Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a13 Nii May 2000 Beanna Herman midwives simply left the province midwife services recognized but not funded Saskatoon a year sup porters of midwifery in Saskatchewan were a decade of lobbying and advising had finally borne provincial politicians passed Legisla Tion allowing midwives to practise after a Celebration at the legislative midwives and their supporters went Home to Toast their a year it seems midwifery care is still stuck where it was a decade the legislation Hast been pro claimed and the government has said it cannot include midwifery As an insured service under the provinces so women who want the care of a midwife must pay for the services and the midwife must operate without the Sanction of that if women Here can find a mid most have left for other including where their services Are both legally recognized and midwifery support ers Here suspected this would the same thing happened in where midwifery is also legally recon but not publicly mid wives simply left the wider use of midwifery care would probably reduce health costs for uncomplicated since the mid wife could provide services More economically than doctors and nurses in a Hospital Back in health minister Pat Atkinson responded to a petition pressing for midwifery funding by clearly stating that the government could barely afford the ser vices it insures adding another insured service simply int Atkinson so the lobbying int Over for midwifery supporters in have to Jostle for attention with other funding issues on the ministers health which administer funding for local ser Are just now turning in their operating plans to the government for those plans Tell Atkinson How the districts Are going to live with in their Means this and spend a shrinking amount of Money to meet a growing demand for budget cutting pressures have already led to the resignation of one member of the Regina health Board who refused to take part in cos Cut he made an emotional statement when he saying he didst want to ruin Peoples lives economically and socially because of this like Many innovations that would eventually Cut healthcare provincial medicare funding of midwifery service would begin with an increased expense to pay the mid wives in the present climate in the government is in no position to accept new costs for winery with an Eye to Lon term say Ings while existing services Are being the Spring Bud get delivered per Sonal tax cuts in an attempt to make Saskatchewan More living As it does in the Shadow of its Lowmax neigh there was no discussion in the budget speech of increased service fees and program which were to the oppositions As the budget details were not every service that is demanded can be publicly like physician services and hos Pital Are Likely to continue to be funded because they Are seen As the Core of like midwifery May he worthy of funding because they could save the system Money in the Long until the midwives can deliver immediate savings for the provincial they will have a hard time clawing their Way into the health insurance midwives will have a hard time clawing their Way into the health insurance scheme Deanna Herman is a Saskatoon the need for holocaust education holocaust education Centre Stark warning to deniers by Martin Zeilig the faded yellow poster announces a concert by the jewish chamber orchestra in on March the same weekend that the German army marched into there was no music by German composers on the program As jews we rent allowed to play German the audience did hear music by Julian Niels Gade and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy the Brilliant 19thcentu by German jewish romantic this was the first and last concert that the jewish chamber orchestra Ever in november of that the infamous Kristal nacht occurred in Germany which put a Stop to All cultural activities by a few fortunate members of the orchestra managed to leave the others were sent to concentration Camps and never the Cham Ber groups pianist Klaus Glucksmann made it to he eventually became director of the israeli nation Al radio one of the violinists in the orchestra was 17yearold Rudolph who left Ger Many As part of the Kinder transport in december 1938 and eventually settled in the printed in bold gothic is in a Glass encased display panel in the recently opened Freeman family foundation holocaust Educa Tion Centre at the Asper jewish Community a starkly lit and neatly ordered the Centre tells its Story with words and photographs plus other silent like an tattered prayer shawl saved from a concentration and also uses audiovisual the entire which includes realistic Faux Boxcar doors separating the Centre from the adjacent jew ish brings visitors face to face with what Nobel peace laureate and Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel Calls a commitment to and thus to in a speech she gave at the official opening of the Centre on May Long time Winnipeg resident Barbara who was hidden by a Gentile family in her native Poland during the asserted that she became con Vinced of the need for a Centre because of the void in holocaust stud ies she found in Public school curricula in it became the focal Point of my Wayne Lowacki free press Marim Daien director of the jewish heritage Centre right and Sharon stand by artefacts in the holocaust education Centre at the Asper jewish Community a passion and a id never Felt like that education is the Only Way to eradicate asserted whose parents and Only sister perished during the a generous financial gift provided by the Toronto based Freeman family whose Holo Caust child survivor Zoltan first came to Winnipeg after the As Well As donations from other individuals finally helped give Concrete reality to her but Only after years of Effort on gos Zers scholar Deborah who Defeated Hitler apologist David irvings libel suit against her for Call ing him a holocaust showed in her Book denying the holocaust the growing assault on truth and memo that the holocaust should be remembered so that evildoers can be stopped before they can inflict much Hitler was far less of a foe in the Early 1930s