Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 5, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 1981 Winnipeg Fije press were orgies tellers Fairri writers must give their Nartie and the authors Narte be used and letters Are Wake Gateway to the West where the new West begins these expressions indicate the desire by the people of Winnipeg to be of driving Force in the development of Western and rightly histor the first settlers came to Winni Peg and spread out throughout Western Canada to develop the new but Winnipeg has been left Why As persons brought up and wed in Winnipeg before going to my wife and i love and respect this City and its having returned after Ian absence of Over 40 i would like to comment on the attitude and general Outlook we find As reflected by the Media and by the Many agencies of civic and provincial governments in this for Many and before i was president of the Down owners association of and served on Many City and Board of Trade plan Ning in a City that would love to Lead in the development of the it is incongruous that the Media ignores the West so for local newspapers and broadcasters offer at Best superficial of Western business and one must look to the easter based new spa such As the financial for news scoops on significant events in the economic development of Western can even information about the West is better found in the Globe and mail than in our own free no wonder we Are being left out in the a daily Page about Western Busi Ness events is and would show a genuine interest in Western i hear the words used by Many speakers such an inferiority com Nega when speaking to a Winnipeg business in order to have businessmen in Winnipeg pick up ideas of opportunities of manufacturing and development in Western Cana exciting reporting would helps Tim ulate investment adventurism by sparking ideas and it is significant that Young investors generally have to go out of Winnipeg to look for when Winnipeg is a natural base to Supply so Many frequent news features explaining the valuable assets of this area would be knowing the availability of renew Able electrical with examples of its present use in and of inexpensive Industrial would help stimulate the proper progressive in vestment presentation of the facts thata experienced labor Force is Low Cost hous ing and Low Cost of Good environment for family substantial cultural and vast outdoor life possibilities should be businessmen Tours should be a the government depart Council and the chamber of in conjunction with West Ern cities boards of government departments and planning so that Winnipeg investors May become familiar with what is being developed in the the fact that air express and freight transportation is becoming More important in the movement of goods for makes Winnipeg strategic Central location this centrality could do away with the need for Branch offices and excess especially costly in times of High interest Winnipeg should forget trying to compare and associate its image with Oil based economies such As it should concentrate on its own Posi Tive image As the natural Central distribution and manufacturing Centre of these Are but a few of the most obvious suggestions to Wake up win so it May become a Leader in the Western Canadian and once again be where the new West begins Krolik Winnipeg it is obvious from Reading Knowless letter artistic free August 19 that he knows Little about judging or of All the things the Winnipeg Art gallery has to offer the being a gallery i receive the monthly wag Magazine which tells of upcoming con theatrical in addition to these the gallery also has a lending Library of Fine reference a gift an Art rental and even facilities where classes Are taught by professional this All goes on within the Limestone which in itself is a work of Knowless reviews of the com positions he saw reveal his Lack of others Are of a woman looking at a child in bed of and a painting of a nude woman lewdly displaying her nether these could be the Only ideas the artists of these works wanted to project in some this is All we should there Are Many other creations to look at if you do not like the you on the other some Art encourages us to study it in greater instead of the works seem More like intellectual Chal Knowles would care to return to the gallery to see these and other works once he will find that great care and Effort was put into the creating of the pieces no matter How simple they appear to the1 minds there Are so Many objects darts in the world yet in the words of John Petit Senn not what we but what we enjoy constitutes our i Hope this letter convinces Knowles to take a few Art appreciation who knows he May pass with flying abstract Ken Lulewich Winnipeg Art gallery houses Many works of Art that elicit strongly different reaction from visitors childish Art i fully agree some years ago i visited the Winnipeg Art the drawings i saw were worse than the ones i saw school children submit when they were forced to hand in something to earn a Mark in recently our daughters took me and my wife to the we spent a Good part of the afternoon trying hard to understand what Art it was no As far As i was i went away disappointed and thoroughly i admired the spacious rooms and thought what a wonderful Opportunity to fill them with splendid works of the people responsible for the Selec Tion of paintings for the gallery should see at of several of Art if the Polo Park mall thelast on May 24 of this in my most of the paintings exhibited at Polo Park Are Superior to those we in the Gal Dyck parents want school Winnipeg must Start to live up to its potential As a Leader your editorial of August cutting school applauds the reduction in bus service for French immersion Stu dents in the Winnipeg school division apparently on the grounds that the immersion students will now be on a More equal footing with other As a Parent of a six Earold attend ing Leucole Sacre i can Only wish she were on an equal she is As capable As other children of walking the four blocks to the local school where she will be picked How Many of the children attending the local school must leave their House at in darkness for several months arrive at the school with no crossing guards or supervision at presumably my daughter will be arriving at Sacre Coeur at or before supervision to spend half an hour or More in the school whatever the weather i do not accept the allegation tacitly supported by your editorial that immersion students Are receive favored Sacre Coeur has 650 twice the Normal enrolment of elementary and it has one of the highest pupils teacher ratio sin the this should pro vide significant savings in teaching and administrative which you neglect to the school does not have gymnasium facilities of a Standard found in Many other elementary schools and its music program is More modest than the local school in operating Sacre Coeur is possibly the most efficient school in the to say that the children Are spoiled when they Are expected learn to the same Standard As other but in a language which is completely unknown to them when they enter the is none of this suggests favored or pampered the immersion programs Are so successful and in such demand because they provide an Opportunity to acquire a second language in a challenging and structured i am sorry to see that the free press has pandered to this popular myth