Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 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 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller native rights gone again spokesmen for inuit and Metis groups were shocked and angered to find that prime minister Trudeau and the premiers had left out of their constitutional agree ment the proposed charter of rights Section confirming aboriginal and treaty rights whatever those May turn out to native organizations had sought much More than that out of constitutional but it now appears even that will not be native organizations seek Assurance in the Constitution that the rights of native people will not be changed without their they seek a Promise in the Constitution that governments will proceed speedily to work out with them what treaty and aboriginal rights amount to and How they should be they seek a further constitutional similar to the Promise about reducing economic disparities among that governments will seek to reduce disparities Between native Peoples and other Canad they seek a constitutional basis for a government like political Structure for native people separate from the governments that serve and Rule other the native organizations Central argument is that Canada owes them something in return for the surrender of the land their ancestors occupied and As redress for the Many ways in which their ancestors were pushed around and shunted aside by White they Point to the demonstrable facts that a Large proportion of Canadas inuit and Metis Are very poor and that their opportunities to pursue their traditional fishing and trapping Way of life Are being steadily sometimes in apparent contradiction of the promises of the they attribute their difficulties to mistreatment at the hands of White society and look to the Constitution to put it indians and inuit have Long experience of White men breaking their they must have a powerful sense of deja when they see their modest constitutional achievement getting lost in the Federal provincial it is not Clear whether that achievement was Worth since it affirmed rights whose substance has yet to be inclusion of that affirmation in the charter probably did not enhance native Peoples prospects of improving their economic and political position in Canadian dropping it probably does not weaken those but the exercise of putting it in and then taking it out has to reinforce native Peoples scepticism about the usefulness of negotiating with White nothing in this weeks Federal provincial agreement for bids inclusion in the charter of provisions useful to native the Constitution Resolution has yet to be debated in where the native organizations concerns Are sure to be the agreement does at least assure them of a privileged not afforded other lobby to make their pitch to a future Federal provincial constitutional their Best bet is to measure with brutal realism the strength of their bargaining tailor their ambitions accordingly and keep stating their Case from every platform they can the swedes catch a sub the swedish government deserves top Marks for the mature and sophisticated manner in which it handled the Case of the grounded soviet spy without firing so much As a water Neutral Sweden handed the mighty soviet Navy its most embarrassing and humiliating propaganda defeat in recent russians looked like bumbling they became the target of the laugh heard around the for this last the swedes Are to be specially there is nothing quite so depressingly grim As the face of an or of defence strangely Ian rocket rattlers and unilateral Dis armers share the View that humor has no place in weighty discussions of How we can or enhanced capabilities to destroy millions of our fellow human it was very witty of the swedes to make the main thrust of their protest about the violation of their territorial Waters a decision to focus world attention on the faintly ludicrous sight of a soviet vessel of War aground on the rocks like some weekend Sailor making a hash of it in the shallows of Lake being the cause of gales of world laughter plays no part in the plans of the men in the soviet defence ministry with fruit salad on their shoulders and hats and a determination to inspire dread wherever they Send their weapons bristling the next time a soviet guided missile Cruiser steams into a third world port to convey its crude political message about the invincible might of the Union of soviet socialist the noise of its engines May be drowned by the sniggers of the dockside less amusing is the indication that the conventional submarine involved was with nuclear this is a surprising discovery in the soviet Baltic sea in View of a yearlong Campaign by the russians to convince the scandinavian countries to keep the Region free of nuclear it suggests that the russians have lied for it is unlikely that this submarine is armed any differently from its Fellows in the Baltic it also shows that Moscow publicly backs a nordic nuclear free zone while secretly moving enough nuclear weapons about below the surface of the Baltic to make it glow at this will affect the current debate raging in Europe about whether nato should deploy 572 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles to counter the threat of the triple War head ss20 based in the Western soviet it will not change the minds of those who want All nuclear weapons abolished but it will alter the perceptions of those who have placed some credence on soviet claims of a desire to reduce the danger of nuclear conflict in the you do not lower the risk of nuclear War by carpeting the floor of the Baltic with atomic gallery Phil Mallette the Little joke the North shortchanged the Manitoba governments silence on the real Issue of the current Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission hearings will