Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Format Complete listings win share of up to Cash see Page b9 72 pages vol 123 no 44 Canada Post sales agreement 563595 Winnipeg free press get Post Cokly 53 s in 20 Post m warm per 30 s3 o3 i Post outside oly january Rural Hospital jobs face axe legislature reporter health minister Jim Mccrae lifted his freeze on Rural Hospital Lay offs putting 105 jobs in jeopardy at three Northern Manitoba Hospi hospitals in flin flon and the Pas could see a 25 per cent Cut to their Nurs ing staffs if proposed staffing guidelines Are adopted in the cos cutting sex the cuts will be Darlene an emergency Ward nurse in the said i have no idea How we will Ever give Safe care within these guide the suggested staffing which would chop 76 nursing positions and 29 support jobs at the three could begin As Early As april but Are scheduled to take effect Over the next two while Rural and Northern hospitals have been facing Job cuts since july Mccrae put the brakes on All health reforms just Days after becoming health while the tories were in the midst of five provincial Mccrae said the freeze saved hundreds of jobs and allowed the province to take a Sec Ond look at the proposed after a year of Mccrae said Hospi tals will now begin working toward the staff ing beginning with Northern a cities which will be among the hardest there was a notable absence of the fan fare that accompanied the beginning of the the pause has been lifted in a phased Mccrae said nip Leader Gary doer accused Mccrae of targeting Northern Manitoban while sparing hospitals in Southern tory seats until after the election expected this the pause is off with vengeance in Northern Manitoba and there is an amnesty in other parts of the doer Thompson which will see 24 of 94 nursing positions is considering Lay offs in april to tackle its deficit As ordered by the the hospitals assistant executive director of patient care said reducing hours and Early retirements May spare some but Isabel Savignac said the Hospital will be hard pressed to absorb the loss of 26 per cent of its nursing it is dramatic for hospitals of our she flin flon faces the loss of 26 nursing positions and 17 support Mccrae said the staffing guidelines were designed with the hospitals it want me that did the singling he immigrant professionals struggle for jobs hard times in new world Sybil Redekop staff reporter five years Halina a Savtchouk was in Western teaching literature by Anton Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor she works five Days a week As a store clerk at Brothers pharmacy on Selkirk she also works As a waitress two or three times a week at Winnipeg convention Centre and every saturday she teaches ukrainian language to Young she May make half a Winnipeg teachers and any Hopes of a single Mother of continuing As a High school teacher Here Are slim to her Story is typical of immigrants and refugees to most of whom dont find jobs in their trained say Job the counsellors laugh when they hear the old Cavil about immigrants and refugees stealing jobs from Homegrown statistics show it is no easy feat for them to get jobs for a recent Survey of 76 immigrant and refugee doctors without a practice in eng soon immigrated from Burma four years ago and has worked at packing vegetables and other minimum wage of Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press a Savtchouk with daughter Oksana and son has slim Hopes of Ever teaching in a school inset Chan works for minimum a waste of potential subsisting on Hope a14 the 76 no practising immigrant 40 Are in the same boat As As Security convenience store clerks and Home care another 13 of the doctors Are on its an incredible waste of human says Darcy director of a Federal program that assists out practice immigrant another new Tatina a former French language University professor in worked in a Winnipeg sewing factory when she first arrived three years she will soon begin work in a carpet i knew it would be but not As hard As its says who was widowed when her husband was killed in a car Accident 18 years but Kraft chocks decision to immigrate five years ago was Sweet last weekend during ukrainian she Sang in the choir at Christmas eve mass at the Vladimir and Olga Catholic she appreciates the newfound religious Freedom she has discovered in she want allowed to baptize her children in if she the communist government would take her so she paid someone on the Black Market to take her babies Oksana and Ouslan to Church to be even with the dissolution of the soviet a Savtchouk maintains she had Little future in Ukraine because her family has Long been at Odds with the her who still lives in was exiled to Siberia for five years for helping a Savtchouk herself never joined the communist a Savtchouk would have to return to