Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 8, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free sati if Winnipeg free press of Trade Equality 6ivii fights Liberty of punt a six t week Olmi plot fi3g 561 by news papers Tampa fit Bonab n1g81 Fihn baf66 edit Oftel Page to fld bum mat Wama editorials the threat to the Dollar we have been assured by officials tit Ottawa that news of the state of the Canadian Dollar Hai been borne to finance minister Allan in his Woodland hide away somewhere in Nova the news has apparently not been enough to inspire the minister to emerge from the Woods and do something about depending on ones judgment of Maee Athens economic that is cause for either outrage or the last thing we need right now is for the finance minister to March into Ottawa and announce grand Rieuf initiatives will save the Cut interest rates and control such measures Are simply not available and any attempt to pretend that they Are will Only make matters nip Leader de of Broadbent has been suggesting an instant in the form of limited controls on the Export of that sort of tactic would invite damaging at any the proposal comes oddly from the Leader of a party which is committed to a massive Export of Canadian capital to finance the nationalization of Imperial the fact is that we have been a Long time getting into our present economic difficulties and Are Likely to be a Long time getting out of the Holiday which is realty doing damage to the Canadian Economy is not the one Maceachen is taking in the maritime this week but the one he has been taking in Ottawa for the past 18 the Lack of any coherent direction from the Federal department of the decision to make a rational economic policy subservient to a Headstrong Energy have made Canada vulnerable to the economic pressures which Are creating difficulties for All the developed nations of the no actions by the Federal government could have insulated Canada completely from those the economic and fiscal policies adopted by the new administration in the United states have pushed up interest rates around the world and have led to a substantial appreciation of the Dollar against All not Only that of while falling ominously in terms of the Canadian Dollar has actually appreciated in relation to most of the worlds major the indictment of Maceachen or Lack of is that they have made Canada More vulnerable than it should have been to those Canadian policies Are adding to the downward Drift of the Canadian Dollar by encouraging vast outflows of to buy up Oil companies and to engage in takeover win in other sectors of the at the same they Are discouraging capital inflows which would help support the dollars they an leading to a constant outflow of Canadian dollars to Purchase Oil which could be produced in just they Are sapping the Confidence in the Canadian Economy which is essential if the value of the Dollar is to be the Lack of any firm or coherent fiscal policy has placed almost the entire Burden for defending the Dollar and resisting inflation on the policies of the Bank of that leads to outrageous interest rates in Lead to business higher a crisis for homeowners and immense problems for there Are some measures available which offer Hope of improving the the first and most obvious is an agreement with Alberta on Oil policy and a slowdown in the headlong Pace of canadians nation which is being promoted by the National Energy an agreement would provide an immense boost in Confidence in the Canadian it would reduce the fiscal Drain created now by massive subsidies of Oil it would release ment Revenue for More productive purposes and it would bring on new Energy minister Marc Lalonde still refuses to recognize the consequences of his actions but the realization appears to have seeped through to some of his including after an Energy agreement is there is a need for a budget which will demonstrate the Federal governments determination to get its deficit under control and remove some of the pressure on interest it is Clear now that the budget should have been produced last there is not much Point now in bringing one Down until an Energy agreement has been reached but it should come shortly nothing that canadians can do in the near future will remove this country vulnerability to economic Deci Sions made in the United As is entirely pos the policies of the Reagan administration do after Lead to lower inflation and a drop in interest then canadians Are Likely to suffer along with their the Job of the Canadian government is to get its own House in order and to As much As our vulnerability to economic pressures from so it has done the exact representing Wolseley Premier Lyon is reported to be very satisfied with the Way in which Len the conservative member of the legislature for has been looking after the interests of the people of Wolseley who have been virtually unrepresented since their own conservative Mem Bob got in trouble with the Law two years the people of Wolseley on the other Are anything but if a poll taken by the Liberal party is any ninety per cent of them want a by election so that they can be represented in the legislature by their own elected under Normal democratic the dissatisfaction of the people of Wolseley ought to take precedence Over the satisfaction of the in this the interests of the residents Are Likely to take second place to the convenience of Lyon and the ambition of is still pondering the Date of a provincial general election and would prefer not to have his larger political plans muddled by a Domino will lose his Riding through redistribution in the next general election and would dearly love to run in that would be awkward if the conservatives had to find another candidate to run in the if that candidate Domino would be out of a even if he he would still have a claim to the nomination in the general producing the kind of Nasty intr party quarrel that the conservatives would no doubt like to All of this creates a major injustice for the people of Wolseley who have been disenfranchised on and off