Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 7, 1985, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 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 Reform for Indian affairs the scary leaks about vanishing jobs in the civil service should not be allowed to obscure the fact that Indian and Northern affairs minister David Crombie proposed reforms for his department Are very much on the right Canadas native people have always been a profitable natural resource for Ottawa bureaucrats who have built Long and prosperous careers of administering programs that Are presumed to serve the trouble is that the administrators tended to do a Good Deal better out of the system than the indians and inuit they were supposed to be a study made for a parliamentary committee in 1983 indicated that about 25 per cent of the Cost of programs for indians and inuit went to even after the department implemented a program of passing More and More responsibility for administration to the native people the size of the bureaucracy continued to Crombie is evidently determined to reverse that trend and he is a judgment on his detailed plans will have to wait until they Are announced in a couple of civil presumably seeking to forestall a Reform that might Cost them their leaked a report which predicted that the program might reduce employ ment in the department by opposition True to left to their feet to denounce the they should have been cheering indians and inuit were not put on this Earth to provide jobs for Federal Public the greater the proportion of the department of Indian affairs budget that actually gets to indians and inuit the the greater the say that indians and inuit have in the application of programs that effect the More effective these programs Are Likely to that process will inevitably and properly mean the loss of civil service if there Are any serious grounds for concern about the ministers plans they would be based on a foolish report from Deputy prime minister Erik Nielsen task Force on government efficiency which recommended the scrapping of Many programs for native people and the Transfer of others to the those proposals could never seriously have been As the prime minister and the minister of Indian affairs have since Crombie says his which he describes As a very significant fundamental Reform in the depart ment of Indian is based substantially on an eminently sensible report from the House of commons special committee on Indian the sort of Reform Crombie is talking about is Long it is apparently proceeding in full consultation with native the process of Reform should not be scuttled by the scare tactics of the bureaucracy or the opposition an irony in Star wars an embarrassing irony in president Ronald reagans dream of a space based defence system to eliminate the need for nuclear weapons is the fact that a key component would require the detonation in space of numerous nuclear this plan to save the Earth from nuclear devastation by filling the heavens with exploding nuclear bombs is reminiscent of the Vietnam Era cliche that troops had to destroy villages to save administration strategists understand this serious Public relations problem for the presidents strategic defence their tactic is to say Little about hoping it will be ignored by the Public while work on it goes ahead at High Speed in the the reason Why Reagan wants to detonate such bombs in space has nothing to do with the destructive Power of bombs the enormous explosion would simply be a Means to the end of creating an astonishingly powerful xray whose secret codename is super it would be used to destroy soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles while they were flying from their silos to North the concept consists of a nuclear warhead wrapped in laser guiding Fibre rods with a Jet engine at one end and a laser aiming Telescope at the it would be parked in space perhaps a Hundred Miles where it could be aimed at soviet missile spy satellites in geosynchronous orbit Miles High would spot the infrared heat traces of a soviet missile tracking each missile during the 200 seconds that its rocket fires it out of the atmosphere and into space an Earth station would be told of the icbms launch by the spy signal the weapon to aim at the rising icbms and explode the rays and Gamma rays from the explosion would react with the laser to create in one billionth of a second an intense burst of rays equivalent to trillions of Watts of the focussed beam would hit an icbms like a knocking it off maybe destroying this May sound like science but one successful test of the concept was carried out underground March 23 in problems one drawback is that rays become like a baseball Bat swung in water when they meet the earths atmosphere so the icbms must be caught after it leaves the atmosphere but before it can drop off its rocket and Send its warheads into Independent ballistic multiplying the a possible technical counter is for the russians to convert their missiles to a fast Burn boost phase that would generate in not seconds the thrust needed to put them into ballistic this would reduce the time in which the defence system would be Able to spot an icbms decide to aim the laser and order the nuclear explosion that would create the xray the time squeeze will be even worse if the Reagan administration goes ahead with a submarine alternative to the Public relations disaster of parking nuclear bombs in space waiting for a called a Popup method to associate it in the Public mind with harmless kiddie it involves specially designed submarines getting the order to counter a soviet icbms launch by firing missiles into space that would contain super it would be a Challenge for a satellite Alert to be relayed to the ground station and the for the missile to be fired and for super Excalibur to do its All in 200 in 50 it would be a super another drawback is that a 50second rocket Burn would end while the icbms was still in the in which the xray laser could not loss of the infrared Trace