Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 10, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Job Winnipeg free november 1987 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carl Tori Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Arthur Wood publisher Jokl Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council an anti deficit socialist Roy Romanow was welcomed to the leadership of the Saskatchewan new democratic party by More than alternates and visitors who attended saturdays such a Large turnout when the leadership was not being contested confirms that the party has lost none of the organizational skills which have made it a Benchmark of sorts against which other and the nip in other measure organization alone cannot win the Saskatchewan nip proved this to itself just last when it got More voters to the polls than did the conservatives but ended up on the opposition benches because of the Rural Urban split of Saskatchewan legislature to win Back the government for the party he now Romanow will have to persuade the still missing part of the Dps traditional far labor coalition the Farmers to get Back on no one is quite certain whether voters in Rural Saskatchewan supported Grant Devine last year because they believed his ideas were sound or because they were dead certain that he had a better Chance of prying Money out of Ottawa than Allan Blakeney Romanow needs much of this farm vote if he is to form a government in he is appealing for it on the basis of fiscal he is careful not to mention Federal nip policies or the Manitoba example of these policies in the same breath As fiscal when he accepted the his first shot was aimed at Saskatchewan growing he pointed out that the real legacy of the Devine government was a debt for every woman and child in Sakatch he made it Clear that deficit reduction would be a priority because the debt meant that decisions affecting Saskatchewan affairs were being taken not in but in the Money lending houses of new Tokyo and it is not surprising that Romanow should be concerned about when he left government rather abruptly in Saskatchewan was virtually Deb free and the voters had been offered a balanced the debt that has been accumulated under the Devine governments has resulted in part from government spending to make Good on election promises but also in part from the evaporation of the natural resource revenues that were used by the nip to keep their programs before he was Premier Grant Devine preached the benefits of a balanced it is encouraging to hear Romanow support the same approach to it is a simple that most politicians would rather have accounts that Are in the Black rather than the it is also a political fact that politicians hardly Ever hesitate when Given the Opportunity to bribe people with their own in the last Saskatchewan Devine seemed to be in a contest with Romanowsk predecessor to see who could Promise to spend the most Public Money after the Devine is not spending what he promised to he in cutting Public staff and reducing programs in order to keep some control Over what Romanow is already calling his True that of increased with Romanow As its the Saskatchewan nip will be Able to fight political style with political Given Romanowsk thinking on style could be the biggest Issue in the next As empires crumble As the imperialists in peking and Moscow begin to feel the ground tremble beneath their it is interesting to recall two of history one is that empires eventually they Are overthrown by outside they collapse from within or they disintegrate As time and change take their More lesson is that totalitarian states do not fall they must be there being to instance of a modern totalitarian state having been overthrown from these two historical forces Are in conflict the worlds last two remaining empires Are both totalitarian the soviet Union and the Peoples Republic of China both Rule vast empires in which their authority is imposed on regions and groups that Cul racially or religiously have no natural neither of these communist empires is in any danger of assault from nor Are they immediately vulnerable to nationalist pressures from Are feeling tremors of nationalism that come at a time of revolutionary change the most recent example has occurred in China has no legitimate claim to Tibet beyond ancient imperialistic Reli Tibet is a nation apart from its closest in Are to the in of history ironic twists now form one of peking subject nations and one of Moscow Vassal since the chinese invasion in tibetan religious Devotion and nationalism have simmered and occasion ally boiled Over As they did last peking immediately and brutally put a lid on but As economic decentralization continues in the Central govern ment will find it harder to control the religious and nationalist aspirations not Only of the but also of the mongols and the no chinese ethnic groups that populate such provinces As even the cultural and linguistic differences among the ethnic chinese themselves Are potentially divisive and the soviet Union faces an even More difficult it is in essence a russian holding by Force under the Banner of soviet communism not Only the Baltic and slavic states of Latvia and but also a diversity of moslem and Asiatic nationalities that have no natural affiliation with rus Sian most disturbing to Moscow is the resurgence of ukrainian Ukraine has never been a willing Vassal state of Russia under Czar or commissar and the most brutal repression by both regimes has not succeeded in killing ukrainian it re Mains staunchly although the ukrainian Catholic Church is officially that catholicism is intensely Western in orientation and intimately linked to ant soviet ukrainian so it is perhaps no coincidence that As Gorbachev Moscow eases up on the Ukraine has experienced a revival of nationalism and a religious a Symbol of both is the