Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 18, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free november 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 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Victory for the nip the decisive Victory of Howard Pawley and the new democratic party in yesterdays general election was a tribute to splendid a skillful Campaign and moderate it reflects As Well four years of a conservative approach to government which effectively narrowed that party Appeal in the and to a dismal election Campaign which did nothing to there is persuasive evidence in the election result that a substantial number of Manitoban now regard the new democrats As the party of the next four years will Tell whether they can live up to that there is no questioning the decisiveness of the with 48 per cent of the popular vote and a solid majority in the Pawley can claim a Clear and untainted the immediate issues which produced that mandate Are economic stagnation Over the past four years knocked holes in the conservative argument that All that was required for growth and Prosperity was for the government to step Back and let private Enterprise do the fear of rising along with the nip Promise to restore rent undoubtedly contributed much to the powerful swing to the new democrats in Urban and suburban but there is Good reason to believe behind those immediate Lay a More fundamental question of governmental Early on in his Lyon established the impression that he was leading a harsh and unfeeling government and nothing the government did in the years that followed dispelled that All governments in the late whatever their political were faced with the need to Cut Back on the growth of their spending and to get their deficits under most managed to give the impression that cutbacks in government services were the result of painful and reluctant Lyon managed to look As if he were enjoying Pawley comes to office at a difficult the National Economy appears to be heading into a recession and Manitoba is Likely to be harder hit than most Canada is heading into a housing crisis while it May be less acute Here than it is still Likely to be the in the next few will have to Deal with a squeeze Between slow growing revenues and rising social the problem of economic which the conservative government was not Able to overcome during its term in to be coped with by the new the crucial test of the new government will be its ability to bring about the exploitation of the provinces Mineral and Hydro resources in a Way which will produce maximum Benefit to the people of the during the election the new democrats rejected the conservative approach As exemplified in the so called they rejected the proposal to let Alcan buy a share of a Power they argued that they could squeeze higher royalties out of the proposed Potash development than the conservatives proposed to take and they promised that they could bring about More Mineral and Oil exploration and development by investing Public funds in joint Manitoban who care about the economic health of their province must Hope that the new government will approach the Issue of development with More pragmatism than it showed in the election the political results of last nights vote could be profound and with three victories in four the new democrats have established themselves As the Natu ral majority party in Manitoba the liberals have virtually disappeared As a political Force on the provincial the progressives have proven they never were a the Only effect of that Short lived movement was to deprive the province of one of its most energetic and imaginative pol Sid those facts should inspire some furious rethinking among Manitoba if they want to maintain their party As an effective then they must their position As a bastion of righting con they must revise their policies and broaden their they must find a new Leader who exemplifies a More moderate political in the eyes of Many and especially those in Winnipeg and its the new democrats have now occupied most of the political Middle it remains to be seen whether they can hold it during their next four years in but the conservatives will have to reoccupy some of that Middle ground if they expect to be an effective Force four years from War on the peacemakers h is going to be difficult for the British government and responsible Community leaders to prevent a dangerous deterioration in the social climate of Northern Ireland in the Wake of the murder of a protestant a key Ira goal in carrying out the assassination was the unleashing of a new wave of hysteria and hatred in the protestant Ian the loud voiced protes Tant has reacted As if he were a puppet of the Ira propaganda his dark hint about the possible formation of protestant vigilante groups that would take the Law into their own hands is exactly the result that the Ira seeks from its terrorist he has again proved his political irresponsibility and his immense value to the men of violence i both religious there is another re Aston for the killing of the Robert he was murdered because of a recent political development that is equally repugnant to the Ira and to this was a successful meeting that took place in London Between prime minister Margaret Thatcher and Garret prime minister of the Republic of in that the two political leaders agreed to the creation of an Anglo Irish inter government it is to serve As a framework within which regular meetings can take place Between British and Irish Cabinet ministers and senior civil the purpose of such meeting Sis to seek a solution to the endless problem of Northern ire a first step will be an Effort to agree on advisory committee on social and cultural cooperation Between the two such a committee would consist not Only of government officials but also of individuals and organizations in both it is an entirely sensible and worthwhile it deserves the widest and strongest support in Britain and throughout the Island of because it implies a sane and decent approach to what has Long seemed to be an insoluble it has come under instant attack by last Paisley stentorian Bellow was heard in the House of commons denouncing Thatcher As a liar and a for taking part in the other Irish protestant maps shouted