Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 29, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free june 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of Equality of civil rights Tei 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 Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council Himm More nonsense Over age the executive committee of Winnipeg City which is nothing if not believes it has not yet squandered enough Public Money in litigation about age discrimination in the police having lost in one court after another on the de Igelski mandatory retirement the civic policymakers now Are spoil ing for an equally promising fight Over the minimum age for police the Law of Manitoba says employers cannot discriminate among employees on the basis of age except where age is a reasonable requirement of the the policy of the Winnipeg police department says constables will not be hired younger than age common sense says constables should be selected on the basis of their ability to do the which is Best determined by looking at the candidate and the candidates not by looking at the candidates birth the cites staff lawyers advised the councillors on the policy committee to Back the police hiring according to the should be brought into line with provincial a minimum age of 18 could be defended because police have to be Able to hold class 4 driving licences and enter drinking but the present minimum age of 20 cannot be the dispute is an abstract one and does not make a difference to police the department is Able to pick and choose among Community College and University an 18yearold straight out of High school with no pos secondary education and Little or no employment experience has no real Prospect of being hired into the police training the most recent Batch of recruits had a mean age of the question of hiring an 18yearold does not in practice the Only reason for keeping a 20year minimum age on the books is to pick a fight Over the fight is not Worth winning even if it could the results achieved in the de Igelski exercise suggest that it cannot be the City needed to persuade some court that a person ceases to be Able to work As Deputy chief of the Winnipeg police department upon reaching 60 years of its lawyers failed to persuade the human rights commission the court of Queens Bench judge and the majority of the Appeal court the supreme court refused to hear an alter that costly and protracted the executive policy committee now wants to try to persuade a judge that a candidate who was not fit to be a police Constable at age 19 becomes fit for police work at age the judicial system is to be plugged up once again with volumes of research work and Days of testimony so that the police department can maintain its right to refuse work to a person who would be an acceptable candidate for police work in every respect except for being 19 years old instead of 20 years if a candidate is Well suited to police work in Way physical maturity then that person should be the City was not Able to defend compulsory police retirement at age 60 though de Igelski will never see age 60 constables aged 18 or if there were All have excellent chances of reaching age the minimum age is therefore even harder to defend than the the councillors should take their Legal departments choosing a new tank while nuclear submarines May occupy the headlines and command the most attention at the department of National defence for some the army should be doing its research on what kind of new tank is needed for the Canadian replacing every tank in Canadas present and providing the armoured corps with modern simulator training would Cost about half the Price of a single Hunter killer Summa it is becoming increasingly apparent that the decision a dozen years ago to Purchase the last of the Leopard i tanks produced was not the right and will be expensive to Canada decided on Leopard 1 models because the defence department argued it could not depend on technology that had not been thoroughly the same department later decided to go with the Canadas 10yearold tanks do not have the the Armor or the guns to fight other modern three different modern tanks Are in nato the German built Leopard ii which Canada could have bought ten years ago but did have the Speed and firepower to remain in the front the new British challenger tank has bring ing with it firepower and Superior protective the United which introduced the Abrams my tank Only a few years is already replacing those tanks in Europe with the which carries a bigger the tanks also have the sophisticated Canadian tank Crews would prefer to get the Abrams Over the new since Canadian manufacturers already Supply 90 different mostly computer and heat sensing devices that go into every Abrams some of the offset work that could be expected from a Canadian order is already in the main objection to buying the Abrams is that it would leave Canada with two types of unless the germans produce a tank with Armor equivalent to the Abrams and the Canada should put the lives of its soldiers first and switch to the there will probably be plenty of time to reach the the White paper on defence recommended the replacement of the Leopard but action will depend on finding the million needed to do the Chance of finding the Money is Remote so Long As the submarine acquisition program occupies first place in department sense in the Senate the Senate of Canada has shown More responsibility and common sense than the House of commons by holding up a legislative move to give Nutrasweet of Illinois five More years to charge canadians twice what is charged in Europe for an artificial sweetener used in soft drinks and other there is considerable irony in the fact that an unelected body has shown More interest than an elected body in trying to protect Canadian voters from having to pay what Industry experts say would be million extra Over the next five it strengthens the argument of those who say that an elected Senate could play a useful role in the government of this after maps of All parties