Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of pm rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton r3c 3c1 by Canadian company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John Dafoe edit Mal a Flat editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member Eif the Manitoba pass Council editorials the empty Institute torn the Federal a looked forlorn and lonely at his Friday Pep filly Tot the manufacturing Teneha ology hit theme was enthusiasm of Manitoba a Adenia and govern ment to join in conceiving living programs within the five Storey womb which is netting completion at Ellice and but the private and provincial govern ment participants were nowhere to be acad Etnia was present in the person of Dean of applied science at the University of British who wit work out for Siddon the financial and programming basis of the Sid Doft is on a Hook and Dean Wedepohl Job is to get him off the last authoritative word from finance minister Michael Wilson is that the Federal government will not pay the operating costs of the the Pawley government is quite definite that it will not pay for the Federal governments if Siddon cannot scare up financing he must either sell the building or else preside Over an empty which will be a constant reminder to Winn speggers of the Mulroney governments View of their the physical expression of a policy Siddon has been hard at work since the end of november trying to find people to take the annual expense of the Institute off his the appointment of Dean Wedepohl with a december deadline for his report indicates that five months have not been time enough to pull together a group of Siddon indicated yesterday that the National research Council on second be Able to assume a significant pan of the annual con to Start Dean Wedepohl is directed to work out a Way for the Institute to achieve Selff Inanc ing within five Siddon is bargaining and it sounded As though tie just raised his the formal stance of the government remains the line in november economic statement cancel Ling Federal participation in the operating Cost of the but that statement covered the current fiscal which will lie nearly Over by the time Dean Wedepohl makes his final the government can contribute to the costs in future in tandem with Industry and perhaps with the without directly contradicting Hie Siddo Wedepohl Institute can be passed off As something wholly new and totally different from the Trudeau Axworthy the minister is already dropping manufacturing technology the liberals name for the and referring generally to science place the seen Tiff Industrial Complex which like Axworthy before envisions blossoming on the available land around Ellice and no More was heard from Siddon about the wasteful and mindless duplication of research there was no further suggestion that the building might be put to other the minister has the building and he clearly Means to hang onto it and make the Best of his repeated and resounding assertions of Confidence in the availability of private and provincial partners matched his growing need to find a time to do nothing instead of waiting timorous by to see what other countries Are going to do about the Trade embargo on external affairs minister Joe Clark should be saying that this country will do no action is required from which trades with Nicaragua and will continue to do As it did with Cuba after the United states government imposed a Trade embargo that is still in president Ronald Reagan is free to impose his Canada is free to ignore there Are no Canadian reasons to do some notably Liberal my Charles want Canada to get very excited about reagans in a hearing of the House of commons standing committee on external affairs and National Caccia suggested that Canada express disapproval by raising the embargo Issue at the United nations in new he also urged that the government of Canada put pressure on Canadian businessmen to expand their Trade with Nicaragua Clark did not pay much attention to ill considered Nicaragua itself raised the embargo in the an obvious step to everyone but were Canada to have made the kind of sanctimonious intervention the result would not have helped which was doing Fine on its but it would have enraged the Reagan administration and Hurt Canadas National interests Maccias talk of pushing Canadian businessmen to expand their Trade with Nicaragua displays a lamentable incomprehension of How such Trade works in a state like Canada that does not have a centrally planned Canadian businessmen de cide to buy or sell abroad on the basis of whether they can make a profit and whether they will be their doubts about both questions explain the current modest level of Canad Nicaragua not the politics of the sandinista any expansion or contraction of Canadian Trade with Nicaragua can be safely left to individual business decisions by those who stand to gain or lose by the Clark raised some doubts about where the govern ment May be going when he said that a review of Canadas policies towards Nicaragua is under in consultation with other countries in Central America and Western he said i think it important that Canada try to take action in concert with others and that Why we Are consulting with other countries As to their beyond carrying on trading it is hard to see what action he thinks May be Canadas biggest trading partner is the United he should Bear that in mind if any other whose Trade with the United states is less tries to involve this country in some quixotic crusade to counter the Reagan administration action in a significant an invitation to lobby Manitoba minister responsible for Al has invited All Manitoba Telephone customers