Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 26, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free october 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil 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 editorials correcting a Blunder Orte can Only Hope that the emotional scars inflicted on 24 elderly Manitoban will disappear As quickly As a government department can change its admit that it made a mistake and get on with its by restoring Windell Homes licence to provide care for the the department of Community services is admitting that it should not have sent in a swat team of bureaucrats and social workers six weeks ago to sur prise residents with the news that their lives were in danger and they would have to move the new minister responsible for the Maureen says that charges of improper administration of medication have been proven to be these Are the same charges her Muriel described As substantiated and life and the reason for activating the depart mental there is no doubt that the departments action has damaged the reputation of the owners and that the restoration of the licence will not repair fully that More serious is the effect the raid had on the Yves of those most immediately the 24 elderly Manitoban who were told that they had to leave on Short notice what most of them regarded As a comfortable and adequate upsetting the lives of these people is not something that should be easily they were allowed to and now have a guarantee of sorts for continued mainly because the operators of the Home had the Good sense to Tell anyone who would listen what the government was among the listeners were representatives of the the publicity that followed resulted in the who first claimed the Home had to be shut finding a Way of allowing it to remain open while a full investigation was All that was required was depart mental supervision during the investigation it was never Clear Why such a simple solution could not have been found in the first the investigation has revealed that there was no reason to close the Home and no excuse for disrupting the lives of people who wanted nothing More than to spend their1 remaining years in an atmosphere of Security and the incident exposes an instinct for Bull headed officious Ness in the department which should alarm anyone who believes that the role of the government is to serve the not to bully and abuse Hemphill deserves credit for what she has not Only has she restored the licence on a permanent but she says she intends to change the manner in which group Homes Are monitored and need for such changes is just four months before Windell Homes was threatened with it had passed a departmental investigation and was at the provinces to equip itself to deliver higher level Hemphill will be Well advised to remember that the role of regulator in some the instincts of a departmental investigators during the raid attempted to hide their faces from and a departmental posted on the door during the Public discussion warned reporters to stay such thinking May have received the tacit approval of the former but is obviously not part of hemp Hills the most obvious lesson to be Learned from the raid on Windell Homes is that the politicians must control the instincts of the lest those instincts Hurt the by restoring the and by admitting the error that was Hemphill has started Down the right now she must identify the weaknesses in her department which permitted the Blunder to be made and take Steps to ensure that similar abuses of authority will never happen moral suasion Reloque apartheid i intrinsically evil1 Brian a door opens for Egypt Jake Epp is no bleeding heart Egypt ostracism by the Arab world after it signed a 1379 peace treaty with Israel has always been More apparent than real but even that pretence now seems to be about to be Libya and Syria Are trying furiously to prevent any change but most member states of the Arab league have concluded that it is time to Stop pretending that a state inhabited by on third of All arabs does not when an Arab league Summit meeting convenes in Jordan Early next month there will be an attempt to restore Egypt membership of the Organiza if that does not there will be an Effort to secure approval for restoration of diplomatic relations Between Egypt and some other Arab Jordan is an appropriate venue for such a discussion because the kingdom resumed diplomatic relations with Egypt two years King Hussein did not feel the need to get approval from fellow league other states prefer to maintain the fiction that Egypt has been beyond the Pale since it made peace with there was much sound and fury at the most of it signifying embassies were Egypt was evicted from the league and league Headquarters moved out of except with Radical Arab business then went on As official delegations became unofficial it remained difficult to get a taxi at Cairo a room in a Cairo hotel or a seat in a Cairo nightclub because of the crowds of arabs visiting from countries with no relations with arabs poured into the forbidden City to conduct academic to talk at formal to Exchange intelligence to seek military to engage in mutually profitable to run and jump in sports which howled loudest of All about alleged egyptian treason in has been for a Long time gratefully accepting egyptian help in fighting its War with there is a land Bridge from the jordanian port of Aqaba across the desert to Over which egyptian military convoys move carrying equipment and some of the most effective units in the sporadic fighting with Iran have been there has been close coordination on the Iraq support Effort Between Egypt and saudi whose Oil revenues have been used to pay wages and buy other Gulf Arab states have discreetly contributed financially to the iraqi War Effort and have discreetly welcomed the egyptian several North african Arab states have quietly cheered the egyptians for helping another Arab state to resist the intransigent warmongers in Syria has done More hissing than syrian president Hafez Assad hates iraqi president Saddam Hussein so has supported