Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Fob pig gaga August 1986 Winnipeg free press 6f Trade Liberty of religion Equality of pm rights published seven Days a week at 360 Carton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company lined Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press eat 1872 Winnipeg Tribune eat 1890 Donald nkx5l publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Ruby Redekop c0htr6ller a member of the Manitoba press Council my editorials opening the Public purse Winnipeg Board of commissioners has proposed More capital works during the next five years than the City generally tries to carry out in a five year they propose annual borrowings averaging million instead of the usual million to pay for the the commissioners believe the debt service costs on dramatically increased borrowings will be paid if the realty tax rates on Winnipeg property Are by five per cent every addition to the annual increases required for City the projects Are not appealing enough to justify this rapid and relentless increase in the commissioners would spend million to extend York and Mary avenues across the Canadian National East Yard to with Provencher these roadways would Cross the land which is being bought from Canadian National for about million by the Core area initiative and would permit downtown Type development of the land beside the two extended it would also Speed traffic Between Northern Boniface and the Southern part of the land and its Access roads Are not needed for because downtown Winnipeg has plenty of undeveloped speeding the traffic on that Short stretch will immediately create bottlenecks on proven Cher Bridge and Provencher whose newly nurtured Highstreet character can scarcely survive High Speed Crosstown the project makes Excel Lent sense on a map and none on the the commissioners would spend million extend ing Bishop Grandin Boulevard Westward to Waverley Street and another million extending the four Lane divided Roadway East to Lagimodiere they would spend million on a new Assiniboine River Bridge Avenue in Assiniboia to Roblin Boulevard in they would spend million on a new red River crossing to link Henderson Highway to main Street across the North Side of the Kildonan Golf these major projects appear off the councils Agenda because of its policy of letting developers spread the City further and further councillors approve individual development proposals at the Edge of the City because the developers sing a Sweet song of tax revenues and ask very Little in the Way of immediate City no one thinks to ask How people will get to other parts of the City from the far reaches of Assiniboia or East but when they queue up to use the existing the need for More regional roads and More Bridges becomes hard to the Developer who sold those people their land is by then Long the City and All its taxpayers Are stuck with the costs which Are now turning up in the capital the Council by reducing its service to the kept the annual municipal tax increases to about four per cent a year in recent years leaving aside the school the Public will not cheerfully accept further deterioration of services More bet Ter recreation quicker Sno Clearing will be the order of the with their attendant on top of these operating the commissioners program of works would pile further annual tax increases for capital projects whose logic is All the taxpayers of Winnipeg Are asked to shoulder the costs imposed in Large part by land development at the fringes of the that is not a reasonable the package is politically astute in that it gives each Community area and its councillors their bite of the on that basis it May win Council approval with the usual argument that the five year program is just a not a real commitment of City funds and by the usual proce Dure of councillors swapping each others pet the cumulative effect on the City and on its tax is More than the Urban Economy should be asked to the commissioners should be asked to come up with a program of works the City can the councillors should reconsider the policy of develop mental sprawl which entails such staggering alienating Australia Argentina and Australia Are key victims of the new policy of offering Trade welfare to communist a policy that May backfire very badly in the Case of the potential consequences for strategic interests in the South Pacific Are was clearly of neither interest nor importance to senator Bob the Kansas Republican who leads his party majority in the Senate and who applied the pressure under which president Ronald Reagan quickly abandoning free Market economics by offering Moscow a subsidy if it would Only keep its broken Promise to buy million tonnes of wheat by this Beggart neighbor done to buy votes for farm Belt Republican senatorial candidates in no has been justified in Australia this week by senator Richard chairman of the Senate foreign relations in a doomed Effort to convince the australians that cutting their Throat is actually Good for the pompous Lugar is playing self appointed wheat Row his ridiculous claim is that reagans wheat welfare program for Moscow was necessary to prevent control of the Senate falling into the hands of politicians who favor dumping Grain he does not seem to understand that the Senate already is in the hands of such the main one is the Republican majority who wants to dump Grain at fir Sale prices in every country in the no matter How much destruction it does to Argentina and other not Content with putting a Dagger in the Back of Australia wheat Export Reagan drove in another this month by giving the Peoples Republic of China a bargain basement Deal on the entire stockpile of raw a major importer of australian took tonnes last to solve his stockpile Reagan dumped tonnes on the chinese Market at two cents below world Market this reduces chinese need for australian sugar and puts downward pressure on the Price for future australian self styled free trader Ronald Reagan closed the Deal by giving to peking for million sugar that Cost the taxpayer million in government the possible results of this Folly were alluded to by australian prime