Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 4, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 0 Winnipeg free july Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights 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 Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council i editorials son of War measures Canadas War measures act has been used on three the two world wars and the terrorist crisis in the Mulroney government now wants to keep the War Powers and add three Levels of emergency in the same Way As South american constitutions offer martial state of emergency and state of depending on the dictators the Likely result is that Canadian governments will use emergency Powers More often than in his argument for the new Arsenal of emergency defence minister Perrin Beatty has cited no past emergency where the lower Levels of emergency Power would have been Canada has undergone the red River flood of the Forest fires that annually ravage the Woodlands and threaten towns and Hurricane Hazel in 1954 which was a serious matter because it affected it has experienced major Industrial disputes and the 1935 on to Ottawa trek by unemployed men in the Western it has known civil risings at the red River Colony in 1870 and in the Northwest territories in fenian the korean and tense International moments in the Middle Europe and the in none of those cases was it found that the Lack of an emergency Powers jaw prevented Canada from dealing with the when disaster strikes or civil unrest canadians do not sit around debating the nature of state authority and the limits to Federal they Deal with when Mississauga has to be evacuated because of a toxic chemical the authorities have All the Power they on top of Peoples natural to bring about the evacuation smoothly and efficiently and without untoward material issued by Beatty along with the Bill says that because it provides four Levels of emergency the act cannot be used in a frivolous any emergency Power can be used in a frivolous manner if the government is willing take the political and the new Bill is no by creating Lowe level emergency the Bill invites More frequent which might or might not be emergency Power Means Blanket permission for the government to do things that ordinarily cannot be done without prior parliamentary approval things like seizing imposing Exchange control Ling Trade and searching houses without detaining suspects without Banning Public the War measures act now on the statute books offers the government every possible governmental available As soon As the government says it needs the emergencies act similarly offers every possible governmental Power As soon As the government says it needs though it can shop around and take one of the smaller packages of Powers if that seems More politically palatable at the beattys Bill provides More prompt reference to parliament than the War measures act now and an Opportunity for parliament to approve or disapprove of the governments Assumption of emergency the proposal that the parliamentary committee1 Exa mining the use of emergency Powers must meet parliament should be free to judge that at the the use of emergency Powers for a natural disaster or a civil disorder should be debated their use in mobilization or War might or might not need to be secretly after the death penalty when the noise has died and the smoke has cleared the debate Over punishment is really reduced to one fundamental Issue the Sanctity of human Gar Bage barbarism and civilization All the other As useful or useless As they May Are really subordinate to both sides in the debate agree that human life is or should and both sides Advance the argument in defence of their those who oppose capital punishment argue that because human life is it is wrong to take it under any or perhaps when it is taken by the state in the deliberate execution of a those who advocate the death penalty claim that the Sanctity of human life can Only be defined and upheld by making those who deliberately kill another human being pay the ultimate opponents of the death penalty generally put their Case perhaps because they Are arguing against an awesome act with which hardly anyone can feel comfortable the ritual taking of a human life by the but whatever the merits of the there is no dispute that human life is the debate Over capital punishment and the decisive vote in the House of commons against restoring the death penalty have ensured that it be Long time if Ever before a Canadian government again considers the that will have done nothing to alleviate the concerns of the Many who in passion or cold wisely or thoughtfully or emotionally supported the restoration of capital they do not believe and their conviction is shared by others who cannot Sanction the death penalty that the Law As it is today upholds the fundamental Sanctity of human if the debate on capital punishment is to remain behind that is the question that canadians and their government must now there is an attraction in the simplicity and the finality of execution As an answer to the problem any better answer is far More difficult to arrive at because the question can never be it involves Many things the enormity of deliberate murder the need for society to Deal with that enormity the need not to be unnecessarily which so Many alternatives can be the need to protect society and the problem of the Public perception of crime in general and individual crimes in in any the seriousness of an antisocial action is defined by the severity of the punishment it when people As they did this of a Case where a serving a life sentence for a murder committed during a previous has escaped once again while on escorted Day parole from prison Outing Given him because he is after serving ten eligible for full