Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january 1981 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carron 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 the first beneficiary Canadian National is assured of doing Well out of the proposed East Yard development others May Benefit but their gains Are More Distant and less the railway and the Federal regional expansion department have reached an understanding about the basis on which in would surrender part of its downtown rail Yard to a development corporation owned jointly by the City and the Manitoba and Federal the understanding is set Forth in the report of the East Yard task a body of officials reporting to the political masters of the Core area by that the railway would keep the Northern 18 acres of the site and the City would build roads and other municipal services to open cons land for the railway owns most of the 18acre Section it would acquire also some parcels now held by the City or by the Core area the Council would give in a zoning change to allow hotel and commercial construction without height As on the downtown Section of Portage the development corporation would Promise not to put office and com Mercial buildings on the other part of the where they would compete with cons development the Road the other services and the zoning change will give the railway a Large immediate a tract of land which is now Little More than useless waste ground unable to produce income for the owner will immediately become land tied to downtown Winni Peg on which densely built High rent office towers or office and retail complexes can be even if in never builds on that it will have achieved an immense increase in the value of its land owners in those circumstances sometimes sell the land to pocket the value created by the municipal investment in services and by the zoning change granted by the the at the same offers the new development corporation a on fifth share of cons profits on development of its 18acre it provides that in and the development corporation will split the Cost of tearing up track and relocating railway operations so As to make the Southern part of the rail Yard available for the development the split would be a roundabout one in would do the Clearing and relocating the development corporation having a million Kitty of Grants from three governments to play with would pay the first million of the Cost of the work and the railway would pay its half of million out of when it earns from development of its 18 Many years might therefore pass before the railway actually ponies up its the railway is Happy to Fet the Southern part of the rail Yard go for recreational or residential a Nice Park or dignified historic site with some upmarket condos would do very nicely As neigh Bors to the in adding to its value and assisting its the railway does want to see the development corporation signing up users who could be paying rent to the understanding with the Federal government provides that none of the lands transferred to the tripartite Public development Agency will be used principally for office or other commercial development not related to the cultural or housing uses anticipated for these when the City planning department in the summer issued its proposed downtown zoning Parks and housing were the Only uses it proposed for the Southern part of the East the task Force despite cons proposes government offices and a food Market for the Southern in is unlikely to agree with government offices or festive markets moving in next door to the land it is hoping to fill with office and commercial hiding the deficit finance minister Eugene Kostyra is not impressed by the statement from provincial auditor Fred Jackson that million in deficits incurred during the past two years were never announced but simply buried in the provincial he says the practice of under re porting provincial deficits has been going on for Only in politics is repeating an offence regarded As grounds for Kostyra describes As an accountants observation recommendation that the deficits should have been disclosed when they were Jackson is doing exactly what he is being paid to which is to bring to Public notice the figures that Kostyra department is attempting to make a bit More difficult to reporting deficits is More an exercise in politics than in for when Kostra last july that the previous years deficit was he was also Able to announce that the total was million lower than had been when the 19841985 deficit of million was an mention was made that the figure was million less than had been the in both was that the government had managed its financial affairs better than it thought it Jacksons figures Tell a different he reports that the 1985 deficit was not million As this is million higher than estimated and higher than for the real deficit was More than estimated and million More than Jackson Points out that Manitoban Are not getting the full picture partly because the government chooses to separate capital and operating deficits and partly because the government never in its reported losses incurred by Crown the government insists on splitting capital and operating deficits on the theory that Money spent on capital projects creates and should not be regarded in the same Way As operating accepting Kostyra argument makes the govern ments financial management look worse rather than in the latest quarterly he was forced to revise the estimate of this years operating deficit upwards to million from that is an increase of 60 per not one part of which has anything to do with the ministers favorite the reduction in Money received from the growth in the estimate of the operating deficit is substantially higher than the capital which reflects the fact that the government has Little Money with which to create new the revised estimate results from an accumulation of past actions and of higher debt servicing higher costs of govern ment programs and revenues lower than had been whatever efforts Are made to disguise the facts from the the reality will not be lost on the lending houses where Manitoba is forced to get the Money to carry out its programs and to service its rapidly increasing these lending houses do not pay much attention to statements on finance produced by governments for consumption by the general they Are interested Only in the and the figures they Are most Likely to pay attention to Are those made Public by the provincial gallery Phil Mallette try this Champagne Cork quiz a Canadian Success Story the Montrea based firm that was Given the cf18 maintenance contract by the Federal government got the work the government unlike Bristol aerospace of was in the business of building Canad air has just announced that it is changing its Basic business strategy away from building air planes and towards other sectors of its sectors which just happen to include work for the department of National Donald the president of says that his company Hopes to continue to build about 25 challenger aircraft each but admits the aircraft probably needs to be redesigned to meet the Competition provided by the Gulf Stream and the French built fal Lowe suggests that these problems Are not As serious now that Canad air has solid growth ahead in defence Airframe parts subcontracting and the water bomber Lowe has an excellent Chance in bidding jointly with Aero spatial of France for the billion sea King helicopter replace ment program for the Canadian with a goal of billion in sales in five and programs which will require the investment of Between million and million in the next few Canad air can envisage the time when it will have built up a Suff gently Strong financial record to Back the Sale of some of its Stock to the the president