Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 27, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Sho Diness on air safety the second volume of the Dubin inquiry into air safety deals with the enforcement of air and its finding that this enforcement is at Best spotty will not Surprise canadians within the air Industry As much As it May startle those on the within the Industry it has been common knowledge that the bigger the the More gingerly problems were handled by ministry of transport if the operator was Large or closely enough aligned with govern ment to possess As Well As business then enforcement of air regulations often became Little More than an internal it is now Clear that the operator who got away with As much As anyone else was none other than the of the the ministry of transport in the first volume of Justice Charles Dubin found that morale among ministry employees was not and that enthusiasm was not this he blamed on pressures exerted by senior the second volume of the report shows How bad the situation it Points to cases where the departments own Fleet of aircraft was not properly maintained to conform with safety Regula Justice Dubin has found that senior members of the ministry of transport have resisted vigorous enforcement of air leaving Field inspectors with Little clout to clean up cases of blatant in Many the second volume reads like the continuing horror Story of inadequate unqualified person overloading and other dangers that were listed in volume this the incidents often describe aircraft operated by the ministry of transport by personnel whose duties include the enforcement of safety standards throughout the in the first Justice Dubin recommended the establishment of a separate air Accident investigation Branch in order to remove obvious conflicts of interest where the ministry was called upon to investigate this recommendation was first referred to a committee that included a senior ministry official who had been criticized in the subsequently the minister of trans Jeanluc accepted the but legislation covering such a separate investigation unit is said to be months in the this Justice Dubin has recommended a separate enforcement once More removing the ministry participation in the air transport Industry from its duties to enforce both recommendations deserve prompt action by the Federal the Progress on the first has not been but it is not too late for the government to revise its priorities in a matter where including the lives of its own Are at modest gains at Cancun modest though the gains from the Cancun Summit May be they do represent a step Forward in the goal of bringing together Rich and poor countries for a continuing discussion of the current framework of the world one gain is the acceptance by the participants of the idea that the proposed global negotiations should take place within the context of the United nations at the Ottawa Summit of seven Industrial countries in the final communique referred Only to the concept of such without specifying the manner in which they would be the Advance Here is not in acceptance by third world which themselves pushed through a in Resolution calling for a sponsored global negotiations that passed last the significant change is the acceptance of the idea by president Ronald who resisted it at the Ottawa Summit and who was responsible for the in being left out of that summits final his agreement to the principle of global negotiations is hedged by conditions that disappointed third world participants at he wants such talks to proceed on a Caseb Case basis to do nothing that would interfere with such existing multilateral development organizations As the world Bank and the International monetary fund to no new multilateral organizations and to respect existing Domestic economic he also wants such talks to occur in an atmosphere of cooperative which Means no insults and screaming these conditions fit reagans perception of the danger of a third world voting steamroller in the in general Assembly being used to achieve a Radical overhaul of the world Economy that could damage commercial inter ests As he understands in he was doing More than voicing his own personal View he was putting Forward what Garrison again last thursdays decision by a Senate committee to appropriate million in additional funding for the Garrison diversion project saw Only one dissenting coupled with a statement made in Fargo recently by the Secretary of the James that the Reagan administration is solidly behind the new appropriation is alarm senator Quentin Burdick of North longtime supporter of is manoeuvring to nullify court action by the Audubon society that had stalled further construction on Garrison on the basis of an earlier agreement Between the society and the Federal senator Burdick has proposed that the Senate direct the department of the Interior to ignore the agreement if he is such direction will take precedence Over the court ruling that has halted Garrison although spokesmen in Washington at the department of the Interior Are downplaying the importance of the senators the same spokesmen Are that Watt is a supporter of the anyone who listened to Watts words in Fargo has been left with Little doubt of the Secretary or that of he bilateral talk son Garrison Are to be held Between and Canadian officials in Ottawa this another subject on the Agenda is acid a Touchy International Issue where Canada is asking the to diminish the volume of emissions from its Industrial Given the relative importance of the two and the possibility of Trade offs that would be More acceptable to the Eastern parts of both countries than to Western it is unfortunate that they must share time during the same May be the realistic limits beyond which the current political environment would allow no president to go in accommodating the desires of the underdeveloped coun his Azacs travails have demonstrated the limits of presidential Power when faced with the balancing Power of the generosity to however morally right and economically is unlikely to be strongly supported by congressmen who face rising voter anger about the poor state of the Domestic it was a achievement