Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 25, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg press february need a solution for poor grades All 3 locations evenings saturdays arts waiting for the dough Walker theatre Hopes drama productions will save the Day sports ready to Rock at the Scott team Canada and Nova Scotia Square off today in Sudbury to determine the National women Curling champs c1 the weather is mainly Tel 30 Chance it of windchill High 13 Low 24 special report legacy of horror in flin flon Phil Hossack Winnipeg free press blast shatters lives seven months after a fatal explosion ripped through the flin flon reporter Tracy Tjaden and photographer Phil Hossack returned to the company town last week to talk to some of those affected by the Roland Pruden with wife who suffered third degree Burns to half of his body in the 8 says he cannot dwell on regrets and Barry the picture of Post Trau Matic stress says he spent the first few months in his House with the curtains and Steve would want me to keep see today sunday Magazine for Tjaden and cossacks special feds in red native health Manitoba deficit nations highest services paid never delivered by Paul Samyn for Manitoba natives which were paid but Ottawa health Canada ran up a deficit last year delivering native health care to the the free press has Dis the Cost far the highest in the country comes As health Canada tries to recover tax dollars for key medical services we Are at the Point now of needing a full inde pendent inquiry into the evidence of mismanage health went and allegations of benefits like Par j Mace Utica drugs wrongdoing Afong plus nip health celtic Wasyly Ciales projects and other funding agreements in Manitoba during the 19992000 overshot its budget by 19 per cent to reach a jump in nurses salaries helped push the total deficit to the one of a string racked up in Manitoba in recent required health Canada to shift surplus funds from other provinces or tap into unallocated funds to cover its shortfall in Manitoba where there Are roughly living on health Canada spokesman Jeff pen Der blamed Manitoba deficit on rising and often uncontrollable costs involved in treating Many of whom live on Remote these Are expensive services and we cannot control the but we Are working within our existing fender these deficits Are fully anticipated and Are balanced out at the end of the Pender confirmed a portion of Manitoba deficits Are due to Ottawa paying for health services which were never delivered and which Are now the subject of Federal a Small percent age of the deficits will be he the free press reported last week that health Canada is seeking the return of As much As million from Ama Anish Naabe Mino Aya Awin which Means Good health in ojibway for mental health services it was supposed to have delivered in the past three years in a Globe and mail report also revealed How Ama has received millions of fed eral dollars since 1988 even though health Canada documents show it never delivered dental mental health care or pharmacy Ama has been receiving million a year from health Canada to deliver non insured benefits on seven Interlake continued please see deficit a2 after 10 years get no prettier with age by Bud Robertson countless Battles have been fought Over political fortunes have been won and lost because of the goods and services tax is 10 years this and while the passionate initially raged Over it has Many canadians still curse those three letters get every time they look at a sales no one believes in its present the get has been a said Dan regional Vic president of the Canadian federation of Independent an organization that Vehe mently opposed the Federal tax when it was first introduced on while it pours billions of dollars into Federal coffers each the get is a not Only on Consumers pocket but on business owners who spend hours each week filling out government tax forms they that could be better spent running their the problem what do you do with a tax that generates about billion a year in Gross revenues for the govern ment More than 130 countries worldwide also have a value added although Many dont have other sales such As Canadas provincial sales after paying out various rebates and transfers to Atlantic provinces that have harmonized Ottawa ends up with about billion in net get revenues a it seems like its a lot of collecting and administrative turnaround to try to raise that amount of said Phil an economist at the University of leading up to the 1993 Federal elec Tion Jean Chretien promised to scrap the get if he later backed away from that Ontario and British Colum launched a lawsuit in a bid to have it declared that continued please see get a4 Hami tans proud to be called eds babies order of Canada recipient created Model Rural healthcare facility by Carol Sanders wave Olowski Winnipeg free press Hudson and his chuckle As they show off his first doctors Hamiota in the midst of Canadas healthcare de Hudson crafted an Oasis of 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