Ontario outlines hospital profit making program
Ontario will convert 240 public hospitals into profit oriented units next year. Health Minister Timbrell says hospitals must maximize revenues and cut costs, lifting private room charges and expanding services such as cafeterias, laundry, drug sales, and executive testing to offset losses.
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Toronto
Ontario
Dennis Timbrell
Timbrell
Ontario Hospitals Association
Southam News
Canada
United States
Postal budget under scrutiny at Canada Post in Ottawa
Canada Post faced questions over a projected 410 million increase in spending next year as officials cite a 42 day strike savings. They say the rise is inflated by strike savings, arguing the real increase is about 15 percent, yet earlier estimates showed a 1.753 billion budget for 1981 82 with an eventual 1.747 billion outlay.
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Southam News
Ottawa
Canada Post Corporation
Crown Corporation
Peter Aberig
Canada Post
Allan MacEachen
Aberig
Postal Corporation
Post Office Financial
Postal Costs See 23.5 Percent Rise Next Year
National analysis notes a forecasted 23.5 percent increase in postal costs for the coming year amid rising fuel prices and other expenses. NDP postal critic Sid Parker criticized Postmaster General Andre Ouellet for avoiding questions as the Crown corporation plans a 75 percent rate hike to erase a deficit, which Parker says will alienate consumers.
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Uberig
NDP
Sid Parker
Andre Ouellet
Parker
Death penalty urged by Winnipeg police chief
Winnipeg police chief Ken Johnston calls for corporal and capital punishment to curb rising violent crime. He favors eye for an eye justice for planned killers, asserts public support for capital punishment in a referendum, and says rehabilitation is possible only for some offenders. He also notes officers face charges but defends the force as largely disciplined and improving.
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Winnipeg
Ken Johnston
Johnston
Smoking as Addictive Nature Urges Saskatchewan Education Change
Saskatoon psychiatrist urges schools to treat tobacco as an addictive drug like heroin or morphine. He cites a 12 school study showing students can grasp addiction concepts and resist starting, but says education departments ignore evidence and keep weak anti smoking programs.
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Saskatoon
Raymond Pensa
Vicuyabe
Ain Aver
Cad
Herals
Denson
MacNeill Clinic
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan farmer deemed mentally ill in Anne Murray case
A Saskatchewan farmer facing disobeying a court order involving singer Anne Murray is described by psychiatrist Russel Fleming as suffering paranoid psychosis likely schizophrenia. Kieling, 45, is said to have a delusional system about a personal relationship with Murray, with the trial continuing before Judge Reid Scott.
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Toronto
Anne Murray
Russel Fleming
Robert Charles Kieling
Murray
Fleming
Kieling
Edith Lotton
Lotton
Reid Scott
Purser fights firing in Montreal case headed for 1982 ruling
Susan Delaney, a former Air Canada purser, fights a 1973 firing after passengers complained of her strict rule that cabin luggage be stored under seats. After six years and $10,000 spent on arbitration and court hearings, the Quebec Court of Appeal grants leave for an early 1982 hearing.
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Montreal
Susan Delaney
Air Canada
Quebec Court of Appeal
Delaney
Flight Attendants Association
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