Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 24, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Section Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local Lindor Reynolds political warriors get vote of thanks Ive been following this civic Campaign As closely As smoke follows Ive listened to mayoral candidates make promises that a mayor cant watched would be City councillors sort through each others trash and spread it out for Public and seen the candidates for school trustee Garner giant yawns from people who will scream if Little Johnny has 31 classmates next i observed All the candidates at the last mayoral forum and saw that even the most empty Promise can make a very effective clip on the late Ive watched some Veteran Council lors try to distance themselves from their jets stance like rats catapulting off a sinking and Ive read All the Earnest handouts from my wards candidates for school each of them seemingly upstanding citizens who would love and educate my child like their and through through the hype and the through the mudslinging and the Ive been sure of Only one thing in grateful i live in a City where so Many people Are willing to step for Ward and run for almost 200 people want to become a school a Job with limited Powers and really bad for a elec Tion signs have sprouted through the City like Mush rooms after a Summers some wards have ridiculous numbers of name after name blanketing boulevards with Sticks and All of these people seem sin Cere All of them believe they have a shot at they run knowing that Many voters will Check off the names they rec ignoring both issues and they potential City councillors play for higher this is a full time one that comes with a Public profile and an idealistic shot at making a you pay me enough to endure the hours of Council More hours of com Mittee even More hours of glad handing the pub Lic at barbecues and Block every time in convinced half of Council should be i realize there doing a Job most of us would run not which Doest make them less just less deserving of every brickbats hurled their the mayoral candidates Are an interesting the three front runners have the most serious election machines the four fringe candidates run with the Aid of a Patchwork Crew of family and they Are the ones i Admire most the candidates with no Chance of grabbing the brass they run because of their because they like the because they believe someone should provide an alternate Point of they make the Campaign i dont think any of them should be but in glad there Terry Susan Thomp son and Peter Kaufmann have the Money and the support to run Slick which make their gaffes even More Treyve All made mistakes during the it be a Campaign with out one of the three will be mayor tomorrow you will vote for the one you found the most you will Tutu for someone whose promises Are not someone mouthing pipe dreams dressed up As a political plat you will hospitals hit for savings by Alice Krueger province after dollars unused due to ads strike the Filmon government is putting the grab on any healthcare dollars that May have been saved during the recent emergency doctors strike at win Nipges five Community its not known How much Money is since Hospital officials Are just now getting around to tabulating their operating budgets for that the order to hand Over the Money surprised some Hospital who had hoped to use any savings to ease their own budgetary health minister Jim Mccrae said yesterday he didst know Why they should be since that was the understanding right from the Start of the labor he said some of the Money is ear marked for health sciences Cen tre and Boniface general both of which had to add staff during the the dollars not being Manitoba health is asking those dollars either be returned or not spent somewhere the minis Ter that a longstanding if its dollars not spent due to a labor its no different from when the nurses went on Hospital administrators say they were contacted by Manitoba health in the dying Days of the four week strike and told they would not be allowed to keep unspent such As what is normally allocated for physicians it was a bit of a yes we we rent expecting to have to do said Bill executive director of Concordia we dont like having to return but if its applied in an equitable i suppose then Well have to be Happy with opposition health critic Dave Chomiak called the move an insult to the hospitals and accused health minister Jim Mccrae of acting like a great big ceo of a Chomiak said it proves what he has suspected All along that Clos ing emergency wards is about Sav ing not about improving health care for it Speaks to me of the fact that this whole exercise is Only about one thing and that he at some those so called autonomous boards Are going to have to Tell the minister to stick Patmore said Concordia is wait ing for some direction from the government on exactly what can Jeff free press Mol oversees the placement of his latest and biggest a donation to the Leo Mol Garden in Assiniboine Mol makes huge donation to Park by Manfred Jager staff reporter Winnipeg sculptor Leo Mol has Given the Community the largest sculpture yet to be placed in Assiniboine a depiction of the allegorical figure of Riding on the greek god zeus in his disguise As a White latest and biggest sculpture gift of the 81yearold artist to the area named after him in the the Europa figure stands metres tall on a 30centime tre Granite base and weighs about 800 with the base weighing another watching it being put in place by workers from Brunei Monu ments Mol pointed to the miniature sketch of the sculpture now on display in the Glass Pavilion in Leo Mol i made that years and years always had it in the Back of my mind to make a full sized version of but didst have any place to put a piece like this would have looked kind of silly in front of my it this Way i solved the the piece does look Good where it stands according to greek Europa was the daughter of the King of the City of zeus fell in love with disguised himself As a handsome White Bull and tempted her to climb on his zeus then swam to the Island of Crete and made love to work on the Monument was completed in Germany late last it was cast in Altonet Ting near Munich where Mol works with a group of German the