Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 12, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba Wiff Tieg free May 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 company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free fress est 18t2 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Donald Nicol publisher John dafo6 editorial Psge editor Murray sure managing editor Rudy controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials common sense in the court Hie leaders of operation dismantle Are lit despair acid the minister of Justice is relatively but All other canadians ought to rejoice at the supreme court of Canadas display of common sense this the court against the arguments of lasers for the Federal that the Canadian charter of rights applies to orders Council and other acts of the Federal Cabinet every bit As much As it does to legislation passed by the court also against the arguments of lawyers for operation that there was no substance to the claim that the testing of cruise missiles violates the Charters guarantee of the right to Liberty and Security because it makes nuclear War More those decisions were made unanimously by Cana Das six most senior but any six canadians of Normal having heard the same arguments that the judges would have been Likely to come to the same they would have decided that charter guarantees must apply to the acts of Cabinet if they do the charter becomes a rather hollow Cabinet whether taken under Powers granted by Law or by exercise of the Royal can pose every bit As much of a threat to the liberties of individuals As legislation passed by they in be More of a menace because there Are Manly More of them and they Are passed in immune to the scrutiny and debate that legislation gets in parliament and the that being the it is not surprising that the judges ruled that there is no doubt that the executive Branch of the Canadian govern ment is duty bound to act in accordance with the dictates of the it is not surprising either that the justices decided that operation dismantled arguments about the cruise Issue were simply too speculative and hypothetical to sustain a Case of operation dismantle was inviting the court to take on the role of politicians and make a judgment about what effect cruise testing might have on the attitude of foreign governments and future prospects for world the justices sensibly declined the debate about the possible future effects of political decisions belongs in the political the Challenge to cruise testing is Only one of several cases in which Bright and imaginative Young lawyers Are presenting the courts with exotic and fanciful interpretations of the charter of that is to be expected As citizens and lawyers attempt to measure the Impact of the charter on Canadian if some of the arguments seem to defy common the cases Are not necessarily a waste of As canadians Learned this even a silly argument can Lead the court to a sensible and valuable lightweight task Force communications minister Marcel masses Choice of appointments to the task Force he has established to review Canadian broadcasting policy has added to the growing suspicion that the ministers main objective for the commission is to buy himself time to formulate his own new broadcast to chair what the minister himself has described As the first full inquiry into Canadian broadcasting since Masse has chosen a former National Secretary of the new democratic Gerald while Caplan is As qualified As anyone to investigate Canadian his decidedly partisan background May make it hard for some in the Industry to accept his for the apart from Conrad the task Force membership brings Little pres Tige to the Job of rethinking Canadian broadcast poli the appointees will be working under severe con by masses they will talk Only to those in the they will not hold meetings at which the members of the Public May express their concerns and opinions on what should be part of the future of Canadian this Opportunity will arrive Only after the task Force has submitted its report to presumably sometime next Masse and his staff have had an Opportunity to sift the fitting whatever suits them into legislation that will actually adjust Canadian broadcast policy to the thinking of Masse and his close the Public comments will come when the legislation reaches the committee there is nothing wrong with a government setting Forth its ideas about changes that should be made in anything As fundamental As the use of the Public what is wrong with the present situation is the attempt by the Federal communications minister to give the appearance of a nonpartisan approach to the problem through the use of an arms length task it would appear that the main purpose to be served by the Force will be to get the Industry off the ministers Back until he can formulate his own the Industry has been told to carry on As usual pending the new legislation after it is will provide the first Opportunity for Public opinion to be attempting to carry on As usual will be difficult for who will not know what degree of Regula Tion May exist in the or what their Competition will be after the Law is it would be More appropriate for Masse to announce that it is going to take him a year to make up his and that at the end of that time he will introduce a new broadcasting policy that has been created within his the task Force he has created is such a lightweight organization that no one will expect that its recommendations will be taken except where they happen to dovetail with masses own embattled christians Lebanon Long dominant Christian Arab population is having a bumpy ride on the Way to whatever new role it will play in that fractured country chaotic that role will be allotted to the christians by whose occupation army in Lebanon Bekaan Valley and whose manipulation of various moslem armed factions give syrian president Hafez Assad Mastery of the he gave another demonstration of that this week when he engineered a change in the leadership of the most powerful Christian the