Businesses found VICTORIA (CP) — The British Columbia Human Rights Council has found a Vancouver ice cream parlor and a Kelowna racket club guilty of discrimination based on sex and marital status. Both cases involved wait- resses who were fired. T and C Gelati, which operates Mario's Italian Tee Cream, was found guilty of dered to pay $4,300 to former waitress Carrie Joss. In the Kelowna case, the Four Seasons Racquet Club was ordered to pay $950 to cocktail waitress Carol Stef- anyshyn for loss of income Church's Awana club MINI FAIR . . . Awana club leader paints face of youngster during Calvary Baptist : KG held to help build public rel fair y in chur . The event was club as wages and $2,000 for the in- dignities, humiliation and embarrassment Joss felt be- fore she was fired in 1984. Jim Edgett of the human rights council ruled that Joss was subjected to unsolicited Solid colors are best Castlegar, B.C. LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Women who are building a wardrobe for the office should start with two dif- ferent suits in solid colors, says fashion consultant Glor ia Dezell. Solid colors are best be- cause they can be more easily matched and stay in style longer, says Dezell, owner of Visual Image Planning. The next purchases should be a half-dozen blouses in varying styles that will match both suits and two pairs of plain pumps. “Then you've got it,” says Dezell. “That's a basic, classic look that can't go wrong.” Working with this basic core, women can then put their personal stamp on the outfits by adding belts, jewelry and scarves. JUNCTION SHELL 1761 Columbia Ave. Police can't MONTREAL (CP) — Organized crime in Canada is doing a lot of business over mobile cellular telephones because Canadian police forces don't have the technical capability to tap them, an RCMP i says. “It's alarming,” said Insp. Russel Sontar, acting chief of the force's special services in Ottawa. “There are probably lots-of police out there who“are frustrated over this.” He said the equipment is available but it is far too expensive. “To buy a system costs about $100,000 and you would have to have one system for every target you are tapping,” he said. “We figure that there's got to be a cheaper way of doing it.” Cellular mobile phones operate on radio frequencies which can easily be overheard with a unit that can be bought at an electronics store for about $800. The problem for police is finding out on which of the 99 channels a target is speaking. RCMP engineers are working on the problem while other Canadian police forces are “watching our lead in this situation. We're just on the edge of the technology.” Cellular phones, however, are not the only technical tap phones “That's the next fear,” said Sontar. “We'll have to have decrypters.” Andre Halley, vice-president for Bell Cellular’s eastern region, said cellular phone technology will make it almost impossible to intercept cellular calls. “We want to protect our client base because there are a lot of businessmen and government ministers and travelling salesmen who don't want their conversations overheard,” he said. Police are ft and identify the right channel. “You can go down to Radio Shack and buy equipment that will scan all the channels and eventually you'll recognize your target's voice, but that's not good enough,” said Sontar. Police have to be certain the equipment will pick up entire conversations and give them voice identification that will stand up in court. At the moment, the criminals have the upper hand in the cellular game, particularly in drug investigations, in which agents have to rely on wire taps to build a conspiracy case and tell them when shipments are ing for that will immediatel MEDICINE problem Canadian polilee forces face. FACE NEW PROBLEM Bell Cellular plans to sell devices next year — call inerypters — which will transform cellular telephone conversations into jibberish for a third party listening in arriving, a Montreal RCMP agent said. Another agent said: “You've got all these crooks driving around town in their Mercedes with cellular phones in their ears arranging drug deals and we can't do anything about it.” Criminal Code complicated OTTAWA (CP) — The Criminal Code has become so complicated since 1892 that it can cost a fortune to find out what the law is, says Mr. Justice Allen Linden, presi dent of the Law Reform Commission of Canada. “One of our primary goals is that the man on the street should be able to pick up the Criminal Code and under stand it,” Linden said in an interview. “Murder, robbery, rape. theft, extortion, forgery, cor ruption — the vast bulk of the core crimes will be the same. We hope they'll be a little simpler and better or- nized.” Later this month he'll re- veal the commission's prop- osals for reorganizing what's called the general part of the code dealing with defences, jurisdiction and principles of liability. By next summer the com- mission will present a full re- draft of the code to the gov ernment and leave it to the politicians to decide whether the changes become law. Although the commission has stayed away from high- profile issues like capital punishment and abortion during its 16-year history, it has provided plenty of