Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the author s name will be used and letters Are subject to upgrade police training to the editorial of sep tember when policemen shoot As a Veteran police officer i can assure you that policemen Seldom but the last police officer who hesitated too Long to use or fire his gun is a lot of your criticism is i do not think that the press knows enough of the details or circumstances leading up to the unfortunate incident at the Stock Exchange hotel to criticize or pass in any shooting incident or altercation involving the where there is an error in judgment or a police officer conducts himself in an unprofessional surely this reflects on his to consider laying criminal or inter Nal departmental charges against him is asinine unless there is obvious negligence on the officers part and this can easily be determined by the police officers who Are assigned to investigate each you Are justified in questioning the training techniques of the Winnipeg police but you must re member training costs Money and the chief of police has a budget the same As every other City department for the Manitoba and Winni Peg police associations have been ask ing the provincial through the Manitoba police to standardize and upgrade police train but it appears to us that there is More interest in laying criminal and internal charges against police officers who or who Are suspected of making than in spending Money to train or equip if this trend continues the police officer on the Street will be More concerned about covering his own behind than he is about doing his of Winnipeg Are entitled to and should demand the Best trained and equipped police department Avail Varey president Winnipeg police association Winnipeg better training would help prevent mistakes by police in action protect the right to strike the message has gone Public prepare to be scourged once the one True arbiter of the rights of the the Canadian chamber of through its Stan has set you on the Scales of declared your sins and pronounced the Public servants Are Well aware that the chilling example of Ronald Rea Gan style labor relations has struck a resonant chord in some segments of and that their the has done very Little to dispel the myths about Public sector collective bargaining on which such uninformed reaction those Public servants will never meekly dont blame dog i read the article about Twoy Earold Jamie Wright being mauled by a i have heard Many reports on the Inci and also have heard of threats being made to the dogs after looking at the i have come to the conclusion that if anyone is at it is the Childs the dog was in his own tied and the child was too Young to know not to go into the if the Childs Mother had been watching the whole incident could have been Sherryl Vint agree to surrender their collective rights merely to placate a body of unseasoned and unreasonable opinion misled by an organization such As the chamber of Commerce with such obvious vested the right to strike is an integral part of the Industrial relations system sanctioned by Law throughout Western democratic where no agreement can be reached Between employees and their employer on terms and conditions of and after All other channels for resolving a dispute have been exhaust employees cannot be denied the Liberty to withdraw their they cannot be forced to continue to work under conditions that they perceive rightly or wrongly be a accept any other concept is a concept of Justice abolition of the right to strike in the Public sector is As unacceptable As it would be in the private it would constitute a relegation of Public ser vants to the status of second class Citi Zens in the realm of Industrial rela in the Public difficult judg ments will perhaps be necessary to define those truly essential Public services where strike activity should be limited or but the criteria for guiding such decisions must be set with extreme the mechanism for making those decisions already exists under the Public service staff relations act for an impartial third party Public service staff relations Board to designate pre clude from strike activity positions judged to be essential to Public health and this system has worked relatively Well in the and should not now be dismantled to be replaced by the Type of legislated strike prohibit Ion advocated by postal disputes the Canadian Economy has never been so damaged by a Federal Public sector strike As to justify a draconian denial of free collective bargaining rights for Federal Roberts should recall that strikes in this jurisdiction Are infrequent much More so than in private Industry and that the Rule in at least 95 per cent of All is a negotiated or arbitrated settlement without work by any Mea this represents a truly enviable labor relations Jack Donegani president the professional Institute of the Public service of Canada birthdays Morley Neil Winnipeg born october Mani Toba born Portage la Manito october Winnipeg free october 1981 7 forum i read your interesting article on the computer an Apple ii computer conducting the entire marriage ceremony free septem ber apart from being a funny it is also quite educational in that it tells the Public what a com Puter can in that context there is an incorrect wed by computer the one which claims that computers do not understand i do hence the couple Type y for this is not computers understand anything As Long As they Are programmed to digest that partic ular word or to be any character string can be defined by a Symbol such and from then on whenever the computer comes across that it assigns that particular character string in that for the Benefit of your i have included a simple Basic program and also a Sample run of a marriage which does accept the command i Padmanabhan department of mathematics University of Manitoba Winnipeg Basic computer program enter your 10 1 15 print 16 Rem Ember marriage program or bated on Apple ii by Padmanabhan 17 Rem Ember this program accept s Only the conventional i d o As an affirmative reply 18 Tab print a Sample marriage run 19 print j print print 20 print Welcome to the Apple m Arriage print 30 input enter your print print input enter your Sweet miss print print j print print and to u two have decided to get a let us Start the Cere shall we print print print print we All have assembled herewith the blessings of t he supreme Mother to witness the holy Matrimony o f and print we All know that All m All manmade materials and even the Silicon chips which Are both my heart and the brain Are creations of Mother Earth and so we a use for a minute to Pray Thi s goddess print 5 print 5 print 80 print do take this Fine Young girl As your