parole they find it difficult to believe that their government has a very Clear concept of the Sanctity of human it is not ultimately profitable to discuss individual cases because the circumstances in each Are but it is individual cases that form the Public parliament has decided against the death those who argued that Case made much the Sanctity of human canadians will continue to commit and other canadians will continue to be outraged by what they see As the inconsistencies and inadequacies of the criminal Justice the question of capital punishment should be now behind us the question of How to Deal with the crime of murder remains to be answered by the people and the timely derailment next thanks to three tory one Liberal but no new Canadian companies making soft drinks and various food products will have a Chance to buy supplies of the artificial sweetener aspartame at half the Price they have paid for Many is yet another round in the amazing Story of an attempt to Rush into Law a five year Extension of Nutrasweet Patent on aspartame without letting diabetics and Canadian companies have their in Exchange for being allowed to keep charging canadians twice the Price paid by Nutrasweet said that it would build a new Plant in the Riding of Montre Alarea tory my Claude sponsor of the this Promise to one my was enough to convince the the liberals and the new democrats to abandon their duty to give searching scrutiny to All legislation placed before the House of the Bill went through the House with no time wasted on committee the Senate stopped the Nutrasweet express it listened to the voices of canadians outside the Parlia ment sent the Bill to committee for Examina Tion and appropriately sent it Back to the House of commons for on the last Day of the parliamentary session this a new attempt was made in the House to ram the Bill through without taking time to listen to opinions of anyone outside the the Senate had amended the original House Bill to delete the five year Protection and to substitute Protection until the end of this the idea was to keep the Patent alive for a period during which the House could at last Start doing its Job by holding committee hearings next fall at which anyone could register1 support or four maps concluded that even this Extension was not justified so they objected when the Call went up for unanimous former Winnipeg Ger David Kilgour of Edmonton Calgary East my Alex Kindy and Jack my for Ontario Prince wiped some of the mud off the tory party Escutcheon by refusing David my for Cape Bret Neast did the same for the Liberal not one new from Manitoba or anywhere was listed As voicing any objection to High Speed handling of the amended Lanthier blames Liberal senators for the fact that his Nutrasweet locomotive was if this is these senators deserve As much Public Praise As the four lonely their actions have ensured that the wider Public interest will be considered in any future proposed legislation on the aspartame gallery Phil Mallette the proud old Days of Yore by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press a Century As canadians celebrated what was then called Domin Ion the National mood was one of strident the Young nation was asserting there was general agreement that Canada had chosen the right moment in history to launch a commentator of the time wrote thank heaven we live in the 19th in the Era of unparalleled improvement in Sci in in morals and never before did such glorious Days As these Dawn upon the human How shall we contrast the darkness of former Ages with the Meridian splendor of modern times heartening we May smile today but possibly for the wrong in spite of All evidence to the we still tend to believe in Progress and improvement and we Are prone to think that life was never As enlightened and wonderful As it is change is often mistaken for Progress and alteration for improve but for the victorians the great changes and real improve ments that had taken place in the Young Dominion were Canada was catching up with the outside even the backward West was be ginning to show signs of develop writing in picturesque Canada in notes the growth of Winnipeg has been phenomenal the growth in one month matter How Marvel Lous is sure to be eclipsed by the the going and coming of the railway station combines the Rush of a great City with All the characteristics of Emigrant and Pioneer life the write saw Winnipeg first in it consisted of a few rickety looking shanties that looked As if they had been dropped Down promiscuously on the verge of a bound less Prairie and land on main Street and the streets adjoining is held at higher figures than in the Centre of and in refer ring to the never make comparisons with any City smaller than the same expansive mood existed across the country As it was generally was on the verge of great the Early years of struggle were Over and canadians had time to pause and Admire what they had created so far and speculate upon such things As National character and what things made us distinctly Ca Nadian the canadians of a Century ago were As keenly interested in sports As we Are in a writer for the writing in won dered what direction sports would take in the Young Dominion what is the National sport of Canada to be Lacrosse or baseball you will note that hockey had no place in bystanders bystander Felt that Cricket was too leisurely a game for canadians who had Only a limited amount of time to spend on sporting unlike upper class englishmen who could devote an entire Day to a game of brisker game bystander was inclined to favor the brisker game of baseball As Canadas National Lacrosse too brutal for civilized for those who Felt that the american influence was growing too bystander had a word of Comfort the Loyal englishman who regards with pensive