Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg fee free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of pm rights pub listed ssh Dpi Days i Werck at 360 a Dillon 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 a Job for the new session Call it Call it Call it playing for prime minister Brian Mulroney decision to end the present session of parliament and Call a new one for october 1 is a sensible Concession to the present session has been running since november two months after the Mulroney government was first the Days Are Long past when a parliament was divided neatly into yearly each with a speech from the a passage of legislation add followed by Royal assent and but there Are considerations of More than Mere tidiness in the notion from time to one session of parliament should end and another one the process gives the government an Opportunity to draft a speech from the throne which should give some focus to the work of parliament in the months the debate on the speech gives the opposition parties a Chance to indulge in wide ranging debate about the governments when Little of the real politics of Canada takes place in the debates in the House of that process is less important than it used to since both the government and the official opposition at the moment badly need of a sense of it will do both of them some it of solve arty of the Mulroney governments fundamental political postponing the beginning of the new session by three weeks scarcely amounts to dodging the problems facing the country will be looming every bit As Large on october 1 As they would have been on september when the previous session was supposed to have at least this the government should have a Clear idea of the problems it must tackle and of the time available to tackle it is half Way through its Likely there Are roughly two years until the next election and the priority items on the governments timetable at the moment Are Likely to take All of those two years to put in its first action must be to Deal with two urgent crises the effect on Western Farmers of the decline of world wheat prices and the flooding of world markets and the effects on the Western Oil Industry of collapsing world Oil dealing with those crises will conflict with the govern ments Long term plans for deficit reduction because preserving the Western agricultural Community and the fundamental elements of a Canadian Oil Industry through the next few years is going to Cost a lot of Money several billion dollars in the costs of on the social and economic fabric of and ultimately on the governments own capacity to raise Are so great that there is no alternative to the ultimate solution to both problems lies outside of until that solution Federal assistance to the damaged industries is once those two emergencies have been dealt the government can take a longer perspective on other major the Job of reducing the deficit must go steadily it could be aided by the process of tax Reform initially at will concentrate on getting More Money out of some taxpayers by eliminating unproductive loopholes in the tax in the Long the aim should be to make the tax system More fair and less of a drag on economic along with tax Reform should come Reform in social health minister Jake Epp has been talking about adapting medicare to the realities of the 1980s and he should get the Chance in this there should be efforts As Well to find More effective ways of seeing that most social benefits go to those who need them Trade negotiations with the United states should come to fruition during the life of the new multilateral Trade at the same should be Well under the government must demonstrate to doubters that the two paths to Trade liberalization Are not from today most of the governments major initiatives fit into a tidy of is never that there Are Likely to be As Many accidents and blunders in the new session As there were in the old Mulroney government will be better Able to survive if it can demonstrate that it is pursuing a Clear and coherent vision of the National a second look at schools the Public now has the Benefit of the Winnipeg school trustees second thoughts about their the 14 per cent higher than last have already been collected from the but the people were not pleased and the trustees have taken a second they found they could actually do without of the continuing education of the nutrition program of the summer school Cost and so on and million Worth of items they believe should be stripped out of the it a Little late for them to be deciding these amounts ought not to be they authorized the spending in the Spring when they adopted the current years budget and they inflicted their policy on the homeowners when the City sent out the tax Bills with their Endo june payment the reductions in spending May apply next unless the trustees change their policy yet again in the a change is the current policy was arrived at with the least possible Public the trustees conducted their own debate in closed they enacted the new policy in a session which they consid ered Public though the doors of the building were locked against any the Public who might turn up to hear the they did not hear the views of All those special interest taxpayers who would like to say something before the decisions Are those people will speak up one Way or another before the Board adopts its 1987 they May have some Good Points to make which will cause the trustees third thoughts to add to their second that is the disadvantage of making the decisions before the interested parties have made their the Deci Sions May have to get for what it is the trustees policy at the moment is that million of their 1986 budget which seemed necessary in the