Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 10, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press of Tracte Liberty of religion Equality of Publ sea Sevan Days a my at 363 Carlton Winnipeg fisc 381 by Tafta Daft Edw party j piss or i Fol bulls n1g6l John daf06 editorial id Murray Burt Mankind editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press court Chi leave zoning Power alone the provincial government wants to take planning and zoning Power away from Winnipeg City Council and give it to the Community committees panels of five or six councillors in each of the cites six Community at the same the government wants to change the Community area boundaries every six years in the name of electoral the two proposed in Urban affairs minister Gary doers discussion paper on City of Winnipeg act do not sit Well Hie Community areas Are both administrative Pale shadows of the separate municipalities that were merged in 1971 groups of electoral electoral districts have to change As the distribution of population changes so that a civic vote carries As much weight in one part of the City As in administrative especially zoning need to change As Little As possible so that the toning will not be kicked Back and Between if the Community committees Are to have the zoning Powers the ment is offering then the people need Assurance that each piece of land will stay in the same Community the Community committees already play a Large role in zoning holding the Public meeting where the the Developer and the neighbors can express their views and making the initial almost decisions Are appealed to the Council when someone is even if the decision is purely local in its All parties then get drawn into the endless process of appearances before standing committees of the Council councillors from other parts of the City Are obliged to make decisions on curb cuts and Sid Yards about which they know nothing and care the government is proposing to direct All such appeals to a single standing of the where no councillor could sit on an Appeal coming from the same Community the is to discourage appeals and put the zoning Power in the Community a Community committees zoning will arise from a certain Conception of the entire Community of the division and mixing of of the flow of traffic through the of the convenience of neighbors and the rights of if the drawing of new electoral boundaries suddenly casts a neighbourhood from one Community area into the landowners and their neighbors May suddenly find their rights being adjusted to a different set of conceptions because the councillors Are better or worse but because the Community area is i the whole Point of zoning is to give owners and occupants of land some certainty about the neighbouring properties High the buildings will what the property will be used How Many people will live or work zoning is fluid enough so that the certainty it offers is contingent at the Best of if the zoning Power is passed to Community committees and their boundaries Are changed every six the certainty will be even the More Power they Over land the less they should be subject to rehabilitating Pasternak the decision of the soviet authorities to at the publication of Boris Pasternak great novel doctor Zhivago is one of the More Welcome results of communist party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev Campaign of or for the poet Nikolai who was executed in was recently the subject of a favor Able article in the Magazine Ogo Nyok which has been the Pathfinder of the soviet press in testing the limits of glasnost in politics and social Boris Pasternak has for years been a Symbol of soviet cultural repression but remains one of russian Best loved soviet citizens still visit his grave and read aloud from his in after doctor Zhivago was published in the Pasternak was awarded the Nobel prize for since then the a love Story set in the years after the 1917 has won millions of but its implicit criticism of the communist system led to its being banned in the soviet Union and made its author the object of a Savage Campaign of forced to the Nobel he was expelled from the writers Union and died in disgrace in Welcome As the rehabilitation of Pasternak it is Clear that it has elements of Public doctor Zhivago in 1986 is hardly a political Al though the new policy of openness has let a Little fresh air into the soviet cultural much is still recently a soviet editor hinted that the works of Alexander might also be this was swiftly officially Solzhenitsyn is also a Nobel prize winning novelist who has won admirers the world in the soviet his novels and his nonfiction books Are Solzhenitsyn grim and overpowering documentation of soviet atrocities committed in the name of communism gave the word gulag to the languages of the it comes from the title of Solzhenitsyn gulag the name Given to the vast network of prison Camps that dotted the soviet Union from the time of Lenin and still to a lesser Gorbachev openness does not extend to allowing the soviet people to read the truth about their history either As interpreted by Solzhenitsyn in his novels or documented in his it is a reminder that while we May Welcome we cannot forget that the gulag continues to destroy that the former can never be Complete while the latter continues to Volckers revival i from Power of White House chief of staff Donald Regan was a sea change in the dynamics of what May happen when Paul Volckers second fou year term As Federal Reserve Board chairman comes to an end in August until Regan resigned last As part of president Ronald reagans damage control reactions to the damaging Tower commission report on the Iran the financial Community was discussing who would replace not whether he would be considered for the reason was that Regan was obsessed with the idea of getting rid of Volcker and replacing him with Beryl a highly placed rigid monetarist in the Treasury department who was a favorite of Regan when or Regan was Treasury sprinkels Talent for reminiscent of the vicar of was on display in the weeks before his sponsors fall