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Rear re cere at. coi on yet Wn Tarace Suet wa gry twa ape wie, eaerg Crt re ASHEN. ne ; _ MSESMiCA. pra SMevtes tad atvertieng aguncies, ©. * [[ Reprphicnee th whale ot par without eriten peemason, « ipicicaly protiand ” eet ac rar et een merc ree : Su ae - Ty iter S TExaaigicintes E . :— vn A Sa Cr — Ae ae = Se a Special thanks ‘bi aH our contributors: and _ Eorypess ggntenshee oom - Gsrupted classes, Teachers had - JRhey were expected 1 do “whatever educating students re- _ Recemly, when the Edim ts build it.” Three words sum up the Terrace Regional Health Care Society’s plan for ; ‘a new kind of living accommodation 2 here, ~The concept is called supportive hous: ing, ‘whereby a number of condominum- ~ Style units would be built adjacent to Tertaceview Lodge on the bench. They ‘are meant for people who may have some kind of disability but who general- ly. can live-by themselves with a minimal amount of assistance, ‘This idea first came up in the middle of last year. It’s being promoted by the health care society for a number of reasons. There is a need for this kind of housing. It would be directly beside Ter- Taceview Lodge and so. residents could use its services. it’s cheaper because people who now : only have the option of intermediate care at Terraceview could live in supportive Pension 1 plum “any d doubt doctors aren’t the self- employed professionals they claim to be but instead are civil servants has been erased with the planned creation of a pension plan financed by taxpayers. The plan — it'll cost $25 million in tax monies — was part of a deal to strike a new fee schedule between physicians and the province, Doctors and the province had up to the tentative pension deal disagreed over r what the former should crealive idea to bring toan end a lengthy ‘dispute, It shows a certain amount of flexibility on the part of the government ‘and on the part of physicians. And it ‘reflects @ traditional problem of what to do with rising costs by hitting at the one. ‘thing governments can control — the bill ‘for labour. “Yet it’s a tough idea to sell to tax- Pals: Support this © housing instead. One person in in- termediate care costs the government $90 a day compared to the $20-$30 day it would cost for supportive housing. Provincial reaction has been mixed. Various elected officials in Victoria and their bureaucrats seem to like the idea ~ but say it doesn't fit any existing type of program. So they've been bouncing it back and forth. “This is to be expected in that if something doesn’t fit an established government format, it’s treated with suspicion. In government, the last thing you want to do is break with tradition. People in government think different- ly.. Their job essentially is to spend money as dictated by neat and tidy guidelines, not to think of ways of spen- ding it differently or more efficiently. What’s needed here is some political dyanamite to clear the log jam. That can only come by community support for the health care society. — the vast, vast majority of whom fall far behind physicians in in- come. What we're being asked to do is finance retirement income for one of the highest paid professional groups in the country. The ability to provide retirement monies is directly tied to current income. The more you have after basic necessities the more you have to tuck away. It’s a stretch to ask poorer paid people to have compassion onva.-vastly. more: affluent ‘segment of. SOCHEY. A= -5 Ski aes y ead Yet approval ‘of the plan by doctors means a loss of their independence because it further connects them to the province’s bank account. And with that, the province can rightly move in to con- tol other areas of physician expen- ditures and income. In other words, doc- tors are becoming much the same as other civil servants the province employs. The good old days -Ronty years ago teachers” oon BO unions to limit thar roles. Wherezs — said I “sould be ‘Historical Society invited me to ‘eomribute to their histery of “giatounding school districts, | dag up the two-paged ‘pabmecgraphed contract I signed ‘Ue year I was 17. Saskatchewan was short of ‘teachers the sammer | . gtadkaned, toa young to eral jm nursing school. Someone sug: “gested, “Why mot teach thle eed ee Ce _ iad a co eee fo teach as @ stady supervisor | yma age like a chodidier'?”? Emde paid 21 a rate of $7 per teacking day”. A anal wechorace with a phone, wood range and essen- thal fermions ceme with the job. BDespme my yooh 2nd imer- ptionce, Twas put im sale dhatge of the education, safeny, and well-being of the suadents, 25 well as of the operatom and upkeep of the school and pro- had to be taken cot, amd a fire _ sasted ia Ube porhslly showe ear 2 ly enomeh to wanm dhe room before the ids aorived: on Premier ready for the next election” VICTORIA — With a Etile help from the GST, the war in’ the Gulf, and “onside” party man embers, Premier Vander The GST factor has worn od ia te Middle Eas, aking cessful in warding off the ai- tacks by Wander Zalm critics who were trying to force a keadership review, In the morzh, it was a different kentie quite surt whet lo make oft. 1 kmew that che executive was as simmchiy pro-Vander Z2im, BS it was amti-Jack Kempf, : which raised the question: why total membership. dan geton wath his wonderful, ‘ph Tor: British Columbia, | Kay saids Ty all this feverish activity. i he een sy damaged image? It's possible, but very. unlikdy. He my ; have beaten back the concertad - attack on his kadership — and even thal was 50% a very con- " ‘winging show —- but he hasn't done anything to convince the public at lange. -- ‘While Vander Zatm has been busy putting out brush fires in - his own party, the NDP has kept a firm hold on its core " Support ard continued 10 strengihen its position amoung ; uadesdel votes. . ‘wmembers are as Fearful as ever that chances of winning an - dection with Vander Zaim are very sim, but they see no way of changing headers this bate m John Jansen had one Last op- potiamity to force the isone when the premier embarrassed “them over the doctors”: pension plan, but be docidod against a _ showdown. con All of which means that Bil Vander Zalm will take the * mead deetion. Pm Jooking for- (.. « Wand to tise campaige. 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