Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg 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 a licence to shoot the policemen who shot Tom Sanderson in the Stock Exchange hotel parking lot september 12 did so in conformity with the regulations of the Winnipeg police department As interpreted by the departments senior they will therefore not be subjected to disciplinary the Public is now on notice any time similar circumstances a similar result can be the circumstances on the night of september 12 brought together customers fleeing from what was thought to be a Holdup in the hotels Beer outlet and policemen arriving to investigate the supposed in the panic and the policemen shot at the car of the fleeing customers and wounded the Tom the attorney generals department has concluded is no basis for a criminal charge against the two chief Ken Johnston and the senior officers of the police Force have found that there is no basis for internal disciplinary action against but if policemen following their orders in the Way they Are trained to follow them produce such a then the orders and the training Are in exculpate no the individual chief Johnston has shifted the responsibility onto departmental policy for which he is the two the chief has were just doing their Job in the Way the department asks them to do but the Job of policemen should not include shooting at innocent bystanders who Are trying to extricate themselves from alarming it is up to the or failing him to the Manitoba police commission under the authority of the provincial to make Clear to the policemen through regulations and through training pro Grams what their Job is and How they Are to do it with a minimum of danger to the policemen themselves and to the the departments account of the incident deepens the one policeman fired his weapon at the it is because the car was being driven directly at corroboration of that claim from the people in the car would be it would also be helpful to know whether Winnipeg policemen have been Given any apart from what they May pick up from police serials on about the usefulness of shooting at a speeding the first police having Dove out of the cars the second hearing a shot and seeing his partner fired into the rear of the fleeing How that was supposed to help the first policeman is not it is said that the two policemen had identified themselves and ordered the fleeing car to How the occupants of the car were supposed to know that the two individuals in the parking lot were policemen also remains there Are times and places when it is useful for policemen to work in the Stock Exchange hotel parking lot on the night of september was not one of the police chiefs decision against disciplinary action does not close the Case but rather Broadens the difficulty lies not with a couple of individuals who failed to follow orders but with the top level of the department and with a failure to prepare the policemen adequately for the situations they have to Deal with out i the who signed what despite the apparent there is no real conflict in what the premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan have been saying about the state of negotiations on the Western Power Premier Lyon said last week that the ministers responsible in Saskatchewan and Alberta have agreed to recommend a Power Grid agreement to their respective Premier Blakeney of Saskatchewan said on the weekend that no agreement had been reached and that none would reached until the matter had been thoroughly studied by the since Lyons statement did not claim that an agreement had been in it specifically spoke Only of a recommendation from there is no conflict where the premiers do differ somewhat is on the question of How Long it will take to sign an who has a political interest in convincing Manitoban that one of his Meg projects is on the says it should not take who has no political interest in making the Manitoba tories look Good in the Middle of an election says it could take some who is right will be known Only when and if the premiers of the three provinces sit Down at a table and sign their names to an the questions which Are open to debate at the moment Are Given the relatively Small step Forward represented by the ministerial the government was Wise to announce it with last weeks fanfare More import whether that measure of agreement justifies the expenditure of Public Money on the Limestone Power the no will claim that it is simply keeping the Public in touch with the Progress of negotiations As any open government would be expected to it no doubt believes As Well that the announcement will help establish the credibility of the project at a crucial Point in the election but the repeated announcement of massive projects which always appear to be receding Over the horizon tends to sap credibility and to prompt scepticism rather than a political problem that should worry the tories but need not concern anyone but spending Public Money in anticipation of a Power Grid which May or May not come into being is scarcely a demonstration of the kind of strict financial management which Lyon claims for his and spending Public Money in Advance of an agreement will scarcely strengthen Manitoba position for the final round of rent control wont work nip Leader Howard Pawley was making the Normal automatic response to concerns about rising rents and fears that they will Rise even More sharply next year when he promised in Brandon that an nip government would reimpose rent controls in however plausible they May controls Are not Likely to provide an effective safeguard for in renters Are facing More problems in provinces which have controls in place than they Are in Manitoba where they have officially been done away the nip Leader was careful in Brandon not to Promise the sort of rigid rent ceilings which Lead inevitably to a deterioration of housing Stock and an eventual housing he proposed a flexible system under which landlords who wished to raise their rents above an unspecified maximum would have to justify their he assured landlords that the proposed nip Law would ensure them a fair return on their investment and an incentive to maintain the Quality of their in those vague Hawleys proposal sounded similar to the arbitration process which was established by the present conservative government