minister Bob Hawke in an article published on the Page opposite last he said that subsidized Grain sales to the soviet Union would undermine credibility in the eyes of allies and friends As Well As this loss of credibility in australian eyes could quickly be translated into a loss of the strategic advantage Over the soviet Union in the South Pacific conferred on the United states by its hitherto close relationship with having downgraded political relations with tiny new zealand Over that country refusal to give port facilities to nuclear powered or nuclear armed the Reagan administration is acting in a Way calculated to duplicate that dubious feat in Hawke is the moderate Leader of a socialist party whose noisy left Wing forced him to break his own Promise to let planes use australian bases to Monitor Long Range firings of unarmed my missiles from California into the Tasman probably the most popular politician Australia has Ever he is no ideologue but his disappointing 1984 reelection reduced his forcing him to take greater account of the ant defence spending Section of his by attacking Australia wheat and sugar Export Reagan has caused conservative australian Farmers to make common political cause with Hawkes left Wing it is now most unlikely that Australia would consider allowing new military bases were the United states to be kicked out of Subic Bay and Clark Field in the permitted ship already Down from 73 in 1982 to 55 in Are Likely to be further Australia now May reverse its approval for building a giant fuel storage facility in Western austra Lia that is to service Navy vessels patrolling the Indian existing tendencies in the Hawke Cabinet to implement a isolationist defence policy that excludes joint regional planning with the United states will now be More Trade dumping could create a unified constituency in Australia for a new policy of to be followed by closure of All satellite tracking facilities and eviction of All military Are a few farm Belt Republican votes Worth this kind of damage to strategic interests Frances conservatives falter by William Pfaff special to the free press Paris cohabitation of Frances socialist president with a conservative parliament is proving unhealthy for the More French voters now disapprove of conservative prime minister Jac ques Chirac than approve of the latest political popularity poll an exercise to which the French Public is obsessively addict that Only 40 per cent approve of what Chirac thus far has done As prime while 43 per cent the rest dont president Francois Mitterrand has lost ground As Well in the last month but still has a Clear positive 51 per cent approval and 35 per cent proved incompetent the right came to after six years in to do great As All new govern while its accomplishments after nearly five months in office Are less than the marvels promised employment and economic indices continue to what has most surprised the Public has been the measure of bumbling and incompetence accompanying what has been if there was anything the conservatives could reasonably have promised the voting it was competence and these were the same people who had run and run it very from the Start of the fifth Republic until the socialist Victory of Chirac surrounded himself with men not Only from his own last period As prime in the but from the entourage of president Georges Charles de Gaul Les own they have not yet proved that they Are coherent team which knows what it is two other reasons exist for the rights slump in Public the first is a matter of a part of the having read much about Reagan ism and had become convinced that this was the wave of the a big platform commitment was made to Deregla reduced taxes for entrepreneurs and and privatization of everything that it has been observed before that while France remains a decade ahead of the world in literary and philosophical it is a stubborn decade behind in political the French leftist intelligentsia Only discovered stalinism and the gulag in the Early it was not until the 1980s that the left backed off doctrinal Reagan ism embraced As debt Banks fail and economic indices slump in Ron Ald reagans and belief fades in the miracles that can be expected from suppl Side econom the French conservative intelligentsia has gone for Reagan ism in a big this is largely limited to the and the Effort to put it into practice has produced Little enthusiasm among Ordinary businessmen and shop whose ways of doing things Are once again being the general Public finds its beloved television in turmoil As Public net works Are there is mounting trouble Between the two big conservative political the Neo gaullist of and the More centrist uhf Union of French relations Between Chirac and centrist Leader Valery Giscard Des Taing Are cooler than after Chirac recently criticized the former presidents Middle Eastern poli Hope for socialists the polls say that among those who voted for the Chirac has lost the most support from working clerical and mismanagement and the these Are parts of the electorate for whom the socialists have a natural the socialists Are sure to do their Best to revitalize that Appeal in the months to the essential political fact of the last six years in France has been the emergence of the moderate left As a coherent and responsible be the French left was romantic and proclaim ing impractical or unsustainable people turned to it in extreme situations then turned away now things Are the left no longer has to prove it the conservative parties who Are challenged to demonstrate their sound they seem not yet to have grasped How serious that Challenge bicyclists for far too Many motorists cyclists Are to pedestrians fall into the same Cate youngsters in flying Down from the mountains on their always boiler a warning Well in Advance to pedestrians on the leading into the if cyclists in Winnipeg would be courteous enough to do the same i would be Happy to share the Side walk with As someone who suffered the hazards of motor car traffic for i sympathize with the cyclists for wanting to use the safety of the when they skim silently missing me by a Quarter of an As most of them then they deserve being