Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free May 1985 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council m a bad time for a fight the government of Manitoba has picked one of the worst possible times to get into a protracted argument wit i Ottawa Over subsidies to sugar beet although the dispute May Well be settled before any real damage to this years crop is the argument has put 450 Manitoba Farmers through an unnecessary period of Premier Howard Hawleys attempt to debate the Access opposition members have to the Federal arguments in the subsidy negotiations is Only sidestep Ping the real Canadian sugar beet Farmers Are caught in a world Price Farmers in Manitoba and Alberta cannot produce sugar at a Price that can compete with that produced elsewhere in the world and imported into this the world sugar Supply varies widely depending on the availability of cheap growing conditions and effective marketing some countries Are quite willing to dump their sugar especially when faced by a growing trend in the More developed countries away from sugar and toward other sweetening in the Long Canada will have to decide what is the real value of this country sugar production Indus this decision could result in abandoning the Indus or maintaining it at a level which will give some Protection against the variations to be found in the world in the current the Federal government appears to be making the right move by offering to provide subsidies for a year while the larger problem can be sorted in it would be unfair to Tell 450 Farmers whose equipment is geared to the production of sugar beets at the very time they should be putting their crop into the they will have no reasonable expectation of harvesting at a Price which will meet their costs and provide them with a this is the very threat the provincial govern ment is holding Over their the province appears to be saying unless the Federal government is willing to institutionalize sugar write support programs in and give an ironclad guarantee that this is the Only year such support will require assistance from provincial Manitoba will not participate by Matching the million Ottawa is prepared to pay to Manitoba Farmers the suggestion that Canadian agriculture be further drawn under the umbrella of government control by installing the sugar beet producers in the position of having their Industry preserved regardless of con sumption of their and regardless of the availability of that product elsewhere in the represents too Complex a problem to be solved while every Day of Sunshine adds pressure on the decision this problem requires More the solution to the immediate problem is at Ottawa has agreed to Supply up to million in sugar beet subsidies this provided that the provinces involved match the this would ease the anxiety that is facing those who up to now have made their living growing sugar the very debate the Issue should serve As a warning Flag that sugar beets May have a limited future As a Canadian Cash if the Cropis forced out by changing diets or by world those engaged in the Industry need and deserve a period of adjustment during which they can switch to other agricultural what is not needed at the and what the provincial government has appeared to have As its is an ironclad guarantee for a National sugar policy financed entirely by the Federal judging Enesco if we focus our attention briefly on the third take Baffin Island for the question of whether Canada should continue to belong to the United nations scientific and cultural organization will become a Little clearer after this months meeting in Paris of its executive the composed of representatives of about on third of the 161 countries that belong to will examine the performance of the Agency Secretary especially its wilful Amadou Mah tar it will hear what he is doing to formulate a realistic response to the crisis caused by withdraw Al and the consequent loss of 25 per cent of Une cos million annual it will get an idea of whether urgently needed reforms Are liable to get through the fall meeting in of the entire Enesco an event that takes place every two one position on How Canada should Deal with this poorly run Agency was very ably put last week in Ottawa by Stephen Canadas in Lewis delivered a remarkably Frank address to the Canadian Council for Enesco in which he confessed to being a Little impatient with Enesco a Little but urged that this country work like the Devil from within to achieve reforms and get the Agency Back to the work it originally was set up to his irritation was based on the sensible concern that Une cos eccentricities could damage the reputation of very Well run in the most depressing example of the accuracy of his concern is the resistance being found by fundraisers for Unicof because mud dle headed members of the Public think that Unicof is the Agency wasting so much Lewis correctly portrayed Enesco under Bow As having developed a bureaucracy which is a Little some say grandiose even by in and Bow himself As someone who exhibits occasional paroxysms of incipient his Plain talk May not have been completely Welcome where he was but he did a service by saying aloud what career diplomats cannot the Canadian commission for Enesco spends one million Canadian tax dollars a year to supervise this country participation in Enesco activities and it concentrates All those who Benefit from Enesco spend ing it gets its Money through the Canada of which it is a this million dollars is separate from the million that Canada sends annually to Paris to pay for perhaps because he was talking to what amounts to the Enesco lobby in Lewis went so far As to say that Canada has no intention of leaving this is not True and should not be Canadas membership in Enesco has been under review for some time and publicly since last october when Exter Nal affairs minister Joe Clark sent an excellent letter to Bow calling for Reform and intimating the possibility of a Canadian the decision can be made Only after seeing whether his secretariat and other Enesco Mem Bers pay heed to Canadas detailed which were communicated last summer in a Long letter to Bow from Demontigny then Deputy minis Ter for foreign