rushed through a private members Bill to extend the corporations monopoly beyond the 17 years it already has it was expected that the Senate would tamely follow the Senate did exactly what the commons should have it referred the Bill to a committee for whatever this committee decides to do with the Bill will be better for Canada than what the House of commons wanted to the View of the House was that Nutrasweet should be allowed to Harvest an extra million from canadians in Exchange for a Promise Given to one Montre Alarea tory my to build a new Plant in his the House also wanted the Bill to become Law without listening to the opinions of Canadian diabetics and Canadian industries that use such Hasty thoughtless and undemocratic handling of the Bill is now most whether the Bill is kicked Back into the House of for maps to do their Job or examined and amended by the Senate More views will be heard than those of Nutrasweet a lobbyist Claude it May be that a full hearing of All evidence and All views would result in the conclusion that it is in the National interest for canadians to pay Nutrasweet twice the european buying Price for aspartame for five More should this canadians would at least feel that their parliament had done what it is paid and expected to do with All so far in the aspartame Only the unelected upper chamber has demonstrated the appropriate vigilance for the interests of All de indexing hits poor hardest by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press Ottawa is quite As finance minister Michael Wilson that poor people will be better off next year under his pro posed new tax regime than they would be under present their situation deteriorates rapidly each year with some groups being hit harder than others and Low income families with children being hit get it in neck the reason for that is the almost total de indexing of tax and Transfer measures begun in the 1985 budget and carried Forward into the new system proposed in this months White a working poor single Parent sup porting three children on an income exactly equal to the poverty line will pay Federal income tax next year under the Wilson if her earnings Rise at the same rate As two years later her income will nonetheless be below the poverty and her Federal income tax will have gone up to the family will be worse and every Penny of that will be the result of Wilsons de indexing a single person with exactly Pov Estyline earnings will also be paying More after two years of Wilsons tax system than on Day but Only a pensioner will be paying the explanation for those differences is really quite Wilson has de indexed More of the sources of income and tax reduction of families with children than of anyone the Only de indexing provision that significantly affects the single worker is the personal credit the new regimes counterpart of the per Sonal exemption rising at a rate of a year instead of the single Parent is equally affected by of and also by the tax reduction provisions for her three children likewise rising at Only a Quarter the Rale of she is also undercut financially by the of family and of refundable child tax credits she receives being increased Only a year instead of the required to keep Pace with the reason senior citizens Are affected less is because Wilson two years in his attempt to de Index their pensions the same Way he did family allowances us of next the refundable child tax no discussion although the finance minister had said Many times that the White paper would provide the results of the governments review of social Benefit there was no Dis Cussion of these measures in the Mountain of material he if that Blind Eye persists through the parliamentary the poverty rate for female headed single Parent families already an astronomical 60 per cent inevitably Rise there is absolutely no excuse for the planned de indexing of the refundable child tax a payment provided exclusively to lowering come what is there is no reason Why the amount of family allowance lost through Dein Deming could not be added to the refundable credit to protect these poorer keep going up that would still leave the tax Bills of Low income families the rest of the poor up each even when their incomes merely keep Pace with because of Wilsons de indexing of the other provisions of the tax at they would be going up no More than other to exempt the poor from the creeping tax a re indexing cred it could be it would match the in each by which de indexing had raised and be available Only to Low income tax pay when Wilson promised that measures to direct More resources to those most in need would be part of his Reform no doubt he had such innovations in in the Nish to assemble the White they were inadvertently left Lack of concern Are you interested in a few impressions from a bornand raised Winnipeg Ger who returned to the City after a lengthy absence i Hope the downtown renewal project will bring with it a renewal of civic if Portage Avenue is truly functional and imaginative and has adequate it just May at tract the shoppers Back from the i fervently Hope that win nip Eggers will be so proud of this ambitious new focal Point that they will become aware of the wide spread trash and litter and begin a citywide cleanup 1 am saddened by the crumbling roads and broken unsightly Muddy Side Long grass on the boulevards and the pop cans wherever i there seems to be a general Lack of Here Are a couple of examples d the area around Jubilee Avenue and Osborne Street has a derelict service station which is a Catchall for All kinds of litter and across the Street there Are sidewalks made unusable by the Mounds of gravel from Snow Clearing last one la on the Northeast Comer of Broad Way and Osborne Street there is an unsightly Public surely a few dollars could be spent to beautify this especially As it is directly across from the legislature building of course it costs Money to pay unionized civic workers but could not an awareness Campaign spark some interest perhaps there Are some healthy welfare recipients who could help to clean things up