for much of this decade by the death of one sitting member and by the manoeuvres and Misbehaviour of the it is hardly fair to leave them unrepresented for More months while the Premier works out his political the pressure for a by election being mounted by the Liberal party is of without its self serving the party new Douglas Lauchlan has declared his intention of running in the his Parachute had barely settled in the neighbourhood before he was speaking out on behalf of the citizens of however presumptuous that May have in the interests of fair should not stand in the Way of the attempts of the leaders of opposition parties to win a seat in the it May be tempting for Lyon to maintain the Liberal Leader in obscurity but that is not the Way politics should the ultimate should not be Lyons Lauchland Hopes or Dominos it should be the interests of the people who live in Wolseley they have been unrepresented too Long and too they deserve a Chance to elect their own representative in the reinventing the provinces progressive party Leader Sid Green is not the first Canadian politician to propose that the three Prairie prov inces should unite into one big Quebec Liberal Claude floated the same balloon a few years along with a plan for the amalgamation of the Atlantic it landed with a Dull greens idea is Likely to do the if Canada were being created from the Prairies might Well be seen As a though political the fact that the three provinces already they already have their own governments and they already have control Over their own it would doubt be attractive to Manitoban to take a share of Albertas Oil or Saskatchewan Potash and then to join those provinces in As much As the fruits of those resources to the people in the rest of the idea is Likely to be less entrancing to the people of Alberta and it is one thing for a Union of provinces to be proposed by the Leader of an untested third party in the province with the fewest natural the idea might be taken More if it were proposed by the Premier of the province with the most unhappily for us in that is unlikely Ever to All sorts of countries can be invented on paper by anyone with the practical have to Deal with the realities As they the political reality in Canada is that we Are going to have to find a Way to share and to work together within the political boundaries As they throughout his political Green has been noted for his commitment and his problem has always been to make his ideas work in a practical political it is that More than anything which led to the reinvention of the progressive party of greens latest pronouncement provides Evi Dence that the problem still gallery Phil Malleus when the world is All done by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal to Ridd Ley hero of the novel of that name by Russell on the Calendar meant All which was True enough in his since had ended with the 1 big and a darkening of the Earth and its terrifying Multila his Era was which Means our and things were not the world of had been a much better place than Riddley walkers which was brutish and concerned with ended in at least that was the last Date Riddley knew anyone had found re and As the hereditary connection he would know if anyone in the future Riddley Walker is living some years in the and the 20th Cen Tury is perceived in the hazy outline of myth and a scattering of buried ruins and an old punch and Judy we in riddles in the Good old and did much better in our years than riddles crowd had done in their he knew of of and to was As dark a period As the descent from the Trees and the hard years on the Savannah is to but perhaps Riddley was he certainly was confused about and the splitting of though parts of or his version if were right we May indeed collapse when the big Box with its wires his Folk memory of the computer Emp ties our minds and takes final charge of Clever is not As Riddley Walker saw him a hero of our society but the enemy of i finished Russell hogans novel be fore Reading William Thompsons the time falling bodies take to a look at sexuality and the origins of and the Long supremacy of woman and the Brief age of Thompson is a cultural historian who is also the founding director of the i nulls Farne a contemplative educational Community devoted to the study and realization of a new plane tary culture All of which sounds rather pompous and decidedly lacking in but Thompson is neither pompous nor he writes beautifully and thinks like a oddly enough the books share a common they Are works of the though Thompson has the advantage of Evi Dence to guide and Hoban Only both there is in an but reassuring a sense that we Are something More than the crude creatures of our daily news who shoot each try men for their terrorize the destroy the Poi son the demean the old and isolate the this mornings newspaper was a Hor Eyen though it was full of a Royal for that event was set against an Ocean of natural and Tunnat and a Day which was cold and wet and made a joke of it is romantic and perhaps even flippant to see in the life of Riddley Walker a Ray of but it is certainly not romantic or flippant to read Thompson and con clude that we Are a quite wondrous form of distinguished from All others by a haunting sense of some thing beyond the dreams and Hope even in the midst of murdering the innocent and depriving the of greed and we do above we and we have a right despite the despair which seems to surround if there was no Blue in this mornings we know we will see it like Riddley we will keep asking Why is punch Croo kit Why Wil he All ways Kil the Babby if he can partly i wont never know its jus on me to think on our local paper 98 and it read like a even in those sections which were not to the but to fun and for the fancy was an invitation to an Over whelming Mountain of and the fun had a slightly Ganiey Quality to daily newspapers Are not the place to think upon the abstract and so much of television has yet to discover the world above the for this we have to look beyond the immediate which is not a criticism of either to