from he went Cap in hand to beg for forgiveness and for support from two influential advocates of suppl Side who have been Bis bitterest critics for a very Long would be Republican presidential nominee Jack Kemp and economist Jude Wanniski were his lobbying Effort was robbed of his size in the selection stakes because he is regarded with Disfavour on Wall Street Back in Contention is who is enormously popular on Wall Street and in the International financial r his popularity is based on deep respect and firm belief in his leading world Central Bankers and private Bankers credit him with whipping the inflationary they talk enthusiastically about his leadership in guiding the global banking system through the rough Waters of the International debt they regard him As a steadying countering the Reagan administrations More blatantly political efforts to manipulate Exchange and interest he is seen As standing for sound his Money Supply policies Are generally supported because they seem to be based on common sense and prudence rather than on passing economic he May not want a third preferring a quieter life running Princeton there Are several Good candidates not including May very badly want him to continue at a time when the International debt picture is again darkening and at a time when reagans administration is showing Wear in the integrity the painted painted just Bouey right to fear inflation by Wilson Ottawa politicians tend to look at inflation rates in the four per cent Range like Canadas As proof of successful policies but Central Bank ers Are likelier to hold the healthy View even if less bad than in the they Are still much too the Central of have the better Case because even at four per inflation erodes the value of Money quickly and causes unhealthy instability in the econ right to insist one of the Tetter thing that has happened Here this Winter is the insistence of the retiring governor of the Bank of Gerald that he was right in his longstanding fear of inflation although probably not Tough enough in the Steps he took to curb it but bogeys monetary policies were not properly supported by the finance department and its he left the Bank at the end of january and John until then the senior took crowds views on this vitally important subject Are As Strong As the former when the Banks annual report came out it is bogeys not crowds the new governor was asked what an acceptable rate of inflation would he replied that Zero per cent would be the new governor would probably admit that he was stating a utopian goal but it would be reassuring if we knew for certain that he would be deeply concerned Over any inflation rate not below two per if Zero per cent would be excellent but impossible to achieve with growth in the a rate per cent is quite compatible with we and other countries have achieved that in the past and it should be our goal it is not to detect More than traces of official and political complacency Over the prevailing a bit below four per Ohe provincial Premier has predicted in private Al though not that in the near future we will be suffering from double digit inflation All Over he holds the cynical View that the american and Canadian budgetary deficits will not be eliminated through fiscal discipline but in the end will simply be inflated out of existence through massive degradation of the Points to danger that View May be too gloomy and despairing but bogeys final report notes that inflation in the booming Toronto area1 last year was Over per not the four per cent or so that prevailed in less prosperous parts of the he pointed to the danger of no Canadian has heard opposition politicians warning of that Bouey Points out a last time in this report that the Way to lower interest rates is through a Strong National not one that has been weakened by premature Steps to lower the Cost of using other Peoples the plunge in the value of the Dollar that encouraged fierce inflation in the Early years of this decade started with the huge foreign Bor Rowings and outflows of capital that arose from the frenzied canadians nation of the Oil against advice the government started the out flow through the overpriced Pur Chase of belgian owned Petrosina and encouraged the takeovers at Peak Market prices that ruined dome Petroleum and other always1credited Bouey with applying the pressure which stopped madness but the country is still paying the Price and the canadians Zed assets have never recovered their inflated Market values of the Early in his final report Bouey admits that the costs of prolonged inflation have proved to be higher even than he feared at the Here is his Farewell the main conclusion that i draw from our experience is that inflation is so disruptive to our economic performance and so costly to eradicate once it becomes entrenched that we must always be vigilant in guarding against any buildup of inflationary his successor animal rights Mel in his outdoors column free february 21 attacks the animal rights movement for devas Tating the native in so he provides an example of How Canadian journalism is inca Pable of being objective on the Ani Mal rights in the repeated mention of native poverty and animal rights activism in the same writers like Dagg imply a link where there is animal liberation lists have Only come to the fore in recent the poverty and misery of Canadas aboriginals have been a fact since the arrival of europeans centuries what is sorely needed in the Cussion of the declining fur Trade is the realization that an increasing number of furs Are coming from animals raised on ranches As opposed to those found in the while such operations Are equally Fox pelts ready for Sale callous and cruel to other they Are More profitable for fur companies than whereas traps can often kill animals other than those needed by the ranches provide both a controlled environment and a steady Supply of a certain in ranches Are now taking advantage of reduced feed there have been other Complex developments which elude Daggs crude one is the growth of the fur ranch Industry in nations such As Korea where there