Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 19, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Puns fwd 8no of Kwa a s at am Awatt wow Iota use set few gift Kilifi flied Dan 6f Tratter Equality of Gitl rooms Liberty of jew few 6ap6e Lai Sarlat 6dif6t i Dildo pig brother for the papers in with you i Freedom of the press its the newspapers 1 cant says character him Stopp ids play about the British a similar sentiment inspires Many of the recommendations of the Royal Mission in headed by Tom the lion is ail for Freedom of the press but has a Low opinion of the Way the Craft is practice in Canada at the without eking much it puts the blame for what it sees As Low standards on the pattern of to improve the situation it proposes enforced changes in ownership patterns which could be massive or modest depending on How they Are it without Ever admitting a significant degree of government control it would make the papers free from their Many faced with the Choice Between battling for Freedom and Quality with their owners and becoming accountable to big brother n Ottawa will prefer the Devil they there Are two main ways in which the commission proposes the government Deal with the problem created by Chato ownership of most Canadian the first is to take the chains sell some of their papers in areas of the country where they enjoy a provincial or regional to encourage others to buy those divested it proposes Cash shelters similar to those now provided to encourage investment in Canadian anyone who has taken note of the Quality of Canadian films produced under those tax shelters will have grave reservations about the usefulness of that the most bizarre proposal for divestment is one that would Force the Thomson organization to sell either the Toronto Globe and mail or Alt the other newspapers it owns in including this that recommendation is not supported by any complaint about the move to National publication which the Globe has made since becoming part the Thomson in fact the commission deems it a great but it argues that a paper with a National monopoly should not be owned by a in of the Grote is anything but a it competes with at least two newspapers in every City in which it is removing it from a management Structure which even the commission agrees works Well and putting it into the hands of some unknown new owner makes no sense at even after the divestitures proposed by the substantial chains will continue to exist and the second set of recommendations proposes ways which the commission imagines Chain newspapers can be made one is a tax break for papers which spend More of their Revenue on news and tax penalties on those which spend on the surface it seems a plausible idea but the Way the commission proposes to apply it involves Revenue Canada in arbitrary decisions which it should not another proposal Calls for contracts for editors chief of Chain newspapers to ensure their Independence from the the Independent would have to report to local advisory committees to a National appointed by called a press rights the panels relations with the editor appear relatively innocuous but the same body is Given immense arbitrary Powers Over the commercial Side of it would determine who would have to sell newspapers and who could buy them it would determine who would get tax Breaks and who would not it would Tell proprietors whether or not they could close their papers it would decide who would get a tax shelter to buy or Start a newspaper and who would the Kent commission had a difficult concentration of ownership and the Quality of newspapers Are legitimate matters of Public but in trying to meet that the commission would create a the people who produce papers would find themselves not to their not to their but to a powerful government that is not a free and unlicensed foreign pressure tactics Blind people who achieve Al two both tapping their Way and even supervises the Renaissance International is an outgrowth of the religious political conservative movement in the United it is therefore understandable that the group would plan to conduct a Campaign in the next Manitoba Provin Cial election and to import issues into Manitoba As Renaissance will soon Manitoba is not an Extension of the United the political system is the issues Are the Renaissance Campaign is unlikely to have much in last years the moral a coalition of conservative political activists and evangelical enjoyed some Success in helping defeat Candi dates they disapproved of because of their views or voting records on women homosexual National health insurance and government Regula Tion of private Ronald Reagan would probably have won the presidency even without their but their voter registration lavish political Telephone Calls to Church members and other Campaign work was probably decisive in defeating some Veteran Liberal senators and congressmen they had selected for special those local successes were significant since the individual senator or in the can play a Large role in shaping legislation by voting independently from his party or by winning acceptance of his ideas through the committee in Power rests with the government through its legislative the personal quirks of individual backbench ers on either Side of the House rarely have a noticeable Impact on the work of government or the shaping the significant fact about a candidate is what party he his private views on issues of interest to a vocal minority Are a negligible except occasionally in a close Manitoba voters will in the main vote As they always according to whom they want to form the next not according to some pressure groups morality Renaissance International proposes to rate candidates according to their views on capital punishment and among other in the where the organization gets its state Legislatures determine the Law on those the Manitoba has nothing to say about they will not be issues in the next Manitoba however much the moral majority Canadian Branch May wish they evangelical preachers have the same right As anyone else to enter the political comment on Public issues or endorse candidates or some of their followers May feel that is an abuse of their moral others will but when they enter the political they must be ready to take the lumps and bruises that everyone else in the same Brawl they cannot expect to enjoy As political campaigners the respect that is accorded to those who