refused to use the Isobel Grierson Winnipeg bicyclists by not yell sugar and health the letter by Robert Thompson of the sugar Institute no addictive free july 17 lacks objective to say the his claim that sugar consumption has no significant health effects is downright Yudkin has written three scientific studies which indicate that excess sugar consumption is statistically associated with Arterio sclerosis and heart a person taking More than 110 Grams four ounces of sugar per Day May be five or More times As Likely to develop myocardial injunction As one taking less than 60 milligrams 1957 1964 Stephen Gyland conducted a study of Over 600 patients who had hypoglycemia induced from excess sugar the majority of patients suffered from cold weak digestive mental internal trem heart rapid muscle pains numb of most of the official information we receive about nutrition in North America is strongly influenced by food companies and marketing boards such As the Cana Dian sugar Institute who provide employment for dietitians and who donate Grants for nutrition under such it is next to impossible to find either financial support or favourable publicity for any research that would support a Point of View inimical to the profits of the food David Rowland president Canadian nutrition Institute letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to pornography gainers strike i congratulate the free press for its Forward thinking editorial Pom in the prisons free August in which the writer spoke out against Access to pornography in perhaps one Day your paper will consider taking a similar stand in favor of women safety outside of Stony Mountain Penitentiary and will advocate limiting Access to pornography users who Are not safely behind pornography which portrays rape and mutilation As part of acceptable sexual or which advocates child sexual threatens the lives and safety of women and Chil Dren your writer should have mentioned that most rapists Are not locked safely behind bars and Are rarely put to Justice incest perpetrators Are largely free who will Likely never see a Day behind Many violent types of pornography legitimize and encourage these kinds of and Many recent research studies have proven that Lon term exposure to violent and degrading pornography de creases viewers abilities to see any thing wrong with what is being por perhaps a Day will come when positive images of sexuality and erotica will replace pornography Poteran Possession attitude to Ward until that the safety of All women and children is put at risk because of the availability of violent pornography and child pornography throughout Penni Mitchell Winnipeg on the evening of August at the Supe Valu store on i was distributing informational Leaf lets requesting that shoppers refrain from purchasing gainers three of my Ages and 7 were assisting ninety five per cent of the people were sympathetic and very pleas one became very upset because children were involved in what she referred to As such a disgraceful she would not let me explain that both my husband and i Are employed in if gainers workers Bow to Peter Pocklington leaving Scab labor in the submit to lower wages and lesser All packing House workers will suffer the the gainers fight is my fight and my fight is my Chil Drens fight As Mary Labovitch Quality counts it is obvious from his letter How to save free August 19 that George Finkle has no idea of what is going on in a typical Winnipeg class room Why would he make a ludicrous comparison Between some archaic English mid lands school system and our own the Quality of and of does indeed deteriorate considerably As the ratio of students to teachers if Finkle would care to poke his nose into an overcrowded classroom he might not be so Quick to lash out with his calculator at those of us who Are More concerned about the Quality of our Young Peoples education than about the Cost of Hambley Winnipeg Public schools it is perfectly proper for Donald Brock of the Catholic school trustees association in his letter a right to school funds free August 23 to make the Case for Public funds for Catholic it improper of him to present a distorted picture of the Public schools in doing he quite that the Public schools Are obliged to promote no religious he then goes on to very incur that the so far As religion and moral education is sic is at Best a there might be a religious void in the Public schools though Macgregor apparently takes the lords prayer seriously but this is far from saying that nothing is done about moral it is True there is nothing in the Public school curriculum called moral education but schools Are intimately concerned with it none in their in their extracurricular in just about everything they do with Stu schools Ace trying to influence their moral they May not always be but they i used to teach in the Public my children attended Public schools and got a Good education in the and my work keeps me in close touch with schools and i can say without any hesitation that the Public schools Are certainly concerned with moral Edu such Basic principles As re Spect for self con the Golden acting upon Are All promoted in the Public schools in Many written into statements of schools ask almost any teacher in Manitoba what they Hope to achieve for their students and they will not about science or but about the Good responsible contributing to it is of that the Public like their private Are not always Suc this is hardly surprising unlike their private counter they cannot select their Stu Brocks error is to confuse moral education with religion and to assume that one is not possible with out the if he had said that the Public schools do not promote the kind of moral education preferred by Catholic school there would be no though he might find that religious Dogma apart is a Good Deal of agreement Between Public and Pri vate schools on what constitutes right and what he said was that moral education was a and he is Ken Osborne Winnipeg door left open regarding the tamils who entered Canada after being found in a boat who forgot to close the Back door Parish at the sound of the tone leave your obscene and breathe ;