Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 8, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free december 1982 Ibi Iii i ii i i i i Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Equality of civil rights Liberty of religion published six Days a week at 300 Canton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 943933 Winnipeg free press 1872 Winnipeg Tribune 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller improving North Portage at least million is available from the Core area initiative for improving buildings and Public services and helping put up new ones in the District that still goes by the name North of the managers of the Cai Are working up a set of proposals on How that District should be that if it is could become the mandate of the North of Portage development Corpora Tion provided for in the 1981 Core area but the North of Portage District will need a great Deal More besides a strategy prepared by the Money dispensed by them and a development corporation created by it will among other a Community identity and a neighbourhood organization that Speaks for the it will need agreed physical limits and a Label to describe itself a human habitation and a the cais North of Portage starts at the North sidewalk of Portage almost All of the million spent already on the North of Portage program out of a total million budgeted in the 1981 agreement has gone to buying and Clearing land for the air Canada building and the associated Extension of Central Park South to but Are the businesses Between Portage and Ellice parts of the real North of Portage of the group of mutually interdependent residents and businesses that occupy most of the District Are the Marlborough hotel and the University of Winnipeg and the health sciences Centre members of that Community will air Canada be a member of it is the Canadian broadcasting corporation a member of it As owner of the still vacant Pauls College site the people who live or do business around the existing Central Park and on the streets from notre Dame to Logan from about Princess to Isabel surely Are members of but Only with the advice of Community development experts working for can say for sure How big their Community is or should who is part of it and who is not and How big an area should be bitten if the area chosen is too it will not correspond to a True social and economic Community and will risk becoming a Prettie Dup Island in a sea of Urban if it is too the available dollars May be spread so thinly As to have no discernible the scaling Down of the Logan Industrial if it is approved by the City will make an additional and perhaps a further available for the North of Portage Cai funds for housing and for Community facilities and Community services Are also available for projects in that so that the total funds available for North of Portage efforts May exceed million the preparation of a redevelopment strategy and the creation of a development corporation should probably go hand in the development corporation should be controlled by the Community whoever that turns out to be should be free to revise the strategy As it goes As opportunities arise and in accordance with the experience and the wishes of the people who make up the one of the lessons of Logan is that a redevelopment plan written by the experts and imposed upon a neighbourhood can be derailed by a vigorous neighbourhood defence Organiza a better and More feasible strategy is Likely to result from finding the Community leaders giving them the Opportunity to find each other and to define where their Community their interests Fie and negotiating with them a redevelopment plan that satisfies both their requirements and the broader Public interest in increasing the resident population of the Core area and improving its physical appearance and its economic and political support for Clark it is Safe to assume that Brian Mulroney political ambitions Are no and his regard for Joe Clark As National Leader of the conservative party no today than they were last on that it is Safe to assume that Mulroney made his declaration of support for Clark on monday not because he now thinks Clark is a better Leader than he would be but because he thinks that a Challenge to Clarks leadership at the party National convention next month would in its is the strongest end oration Clark could the conservative party is full of people who think Clark is a Nice fellow who tries hard to be a Good but that he lacks the political skill and toughness needed to win an Mulroney decision to step out of Contention for the leadership at the moment is testimony to the fact that Clarks skill and toughness have been greater than his enemies in the party All indications now Are that the Leader will come out of the Winnipeg convention in better shape than he emerged from the party last meeting in where 30 per cent of delegates voted in favor of a review of the he will do so because and those who support have been working hard at the grass roots ensuring that the delegates who will be sent to the convention Are on his Many of those in their secret still think that the party would have a better Chance in the next election with someone else at the Are Likely to keep their thoughts to themselves in Winnipeg because they recognize that a vote against Clark would Hurt the party without guaranteeing it a More effective Clark won the leadership of the conservative party not because a majority of delegates thought he was the Best candidate but because different groups of delegates thought he was better than one or another of the he is Likely to retain the leadership because his opponents will not be Able to unite behind an alternative at at this stage of the various potential alternatives will remain in the under Premier William Davis of Ontario May cherish a desire to move to the Federal though Many Western conservatives will find it Kard to forgive his Alliance with prime minister Trudeau on the Premier Peter Lougheed of having won everything it is possible to win in May now be nursing Federal but his highly parochial perspectives May worry conservatives from other parts of now Content to bide his has certainly not abandoned his John Crosbie obviously still has visions of himself As prime but he has probably