Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 15, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press november Page 3 warm weather leaves firms High and bomb in Candy Box kills seven in Parade dealing up some chuckles if you have been wondering what became of All those scientists axed by the National research Council last we think we it seems they have become Lon distance this was revealed last week when we attempted to place a Call to the soviet id like to Carthe soviet we told a Montreal based overseas after a healthy she chirped is in Russia Odd in other phone related its time for our Call of the this weeks contribution conies from a fellow who Tele phoned and pleaded with us to do a Story on an upcoming after hearing the Fellows an editor suggested it might be a suitable item for our billboard a daily list of Community apparently 10 shades of Puz the caller paused and replied who this Bill Board Guy n n n eighty Earold David Milne became mayor Faraday last week As part of a fundraising Deal for the Manitoba Chil Drens moments after assuming the ceremonial reins from Bill the min mayor at tended a closed door meeting of the cites Al powerful Board of at the conclusion of the asked what it was like to watch the cites top bureaucrats in summed up his feelings in one word Dull this kid should be mayor Nan our fears about free Trade were intensified last week when the Treasury department sent us an impress Ive package sporting this unbalanced address Winnipeg free press 4th floor 300 Carlson Street Minnesota guess the boys in the trea sury department Are a n a n sent to us by the Fine Folk in Saskatchewan Agri culture department and sport ing the ominous headline barn gases Are Dan manure gases can be More than just an unpleasant smell or an irate Call from a neigh Bor when the wind is manure gases can Nice to see someone is Rais ing a stink about d n n it really is the time to admit to another size Small there was a mistake in a Story last sunday about commodities broker Vic Janzen or rather in a photo that accompanied the As it stuck on the Wall of Jan Zens office is a Novelty the face of which is a Mirror image of a Normal meaning the numbers appear backwards and in reverse of the Normal still with us when it came time to stick the picture in the our boys glanced at the off Thelwall clock and wrongly assumed the negative had been before publishing the our Guys reversed the making the gag clock look Normal but putting every thing including out of it worked out Janzen chuckled when we con fessed to the that clock just confuses everyone whew and we thought hed be ticked d n d a reporter called the Royal Canadian legion in Ottawa recently and was turned Over to a fellow named Kerry after a the scribe asked Dunphy what his Posi Tion was at the without skipping a he responded right in sitting cant stand Kerry court adds to crime victims worker says by Glen Mackenzie Many crime victims who suffer at the hands of their suf Fer again at the hands of an insensitive criminal Justice a crime victim assistance worker said yes Theresa a victim Impact statement said victims suf Fer lifestyle monetary loss in the emotional Impact of a crime Long after it Hap Clark told a crime victims adv Dave free press Cacy organization conference the program she works in tries to let victims know the criminal Justice system has not forgotten founded in Manitoba in the program performs such tasks As trying to encourage courts to be come aware of victims ordeals Dur ing and after a crime by considering their written statements when sentences Are Clark said the relatively novel concept has met opposition from defence lawyers who fear it will Lead to harsher sentences and who do not want emotion brought into the sentencing she that workers involved in the program try to play Down emotional Sid a Crown said Manitoba attorney generals apartment officials such As himself try to meet with victims once trial dates Are set to Brief them on court Lerner said the amount of time devoted to victims depends on the Arthur Shafer appeals for Public about aids to combat fear of the Legal Aid lawyers seek pay parity by Christina Dona Legal Aid lawyers in Manitoba Are demanding pay parity with Crown attorneys in negotiations with the says an association so Bill negotiator for the Legal Aid lawyers said salaries for Crown attorneys have increased at a higher rate than Legal Aid lawyers in the last four with 10 or at the higher salary there would be about a 10percent Malcolm at the top pay Legal Aid lawyers earn about a whereas Crown prosecutors earn Malcolm the top level has the greatest they have an extra category that we theres a bigger Gap than a Cou ple of years Malcolm this is because Crown attorneys went to arbitration in their last something we cant negotiators for the which represents 31 have met twice in response awaited so far weve just presented our Malcolm we still dont know what their position is in regards to our request for pay parity with the Crown but the negotiations Are very Good so Allan negotiator for the refused to comment on the demand because negotiations Are still going i dont see it As a big Fineblit were not very far apart on Many of the and its Only one of 16 the associations three year con tract ended that contract gave Legal Aid Law yers no pay increase the first a 2 increase in the second year and a costo living increase in the third Malcolm the Manitoba Crown attorneys association signed their last con tract in july after it went to an Pas president Rob Fin Layson the oneyear contract provided for a to a pay depending on senior that contract ended in septem Ber and the Crown attorneys Are in the midst of negotiating another nature of the with sexual As Sault victims obviously receiving More attention than department store officials hit by he also said his department tries to have women work with women sex assault victims when mayor Feill Norrie and John Manitoba Deputy assistant corrections told the conference that crime could be reduced by making Young people More responsible and less Norrie said that even though youngsters Are told How important they that does not give them the right to steal a car simply because they want something they do not perhaps we have created a Mon Norrie Bock complained Young people do not have the same respect for older people As they did when he was myself and i Are the Only three individuals that some Young people consider he school boards urged to help end aids fear expert Calls for Public education by Greg Pindera Public education is needed to Stop the plague like mentality associated with aids from a health conference was told Arthur director of the Centre for professional and applied ethics at the University of told a Home and school Parent teacher federation of Manitoba conference that irrational fear of aids can be spurred various actions taken by school for he cited a local school Board decision to Issue rubber gloves for teachers to Wear when dealing with student body