that Reagan even attended the his Jimmy said last year that if he would not he said despite his sympathy towards the worlds because he feared would be Little More than a platform for ant american that did not those attending seriously tried to find some common ground and they did one of the Wise precautions taken by those attending was to abstain from trying to produce a jointly Breedon the final statement of the joint mexican president Jose Lopez Portillo and prime minister Pierre went through much of the backroom argument and redrafting that Are associated with conference final the refusal of Vene Algeria and Tanzania to permit a summary statement referring to the conditions and setting a timetable for preliminary talks on global negotiations reflected the angry divisions that this led to a vague statement whose most substantial Content is the acceptance of the in these matter less than the fact that eight Industrial including the United sat Down with Les developed countries such As India and China and were Able to discuss the poorer countries grievances without an outburst of Mutual it is certain that they did not waste their they overcame they now must keep up the momentum that will bring to Success the agreed global false Dawn since none of the Lyon governments much touted Mega projects is actually in the the Premier is grasping at straws to convince Manitoban of the economic Boom invisible to the untutored which he and his colleagues have the announcement that Inco has not scrapped the proposed new open pit mine it has been planning for Thompson is not by itself Worth a premiers press but when the facts offer so Little to support his governments inflated the Premier cannot afford to be Inco announced months ago its intention to Start digging a new pit to replace one that will run out of Ore in it hired consultants to come up Safe and acceptable ways of designing and operating the new which will employ the miners now working in the old one when it is the company was Able to announce last week that the consultants had completed their an alternative was to forget about the new reduce the company operations in Manitoba and Lay off those miners when the existing pit is the news that Inco is not reducing its Manitoba operations hardly justifies the enthusiastic boosterism of the governments advertisements about Manitoban Good Fortune in sitting on a Gold the fact that the Premier is reduced to trumpeting such a routine matter illustrates the risks of proclaiming a great new Dawn when everyone else sees a perfectly Ordinary Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller now 14 Oil Why am i pacing a a gallon my own Gas Hie scramble for pay to by Fred Cleverley the popularity of satellite even the As planned programming of Canadian satellite can be seen in the stack of applications which representatives of the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission will have to Wade through next week in so 23 different Orga coops and Community groups have applied to distribute the signals of the four Canadian superstitions of Canadian satellite commune can com in 119 communities in Reserve to the figures Are a bit one native communications incorporated of has applied for 91 mainly on re Thompson and the Pas each have six different applications to provide ser and flin flon has Twenty five Manitoba communities have Only one application any suggestion that these applications would be dealt with by using the nearest rubber stamp disappeared when the interventions were Al though the deadline for interventions passed just last applicants Gotan Advance look when they were notified about who objected to their supplying the four satellite the bulk of the interventions have come from the ctr affiliate in and from the Manitoba the Csc has filed in the Case of some but mainly because Csc service had been left off some of the proposed the applicants fall into two general the first includes communities which have Only the Basic sometimes the ctr and which want to add the Canadian super chant cite to cd Chov Hamilton and the French language to ctr of Montre Al to the two Canadian included in this group Are ten Western Manitoba communities from Elkhorn and Erickson to Pilot Mound that Are included in the application by Westman Media the licenced Cable opera Tor in in the second group Are commune like flin flon and the which already receive american satellite Sig nals and operators Are seeking Legal free from the threat of government crackdown and possible seizure of their whether the communities seek new or simply a firmer Legal base for the Price is sub Winnipeg residents pay less than a month for three for three new versions of sky and Rural residents who become customers of can com will pay be tween a month the figure quoted by us Peru to for Pine Falls and Riverton to a month quoted by Krush for Lac Dubon installation charge As Rural customers will pay a healthy installation charge and a charge for decoding equipment when the signal is delivered by broadcast rather than through installation according to the run from a Low of quoted by sri for Lynn Lake to quoted by White Shell communications for Falcon if an operator has to utilize higher frequencies to avoid Low occupied such As at Falcon the equipment is More but Westman Media is of Fering the More expensive service in its ten communities for an installation fee of possibly indicating the ability of an larger company to spread its costs the most interesting from a financial Point of is that of native communications for its pro posed 91 its application states the operation of the above mentioned undertakings will be financed by Community indicating that individuals will be charged neither installation nor monthly rent can com has suggested its ground capable of serving a com will Cost for each com can com intends to collect per month for each to in stall 91 units would Cost in excess of for a Community of 100 to carry a capital expenditure and to pay can com per customer per month would represent an individual monthly Cost of about even if All the bookkeeping and technical Servic ing were provided on a Volunteer a window the decision by the