Spring is in fact Unne Ces they have not yet found a Way to unspent it and give it Back to the the Best they can do is decide that they should not spend it next of they tackling the Grain crisis Canada and the 13 other wheat producing countries meeting in Australia to discuss the Export subsidy crisis were right to seek a solution through the slow but sure machinery of the general agreement on tariffs and no other International institution could do the there is no other Way for the 14 affected countries to bring sufficient pressure to Bear on the three powerful economies that Are distorting the world wheat the guilty three Are the United states and the european economic japans government rigs its internal Price system to discourage its Popula Tion from creating demand for the United states spends prodigious amounts of tax dollars so that it can sell its wheat abroad at Low the european economic Community spends 70 per cent of its entire budget on its common agricultural policy so that it can dump wheat on the world Market at Roc Bottom the spark that lit the fire in Cairns was president Ronald reagans offer of a cheap wheat Deal to the soviet it was Only the most outrageous recent example of a trend that the 14 countries feel helpless to the atmosphere of selfish irresponsibility on this Issue in the Congress was Well conveyed in an article this week in the Wall Street in which Minnesota Republican congressman Vin Weber argued for Extension of wheat Export Sale subsidies to every commodity and every two Cairns Brazil and could pay a heavy Price if the electoral considerations of opportunists like Weber were to result in such a policy Folly coming to if the United states steals the wheat Export markets of Brazil and it May also steal their there Are military men in both countries who would like to get out of Barracks and Back to their old habits of torture and reducing the chances of Brazil and Argentina to earn the foreign Exchange they need to repay their Large foreign debts Means forcing them to impose the kind of Domestic austerity that could bring Down civilian governments and bring Back the uni formed men with the electric cattle next months preliminary Gatt meeting gives the 14 wheat exporters their Chance to ask the 82country body to give serious consideration to stopping the subsidy the government of whose Bellig Erent Farmers Are bloated with dec has used devious procedural techniques to try to keep agriculture off the Gatt the 14 should persuade other Gatt members that it must be Gatt Tariff reduction negotiations take that is no cause for if an agreement that would curb and european wheat Export Trade abuses could be its very existence would put pressure on them to modify their behaviour Long before it has been completed and gallery Phil Mallette i Calls getting Back to real life again by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press whenever i return from holidays i always do so with a sinking it is not that i regret getting Back to i love i love watch ing other people my concern simply involves a grinding fear that my employers May have while i was that they can get along quite nicely without my ser there is also a nagging fear that after three weeks i May have forgotten How to do my All that All that Gin and All those Lazy Days basking with a Book open but unread Over my face May have served to Dull the Edge of turning me into a kind of vegetable unfit for anything but the most simple tanned and healthy i understand that Many people return from Holiday in a similar that is Why so Many people get fired or Laid off just As they return tanned and healthy after three weeks at the the Boss who wishes to be rid of them knows that their mental defences Are they Are in no fit state to fight they smell of Mosquito Oil and Sun screen and their minds Are like unwound the Pink slip floors them and they wander away to the Pic office without a murmur of some go directly Back to the Beach and console themselves with a further dose of Agatha pos Holiday lethargy in its most severe forms is Well known in every place of business and every employer knows that there is no Point in expecting to get any real work out of the returning victim of this malady until the smell of the Barbecue has the insect bites have healed and the sunburn the after has been unwinding for three possibly it will take at least three weeks to get the patient wound up again and Back into High a similar malady strikes the re turning school child at this time of when i was a boy i used to in late from an ail ment that might be described As late summer the symptoms were painful in the i would be sitting at the top of a tree wondering what to do next when it would suddenly occur to me that i had forgotten everything i had Learned at school the previous All knowledge of for exam had faded i before except after was that a Rule or something i had dreamed up did defence have a c in it or an s mathematics was simply a word i could no longer spell with any de Gree of was the binomial theorem the mys teries of the nine times table remained shrouded in Short division was a closed the thought of vulgar fractions what Ever they might be made the head sinking feeling late summer worse than Poison Ivy or grew like a killing Moss Over everything i had Ever Learned about French or i sat there in my tree like an muttering words such As Bon Jour and the rest was silence and that Well known sinking the temptation to jump was almost late summer i under is still striking without fear or favor among returning scholars in All should not become unduly alarmed if they detect the symptoms in their off the fever usually Breaks during the second week of fall total recovery is and those who actually