talked himself out of serious so Long As Pierre Trudeau remains at the head of the Liberal party and the conservatives remain Well ahead in the National those ambitions Are Likely to remain under if the liberals do choose a new and if the Choice brings them up sharply in the then challenges to Clark Are Likely to revive in the for the Clark appears to have achieved two significant successes which will Benefit not Only him but the he has stilled the squabbling Over the leadership and he has preserved the party moderate image against factions which would like to turn it into an expression of discredited neoconservative saving the festival festival do Voyageur used to be fun when it was an annual bout of outdoor Community arts and crafts and general Good defying the gloom of affirming the Pride of the franc Manitoban Community and raising the spirits of the but progressively in recent years the festival has become the front for a gambling it is Worth but Only if it can extricate itself from the tentacles of the Casino the theory at first was that a Casino would help raise Revenue to finance the other activities of the then the organization bought and refitted a with the help of a soft loan from the City of the building would House the the proceeds from the gambling would repay the financing of the the activities of the festival became More or less incidental but had to be maintained to preserve the polite fiction that gambling is permitted Only As a fundraising technique for worthy nonprofit Community As it turned the building was not used for the festivals Casino and the revenues have not been sufficient to cover the in their work for the festival general manager Gerald Turenne and newly appointed president Leo Veillet Are running an organization which is in financial difficulty because its venture into real estate and whatever interest it May have has not benefited the in their concurrent capacities As owner and Legal counsel of Community Casino which conducts casinos for nonprofit groups wishing to raise they appear to be doing much casinos and lotteries Are a predatory preying on the Hopes and dreams of people who have Little Chance of achieving material Success in the Ordinary Way but for a Small can buy the Chance to dream of striking it they Are a fundamentally dishonest business since the payoff Falls far Short of the take the difference Between take and payoff goes to rent for the salaries for the profit for the Casino management profit for the Casino equipment firm and other such any surplus is available to the nonprofit organization whose fundraising needs provide Thel Ormal pretext for conducting the if festival do Voyageur is willing to sever All its links with the gambling Industry and put its affairs in the provincial and municipal governments should pro vide the Money and technical assistance that will allow it to do so and to restore the annual festival As an event Manitoba can be proud if the organization is not willing to Reform itself in that they should prepare to pull the plug Call in the turn off the Grants and withhold the gambling since the general manager contends that the organization is solvent at the the move should be made while the assets Are still Urban renewal our anachronistic courts Paul former head of the Quebec has said that if one trans planted a lawyer from the 17th Century into a present Day he would not feel out lawyers and judges Wear the same Robes and cite authorities of a previous just As they did 300 years judge George Lockwood and other jurists in Manitoba agree that ceremonial anachronisms and quaint titles should be discarded to make the courts More human and comprehensible to the the courts must be maintained As institutions of integrity and in their customs and special they can be intimidating and forbidding to a person on the accused is placed in a the judge is elevated on a and appellations Are used that Are Remote from modern decorum decorum is says a senior judge but it is More important to place the accused and witnesses at you dont get at the truth by it bothers me that such precepts Are not being considered in the plans for the new court he would rather Experiment with relaxed atmosphere where the judge and the accused would sit at the same he recalls that he once acted on labor arbitration cases an the participants sat around a table on Comfort Able it didst diminish the importance of the process or of getting the evidence and the he the Legal profession traditionally is conservative and so mystifying Lan Guage and procedures still exist in the normally judges do not com ment off the Bench on such matters or on the affairs of but fortunately such expression bursts Forth with great Candor and vigor at seminars and so it was at the recent conference sponsored by the Manitoba Law school on Law in a cynical it is a danger of the profession that judges May become pompous or cynic and so it is refreshing to hear judge Robert Kopstein suggest that Val Werier judges and miscreants May have characteristics in he quotes Roderick a British Columbia who observed in 1974 for the Post crime is a sad Little less than almost never villain and the people who come into court Are hard up or sex starved or but almost never i have been All these things v in the same judge Lockwood quotes Shakespeare King Lear see How Pond Justice rails upon Pond Sim ple hark in thine ear change which is the which is the thief what judge Lockwood is saying is that judges Are some some some they on the men and women of fairly average capabilities and rightly he they Are Ordinary men and judging other Ordinary men and and their claims against each Cornerstone the courts Are a Cornerstone of our democratic and this is not under Many do feel that the system of the different courts is confusing and the Manitoba Law Reform in a report released last recommended the amalgamation of Queens Bench and county because of great overlapping jurisdiction and other this recommendation has been accepted by the As has been noted in the throne the Union will simplify the court system As the commission will overcome the almost unavoidable perception that one is inferior in status to the and the unfortunate and inescapable inference that the Quality of jus Tice received by the litigants in the one court is