lebanese Samir an anti syrian Christian who took control March 12 because he was angry about How tightly lebanese Domestic affairs were being regulated from was moved aside so that fellow Chris Tian Eli Hobeika could take Hobeika has the apparent Handicap of having been the planner and instigator of the 1982 massacre of palestinian old cats and horses carried out by the lebanese forces in the Sabra and shatilla refugee Camps while Israel occupied that part of West for who planned and instigated the massacre of Many More people in the syrian town of Hama As part of his Campaign against the fundamentalist moslem brother Hobeika criminal record is what matters is that Hobeika has become slavishly pro syrian and will serve syrian political goals in his new Job As eagerly As Christian lebanese president Amin Geaneas Brief attempt to restore some form of Independence from Syria for the Christian Community caused heavy factional fighting in Beirut and in South several Hundred people died in both areas As the syrians manipulated moslem militias to discipline the armed christians typical of recent Lebanon was the sad Fate of inhabitants of Christian villages in the Hills above who paid a High Price for Geaneas some of his militiamen shelled Sidon from positions near these killing about 100 people in poor moslem districts and the bin Hilweh palestinian refugee the militiamen then commandeered a ferry boat and sailed off to the safety of the Christian enclave North of leaving the Christian villagers unprotected before the horde of vengeful moslem who poured out of most christians fled towards the Buffer zone near the israeli which is controlled by the Israel Allied South lebanese those who did not move fast enough were murdered As moslem militias and palestinians arrived to loot the empty burning houses and desecrating the result has been a tremendous Christian refugee problem in the area near the israeli Border while Beirut remains a Nightmare of nonstop this is unimportant to who wanted to reestablish his political control whatever the his next step is Likely to be another Damascus to which key lebanese faction leaders and Gemayel will be invited so that another attempt can be made to carve up the bloody ruins of Lebanon in some Way that everyone will the trouble is that Christian lebanese do not like the thought of a new order in which the More numerous moslem would gain the dominant political position of which they have Long militant moslem will accept no some like would prefer to Retreat to sealed Christian enclaves if moslem Are to control that is Why Syria a horsed changing the leadership of the lebanese Howe does not answer the question of the future of the that remains one of Many thorny problems for Assad As he tries to reshape spreading the sin around by Christopher Dafoe special to free press should sin be evenly distributed throughout the City councillor Harold Macdonald astonished fellow civic fathers or is it civic parents these Days recently by suggesting that an even distribution of sin might be a Good after if we must have Why everybody get a bit Back streets councillor Macdonald Sugges Tion is in keeping with the Best notions of modern democracy in modern we must All learn to years when democracy was Only a sin was usually confined to areas of town known As the Back in other Gin Mills and rooster pits were confined to areas where poor people had to the Middle class men who patronized these resorts of decadence drove Over in their cars or carriages from their Homes in the genteel Back in the Days when Queen Victoria was on the the police had already realized that cer Tain types of sin were Here to the lawmen made certain that what was called the social evil pitched its tent in a designated part of the you can be certain that the designated part of the City was not that portion of town through which Wellington Crescent heaven there May have been Crooks on Wellington but there were no around the turn of the Winnipeg was notorious from coast to coast As Canadas Headquarters of it was in Many a Frontier the Boom was in High gear and there was Money to a portion of that Money flowed into the flesh pots of Point following the publication of the Fraser report on prostitution and we heard once that sin should be tolerated in official red Light but which District should get the red lamps River Heights fort Garry Osborne Village the Maples Transcona Tuxedo poor old Point Douglas nobody wants a concentration of sin in their any More than anyone wants a dump for pcs at the end of their it is easy enough to talk about a red Light District when you Are thinking of locating it in some neighbourhood 10 Miles from where you next door not on your this is a respectable almost everybody still agrees that what we used to Call the social evil is Likely to remain an unsolvable the for All their moral could not stamp it out and it seems unlikely that we shall succeed where they the victorians made the Best of a bad Job by pushing it All behind the scenes onto the poor and Down Rod we Are not going to get away with that these the poor and in at have a Strong voice for the they generally pay higher property nobody is going to mess about with Only answer councillor Macdonald Sugges Tion May Well be the Only the question now presents itself How do we ensure the even distribution of sin the old Market Square area is clearly carrying More than its fair share of the Means will have to be found to shift some of those tarts to Wellington Academy Road and Kingston if the decision is made to shift the sin merchants some sort of quota system will have to be worked out in order to spread them evenly around i am not saying that they should All move to Wellington but some of them will have to locate there on Park or Boreham i am sure the mayor would not object to taking a few onto his Street in River fair is Justice we to the matter of Massage Tattoo emporiums and escort the Law As it now stands confines these Busin esses to what we Are pleased to Call the Core or is it hard Core the suburbs by