterday As but one official who worked on the proposal said the changes will bring More Good than harm because there will be less waste through an integrated delivery system for everything from Job training to unemployment insurance and if we tailor programs to suit peo ple rather than making them suit the we can better utilize the the internal of 10 be ing prepared for human resources minister Lloyd Axworthy by his departments regional offices rep resents the first big picture of what Canadas revamped social safety net could look although it makes no mention of programs affecting can Adas the proposal Calls for an end to extended regional benefits that allow people in disadvantaged areas to qualify for i sooner and collect More than people it would also for the first a family income Means test and a system to penalize frequent users with lower benefits and higher the proposed changes would also standardize welfare benefits across Clamp Down on families cheating the system and funnel fed eral pos secondary school funding through students rather than through the dummies Lead charge d3 reels of amazement at the nominations for Best new Best alternative and for Best pop vocal performance by a duo or group for Mem Mem Mem perhaps our pact with satan is finally paying Roberts the Only other Canuck nominated for More than one grammy was Neil Young himself a for Mer two the whole City should be proud of them three grammy nominations is Mark rid Dell said last a child Hood neighbor of is a for Mer owner of the Blue note and the spectrum where the dummies frequently played before the release of their first Al the ghosts that haunt in Canadian Rocker Bryan Adams got six grammy nominations in Lang and Celine Dion have also had multiple Nomina the grammy is the music Industry most prestigious the band has undergone several lineup changes since its inception As a Trio in it now consists of Roberts on vocals and his brother Dan on Ellen Reid on keyboards and Multi in str mentalist Ben drum Mer Mitch Dorge and touring keyboardist Kathy a photo out of harms Way a Little girl on her Way out of Chechnya takes a last look at her devastated Homeland yesterday from a bus russian and chechen fighters Are waging a bitter Battle for control of the rebel please see stories on pages As and taxpayers in dark Over Idle jets losses and Stevens wild staff reporters Manitoba and this goes double for Are picking up nearly the entire budget of the lockout idled Winnipeg jets without being Able to question or see details of the clubs the situation is a combination of the National hockey league lockout and the interim operating agree ment requiring the City and the province to split the jets losses while a new Arena is the lockout Means the jets have negligible income from a jets licensing of their logo and hockey card and the agreement Means the City and province must each write a Cheque for million in each Quarter of this year the jets estimate of their that projects to million for the although it will be less if there is no Chance of play resuming and the jets Lay off some of their 45 it Means taxpayers have to pay jets president Barry Shenkarow facing elimin4tton jets loss want c1 salary without knowing what it the committee which oversees the 1991 agreement to cover the teams losses will not disclose Shen Yarows pay or any other details of the teams expenses or there is a confidentiality clause in the agreement that i cant hand out those Danita spokeswoman for the said the unpaid relying on the latest information from the nil Nury urged maps want probe into claims Winnipeg controller broke rules and the players must see that the jets keep their budget in the Bot Tom third of the but one member said while the commit tee can ask for it rarely another member said the commit tee had not met since we Haven had a steering committee meeting since the strike actually a lockout Helen Hayles the jets refused to nip Leader Gary doer said the latest quarterly payment is further proof the Deal should be the Guy that Sells Popcorn at the Arena int getting a cent while the Guy who owns the team is getting a guaranteed doer this thing has been Covert and hidden from the Public since Day Liberal Leader Paul Edwards the alternative is to wind up in mayor Susan Thompson we have a Legal what we Are trying to do is resolve it As soon As Harry Lazarenko Mynarski said the City should dare the jets to we have to break the agree Lazarenko the courts make the by Doug Nairne staff reporter Federal transport critics called yesterday for an investigation into allegations by Stu dents that a Winnipeg air traffic con troller instructor ignored safety regulations and slept on the and More students Are coming Forward with complaints about the Winnipeg supporting the original complaints and calling the program a horror they say trainees Are released for Small mis takes by instructors trying to protect their own overtime Reform transport critic Jim Gouk Kootenay a re tired air traffic said he will personally look into the claims being made by a group of former very serious what is being talked about is very he if these allegations Are i want to know exactly what happened and what was done about Gouk said the if sub May be a symptom of systemic problems in the air traffic control system brought on by Over worked staff and poor nip critic Vic Althouse Macken said he will ask the commons transport committee to look into the Richard Lesiuk and several other former students allege that an instructor at the Winnipeg Centre Vio lated safety regulations and fell asleep on the the students also allege the instructor failed to Mam Tain the proper amount of Dis Tance and course separation be tween aircraft he was although no major incidents were inside Story instructors fond of of b3 caused by the controllers Gouk said the allegations raise questions about safety that need to be an the students were All released in 1994 after completing most of the two year training which is split Between and an air traffic control Centre such As Dale Lesiuk said a lawsuit has been filed Over his clients dismissal and the alleged safety transport Canada spokesman Al Sutherland refused to respond to the allegations because of the which names the a Winnipeg instructor and two he expressed Confidence in the train ing program and said there is no Rea son for the Public to be concerned about he said none of the incidents raised in the suit have been previously reported to department Rene a spokesman for Federal transport minister Doug said the minister will not comment on the Lesiuk said he received several phone Calls yesterday from other students who have been failed from the training program under similar circumstances to one of the other former a Pilot with air told the free press the program is a horror Story in which students Are fired if their on Job instructor is one who wants staffing Levels kept Low so theres plenty of quote of the Day theres going to be More Diane director of an abortion clinic in expects More bloodshed in a dispute that is becoming increasingly details on Page a9 the weather today mainly High Low tonight saturday sunny High Sun Row sets Moon re Ftp Page c9 inside diversions rubes and Ann in sports to ;