and the courts could be encouraged to assign Young offenders to Community work such As i just wish i could have stayed Long enough to help make Winnipeg Beautiful Jean Pippus White scabs streets criticized the disgusting display of violence and vandalism by striking postal employees is the few who resort to criminal tactics Are responding to the nos Subtle urgings of their Union most of the members Are chronic name Call ers and this is the extent of their form of Scab is their favorite four letter the word describes a protective crust which forms Over a wound to promote so the word used in such a derogatory Way is really complimentary when related to the service provided by those courageous enough to defy he Union the postal service in Canada is an essential service and should be so designated by the right to strike by All postal unions should be in the the Post office management must continue to maintain a hard line against further infringement by the Taylor letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to vandals any sympathy i Felt for striking postal employees quickly evaporated when i saw in the press and on to pictures of the Wanton scattering of piles of Public mail Over the floor of a Post these people have a duty to guard and protect our it seems they Are trying to demonstrate their Dis regard of and disdain for Public the vandals who committed this crime should not be enjoying highly paid Only made possible by support from the Public they should be in Cowan Winnipeg one sub less the decision of the Mulroney government to acquire a dozen or so nuclear submarines to show the Flag under Arctic ice in Canadian Waters has created a heated Public there Are those who believe sin Cerely and passionately that Canad an sovereignty and Canadian sex is Lance As a free seriously threatened unless cautiously patrolled by Flag waving nuclear presumably they will warn Poten tial enemies of Canadian sovereignty not excluding the to get out of Canadian ice water or else the other Side of the controversy is occupied by peace Niks who see nothing but Absurdity and danger in such a show of at about the time the Mulroney plan was an apparently totally unrelated event was announced by the University of Mani three native Indian ladies graduated in Medicine at the 1978 annual convocation an enor Mousey significant setting a record for this University and per haps a first in world this event opens the possibility of a potentially Rich resource from which University trained profession accountants and engineers May enrich the cultural life of our country and make More meaningful the idea of Canadian the possibilities Are truly exit not Only for Canada but also for the self image of a tooling neglected Indian and inuit segment of our but what is the connection be tween three native ladies graduating As medical doctors and a dozen nuclear submarines the Bible tells us that Solomon had a problem that could Only be resolved by cutting a baby in half an obvious but it Points to a solution out of ten Summa build Only use the funds for the tenth a sort of tithe if you wish to set up a fund to guarantee that any native scholar Indian or inuit will be guaranteed the funds to attend a University professional i believe that would do at least As much for the Canadian Flag As show ing it in Arctic Alan Winnipeg sympathy gone i left my House yesterday and found to my Surprise that a no Supe Valu sticker had been stuck to my since the car has not recently been on a Supe Valu parking any sympathy i May have Felt for ithe Supe Valu workers now on strike disappeared while i cleaned the sticker off my Robin Mccartney Winnipeg sleep disorders Meir krugers article medi Cal Nightmare Frue june 16 clearly reviewed the serious prob Lem of sleep disorder in adults including sleep Apnoea and his 10year Battle with the Manitoba health services commission Misc to add diagnostic services for such patients was carefully do this Nightmare has also affected Young infants and Chil Dren in this Lack of recognition by Misc of krugers services has also had a major influence on the diagnosis and treatment of similar disorders in Young approximately 50 babies per year will have an acute life threatening episode consisting of Limp Ness and color change during the first six months of they usually following shaking or Mouth Mouth resuscitation by one of the such episodes require that infants be hospitalized to establish a in the majority of no cause is found and they go on to have repeated episodes of unexplained this requires Home Monitor ing other treatment in order to prevent serious sequelae such As brain in one or two out of every live born babies in the first six months will die from sudden infants death syndrome s1ds or crib death and it is these deaths that we wish to my colleagues Rey Pagtakhan and Hans Pasterkamp and i have been attempting to establish a diagnostic service for such infants at the childrens Hospital for the past three the Complex equipment required has been Pur chased following a generous Dona Tion from the variety club which helped us establish the infant Apnoea now we Are in the dilemma that Kryger such infants require at least monitoring Over night and we Lack funds for technical help to ensure that such monitoring is accurate and funds for the service requirement for the several hours it takes to Analyse such this analysis determines the future therapeutic and preventive Mea sures that must be taken for an individual krugers Battle As been for the adults of this province ours has been for the since he started before it would appear that the paediatric Issue will not be solved until the adult sleep Apnoea program is the Misc has been insensitive not Only to the needs of adults but also to the needs of children in the province for appropriate diag Nostic services related to a very serious of such services Are available not Only for adults but for children As Well in every major medical Centre in can Ada and the United including grand Forks and Victor Chernick res virology childrens Hospital Winnipeg Hes in a ;