about the immersion program and has further confused the Rannie Winnipeg unnecessary Mil How my heart bleeds for Carol Ann Randall reverse free August just think of the inconvenience she will have to suffer in order for her child to learn French because the school Board finally did something worthwhile and stopped Doort door surely if she think French Immer Sion is so important it should not be too much trouble for her to escort her child to the nearest school in the morning and pick him up in the i venture to say it would be much easier for her to do this than it is for and hundreds like me who Are on fixed to find the Money for the yearly increase in school to paraphrase her final remarks the recent decision of the school Board to end this busing is to be roundly and vociferously applauded As it is a costly and unnecessary frill to which Many of our coddled youngsters have become Richmond Winnipeg reinstate busing it is with amazement that i Greet the latest of the ongoing fiascos perpetuated by Winnipeg school division in the interest of saving Money which in the context of their latest pay increases seems somewhat contradictory and to spare of the children from sitting too Long on a school bus in their Winter they have proposed a solution six and seven Earold children will now have to walk to school to facilitate their learning of Bur second official Lan it appears quite natural that they should walk to a concept with which i totally but what of this particular proposal these children Are not walking to but a Central location to wait for a bus to take them to this is taking place Between and 8 when the streets Are Doort door bus service had its Dis some children Al most always and some had to miss school because they were there was always a Parent at the door to either watch his child get on the bus or to wave the Driver after a 15minute walk in the Snow and who will Tell the bus Driver who is ill or what Security does the Parent or the Driver have that in one Case the child made the or in the that the child is in fact but is the trustees have a solution the Cost shaving is 93 per cent of the Solu the balance has saved my Daugh Ter three minutes time on the but that Means she has three minutes less to thaw out from a 15minute this is seven percent solution the trustees should forgo their give the taxpayers a reason to reelect them and reinstate the Doort door this is a 100percent Solu Gilles Huizinga Winnipeg birthday Lindsay Duncan Winni born Moose sep tember hypocritical about Cost the collective sigh of Relief heaved by provincial governments As a result of the report of the parliamentary task Force on fiscal arrangements is a touch the reports key recommendation that Ottawa should not proceed with its planned billion cutback in major cos shared programs has been praised by All Manitoba finance Brian went further than most in claiming that key provincial positions on federa Provin Cial financing issues were accepted by the Al party group of canadians As individuals should Cele brate the but the provinces would be Wise to keep quiet when the subject of cutbacks is own Clay feet Are clumping about rather the task forces Point that there is simply no fat left to pare from social programs such As Hospital pos secondary education and the Canada assistance plan in a Sharp criticism of underfunding of those programs since the introduction of Ostring attached Federal Block funding four years the restraint programs carried out by virtually All provinces conveniently unencumbered by embarrassing pub Lic hearings and Al party task forces makes Federal threats of funding cuts Pale by Frances Russell the magnitude of those provincial restraints Are clearly catalogued in an Annex to the task Force report entitled established programs financing and its the Annex states that the replace ment of share Cost arrangements with Block funding under Elf substantially increased the size of the Federal contribution from what the provinces were in the first Federal contributions Rose by 20 per or while provinces hiked their expenditure by Only be tween six and seven per when inflation is provincial governments contributions from their own sources actually fell in real in the next two Federal contributions again increased at a greater rate than provincial the Annex while provinces Only spent on average 10 per cent More each they received from Ottawa in creases in the order of 13 to 14 per As a consequence of these Federal contributions Cash and tax have increased from 42 per cent of total health and pos secondary Educa Tion spending in 19761977 to 50 per cent in the report Annex went on to say that the provinces received about billion More from Elf in 19791980 than they would have under Cost Shar Little that the prov inces Are As unanimous in their support of Block funding As they Are in their of Ottawa daring to Fol Low their restraint on constant 1971 Dollar per capita Federal funding for health and pos secondary education Rose 24 per cent in the first three years of funding from other including health insurance University endowments and municipalities maintained their value while the constant Dollar contribution from the provinces fell by Between 14 and 23 per in effect virtually All real increases in these sectors since Elf began have been financed from Federal transfers in some a surplus being available to provinces for other uses shades of the fierce verbal wars waged during both Thye w79 and 1980 Federal election campaigns be tween Premier Sterling health minister Bud Sherman and Federal health minister Monique begin Over Manitoba the Annex states that Federal contributions for pos secondary education went from 45 per cent in the last year of cos sharing to 57 per cent in an increase of 13 per Ottawa share of the health Bill Rose eight per from 39 per cent to 47 per All the provinces have used in creased Federal funding under Elf to substitute for provincial own source the task Force Annex the poorer prov inces used new Elf monies primarily to substitute for provincial fund in the Richer the additional Federal monies were used for new expenditures in health and Post secondary our preliminary estimate is that even in these provinces a significant portion about 25 per cent was used As a substitute for provincial while the main report of the task Force tiptoes More gently around provincial there is no doubt that this kind of data led to its recommendations not so Well received by the provinces to reapply some strings to Federal Money to assure National standards and to give Ottawa greater visibility for its contributions to provincial programs so that provincial electorates can hold their governments notes the main report it can be argued that some provinces took the Opportunity offered by Elf to practice spending restraint with an enthusiasm that threatens the maintenance of Ade quate standards provincial govern ments must explain to their own electorates their decisions to practise expenditure restraint in relation to pro Grams falling under but we would like to ensure that in future there is no Lack of clarity As to the degree of Federal support for these this hypocritical do As i not As i do attitude of the provinces towards Federal restraint May yet induce Mac Eachen to ignore the task Force to the detriment of All if he the provinces will have no one but themselves to doonesbury that Mulhat i ;