University for two years to be accredited to teach in and that not practical for her right she Snitch line complaint stops Dole cheques withheld to try forcing advocate say by Alice Krueger legislature reporter investigators Are using unsubstantiated complaints on the provinces welfare Snitch line As a reason to Stop a Legal Aid official and welfare mothers Mel a welfare advocate with Legal said the Agency has acted on a number of complaints about cheques being withheld in an attempt to extract an incriminating statement from a recipient suspected of each he the government backed hatred for poor this is becoming in our almost like a political Holley theres like a real hatred out there for the and three women who fell afoul of the Snitch line say it is being used As a weapon to harass and intimidate poor and powerless the three single mothers who spoke on condition their identities not be were All cleared of but two of them said that was Only after they were first Cut off benefits and then subjected to humiliating and stressful family services minister Bonnie Mitchelson said that Hap pen the policy is to Cut benefits Only after fraud has been she said shed like to but she needs names and one of the who used the assumed name i just cant explain what its when youre already wondering How youre going to feed your to have that Rug pulled out from under and the fear it puts into its a form of said a inside Story false tips on Snitch second whose Bene fits were Cut off in Early november following allegations she was living with a her benefits have just been rein but in the interim she had to borrow from her parents to cover novembers and she was beaten by a Man she said she took up with in desperation after he agreed to pay the december what these people who Are Phon ing dont understand is there not Only screwing up the life of that per son that there trying to get Back there screwing up the life of the the kids who Are going to go without a third said Shes been through two investigations and although Shes never lost her the experience has left her feeling that Shes always being neighbors i stopped having neighbors in afraid to let my kids have friends the Mother of two choking Back to think that someone out there hates you enough to do something so spiteful and so terrible makes you doubt even close friends and but Heather said she still believes the hotline is a Good thing because there Are a lot of people out there abusing it social How she said when tips prove the welfare recipient should be told who Laid the i think you have a right to face your she quote of the Day after we fake the presidential the chechen government will come to and Normal life will Sergei a russian Security tells of Moscow plans to install a new regime in Otwin on Page c7 the weather inside diversions Robes and Ann b2 b1 in Jumble sports b11 ruthless Roadside beating intensifies mans Faith in god by Linda Quattrin staff reporter e Ach Day Henry Friesen carefully changes the dress ing on a gaping wound on his the pain is constant yet the 75 year old Grunthal Man still feels blessed to be Only three weeks ago he was savagely attacked on a country beaten by two men and dragged bar Bottom be Hind his own Halfton and his turn of bad Fortune didst end on thursday Fries ens truck was stolen from his drive Way while he and his wife it was found burned a few Kilometres ramp Are still investigating both when i saw the truck i could nearly cry but i its just a its Friesen said in his thick German it can be re placed but a human being while his wounds will eventually Fri Sens Trust in strangers has been the one thing that Hast been shaken is Fri Sens lifelong Faith in in his Brush with death has Only deepened his it was three Days before Christ Mas and a retired lumber Yard was driving around the area about 50 Kilometres South of collecting for turkeys he had around 5 he was on the first mile Road West of about two Kilometres South of when two men in their standing beside a Black flagged him Down to that when the vicious Nightmare Friesen one Man whipped open his Drivers Side door and pulled Friesen out of the truck by the he said he was kicked repeat edly in the head and stomach and when he was barely conscious the both in Balayla pulled Down his pants and dragged him about 30 metres behind his truck on his Bare that How he got the huge Gash on his they told me they would kill me within two Friesen when another car the attacker dragged Friesen to the kicked him a few More times and sped off in the he credits the woman driving the who phoned with saving his Friesen actually managed to drive himself Home another Blessing Hes thankful for a Pouch with the hed collected that afternoon had fallen from inside the truck onto the run Ning it was still there when he pulled in at that was my Christmas ;