when it abolished Blanket rent control 18 months Pawley May have ideas for making that process fairer and More if he should spell them out during the election while he is at he should set Forth As Well the nip policy for restricting the conversion of rental accommodation to that is an area where there is real room for the sad fact that whatever proposals the nip can find for making arbitration More effective and discouraging rental accommodation from being converted to condominiums will not strike the roots of the problem facing that problem is rooted in High interest any landlord either building new accommodation or rolling Over his mortgage on an existing apartment building is going to face vastly higher interest if Hawleys proposed controls guarantee him a fair return on that then those higher interest costs will be reflected in sharply increased new legislation May Force landlords to justify increased the problem is if they Are facing higher interest they can an unassailable Case that the increases Are Greasy spoon the Senate commons joint committee that presides Over services to parliamentarians and staff thought they could Cut costs by asking parliamentary diners to deliver their own dirty dishes Back to the cafeteria kitchens or it has not the busboys have been Laid but the senators and other customers at the parliamentary cafeterias persist in leaving the remains of their subsidized meals on the for it is a matter of Quebec Liberal Marcel Dionne contends he is in Ottawa to provide service to his not to Clear his Ontario Charles objects to the Layoff of Low paid casual the result is an accumulation of dirty dishes which would never be allowed in a commercial eatery and which health officials have ordered cleaned feasting off the taxpayers and leaving others to clean up the mess is an old habit in the revolutionary doctrine that politicians should repair the damage they do cannot win easy the pay and working conditions of maps Are designed to shelter them from harsh such As the fact that tables have to be cleared and dishes Many adolescents have trouble learning that preferring to disappear from the dinner table like maps from a cafeteria As soon As the meal is Canadian parents find they have to Collar the kids on the Way out of the dining room door to get the table speaker Jeanne Den Mother of May have to do the same before the health authorities make another swoop on the country leading Greasy Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller mme out Mere the disabled can achieve the Story of Euclid Herie is the classic Story of a poor person who achieves great Success in was a minor obstacle on his Road to he had Over come society reaction to his terrible disability Lack of Herie conquered his or rather he Learned to Cope normally in Many Fields despite his last he was honoured by the University of Manitoba and presented with an Honor Ary degree for his great contribution in the Field of human welfare As a ranking official of the Canadian National Institute for the Normal the message he wants to emphasize is that society must accept a disabled person As a Normal person in that he or she can do Many things despite a we must have a Renaissance in our he our society Doest tolerate differences very my Normal world is the world of Blind but it is perfectly Normal for me to water ski and climb but people dont accept it As the Normal thing for the Blind to societies and agencies for rehabilitation must change their attitudes and look upon the disabled As with abilities and needs like everyone at is an attractive handsome in a Black Beard slightly touched with he was born in Jean the son of a poor dirt who had a Grade 3 his Mother was a also the child fan impecunious Farmer who hauled wheat to pay for her tuition to Normal he was named Euclid after a rela at a time of the French classic influence in education in names were taken from the greek classics and so one of series friends was named Herie suffered from congenital cataracts and at 16 lost All his i wanted to go into he re Mem i didst have the so i borrowed enough to take a course in social work at the University of it took me ten years to pay off my student at that1 time the Nib gave me a Box of tapes and a tape recorder and a letter wishing me Good today there Are Many More Werier he is concerned that higher fees will shut the poor out of when he graduated in the late social workers were snapped up imme but no one wanted to hire him because he was finally he got a Job with childrens that was the Only position for which he has Ever he was invited to All his successive posts supervisor for rehabilitation services for the Nib in Manitoba executive director of the Manitoba crib executive director of the Ontario he took further including that in management and he has made Many representations to National and inter National he has written and lectured widely on child welfare and thrilling week its been a thrilling says Herie of receiving an honorary i Felt As if it was a former lieutenant governor Bud Jobin made a special Point of attend for Herie is a Friend of his wife family in flin of series wife Ellen and his and 16 came in his Manitoba Herie was regarded As a rebel for he consistently questioned the options offered the i wondered whether he had changed since he had become part of the now responsible for a budget of million for the Blind in i dont think i have changed very he i have had a lot of anger Over the years Over a lot of i figured i accept things As they were i wont accept it today either when people say it cant be in the 1950s and 1960s the crib was insular and lost its relevance to the he there Are others today who say the crib still has notoriously Low expectations for the disabled and has not sufficiently widened its in Herie notes that the crib has closed residences across the country to return the Blind people to the the Only workshops left today Are in Ontario and he was responsible for closing the Broom shop in a remnant of the philosophy that the Blind could Only hold menial Herie was recently asked to evaluate the operations of the Ontario crib and the thrust of his report was to Region Alize the 20 provincial one recommendation that was not approved was his proposal to close the crib catering the Cornerstone of the Institute there for the last 50 and now an annual million