Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 19, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba May 1985 t Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days week at 300 Canton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press eat 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 editorials Cida gets it wrong there is some reason to wonder if the Canadian International development Agency has drawn the right lessons from the evidence presented to parliament by the auditor general of poor inadequate reporting and accountability and involvement in projects of Uncertain Cida spends billion a year of taxpayers Money to help poor countries to improve their Quality of most canadians support the expenditure and the laudable this support could decline if a perception develops that Midas attitudes about supervision of Public Money diverge from those of indications that such a divergence May exist were provided by Cida president Margaret Catle Carlson during an appearance before a mouse of commons committee reviewing detailed allegations of poor Cida management that were provided by auditor general Kenneth Dye in a report to parliament late last Dye and his staff visited ten countries and 31 projects before reaching their they painted a picture of an Agency in need of an overhaul of its practices and a major theme was the need for closer examples of poor supervision were there was Public concern in Canada about allegations that Canadian food Aid for Ethiopia might be being official denials included suggestions that not every bag of Canadian food Aid could be watched every step of the Catle Carlson was asked about this supervision Issue by the commons committee she suggested that bad publicity about Canadian Aid projects that go wrong May be a More acceptable for Cida to pay than the Cost of tighter monitoring of such projects by Cida she said that she does not believe that having a Monitor on every shipment of food would be a legitimate expense because the Cost of a Monitor feeds no one wants to waste food dollars on unnecessary no one wants food bought with these dollars to be diverted from those in heed because of inadequate Between these extremes there is a sensible Middle ground to be to is Catley Carlson Job to find that Middle to is All very Well to score Points by suggesting that closer monitoring Means taking food from the Mouths of the that avoids the Central Point that closer monitoring might ensure that Canadian Aid gets to the deserving and not to the Canada is hot the Only Aid donor country that has had Aid diverted from hungry people to private traders or corrupt officials or supporters of a government in Power or the soldiers who keep that government in external affairs minister Joe Clark is responsible for he has to defend the Agency policies and practices in he can make that task less difficult by ensuring that Midas top management takes a More realistic View of the need to address Public concern about the supervision better supervision at Cida is Good management and Good child welfare master never again will a child welfare Agency in Manitoba defy the will of the provincial the new child and family services Law which Community services minister Muriel Smith has Laid before the legislature will make a provincial government official the absolute master of the childrens Aid societies across the prov including those of Indian and the five new ones in the local control of child welfare work is intended to mobilize local Community energies and make service to children and families sensitive to local ways of doing which can vary from one part of Manitoba to the provincial governments director of child welfare has always had an important nominal though not usually an in persuading Chil Drens Aid societies and other institutions serving Chil Dren to work fruitfully the conflict Between the Pawley government and the masters of the childrens Aid society of Winnipeg two and three years ago showed that a Large and determined child welfare Agency could for a time resist provincial judge Robert reporting on family Law in May proposed that the director of child welfare should be isolated from the management of child care agencies so that he could serve As an ombudsman or referee when complaints people who Felt they had been ill used by the child welfare system need to be Able to complain to someone who is not part of the the provinces child welfare act review composed mainly of people from childrens Aid societies and government wanted to involve the director of child welfare More deeply in the running of bylaws passed by Agency boards were to be subject to his in the Bill Smith has the director becomes the he is Given an unrestricted Power to Issue written directives to agencies and the agencies Are Given the unqualified duty of complying with those there is no requirement that his directives be that they be based on inquiry or on that they correspond with government policy or with the purposes of child welfare there is no mechanism for calling the director to show the basis for his there is no provision for publishing though they will have the Force of he can order an Agency to do anything at All the Law will the Agency must do take Betty miss Schwartz is already taking the Settle ment the province is paying rather than meet her in court to debate publicly the manner of her dismissal from the management of the childrens Aid society of Smiths Bill will help protect the govern ment against protracted disputes with agencies in the the provincial Cabinet will be with no notice and for no to fire the directors of any Agency and instantly appoint their As they did with great difficulty and after some delay in order to get rid of miss the Bill outlines the Powers and duties of the director and the duties of child care it does not enumerate Powers of they have Smith and other spokesmen for the government have contended throughout their child welfare Reform that they have been decentralizing the but what they