civic Terra incognito to activities of this is this fair certainly the ideals of democracy demand that we do something to alter this unjust and unconscionable state of if we Are going to have Massage Tattoo emporiums and escort ser vices we must distribute them equally across even into the most staid and genteel even districts in which the plaster gnome and the plastic Flamingo flourish must carry their full share of the democracy and jus Tice demand it of branches of Lolas hot video Mas Sage parlor and body painting shop must be just As Welcome on Kings Way and Roblin Boulevard As they Are on Dufferin and the owner of the kiss me Sailor escort service must feel free to conduct his business in any part of the City where business is Joes heroic tattoos must feel free to set up shop next door to the neighbor Hood Deli and the Christian science Reading this is a after and we Are All just dont try setting up one of them on my a Sleeper surveying the attractions of Mani Tobas two main political parties is dismaying at among other the nip is spending taxpayers Money to promote the idea it is actually improving the employment a political ploy that Intelli gent Manitoban recognize and re sent having to pay the nip also has a team of government paid planners working to get the party As for the they seem to be making no fuss about this the traditional the Liberal is dreaming too but it May never Wake there Are the fringe Par ties in the Western part of the prov angry Radical groups that pro Mote separatism and it is because of this dismaying scene that i have been attending progressive party the most recent meeting was held april we had a vigorous discussion of the things that bother most were interested in amending Laws on racial discrimination not having expensive commissions that look for causes of such As the Manitoba human rights commis famous for the Squaw Burger Case fire regulations that keep handicapped people off the upper deck of the Arena not having centralized files of personal medical records or lists of government employees ethnically labelled things for which the present nip government is Sid Green knew where the nip Crew wanted to and he got off in time and formed the progressive he knew that it was not the name nip or the Regina manifesto or even the philosophy of its porters that would determine where the nip would but the whims of its present i am thinking of buying a membership card in the progressive party while the main opposition is i think the progressive party is a Sleeper on the right Tom Cohoe Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to a plus i am in agreement with the thoughts expressed in the article Best of both parents say free april while in Arizona a few Winters ago i came across a report of a Survey conducted by time Magazine on the Survey was the re sult of the curtailment of funds by the government to the universities the faculties of language were mostly George former ambassador to added his protest to the curtailment of his Contention was that the teaching of languages was necessary to train future diplomatic personnel to take up positions in various coun he Felt that these countries had a certain Pride in conducting their affairs in their own the Diplomat who knew the Lan Guage of the country to which he was posted would better understand the people of that their traditions and the Survey of High schools and Public schools came up with a consensus that the student taking another language would develop a sharper brain and he better fitted to Cope with any situation that might the then minister of education agreed with this time also turned up the fact in Russia there were More russian teachers teaching the English Lan Guage than there were students in american universities studying rus there Are not Many countries in the world that do not teach the English Here in the various languages being taught Are of great Benefit to canadians and enrich the whole John Chonko Winnipeg what fools is the charter of rights a Friend or foe have you Ever walked Down por Tage Avenue on a sunday morning and listened to its quietness that will soon be gone can you imagine the crunch of your footsteps on newly fallen Snow on a sunday especially on a sunday at Christ Mas that will soon be gone Why the supreme court of Canada to whom what fools we mortals Donaldson Winnipeg not a crime i read with disappointment Patrick Mckinley article on group Homes free april As chairperson for the coalition which appeared at the Public hearing held by the committee on i am concerned with inaccuracies of the the article contained two headlines which indicated that the City has approved the proposed Zon ing in the propos Al from committee on environment must still be approved by executive policy committee and City the article repeatedly refers to former mental patients when discussing persons who have been involved with the penal Mckinley has assumed that the two groups of persons Are syn Ono Mous and will be dealt with under the neighbourhood rehabilitation Home this is incorrect a person suffering or recovering from a mental health problem is disabled As would be considered under the care Home Des As a member of the Board of the i recommend that Mckinley become More knowledge Able in the Field of mental health and he will realize that it is not a crime to suffer from a mental Lynda Newman Vic president Cha Winnipeg Black and White i have observed a cer Tain amount of paranoia on the to news caused by the visit of president Ronald Reagan to the German War cemetery at the people opposing the visit did not differentiate Between the is and Waffen Otto the Man who rescued Mussolini from mount Gran Sasso towards the end of the was a member of the Waffen did this make him a War Crimi Nal can we differentiate Between the jewish the Stern gang or the Airgun Vai Leumi or were they All terrorists history should be Black and not a Gray vagueness of partial what happened almost half a Century ago will Pale into insignificance if there is another John Crabtree Portage la ;