business in other choices the Blind people must have other he theres no future for them in Selling tobacco and Maga it stereotypes the in organization of the called wants the crib disbanded because it considers it too paternalistic and insensitive to Peoples Herie admits that a lot of what boost had to say makes he says crib is in agreement with boost on Many issues in employ Herie is concerned that there is no political will to implement the Feder Al on the needs of the one desperate need is to Supply More services to people who Are both deaf and says Herie its most devastate i dont mind being but this is Complete the deaf Blind Are not even at the stage of understanding their rights weve left them in ins Titu no one dealt with the prob Herie is acutely aware of the problems of the when he leaves his hotel room by and Heads for the he has to make certain there is no laundry cart in his he has to search for the elevator then if there is no one in the he has to worry about finding his Way to the he is aware at Little braille signs and Mea sures for other disabled can be incorporated in the construction of build and As Herie has the disabled can do great things in this mature drinkers it is difficult for someone familiar with actual facts and circumstances to know How widely the Public May be misinformed by a grossly misleading with this premise in i must Correct virtually every statement made in Frank Syms letter Saloon october to respond to Wymss distortions pleasant dining and dancing facilities not Only provide visitors with an important feature for enjoying Manitoba while but also provide resident Manitoban with More attractive opportunities for phrases that Syms such As Saloon proprietors and booze purveyors belong to the past and Are die Happy hour hardly descriptive of Manitoba mod Ern dining insofar As the matter of additional profits to the hotel Industry is con the facts Are that this Industry Over the past four years has invested million in its facilities in this compared to million Over the preceding four an in crease of 66 per there is no justification for the implication that the commissions Excel Lent inspection staff is doing an inadequate Job of the facts Are that relaxed dining surroundings do not encourage a restrictive atmosphere where people Are confined to a table and permitted Only to drink without food does Lead to in the most recent fiscal per capita consumption of Beer in the province has actually de spirits increased Only per cent and wine per cent when compared Over the last five Manitoban tastes Are maturing and the growth element in beverage alcohol is now coming from better Quality table wines most frequently served with standup closely regulated by the Are not but have been present since inspection records show an absence of problems with juveniles and Rowdy the reference to the new self service Law is self service does not mean that patrons help themselves to letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to it is simply served to the Cus Tomer at the bar by a bartender and has been permitted in Rural Manitoba since without a single a comparison of supermarket beverage rooms in some of them in excess of 600 is hardly a fair comparison with Manitoba Len it of licensees in Manitoba have proven they can operate 200seat beverage rooms in no instance will any Manitoba Licensee be permitted to squeeze in 300 patrons into a 200per sunroom extravagant words like liberalization without accompanying responsibility and criminal Are not Only in but Border on the i am but the old Days of sitting at tables and having nothing to do but sit there and have gone we do not feel As you do that people need the govern ment to tightly regulate them and their interests at All our concern is with abuses under the not with restricting the Freedom of the average Manitoban of Good it is a new one where the Public is considered mature and capable of acting Sensi pay us a enjoy our Fine food and beverages in our pleasant dining rooms alongside our people who have fun and behave themselves at the same Tevendale chairman Manitoba liquor control commission Winnipeg drinking Drivers today Many people drink and not realizing How dangerous it really notice i said not Only teen i have often seen adults drive too after having a few drinks too people will often say that they have better control Over their car when they have had a few they might feel More at but it is All in their their reflexes Are Why cant they accept that As a fact Drunken Drivers often endanger the lives of others As Well As their Why dont they take a taxi instead of possibly causing an Accident recently i have heard of Many Acci dents that could have been avoided if Only the Driver had been i am scared to death to ride with a Drunken Driver i would rather walk Lambert Winnipeg essential care the health science centres Day care is in serious financial the costs of operating and maintaining the Centre Are exceeding the monies received from the govern ment through Grants and the per diem rate that government regulation allows parents to pay per cutbacks have occurred Over the past few years but with escalating costs and increased salaries the books cannot balance and closure of the Day care program is Day care is an essential and integral part of the health science contributing to educational patient care and health while the Hospital remains highly committed to the it cannot continue to absorb the eve increasing the greatest Cost lies in the under age two aspect of the this is not an area that can be discontinued because the largest demand is for this age As a Parent with a child under the age of my Job is threatened by the impending with no adequate alternative care available for this age i would have to quit my Job in lower the Standard of living for my entire i cannot afford to be out of it is my Hope that the government will take a Long hard look at the Revenue allotted to Day care and come to some decision about making the system in Manitoba work for working parents and their children and not against Moxley Winnipeg grateful i am grateful for the weekly article written by reverend Arthur Thomson on the religion Page of the free his column Speaks with openness and conviction on subject matter that is relevant in our world Barbara Plett this is a tru come on we know youre in ;