food for ferocious debate when its proposals get before the poli back away from a suggestion that group sex be legitimized after a Liberal MP intimated that only homosexuals would such a thing. “What is this? The status quo commission?” snarled Lynn McDonald, a New Dem ocrat, after a commission study recommended few changes in the controversial contempt-of-court law. Nevertheless, the commis. sion is going to recommend that insulting the court be among the “crimes against the political and international order” in the new code. Toronto lawyer Harry Kopyto was convicted re cently of “: dali the the police. The judge who convicted him refused to allow truth as a defence to the charge and told Kopyto he must make an “unequivocal and unreserved apology” to every judge in Ontario or not be able to practise law in any court in reform to the battle to en- trench the Charter of Rights in the Constitution, a battle that began in 1967 and didn't it to outlaw everything but the hula hoop. SEEKS REVENGE The Criminal Code, as Lin- den points out, was produced in England by a man-whe felt revenge should be its driving theme. One story has it that India, rying possible jail terms, and half a million regulations. The Charter of Rights is gradually carving away the most arbitrary and unfair of the criminal laws. court” by saying that the courts are warped in favor of RENT THIS SPACE 365-5210 % con tinue to pass laws, such as last year’s law against soli citing, that may violate the rights guaranteed in the Constitution. Linden concedes that 1986 might not be the best time to try to reform anything, but he hopes there may be a new Criminal Code by 1992, the centennial of the original. “We're just going to pre tend this didn’t happen,” he birth to a stillborn infant. “You had an operation and a tumor was removed.” Those were the days when mothers of stillborn babies were left with nothing but the image of a small silent bundle wrapped in a green Today it's different, at least at Women's Hospital, where an average of 3,800 babies are delivered each year im the busy brick HIGHWAYS — TENDERS Electoral District: Nelson-Creston Thank You, To all of those who sup me at the polls — November 15! Laurie Anderson Costieger News apologizes tor the lete publication of this od building in northeast Winni- peg. Of those, about 40 will be as being dead at birth any Still others will die a few forget it and try again, be- reaved parents are allowed to see the dead infant, hold it, name it, and take home the pastel-colored bonnets and baby blankets the infant is wrapped in, says Phills. Families are also offered footprints, locks of hair and photographs as concrete memories of a child they never knew. “When you think of a woman going through preg- nancy, they're not doing it for nothing,” says social worker Susan Dolinski. “But that's what they're left with.” Two months ago Dolinski and Phills formed what they call “our grief group.” be- lieved to be the first in Canada for parents of still- born infants. “There is a screaming need out there — so, so much grief.” says Phills. Negating that grief may mean problems years later — é : november 26,1906 __ Castlé@iar News © fear of a second pregnancy. possible abuse of subsequent children or marriage break- up, says Phils. A 1970s study by an American doctor found that of 56 mothers who had lost babies, 19 later developed pyschoses, phobias and deep depression. “You can't equate grief with age or size,” said Phills. “As soon as the pregnancy equals baby in the woman's mind, then it's a loss.” Families and employers don't recognize the woman is physically exhausted from delivery, distraught at the loss of a child and may have suffered two life crises — birth and death — in a single “You've talked about it for two weeks, now get back to work” is the attitude, Dolin ski says. One patient, who delivered a stillborn baby on the week end and went home the fol- lowing day, was asked by her husband Monday, “Aren't you going to work today?” Seeing a picture of the dead infant is one of the best ways to cope — something the hospital's maternity ward nurses recognized three years ago. They pooled their leftover money from a Christ Stillborn births different today mas party and bought a Polaroid camera to take the pictures the hospital photo- grapher didn't. Two years ago, a com mittee of doctors labelled the practice “ghastly and grisly,” and asked the hospital ad- ministration to make it op- tional, a request that was turned down. But “I don’t think that it's standard practice in all Can- adian hospitals,” says Phills. “They think it’s gross to take pictures of dead babies.” Of the dozens of pictures taken, says Dolinski, only five or six remain in her files, unclaimed by the parents. Study says MDs wrong 10 per cent of time TORONTO (CP) — Despite 10 to 30 per cent of the time. in pa- tients in hospital today still have better than a one-in-10 chance of dying of some problem other than the one diagnosed by their doctor, some studies indicate. The studies comparing au- topsy findings with the cause of death reported by the doc- tor find the doctor was wrong Including. . . ~ + @ ae, P say a decline in the number of autopsies performed in Canadian and