Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg of Winnipeg free press of Trade Equality 6 civil Rinta Liberty of ibid put Rifter to fits fat Efiem 06nalb Jet Len putt server by Lett editor editorials United against the cuts Hie real danger to provinces that Benefit most Tom Federal programs in health and education was that in the Federal portion might get the support of other provinces that were net contributors to the this danger disappeared this week at where provincial finance ministers put the finishing touches on their strategy to fight Ottawa announced i Hie provinces have United on a matter of Princi one partner in the scheme cannot arbitrarily change the rules without consultation with and the consent of the other so determined ire the provincial finance ministers on this Issue that Manitoba Brian says it has produced a degree of unanimity among provincial governments not found in any other it remains to be seen whether this unanimity will persuade the Federal government to change its or even persuade it to Supply details of the proposed the total reduction was announced months and although the deadline for the decision appears to be next when the present agreements run the provinces have yet to learn just How Ottawa plans to Wield its cutting axe this weeks meeting of provincial finance ministers was and was designed mainly to put the finishing touches on wording that was generally agreed to at another also held in in it appears As if the Only Touchy Point in the wording game from the province of where officials Are More sensitive to the finer Points of provincial and Federal there was no Lack of agreement when the meeting and the recommendations of the ten finance ministers Are Likely to become one of the More significant statements to be issued during the annual premiers Einice which is now under the provinces will Likely place a High priority on getting an agreement with Ottawa for future changes in any Ottawa announcement of the cutbacks leaves the provinces in the position of running programs established under one set of rules and then discovering that the rules can be and increased costs loaded on to provincial with Little Opportunity to negotiate the changes and apparently no right to do to the is evidence that Ottawa thinks it can act without it is this attitude that has brought about the support of All provincial including those which Are net contributors to the present cos share Trudeau in Africa of All the industrialized none made such a presence at the United nations alternative Energy Confer ence As did Energy minister Marc Lalonde took part in the prime minister Trudeau dropped in Between safaris to offer million to finance Energy projects in developing countries and to encourage Canadian Industry to develop Energy technology that meets the needs of the poor All that was the Impact of the Energy crisis on the worlds poorest nations is devastatingly greater than on the developed the Rich including whatever their own Domestic have a duty to participate in world efforts to Cope with the criticism of the prime minister for showing a concern for the third world is the irony of the is for All its professed Canada at the moment is doing less to help ease the problem for the poor nations than most of the industrialized nations which make much less of a Public show of their Good As Lalonde told the conference in the Best thing Canada can do to help solve the world Energy crisis is to Speed its own Progress towards self sufficiency in the More Oil Canada buys the More it contributes to the pressures which push prices up and will Lead to an absolute world shortage of but it is the other industrialized responding to the sheer pressure of which Are doing the most to reduce their own Oil canadians remain the worlds greatest per capita Consumers of Oil and so despite All the bold promises of their they Are not reducing their demand for imported the professed aim of Lalonde National Energy program is to make Canada self sufficient in Petroleum by that aim is to be achieved by increasing Domestic production in the tar on the Frontier and by reducing Overall Energy demand and by encouraging a switch from Oil to natural Gas and other alternative sources of after nearly a year of the National Energy there has been virtually no Progress in that canadians continue to import As much foreign Oil now As they did a year higher caused by new taxes imposed to subsidize imports and finance the takeover of foreign have at to reduce Domestic but everything saved by the reduction in demand has been offset by the production cutbacks ordered by Alberta in its continuing fight with Ottawa Over Oil the fight with Alberta has and May yet work on the two major Oil Sands projects which Are supposed to make up for declining conventional Oil production towards the end of this if those projects do not get off the then the dream of self sufficiency by the end of the decade will be even More Remote than it seems Canada should participate in International efforts to help the poor nations Cope with the cruel effects of open Oil trips abroad Are a necessary part of that but the most useful immediate step this country can take is to get its own Energy House in Lalonde and Trudeau have proclaimed that fact in they have yet to act on it in Iran new great satan the evacuation of French diplomats and citizens from accomplished this week after much harassment and delay by the iranian at least precludes the possibility of another act of International out awry by the Ayatollah Khomeini regime on the scale of the seizure of the american embassy and its it has softened the furious invective aimed at France by iranian government the Day before the last Batch of French nationals left the Iran new Mohammad All denounced French presi Dent Francois Mitterrand for presuming to congratulate him on his election and accused Mitterrand of turning France into a Refuge for iranian counter revolutionaries and a Centre of the two being synonymous in the minds of Iran ruling the reason for All this fury is that France has granted Asylum to former iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr sensibly fled to France after he was deposed by his former Ayatollah rather than remain in Iran and submit to the mercies of the who wish to make him account for what they regard As crimes against the revolution that he committed As Banisadr has some experience at being an exile in having spent several years there with the Ayatollah fomenting the islamic revolution when both men found it healthier to live abroad than in the Shah the in should have a Clear understanding of the honorable practice of political having benefited from it so much but there is no place for humanitarian traditions in his bizarre the Ayatollah this week did invite Banisadr to return to promising that if he repented he would not be it is that the former president will in almost the same the Ayatollah accused him of being an opium criminal and All three of which crimes Are punishable by death in Iran revolutionary in any what they Call Justice in Iran these Days is so Swift and sure that its victims have no time to nor is France Likely to extradite the iranians know not even the self serving cynicism that so often governed French foreign at least until the election of Mitterrand this could stretch that and the iranians will probably continue for some time to Call Down the Wrath of god and the revolution on the French minions of although the invective will not bring Banisadr it May serve the More valuable purpose of distracting for a while the iranian people from the chaos the revolution has brought to the Economy is a the War with Iraq is going and the terror within the country is in the two months since Banisadr was More than 350 opponents of the regime have been and Iran prime minister recently promised that the killings would this government terror has been answered with More terror from opposition groups through bombings and assassinations of members of the ruling and the threat of civil War within the splintered nation is the Only government apparatus that works efficiently is the execution and As the mullahs find themselves less and less Able to control the revolution and run the the curses emanating from Tehran will increase in ferocity As they find new apostles of satan around the world to blame for their housing Bubble bursts by Peter Mclintock special to the free press Victoria this when House prices and rents were going through the roof in West coast everyone went around saying the bub ble has to the expectation was that buyer resistance would set houses would go unsold because nobody could afford prices would have to be there would then be More accommodation on the Market everything would Start get Ting Back to More problems now the Bubble has but the collapsed Bubble has produced As Many problems and difficulties As did the original in House prices started to come Down in Victoria and there Are Many More houses for Sale in Urban areas than there newspapers contain pages of House forsake where a few months ago they contained Only a few in Spring one could drive around Victoria and never see a for Sale today they Are sprouting so that the City looks like River Heights did last so difficult has it become to sell houses that vendors Are resorting to All sorts of Price reduction is one Many ads now quote prices that Are even below the asking Price of a few weeks some Sellers advertise that they will take a first or second mortgage at rates below those being asked by mortgage com some Are offering other a Vancouver unable to sell his upped his asking Price a bit and threw in his Rolls unable to move his offered to include his almost new Bow by Winnipeg House prices Are still but the spread is less than a year yet houses wont Why the villain in the piece is the new High mortgage coupled with the that mortgages on Many houses Are turning Over at this a Home owner who has been paying a month on a now up for faces a monthly Bill of if he can get the mortgage renewed at 19 per cent 014 if the rate is 21 per he simply cannot afford a jump of this so puts his House on the but he probably has Little Success in Selling because even if a potential buyer has enough Cash for his Down he too faces taking out a 19or20percent the result is that for Sale signs stay up for a Long the situation would be eased if a Large number of new houses were to come on to the but High inter est rates and High mortgage rates have discouraged to the Point where in in starts on single family houses dropped by 30 per cent As against the same month last the High Cost of Home owning has placed an even heavier Strain on rental already in Short sup where one could rent a passable apartment or town House in Victoria at this time last year for a the going rate is now around or influx slows the housing both in the time of High prices but reasonable mortgage rates and when prices Are Down and mortgage rates is having an Overall effect on the influx of people from elsewhere in Canada has not but it has slowed considerably As would be immigrants Leam about hous ing some firms will not Transfer married men with families to the West some faced with such a refuse to a recent report estimated that a Winnipeg moving to would need 500 a year More there than he made in Winnipeg to maintain the same Stan Dard of some West coast firms complain of a shortage of middleman gement personnel because of the dwindling Supply of the situation has produced some Side rental some of have been moribund for Are Back in assisting people to find accommodation or the of people into the real estate so evident a year has disappeared As have All dreams of getting Rich Quick in the rental Aid the president of the Branch of the Consumers association of Canada has suggested that the province pass legislation to protect people who sell their this came after a Victoria couple sold their House for a Down payment of and a Promise of the balance at a later they bought another taking out a mortgage on which monthly payments Are but the deadline on the Sale of their House was not the couple were still paying a month on a mortgage on that so were fated with