Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 11, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free March Freedom of Trade of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by newspapers division of Canadian newspaper company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Hurt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 editorials a quest for martyrdom civil disobedience by antiabortion campaigners will gratify those who enjoy ostentatious it will reduce the number of abortions in Canada and it will not Advance the cause of abortion Law Winnipeg antiabortion crusader Joe Borowski is eager for prolife demonstrations across the country where abortion clinics and hospitals will be Paddy wagons will be loaded up with court rooms and jails will be Borowski has been keen on that style of Campaign for Many years in a succession of if Borowski pursues his quest for attorney general Jim Mccrae should see to it that his wish is the province has to protect the Freedom of doctors and patients to meet and carry out Legal medical antiabortion crusaders enjoy Freedom of including the Freedom to demonstrate peacefully in the they Are not free to intimidate or physically obstruct doctors and other people seeking or offering abortion any attempt to inflict on Winnipeg the aggressive tactics that have been used by antiabortion demonstrators in Toronto and Vancouver should be met by firm police action in defence of peaceful use of the Public streets and Public Borowski says civil disobedience is the Only course left for the prolife movement since the supreme court Ocanada did not Grant the ruling he sought on the constitutional rights of it is True that the prolife movement is running out of shortcut methods through the criminal code and the courts for enforcing its views upon other plenty of regal and democratic avenues Are still for people horrified by abortion to Advance their abortions come about because of unwanted pregnant the antiabortion Campaign can turn its attention to the social the attitudes to sex and the ignorance that Lead to teenage which account for a Large proportion of they can Campaign for improved social services and economic support for pregnant women and mothers so that completing a pregnancy will be a realistic option for a larger number of these Are Long and difficult roads toward reducing the number of they hold out no Promise of eliminating All abortions because in the Best imaginable circumstances there will still be unwanted pregnancies for which abortion is the least unattractive the Effort to get a Law passed saying no one can have an is getting absolutely there is no sign in the views of the political parties or the opinions found by pollsters that such a Law might be past experience indicates even if it it would not prevent abortions from being it is an illusionary raising a ruckus in the streets and getting hauled off to jail would be Mere those whose first concern is their own moral position direct their energies to tantrums and Public those who want to do something about abortion and its causes should Roll up their sleeves and resign themselves to a Long and Complex Devine privatized anyone who has followed the political career of Saskatchewan Premier Grant Devine will not be sur prised by his announced in the throne speech at the opening of the Saskatchewan to sell off three major Saskatchewan Crown including the giant Potash corporation of Devine has made it Clear that he understands the fight he faces with the nip and its new Roy Over the the Saskatchewan Potash Industry has been a Burr under the premiers Saddle Ever since he won his first nationalization of the Potash Industry was regarded by the former Blakeney government As a Means of collecting National resource when Devine came to the debt created by the nationalization of the Industry always loomed larger in his mind than did the Prospect of Potash wealth flowing into the provincial when the markets re Devines concern about the debt grew because the Cost of servicing it was not covered by putting the Saskatchewan Potash corporation on the Block was no neither was the in Devines privatization of the Saskatchewan insurance corporation the original Public automobile insurance in Canada or the provincial monopoly which controls natural if Devine is and if private investors do snap up the shares that will be the provinces balance Sheet will be altered but the real position left largely Devine proposes to sell assets to reduce Devine claims an International leaning toward private ownership supports his decision to sell off the Saskatchewan Crown Romanow if he follows his party argue that somehow the people of Saskatchewan Are being in it has been found that the actual owner Public or has less influence on the efficient operation of a Large corporation than does the presence of investors who Are at Liberty to sell their shares Are Likely to demand a More efficient operation than taxpayers who have a less direct link with a corporation owned by the Devine May be As right about the private owner ship of the Saskatchewan Potash corporation As Blakeney was wrong about the benefits of nationalize there just As few guarantees connected with the latest move As were connected to the buyout of the private companies years to serve Devine will