Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba U govt term perfect for Call Varna Johnson or Suzanne rdc Dominion securities Siemens 9822655 Winnipeg free press local january Section Brian Cole 6977292 b1 referendums coming Back by Stevens wild City Hall reporter referendums once a common feature of political life in Winnipeg May soon make a comeback under a proposal being considered at City supporters say a referendum could be used to allow the Public to decide the Issue of whether to build a new executive policy committee referred to City Council yesterday a motion to automatically subject All capital expenditures of million or More to a the figure of million has often been suggested As the value of the cites con Manitoba taking aim at Mckenna did new Brunswick lure ups jobs away by Paul Samyn legislature reporter after being bloodied by two successive blows to its telecommunications Manitoba is preparing to go on the offensive to protect one of its key in Industry minister Jim Downey said yesterday his department will investigate allegations that new Brunswick used a Carrot to lure 850 United parcel service Canada jobs to the Atlantic including 47 from Winni a1 in prepared to look into it to see if the spirit of the inter provincial free Trade agreement was lived up Downey British which lost 125 has been demanding new Brunswick Premier Frank Mck Enna be taken to task for raiding jobs from other the loss of the ups jobs on tues Day was followed by yesterdays announcement that the Canadian liver foundation was closing the doors of its National Call Centre in Winnipeg after just five throwing 140 people out of Downey pointed out that Manitoba has 25 successful Call employing nip Leader Gary doer said the tories Are being hypocritical As they have also been playing the subsidy doer noted the province made a loan available to the liver foundation which it did not take advantage used to attract another telemarketing to Brandon last the Filmon government is bid Ding for jobs with taxpayers Money and we Are losing at doer Winnipeg 2000 said there is no need to push the panic Button be cause of the ups and liver foundation Job instead of offering financial in Manitoba is beefing up its Call Centre team in Hopes of attract ing other said Klaus president of the economic develop ment we have to go out and sell our capabilities More he councillors disagree Over direct vote on civic issues in Money or to the proposed new the referred without rec would allow a two thirds vote of Council to overrule holding a referendum in any partic ular the taxpayers should have the right to voice their said Harry Lazarenko who sponsored the Why the citizens make the Deci Sion on a new Arena Winnipeg tax payers Are fed University of Manitoba political scientist Phil Wichern said there has not been a referendum in Winnipeg since although current Legisla Tion allows Council to hold a non binding referendum on Wichern suggested that opponents of an Arena Are looking for an other Way of fighting the int that interesting Wichern Treyve suddenly discovered but he questioned whether there was time for a referendum on the the time to have done this was last he although the motion said the Date of any referendum would be at councils some councillors said such questions should be asked Only As part of civic or provincial elections to reduce Amaro Silva Daniel Mclntyre said he favors a referendum on All major if we Are talking about Arenas or projects that Are not Public safety is i think the Public should have a Rick Boychuk who opposes a new nobody elected me to vote for or against an he other councillors say ing elected officials Are elected to take its Lazy said Deputy mayor George we can put our feet up and push a mayor Susan Thompson agreed there Are better ways of gauging Public when it gets to the stage of a ref a lot of information Citi Zens receive comes from the which is not always most shoppers interviewed at Winnipeg Square yesterday welcomed the idea of a direct its a Good said Tim then Well make sure that Arena wont Cost but another resident question Keith free press tragedy in the night firefighters examine the remains of a car demolished Early the John Blumberg Golf course on the West Side of the yesterday when it drifted into the path of a semitrailer the cars of Toronto truck on the Tran Canada Highway near the Entrance to was the truck Driver had Only minor convicted Winnipeg dentist faces Public inquiry into conduct by Alexandra Paul medical reporter the first Public inquiry into professional misconduct charges against a Manitoba dentist will be heard next says Manitoba dental association registrar Michael the 1 hearing involves Winni Peg dentist Robert who was convicted of fraudulent Billing and Given a conditional Dis charge in provincial court last this is the first inquiry panel weve had since our legislation was Lasko the dental association applied for amendments to open its disciplinary hearings publicly after a free press series in 1990 on the secrecy and Lack of accountability in quasi Judi Cial Powers of Many self governing since licensing bodies representing lawyers and doctors have also voluntarily made improve ments to the Way they police Mem Bers conduct and they allow More Public Lasko said the Diamond Case is also the first regarding a criminal matter in his 12 years As registrar for the approximately 500 licensed practitioners in Diamond pleaded guilty to double Billing for treatments to children on the Norway House Indian Diamond was sentenced to do Worth of free dental work on the Reserve by judge Robert Kop who also