sincerely and disinterest edly study and proclaim the word of wrong Way minister transport minister Jeanluc who has already shown his disregard for the Canadian transport commis apparently has the same disregard for the opinions of the economic Council of a few weeks Pepin Rode roughshod Over earlier based on Public in which the Canadian transport com Mission ordered some passenger rail lines to be maintained in the Public More Pepin has suggested that Competition among Canadian particularly the regional is often and has announced a policy that would strictly govern the operation of All Domestic air carriers in this decision comes hard on the heels of a detailed report by the economic Council of Canada that said it was government not that was wasteful in the Field of air and recommended that the government rather than its role in regulating the Pepin says that the Etc will continue to Rule on All applications for new routes or and will continue to consider the effects on Competition when National or regional carriers apply to serve routes already handled by local there is one Sharp difference Between the procedures followed by the Etc and the economic Council on one hand and by Pepin on the the Etc held Public hearings and invited information from All quarters before ordering that rail service the economic Council spent months studying the effect of regulation and compete before coming to the conclusion that the Public would be better served by Pepin apparently consulted himself and followed neither two both tapping their Way with White and led by a were walking Down main one onlooker later remarked it must be terrible to be Able to see or live like a Normal human one of the men was in alien territory and relied entirely on the he walked with faltering to Strang the two Blind men presented the picture of two poor souls unable to make their Way in the false picture the picture was completely As is often the Conception of the both men Are unusually successful de spite their one is Hanan a professor of sociology at new York state University at Stony an institution comparable to the University of Manitoba in his specially is research courtship and and the social aspects of the other Man is president of athletes Wear of which he has built up to one of the largest Independent recreation goods stores in even while blindness is a terrible affliction but there is a tendency to regard a person with a Handicap As being a lesser individual in All it is assumed that he cannot function adequately in areas other than his it has been a self fulfilling starting with the idea decades ago that the Blind were mainly fit for making it was Only last september that the Cana Dian National Institute for the Blind sold its operation in who is a crib Board says that As a whole the Blind make out with the unemployment rate two to three times that of the rest of the one of the problems is that the Blind feel that they cant do he and the world conditions them to feel he tells the Story of a local Bank manager who suddenly went Blind a few years Micah took it upon Val Werier himself to persuade the Bank to provide aids and keep him at his i run a business More complicated than a says but the Bank didst feel he could do but More he didst feel he could there Are Many examples of the Blind functioning Well when Given the i admit Blind people wont make the Best airline says but they can do Well in other there is the classical Story of a Blind Young american student who wanted to become an electrical a goal which was thought be until his cause was taken up by Ken Neth president of the Ameri can National federation of the the Blind Man became an Engineer and at american Telephone and Telegraph he solved a problem that had vexed the company for 60 years to avoid overloads on successful teacher there Are Blind Doc Selvin and Micah Are examples of what the Blind can became Blind nine years but with the help of aids has continued As a highly regarded has done a few things to help such As to fix in his mind the Calendar for a he does this by memorizing the first monday of every there is a popular belief that if one loses one says the others become magically it is not we Are not a super it is the will to overcome As in the Case of Micah who runs his business and even supervises the mail order he keeps up with world events and is More informed than the average he does far More than a sighted person fact that people should remember in this inter National year of the Given the the disabled can fun yet the disabled Are often regarded As inferior when in in a says the waitress will ask my sighted companion does he want sugar in his Coffee an Micah observes that the Public generalizes and thinks a Blind person is an idiot and deaf and says prof Selvin there is a ten Dency to homogenize All the Handi regardless of their condition or Selvin refuses to Bow to the idea that he cannot a stewardess on a plane might say wait until everyone is off the and i will help he tells the stewardess no ill take the hand of a fellow Passen says he should i wait 15 minutes because i am Blind As he people As a whole Are kind and people go out of their Way to help a person with a White i am never refused a request for some Blind people Are Able to Cross a Busy Street by listening to the i tried this a few times in new York and was almost i need help where there is a lot of ambient so i face away from the hold up my Cane and ask will someone help always in new York women would never respond to a strange they will talk to Selvin if he seeks guidance to the i can do something no sighted Man can do walk off Arm Narm with a strange it is a pleasant touch of intimacy in a City thought to be hostile and artistic garbage what a tragicomedy is the Winnipeg Art in the True traditions of the emperors new people Are asked to believe that seven empty a Sheet of White paper with a faint gayness to represent the Sagwa and a monstrosity called Mother and resembling nothing As much As a ships Anchor ravaged by time Are works of there is something that could be a billboard waiting for an and a set of White lines in a huge gut the latter if divided into sets of be musical Staves devoid of Bohemian English pottery and inuit sculpture Are among the Only recognizable others Are of a woman looking at a in bed a Panorama of and painting of a nude woman lewdly displaying her nether most of the work is a an insult to