spate of alleged miraculous visitations by the Virgin Mary that have brought tens of thousands of pilgrims to the Western members of a Church and a nation that officially do not the combination of the two in one of the most fractious soviet republics May ultimately test Gorbachev Liberal ism to its bad at business what happens when a government department gets thrust into a quasi commercial environment the Quick according to the annual report of auditor general Kenneth is that the taxpayers Are usually taken to the Dye Points to the department of transport in addition to controlling much of the nations transport is also an Active participant in the business leasing collecting fees and so he says government contracting regulations encourage the department to rent to tenants who offer the highest fixed lease without looking at other factors such As the reasonableness of the tender or the credit history of the prospective Dye this has resulted in rental of government property to poor credit risks who make unrealistic guarantees of future in one the department is Likely to lose million owed by a concessionaire who cannot meet his in it granted a second lease to a company that was five months in arrears on its first in an attempt to get its accounts receivable More the department decided to Start charging interest on overdue accounts for Landing fees and general terminal to do so it had change the aeronautics the revisions to the act were tabled in the act was passed the following but the regulations were not published in the Canada Gazette until the department then had to wait 45 Days before having the authority to add interest the whole process took about two the interest that could have been charged during the period amounted to More than putting a new face on Justice there May be a lot of eyebrows raised Over the fact that the prov Ince has shelled out million to renovate the Law courts built at a Cost of million in those were different Howe when a Dollar was Worth ten times As the building is such a treasure that it merits tender and extraordinary care to maintain it for its one of the Beautiful buildings of the Tyndall Stone in All its splendor in Gold and Grey tints now that the exterior has been Tyndall is an exquisite exposing the fossils of ancient Manitoba a local Limestone of such distinction that it has been used in Public buildings across including the House of More we know the building is something which escapes me in the modern style of shoe boxes in addition to the the courtrooms have been increased by 13 to a total of this was made possible by the administrative functions being housed in the new Law courts it has been done with great integrity to conform to the resplendent Interior of Walnut and decorative Peter has insisted on Fidelity in the renovation and this has been As an the replication of the Cornice in new courtrooms required painstaking imprints were made of rubber holds of the old courtroom ceilings and then cast in the ceilings Are indistinguishable from the Faith fully following even the waver in the lie of lentils series of Small Square blocks projecting like Teeth from under the the classical egg and Bead and Val Werier dentil designs have been reproduced in color Matching the the dais for the the witness Box and other work have been constructed of red the Only thing that bothers me is that some court rooms appear confined and con hardly the environment for a place of it is difficult to see the justification of new building codes which require that Metal doors replace the Dak it has been accomplished with they appear like Oak in the simulated texture created by innovative paint ers Langes manufactured their own Little rollers for the it also required great ingenuity to install the new plumbing and electrical systems to replace deteriorating win Dows with barely a Trace of the Over the the contrary has been the Case offices were subdivided with with no regard for traditional now there is a realization that such historical buildings must be treated with hidden rooms two hidden rooms were disco Vered on either Side of the Stair Wells on the second floor they were covered with Marble there has also emerged a wonder Ful octagonal room on the second floor beneath the cupola looking to the legislative this space had been Cut up into a press room and a smaller now it will be a handsome conference the Walls revealed to be about four feet thick by the one perceptive visitor has observed that this would make a glorious living room and the vacant three Storey cupola above could become a townhouse unique in the courtyard for reasons of alterations have been made to allow the judiciary to enter the courtrooms by the As a the in the form of a is now creating a a space for Merly used by cars and overrun by today it has Nice it has possibilities As enclosed year round one of the showpieces in the build ing is the Assize court in Walls of Marble and a stained Glass dome and ceiling three storeys a sumptuous place declaring in old style lettering in the Alcove behind the judges Bench that Justice and mercy the High Marble Wall behind the prisoners Box has been it had been used to shield the accused from the Public a Langes has been against spectators who might be inclined to inflict harm on the the court of Appeal on the third floor has been lengthened and in such a diligent fashion that an observer cannot discern the the Grey Marble entablature Over the Entrance was salvaged from an abandoned courtroom on the first it bears the old number 125 painted on the Marble although it would be a Nice historical touch and a Story for future generations to retain this old design the building will be open for use and to the Public in they died for us november 11 is a Day on which a nation should remember its dead and the sacrifices of the men and women who gave their All in the defence of this