Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba I breakfast 409 Ort Garry Call 9 4 2 r 2 Winnipeg free press March 2001 local a3 City editor Steve Pona 6977292 features editor Carolin Vesely 6977292 Marc Gallant Winnipeg free press beating the drum for arts education Winnipeg musician Mark Camerson above performs with Ballet students yesterday at the Winnipeg Art gallery Muriel Richardson Auditori More than 100 Winnipeg school division grades 58 students Are participating in an eight week program of arts with the help of Prairie theatre Exchange and the Royal Winnipeg at drama teachers Leighanne Kehler left and Elyse Hartman watch one of two dramatic presentations Carstairs champions palliative care nip readies key budget for april 10 honeymoons prof warns that Tough plan maybe in works by David Kuxhaus by Paul Samyn Ottawa Twenty years Sharon Carstairs got a rude Awakening on the state of palliative care As her Mother Lay dying at Winnipeg Grace general hos when she went into cardiac arrest at Grace despite the fact she had signed a Dono resuscitate they revived the Manitoba senator recalled i went to the doctor and Why did you do she told you not to do and he i had and i no you didst have to do you had to do what your patient asked you to her Mother never recovered and since her Carstairs has lived with the nagging worry she somehow let her Mother Down As she cared for her in her final but Carstairs has a new Opportunity to Champion the cause of comforting the dying and providing support for their she now carries a Spe Cial prime ministerial designation with in Cabinet for palliative the designation is a recognition by the government that palliative care needs to be brought to the top of the healthcare Agenda and has not been in the the government Leader in the Senate we know that Only 10 per cent of canadians have Access to Quality Pallia Tive i essentially become an adviser to health minister Allan Rock on this particular Issue and because i am a fellow Cabinet it gives a pres Tige to the Issue it has never had Senate leaders in the past have been Given Cabinet designation for special causes such As Carstairs new assignment conies As the Chretien government promised in its most recent throne speech that it will do More to meet the needs of canadians living with a life threatening its a service that individuals want and desperately but because theres never really been a Champion in government at any it has not had the attention it needs said a Patron of the Manitoba aids Circle april 10 on your that when the nip will bring Down its while All budgets Are this years fiscal blueprint is seen by some As crucial to the fortunes of the province and the last the new democrats offered More Money for health and education and modest tax some of those like the Small business income tax were initiatives of the previous gov in the budget if Oilra oowc1 to received a passing j y in most were willing to Cut the government some Slack because they were As overspend ing by the tories afforded the new democrats further but no such crutches exist this Many were anxious to throw a few pre budget this is a Pivotal budget for our Mem said Shelly senior policy analyst for the Canadian federation of Independent the crib wants cuts to personal and corporate income Wiseman said personal income taxes for a family of four earning Are higher in Manitoba than any other tax on corporate income Over is 17 per in Ontario the corporate rate on income under is four per cent and in three per Wiseman said half of crib members in a recent Survey indicated that when it came to expanding their they would look outside the and Alberta is looking better All the another term for Ralph Klein Means More tax cuts in a province that is poised to eliminate its debt in the next two Calgary ranks second Only to Toronto in the number of corporate then theres which last do something the Public int going to be Happy now is the time to do it a of political science professor Brenda Oneill doctor is heading patient says do it qui to year served up the biggest income tax Cut in the provinces Graham Starmer of the Manitoba chamber of Commerce said the urgency to Cut taxes has become More acute in Light of the economic slowdown in the United tory Leader Stuart Murray said the nip Doest seem to understand the severity of the stay was All government House Leader Gordev Mackintosh would say when asked whether the nip was going to give ratepayers a but the debate on april 10 wont just be about tax Over the last few Days Farmers have made it Clear they want More Money from the even though Manitoba has thrown another million in the expanding the flood Way will Cost and then theres health care which continues to gobble up 40 per cent of the entire while the Winnipeg regional Hospital authority is finally in the More Money is still needed for nurses and other healthcare there Are a lot of different pressures out said there is also the game of politics to keep in Brenda a political science pro Fessor at the University of said this budget May not contain Many goodies at if youre going to do something the Public int going to be Happy now is the time to do said you dont do it the budget before an Oneill said that Way the nip would have almost three years to smooth Over any ruffled in its last the nip delivered tax Relief for Low income boosted spending on health and education and increased Aid for people who pay prop erty criticism of medicare angers woman by Kevin Rollason a Winnipeg obstetrician who is leaving to practise in the should hold off on criticizing Canadian health says one of his Betty Behl also Doest think its right for Michael Bass to charge a handling fee for her its like i should say of my this poor Behl said i guess in supposed to go to my fam ily physician and say to sorry that youve got to As for the Chart Behl thinks patients should Only have to shoulder the Cost when its the patient who initiates the move to another in not leaving Hes leaving head of obstetrics and gynaecology at seven Oaks general is leaving next month for the Dakota clinic in thief River in the letter the doctor sent to of his he says its with great sadness that he is leaving after prac Tising in the City for 18 another of Bass Marsha said As a patient she has also witnessed a deterioration in the health but it Doest make Bass leaving any i read his letter four times and she in envious there Are people in the states who will have him and we Bass said last night that Federal government cuts to health result ing in longer waiting lists and old is the main reason he is Leav he said he has Only received one complaint about the letter from a Bass said Lack of funds Means doctors cant use the latest innovations in medi Cine for their for Bass said he has been trying to persuade the government to pay for a new Type of tape that can treat incontinence in but at per he has been told the medical system cant afford earlier this Bass was told 70 women can undergo the procedure this but Only because of other savings in the that 70 for All the women in Mani ill be Able to do that there thief River Bass said the Chart fee is far cheaper than it will Cost to photocopy the and As for Why he included a flyer about the Dakota clinic in the Bass said that was the Only Way Canada Post would allow him to mail them with the cheaper bulk health minister Dave Chomiak said he would not comment specifically on Bass leaving or his but Chomiak said the province has been working hard to improve the health last year there were More doctors net in than net he weve attracted some of the Robert Deputy registrar of the College of physicians and surgeons of said the Chart fee is not Walker said everyone is entitled to their Wilsons Spring cleaning Sale Gibbard 9 dining solid 6 Sale Durham Royal cottage solid Maple bedroom White Sand save off in Stock Lexington Oak bedroom Queen Chest of 4 Sale Stanley 9 dining Sandstone Oval 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