Iran in the Gulf anyone helping Iraq incurs his since the formal expulsion of Egypt from the Arab Assad has been trying hard to take Egypt place As natural Leader of that he has tried to achieve what he Calls strategic parity with Israel by building up his armed he has failed to do he has tried to be a dominant figure in Arab councils he has he has tried to dominate the palestinian with mixed he has been a major Factor in Lebanon but few in the Arab world care very much about what goes on in the lebanese his grand plans have been hampered by the fact that Syria has less than a third of Egypt population and that Syria has no parallel to Egypt traditionally dominant position in the and cultural life of the Arab the entire Arab world has always looked to Egypt and always islamic and arabic scholars measure their achievements by Stan Dards set in not Syrias fellow Radical will be in a difficult position when the question comes up in Al though hating Loving Iran and close to Moa mar Sadafi has now restored relations with How he will jump is anyone the solution May be for Libya and Syria not to raging from afar As the league opts for a return to by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press Ottawa last months Crea Tion of a second Post for veterans affairs minister George designating him minister of state for senior was empty Symbol but Good it was also a commentary on the role that health and welfare minister Jake Epp has conspicuously failed to perfect emissary the Dapper 77yearold Hees is the perfect emissary to senior Citi Zens he wont really have any say in the government policies that critically affect seniors Sion programs but it appears that Epp Hast had a whole lot of say on that subject the evidence of the past three years is that pension matters and All other social Benefit issues have been firmly under the control of finance minister Michael while Epp May not be the first welfare minister to face such a con he certainly is the first to show no discomfort with two decades when Allan Maceachen was welfare minister and Mitchell Sharp finance play play reports of Macea Chens struggle for the funds needed to create the guaranteed income supplement for Low income pension ers made it the worst kept secret in subsequent welfare ministers from John Munro to Monique and including David who had the welfare Job in the Clark government likewise wore their Antipoverty agendas on their Only Epp has shown no such bleeding heart direct ing his passions to crusades against alcohol and tobacco in recent for he has referred to his political Strug Gle to prevent the thousands of smoke related illnesses and deaths in Canada each and has lashed out at the Well heeled opposition to his Bill Banning cigarette advertising the Slick letter writ ing campaigns and full Page news paper ads initiated by those whose self interest lies in having people continue to lobbying Campaign the proposed legislation has been sitting on the parliamentary order paper since As the multimillion Dollar lobbying Campaign by the tobacco Industry has apparently Given the government cold feet about scheduling it for Epps current round of High profile has helped mobilize groups supporting the such As the Canadian medical association and the Canadian cancer to launch their own Campaign to end the in demonstrating How effective a minister can be when he adopts the advocates Epp has also highlighted the fact that no one in this government is perform ing such a function on welfare and while George Hees is going to be a smashing Success at All the senior citizen there int the remotest possibility that he will launch any pension if there is going to be an Antipov erty initiative from the government it will have to come from beyond Cabinet one conservative my who has been trying is Toronto Alan but he has been getting nowhere with his of food Banks last he tried interesting the health and welfare committee in holding hearings and preparing a report on Why there is a growing Reliance on food Banks in this coun try and How our welfare programs could be improved so there would be no such the committee said dont Call Well Call in recent he has been try ing to ask Epp in question period if he would favor the com Mittee carrying out such a but the Powers that be in the govern ment caucus have been unwilling to let him ask the in the Redway wound up writing Epp a although i have not been allowed to ask you this question nonetheless i Hope you will take the initiative and ask the committee to look into this important National he any bets what the answer will be a real Gem the letters column free september 28 was a real i Nave been holding Back hoping someone else would but Chester Duncan claims Mozart was unpopular during his he in so unpopular that it is suspected that jealous hatred led one of his competitors to attempt to murder another theory i have heard is that a pile of Box office receipts from one of his performances fell on him and smothered Duncan goes on to Tell us because at least 99 per cent of the population of Winnipeg dislikes his the country owes him a a full 100 per cent of Winni Eggers hate my does that mean i should get More than Ches Ter then we had Maurice Mierau Tell us that if the government Only gave local authors they could be Heck i could be self supporting for a lot less than Maurice also told us the purpose of Portage which is to justify spending tax dollars on other Wor thy projects which Are just As Wor thy As it top of the pops then we had Menno Klassen Tell us about schools and which Are the building blocks of these Are not the building blocks of Democrat these Are the building blocks of the building blocks of democracy Are free Dan evens Winnipeg open meetings a Bell rang when i read school Board denies trying to muzzle pub Lic free october i am not satisfied that the school Board in Lynn Lake keeps its Public it has played games with the press with different statements about Access to the school minutes Over the sixty Miles from this the school Board is open with the especially with its i i would like to see Les