was the Day in 1918 that the carnage of the first world War was this was the Day set aside to pay homage to those who served in All those areas of conflict in which they were called upon to fight and As the years the memories of these wars begin to fade and so too Are the sacrifices of those who served gradually there was a time when this Day was truly a Day of mourning and when the hour of 11 time stood still for a few precious the wheels of Honor the slain Industry stopped turning and school children bowed their Heads in sol emn homage to the sad evidence As the years pass of the gradual fading of a nations conscience is the cynicism of an Agency of the Crown discrediting one of our nations Billy who was awarded the highest Honor for the Victoria we see governments gradually watering Down the significance of this Day by bowing Down to those who advocate business As rather than keeping this Day sacred to the memory of the we who served remember our comrades who made the supreme bed Rook Winnipeg assessment in the article court forces City to redo assessment free no vember 6 i am quoted As saying this thing is going to withstand the the Host of Little people who Are it further states that people in tending to Appeal their 1987 assess ment have lost their Battles for not in whether one wins or loses ones assessment Appeal still depends on the findings of the Board of the decision of the court of Appeal May affect decisions relating to those appeals which Are concerned with current that remains to be my Point is to the findings of the Board of revision have strongly upheld the 1986 assess Harold Macdonald Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to human rights it appears to me that the preservation of heritage buildings Peg involves an Issue of human in this the right implied is the longtime standing tradition of private property in proprietors must now be on guard against a new adversary the problem is the rights of prep erty owners Are violated by having their in a manner of without their Are being rendered powerless Over the life and character they have put into their the fact now is All property great and stand in danger from this special interest groups committee which can descend unsuspected upon any proprietor with a nationalizing buildings As they now stand Are neither historical nor they Are of the contempt irrespective of the dated Ness of their Only a building no longer standing is one May write about what has possess photographs of what has but one cannot physically preserve his history is what has passed it can Only be conceptually it is so when heritage building advocates want to or More correctly take a private prop erty they in reality Are attempting to steal throttle the contempt the proprietors right to self determination is being a fundamental premise in a free society is the individuals right to self and governments obligation is to protect where the action for such Protection could begin is by recognizing it in the Canadian Constitution where it still is Only by having property rights explicitly stated in our Constitution will property owners have a solid foundation upon which to build their physical Anthony Chiarella Winnipeg dictatorial recently Premier Howard Pawley has expressed his intention to extend French language services in the provincial supposedly live in a representative democratic but this announcement smacks More of a dictatorial Atti he knows How Manitoban feel about the Elevation of one minority Over All others but he is willing to Overlook our concerns in order to get the francophone bilingualism is costing the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when social and Protection which benefits eve Are being Cut Back to de crease our la society Francomano Toraine claims that it conducted a poll in 1985 which showed that the people of Winnipeg supported the Extension of French i find this hard to who were the people polled and How was the question worded polls can be most Marshall Winnipeg dollars the Issue we have no the new minis Ter of health like the previous gentleman in his portfolio in response to questions with regard to Why Hospital Beds Are being Cut in we have no the then min ister of health said to Grace Hospi when it told the government at the time that it required further funds to keep its emergency Ward open full the emergency Ward was then for a Short time converted into a Par time belonging in not it was Only reopened full time because the Doc tors cared enough for human the government and the minister could not afford the several Hundred thousand dollars because of the governments supposed the nip of Manitoba is now governing this when it was in it told the progressive conservative govern ment of Sterling Lyon that health care and education would be the top priority of an nip deficit or not Lyon always gave the universities and hospitals Money beyond inflation the nip called this did any Hospital Beds close in answer to that ques Tion who opened the seven Oaks Hospital we should Start to realize just what Hospital Beds Are Are the Gove ziment can dither elective surgery lines Are getting the government is telling senior citizens who Are waiting for surgery that the line is getting the Issue is the govern ment claims fiscal in addition to its moral evidence indicates other the nip has found Money to build a Large building at Edmonton and Graham for the Royal Winnipeg arts Are important to our society and company is an asset to our our tax dollars Are going to help build this hundreds of thousands of dollars were found to teach people How to yet the nip fails to find Money to keep Beds open or to keep an emergency Ward it is time we told Howard Pawley and his colleagues what we feel the priorities of his government should Tom Fraser Winnipeg birthday Frank Winnipeg born november can you make me look like Michael Jackson ;