obligation denied Schafer said school authorities have no obligation to Tell parents a student or teacher carries the aids and parents do not have the right to theres no reason to exclude or treat differently teachers or pupils who have he since there is no appropriate change of theres no Rea son Why people need to and i would say that in the workplace As he that so called right to know is exercised at the expense of the Liber the Opportunity to the Opportunity to have by those who have All this will do is feed fear and and we ought to resist it in a Strong and firm matter in order to protect Public and in order to protect what i would Call our Public the attitudes of parents and poli cies of school administrators set the Agenda for society approach to the greatest health crisis of this he federation president Adrien de Ruck said teachers should practise common sense Hygiene with All Chil and dont need to know which child is an aids but the care of a injured on the playground for is More important than preventive Mea he risk downplayed if you have to run across the Street to get the you stand a higher risk of getting killed by a car than by helping the child who May test de Ruck Only 20 people came out to participate in the discussion of acquired immune deficiency syndrome and other school health sponsored by the federa de Ruck said he was somewhat disappointed by the Low the thing is you get the people out that he Schafer told the parents and school officials that the aids crisis is already Breeding panic in Manito although cases Are still five school age males in Winnipeg carry the aids including four Haemophiliacs who caught it through tainted blood Public health officials have not informed the cites school divisions of the Schafer said schools should not isolate an aids Carrier on the basis of currently unreliable identifying and shunning aids carriers helps spread the syndrome because people in High risk groups homosexuals and intravenous drug users would ground and not submit to said the philosophy professor who also teaches medical but he said in some cases Public health overrides an individuals right to Liberty and people who wilfully and knowingly threaten other members of society through their actions should be he supporting Sweden decision to quarantine addicts on an aids curriculum must be an Hon est and informed discussion of All sexual answering any questions an adolescent he failure predicted i think its unlikely we should do so and that Why we will he if we introduce aids education in our schools and teach about sex in the context of a deadly disease and that sex is to be feared and then i would say we May do More harm than Good with our aids Edu cation Schafer also said members of the Media have a ethical responsibility to educate As Well As inform the Joyce Mother of two teenage said whether to parents a student is an aids Carrier is a difficult decision that should be made through Community Consen in still at the stage like a lot of you want More info i could become part of that group that fearful and overreact Wawrykow Dennis curriculum Consul Tant with Manitoba said the aids curriculum should be taught province wide by next the department is currently get Ting feedback from school divisions on the program proposed last month by education minister Roland pen Lucas major changes Are not anticipated and the final curriculum will be released in he flock declining for most protestant faiths by Glen major protestant religions Are los ing but the numbers of catholics and those who do not practise religion Are statistics Canada figures a report in Canadian social trends said about 50 per cent of All Church adherents Are catholics while about 34 per cent belong to the major protestant denominations presbyterian and the based on Canada Cen sus figures and the 1985 general also recorded drops of 31 per cent for unitarians and 17 per cent for Jehovah in the 1981 census said those with no religious preference Rose to seven per cent from per cent a decade As a Raymond a University of Manitoba said the so called none group has become the fourth largest category in the religious preference Currie said major protestant groups suffer in statistics because none group numbers study shows Many no practising catholics and jews Call themselves adherents but no practising protestants do he also said residence and mobility play a part because Many catholics live in Catholic a Good percentage of the there surrounded by catholics in Eastern Ontario or parts of Western Currie ethnic Factor very its related to Ethni in a Catholic ethnic ethnicity supports even without the Currie added that adherence has nothing to do with citing Quebec Catholic attendance Plung ing from 88 per cent in 1965 to 38 per cent in the highest rate of those who do not practise religion was British columbian per Albertas and Manitoba Currie attributed this to the wests High protestant mobility and immigration statistics comparing 1985 weekly Church attendance with 1975 found it fell in roman United and anglican remained con Stant among baptists and Rose slightly among lutherans and Klaus University of Manitoba religious studies said lower affiliation and attendance dont automatically mean religion itself Many people dont see the Church As a repository for their religious Klostermaier Many out there Are but would not think of attending and Many religious studies students do not go to besides holding their own in Atten dance at 40 per baptists were the Only mainline protestants to in by about four per Currie said baptists try harder to maintain commitment among adherents and stress participation in Church Judy roman Catholic archdiocese of Winnipeg spokes said local adherence and at Tendance figures Are not but the number of Manitoba parishes is up priest problems Wagner conceded the Church has trouble finding but rejected suggestions that celibacy May Dis courage application for the priest spokesmen for protestant churches said finding ministers is no and offered varied explanations for reduced adhere Bruce Miles of first Presby Terian Church said his figures declined because immigration from England and Scotland is far and presbyterians Are not Comfort Able sharing their we used to be a Christian but no Miles some will be deeply but its easy to come and Murdith Johns col lege said anglican Atten dance fell because Many no longer go for the Sake of George a local Jehu Vahs witness said his Church does Well because it we think people Are searching for Dalgleish if we have what there looking they Don unitarian Church of Winnipeg said his membership has stayed at 180 for a Mckinnon said he would not Dis Pute statistics although saying a drop in those who Call themselves unitarians does not mean fewer go to Diane United Church of Canada Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario executive said 1986 membership stood at com pared with a year Cooper blamed the drop on sunday shopping and on affluence letting people get away on i i ;