Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 3, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winni Winnipeg Freeti press need a solution for poor grades All grades 3 locations evenings saturdays arts Harmony and Joy a wealth of Christmas and hanukkah concerts will brighten up the Holiday season sports hoops Homecoming Winnipeg Cyclone held their Home opener last night at the Winnipeg convention Centre hosting the Saskatchewan Hawks c1 the weather 012 mainly Cloudy 30 Chance of Light Hugho Low 15 City about to lose High tax rep Winnipeg Only major Centre in Canada reducing its levies by Bruce Owen an ongoing assault on City spending and continued reductions in civic property taxes May soon end Winnipeg reputation for having some of the highest municipal taxes in according to a comparison with other major while Winnipeg Reliance on homeowners to foot the Bill at City Hall is still High compared to most Canadian it has been significantly reduced Over the last three ratepayers will account for per or of the cites 2001 tax supported operating but that Fig ure will fall to 56 per cent by 2002 As property taxes Are reduced a further two per Bud get documents in Winnipeg is the Only major City reducing property taxes six per cent Over three years starting last most cities Are increasing taxes next year to keep up with the annual two per cent inflation in mayor Glen Murray announced a second consecutive two per cent property tax decrease in 2001 for Winni Eggers last the trend is in a positive Way for said Georges a tax researcher with the City of in trying to provide you with the most accurate information i and i can say it has the Gap is getting smaller Between Winnipeg and the other How much smaller is a matter of interpret were going Canadian taxpayers federation spokesman Victor Vrsnik this two per cent reduction Doest show up on any radar its a microscopic tax its like the City is just rearranging the deck chairs on the other cities Are Way continued please see City taxes a2 tax i increases Winnipeg 11999 actual 2000 actual projected 2002 projected total tax increases for Edmonton and Calgary in 2002 projected at Chi Edmonton Calgary Winnipeg pm skirt it Fin my uni let of do a police take this Ken of Oliotti Winnipeg free press to the Rescue if you need someone to carry who better than a firefighter Jay Mcisaac gives his new wife a City police a ride through gusting winds and Over Sandy Snow yesterday on the Way to their wedding reception after taking photos at the via train Sage eng Centre didst do its a worker fumes Labrador Gas sniffers among its a patients by Bill Redekop As images of children sniffing Gas at Flash across Canadian to anger rises in some former employees of the Virginia Fontaine addictions foundation at Sag keen first nation in the kids were they had one treatment worker rattles off their inn names and then goes quiet with the memory of says Cynthia Sigurdson about what she feels when she sees the images from Shes a psychiatric nurse who recently left the Sag keen treatment a lot of Good it did she adds bitterly of the kids stays at the one Shesha Shiu youth was sent to the Sage eng Centre three times and spent More than a year in its with eight years of Educa Tion in social quit the Centre shortly after last months Caribbean boat cruise for More than 70 people connected with Sigurdson was the Only nurse working at the three employees quit after the cruise and controversy continues to swirl around the on health Canada suspended its funding after the Centre refused to let auditors see records prior to july the government said patients will be moved As soon As possible to other facilities across the Ted Ostrowski Canadian press an inn youngster openly sniffs Gas in Martin lawyer for the Sag keen said he comment until the woman answering the phone at the treatment Centre last night said no management personnel were available for comment until Tomor in not surprised at All the she Shat Shiu kids Are sniffing said Sig of All the kids that came through Ive seen Only one stay successfully clean and continued please see Shesha Shiu a4 court is no place to discipline experts say by Alexandra Paul inside the surgeon behind the tragic deaths of 12 babies who had open heart surgery at health sciences Centre is no Crimi say experts who argue court int the place to punish Public outrage Over a Lack of Legal Sanction against the doctors who were part of the now defunct paediatric car Diac surgery surged Forward again with the release this week of a devastating 500page inquest it called for sweeping systemic i Heartbreak at Hsc analysis of baby death inquiry changes in the administration of Hospi tals and the judicial bodies that Are sup posed to Monitor the the longest in Canadian took nearly three years to con clude hearings under associate Provin Cial court judge Murray parents of the babies who died in 1994 vented their frustration that none of the including surgeon Jonah has been held accountable in any Margaret grandmother of one of the called for an inquiry into the inquest because nobody was publicly but in inquests Are limited they cant Lay and medical procedures Arent included in the criminal so frustrated patients frequently feel there is no Avenue outside of a costly malpractice cases where doctors do stand trial Are but in a family doctor was handed a five year sentence for sexually assaulting five female patients Dur ing a 10year until his arrest in he was stripped of his medical at Dalhousie University in Fiona an ethics expert trained in Medicine and said most patients Arent usually looking to put a doctor in what most individuals Are looking for when they go after a physician is either compensation for their harm or to have the physician punished in terms of not wanting him to be Able to practice any Bergin in the College of physicians and surgeons is the Only forum that can Stop a doctor from practising the major issues that go to discipline Arent criminal style registrar Bill Pope for doctors who alter med ical charts Are aggressively pursued even though the fuss mystifies the Gen eral changing professionally it is so utterly but it even Register a negligence looking for your garbage and recycling Calendar the along with answers to frequently asked questions about garbage and is in the White pages of your its phone Book at the of tit City of Winnipeg water and waste department customer 9865858 monday to am pm ;