have produced is a system in which the directors of child welfare agencies serve at the pleasure of the provincial government and in which child welfare workers first duty is to obey the provinces director of child and family that May be a defensible but decentralization it is cant anybody get it right cleaning up the mess the Canadian radio television and telecommunications commission is sorting out the mess it made of Canadian pay the most recent application of the one remaining National pay first for a reduction in the requirement for Canadian Content is a Good example of businessmen attempting to teach bureaucrats simple lessons in practical when the crts got around to considering pay television for the likelihood of any such service making Money was the most attractive programming had already gone to commercial net and Canadian pay to started just As the pay stations were beginning their unsuccessful scramble for new and interesting the crts went against the advice of every businessman who appeared before it seeking a licence for Canadian pay they told the regulators that the Canadian Market could support Only one National and possibly some minor regional the crts licensed not one National ser but and peppered the country with regional pay television it took the marketplace less than three years to sort out the mistakes of the Canada now has one major pay created by a series of mergers that were usually a few Steps ahead of the crts has allowed smaller Cable companies to begin carrying commercially supported and has allowed All Cable companies to carry some produced specially it to hamstring pay television with Canadian Content guidelines that do nothing but endanger the existence of the service because they require licences to put on the air programs they know encourage Consumers to reach for the Channel changer switches on their commissioned work in the Fields of entertainment and education is Seldom As Good As that which is inspired by its work that is not Only but is required to appear on television screens by Law is not the work on which audiences Are by Christopher Defoe special to the free press it must be i read it in the paper in a in a heard it on the it should be but sometimes it is writers and editors to great lengths in the ceaseless Hunt for their intentions Are Al most always but errors somehow creep truth is an elusive commodity tissue of errors almost everyone has had the experience of Reading a Story of which they have some intimate personal knowledge and discovering that the Story in the a curious tissue of How does this happen the human capacity for getting it wrong seems to be unlimited in it happens the news papers of great widely regarded As the Best in the make mistakes All the i have for that when a rare Story about Canadian events appears in a British newspaper it is usually wrong As to the i once read in a prominent British newspaper that John Diefenbaker had been Defeated at the polls and that Smallwood would be asked to form a i once read in the Brit ish press that Davis led the state government of a number of american writers continue to labor under the delusion that Canada is a British a recent London daily Telegraph Story with a Toron to dateline spoke of Canadian government officials attempting to Force bilingualism on the province of new i seem to recall that it was the provincial govern ment that was attempting to broaden but 1 suppose when you Only print a Story about Canada once every five years or it hardly matters if All the facts Are not entirely you do not have to leave the country in order to find for most of last weekend the Csc radio news spoke of a British army defeating Riel at Batoche in the Metis Rifle pits in overrun by Canadian militiamen from Southern Ontario and Manito but now that it is fashionable to take the Metis Side it might be equally fashionable to blame it All on the i recently read that Maureen Mcteer had gone to mos cow and negotiated with the rus that cant be the fact of the matter is that everybody makes mistakes a great Deal of the leading some observers to suppose that different people see different even when what they see is right under their the famous example of the conflicting reports of a traffic Accident by eyewitnesses comes to everybody saw it but no two versions Are disagree ment extends even to the color and make of the disconcerting it is disconcerting to detect errors in the printed if the Story with which you Are familiar is All what about everything else this human penchant for getting it All wrong extends to the world of professional Learned people Are expected to be Correct most of the but even they fall from Grace with astounding frequent Janet in recent new York review article on the error prone critic Edmund draws attention to the frequency of error even in the Best researched articles and such she Are committed every Day everyone knows who has Ever done research in a misinform and fudging of fact Are commonplaces the fact that All writers constantly make mistakes of fact and transcription is attested to by the professions of proofreader and fact to quote a passage from a text and get every word right seems utterly beyond the capacity of All but the most Nuttila obsessive among inaccuracy error often gives birth to pedants writing letters to the editor complaining of journalistic lapses in grammar and spelling make mis takes in grammar and spelling inaccuracy is a like the or perhaps it is a form of lunacy that touches us Janet Malcolm again it is As if we All need in some Way to take possess Ion of whatever passes through our to leave our to show that we have been what May look like Mere sloppiness is in unconscious fact a studied assertion of the unconscious desire to rewrite to reshape facts until they More closely match the hearts de sire appears to be Strong in every mind that guides the pen or controls the typewriter or the moving Finger and somehow gets it All Pedantic readers of this article have probably committed a few howlers