confuse those Manitoban who when the decisions Are find themselves classified As second class it will cause others to wonder whether Premier Sterling Lyon will allow Dollar Bills to Cloud the right of Manitoban to choose their television the crts is hearing dozens of applications from individuals and organizations that want to deliver the new Canadian satellite communications can com package to residents of Remote and under serviced Manitoba it is also establishing the through its new for a policy that will allow police to the equipment that is now bringing programs to these same commune so the rash of receiving dishes aimed at satellites has been ignored because there was no Canadian Content once can com is in this argument and the full Force of the Law can be applied against those who would watch illegal the Case for isolated communities has been put before the crts by Jerry the chairman of the canadians for a real Freedom of Choice committee in flin Clarke has made it Clear that no one objects to being Able to watch the Canadian stations on the can com package even As happened at Leaf residents find the same program on All channels at the same what Clarke objects to is the implied requirement once Canadian programming is programs must be Cut he quite that canadians living in the South have licenced programming available to he says that while we All seek to promote and encourage and enhance a Strong Canadian this need not be done by depriving a Small minority of canadians of american for a it appeared that the Manitoba government supported this television Freedom of the Manitoba Telephone system installed and operated receiving and enabled Cable systems to deliver unauthorized Ameri can signals to Remote successive ministers of the Manitoba government made statements about Freedom As they effectively defied Federal efforts to shut these now that the Opportunity has presented itself for the Manitoba government to lend its weight to the concerns of its its Only concern is with Telephone the intervention filed by the government of Manitoba at the crts hearings concerns itself with Revenue and not Princi no government official turned up to support the northerners wider the Manitoba government urges the crts to recognize the value and advisability of ensuring the use of existing Cable in other the Manitoba government appears not to care what programs Are offered to its citizens As Long As the Money its Telephone system has spent is recovered by having the Federal government order its the provincial government has lost an excellent Opportunity to in its concerns about the rights of Manitoban to a Freedom of by Frank Walker special to the free press Montreal next time a parti quebecois official phones you and offers you to do something pay no he is just making a a Small he has no intention of giving you Money As for trying to bribe that is joke or it was a serious error of Jean advisor to the Quebec housing former aide to housing minister Guy and Defeated pm has admit he just should not have phoned a construction company president and suggested during an informal Chat that could be added to the pile for was Yvan la a consultant to transit a company which had been paid Over 17 months to supervise the Quebec housing corporations major repairs that company just happened to be owned by Luc a parti quebecois supporter and Friend of pre Mier Rene the same Cyr who had it is in housing corporation contracts to members of his own la touche disclosed All of this to the Liberal who in turn have been demanding a Public which in has been Busy Foisy which were As he a slip of the Tongue have thrown fuel on a fire which had been smouldering rather than Foisy has added a few other titbits to our knowledge of he has denied the minister knew anything about his he has been honest from top to which is very for his has said the Latouche affair was presented to him a hardship you Here was a Man in his fifties who was about to become he we had a Legal notice from Latouche claiming that we owed him under the terms of his contract with the whether this was so or not was unclear and he had suggested to Foisy that he try to find Latouche a Job with the company which had recruited him for the que Bec housing he saw Noth ing wrong with no humor Foisy is sick of the whole Busi angered that people could not see the humor in his Little no More important than if somebody had said to him he would like Foisy to get rid of his he is with the mileage Latouche appears to have got out of this the whole business sickens it is a year since the housing corporation Story surfaced in our local if it is a serious friends of premiers Are often Given jobs they May indeed deserve them but they should be very careful How they handle these jobs when they get nephews and nieces and uncles and and sons and Daugh ters and relatives by marriage for the Sake of appearances at be excluded from the similarly it is not always sensible to Reward party supporters and Defeated in Foisy arms length clearly should have been the even if he As he has prepared to accept the consequences of his rather Odd sense of he would rather do he tells than cast doubts in Peoples minds about the parti quebecois for years to the doubt has already been even if no wrongdoing was involved it is Clear while the parti quebecois May have had Only a relatively Short time in it has Learnt All about it May even profit from the experience and that patronage is a Chancey Okay in some areas advertising agencies and for example not Good in the construction it might also bring Home to the party the Virtues of Public that inconvenient and tedious method of ensuring relative honesty in the conduct of pub Lic How Long it will hold its place in the what with the Constitution and the supplementary is not but if there is More than one Foisy