Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 8, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba As local Winn Pix fair junk 2000 technicians May strike illegally by Kim Guttormson radiation therapists and lab technicians May Start walking off the Job Ille Gally if yearlong contract negotiations Arent resolved their Union and the Battle is heating up As health care feeling fire off letters to health minister Dave Cho the Manitoba association of health care which includes radiation physio occupational pharmacists and lab is in the Middle of a strike rejecting a mediators report that they be Given Between a nine and per cent wage increase Over four because of the essential ser vices they cant walk the concern were kind of afraid of illegal said Ron executive director of the were not saying there going to do but that a part of the problem is that nurses last fall were Given an 11 per cent increase Over three and in his mediation Wally Fox decent stuck to the pattern established in other healthcare collective agreements except aggressive recruitment the Mahop professions Are taking that As a arguing they Are As important to health care As nurses and have just As difficult a time recruiting and retaining with Many health care Job vacancies across the Many provinces Are aggressively offering bonuses and higher Manitoba wages sit near the Bottom of the National Fox decent report also recommends establishing a wage standardization fund to help some of the professions in the and a recruitment and retention fund to Bat the the exodus of Denise the charge technologist in the transplant immunology lab who sent a letter to Chomiak asking him to resolve the said Many staff Are approaching an age when they can and without financial incentives to stay there will be an even greater for the province is already unable to fill 10 radiation technology positions and is Short about 40 technicians across the they talk about registered technologist Linda Heinemann just because we dont take out ads on the its an insult to my she Points out that people can drive two hours to work in Kenora and make More an he told me to shut up or hed kill me by David Kuxhaus a woman told a court of Queens Bench jury of a harrowing night in which she was handcuffed to a bed and sexually assaulted by a Man she believed was a police when the ordeal was she said he gave her a card for the crisis pregnancy Michael has pleaded not guilty to sexual his alleged who was 16 at the said she met him at a 7eleven on William earlier in the the teenager had been the victim of an unsuccessful purse she said Deschamps said he was an of duty police officer and offered to she said he was dressed kind of Classy with a Black jacket and dress pants and a Burgundy once inside his red the girl said Deschamps began talking into a car phone to a person he referred to As gave her Bath court was told that instead of taking her to a police the accused took her to his where he claimed she could give him her the woman said once he told her she looked like a prostitute and began to kiss when she he threw her to the ground and pulled out a he told me to shut up or hed kill she she said Deschamps forced her into an upstairs forced her to take off her clothes and handcuffed her to the bed she said the accused then sexually assaulted after the she testified that he gave her a in washing the evidence i have to do she recalled Deschamps say court was told Deschamps sexually assaulted her again but eventually stopped when the girl made up a Story that she was trial accused killer review ordered by Mike Mclntyre Justice minister Gord Mackin Tosh has ordered an internal review of Why the provincial Crown apparently breached a government policy by agreeing to the bail release of a Man charged with second degree Tyler was released to the custody of his parents last thursday six Days after 20yearold Anthony Mclaughlin died after he was beaten outside the Pembina Crown attorney Neil Cutler consented to the Young mans despite a longstanding Justice department policy that mandates crowns to oppose bail in All cases of serious or violent his actions came in same week Mackintosh spoke out about a recent wave of violence that claimed three Young lives in one the Justice minister vowed to get tougher on criminals to Send a Strong in Light of this bail the min ister has asked the department to review the a spokesman for Mackintosh said he made the request on As soon As he Learned what had Hap the Justice minister had no further comment on the Case because it remains before the she the Crown attorneys office also declined Queens Bench associate chief jus Tice Jeffrey Oliphant openly questioned cutlers position during the bail you Are consenting to his release i find this i am addressing you on this i want to make it Clear you Are Here speaking for the said Cutler maintained he was doing the right it certainly would have been easier for me to stand Here and oppose his said i just Call it the Way i see information Given at the bail hear ing was subject to a court ordered publication including any evidence that was the decision to release the accused on bail has angered the victims Fame who were not present in court last Jack Mclaughlin said he initially blamed the judge for releasing Cas but Learned the Crown had consented after reviewing the court transcripts this in just the representative of the people had his mind made up and folded his tent before he even got to he my son would have been better off representing himself in and Hes Mclaughlin was encouraged to hear the Justice minister had ordered a especially in Light of his Tough talk last Cascisa was ordered to live with his parents at their fort Garry he is allowed to leave the residence Only to go to his Job with a local landscaping or for medical he must make personal appearances for each future court and any breach of his conditions will require his parents to forfeit a surety they have posted in their the the top fathers Day is june 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