of their have you Ever noticed that no body hardly anybody gets names right it has happened to All of you wait a lifetime to get your name in the paper and when your name finally makes it they spell it the wrong Way or give you an unfamiliar set of a newspaper i once worked for not this in Happy to say once printed my name in its news they called me Charles humanism i am a member of the american humanist association and i strongly object to Hie misrepresentation and misinformation contained in the letter Zatk to busies free May 6 about the humanist philos beliefs about the contents of the humanist Mani in his Book the philosophy of Corliss Lamont defines humanism As a philosophy of joyous service for the greater Good of All the ten commandments humanity in this world and advocates the methods of science and the humanist written in states in its 14th article that the goal of humanism is a free and Universal in which people voluntarily and intelligently Cooper ate for the common the 15th and last thesis asserts that humanism will affirm life rather than deny it seek to elicit the possibilities of not flee from it and Endeavor to establish the conditions of a satisfactory life for not merely a by this positive moral and intention humanism will be guided and from this perspective and alignment the techniques and efforts of humanism will there is no mention whatsoever in the whole document of unlimited sexual mercy Sui in Many of the joint authors were reputable humanism indeed draws heavily on its Jude Christian including the ninth thou Shalt not Bear false witness against your Millar Winnipeg trial by Media until you carry an interview with Anatoly Shch Aransky and Andrei Sakharov on the merits of soviet evidence and the Virtues of the so Viet judicial 1 suggest you curtail your publication of allegations against ukrainians accused of War trial and conviction by Media to not belong in Sumna Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to 100 per cent with regard to the letter by Susan Hart and Lissa Donner another View free May i am a practising roman i am also a 22yearold woman if i May a Well educated i would like to set the record straight for those of us who Are True practising roman whether born into the Faith or converted to i defend archbishop Adam Exner and the roman Catholic if one is a True practising roman then one accepts All of the Church and its not just some of one is either All Catholic or not the Church teaches that women Are equal to men and women play Many important roles in the Church in North America these include communion Lay altar As Well As Many other educational and social priests represent christs Apos ties Christ treated women As equals he was ahead of his time in this he had Many devout women As he does yet he did not make them the Church then must assume that he did not want them to be this is by no Means an insult to women and should not he taken 11 a priest is not the Only role one can serve one has Only to look at the example of Mother Theresa of Calcutta and her Many women followers to see As for the Issue of did not Christ suffer the Little children to come unto with this in it is illogical to expect a True Church of god to condone As a True roman i throw 100 per cent support behind my Church archbishop Kendall Winnipeg Why silent then with regard to the article by Anth ony Westell parliament needs dras tic Reform free april the betrayal of the parliamentary form of government took place Dur ing the Trudeau the House of commons was voted in by the people and became a essentially for King Trudeau and his while it is True that people get the kind of government they a question remains Why did not Westall ring the alarm Bells then Why did Hent speak then about the commons circus i agree that changes Are required but Why does Westall consider that the abuses rained Down on the Canadian people Over a 20 year time period he solved by the conserva Tives Brian Mulroney in less than one year in office is it not a Little late for Westell to criticize the conservatives for too when nothing was said during the Trudeau years Ruth gales Winnipeg clarification there Are a number of inaccuracies in the article Banks fear Law will depress land value free May 4 which i would like to and the article reported the con Cerns Banks have in regard to a possible depressing effect on land prices in the event these corporations Are not exempted from the farm lands ownership d Stu a Royal Bank spokes is reported to have indicated it is illegal for corporations to own More than 10 acres of land after september there Are two aspects to this statement which should be the farm lands ownership act specifies that an interest in farm land held by a person on the Date when this act comes into Force May continue to be so includes a in other the act is not retroactive and any land legally held by including a May continue to be held to september 1987 and in regard to lending institutions the act specifies that an interest in farm land that is solely a Bona fide debt obligation May be a received and held by any in the event that such debt is not the Lender credit Etc can take title to the property and then has three years to dispose of the the three years would commence from the time that ownership was so this could be september january or any other time depending on when title to the property was trans would Only be relevant to farm land acquired by a credit in september of d Bond is also reported to have said that some lending institutions have asked for an exemption from the farm lands ownership to the farm lands ownership which considers All applications for has received no such application from any lending it seems unusual in doing an article on a Law which is administered by the farm lands ownership the writer did not Contact either myself or the Board office to verify the accuracy of the Marion Mcnabb chairman Manitoba farm lands ownership Board birthday John Winnipeg born Reigate May excuse did i hear someone complaining ;