policy at external this months Board meeting and the fall Sofia meeting will be crucial to the assessment of whether Canadas legitimate goals Are being seriously considered and whether there is a genuine timetable within which they will be if the evidence is that virtually nothing is being done or going to be then the government of Canada will have no alternative but to give up on a fruitless Effort to Reform from within and will have to apply its final Sanction oneyear notice to quit the attraction of arcades questions about the Premier the result of the by election this week in new Brunswick Riverview Riding is certain to cause some serious thinking among the provinces the by election provides some persuasive evidence that stonewalling and unsubstantiated charges against others will not be enough to silence Public concern about the personal conduct of Premier Richard for a it might have appeared that the premiers strategy was he carried on his business As if nothing had he refused All comment about his acquittal on a charge of Possession of marijuana or statements from students who claimed he provided them with except to level vague and unsubstantiated charges that the ramp was out to get the provincial tory which was making some alarmed noises at the time the Issue blew had grown quiescent Over there was reason to Hope that the matter had blown that Hope was pretty Well shattered by the in a Riding which had been conservative for More than 30 the tory vote was Cut to less than half of what it had been in the general the winning Liberal candidate almost doubled his party there Are Many reasons Why governments lose Bielec but candidates for both parties agreed after this one that Hatfield was the if not the the message will not be lost on the conservative it has a right to demand of the Premier a Fuller explanation of his recent statements and failure to provide that explanation could threaten the future of hat Fields successful and often worthwhile political it was years ago that Liban a greek had this com ment on the town of the capital of where he was born people in other cities who have no colonnades in front of their houses Are kept apart by bad weather nominally they live in the same but in fact they Are Remote from each other As if they lived in different protected lib Anius was extolling the Virtues of covered sidewalks and pedestrians were protected by a roof Over the a system widely adopted in ancient in some most streets were lined with continuous reshaping Winter a Book edited by Norman and published by the liveable Winter City deals with such strategies for making Urban centres More Lively and aside from their intrinsic galleria and arcades keep the Street vigorous and inter encouraging activities be cause of the comfortable Environ the grand galleria of Milan contained restau luxury printers and other Back in the 16th the arcades began to lose favor because of two reasons no longer says Hans distinguished planner and one was that the heavy columns would serve As hid ing places for the other was that they would deprive window displays of the same sort of backward argument advanced by some Portage Avenue merchants when they objected to the introduction of Trees on the the Trees have proved to be the nicest feature on the arcades Are an extremely attractive particularly for subject to extremes of Blumenfeld maintains that the sidewalks can be com Val Werier portable with Radiant heating at modest capital and operating there is no writes Blumenfeld of Canadian Why arcades should not line every continuously buildup in recent the trend has been to place pedestrians above ground in second Storey connections Between buildings or in underground sys this has been done to escape the brutal Winter a commendable in this process it overlooks the vital element of City life the the vibrant City is a pedestrian City where there is a lot of action on the examine what has happened with Portage and considered by some to be the most renowned inter Section in the pedestrians have been prohibited from crossing the Corner and the shops and stores placed at Street it is a lifeless it is an example of How to kill a Virtues on the other recognizes the great Virtues of the Street in its Urban design in the downtown arcades and retail uses Are mandatory at Grade the City also discourages developers from going under underground once excluded Are now calculated in the density allowed on a any underground development must be considered As part of the allowable says Stephen Toron to architect and commissioner of planning cities Are measured by the character of their institutions and the Street is the most underrated of it is one of the most one of the contributors to reshaping Winter cities is Eberhard Toronto architect who de signed the Large and successful Eaton which draws people a he candidly admits it is a grand giant Cash one of the most successful in the it is a galleria of shops and restau a Street within a but it is tied in with the As Zeidler and that is one of the important elements in the in my it is still too inward in and too opens to City writes Zeidler it is not Only enclosed within but opens to the City around there Are 30 store entrances on Yonge Street this is one of the most important warnings i want to make a City will Wither if we kill All life in her if we take the Joy out of using the if we make them Only transportation corridors to get in the end the City will Blumenfeld writes in Many of the old the direction of the their length and curvature have been carefully and successfully designed to break Strong As Well As to admit Cooling breezes in this is difficult to achieve in streets which have to serve fast vehicular Moven fonts which necessitate Long sight lines and substantial Winnipeg has created interesting Street scapes in the old Market Square area with the use of attractive interlocking Trees and creative islands of Bui the Overall design of City streets is based primarily on the the City has the Opportunity to make the streets come alive in the development on North Portage ave colder than Moscow or deserves some Spe Cial treatment for pedestrians in the form of arcades or no shame William Hay has