have to make sure that his privatization plans do not include fir Sale if the Stock is properly and if the corporations can slide smoothly from Public to private then the pressure for More efficiency will in Hwi vol heard at Thi government new la50dr consultants of inhere Trade Efa hush Woop and Drew choosing a new bridesmaid coming clean on an atrocity Poland communist government has made its first Public Effort to persuade the soviet government to admit that its secret police carried out in 1940 the murder of polish military officers that for More than four decades has been described by the soviets As a nazi wartime this healthy development took the form of a Public statement by Jerzy official spokesman of the Warsaw the key words were we think everything indicates that the crime was committed by the stalinist this is what most people outside the soviet Union and outside communist party circles in Poland concluded Many years based on substantial the which evolved into today was the main instrument of state terror during the dictatorship of Joseph by the time it took the polish prisoners to Katyn near the a kid had immense experience in murdering those defined by Stalin As his including the senior officer corps of the red army during the purges and show trials of the the polish officers shot in the Back of the Skull and thrown in mass Graves in Katyn Wood Are part of 4bout polish officers who were in soviet the bodies of the others have not yet been after decades of slavish obedience to soviet demands that its fake account of the murders be the polish regime is at last coming into line with what its population has always known to be the the Graves were discovered by the germans in at which time Stalin claimed that they had been murdered by the themselves in the fall of 1 Mikhail Gorbachev glasnost is the reason Why the ice has cracked on this a team of polish and soviet historians has been examining Blank spots in the bilateral history of the two the polish govern ment recently allowed a government controlled Maga Zine to publish a Katyn article that included Long sup pressed evidence of soviet says soviet historians have seen this and other evidence and they want to find soviet Archive sources we Are for speeding up the process of looking for if the a kid kept files like the War criminals who served in the nazi is units and the hitlers secret there will be detailed eyewitness accounts and grisly souvenir photographs the question is not whether they can be found but whether the Kab will let them be by Christopher Dafoe special to the free pressed Broadbent has announced that he is stepping Down and people Are already saying that it will be diff if not to replace the looking around see no male or of sufficient stature or Broadbent is so Well such a household so who can fill his mighty boots the same As a matter of were asked when David Lewis ended his term As Leader of the you May was at first thought of As a kind of interim a Stopgap until a real Leader could be de was a Nice Man and a useful member of but it was widely Felt that he would not make an effective after he was not Well people were used to they looked at de and won dered who he the same As a matter of was said of Lewis when he came to Lead the How could anybody replace Tommy Douglas it was Clear then that the nip was washed without a National figure like Tommy Douglas to Lead the party it was bound to shrink away to Lewis was undoubtedly a Nice but nobody knew his father figure we came to know him pretty Well As time went just As we came to know the originally under rated eded Broadbent sort of grew on As Many political leaders we Start out wondering who they Are and gradually transform them into something resembling a father Fig we get used to we almost in what they Are going to say on any Given we feel forsaken when they announce that they Are leaving Public not too Many months you May opinion polls indicated that Many canadians Felt that de Broadbent would make the Best prime we had come a Long Way since the Days when we won dered whether he was really fit to Lead the curious fact in the 14 years of his leadership he had made a place for himself on the Public stage and had earned the respect that seems traditionally to come to leaders of Canadas social democratic it is a curious fact that canadians tend to Admire and respect socialist leaders and yet have never Given a socialist the mandate to govern the the great Kcf was widely so were Douglas and Broadbent was the popular Choice for prime but never actually enjoyed the experience of leading the leading the Kcf or the nip must be one of the most frustrating jobs in Canadian Public to be to be to have your Best ideas taken Over by others and yet to be passed Over again and again must be annoying in the i suppose there is some satisfaction in seeing your ideas taken up and feeling that you Are an influence for but every socialist Leader must ask himself Why the Canadian at the last always hang on several occasions the socialist party has Felt itself moving but Only to fall Back Between elections their popularity on election the tide what is it about canadians that makes it difficult for them to take that final step it May Well be that Canadas socialists made a serious error a Long time ago by electing to establish a third