Are no animal welfare regulations and there Are Low labor the practice of applying dyes to the pelts of kidnapped cats to simulate those of rabbits is another Factor in the decline of demand for trapped Martin Toews Winnipeg survival in his about books column free february Robert Saunders discusses the advantage of a writer having another for most Canadian the chief advantage is being Able to anyone who thinks writers should devote themselves to their Craft full should buy Canadian books and periodicals Lotsof Kevin Longfield Manitoba Canadian authors association Winnipeg lament for nation regarding the article negotiators aiming to remove tariffs in 10 sources say free february i plan to go out and buy a Canadian when Canada is to tally annexed by the United i will be Able to show my children the Flag of the once great nation of can i am appalled by the Way Canada is being sold to the United states and for a cheap Price at John Turnock Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters rom writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to bus fares Aid for schools regarding the letter absurd by Terry Lewis free March Lewis argues that d private schools produce students with a higher Quality of academic excellence at two thirds the Cost of the Public d degrees and Money Are not the Only factors involved in Good teach d a competitive school system Pri vate versus Public would be the his first premise cannot be tested with any Validity unless students Are admitted to private schools on the same basis As they Are to Public the basis is that regard less of innate intellectual wealth or social status a student is free to enrol in whatever program is i agree with his second the premise that salary is not the measure of the Quality of service performed is equally True for tailors or the Issue is not what teach ing is Worth in but what salary and social status ought to be associated with teaching to attract the Best of our Young people to the those with the most Abil Ity choose their few of those choose the lowest it is a non sequitur to suggest that increasing Public Aid to private schools will improve the Quality of the Overall educational Lewis argues that a competitive system by competitive i assume he Means equally funded would increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the educational system and Weed out poor such he goes on to would enable parents to Send their children to the Best schools and other schools would have to either improve or cease to within the context of private Best Means meeting the narrow and needs of the offspring of parents who feel that their children Are different from the general by different they usually mean taken to its logical this approach would result in there being one school for every after is not each child unique according to those who want equal funding for private All parents should have Access to Public funds to meet the unique needs of their whether racial or any other need that is deemed a human would this Balkans nation of our educational system improve it i do not think Vic Pruden Winnipeg uncaring the article tenants forced from apartments free March 4 is food for thought for All of Winnipeg and especially for our provincial and City How in the name of All that is decent can they sit Back and allow this shameful and degrading Way of life to exist in Friendly perhaps it is time they took a hard look at Home to see what could be accomplished in these Circum stances and maybe they could allow themselves to take a hard look at their pensions and the increases they pay themselves with hardly a quiz Orthank you for showing the Resi dents of this City what is going on Here and perhaps you might also draw this to the attention of the uncaring people in elected William Douglas Winnipeg regarding the article passengers cries of foul Over fare stall bus free March i feel the change from the 85cent fare to the 90cent fare was badly handled by the transit particularly As far As bus ticket users were con All that is said on each ticket is Good for one fare with no mention of monetary value or expiry the transit system shows a poor sense of ethics when it refuses to Honor these tickets and it exhibits pettiness when it demands that All users of the old tickets add an extra in the transit system should put a monetary value on the tickets to avoid or it at be willing to Honor old tickets until they Are used Paul Sawchuk Winnipeg a teachers Day the latest misinformation spread by the Winnipeg Home owners association is the statement made March 4 on Csc radio that teach ers who spend Only hours a Day teaching Are there is a spurious precision to the figure which is in line with the groups claim last summer that the Edmon ton school District 7 with students had a budget of Mil in the budget is facts seem to be of Little consequence to a group Bent on lowering the Quality of education in the Manitoba school act states that the instructional Day shall be not less than five and on half not counting lunch parents of schoolchildren will appreciate that teachers spend considerably More than five and on half hours a Day in when not they plan their they Mark papers and they consult their they phone parents or visit Homes where there is no Many Stu dents Are from single Parent Homes and consultations can be done Only in the in there Are hundreds of teachers who regularly give time and Energy to out doors activities for their students outdoor education science multicultural a recent due to the kind of budgetary restraints so eagerly rated for by the Home owners Asso is the fundraising activities that Parent councils and school staffs work More than 95 per cent of teachers in the Winnipeg school division have at least one the average teacher whose salary was quoted on the radio must have a degree and nine years of experience As a or or two or More degrees with slightly less the Cru Dren of the Winnipeg school division Are receiving their education from qualified David Turner Winnipeg teachers association sure i can Start laying Guto but wont that the Price of gow1 i ;