U.S. hospitals is undermining the quality of health care. They attribute the drop in the autopsy rate to a number of factors, including the re- moval of quotas, budget re- straints, fear of lawsuits, and overconfidence in the accur- with participating Castlegar Merchants 2% Nov. 24-Dec. 23 acy of modern diagnostic me- thods. “The . . . best hospitals ap- proach about an 85-per-cent accuracy rate and it tails off from there,” Donald Hill, medical director at Ottawa Genera! Hosital, said in a re- cent interview. “One shouldn't get the im- pression that all of these di- agnoses, if they had been made before the patient died, would have necessarily re- sulted in saving a life, but it’s no doubt that some of them would have.” To retain their accredita. tion, teaching hosiptals in Canada used to be required to perform autopsies on 50 per -cent of all patients who died in hospital. DID TOO MANY “There were autopsies done on people who really didn’t need to be autopsied, just to keep up the quota,” said Peter Wood, director of public relations for the On. CLINICS ‘Another option is appearing in a growing number of Canadian cities: a walk-in medical clinic that’s open yntil late at night — 11 p.m. or so, including weekends — where « doctor will see you without an appointment. The service costs nothing if you aré covered by a provincial medical plan. If you're not, you can charge the visit to your credit In the United States, there are an estimated 25,000 walk-in medical clinics, many of them franchises. Their detractors, claiming they deliver impersonal, medical care, refer to them as “Does in a box.” Privately run medical clinics are already familiar sights in shopping malls in Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg, and more recently have popped up in Regina, Vancouver and Toronto. More are on the way across Canada. One of the newest — Vancouver-based Care Point Medical Centre — is even listed on the Vancouver Stock Exchange. Its investors come not only from Canada, but also the United States and the United Kingdom, says founder and president William Lightbody. PLANS EXPANSION Lightbody recently opened his first clinic in Vancouver, plans four more in the city by the end of the year and is looking at expanding into Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes. Under his operation, doctors pay 40 per cent of the fees they get from the provincial medical pan back to the clinic. In return, the doctors don’t have to pay for support staff, rent, i or ini ive costs, says Lig! dy. ‘This arrangement, he says, frees doctors to do what they do best: practise medicine. ‘Asked whether people might object to private businessmen making a profit off publicly funded medical insurance, Lightbody replied: “That's not what I'm hearing from people. “What I'm hearing is that people are happy to have us around,” he said, quoting a spokesman at a Vancouver hospital as saying the clinics will ease the situation in hospital emergency departments. Margaret Woodward, Care Point's administrative director, says the clinics make sense, especially in today's age of two-career families and single parent families where getting to the doctor's office during normal business hours is not always possible. MOST NOT URGENT As a result, up to 80 per cent of the cases handled in hospital emergency rooms are not urgent, says Woodward, who worked in hospitals for 25 years, including 12 years as tario Hospital A In the early 1970s, the Canadian Council of Hospital Accreditation dropped its quotas. Since then, the aut opsy rate has declined in all but children’s hospitals, where it has remained at a rate of 75 to 90 per cent. Now, most teaching hos pitals perform autopsies in 25 to 40 per cent of patient deaths, Hill said Community hospitals have a lower rate — from 10 to 20 per cent In most cases, the request for an autopsy comes from the patient's doctor, who must get permission from the next of kin. Without the incentive of the quota requirement, doc tors are asking for fewer ~~ S OVER Anda... Prizes: Value Holiday Package autopsies Pathologists point to other reasons why doctors order fewer autopsies the ator of Surrey (B.C.) Memorial Hospital. If clinies take the non-urgent cases — sore throats, flu, colds, minor burns — emergency rooms can “take more care with the serious cases,” says Woodward, The B.C. Medical Association has expressed concern that clinies will not provide the continuous medical care of a family doctor. Woodward agrees, saying “We're not trying to replace family doctors and we are not saying ‘Come to us all the time.’ ” But Woodward doesn't buy any suggestion the clinics will offer inferior medical care. All the doctors are qualified and licensed, and because the centres are new they will be under intense scrutiny from other doctors and the public, she says. The B.C. Ministry of Health “has said to us, ‘We'll be watching you, so you better do it weil” ” Since the clinics are a private business, there is an added incentive to do well, Woodward adds. “We are aware the public doesn’t have to come to us. People won't come back if we're not good doctors.” Terry Moran, an information officer with the B.C. 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