Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba Free March 1988 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 editor Murray Hurt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller a member of the Manitoba press Council editorials premature obituaries Premier Howard Pawley is in excellent health and shows no inclination to quit Active political he intends a career change from provincial politics to that being the Pawley can be spared the polite bunk which is often found in political or the Premier deserves a More Clear eyed assessment and so do the voters who will pass judgment on his government on april the premature obituaries have drawn As they to the fact that Pawsey is honest and they Point to his evident compassion for the underdog and his concern for fairness in Public 1 nose characteristics should be noted in any assessment of the premiers political the tend to gloss Over other facets of his political they take note of the i courage and single mindedness with which he against powerful and passionate for his Ideal of Public Auto they pay less attention to the fact that he Seldom again showed that too often since Pawley has vacillated in his political judgments and fudged his political his inclination is to agree with the last person he talked the aim of the practice May be to soothe its result is often to inspire bad feeling among those who thought he had agreed to something and then discovered that he had that tendency is one of the though not the Only Why Manitoba relations with the Federal government Are in such a poisonous Pawley carried his habit of vacillation into his own Cabinet he was never the knowledge Able and decisive Leader that a Premier should the polite obituaries refer to his Collegia approach to Cabinet that term Falls Short of describing by All Hawleys Cabinet was less of a College than a Strong ministers pursued their own individual agendas without much regard either for the views of the Leader or those of their Cabinet those ministers now Are the ones who Are fostering the ultimate myth that the by stepping has performed the ultimate act of self sacrifice for his party and his their notion is by retiring As Pawley will take on his shoulders All the sins of his leaving the surviving ministers As born again freed of All there Are two weaknesses in that the first is far from sacrificing his political Pawley has freed himself to pursue Federal Ambi the second is that the blunders of policy and administration which have earned the government its unpopularity were not by the Premier who was Seldom in but by the ministers to whom he gave a free those Are the ministers who having distanced themselves from want to be returned to they will find it hard to persuade the voters that the premiers resignation absolves them of responsibility for their questions about a killing the investigation into the death of John Joseph executive director of the Island Lake tribal who was shot by a police revolver on Logan should be taken out of the hands of the Winnipeg police the coroners inquest and other quiries into the shooting will need evidence gathered investigators who Are Independent of the officer whose weapon killed Harper and Independent of Winnipeg police chief Herb the facts of the Case which were initially announced by the Winnipeg department show that it will be very difficult to explain what the departments first version is that a looking for a 19yearold who had fled from a stolen approached aged who was walking on the Street near Stanley Knowles the Constable and according to the departments fought with each in the course of the fight the constables gun was drawn and the Bullet killing a thorough investigation of the Case will have to include a careful search for witnesses other than the Constable involved and his it will have to test the obvious possibility that the Constable involved has Given an inaccurate or incomplete account in order to exculpate himself and that his colleagues Are supporting his since a newspaper reporter arriving at the scene found the bloodstained eyeglasses of the victim lying on the Street a Short distance it appeared that the police department had not at that Point conducted the investigation with the necessary Winnipeg Gers need to know whether All homicide investigations Are that Slack or whether a special approach is taken when an Indian Dies in the hands of the police depart the province has a Law enforcement review Agency with some experience in reviewing police it has the services of the Royal Canadian mounted whose ranks include skilled and experienced criminal investigators familiar with police attorney general Vic Schroeder should use these resources and take the Winnipeg department off the the Donald Marshall wrongful conviction in Nova Scotia and the unsatisfactory results of the prose cution in the Pas Over the Betty Osborne murder have raised a question about the work the police do when an Indian is killed or is accused of Manitoba should learn from those Indian Community leaders Are especially concerned in the John Harper killing but the whole Community is harmed when human life is lost in inexplicable circumstances involving the this investigation should be above schroeders immediate duty is to put it in Independent librarians cry out a warning Freedom from information Manitoba new democratic which has More than its share of troubles these can be thankful that it is not beginning this election Campaign encumbered by a Freedom of information such an act was passed two and a half years ago by the government but has never been its proclamation has been we Are because of the terrible mess government documents were left in by the departing conservatives in just How the conservatives could manage to in four confusion that could not be straightened out in the following six has never been the perils of having a Freedom of information act Are real As Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford has Peckford recently lost a by election partly because newfoundlands Freedom of information Law made it possible for his opposition to dig out Juicy titbits of expense such As hotel stretch limousines and tips for their the minister responsible for Manitoba Freedom of Judy would do everyone a favor by proclaiming now the Law that was passed so Long she claims to have been deterred by the fact that the government is turning out documents at the rate of six shelf Miles a if that is the the longer she Waits to proclaim the act the More documents she will have to worry by now there must be about 36 shelf Miles of documents the conservatives had no hand in by Wilson special to the free press Ottawa Effort to per Suade a stubborn Cabinet minister and dreadfully obstinate departmental officials to rework legislation intended to curb pornography so As to avoid a Savage sideswipe at the whole Field of arts and letters goes on there Are rumours that the Goy reluctant to admit that it has made a crashing and ridiculous May simply let the Legisla widely known by its order paper designation As Bill die when this session of parliament is those Are rumours although they Are current among those professionally concerned with cultural harmful blows there is no sign that the govern ment is even considering sensible modification of the Bill so As to restrict its effect to the stated tar get pornography and avoid harmful blows at the visual literature and legitimate personal it takes a big Man to admit in the course of a nation wide that he has made an embarrassing there is no sign that Justice minister Ray Hnatyshyn is big in one Hnatyshyn has engaged in Doublespeak that would be unseemly in any minister and unthinkable in a minister of genuine he has assured librarians and others that their fears of a sideswipe effect Are unfounded and that there will be no prosecutions of sad irony it is ironic and sad to read in the people column free March 3 the cynical account of the visit by the Princess of Wales to the East african countries of Somalia and she it seems to endure travelling on rough roads by land Rover and to Lodge in rudimentary guesthouses with no run Ning despite its ant african the report appears to reflect the brutal reality of things in East the writer ignored the fact that both the rough roads and the rudimentary guesthouses were Origi Nally constructed by european including British As european colonialism disinter the facilities in question were inherited by an inept indigenous elite which was itself the product of the european colonial Labora Hassan i rave Winnipeg Princess of Wales no communist regarding the articles on soviet heirs and Deal cations free february 27 and february my late Wasyl who acted in Canadian estate matters involving ukrainian and soviet was never a communist As alleged by lawyer Barry Kraw my father was acknowledged by Many As the principal founder of the ukrainian greek orthodox Church of he was a devout Christian and a member of the Church All his and was buried with the full rites of the he was an honest and decent Man who worked All his life to help the ukr i Nia Canadian he had an unsullied and eminent reputation in the Legal profession of he was a court acknowledged expert in soviet and private International he was originally contacted to act in these estate matters not Only by beneficiaries and lawyers in the soviet Union and other Eastern european but also by provincial government pub Lic trustee offices All across Cana after my fathers death in his Gregory Patuski succeeded him in acting in these estate Nestor Krypiakevich be came an employee of Patuski but was never his a tusks reputation was equally impeccable in both the Legal and ukrainian he subsequently died in not but from Hodgkins disease and after Many Yearb u Krupia Utvich then succeeded to the estate All of the Deal cations by Krypiakevich took place years after Jie gory Katsikis Osiier winning Law firms who have acted As counsel in soviet estate Matte s include the Andrew Law Uince Ami Pitblado and arc also so Srun Vancouver letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to rent guideline the article landlords blame fire rent ceilings for financial squeeze free february 26 quoted officials of the Manitoba landlords association to the effect that the expressed difficulty of cer Tain members in financing the work required to bring their properties up to the new standards was the fault of our three percent rent increase by portraying the rent guideline As a fixed and rigid the officials of the association Are doing no service to their the fact of the matter is that the three percent guideline is Only a landlords May make application for increases above that figure where actual operating costs will support the costs associated with fire code upgrading Are recognized As eligible under these Winnipeg made known its intentions to implement fire code changes As far Back As with the Origi Nal deadline for the first major phase of improvements set for octo 1986 being set Back to 1988 in older to allow landlords More time to plan to meet the new re landlords who have completed the necessary work and have been Able u demonstrate Justi have received approval for increases in excess of three per Smith minister of housing municipal Aid the editorial welfare by computer free March 2 is a Good example of spacious reasoning taken to a ridiculous to argue against the elimination or municipal a move that will bring Manitoba into line with seven other Canadian on the basis that the system will be computerized is particularly the millions of canadians in receipt of family old age Security and the guaranteed income supplement appear to have no major complaints about the fact that the system which provides All or part of their income is operated by nor do there seem to be problems experienced by the