dentistoakville.com 905-842-6030 MECHANICAL SERVICES AUTO AUTO AU TOPR PRO PR O OA OAKV OAKV KVIL ILLE E SNA NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR 2010 ontario's top newspaper - 2005-2008 2 2 Wyecroft Road, Oakv 221 kvill ille e UWO meets its target Page 5 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2013 autoprooakville.mechanicnet.com 905-469-2442 2 A member of Metroland Media Group Ltd. Vol. 51 No. 11 "Using Communication To Build Better Communities" 36 pages $1.00 (plus tax) By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Repealing Bill 115 is meaningless: teachers photo courtesy cari maclean LIFE SAVER: Oakville resident Cari MacLean, wife of Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean (right), at Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial MacLean owes her life to OTMH By Jon Kuiperij OAKVILLE BEAVER SPORTS EDITOR Cari MacLean will always be grateful to the staff of Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital for giving her another chance. The life of the 50-year-old Oakville resident, the wife of longtime Hockey Night In Canada anchor Ron MacLean, was saved last fall by a responsive emergency team, a quick-thinking doctor and a specialty ultrasound machine that had been recently purchased through a donation by Oakville Hospital Foundation board member John Platt and his family. Minutes after MacLean arrived at the hospital, Dr. Mangesh Inamdar was able to determine that she had a massive pulmonary embolism, a condition when a main artery of the lung or Hospital (OTMH) where a lifesaving diagnosis by Dr. Mangesh Inamdar, and rapid ultrasound technology, saved Maclean's life when she had a pulmonary embolism several months ago. one of its branches is blocked by a substance -- most often a blood clot -- that has travelled from elsewhere in the body. MacLean, who arrived at the hospital with a blood pressure reading of 30/5, no pulse and no vital signs, believes she would have been dead within an hour if it weren't for Dr. Inamdar's efficient diagnosis. See Life-saving page 3 The Province repealed Bill 115 Wednesday (Jan. 23), but the damage is done, says the local union representing secondary school teachers. "It doesn't change anything," said Brad Fisher, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF) District 20 (Halton). Teachers and education support workers have been at odds with the provincial government since the start of the school year after the passage of the controversial legislation last September. On Jan. 3, the bill was used to impose contracts on teacher unions that had not settled with their school boards. The bill froze pay for two years, cut into benefits and took away the banking of sick days. "Bill 115 was used to do the Orders in Council that tore apart contracts. The government has led the public to believe that by repealing Bill 115 that everything goes back to the way it was," Fisher said. "That's not true. The Order in Council still stands, so the effects of Bill 115 are still there..." The government said the bill was scrapped to show a goodwill towards teachers, after a monthslong period of teacher tensions against the Province. Hope was also expressed at the time of the repeal, that extracurricular activities would resume in schools. "We have used Bill 115 but we also want to make it clear that going forward you do need to have a new process for future negotiations," Education Minister Laurel Broten was quoted in the media. "Bill 115 will not be that process." The unions intend to continue challenging the bill in court. Locally, Fisher said the scrapped legislation hasn't changed anything. ceramics porcelain travertine marble glass natural stone mosaics slate granite quartz FACTORY TILE DEPOT 1360 Speers Road (East of 3rd line) Oakville We shop the world so you don't have to! book Call and design your free on consultati Follow us on Open 7 days/wk! 905-465-1650 www.factorytiledepot.ca BACKSPLASH · BATHROOM · KITCHEN · FIREPLACE · FEATURE WALLS