Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday july 2, 2004 province a5 open 7 Days a week provincial elections act under review voting could leap into the 21st cent to use newer technologies if they wish. Ryas the province is modernizing the intergovernmental affairs minister local authorities elections act to pos Rosann Wowchuk and education Citi Sibly allow the use of computerized zen ship and youth minister Peter Bjorn technology. Son will oversee the review which will the act which outlines the proce include input from the Public. Dures for elections in Manitoba a 199 a discussion paper on the subject is municipalities and 38 school boards has available at . It been fully reviewed in Over 120 written submissions can be sent to 508?years. 800 Portage ave., Winnipeg my r3g currently it Only allows for the use of 0n4, faxed to 204-948-2107, or emailed paper ballots and the province wants to to . 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As of yesterday the health sciences Centre St. Boniface general Hospital and the Deer Lodge Centre became the first of the Winnipeg regional health authorities facilities to ban smoking completely from Hospital property. Its a regional policy that is being phased in said or. Sande Harlos Warha medical officer of health. The ban includes entranceway Green spaces and parking lots. Smoking has been prohibited completely inside All Winnipeg hospitals since last summer. The rest of the City a hospitals per Sonal care Homes and Community facilities will ban smoking from their property within 12 months. Harlos said hospitals in Calgary which banned smoking from their property two years ago led the Way. When we looked at the Success of Cal Gary we decided that was the Way to go she said. St. Boniface Hospital surgeon or. Mark Taylor former head of physicians for a smoke free Canada said the new policy is excellent. One of the Best ways to encourage people to quit smoking is to find a Way to prevent them from doing it Taylor said. He also said it helps to de normalize the behaviour noting that if people Are smoking at hospitals it presents the impression that it in to so bad for your health. Gerald St. Laurent whose wife died of lung cancer three months ago has been fighting for this policy for several years. I be always said kill yourself if you want to but Don to take me with you St. Laurent said. Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press the grounds around the Hsc were to be smoke free starting yesterday. He said having to push his wife who was on oxygen through the sea of smok ers to get into the Hospital was always a scary proposition. He said its too late for her but not for everyone else. Admitted patients can ask their Doc Tor for nicotine replacement therapy such As gum or the Patch while they Are in the Hospital. Harlos said evidence shows patients who Don to smoke while hospitalized recover faster and have fewer complications such As Post surgery infections than patients who do smoke. She said she does to anticipate any problem with the new ban. For the most part people in Winnipeg Are used to the changes coming to smok ing she said. I a not expecting any Michelle Auger spokeswoman for the health sciences Centre said the Hospital will rely largely on Security to enforce the ban. She acknowledged no smoking signs already up at Hospital entrances have largely gone ignored by staff and patients alike. Now that this is policy we re count ing on our staff to comply and they need to remind others to comply she said. Staff caught violating the policy will be disciplined by the same progressive disciplinary process for other policy Vio lations. But she said initially Security will just be reminding people so they have time to get used to the change. 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