about a betrayal of their on the Ira joined the chorus of opposition to the peacemakers by carrying out yet another criminal act of less widely reported was a reprehensible piece of political Gutter tactics perpetrated by recently Defeated Irish prime minister Charles speaking in the Irish Parlia he turned his coat by denouncing the proposed Anglo Irish Council and by rejecting thatchers conciliatory remarks As in so Haughey damaged the bipartisan consensus that had existed regard ing Northern Irish questions and utterly repudiated his own policy while he was prime when lie was in Haughey ardently sought meetings with Thatcher and promoted an Anglo Irish conciliatory approach that he said was the Only Way to produce a widely acceptable solution that would it is nothing new for Defeated politicians to Curry favor with political extremists in the Hope of regaining is now trawling in a very ugly whose denizens prefer murder to democratic thatchers personal commitment to a Northern Irish solution was put in the deep freeze for a Long time after terrorists murdered her mend and designated Northern Ireland minister Airey in the Early Days of her now she seems to have got Over it and is taking the right which is to involve Dublin and Belfast in seeking a carefully crafted political to do she will have to refuse to be deflected by bombings in murders in turncoat in Dublin and belligerent political this is an Issue on which her famous single mindedness of purpose could honorable be Freedom for to dishes Federal communications minister Francis Fox has Indi through an that he plans to reverse the policy that requires individual canadians to obtain govern ment permission to operate a satellite receiving a year Fox said that such a change would bankrupt the Canadian broadcasting it would be encouraging if the new policy reflected a on the part of the Canadian to guarantee canadians the right to watch whatever they unfortunately there is no such High principle involved in Fox change of it regulations Are about to be changed because the government can find no reasonable Short of acting like a police to enforce the regulations As they the change will get the obvious support of the hundreds of individually or in who have already decided to ignore existing regulations by installing their own receiver in initially at is the Canadian Cable television Michael has been Quick to Point out that association members the Cable companies will put at a disadvantage if individuals Are allowed to own and operate Hindemith and the Cable companies Are fighting the Battle on the wrong rather than attempting to keep dish ownership the Cable companies would be better to argue for a genuine open skies one that would permit individuals and companies alike to receive what is Fox and Hindemith seem to have Little Faith in canadians and their interest in Canadian both men seem to fear if other television fare is canadians will flock to leaving Canadian programs this is not necessarily Canadian television is a mature if regulations Are stripped away from Hindemith and Many others who appear to think that it can survive Only in a Hothouse atmosphere May be Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller editorials a grim place for a hearing it was a strange setting for a located within the Walls of Stony Mountain a bastion of Stone on a Rise commanding the Here in a narrow Walls White and contain ing a Brown boardroom table and ten easy the National parole Board was in it is not a court in the accepted sense and officials will deny it has any such absolute discretion but it has absolute discretion to decide whether prisoners will spend part of their sentence in the commune in that regard it acts As a it has the authority to free a person from parole allows prisoners to continue serving their sentences in the Community under varying degrees of a prisoner is eligible for parole after having completed a third of his or seven which Ever is the i had been invited to sit in on a session of the parole Board consisting of two members of the Prairie regional office in Regina Dennis a former Deputy chief of police of re and Ken a former parole the first Case concerned like All he was dressed in the drab Green clothing and had the pallor of the he looked for the hearing was to Deal with a suspension of his Joe is has a record going Back to including breaking and theft and he had been sentenced to 29 months in prison and after a year had been transferred to a Halfway House in a condition of his parole was to work at his Job As a and observe the curfew he broke the curfew three times the first for seven teen and on half hours when he stayed with his common Law wife the second time he was away for 12 hours the for two Days until he was picked up by he was a Good worker and was earning More than an present was an institutional and a parole who said that Joe had a lot of potential but could not handle the supervision some of this background was discussed prior to the appearance of Joe and his Heather since May of this permission has been Given to inmates to have an assistant present at these and he or she can be a family or Pullan wanted reports on Joe prepared by the staff but Howland said there was no requirement to pro Val Werier vide an Issue that is before the fairness demands we be privy to the said she has a valid Point person whose Case is under consideration should hear All the in this particular Case it would have added it was Cut and there was no question Joe had violated his parole on three different of his own Joe had made a condition of his parole that he not associate with a motorcycle he admitted too i have a i cannot manage the Issue before the Board was whether to period he would be eligible for full it did and that meant Joe would spend four and on half More months in in Stead of being out in the Community under some rules i wondered if there was some other Way of handling and Howland replied if he had turned himself in the third i would not have revoked his one must have some and Joe broke Here he was a productive proficient at his work and making a month it does society no Good to return him to the pen at a Cost of a i do not have the answer but there must be some better Way than a Solu Tion which is one