sculpture was then flown to Winnipeg in an air Mol said he created the Sculp Ture As a tribute to ancient Greece contribution to euro Pean and Western province to appoint pro vice agrees to Pappou mediator in u of m strike in f k lfinlattfrc1 by Alice Krueger and Bud Robertson staff reporters labor minister Vic Toews agreed last night to appoint a mediator in the univer sity of Manitoba professors Toews will meet this morning with representatives from the University and the faculty association to choose the mediator sources said last night the mediator will come from Saskatchewan or Ontario and decide on terms of he said As he got ready for the meeting last night that he was prepared to appoint a Media but binding arbitration or backs work legislation Are not in the Toews said arbitration is not the answer because it does nothing to Deal with the Long term problems faced by the he said the University must come to terms with huge cuts in Federal transfers shortfalls which the province has no intention of making the minister said that without restructuring at the arbitration would just mean higher student fees and i dont think that education minister Linda mean decried the Impact the strike is having on students and appealed to both sides to take that into i dont see Why the students who have done nothing wrong should have to have their classes Cut because two groups of adults Are disputing How to achieve a common Mclntosh i really think that All the parties involved need to take a look at the specific Impact of what their actions Are doing to students go Back to work and continue their Pauls College students association representatives Ron Antiveros and Jennifer Page met with Toews and Mclntosh yesterday and presented a petition of More than Signa asking the government to appoint an impartial arbitrator or Neutral third party Antiveros said a Neutral third party might be Able to bring new insight to the bargaining Toews said the students want somebody who will sit Down with the parties and achieve an agreement so in that sense the students and the government Are very much agreed As to what is the binding nature of is just clearly not appropriate and they recognize 1 think they Are very concerned about their future and we As a government Are very concerned about that Page and Antiveros said the government seemed sympathetic to their position that they Are being used As pawns in the a group calling itself the Union of students of the University of or broke away from the official student Union ranks this past weekend to support the More than 30 students joined the picket handing out leaflets to passing our students Union is not representing the wishes of the said George who spearheaded the formation of All the students at the University of Mani Toba know How to read and there All critical said a graduate sociology if presented with the it leads one to inevitably support the professors at this the group believes Umsu the University of Manitoba students Union supports the administration in the dispute and Hast done enough to provide students with a Means of express ing their views on the Umsu is officially Umsu president David Gratzer said the students Union will be making its views known he there Are significant problems with the position of the faculty he would not Delabo Gratzer added Umsu is planning to hold a referendum some time next week to determine the wishes of the student 1 understand sums he but the students Union has to represent All Stu faculty association president Grant Woods said his members appreciate the show of sup port by students who have joined the picket i c or cant be included in the Calculi i suppose once Treyve done that Well take that formula and plunk in the right he Marion president of Vic Toria general said Shes not sure at this stage whether there were although the government wants Back any Money that would have been paid out in doctors Suski said her Hospital had other strike related expenditures that would offset some of those we had to have an anaesthetist we also had to have Dif Ferent items that Are actually strike like some patients were she those costs would offset any Unity rally has tiny turnout by Dan Lemoal free press correspondent with the Quebec referendum looming Large on the organizers of a Unity rally in Winnipeg Are asking if Manitoban really this uncertainty came yesterday after a onside rally at the Mani Toba legislature managed to draw Only four including just two members of the aboriginal Council of the rally Cree referendum b1 rally organizer Nelson Sander a human rights councillor for the called the poor turnout it sends a negative picture from Manitoba to Sanderson he said All three Levels of government were As Well As potential mayoral none of whom Sanderson was at a loss to explain the absence of other aboriginal he said the other groups were but he received no its not like i started this said Ive been working on this for a week faxing out As Many reports on the rally As the other act member in Atten Tommy Prince a relative of the second world War hero of the same name was More Blunt about the poor turnout there was plenty of i would say people were simply not interest when questioned about the Lack of attendance from his own Orga Sanderson said some members were out of town at the while others could not get off he if i could make then Why anyone else show Mary Jane one of the few members of the Public who attended the said Winni Eggers Are simply tired of the Issue this has been going on for not just a few its not a new former Equality party organizer Robert Libman was in town yesterday to discuss the referendum while promoting his new Book on the organized in the Equality party managed to elect four Mem Bers to the Quebec National Assembly in the subsequent elec Libman told a Small news con Ference that canadians outside of Quebec should beware the ten Dency to say leave canadians have to realize that they have a lot to lose if the yes Side Libman Libman said Manitoba political particularly Gary Filmon and Gary have not done enough to help the federalist As he said the Federal government has made several mis takes in its referendum the no message has been very focusing on the eco Momic consequences of separa Libman the yes Campaign has been very ;