voiced a legitimate concern in the article school name change urged april 24 regarding Vincent masses Antisemitic Atti i can relate to Hays Surprise at being made aware of masses attitude towards jews Al though i do not believe that canadians Are about to begin naming schools after Adolf i am particularly offended at the apparent suggestion by a member of the academic Community that we need not be too concerned about masses attitude since it did not go against the Grain of the Canadian the reality that the Cana Dian psyche was in fact somewhat Antisemitic is something we must come to grips while it May be convenient and comforting to blame the nazis for the it is also inaccurate Many nations played a though and to ignore that reality dooms them to repeat while i do not perceive any need for canadians or others to Wallow in guilt or self flagellate us infiniti in it is important to recognize the truth As the truth and not attempt to hide or minimize masses behaviour was Antisemitic As perhaps was Mackenzie neither can be excused As merely being a part of the Canadian psyche or reflecting the spirit of the that we Are Able to accept masses behaviour As and let us also accept that he accomplished Many great Massey for the greater part of his life did in fact Rise above the spirit of the times and there is no shame in our having named a school after Quesnel department of psychology University of Manitoba Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to All equal Vincent Massey in Section 15 of the charter of rights and freedoms it states that we Are All to be equal and to suffer no if this is then How can the government say that French is one of two official languages this is outright discrimination of other ethnic groups and should be English should be the Only official lets live up to the charter of Johnson Winnipeg Urban sprawl Urban sprawl results when established parts of a City Are abandoned in favor of new development in the recent provincial govern ments have attempted to curb this unfortunately this policy is not filtering Down to some of the school divisions and municipal and for the provincial government is attempting to restrict suburban development South of Warde Avenue in but the request has been ignored and build ing in typical fashion the local school division is again Rushing to build As Many and As big schools As it is reasonable that elementary schools be built in new but this acting completely against provincial Urban has requested a mini Junior High Addi Tion to a recently built school and is also requesting a combined Elemen tary and Junior High facility South of Warde ironically there is space All Over the division in existing Junior High which Are being converted into administrative facilities or rented out for Ballet classes or what in other Junior High students Are bused to Howe the superintendent argues that local taxpayers would have to pay for busing but that new schools and additions Are paid for by the prov the Cost of busing these Stu dents would add now and eventually to the existing annual busing Bill of at present incurred by the it is to be hoped during this period of the provincial government will take a Strong stand and put an end to Urban sprawl being fostered by the extravagant building plans of this school Hutton Winnipeg an alternative after Reading Lionel Orl Kows article identity crisis in schools free april 16 i find it a bitter Sweet Relief to finally see it stated that the basis of the present school system was an attempt to promote a unitary provincial society bound by common purposes and i was one of Many disillusioned parents who thought that i was sending my children to school to receive an academic i did not realize my purpose for sending them should have been to get them to conform to peer values through behaviour modification if the present Public school sys tems main purpose cannot be Modi fied to teach our children academic then the Only alternative for responsible parents and taxpayers to take would be to lobby our govern ment to promote funding and tax Breaks for alternative schooling Pat Wilchowyj the unfounded everything i have heard about Henry Krahn suggests he is a Good and efficient Howe his penchant for unfounded and misleading statements was again evident in his letter hospitals need to be run with More efficiency free april Krahn ran for Public and i congratulate him for his Initia if he was serious in his bid for a seat in the i wonder Why he feels politicians have ulterior motives and should not be and Why he thinks he can say any thing he likes about them is he in effect indicating if he had been he would have ulterior motives and would not expect some respect Krahn states i recently suggested we should deny open heart surgery to patients beyond a certain age that certainly is not what i was saying was that techno logical advances bring with them various problems not the least of which is and that some difficult decisions have to be made to resolve these i have repeatedly said i do not have All the and we Are involving Many others in trying to get the the reference to open heart surgery was Given simply As one example of should we do this or do we do that i want to make it very Clear to Krahn that i have never said we were proposing to charge Hospital patients for the food they eat or that it was even an option i was actively As i stated in a Previ Ous letter to the free the possibility of such a charge was raised during an interview Maureen Brosnahan had with at that i merely mused aloud that food was an expense people would have if they were at Home instead of in a Hospital taken in that charging Hospital patients for food might not necessarily be considered the same As a user the general Tenor of All Rahns letters to the editor is his unfounded allegations of inefficiency in the management of hospitals and underfunding of institutional and medical he tends to exam and i am sure the boards and administrators of hospitals have made him aware of the unfairness of his he also seems to favor the inequality of the hos Pital under which the upper Echelon receives better desjard1ns minister of health Winnipeg Okay lets Call it a loan at one above i i ;