than in the so deniers must be stopped she As the number of survivors dwindles due to natural As the War recedes into history and As other unscrupulous besides Irv seek to deny the or at least present a skewed version of history to impressionable youth and the need to remember the Shoah Holo Caust and learn its painful lessons takes on an added disturbing scenes Winnipeg holocaust education Centre shows disturbing photographs of emaciated bodies in an open mass grave at Bergen Belsen concentration Camp taken by a Cana Dian Soldier three Days after the Liber another Black and White obviously taken by a Mem Ber of the nazi reveals a group of huddled hungarian jews shortly after their arrival in crammed railway cattle cars at the Auschwitz death two images from that photo Are especially haunting a elderly woman with a Babushka wrapped around her head could be your Mother or while a Young boy staring with sad eyes into the camera Lens could be your own child or the Good natured kid next youll feel inspired by the Section on the heroic jewish unfortunately often too Little and too in the ghettos and the concentration Camps and with the partisans in the forests of occupied besides the six million youll learn about some of the five million like gypsies and religious and political who were also victims of the Rudolph Lowenstein is still playing the music he loves on his violin he knew a time when jews were pre vented from playing music by Ger Man composers and when nazis refused to hear music by jewish com posers such As Felix Gustav Mahler and Jacques Offen Winni Eggers of a younger generation never knew such a the holocaust education Centre shows us in vivid detail that it really did Hap ill til d 111 ii 1c the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 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Concentrate on not politics in response to Alem Asghedom ethiopian Aid goes to fight free May the principal cause of the drought in Ethiopia is the Long dry spell that has affected some parts of the country for the past three i agree that the War Between Eritrea and Ethiopia exacerbates the natural disaster in terms of diverting resources that could be Best used for Relief and development Pur poses to fuel the War what Alem Asghedom conveniently ignored is that it takes two to Ethiopia should not take the Brunt of the responsibilities for the after it was Eritrea who started the War by invading badge in May a significant number of eritreans Are also affected by the for the Sake of Eritrea also be pressured to end the War i would have liked a Well balanced analysis of the Complex emergency unfolding in the the unsubstantiated allegations that the ethiopian government is diverting medical sup plies for military use is far from the what Aid agencies have said time and time again is so the ethiopian government has been very transparent in the delivery of Relief supplies to those who need it the most with regards to the eritrean offer to use the port of assay to Channel Aid into i can understand the ethiopian governments refusal to accept in 1998 when the War broke out Over Many Aid organizations such the lutheran world federation and the Canadian International development Agency and others Aid to mention the Ethiopia an governments were stolen by the eritrean the Issue remain which government in the would Trust passage through an enemy Terri tory would the British or russian troops during the second world have channelled goods through hitlers Germany what makes the Issue even More preposterous is the fact that As Alem Asghedom is not the closest port to the drought stricken any geography 101 student would know that Djibouti and Berbera and they have sufficient capacity to handle the Aid flowing into the the solution to the looming famine is to get help to those who need it the most and politicizing the Issue will Only increase the number of casualties and crush any Hope for a cease Sophie Geb Reyes Winnipeg dont stand by As people starve providing Aid is often Complex and sometimes controversial As Alem Asghedom Points out in his ethiopian Aid goes to fight but that Doest mean it be i travelled to Ethiopia in april to visit development projects supported by Canadian lutheran world what struck me was the effectiveness of agricultural and irrigation projects initiated by both government and non government agencies since the Cata strophic famine in the most people living in regions touched by these projects now have enough food despite three years of claiming that Aid to Ethiopia is going to the military is an oversimplification perhaps a convenient depending on ones there is no doubt that the War Between Eritrea and Ethiopia adds immeasurably to the complexity of providing Aid to standing by and watching people starve simply int a morally acceptable Ruth Jensen executive director Canadian lutheran world Relief Winnipeg Brandon Economy welcomes Job seekers at a time when All parties concerned Are interested in supplying and receiving Only True and supportable i have no doubt that the families of the second Princess Patricia Canadian Light infantry Are confused about the conflicting Content of articles that appeared on consecutive Days that related to employment opportunities in a Survey summary that was reported on in the May 17 Issue of the free press is supportable and the data is compiled from firsthand information received from the employers of the commune the results Are in no Way to be construed As speculative or an i invite All interested visit the Brandon economic develop ment boards web site to View the entire text of our submission to minister of defence Art this information is factual and no one can dispute rest Brandon does not need to invent or inflate its inform this is an aggressive and growing Community that spells Opportunity for those who choose to Par we Welcome the questions and inquiries that your readers May have and will do everything in our Power to help them secure the answers they need to make informed decisions regarding their Marlo Kirton general manager Brandon economic development Board doonesbury by Garry Trudeau i put he ;