would be to have him make restitution to the victim of his my vote would have been to Grant him full parole with the Hope he would go Back to instead of living on the Public Joe is not a dangerous he will not be a better citizen for remaining behind d d d d John is de scribed As a difficult person in the highly not the most like Able he has a record dating Back to including assault and he had been reluctantly granted Day parole after he had made an impassioned plea to take a course at red River Community he was to return every Day by bus to the socializing was and that was a Tough Rule to follow since his a and their two Chil Dren had come to the temptation was too he had a couple of hours to kill before the bus returned to the and naturally he went to visit his nothing turned out he used his wife was caught and because he had been suspended from showed police the License of a that was the wrong thing to for a computer Check showed the Friend had been suspended bottle of Gin in another he brought a bottle of Gin Back to the farm Annex of Stony Mountain the Board decided not to revoke his full Only to terminate his Day spoke up that a look at your advised where do you honestly think you Are going its something i will look at in the next few John there was a Frank discussion with suggesting he could do Well if he so these were two of the cases at the lawyers maintain that the preliminary discussion held prior to the appearance of the prisoners be made part of the they say these should not be held in private and that the prisoner should hear All the this Issue is before the Federal Howland says that prior discus Sions Are mainly to familiarize them selves with the there May be information obtained on the Promise of and it contrary to the human rights act to reveal such revelation could be dangerous to people like including there was nothing of such nature in the session i Howland says the hearings Are not an adversary process As in courts of and so he believes it is better for an inmate to be represented by someone who really knows him and could testify As to any change in his that May be but a lawyer can come in mighty Handy in any As for the Howland and i was impressed with their fairness and con Cern about the individual and first of two articles historical facts i was interested and pleased to read the article old Stone Church getting a free november 7 delineating the plans to repair old Andrews Church on the red River i was surprised to read a reference in the article stating built under the supervision of Cockran his tory Doest indicate if that was the mans first or last if you will refer to red by old Andrews on the red published in 1871 and republished in 1977 104 will read in 1825 the reverend Wil Liam Cockran reached the red River and on Page speaking of grand rapids on the red it states in Cockran shifted his abode to the place and commenced the erection of a parsonage and missionary establishment for the Church Mission Ary it states mainly through the instrumentality of the who superintended every detail of the work from the management of the subscription lists to the quarrying of the Stone and the construction of the the finest and most substantial of the protestant churches of the Colony was finished in Cockran at that time was Archdeacon William the late in his history of also gives credit to the William Cockran for building Andrews Church at grand rapids on the red red by is available in the Book departments of the Bay and my a letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Issue clouded with regard to Gordon Sinclair column ant porn or Antigen free october 30 which dealt with the National film boards new production not a love Story Sinclair obvious confusion re Garding the issues involved in pornography and feminism leaves readers with the false impression that men were being persecuted during the Dis Cussion period at the University of Winnipeg showing on october one of the feminist Points sin Clair ridicules is that men must get together to explore the male value system and male role inherent in por if women Are they quite naturally and correctly complain about and this causes most men to react in a defensive Sinclair defensive reaction is a Case in he is so concerned about being seen As part of the problem represented by pornography that Nei ther in the discussion nor in his column has he Given it any serious in keeping with the Masc list or Warrior ethic that the Best defence is he has ridiculed and not the but the people who disagree with i served As Moderator of the and would Point out that there were a healthy number of men who spoke movingly about their positive reactions to the film land to what the feminist panel was Sinclair was the Only person i recall who reacted with that the film not a love Story has something of importance to say to us All is attested to by the thousands who turned out to see and by the genuine search for enlightenment that occurred in the discussion Leslie Campbell Winnipeg 1 monopolies with regard to the letter by James Teller overpriced free october Teller wonders Why building lots in Canadian cities Are higher in Price than comparable lots in the United the reason is in Winnipeg for three or four big land development companies own most of the land adjacent to the they have a monopoly and just put land on the Market As it is they can get together and set whatever Price they like for they also do most of the partly through subcontract so they can charge what they please for a the government should break up these either by direct order or tax policies that would break them i have a Nephew in Calgary who says that four or five big developers own most of the land adjacent to that City and do most of the some Are the same companies that control Winnipeg one company controls most of the red mix Concrete business Winnipeg to the people who control these Mono polies usually Are the ones who talk the loudest about the Virtues of the freemen Temprise to fool the Public and with considerable the United states has Strong anti Trust Laws to prevent monopoly control but the Canadian government is so absorbed in pushing bilingualism and metric conversion on to us that every thing else is of secondary Macpherson Winnipeg this is your Captain ;