countless other millions who use automated banking machines or who receive dividends from major Canadian corporations or insurance All either made possible or greatly assisted by computer computers the taking of applications and the verification process which follows both application and admission to the social assistance program will continue to be done by the staff of the usually on the basis of facet face Contact with the recipe the editorial Stales that the municipal system is inconsistent and this is the additional conclusion that it is human and it works is far More questionable by one acknowledges the Putini unreason Able intrusiveness and racism that so often accompanies the administration of municipal and if one recognizes that it works far worse for Many recipients than would the provincial social Assis Tance after All these there is still debate on the merits of Munici pal the Edito rial did Little to Advance the Case against the provincial Matiun of All social Joseph Ryant Winnipeg that he that the Federal government will have no control Over prosecutions if Parlia ment passes the this misstatement of the True to and the fanatical nature of the legislation As make it difficult to believe that its authors really did not intend to strike at the Field of arts and the nature of the legislation and the history of govern ment stubbornness in refusing to admit its flaws make it far More Likely that they intend exactly the sideswipe effect its critics the protests by librarians have been especially effective in stimulating widespread discussion of the Bills real dangers and their efforts have been carried Forward in the current Issue of their professional the Canadian Library through an exceptionally effective critique of the it was written by the chief librarian of the Toronto Public Les a Man of recognized professional he wrote in part left to police before we offer our Blind twist to the government we must realize that the enforcement of the Law is not in the hands of the minister it Falls to local authorities to charge usually it is the police who decide what is pornographic and who should be the Bill does affect libraries drastically Bill c54 offers a mighty club to those groups in our society that have Long protested the presence of the works of such authors Assa Margaret Judy Blume and Kevin major in our i court criticized regarding the article two month jail term for fatality upheld free january As the parents of a victim of a drunk we would like to express our views on the judicial system in our on january 26 in an Appeal was held to review the lenient sentence of a two month jail three months loss of Drivers licence and 200 hours of Community service handed to Wendy Petersen of Dauphin on october 1987 follow ing her guilty plea of dangerous driving causing were these judges at the Appeal just backing up their colleague on the october or did they make their own judgment based on the facts presented we wonder what the outcome would have been had this been a native person or had the tragedy been reversed and our 21yearold son been the we feel this Case has set a dangerous our sons Young life was Worth much More to us than it obviously was to the courts in this Roy and Sharon Glover Nicaragua regarding Henry krugers letter Nicaragua free february major s in Edu und Reform have been in f the Only reason has been a military buildup is for protect sufi against Contra a the american position la Central and South America will Only serve to reinforce a growing communist ele ment in the the persistent backing of righting dictatorships will Lead to hatred of american if the american foreign policy were More open to socialist Reform in Central America i am sure people of this Region would become staunch allies of Nicaragua has a population of the extremists of this world have not said much about the they need not it suits their purposes its passage May see a number of narrow interest groups seeking to purge Library shelves so that their particular View of morality is the Only View ill served we who abhor violence in our society will be ill served by Bill c54 for it offers a bogus prescription for combating sexual the causes of violence Are much More deep seated than this Quick fix Solu Tion until we Are Able to confront the Root causes of the abuse of women and the Bill c54 solution is we must in Vest women with the so Cial and Legal Power to escape the Cycle of violence it is incumbent on those who would restrict our Freedom through censorship to offer some evidence that their solution Are the culturally or sexually repressive societies noted for markedly better treatment of women and have the nations that practise Strin gent censorship of sexual materials produced societies in which women enjoy Equality with men those states and nations that exercise such control Are infamous for their treatment of women and Chil that is Only a sampling of follies he writes so Well on the subject that it is unfortunate the circulation of the Canadian Library journal is largely limited to circles already aware of the flaws in Hnatyshyn three million the army May be Large by Central american Fig ures but hardly a threat to the the Southern command of american defence is in Central America and could nullify any threat in the if Nicaragua is a threat with a population of three America is in real further on free Market i would like to inform Kruger that the United the very Pinnacle of free Market Force is now the largest debtor nation in the production failures in Nicaragua Are due to Trade embargoes and attacks on farms by raiding Contra Many Church groups have trav Elled to Nicaragua and do not paint the picture As Kruger sees people who have been to Nicaragua liken it to the Spanish civil War of the this the fascists Are backed by our the United by the the fascists won and that will Likely happen again if Ronald Reagan has anything to Horn Oak i ;