Given what has happened so potential investors will probably be looking at a sure when a company can come in second in overbid by and still get the largest Federal government military aircraft maintenance contract its future can hardly be in the backers of Canad air still As they have been for so Many the taxpayers of by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press my annual Christmas Cracker which has puzzled and perplexed my friends and enemies for More than a Here and else for this year a new year Champagne Cork quiz because the questions were not arranged in time for it makes no matter Christmas or new those who attempt to answer the questions will have their work Cut out for but they May have a few laughs while frustration let us great beginnings everyone knows the author and Book connected to such memorable first lines As it was a dark and Stormy night and it was the Best of it was the worst of but can you put a title and an author to these other great beginnings d see Naples and then die that was a proud which we used to hear As we cruised under Lateen sails about the glorious that reflects from its Waters the fires of we believed the boast but i say see Quebec and live forever eternity would be too Short to weary me of this Lovely scene this Bright Cana Dian morning is worthy of and this glorious landscape worthy of such a Sun Robertston Davies Pierre Berton Alice Munro d on summer not Many years a Man was seen to ascend the Side of a Little Mound or on the top of which he lingered to gaze upon the wild Sce Nery that Lay stretched out before Margaret Atwood Hugh Hood d hallo where Are shouted a voice that rang through the Glades of the Forest like the blast of a Silver testifying to lungs of leather and a Throat of Henry James Thomas Hardy Art Buchwald d it was late on a Winter evening when our William arrived in in company with his two friends and former mess bunco and Larry Ernest Hemingway Mitchell John Metcalfe the sleeping Muse who wrote these memorable lines of poetry d Lovely appearance of death what sight upon Earth is so not All the Gay pageants that can with a dead body d of the Maiden and thy weary head upon this a tear stood in his Bright Blue but still he answered with a Excelsior la and when upon your Dainty breast i my wearied More soft than d a dying Tiger for drink i hunted All the caught the dripping of a and bore it in my hand mighty balls death were thick searching could a vision on the of water and of me d All gaily dressed soon youll to the great provincial to be admired by Many a in the City of who said that can you identify these quotations d there Are National considerations that Rise far higher than the Mere accumulation of than the Mere question of Trade advantage there is National Sta National Dominion no great nation has Ever Arisen whose policy was free d it is not squalid like birding or cramped like or scattered like or Sharn like or hellish like new or tiresome like it is All the Only depressing thing is that it will always be what it Only and that no Canadian City can be anything better or if they Are they May become Toron d Winnipeg should be the new Cap ital for Canadas second never mind about Treyve had the Good life Long d Canada is a live but like the whats in a name Many Well known canadians have been Given identify d Warden of the d calamity d the hanging d old d the Pope of methodism the answers and a few extra treats courteous White lies look foolish in business to Tell a White lie is to display a White lie is a departure from the truth to save another per sons one Doest Tell a Friend or a sweetheart that her new gown has the shape and color of a faded Pup neither do you Tell someone you Haven seen for years that he is As fat As a which he you might offer that he looks Hale and we indulge in these White lies so As not to Hurt the niceties of life demand that we Prevar Cate now and to Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth can be used to Hurt As suggested by the poet William Blake a truth that told with bad beats All the lies you can some people May be so obtuse and indifferent to the facts As to prompt a variation of the White Winston Churchill said that Stanley Baldwin occasionally stumbles Over the but he always hastily picks himself up and hurries on As if nothing had White lies Are not at All detrimental to Good human according to the Oxford etymological the term White lie was first used in gentlemen Maga Zine in gentlemen Magazine reported that a certain lady of the highest Quality makes judicious distinction Vai Werier Between a White lie and a Black a White lie is that which is not intended to injure anybody in his interest or but Only to gratify a garrulous disposition and the itch of amusing people by telling them wonderful that admirable definition has been enlarged and distorted to in clude not Only a desire to arouse hilarity or to spare feelings but also a wish to conceal the i was struck by a recent article in which the Vic president of an inter National consulting firm offered advice to displaced executives seeking the script is larded with deceit and let us picture poor an executive who could no longer tolerate his a miserable Man and a Crook to according to the consultants must not bad Mouth past employers or a proper when asked Why he left his would be that we agreed to another suggested response the Challenge has gone from my Why does gloom want the Job the suggested response to be part of a company project to solve a company problem to make a definite contribution to specific com Pany poor gloom cannot say he is behind in his his car is about to be repossessed and he needs Money the script does not allow such an the reality is that salary is upper most in the minds of most who seek a that is a prime consideration among those who would seek executive if one accepts the experience of a College of schol arly preeminence and National president Derek Bok of Harvard is not too Happy to report that the stated goals on the application forms of incoming students were Money followed by Power and then making a Adam editor of the Harvard Law re says students tend to be a very careerist group with a blood thirsty desire to get the Harvard connection Means graduates fill top posts in government and the masters of business administration Start As High As a do Harvard graduates Tell prospective employers All they yearn for is Challenge the language is used with such abandon to put things in a different Light that it produces some preposterous these Are the instructions accompanying a word process ing program for Mark of the Unicorn when the aut Correct option on the Correct spell menu reads on1 that Means the automatic correction is now if it reads off that Means automatic corrections is now this will be changed in version As Many people have found it con absurd As this May so Are some standards and regulations and puffery in the Market silly and insipid attributes Are Given to does any male really be Lieve that he will attract the company of nubile Maidens by drinking a particular Brand of Beer the antidote to this debasement of the White lie is simple subdue the adoration of frenetic a delightful report by William Murray in the new yorker illustrates this in some Young men in As a dreamed up what has become the Vag Alonga or Long they set out in nine boats to Row 32 Kilometres across the their Lark has become a great an Nual event and boats took part last it is not a nor has it Ever been anyone can usually Only about half the boats Complete the writes but no one keeps Tab and no one each whether or not he receives a diploma of participation and a commemorative now that Superb material for White Stanley Baldwin left stumbled Over truth but picked himself Churchill said ;