the it horrifies me that visitors to this City should that it is what Winnipeg deems to be the Only redeeming feature is that these insults can be viewed free of the Cost of their Purchase is absorbed by the Art relates to the Only skill involved in most of the exhibits in the gallery lies i that which induced any person of judgment to buy even to accept them As i do not believe that everyone View of everything should be nor that Art should consist Only of a faithful reproduction of what i do believe that seven identical picture frames from Woolworth would inspire identical emotions of the human spirit As do those frames by and Hung by the Powers of the Winnipeg Art there Are up Many objects darts in the world Why is Winnipeg Content with the garbage the gallery displays i have garbage As artistic in my a i wonder if die director of the gallery would buy spine of that letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from give name and the name will be use4 and letters Are subject to too Lee Art gallery Winnipeg Best decision president Reagan by Bis decision to produce the Neutron bomb has done the Best thing to offset the arrogance of the soviet if it is the nuclear weapon that soviet presi Dent Leonad Brezhnev he has Good reason to 4o the soviet Mili tary Arsenal has no identical weapon to counter the Neutron u is doubtful that disarmament will Ever top Many billions of have gone into the Nicholas Law Aljy Winnipeg age discrimination in your recent editorial discussions on compulsory retirement you have taken a consistent editorial position that the primary Issue involved is age discrimination and that in the Many arguments pro and con Only the human rights argument is free july we fee i that Terence in his two article review of the hearings fore commissioner Marshall Rothstein july 39 and did not reflect the fact that the human rights argument against mandatory retirement was Vered extensively in at least one major one might conclude from Moores review that the sooner Only heard from those who have vested interests on one Side of the Issue or the we would therefore appreciate the Opportunity to outline a few of the main Points in the Brief presented by the Manitoba association for eights and the Marl Brief stated that compulsory retirement is a violation of Toman rights which should be against without mar believes that human rights legislation must continue to protect individual rights while also offering increasing Protection for collective rights related to social and economic goals for society As there must be some balance tween individual rights and collective research has shown that Only per cent of the total labor Force about people affected by mandatory retirement rules Are Likely to wish to continue working beyond the present established retirement age of these people would prolong their work lives on average by Only three it has also been shown that there is no valid reason to distinguish Between workers under 65 and Over those Over 65 Are not As to needs and age no better indication of than sex or race and should be equally unacceptable As a discriminatory Prev Tice in the capacity to work can Only be assessed on the basis of a persons functional ability rather than logical we do not believe there Are any valid a Claomie considerations that would justify sacrificing the right of the individual to work beyond the age of on the question p employment opportunities there is no reason to assume that a person working beyond age 65 immediately deprives a younger son of a the re is w basis for claiming that a Young person has More right 19ftiqb to bolder person who is equally regarding fou Cuve bargaining agreements would not want 9ff j the har4w9i rights of Lite e4 while we fun Jay support the efforts i pawed labor to Degoti of exly Trade Ujj have to recognise mandatory retirement As age Dis Crimi Trade Unitas will therefore have to develop approach in collective bargaining which takes this v r it it Ian necessary to allow a Tran Sipioni period for unions to renegotiate relevant sections of collective bar gaining agreements and some ties May but we believe the right to continued employment outweighs the a potential Marl believes that the prohibition of compulsory re be made explicit in the Manitoba human rights act to cover inthe sector As Well m civil the Marl delegation was asked a number of questions by the commis Sione including what to do about Cial appointment positions such As which include a mandatory retirement our answer was that such appointments should be made in the future for a specified time we also that plans should be made to recognise specified Mure 25 30 Todd Jortes or areas q professional we repeat our conviction that human rights question is primary in relation to the ending of mandatory put human rights cannot be pro Teeter la i vacuum considering that the right Naite dominated against because 9 ones age has Only been recognized in the last 1q to 15 it May of necessary to allow for gradual adjustments but it must be conceded that Basic human right is at Ralph James president Arnold executive Pire Etor map Tibia association for rights aft liberties Winnipeg Stuffy Ivory towers i am astounded at the Way editorial writers at both our daily newspapers fail to correctly read news stories and then begin pontificating on their rect a Case in Point is the Story regarding progressive party Leader Sid Green speaking in flin flon Accord ing to the editorial Green had advocated the Union of the three Prairie what the As carried by Canada an clearly stated was that Green suggested it was time to consider doing study into the feasibility of such a that is exactly what he said1 because i was the author of that which Canadian press and the free press reported exactly As i had written As far As questioning what Benefit such a possible Union of the Prairies would be to Alberta and the answer is obvious and it was stated is pews such a Large Prairie group would have 49 members in quite g formidable bloc to Deal with i cannot recall editorial writers get Ting their hackles up so badly when this us advanced about six years ago by pm Bennett suggested that Canada he divided into five provinces the Quebec and the the editorial writers should throw open the windows of their Stuffy Ivory towers and let in a Little fresh something that Sid Green end Bis progressives Are trying to breathe into West a gab Winnipeg ;