beloved wife print j print input if i do then 90 if i do then 115 print j print 5 print print do take this handsome Young Man As your husband 95 print j print j print input 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 85 86 87 88 89 90 Goto 96 computers can be taught to understand i do Sample marriage run Welcome to the Apple marriage company enter your Pascal enter your Sweet Bride Elaine Pascal and you two have decided to get let us Start the be shall we we All have assembled herewith the Bles sings of the supreme Mother to witness the holy Matrimony of Pascal and e Laine we All know that All All Man made materials and even the Silicon Chip s which Are both my heart and the brain Are creations of Mother Earth and so we pause for a minute to Pray this goddess do take this Fine Young girl Elaine As your beloved wife Ido do Elaine take this handsome Young Man Pascal As your husband Ido by the Power and authority vested in my cup and this i hereby declare y of As lawfully wedded Man and please Exchange your gifts and you m a kiss the Bride premiers Are not for majority i agree with prime minister Trudeau and his desire to Patriate the cons Titu i believe that a majority of canadians agree that it is time that we Cut All ties with it is time for us to be on our the premiers who oppose bringing Home the Constitution do not speak for the majority of people in their prov but merely for they keep talking about having further Dis Cussion on the but there has been enough discussion How there has never been serious just Power plays by various particularly by premiers from Quebec has never wanted anything to do with the so Why the opposition to our prime minis Ter if we do not bring the Constitution Home god knows when we will have a prime minister with guts enough to do what Trudeau is the supreme court has made its decision the Federal government has the Legal right to carry out its pro posed lets Hope it does just Andy Anabess the our Hydro plants Are Manitoba biggest this expressed by an Anonymous Brandon resident in a Mailin Survey conducted by Brandon East new democratic la Len sums up the Public sentiment new democrats Hopewell offset conserva Tive charges that they Are ant develop at the the tories believe they have the opposition on the horns of a the million Alcan smelter and its 700 jobs Are one of three possible Meg projects the govern ment Hopes to land for the province in the win it the Forth coming but the like the Potash development and the Power has the odor of development at any Price to the and it wants a lot More in the smelters the problem is Al cans demand that it have minority ownership of the next Hydro station on the Nelson at a recent news Jacques Al cans director of development for said building a smelter today with out having an ownership position in a Power station would be like having a car without a nip Leader Howard Pawley has stated that an nip government would never permit a private corporation to own a portion of Manitoba Public not worried about Alca Hydro Issue Frances Russell Power he describes bogies remark As unfortunate and says that Alcan not Only wants the motor for the but obviously the gasoline at a fixed the scene is thus set for the conservatives to argue during the Campaign that if the nip Manitoban will kiss goodbye to the smelter and its 700 the nip has been testing Public feel Ings about the privatization of a portion of Manitoba it is delighted with the in evans1 his mail in Survey produced a nearly unanimous no to one of his questions do you agree with the proposal that Manitoba should sell part of a Hydro Plant on the Nelson River to Alcan Over 150 peo ple and while the Brandon la admits that Mailin surveys Are anything but scientific tend to hear Only from the people who agree with you or Are vehemently opposed to the party recently did a random sampling in a swing constituency and received much the same says Pawley we Are not afraid of Alcan As an election Manitoban want they want the 700 but at the same they dont want to see any commencement of the privatization of our Crown Pawley believes the tories Are per haps More in peril than his party on the two years they wanted to privatize aut Opac and they discovered they there is a Long tradition of Public ownership of telephones and Power in Manitoba and Manitoban have a deep attachment to the conservatives Are in the same Situa Tion Joe Clark was on the Issue of privatization of Pawley says he respects Al cans efforts to drive a Good bargain for but he believes that Alcan May Back away from insistence on part owner ship of the Limestone he Points out that Alcan and Doest Power in a number of including Germany and and in such As Jamaica and government is part owner of Al cans Pawley says his party would be will ing to negotiate a reasonable Long term contract for Power but it would never agree to ownership which would mean that every other Manito from International Nickel and Hudson Bay mining and smelting to Eaton and individual citizens would be subsidizing Hawleys views on Manitoban Devo Tion to Crown corporations May be Overly but there is no ques Tion Manitoban should be uncomfortable with bogies it is a direct intervention by Alcan in the forthcoming provincial in an Bougie admitted that his analogy about a cars motor was perhaps and he didst deny that it inserted the company into the elec he admitted that Alcan wont be Able to keep entirely out of the Campaign but said that if it is it will be others that involve we wont be doing anything a spokesman for Alcan said the com doonesbury Pany plans to cease All Public activity once the writs Are Bougie insisted again that Alcan must have Par ownership of the Manitoba smelter will be competing with smelters in Chile and Western where the governments Are eager to be he asked if the political stability in Canada want Bougie replied that True but nobody knows about 20 years Bougie said Lon term Power con tracts Arent acceptable because they contain escalator and As Well As profitability Alcan wants to secure its smelter investment and predict its he claimed Alcan was even taking a risk in agreeing to rather than ownership of the Power even that has been a Heck of a Compromise for May change his it is still very Early in the Bougie added Alcan wont come to Manitoba unless Manitoban want and he intimated that one test May very Well be the outcome of the it May be smart negotiating tactics for Alcan to insist repeatedly on part ownership of a Hydro station when it knows it is creating an election but Manitoban May not like being blackmailed at the ballot Knou m 103 w table met to qua to stared jumping up a mmanpshomn6hg Napkin to is stuck was onto ;