could Blind the spy making it difficult to know where to aim the xray laser when the icbms leaves the there May be solutions to such Reagan is trying to find out by spending million annually on xray laser research Howe cannot buy him out of the fundamental contradiction that this Avenue of ski research Means saving the world from nuclear bombs by setting off nuclear the unwanted gift whether they like it or the residents around Central Park Are going to get a gift from the City a Park even larger than the one that makes them nervous there is no doubt that Winnipeg can use More Green space in the downtown there is plenty of doubt that extending Central Park by a Block to the South is the Best Way to provide that its chief effect is Likely to be to create an extremely Windy stretch of open space on the Edge of the North of Portage development and to inhibit the very kind of investment that the City claims to be trying to the proposal of the owners of the Brittany inn to build a new 400room hotel on the site left some question unanswered but it deserved More it would have provided the jobs and investment that the Core area needs and it would have offered secure open space for area most of those residents preferred the hotel to the Park but facts like that Cut no ice when the mayor is in a gift giving a dismal year for the poor by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press Ottawa last year May have been the new Start of a new Day for a new Canada in the hyperbole of Brian Mulroney electoral but it was another dismal year for Canadas according to newly released preliminary figures from statistics for the third straight the number of canadians in poverty continued to reaching an increase of in that was a jump from per cent of the population to per cent compared to per cent in pre recession not enough although unemployment receded marginally last year by half a percentage Point it was not enough to reverse the poverty Par time work is enough to make someone disappear from the jobless but it is not enough to put a family on the right Side of the poverty the biggest part of last years poverty increase was not among footloose Young but among families with would be breadwinners in the 25to34year age and that undoubtedly Means there was a further big increase in the number of poor in according to per cent of All Canadian children were living in the 1984 is not among those included in the preliminary and therefore will not be Avail Able for some but it will clearly be Well Over 20 per there is Only one encouraging set of numbers in statistics Canadas new it demonstrates once again that the favorite cliche of neoconservatives that govern ments cannot solve problems by throwing Money at them should be taken with a Grain of in the Trudeau government decided to throw More Money at poor the guaranteed in come supplement for single pension ers was raised by a month in july and a further a month starting in increase that is a total increase of Only in the 1984 Calendar but it was enough to lower the poverty rate of single seniors from 57 per cent in 1983 to 50 per cent in this when the full increase is in effect for All 12 the poorest single pensioners will be getting an additional and that should Cut an other big slice off their poverty the Only group among the poor that the Mulroney government has thus far chosen to aim some Money at is widows and widowers aged 60 to who have been made eligible for the spouses the 1984 poverty rate for no mar rides in the 60to65year age bracket is 47 per cent although the new program will not reach those who Are divorced or were never it should nonetheless have a significant that probably wont show much in the 1985 since the measure took effect Only in sep but the 1986 poverty rate will certainly reflect de indexation the same could have been True for child and family poverty rates if the government had chosen to Channel the savings from its reorganization of child benefits into increased support for the poor rather than deficit re when the three year transition process is the new child Benefit system will actually reduce benefits for the poor each through the de indexation of both family allowances and refundable child tax with senior citizen poverty rates already falling and those of Nearse Nioras about to join the group with the highest poverty rate is now probably mothered single Parent the most recent figures show 49 per cent of these households living in in the dying Days of last years election when Liberal Leader John Turner suddenly remembered that his party was sup posed to be the Liberal he pro posed a program of rent related income supplements for the poorest of these single Parent in nothing further has been heard of the idea from Turner or anyone else the 13 months in the Light of the poverty now would be a Good time to Resur rect girls hockey while watching the my attention was caught by Justine Blainey and her fight for Equality to play defence on a boys hockey she i am not a girls hockey player because there Are no girls hockey programs in my there May not be enough interest for a girls hockey team in the Community but surely there must be at least 25 girls in my District that want to play 1 am 14 years old and everyone thinks i am weird to even think about playing but i have been silent about not playing hockey Ever since i was when i played Street hockey with the then i would have to stand Back and watch my hockey buddies go to hockey despite South Dales instalment of a girls valiant attempt at ice i am still not if i had joined a hockey team in when i was seven years of i would be skating stride stride with any Guy my age and i have been deprived of playing hockey Long if Winnipeg really wants women to be equal to men make at least one hockey team that allows females to play ice Hock Tina Choy Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg fee press welcomes tellers from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Quebec divisive please unfair youngsters love hockey a in the article