or the for both Are designed to Speed you through the Day but rarely to make you Stop and Blank Page a Blank Page or an empty screen might do the trick but the message would be lost in the ensuing Many of us would be very be cause we have become fixed upon fill ing space and time and frightened of both when they Are the 17year cicadas who Are singing outside my window began their journey through life in 1964 and those they will produce will not sing again until the end of the what they think about in the dark beneath the ground is a they think at but for that Long stretch of time be tween the one burst of song among the leaves of the old and the they seem to enjoy waiting for that Onelyn lifetime moment when the reason for existence shows if you think that is not you Are it certainly want enough for Riddley walking across the past Good and Bernt through Rose and Power and do it always looking and always riddles map was not Complete i dont have no room for the Oal of every tells but he put Down what he thought was useful and we can follow his which is sad and to a Desti nation he never we leave him still searching because we have no other it is not for that reason a sad there is no despair in Only a deep need to know Why and giving a new Chance to students in the Core Ita a s i i no a aside from being nipped in the ankle by a stray dog As i entered Dufferin school on Alexander the Atmo sphere within was Friendly and on the second floor is an unusual institution Winnipeg education a part of the University of Val Werier Core area untapped potential Manitoba located in the Core of the where live Many single ends and the directors office is a Homey crammed with a Chesterfield and other a Low table covered with a red cloth and holding a pot of this is also the staff lounge and present were Martyn the director Peter director of Post secondary career Provin Cial department of and Brad director of social at the poor students in the Core Are Given the Opportunity of getting an education degree and teaching in the about half of the 60 students Are of native and about half Are single University is re Mote from their plans for Only 10 per cent of natives finish High school in education is the biggest Topi for elevating the status o the and in the Centre has succeeded to some now it is expanding to offer a Bache Lor of social work the Content will be the same As the regular univer sity program with an emphasis on inner City a total of have of whom 18 have been Tea for the fall the average age is 30 13 Are single parents 10 Are natives the average schooling is Grade in this course 10 out of or More than 50 per cent ire compared to three per cent among those enrolled at the school of social work on the Campus in fort the University can be a dehumanizing experienc i says it is Large and institutional and Stu dents feel alienated from their proves he at the Centre to Pyffe Rin there is an intimate Atmo students help one another in a buddy they Are involved much More than Campus setting up arranging their own As we Gail a third year student who graduates next Felt free to drop she was with her eighty Earold a single she looked at Rena fondly my has been a great inspiration and it is for her that in looking to the there is intense Competition for places in this Core Dean of has gone so far As to say that it is matched Only by Competition for places in the faculty of one reason the Centre is so attractive is that it provides a financial allowance for those taking the which runs u months a a single student receives a plus assistance for the City provides the school space and the province the amounting to for the education this includes the allowance for Stu dents which constitutes 70 per cent of the funds and for five full staff Mem Bers plus other teachers from the Cam it is i lot of Money for a Small enrolment but a study carried out by the management committee of Cabinet in 1979 shows graduates of such pro Grams no longer depend on Public port and in the Long run save the taxpayers Money we know it pays off in human and economic says if you graduate from this you have a profession for along with dignity and the maintains is More rigorous than that on the there is a dropout rate of 30 per mainly in the first but this is not considered inordinately the Scholastic standing of those who make it is also Superior to that on the the Gold medal Winner in education last year came from the of the eight students in third year our made the Deans Honor list the Success of the Winnipeg Educa Tion Centre should dispel some of the negative thinking about the Core and the Conception that nothing can be done to solve its Complex there is an incredible untapped potential sitting out declares two program has been releasing it for the past eight Ferris says the program has earned a National reputation and has attracted visitors from abroad to exam Ine the project first Bandit is unusual in Many a selection committee reviews applications and interviews applicants to determine those with the greatest need and the highest potential for social the committee consists of Centre representatives of Core area organizations and some fac this past april and four Stu dents who speak Saulteaux went to the Portage la Prairie District to teach 15 farm most of them the students taught them the Rudi ments of Reading and writing in their native Tongue now for the first time they can read Street and write their own about 20 graduates Are teaching in the another 20 outside generally in Northern reserves or re Mote there has been a quiet revolution in terms of education for native says speaking of the program and others fostered by the province to provide a University Educa Tion to those barred by poverty Aca Demic cultural and linguistic ten years ago there were four Quali fied native teachers in the says there Are now close to it is Good to hear in View of All the lugubrious views about native diff the Winnipeg education Centre is a sound investment in the if it is accomplishing the As the rec Ord of opening the doors to the 4 ;