institution Ali Zed school Board i would like the Board meetings to be open to the Public with no closed the same As is done in that great nation one Border below Cana on the other the Canadian Public is known to be it must Rise up and demand its it works both or it can if both sides want Wilke Lynn reviews skipped i am in total agreement with Denis Smiths article free october 17 concerning Marion Warhaft writing i have skipped Reading her reviews Over the past few in future your paper would be doing a great service to readers by having three or four food critics write about Winnipeg various restaurants and in letting Warhaft go to other items for food these food critics would be offer ing various reviews which would be much better than having Only one Magil Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Folly history lessons a few weeks prior to the Vancou ver Commonwealth Csc radio featured a Cross country checkup to determine whether the Canadian Public wanted sanctions imposed against South Al As the majority of callers wanted Canada to apply some sort of retribution against my own View is that can Ada and its friends in the common wealth should Accord some respect to the lessons of the irrefutable fact is that there never was a time when genuine Freedom has been delivered on a Silver Platter to an oppressed people by the nor has this Ever happened As the result of a half hearted pressure exercised by some outside forces Over such an oppress India paid with its own blood for its Independence and the democracy it enjoys Algeria and Vietnam Are also among Many other exam the democratic majority in the South african Madhouse must be Able to set itself the current anti Pretoria without Concrete and concerted actions being would Only prolong the sufferings sustained by the Afri can Peoples caught in the apartheid inhumanity on one and would unnecessarily delay the inevitability of the majority Rule on the Hassan i rave Winnipeg More marions my stars the free one of the worlds firs class newspapers adequate news coverage and read ing but this statement is about As credible As the rest of Denis Smiths paid advertisement in the free press october 17 protesting Marion Warhaft critiques of Winnipeg one of the few Points Smith made clearly enough for me to understand is that Warhaft should be cooking instead of eating do not since that is certainly not a food critics i have followed Warhaft advice on numerous she has led me into some of this cites finest if i have a it is Only that i have Felt that at should have been More critic Smith should know that elaborate decor and Good intentions do not make up for mediocre food or inept we need More Marion War hats and fewer Denis Smiths on the Winnipeg restaurant Christine Edge Winnipeg a travesty an nip member of parliament is apparently introducing a private members Bill to reverse the conviction of Louis Riel for this would be a travesty of Justice regardless of How much Riel May be idolized Here in whether or not he committed treason is Al most beside the Point because he was guilty of premeditated murder against Thomas Scott in March of even Kiels supporters do not deny apparently Scotts Only crime was not accepting the author Ity of riels unrecognized provision Al hardly a crime de serving the death what makes Scotts murder All the More despicable is the fact that Eye witnesses believed although he had somehow survived his firing squad even hours later it was reported that he was Semi conscious and in agony inside his it is a real irony that the Federal government today honors Louis Riel by making his Home on River Road in Winnipeg a National Monument in the they supported his conviction and John Craig Winnipeg i will buy no irradiated food and i Hope Many others will Boycott this latest Folly on the part of the govern according to a recent item in the free the White Shell nuclear research Centre at Pinawa is con ducting food irradiation tests this fall As a Way to entice the United states into a free Trade other Wise we would not be Able to let products into this country that have been so last a parliamentary report urged More tests before irradiation could be consid ered i have no Faith in government for there was the thalidomide disaster a few years ago More the urea formaldehyde insulation installed in Homes across the at irradiation must be clearly stated on All thus ensuring the Public will be Able to make an educated Choice with what Ever misleading information they May Elizabeth Aikenhead Winnipeg is Little if any proof that ethnic background and crime rate Are perhaps ethnicity should be completely left out of any discussion of crime if ethnic Back ground and crime statistics Are to be All groups in Canada should be shown and open to scr Angie Leaden and six others criminal Justice class Argyle High school sad Day what a sad Day for the people of Canada when unions can Tell us when we can shop and when we when a strike is on they Tell us not to shop at Supe Valu because it is a terrible now that they want work and the strike is they Are begging for us to go How can they justify harassing and swearing on the picket line for their Benefit and now to want us to shop at Supe Valu also for their Benefit Helen rehear Winnipeg racism the criminal Justice class of Argyle High school was very concerned to see the ugly head of Rac ism appear in the article Manitoba leads homicide roster free october 8 in which murder Statis tics in Canada were reported and this was fairly at the end of the native people were singled out As accounting for 20 per cent of murder suspects although they Only make up two per cent of the Why Are native people singled out where Are the statistics for the Chi Nese and or Whites for that matter dont these groups commit murder the statistics for native people May be but they Are presented in a racist fashion de signed to single out native people As the major perpetrators of violent this is not the free press should apologize to the native people of there did you or did you not close your Mouth at an important moment during the performance ;