longer year blamed for Rob loss free september 12 the Royal Winnipeg Ballet indicates a loss by the professional division of and a loss by the general school division of and offers no explanation or reason for the the general school division of the Rob probably has a larger enrol ment and charges As if not than other dance schools in in addition to revenues from registrations it is funded by government and other Organiza it is also Given tax Breaks and incentives even though it is in direct Competition with a number of schools which Are not afforded the same advantage As the this in itself is unfair schools that operate independently Are self supporting and manage to survive within Why with everything going for is the Rob general school division operating at a loss if the Rob general school division is to be funded to enable it to compete directly with Independent dance manage ment should be held accountable As to where the Money is going and As to Why it finds it difficult to operate at a place the blame where it on poor before the Rob is Given carte Blanche a new million facility it should prove to the Public it can provide responsible Terry Morris business administrator Royal dance conservatory Winnipeg deficit an important article on our econ omy and employment was buried behind the classified Section recent Sony head chides Busi Ness free september Akio chairman of the Japa Nese electronics giant Sony warned that the United states must erase its huge budget deficit and reverse the erosion of its Industrial Morita placed the Princi pal blame on the Strong which makes imports Why is the Industrial base eroding Why is the Dollar so Strong in the government spent about billion on military personnel and equipment from a total budget of about for the past 35 americans have allocated 30 per cent to 50 per cent of their budget to nonproductive Mili tary with Over half of scientists and engineers engaged in military related research and devel Little wonder that civilian Industry is not innovative and Revi in the five years since president Ronald Reagan first won the accumulated deficit of the United states has More than Many economists attribute the enormous deficit to escalating military spend of the deficit can Only be financed by the hefty borrowings of the government have Only served to increase interest rates to usurious spending on Industrial expansion and modernization is stifled by the High interest rates on capital As the demand by foreign attracted by High for Ameri can dollars rises to loan to the the value of foreign currencies foreign imports Are More attractive to Ameri cans so employment and the deficit the cry is raised for the Canadian government can re Duce Canadian interest rates and increase Domestic employment Only by talking sense to our friends to the our neighbors must been courage to decrease drastically their military not Only because it is but also be cause it is economically Derek Wilson Winnipeg detrimental the Media coverage about the arrest in the brutal murder of Ruby Adriaenssens has once in a suspect being convicted in the Public Eye solely on the basis of the Gravity and repulsive Ness of the the anguish of the family and the process of bringing the guilty party to Justice in a proper fashion All take second place to the demands of a sensationalized i have no doubt that native groups in Winnipeg and around the province began to receive hat mongering and threatening Telephone Calls soon after the paper hit the this Type of reporting can give no Comfort to the family of the victim or to the it is extremely detrimental to the task of finding genuine solutions for neighbourhood Protection or answers to our social systems serious which give Rise to growing sexual abuse and especially against women and these same faults Are also at the Root of growing racism and the Media coverage has contributed Only to the not the Frank Goldspink Winnipeg i read recently a news item refer ring to the difficulties that Franco Manitoban have in obtaining ser vices in let them come to Montreal where Over one million anglos Are denied their All Road and Street Highway signs and warning indicators Are in French nowhere in the Large department stores and supermarkets does one see any English the same Applys to Banks and Finan Cial Canada was built by the orientals and jewish French Canada did nothing to develop this great the Trudeau liberals composed of French canadians such As Marc la Jean Chretien it Al created the Energy policy which ended the Boom in Western the Fira act kept put investment hence the Large unemployment one has to be a francophone to obtain a Good Job with the Federal government Brian Mulroney outdo ing Pierre Trudeau in promoting French and there Are allegations at Mirabel a Liberal White Federal immigration and customs officials refuse to speak English to incoming in Ontario had million Quebec had million at one Montreal was considered to be the playground of North the Quebec government passed a Law that prohibits a hindu or anyone other than protestant or Catholic to vote on a school where is Deaus charter of rights Quebec is the highest taxed and most inefficiently run area in North the language problem has always been a divisive one and hampers the growth and Prosperity of Dean docent Frain Corys review Lavoie beyond depth with techno pop free 12 was in poor taste and showed bad the free press is not exactly on the Brink of bankruptcy so i am sure it can afford to Send someone Vjio Speaks French to a French you cannot even partially appreciate Daniel Lavoie if you do not speak his As for techno pop not being Lavlies you Are also Mistak we were 800 teenagers at the concert and not one of us walked away Lavoie and Jacques Lussier got a standing ova the special lighting synthesizers and costumes added an atmosphere of excitement and Joie de Livre which you seem to have Daniel Lavoie can make it Here in Christine Leger Ecol Precie Usang Winnipeg in afraid we have All the double agents we need right have you tried Moscow ;