paying both Mort or nearly fortunately the Deal eventually went but it led to the Consumers association demands that Down pay ments from buyers be made High enough to discourage there1 appears to be Little Relief in and mortgage managers Are ask ing Home owners whose mortgages Are coming up for renewal to come in to talk about possible in the Hope of forestalling these in clude borrowing on the equity the owner already has in his Home taking out mortgage which would provide enough Money for the owner to handle the second mortgage and the Hig Heij Cost of the first or the melding of mortgages into possibly at a lower says a expert on mortgage anxiety is becoming a health personality poor eat ing heavier More drinking can All result from worrying about where the next monthly payment is coming the cure take some positive action like talking to the mortgage proper More or Pray for mortgage rates to come water safety there was a Gross misrepresentation of the life guarding profession in the free press of August neglected in Gordon Sinclair column that life in the deep end throw the lifeguard a his head is swimming with was a mention of the extensive cardio pulmonary first Accident recognition and rut i for swimmers treatment training that most lifeguards Are expert guarding a crowd of als at a Beach is an extremely stressful having been employed with the provincial Beach patrol for seven i know a lifeguard May have to Deal with one or All of the following situations an individual fainting from too much Sun a Cut hand which could require stitches someone stepping on Glass or fish Bones an overturned Canoe with no swimmers in it broken Bones or sprains water skiers and motor boats coming within the Marker buoys weak swimmers getting beyond their limits missing children breaking up fights a Mer with a cramp having to Clear the water during an electrical storm an individual who has stopped breathing overturned sailboats dogs unleashed intoxicated Anco people who Drift put on air mattresses and this Pney represents the situation As for typical happenings Are children slipping and being injured on the deck thefts someone hitting his head while jiving heat exhaustion from being in a Sauva too Long weak swim Ingres venturing into the deep Enjo ones who panic cramps Sej Wes w adj these can occur it one time or to Date this i and other gun is have rescued Over 3q individuals and performed extensive first another responsibility of a lifeguard is that of pub Jim 49 Quali fied re4 Royal Yfe saying society and National of guard Ana a letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to conflicting views subway needed Ter front instructor and Eurse conductor i offer the following d Small children move last and should be kept in constant d report any missing person to the lifeguard d do not Trust older Brothers or ters to take care of younger especially if they Are no swimmers or weak swim with a matter How old you d floating if be used with often tires or an inner air mattress and water wings can floating aids May be fun but they Are d took before you dive or you May Hurt yourself or a if you cannot do not go out in water deeper than your d swimming after objects that have been blown out such p canoes or boats pan be an exhausting and danger Ous d pm pot play catch with a throw or uneven Bottom could get you into neck depth a wave or someone splashing you in the face could place you in a panic q know your exercise if you have not been swimming since last summer take things easy and swim in shallow water parallel to shej4ey Winnipeg procedure in Law with regard to your editorial a Small which appeared in the free press August Mcgregor overpass proponents do Joice in the recent court decision to quash City councils decision not to build the the judge obviously thought the Legal Point was important or he would not have Deci Sion consisting of 17 i realize that the approval of a development plan is not the final authorise Tion for what is to be there is a procedure in Law which must he followed to make changes to the greater Winnipeg development City on a failed to follow the Legal procedures required and in so doing took away the rights q die people who Are in favor of the overpass to be at a Public l quote from the judgment City Council May elect to do something else councillors Are elected in order that reasonable decisions might be taken touching such but Fiat White mfr it Isis Only be clone in compliance with the requirements of the act of completely ignored to the decision questioned by the applicant in these Al Christie wet Peg there is a great defect in either the reporting in the article spraying called free August 1 or the editorial right decision same if Ingeborg Boyens research and writing is accurate and we Are faced with the illogical and savagely destructive decision by the Provin Cial government to Spray with Bay on rather than malathion to reduce the threat of the article quotes experts who state that the drugs Are equally effective in destroying mosquitoes but that pay gon is ten times As dangerous to Mam Mals nowhere in the article Are either of these two Points or by other sex if the editorial is based on thoughtful consideration in supporting the govern ment in this then one Ean conclude that the editors know some thing which was not included in the we should further information from the even though and receive an answer to the Triupis Msj pm provid Jug a now that wiry speggers have experienced the feeling of having an air plane overhead dropping diluted Poison while they rushed to close All doors and int it about time we seriously considered a Good subway system suppose that been fallout from some accidental nuclear explosion in a bomb silo or even a local propane or methane or chlorine Gas explosion european cities have used their sub Way systems As bomb shelters in War surely Winnipeg is now big enough to consider similar Protection for its inhabitants in War and Winnipeg a pf989 Reader m numb by the Edl prs papier they ire it not to be their Winnipeg s wasting your Canada is tight ening up on foreign ;