Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 18, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Local junk 2001 Roblin girl doing Fine with her new heart recovering from june 7 transplant a Roblin girl who received a heart trans Plant from a seven Earold victim of a fiery police crash in Edmonton is nearly out of the Shes doing Andrea Froess grandmother Susan Froese said yester they say the first 12 Days Are Cru Froese said her granddaughter is not talking much perhaps because of a sore but she the seven Earold remains in intensive care in Edmonton recovering from her june 7 she sits up in bed and drinks but continues to be fed through a her biggest problem is not eating for so Froese said from her Home in the who was born with holes in her grew so ill waiting 10 months for a new heart to become Avail Able that she has been unable to eat nor Mally since last her stomach will have to slowly adjust to taking food again and it will be months before she can return Froese and her husband will travel to Edmonton this week to visit Andrea for the first time since her were very anxious to see talk to the grandmother the girl will Likely be moved out of intensive care to her old room at the hos Pital this her parents and Andreas older Broth rights tribunal dismisses complaint against Revenue Canada deaf Man loses tax fight Bald Santin Darri Dyck Canadian press Andrea Froese not talking but she says or have been living in Andrea received a new heart just hours after Giovanni was removed from life his brother and the boys Grandfather were in a car trying to turn left when an unmarked police car slammed into causing the car to catch Jonathan had one forearm amputated last lost three fingers on his other hand and had to undergo skin grafts for his face after being badly police have said the officers were try ing to catch up to two speeding vehicles before the crash two weeks a police investigation could be completed this the file will then be passed on to the crowns office to determine if charges should be a Winnipeg Man has lost his fight with Ottawa Over his belief that he was being taxed because he is the Canadian human rights tribunal recently dismissed a three Earold com plaint that Scott Wignall launched against Revenue Canada because it taxed a Grant he received to offset the costs of hiring interpreters when he was a Par time student at the University of in a written ruling released earlier this tribunal hearing chairman Guy Chicoine said that Wignall May make the Case that taxing the Grant is unfair but its not Revenue Canada now known As the Canada customs and Revenue Agency had argued at last septembers hear ing that it treated Wignall Grant the same As All other Grants to As taxable Wignall had said he was forced to apply for the Grant by the u of which was providing sign language interpreters for him at no and he turned the entire amount of the Grant Over to the in disappointed that the tribunal failed to adequately appreciate the fact that treating people equally ignores the fact that people Are not equal to Start Wignall said in a written state ment to the free the u of m had provided Wignall with a team of two interpreters who accompanied him to All his he graduated in 1998 with a degree in social work and was a student at red River col lege last year studying Wignall told the hearing in disappointed that he sought that the tribunal the Grant so he could have failed to 306 equal appreciate the fact that the hearing treating people deaf students the fact that peo across the pie Are not equal country f receiving a to 5iari win Grant to offset Scott Wignall costs of hiring taxing the Grant was the same As tax ing the the hearing was the tribunal concluded that Wignall had suffered very Little because of Rev Enue Canadas decision to tax the As Wignall had no taxable income in 1995 and taxing the Grant had resulted Only in a reduction in a refundable Provin Cial tax a spokesman for a disabled lobby group that intervened at the hearing said the ruling ignored the fact that they believed Ottawa is taxing people because they Are our organization became involved because of the principle at said Laurie National coordinator of the Council of canadians with Dis the tribunal did not address the Issue of the ruling noted that Wignall had con ducted his own lobbying Effort after he filed his discrimination complaint and that had produced some changes on How the Grant is but Chicoine said Ottawa concluded to continue taxing the adding he want willing to fix something that Ottawa didst think was while social policy is reflected in our taxation it is the lawmakers who determine the amount of financial Assis Tance to be Given to the disabled Pur Suant to these types of Chicoine said in his such Assis Tance should not be dependent on the creation of an exemption from taxation by circuitous application of a discriminatory practice provision of the Canad an human rights Beachell and Wignall said they Are still studying the adding its possible it 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