to write to their Federal member of parliament to support the provincial governments opposition to an application by a nip telecommunications to compete with telecoms a conglomerate of existing Tele phone for Lon distance a nip has an application before the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission to compete directly with systems in British Ontario and in a pamphlet enclosed with current Telephone invites Manitoban Tell their Federal they do not want changes in regulations that will increase Telephone costs to the average Telephone Mackling argues that if Federal agencies allow other companies to offer Long Dis Tance services without contributing to local service in local rates would be forced the argument is As far As it a cps application to compete in British Quebec and Ontario contains provisions to contribute to the costs of local services in those it cannot offer compensation in Manitoba by it cannot compete against the Public Telephone system where it can compete against privately owned sys a nip argues that it can reduce Lon distance costs by up to 50 per cent while paying its share of local if it is prohibited from offering Competition in it is hardly reasonable to ask it to subsidize local costs if a nip is allowed to compete in other Manitoba will lose because it will not share in a nip revenues the same Way it shares in revenues earned by telecoms of which it is a Mackling Appeal for an automatic endorsement of the provincial position against Competition anywhere in Canada in the Telephone business is a much harder line than that taken by its Board chairman Saul before his recent who warned that Manitoba would have to walk a thin line Between regulation and advancing since the beginning of Telephone communications in Manitoba has benefited mainly because of its every Call placed across the country Contri buted a few cents to the Treasury of which used the Money to keep the Cost of local service it was helped in this situation by the monopoly of Telephone service that mainly through in the and through telecoms Canada the authorities broke up this monopoly and deregulated communications some years allowing the marketplace to determine the Cost of a strict application of such a principle in Manitoba would create unrealistically High rates for Rural unfortunately for those who wish to preserve a Good technological advances Combine to Force Peregu if Canada does not Canadian communications the Manitoba Telephone system will lose Revenue As business communications use the cheaper if Canada deregulated to stay in the and Manitoba maintains it will not Only lose some communications Revenue but will deprive itself of the Opportunity to get business that is expected to develop in the communications Manitoba should take care to follow Millers advice and not lose any technological Edge that is at the same the right to Basic affordable communication in such a Large with such a scattered population must be the question is How these goals Are to be Mackling should consider other ways of making communications afford Able in Remote areas other than by denying development to Urban gallery Phi Mallette a t waiting for the computer critic by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press the electronic age has revolutionized the daily Type writers have More or less vanished from the scene and today journalist produces his deathless prose while hunched Over what appears to be a television set with what next doomsayers in the second oldest profession cheerfully predict an All electronic unspoiled by human and those who claim to be in the know suggest that the critics will be the first to be replaced by an Al knowing after Why rely on human imperfection when a perfect machine can do the Job merciless an automated drama critic imagine that and if you think some live critics can be Merci wait until the machines take a few theatrical Folk might Mur Mur that a mechanical critic could not be any worse than a live one just the How do you punch a machine in the nose some editors Point out that a mechanical critic would save them a lot of trouble and heartache to mention after a com Puter can be taught to spell and a Well behaved machine wont go around splitting infinitives and Dan gling its participles in a lewd Man when i first heard about the elec tronic i laughed but the laughter froze on my lips when i was told that such a machine is actually going through trial runs in the United the land of scientific improvement and the Silicon the Deus sex cleverly nicknamed Clive will be Able to respond to any Type of theatrical those in the know claim that it will replace every live critic in Europe and North America within the newspaper owners Are said to be enthusiasm Early models had to be taken to the theatre and plugged in before they could produce but the new Mark ii Model writes scathing reviews without leaving the publishers estimate that this Awill them hundreds of dollars on bus fare the question of travelling to London and new York will never come up and All the Money can be retained for the use of the sports to make the Model write a editors simply plug it in and feed it certain pieces of relevant such As the name of the the names of the actors and the sex Appeal of the Lead ing lady and other equally vital pieces of the machine then considers the actors and weighs them against the demands of the once the machine has Wanned to its it begins to spew out significant pro and such As a stimulating evening in the a laugh ran the Gamut of emotions from a to sinks like a this pathetic can Only improve with time and they Laid an a Boon another Boon is that various models will be available at