regret the adoption of a Yankee game May console himself with the thought that Cricket and baseball have apparently been evolved out of the same infantile British seeking symbols canadians were also looking for National symbols a Century while remaining Loyal to the Mother Many canadians Felt that a National Flag and Anthem would be Arthur John writing in the week in called a Canadian Flag featuring a Maple Leaf and a letter printed in Dominion illustrated called for National symbols to promote Canadian the same correspondent deplored the custom people had of calling themselves Irish or scottish even if they had been born in Canada will never be great until her children Call them selves above every other name Ca National image was also a prob Winnipeg journalist Acton Bur writing to the editor of do minion illustrated deplored the fact that True North had been proposed As Canadas he would simply convince foreigners contemplating emigration that Canada was heaped with Snow and ice All the Winnipeg he were even then pres Suring the Dominion government to have the name Northwest Terri tories changed to Western Terri in the same Hector Charles writing in the Canadian was attempting to identify the typical Canadian girl it is the richly coloured Beauty of the Canadian girl that is most delightful to Beauty of form is More prevalent than Beauty of How could he Tell reflections on quiet lives along lakes Shore i walk along the Lake Shore and often wonder about the their iridescent shells strewn on the Pearly on the a Sheen of Brown on the when first cast out of the they Are Odd Crea enclosed by a hinged set of composed of two symmetrical and opposing halves called they snap when Threa there Are probably billions of clams in Manitoba lakes but some How they have been the subject of Little is it because they Are not live such quiet Are vegetarian and exist on the floor of lakes Brian curator of Manitoba museum of Man and says there Are about one dozen species of the Large or Pearly clams about five to 10 centimetres in length and at least a dozen smaller the clams of Lake Winnipeg have an unusual observed the Rivers streaming into the East Side of the Lake bring soft water which contains less magnesium and Calcium than on the other in this clams take a longer time to grow and Are fewer in number and on the West Side of the where the Rivers Val Werier bring hard the clams do bet having an ample Supply of1 Calcium and magnesium to build their a clams destination depends on his As a it attaches itself to a fish which might Migrate anywhere in the it is known that Saltwater clams Are sought after but Are the fresh water clams edible Joe a naturalist and retired conservation officer going on lives at he and his have been eating Freshwater clams for six there is an ample Supply in front of their cottage at Lake Dau there he we had to play around quite a bit to learn How to Cook them if youre going to Fry barely turn them Over in hot Oil a couple of we coat them in flour and Salt them a the clams also make wonderful he for the clams Are wrapped in foil and a couple of layers of wet paper and placed Over hot in this Way they Are in half an hour Robertson will pick up 60 to 100 diving into the Lake and feeling along the Bot theres lots of fun in he my neighbors at the Lake Are Start ing to use they Are among the rare people who eat clams and they insist they Are contrary to some who think they taste like rubber Robertson is aware that Otter and Mink like for he has observed the shells by their there Are about species of clams in the All but Only 50 species Are sufficiently tasty and abundant for commercial the Manitoba Pearly May weigh up to about 225 in the North Pacific the largest Clam weighs five kilograms and has an amazing lifespan of up to 150 the giant is the trip Ana gigas of the tropical ind Pacific the two shells May weigh As much As 227 kilograms and stretch to a length of 127 the clams Are very slow in Clos ing their reports the encyclopedia there Are no authentic cases of persons being trapped by Freshwater clams live up to 15 says Diane re search scientist at the Federal Freshwater research is being conducted on clams in North Ern Ontario lakes because they Are sensitive to acid they Are among the animals to disappear when a Lake is clams Are quite observes the sexes Are the eggs Are fertilized in late summer in the mantel underneath the shells of the female and the embryos develop into larvae and stay Over the Winter in the Gill of the in Early the size of grains of the clams Burrow into the flesh of a fish and stay there about two there is some debate As to whether they act As says they fall off the Host fish and when their shells be come too the Young clams drop to the Bottom and begin the Normal life of a a Clam has a sex organs and digestive it takes there Are about 20yooo species of clams in the Foo Laden water in through a tube shaped Extension of the mantel and passes it Over the mucous strands in the Gills entangle microscopic Plant particles carry them into the toothless clams move mainly by using their Tongue shaped foot which is manoeuvred through the Why Are the shells cast up on the Beach Malley suggests the Lar Gest percentage of clams die of old of natural and so their shells Wash up on the natives once used the shells for currency and today they Are still used As Mother of Pearl for manufacturing in Winter the clams reduce their metabolism and grow More the thinner rings on the Shell indicate the retarded growth in the wider lighter rings the More accelerated growth in sum i have come across some Beautiful shells with Lustrous mauve and Pur ple when they their shells Are returned to the Lake by the action of the Waves and eventually these shells dissolve and return to the Waters in the marvellous Cycle of ;