and one must Hope there is we can expect it to especially As the Liberal opposition claims there were two bribe offers jokes involved it was Levesque who once noted that the most difficult thing for a politician is to retain ones even As one loses All ones the same might be said for the poor old nonconformist detective and hero sometimes we Overlook our Home spun and one of them is Donald a de and probably a Jogger without a peer in the at he jogs 18 Miles Winter and while pushing his it does not bother Penner that people May regard him As he jogs with his Bike for he can lug his papers with and can later use it on his downtown he is an obsessive worker for he has Donald Penner to be up before 5 to make the health sciences Centre at his Selfa pointed hour of 6 Penner has been using a Bike downtown for dec Ades and if friends and colleagues fondly regard him As an it is As a gentle oddball with integrity and time for in All his pursuits As nonconformist and Penner has performed with unusual Excel he is a surgical and autopsy that Means he studies and diagnoses disease by examining tissue from surgical operations and Auto it is a grave responsibility for his diagnosis will for whether cancer is present and whether an operation should be says one admiring Winnipeg special the Best pair of eyes you can find for a a member of my family had a tumor and it was removed a i wanted Penner to look at i want going to take anyone else opinion whether it was cancer or taking out a tumor is Childs the diagnosis is where brains come in to Hes a hot people like him Are few and far the prestigious College of american pathologists so regards Penner for two weeks ago at a convention in Las vegas it honoured him with the pathologist of the year for his outstanding contribution to medi Penner is a bean pole of an Val Werier six feet weighing 158 with sturdy legs from years of he has an query ing and a genuine concern about improving the human for ten years he and an american pathologist worked to develop techniques for a computer program to evaluate the work done by Pathol it amounts to Quality control and Quality evaluation of diagnoses made by it has been operating for two years and thousands of pathologists Are voluntarily they submit slides of microscopic tis along with their and these Are reexamined by peer groups As Well As acknowledged Penner showed me a recent computer printout of a panels examination of a pathologists diagnosis of a breast tumor which had been removed by a the pathologist had decided the tumor was after examining microscopic slides of none of the panel agreed with the diagnosis the other three thought it could possibly be this find ing and examination of thousands of other slides by showed this particular breast to be a prob Lem in that it required More study and improved teaching this was recommended and so in says we Are dealing with value not As he 98 per cent of the breast tumor diagnoses Are backed up by a consensus of it is a tremendous responsibility making these Penner recalls some years ago diagnosing1 a Lump on a boys lip As being a colleague decided it was the slide was sent to five specialists two said it was three be who was right the Only Way to know is to do nothing and see what the other is to make a Deci Sion on the basis of All these Efalua another surgeon was consulted and he too agreed it was Over the years the diagnosis proved it requires a High degree of expert and exposure to the latest advances in Medicine to become supreme in this colleagues regard Penner As a great practitioner of this tissues Are examined in a magnified 30 to each tissue has its own pattern of a cell is a factory All to says with All of Intrina some cells Are Only a few thou Sands of a millimetre and we can examine to that so far the Best computer we have is our head and we come put with a value in the medical there is the safeguard of having doctors peer Over each others via peer committees in every pen Ner has been instrumental in extending it to an International and More comprehensive scale in the Field of surgical he has been about the world Many times delivering scientific wearing a red Beret easily recognizable at International at one time he sported a red says a colleague he must be color hell Wear red socks and a yellow that does not perturb he walks around in beat up runners and his As one associate has de scribed looks As if it has been the site of a material things do not mean much to he has garnered several awards for out standing contributions to the Canadian association of pathologists thought so highly of it created a prize in his vital school Board Felt the same for it has named a school after he has served on the Board for 25 Penner is also a forensic pathologist of some stature a Field dealing with the he has testified at Many murder trials on the results of his Post it helps if a pathologist is a some years ago he did a postmortem on a Man who had been hit Over the head with the unknown Blunt he noticed a Small sauce effect on the the kind left by a Ball Hammer used by he suggested police look for a Machin and sure enough one turned out to be the Penner uses his Bike downtown because he can get around faster than by in the recent one Day he cycled from the health sciences Centre to the Public safety building and then to the Law courts building where he had to testify at a his shoes and pants were splattered with mud and the trick was to walk to the witness Box showing the clean Side to the court i run and Cycle because i enjoy he it gives me thinking relaxation puts me his wife a son Brian also a doctor his daughter a professor at the University of Toronto a son Don in Are proud of they should be for Penner earnestly strives to make the world a better place Atid does achieve this in some Small Way in his work and daily ;