Low some will want the hard to please Nathan Cohen other models will give gentle pats on the offer encouragement to amateurs or Praise groups approved of by the editors a special Model will also be Avail Able to newspapers that still Call for the personal this machine will make occasional spelling errors or attribute Shakespeare twelfth night to experts who Are working to perfect Deus sex Machina claim that a Good machine can do anything a Man can newspaper alarmed by this have appealed to the manufacturers to make certain As one newspaper editor put one thing we dont want is an electronic critic that a Tantrum time we Cut 10 inches out of its even tempered other newspaper officials have demanded modest and even tem Perez electronic critics and there has a general chorus of appeals for a machine that Doest make endless requests to travel to Distant cities in order to soak up manufacturers of Deus sex Machina have now assured publishers that the electronic critic will be Content to remain in its own the Deus sex Machina people expect a big demand for the glazed Eye series of electronic to pointing out that Many live to critics go gaga after constant exposure to prime the experts Are work ing toward a machine that can hold its own against anything the net works have to including All my children and 24 Early experimental models tended to blow fuses after several weeks of nil lets Moke a Miami vice and but experts feel confident of creating a Bigtree machine by the prototype of the electronic music called the lost has so far refused to work one Deus sex Machina who would not give his made a clean breast of things in an interview this Jesus he that it has a tin Lake Winnipeg mighty ice cover Breaks up the changing of the seasons is More gradual around Lake Winni which acts As a giant Refrigeri retaining a residue of Winter for a period longer than 40 Miles to the it is the special climate of Lake Winnipeg at this time of it is All because of the this past the ice built up to a depth of inches in the South portion of the according to the measurement taken near it is done by removing a Core of ice with an the amount of ice formed my depends on the the time of and the amount of Snow acts As an insulator and a heavy Blanket diminishes the extent of the the Lake freezes to an average depth of inches in the South so this has been a Good year for ice Lake Winnipeg has a prehistoric attachment to for it is one of three remnants in Manitoba of glacial Lake Agassiz the others Are lakes Manitoba and Winnipegosis of years it is a Gigantic ice pro an Early Spring breakup Testai on Winnipeg no doubt sufficient to keep the j worlds tippers amply supplied with cubes for cocktails for a number of Lake Winnipeg covers More than Square All Frozen solid in Winter save for narrow channels of less than 12 feet caused by contraction and expansion of the normally the ice disappears in the Southern portion by May 15 in the it unfolds a fascinating picture of the end of the the ice is now in its last Drifting with the by the Shore one Day and gone the the Lake is sensitive to the head in overcast skies it reveals strips of Olive and Silver and when the Sun shines tinges of Orange and Pink Glisten in the on the the cover of slush ice and Snow appear like pigment liberally applied by an artist on a it is an interesting paint commercial fishermen watch the ice the fishing season opens june but an says there is a move to have it open a week theres always lots of heavy fishing Tor thru wee in after Val Werier the ice he my a Home spun provides Roe with the latest intelligence about the a retired Farmer and railroader at Winnipeg he a close Eye on the it was very he says of the but we had no mind i used the Blower Only twice for Ray late last a violent storm with the erratic path of a Tornado swept through the uprooting til Spruce with such Force that Side walks were torn up in the up Eav the town Jet people have what was of r the Harry Yperti about the Bonanza in firewood Avail Able after the a neighbor of mine was cutting Wood like he got quite a few cords of one cottage owner from we Peg called by phone to ask Harry to dispose of a tree which had crashed on her when he got there it was there is other bad news around the especially for cottagers whose properties Are hooked in Tan dem with others to one Harry says the Artesian Wells Are not flow ing As they did last year because the water table is a Public spirited Harry has done More than his share in helping rid the town of which hive appeared in great num Bers the past few he built his own traps of used sardines for Hilt and caught w skunks which he handed to the they used to Crow my Yard face he this past Winter i walked around the lanes and there want a track in the he but soon hit the Back lines for the Gar like Many permanent Resi dents by the is solicitous of he feeds the Birds in among them same he never own he knows the regulars Canada he Gri adj Peanut tag Sunflower seeds As a treat for the do they go for he sex you can sit for hours and watch his who lives on a farm nine Miles Weston Winnipeg enjoyed the company of White tailed he treated them to a five Gal Lon can of Oats every harrys feeds one of them is called Joejoe and he climbs to his Shoul Der and then scampers into his pock for Sunflower mikes Trou he Are shredded from the traffic of chipmunks beading for the of Sunflower Harry will put up feeders for who head annually to i Yard from their Winter haunts of Miles that where they got the idea of building a he says of the they can go sideways or maybe Harry is the Hummingbird the Only Bird in the world that cd Fly the come to hit place around May summer he Toi then for ;