Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 2006, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Manitoba Winnipeg free press tuesday november 7, 2006 speakers Back Public system of health care Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press Council members watch Fisherman Claude Lambert left Harvest fish from net with help from Allan Gaudry. Small a tis Pickerel farm garners National attention National notice for the fledging fish by Alexandra Paul farm. Under mild skies Stevenson and the a fledgling a tis Pickerel farm in St. Group of political leaders from across Laurent has grown into an Environ Canada trudged out on to the Frozen mental Success Story. Lake to see a fishing net hauled on monday 20 delegates from the through the curdled ice. National aboriginal Council on then they toured St. Laurent a three species at risk based in Ottawa drove rearing Ponds two of them newly 65 Kilometres North of Winnipeg to excavated this summer and checked tour the site. Out a Mobile hatchery set up in an Wayne Glowacki / Winnipeg free press they be taken on this project by adjacent tractor trailer. Pickerel catch in St. Laurent. Themselves. These Guys did a Good it May look raw in appearance but Job said an impressed Bob Steven the Pickerel project is designed to be son an Akwesasne Mohawk on the self sufficient dependent Only on the by the numbers tour yesterday. Fish and the Fishers. Stevenson was among a group of the fish have to be milked for eggs Manitoba a first fish farm for pick aboriginal traditional experts instr and semen so there can be new brews Erel in them tis town of St. Mental in persuading Ottawa to join of hatchling. Laurent is a Trio of three ancient aboriginal practices to St. Laurent is a Community recon Here a the fish farm by numbers modern science As a Way to reclaim sized for its cultural heritage in muse?465 threatened animal and Plant us like the famed smithsonian in. Success rate 100,000 Hatch species in Canada. Washington . Ling Pickerel raised to fingerling the Council was first appointed in fishing is a big part of the towns stage in 2006 and released into 2005 by the Federal environment min history and the town is Central to Lake Manitoba. Some 80,000 sur ister to add a practical dose of Trade a tis roots in Manitoba so the Mani Vived a Success rate of 80 per tonal know How to the science of Toba a tis federation has taken the cent. In the wild its less than 10 per cent. Saving species. Pickerel Ponds in hand. Future plans two million for a Century St. Laurent a tis if nobody conserves for the future Pickerel to be released next Spring. Earned a living fishing from Lake where Are we going to get the fish. Number of Ponds one half Manitoba and then they watched emf vice president Carl Chartrand acre Pond in 2006. Three Ponds in industrialized farming and Reservoir asked rhetorically. 2007, linked by 150 metres of dams kill off a chunk of their prize from 200 fishing families in the buried pipe. The pipe runs Down a Pickerel stocks. 1960s, there Are maybe 20 families slight Grade directly into Lake last year they started to haul the who haul a living off the Lake today Manitoba from the Ponds depleted fish Back from the Brink Fishers said yesterday. Sponsors Manitoba a tis raising 100,000 Farmed Pickerel in the within three years Fishers say federation and St. Laurent plus first fish rearing Ponds to operate in they la know for sure if the fish farm $100,000 in Manitoba Job training Manitoba. Is filling the Lake up again and that funds. They released them into the Lake May have a positive Impact for the. Species to farm Pickerel so far. Last june. Provinces Bottom line. Sturgeon in the future. Some 80,000 of the Little fish called fingerlings ? each a couple centimes. tres Long ? survived luring in some by Jen Skerritt p privatizing health care will Only make Long wait lists longer the head of the Canadian health coalition said monday. Kathleen Connors chair of the left Wing non profit organization said stud ies from countries like new zealand have proven a two tier system Means doctors Are forced to split their time Between Public and private clinics. Instead of for profit clinics taking the heat off the existing wait lists Connors said wait lists for orthopaedic surgery in new zealand jumped from 18 months to four years. People have said we were hearing the system was broken and it in to she said. We can build and improve the system and keep it Connors spoke at a Public forum at women a clinic monday night. The forum is a part of a series of 32 town Hall meetings being held across Canada to advocate for systemic health care Reform. The final meeting wraps up . 5 in St. Johns . The coalition represents women seniors health care workers nurses and anti poverty activists from across Canada. Connors said the goal of the town Halls is to give canadians a sense of Hope that the health care system can be fixed with out introducing for profit clinics. She said the solution lies in introducing More Community health clinics that have tors nurses pharmacists and other health specialists who work As a team and help give patients faster better treatment. She said focusing on prevention instead of acute care would also help alleviate wait times. Women a clinic executive director Jennifer Howard said the future of the Canadas health care is being threatened Mcfadyen idea an Echo of sex mayors new Deal health care costs the Cost of private care in . Dol Lars. Intensive care room $8,000 to $12,000 a Day. Angioplasty $6,000 to $7,000. Coronary heart bypass surgery $40,278 to $63,558. Average annual insurance Premium for family health care coverage $11,480 ? source , based on . Hospital Price lists. By a two tier system. Quebec recently tabled legislation to introduce private health care insurance and private clinics which Howard said could spread to other provinces. She said its important to protect the current system and ensure that every one can receive proper care regardless of the Price tag. When you talk to people they want a better health care system Howard said. We Don to drive people to bankruptcy when they re sick like they do in the Connors was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1999 and had surgery spent 10 Days in Hospital in recovery and underwent six months of chemotherapy treatment to destroy the Tumour. Under a two tier system Connors said she and her husband would to have been Able to foot the Bill for her cancer treatment and she Likely would to be Here today. Connors is hoping canadians across the country will lobby the provincial and Federal government to keep the system Public and make other changes to improve the Way the system works. by Mia Rabson tory Leader Hugh Mcfadyen resurrected thoughts of the new Deal Mon Day saying he is open to the idea of sharing some of the provincial sales tax with Manitoba a cities if it will help repair the pothole Ridden streets and highways plaguing our province. Mcfadyen said investing in Infra Structure is a huge priority for his party and that could mean the province shares additional income tax revenues with cities or begins to share a portion of resource taxes including potentially a half Point share of the provincial sales tax. I think its an idea Worth looking at Mcfadyen told the free press. Mcfadyen who has now been the opposition Leader for a Little Over six months is striving now to quiet critics who have suggested he is not offering alternatives to Premier Gary doer and the governing nip. During the party a annual general meeting saturday Mcfadyen grabbed some of the space on the left end of the political spectrum by suggesting he would offer tax Breaks for people who drive hybrid cars and Reform the provinces electoral processes with proportional representation. Now he seems to be looking to out doer doer on infrastructure. This fall the Premier promised $350 million in new infrastructure Money including $50 million to Winnipeg Over the next two years. Finance minister Greg Selinger says Mcfadyen a sales tax idea seems to be similar to the infrastructure announce ment already made. The Money just comes from a specific source. Its equivalent to what we just promised for roads and Bridges said Selinger. We just did it a different Way.?. the outta mall Guys experience All leases plus taxes freight and Phi Mac. 2006 Mazda 5 is 5 Speed finance for 60/96 amort. $0.00 Down. 8.85 %. 2007 the difference. Mazda 3 sport is 5 Speed. 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