CBC Manitoba: Surgeon accused of sexual harassment banned from working at Grace Hospital

Fiona Odlum — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:19:12 +0000

While Steel maintained that suspension is a harsh punishment for Ames, an ethics professor at the University of Manitoba says reducing the ban to just the Grace Hospital seemingly fails to acknowledge the seriousness of Ames’s pattern of misconduct.

“The behaviour of which he’s been convicted of in 2022, and the behaviour of which he’s now been accused — by a colleague rather than a patient — undermines a critically important requirement for medicine to be able to operate effectively on behalf of the patient’s health,” said Dr. Arthur Schafer.

Schafer says Ames’s behaviour is “wildly inappropriate,” calling the quiet ban on Ames’s hospital privileges, and its subsequent reduction, “questionable.”

He says the medical profession has no room for repeated misbehaviour, and he wants to know if the matter is being handled by the College of Physicians and Surgeons.

To read the entire article, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba.

CTV Winnipeg: Controversial contract in tow for Winnipeg towing company

Eleanor Coopsammy — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 16:03:17 +0000

Neil McArthur, the director of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of Manitoba talks to CTV Winnipeg on whether a recently awarded contract to a towing company by the City of Winnipeg is a conflict of interest.

“This is a very unusual situation,” said McArthur, adding, “This is very rare in city politics.”

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CBC Manitoba: Surgeon accused of sexual harassment banned from working at Grace Hospital

CTV Winnipeg: Controversial contract in tow for Winnipeg towing company