crts on the Manitoba and indeed on applications across the will provide a window into the thinking of the regulatory body since it approved Canadian satellite service last the interventions of sky Are those of a ctr affiliate that has been charged fees for programs to be aired in Mani Toba to Manitoba and that considers its signal to be available to 95 per cent of the Homes in the province when can com is sky will be faced with a competing ctr although it Sells no Adver Tising in carries the same Cynd will face the same problems with its new Independent while the repetition of programs on different channels provides a problem for the television the Prospect of this repetition has already sparked a massive protest in flin where residents fear they May lose their present american satellite signals and get a system which will provide the same program on two or three Chan Nels at the same if the viewers in flin flon Are upset at this consider the Impact of the Canadian superstitions on whose management May believe if a Canadian Independent is to be beamed into Manitoba it should be a Manitoba crts representatives will probably ask the applicants who already operate dishes aimed at american satellites if they Are prepared to Cut off the foreign signals to accommodate can the question will be a Deli Cate the operators know if they want to get a can com they had better Promise to do what the government wants them to they also know that sitting in the audience will be customers who May want can com but Only if they Are in addition to the american stations they Are now first of two articles shameful the most disgusting and unappreciated program on Csc to recently was thin week in t revealed to us How uncommon the members of the House of commons it appeared Mure like a goo time party than a group of mature people who were elected to Deal intelligently with the affairs of our the individual and mob heckling and yell ing is not Only disrespectful but a great waste of the members behaviour dignity in the commons is if they the Busi Ness at hand would be done in a Shorter time and More would be a com god forbid that the number of Mem Bers Ever be in a smaller number would do a much bet Ter a Good number of the members do not contribute one Iota to the Solu Tion of our unless we consider the heckling and Yelling a contrib let us All impress upon the members of the House the importance of Maturi Felix tesarsk1 Winnipeg ugly statue As a recent visitor to May i express my appreciation for a most pleasant visit in spite of the i am curious As to the meaning of the ugly Granite enclosure around the statue of Louis and Why is he naked what is trying to convey 1 understand Riel was a Man of slight stature so Why the ugly Muscles this is not a slur on the considerable Talent of the sculptor but i feel it a puzzling interpretation that does not do Honor to a Man so important in the history of our Edna Mold letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to not minor i am disturbed by your article on the conviction october 19 of Kenneth James the Man who dragged a woman off the Osborne Street threatened her and forced her to com Mit an act of Gross indecency and by other recent articles on rape and As i object to this being treated As a More or less minor crime because the woman was not but what distresses me the most about these articles is the imbalance of sym Pathy that often echoes an imbalance of this seems to play up the criminal As a victim of his a fou year sentence for this Middle repeat multiple whether in a psychiatric Hospital or a correctional is not reassuring to me either As a fair sentence or an effective is he eligible for parole can 38 years of criminal pattern really be undone in this Brief period of time what of the Long Range effects of these traumatic crimes on their Vic Tims for a woman who has been violently As i life is never the paranoia and a con Stant awareness of vulnerability be come a part of everyday after my incident i became More wary of strangers and my social habits my sense of Trust in my Fellowman after eight if a car suddenly screeches around a Corner or i hear footsteps running up behind me and there Are lots of joggers these Days my heart i budget for taxis after dark instead of waiting alone at bus i wont go to the Corner store after dark and peaceful walks on sum Mer evenings Are merely fading me whether these criminals Are convicted or reformed or does not change the fact that we have lost our personal it is the victims who Are being taken off the criminal has been made the Central figure in these is it not time the focus shifted to the inno cent victim Holden Winnipeg voice of hate it is to be hoped that no candidate running for political office in the no vember election will be intimidated by the recent Survey sent out by Renais Sance this conservative Christian new right group is nothing other than a voice of its stand is against rather than it revels in a rhetoric of its master work is political in this these will be the seeds of its father Killen director University chaplaincy services University of Manitoba Winnipeg no cheap fares having closely followed events in the debate Over student bus i feel 1 must write and express my support of the transit systems decision not to give travel concessions to apart from the obvious loss of Revenue to the bus 1 feel that it would be extremely unfair to those who Are unable to attend a College or University because of either financial reasons or a Lack of academic Steve Hobson Winnipeg Hsc Day Nursery the Manitoba paramedical Assoc a on behalf of its members employed at the health sciences expresses its deep concern about the possible closure of the health sciences Centre Day we Are informed that several highly qualified and experienced staff in our bargaining unit be forced to consider signing their positions if this As no suitable alternative care for infants is particularly during a period of anticipated continuing shortage of health care Pioneer projects of this nature should be promoted and expanded not Bob Strong executive director Manitoba paramedical association Winnipeg an impressive Dis but the answer is still i a r ;