jump out of Trees Are remarkably few in resentment the agonies suffered by adults during the pos Holiday period Are often similar in nature to those endured by Young victims of late summer As is the Case with adult versions of mumps and the symptoms on be More pronounced and the suffering More the first Day Back at the office can be unpleasant for All con the robust Good health of the returnee provokes resentment among coworkers who have not yet gone on those who took Winter holidays and Are now Well past what might be called the convalescent period frequently react with ill disguised anger when the return be attempts to regale them with stories of his Days at the the Large fish that was caught and other travellers tales designed to try the patience of the office bound the Man just Back from holidays is unfit for any kind of work and his col leagues simply have to put up with him till the Tan fades and his mind until that pretend that you enjoy looking at the and vol were just As bad when you got Back from your holi Falcons May nest atop Winnipeg buildings the Peregrine about the size of a is a remarkable Bird hat can dive at a Speed of More than 320 Kilometres an feathers feet lying Back against the Tail and wings half it hurtles Down and despatches a Vic Tim by disabling it with a fierce blow or catching it in nature has equipped the Falcons with a system of baffles in the nostrils to enable them to breathe at such dazzling it is an endangered Bird and it is fascinating to know that it May cohabit and rear its Young right in downtown environment Canada has a National program to Reint reduce the and Winnipeg has been chosen As one of the Sites where the Birds have been released now for the sixth it May seem a perverse act to Spring them in the but the Peregrine nests mostly on precipitous City buildings Supply an artificial says the noted provincial Biol Bob associated with the program Ani unusual drama unfolded on such a Cliff the roof of the 29 Storey Delta hotel on Portage ave earlier this a pair of Val Werier banded Peregrine Falcons were observed there during june and a happening of tremendous excite ment in Avian who were they the name Peregrine comes from the latin adjective meaning coming from foreign parts or Field glasses proved inadequate to decipher the banding and an astronomical Telescope was borrowed from the it took a few weeks of observation to find the Birds in the right position to make out the digits about on eighth of an Inch on the red one turned out to be a male released at the Mary Speechly Hall at the University of Manitoba Cam pus in the other was a female released in Montreal in since being released the Falcons would have gone to South America and for they Migrate there for the i presume he picked her up in Rio de Janeiro and came to says she did not Lay an another tragic event on july the male fluttered Down on Portage Avenue near Donald Street and Roger who happened to be darted into the traffic to Rescue the Nero was called and he took it to a vet but it Nero sur Mises that it May have struck a window and died of Shock and inter Nal the female is still to the experienced Eye of the Delta hotel roof revealed the diet of the peregrines feed almost entirely on feathers and remains were those of a Black billed Sora common a Gadwall Duck Surpris an american so far the Falcons have not been successful in nesting in although they have done so in Cal Ottawa and Mon the Birds Are bred in Captivity in and re leased at the age of about seven they Are fed for a further period of three or four weeks until they Are Able to Hunt on their their diet in Winnipeg fresh Chick a fastened with a Loose rubber band around the Birds keeps track of its Early move one place they favored was Oak Hammock 24 Kilometres Northwest of the where there Are easy pickings of Shore direct As the Falcon will Only take a few it can cruise at 100 Kilometres an All the buildings chosen for re lease of the Birds Are not far from Rivers and with a Broad View of the Countryside from the top of the confederation life fort Osborne Barracks this from the Grain Exchange like do have Acci and one of the pair released this year was found injured this month at the car the top of one Wing was it has been stitched up and returned to Wain Wright As a Breeding the in vestment is too great about for rearing and releasing the Bird and the species too and other pesticides extensively used alter the second world War have decimated the Peregrine like other they Are at the end of the food Chain and so More residue Levels in says Federal Canadian wildlife ser Are further concentrated until they May be Many times greater than the Levels of their Avian prey and hundreds of times higher than Levels in the there has been some revival of peregrines with the ban on As Nero Dot is Peregrine Falcon at rest still used in Mexico and Central and South America where the Birds win so it is still a peregrines have been highly esteemed for More than Ever since the nomads of Central Asia pursued game with trained Hawks and the sport of falconry has been associated with the Rich and the elite at the time of William the the Peregrine was High on the peerage no one below the rank of Earl was allowed to indulge in once they nest Falcons May make their Home Here successive peregrines have been known to nest at the Island of off the coast of since at least As for the artificial Cliff the most famous is the Sun life a female it appeared on the 20th floor of the Sun life building in Montreal in she remained for 16 Breeding sea had three successive males and reared 21 she became a observed by thousands in her downtown location and reported extensively in the will Winnipeg have is own famous Falcon ;