ordered the dentist to reimburse the Federal governments health department for the he fraudulently last Diamond apologized for what he i dont know Why i did said i who is married with three Diamond submitted 85 claims for work performed on 24 patients for a total of to both the Federal government and the provincial government Between and some of the claims were for As Little As dentists Are contracted by the Federal government to provide ser vices on if a person lives on a Ottawa pays the sex if the person lives off the re serve and is on the prov Ince pays the dentists convicted of offences under the criminal code and a Host of other Federal and provincial stat utes risk losing their licences under the provisions of the dental association the act also allows an in Quiry panel two dentists and a Lay appointee to exercise it can decide on a Caseb Case basis whether a conviction is serious enough to warrant the permanent loss of a it could Lead to a suspension but it is not necessarily Lasko the Cost of an Arena Why cant they just get it Over with asked the who would not give her in tired of the last referendum in Winnipeg was held As part of the 1983 civic when voters approved making the City a nuclear free but turned thumbs Down on French language referendums were common be fore with 169 questions be ing asked Between 1899 and the issues ranged from the contentious question of the Sale of coloured Margarine 1950 to whether to Al Low billiards on sunday in a w3 voters were asked 14 different Amily services to Monitor Case mom gets baby Back by Alexandra Paul medical reporter a Newborn baby who was abandoned at the Thompson general Hospital on new years eve has been returned to his family services spokeswoman Cindy Stevens said the departments Agency in Thompson returned Cus Tody of the baby boy to his Mother last the dubbed baby John by staff at the was barely 12 hours old when discovered alone in an examining room by a doctor and lab Thompson ramp staff John Farquhar said no charges will be Laid against the Stevens said that officials with the family services department deter mined that returning the baby was in the Childs Best the baby has been with his Mother since Stevens the Childs safety was never in she custody was temporarily held by the province until department officials worked out a care plan that will allow them to Monitor the when the baby was discovered he was in Good health and weighed police acted on a tip and found the she admitted delivering the baby at Home with the help of a compan Ion and said they both took him to the Hospital and left him on an exam ining table near the ramp said after finding her that the Mother had the Means and the family support to care for the she was not Veteran denied recognition for service in tear Gas tests so what did 76yearold Sam Gordon do during the second world War nothing All that he after his Basic he remained in Canada driving a but while he want sent overseas to fight in the Gordon considers what he did Here in Canada was important to the War however Short his its this Brief chapter in his two year army service which the department of defence and veterans affairs says it cant confirm or that made the retired Winnipeg Farmer Good and if the department had acknowledged his wartime he Likely have blown the whistle on it conducting Mustard and tear Gas tests at a military research now not Only does he want official recognition he volunteered to be a Guinea pig for the nerve Gas but he wants canadians to know they took place and it was kept i know its 51 years but i want the Public to know what he the iraqi president used Gas to kill Many of his citizens before the Gulf War and the world condemned him for we were preparing to do the same Gordon says he was sprayed with the gases in february 1944 during monthlong trials conducted at the governments military research establishment in the Veteran said he and other volunteers were taken to an open Field every Day during the first two weeks of the trials and sprayed with Mustard Gas from for the remainder of the month he tended goats and rabbits that were being sprayed i was he some of the boys that had the Mustard Gas sprayed on them had Large Burns on their backs which penetrated through the special clothes we had to All i got was being Young and foolish i not thinking that some Day it could affect my he said after his discharge in 1946 he Felt his breathing want As Good As it was before going into the but didst give it too much he said that Over the next 40 years it got progressively worse and in 1984 he went to see a doctor who diagnosed in 1994 my condition was quite severe and after hearing of my stay in suf my doctor suggested there was no harm in applying to veterans affairs for a Gordon took his doctors in a recent letter to the the department confirmed tear Gas tests took place when he was adding but that is the closest the records come to confirming Gordon was at suf there is no indication that he took part in that an earlier letter stated the department could neither confirm nor deny he was at suf Field during the month of february it noted wartime files were and those available Only listed the names of servicemen who required medical just before Gordon received a letter from the pensions commission rejecting his application on the grounds the asthma had been diagnosed 50 years after hed been exposed to the the says int what Burns my ear is not getting the defence department recognition that i was i served my Hes got victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy fax or email Mike Ward on the internet at ;