inferior to that available in the other the titles of Honor in the courts Are also being questioned and judge lock Wood particularly Points to the Appel lation your lordship used for judges in Queens Bench and Appeal it is indeed somewhat absurd to address a Canadian judge As my this is what Bora Laskin said before he became chief Justice of the supreme court of Canada it May strike As it strikes to be pretentious for Canadian which rejects titles of Honor in the formal gift of the British that any class of judges should be addressed As my More elaborate judge Lockwood also questions the court once uniform simple Black gowns a More recent development has been to introduce a More elaborate form of thus in Manitoba court of Queens the attire is More like a woman zipped All the Way up the front and worn with a red Sash and White the other courts have become More thus in provincial the judges gowns have Scarlet facings and a scar let Collar in county purple facing and purple this is the sort of distinction that would partly disappear in the proposed merger of the two there is a sentiment to introduce More human elements to the sister Geraldine of Mossbrook a lawyer said judges should use their enormous Power with humility and the person Likely to appear in court is a Young of poorer circumstances and of native she spoke of the Sage Solomon who asked for a discerning an understanding that precedent remains said sister we tamper with it at great Cost to the judges in the audience heartily applauded her Rob in top ten some concern has been expressed in your readers forum regarding the reception Given the Royal Winnipeg Ballet by London critics during its performances there in As an accredited member of the dance critics association and one who has attended performances Given by most of the great dance companies of Rob London tour the including the soviet unions Bolshoi and kirov London Royal the London festival bal the Royal danish the new York City american Ballet the atre and the National Ballet of i can assure Rob fans that the company rates among the ten top companies of the because of financial the 25member Royal Winni Peg Ballet is unable to perform the great classics such As the sleeping Swan Lake and which require casts of from 80 to 100 it is necessary for it to commission ballets by contemporary choreographers and talented choreographers Are a rare it was the Quality of some of these ballets that was questioned by most of the London these critics did Praise the Quality of the dancing and the technical abilities of the and the same standards were set As in their assess ment of world famous it would appear that the Rob professional program is producing very talented and from it will emerge other Evelyn Harts and David Pere Grines to show the rest of the world that we in Winnipeg have a to ranking further if proof is will be Given during the Christmas season when the company will be performing the classic Ballet Casimir Carter Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to odious caricature in its Issue of november la a newspaper representing the franc Manitoban published a caricature depicting Henry Morgentaler As a jewish Butcher with pointed ears in an environment resembling an extermination scamp the car Toon was titled an odor of Auschwitz in the behind the Butcher could be four garbage cans filled with the which was in poor taste to begin has proven to be particularly offensive to the jewish Community in Winnipeg for two the features used to depict Morgentaler coincide exactly with those employed by German cartoonists Dur ing the 1930s and 1940s to depict As Well As by certain soviet Antisemitic the link Between abortion and the holocaust which the cartoonist tried to establish is particularly odious to the jewish Community for obvious As the Winnipeg jewish Community Council stated on december the holocaust was unique in its Pur pose w the extermination of a people out of sheer hatred in its methodology the dehumanization and the sys bureaucratic at tempt to exterminate a whole people and in its extent the murder of six million the editor of la in an interview quoted in the free press december assumed full responsibility for publication of the As he his attempt to describe the caricature As making no specific and As being Ca Pable of being interpreted any Way the Reader indicates his profound ignorance of the effect the publication of the caricature has had on the jewish especially because of the traumatic nature of the holocaust it and indicates As Well his Igno Rance of the very elements which Ren Der the caricature regardless of the reasons which motivated the publication of this odious it is important that la liberte apologize formally to the jew ish Community for having done it would no doubt also be greatly appreciated by the jewish Community of Manitoba if the society Franco owner of the dissociated itself formally and publicly from la liberte in this whole and indicated clearly that the French speaking Community of Manitoba abhors antisemitism in All its forms and will do everything in its Power to combat wherever it May be we believe that these measures Are necessary to ensure that the excellent relations that have prevailed for dec Ades Between the jewish and Franco Mart Toban communities not be Threa and that the jewish Community of Winnipeg rest assured that antisemitism is virtually nonexistent in the franc Manitoban Jeanmarc Fontan Raymond Hebert Francois Lafortune Gilles Lortie Denis Roch members of the faculty College Universita ire de Saint Boniface Winnipeg beyond duty i would like to express my and that of my to the Fine nursing staff of the third Victoria general while my now was a patient the nurses not Only gave him expert professional care but the Loving care extended to him and the members of his family was this duty care towards the sick leaves a lasting thank you Joan Mcleod Winnipeg positive approach i wish to compliment the department of health for initiating the time to quit it seems to be a Posi Tive approach to help people quit my is that this program is geared towards the but it does not help the preteen age child who wishes to quit smoking but is too embarrassed to use this Nazeer Baksh Winnipeg what did you do with the Quarter i gave you last week 4 i i i ;