Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 17, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Enter t aim m e in f was warning sufficient doctor drug caution at Issue in mothers 10 year old lawsuit alleged Moonie link upsets beware that Burger May be tainted City fails to Stop Landfill hearings fishing tackle firm Hooks the world Hani hard film True Story of Linda is sequel to gemini Cit born artist was ahead of his play relives jewish childrens Rescue 1 Bram keep kids Estre eters wait for Springsteen turning Back the clock touch football is serious business for Winnipeg Nice Guys wont save bombers Levy tells Bills he has Britain rejects Calls for boxing ban a Silver lining in diversions c3 in sports to the weather 60 Chance of High details on Page c10 Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas october labs Stop meat tests Cost Cutter too risky critics investigative reporter recent changes to provincial health testing facilities have left Manitoba without the ability to effectively test meat for hamburger although experts still estimate 30 per cent of our raw ground beef is tainted with the Coli the which the province carried out in the inter est of mean local laboratories Are also unequipped to quickly Trace contamination if there is Ever an out in Seattle two years the outbreak of a virulent Strain of Coli killed three children and sickened 500 each year in dozens of people fall ill to hamburger Dis in the first nine months of this 61 cases have been according to the office of the chief provincial medical officer of in there were 38 in people fell ill to hamburger disease in Manitoba and across the a 1990 provincial study never officially released to the Public found 31 per cent of the raw ground beef samples Pur chased in Winnipeg stores were infected with the bacteria that causes hamburger the which causes com Marc free press scientist Doug Milley removes tissue culture cells for detection of bloody diarrhoea and sometimes is caused by certain strains of bacteria found in the digestive tracts of cattle that Are inadvertently mixed in with meat during the Only Way to ensure ground beef is Safe is to Cook it thoroughly through the which kills the a new mandate for provincial health testing saw the microbiology unit moved to a new facility earlier this As plans were put in place to charge municipalities for services changes critics believe Are a step towards Pri provincial say the move was done to save continued please see outbreak students cram for walkout fear and frustration descend on Campus As u strike deadline looms by Lisa Saunders free press correspondent students worried about losing part of their University education Are frantically searching for ways to prepare themselves if University of Manitoba professors walk out on strike at Midnight in scared that if it goes on too i could lose a year of said firs year arts student Meika who int looking for Ward to crossing the picket the University of Manitoba faculty association has set an 18 deadline to reach a tentative the spectre of a strike was front and Centre on Campus As students and professors prepared for the worst while both sides in the negotiations held press conferences in an Effort to hold panic to a some such As history department chairman John spent much of yester Day trying to prepare his students to work independently for the rest of the telling them to operate As if he were still at he told them to rely on their own who has been teaching at the univer sity since has been through numerous con tract renewals and he Doest think much of the current negotiation i wonder whether they Are taking it As seriously As they he members of the University faculty association authorized strike action in a vote taken the University administration took the unprecedented step of publicly releasing detailed proposals it has put Forward on key it also released a brochure to answer u of m administration offers 8 solution questions students Are bound to have about what happens to them during a it said any decisions about tuition refunds for students in the event of a strike will depend on the length of the strike and whether the fall term is the faculty held a press conference to reassure its members that a line of credit from the Canadian association of University teachers cart would ensure they will continue to receive their benefits during a prolonged the University administration is seeking to reduce expenditures to Deal with the current fiscal Cri this the University was Short Mil lion in its budget because of a six per cent drop in it is seeking to Cut costs in several ways including relieving some tenured professors of their duties by offering retirement transferring some staff and eliminating redundant the faculty association is worried that the administrations proposal leaves the door open for staff to be dismissed if they voice unpopular opinions or undertake unpopular faculty association president Grant Woods said yesterday that University negotiators were asking last Friday for a two year contract with annual four percent wage rollbacks in Exchange for dropping its push for changes to Layoff Woods said the offer undermines the univer Sites Public position that it must be Able to quickly reduce the size of the University fac Marc Gallan cart chairman Martin King brought insurance for the u of is Bouchard baby talk backfires separatist Campaign reels after his White race speech to women by Eric sibling the Canadian press the separatist Campaign went from resurgent to reel ing yesterday As Lucien Bouchard Invulnerable Bubble seemed to burst amid charges of racism and the bloc quebecois leaders comment Over the weekend that Quebec is one of the White races that has fewest children marked the first bump in the Road for separatists since Bouchard took the steering wheel of the Campaign 10 Days prime minister Chretien led the attack in the House of accusing his separatist rival of a mindset that makes Little room for rights of women and whats disturbing about what he said is that according to to be a Good que Becer you have to be White rather than you have to be French rather than English speaking said and if youre a woman then maybe they should be having More a frustrated Bouchard protested his arguing that his remarks simply reflected the provinces demographic reality and stated the need for More Finan Cial support to me a racist me a sexist that he in his speech to Sovereign list women on Bouchard pushed several buttons aimed at convincing undecided he argued the Point that endless constitutional quarrels have pre vented Quebe cers from solving everyday such As the need for More support for women raising do you think it makes sense that we have so few children in que Bec he were one of the White races that has fewest Chil that really that suggests we Haven solved our family within 24 the no Side jumped on the smelling a repeat of the famous vote swing ing Gaffe by a parti quebecois cab inet minister during the 1980 referendum on Sovereign Yasso at the when Lise Payette accused Quebec women of being submissive calling them Yvette after a docile character in an old primary school Reader Many women rallied to a galvanized no Hes Only talking about White women having babies does that mean that women of color Are producing enough in his View said Cynthia director of chinese family services of greater Mon to us we Are All and its disappointing when some one makes a Federal conservative Leader Jean Charest said he was shocked by Bouchard i cant fathom what Hes imply Charest i think it might be that in an Independent Quebec White women would be Able to have More it shows a leadership out of psychiatric Beds next on closure list Batree Nathan staff reporter mental health advocates fear psychiatric patients will be thrown out on the endangering themselves and the if 20 extended care Beds at the Grace general Hospital Are closed later this it is one of several proposals to trim More than million from the hospitals budget this said John Mcfear chief executive officer of the theres More to the emergency wards Are just the said referring to the permanent clo sures of emergency wards in Winnipeg five Community hospitals at announced ear Lier this the recommendation from the hospitals Board of directors will be discussed Between Manitoba health and Hospital officials this confirmed sue assistant Deputy health but a Date for the Clos ing has not been shutting Down the extended care Ward would save about and Cut 20 full time equivalent Mcfarlane said four psychiatric four registered and 12 activity the proposal terrifies one whose a has been in the Ward since March Hes protected but theres no services on the out Side to help she told the free press releasing him would put the Community in the woman said she had a meeting yesterday with Mcfear who told her the Provin Cial government made the cuts her husbands social worker at the Hospital has tried to find housing for him in the comm but no one will take him because he is a the woman he was to stay in the Ward indefinitely for coun Selling and to have his Medica Tion continued please see better than Bank foreign Exchange rates guaranteed corporate accounts custom House currency Exchange 9876000 ;