a Hundred years when the socialist movement was getting into full the fabians in England used to argue about whether socialists should establish their own party or permeate one of the existing in during the last years of the 19th attempts were made to infiltrate the Liberal party and gradually bring it around to the socialist the fabians were willing to move a step at a until their views pervaded liberalism in the Liberal party had become an i of standout socialist it did not work there and it did not i work although it might Well i have been the Best socialist ideas have permeated the old parties while Socia list men and women have remained outside the main Circle of Federal watching others take credit for their it must have been can be replaced the Good of is that de can be the party is full of intelligent men and women who would make excellent whoever is chosen May be Little known at but gradually he or she will grow on us to the Point where an opinion poll will indicate that they Are beloved at a level almost equal to Santa Socia lists Are generally Nice you just cant help liking poor women do All the work and Bear All the pain contemplate the plight of the aver age female worker in Over 16 years of age and with no according to the annual report of the Ontario Bureau of she worked 54 hours a totalling 259 Days a annual wages amounted to Cost of living was estimated at which included for clothing and for Board and the surplus remained at the end of the year amounted to other females were treated like the Canadian encyclopedia reports that at the end of the 19th Century Young girls in factories worked for 60 hours a week for 80 or less than two cents an hour it is incredible How badly women have been treated by under the women were not even regarded As persons 60 years the supreme court of composed exclusively of ruled that women were not persons under the British North America act and so were not qualified to sit in the the decision was appealed to the privy Council in then the last court of and in 1929 it decided that women were indeed the whole episode seems like something out of a French women were regarded As an inferior until Manitoba Law ruled that upon marriage the husband became the sole manager Val Werier of a wife the female lot has improved con especially since the initiation of the women movement in the late is still overwhelmingly dominated by an example is the arts Fracul University of Manitoba where Only 35 out of 275 professors Are across Canada in women earned on third less than men in similar still there has been a steady and Vance towards Equality for it is in the poor and developing countries where women Are subjected to the greatest cultural and historical attitudes have placed them in the category of a lesser the United nations childrens in a 1989 states that for every social indicator be it Litera life expectancy or infant Mortali is a wide Gap Between industrialized and developing coun but nowhere is that Gap As wide As in maternal says the in Overall the risk of dying of causes related to pregnancy and childbirth is at least 40 times higher in the developing and in the poorest the risk rises to 150 times in Africa there Are almost 700 maternal deaths for every live in South Asia deaths Are Over in the industrialized world the average is under says the in report the roots of this problem reach deep into social As Long As the nutrition of girls is placed second to that of and As Long As women eat last and and work harder and preg Nancy will remain a greater than natural half of the babies in the develop ing world Are delivered with no trained person in but it should also be pointed out that Over on third of 140 million women in the developing world who have become pregnant in the last 12 months did not want to have another an estimated of them died in the desperate attempt to terminate those pregnancies by Means of illegal a says the is the promotion of knowledge to control the number and timing of most of the deaths and suffering could be avoided at relatively Little it seems As if the poor women do All the work and Bear All the the women of the developing says the Are responsible for producing and Market ing most of its they also carry the main responsibility for food preparation and Home for water and for nutrition and health for Hygiene and for the education of the not they Are almost entirely responsible for the physical and mental develop ment of the next but when it comes to development assistance from the industrialized women Are largely left out of the most of the education and train the technology and the the investments and the have gone to that imbalance is difficult to Correct because it is part of a landscape of fundamental social inequities in All the injustice perpetuated against women retards the development of the poor females As a whole get less education than some get none at in South Only 45 per cent of girls aged 6 to 11 go to a primary says the in the possibilities for increased productivity and in come through training and technology for women have hardly begun to be it is International women Day this week and this is the Case that can be made in the poor countries the status of women Hast reached that of Canada in these women in India carry water daily from Wells six Miles from their ;