Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ree january do Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Cartton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 judging free Trade canadians should be wary of any group which claims to to judge the free Trade agreement after one year of they should be especially wary of any group which claims that the agreement has turned out exactly As predicted a year among the Many groups which have passed judgment on the fat in the past few supporters of the agreement have been the most modest in their for the obvious reason that there has been much to be modest the first year of the agreement has not produced an economic Boom in there was never Chance that it it has produced a number of individual Success stories and has encouraged investment in areas of great Promise but the full Impact of the fat has barely begun to be the reason for that is in its first year the agreement has barely begun to take it has eliminated tariffs on a Range of including Needles and it has begun the gradual elimination of tariffs on a whole lot of other it has led to the establishment of International panels to Rule on Trade actions by either government but the panels have barely begun to the Prospect of further liberalization has already influenced investment decisions Given the modest beginnings to it is obviously too Early to evaluate the True effects of the it is never too for the Council of canadians and its zealous allies in the War against the the Ink was dry on the thay had announced that it has Cost canadians precisely they have been tossing about casualty figures Ever ending up this month with a total of jobs lost directly and some lost those figures have no More credibility than do any of the others produced by the Council of their list of Job losses includes industries untouched by the free Trade even in areas covered by the agreement there is Seldom evidence of a direct plants did close last year and canadians did lose their that has happened every year in Canadas history and these Days about canadians change jobs every employment statistics measure the differ ence Between those Job losses and the new jobs last far from the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs the Council of canadians figures would employment actually Rose by some a second major fallacy in the Council of canadians analysis is the Assumption if the free Trade agreement did not the Federal government would not have to worry about getting its spending under there is plenty to criticize in the Mulroney governments fiscal policy Over the past five but the Council policy of High tariffs and out control deficits would be infinitely the free Trade of cannot repeal the business it cannot reduce interest rates or the value of the Canadian those factors Are leading to a slowing of the Canadian most economists forecast that the decline will be Short lived and nowhere near As severe As the recession in the Early years of the last decade when the liberals were in Power and there was no free Trade canadians should be watching to see whether the fat helps Canada emerge from the take advantage of the lower Dollar which is Likely to accompany it and exploit the new world trading opportunities which a More More efficient and Bette target Ted Industrial sector should gearing up for a More competitive world Market will cause some problems and dislocations in it offers better prospects for than the Council of canadians alternative of massive deficits and High the rhe Miral habit stir another famous Victory a a a a and lock to a around 1904 residents As the Back Ard and past City councils have known Well that the millions of dollars they have spent to douse Winnipeg with Chemi cals to Battle mosquitoes have done nothing to rid us of the the the wind and the Sun have been far More effective in determining whether City residents have been Able to find Comfort in their own Back Yards on a summer night the reason councillors authorized Spray trucks to Roll through the City and to Spray Fine mists of malathion and Dur Span on adult and every other species of any had More to do with jangled nerves and jangling telephones than the effectiveness of the As mayor Bill Norrie said when he was a councillor at City he accepted that chemical spraying did not eradicate but it makes our voters feel were doing one could Call it spraying for psycho logical like most decisions taken in desperate or in the Hope of avoiding spraying was the wrong thing to it was wrong because the Lon term costs to human and the environment were simply unit was doubly wrong simply because it did not now a new City Council is showing signs that More thought and reason will be injected into the Bug it wants a task Force to investigate what other cities do to control weeds and it wants the task Force to investigate what biological alternatives to chemical pesticides have been developed and what they might Cost to apply the task is one of considerable importance to the Short term Comfort and the Lon term health of it should not be the task Force should be Given the time and the resources to do a thorough it should set out a plan of attack on several of Winnipeg worst irritants mos dutch Elm canker Worms and weeds for the decade and perhaps an open minded task Force could draw on the consider Able resources of Lon term opponents of the Spray including those of a respected local Tox Colo a retired entomology and Lay people who have amassed More scientific reports and contacted More health conscious scientists internationally than a working group might find in a year of it would be Good for the people of Winnipeg if the mistrust and animosity Between City Hall and the Spray opponents could be set aside for this the task Force should seek the Best medical and scientific evidence wherever it it should not rely too heavily on All those agencies of governments whose staff Are schooled in the views of an Industry Riv in postwar growth culture and constrained by political not chemical companies have done a Good Job of persuading government politic entomologists and almost everyone else that their products Are essential and the cites Bug control Branch has Long told and politicians have Long told the that the chemicals used to fog and to larvicide mosquitoes and to Battle other pests Are the task Force should Tell them the the chemicals chosen May be relatively compared to some other for some Winnipeg who suffer unusual sensitivity to chemicals or respiratory they Are acutely unsafe and for Many More they May be chronically Laboratory tests of the 40 most commonly used pesticides in the United states showed 11 of them can cause 21 have other Lon term effects and Only one had been fully tested for its full Range of effects on human according to a report by Public citizens con Gress a research the task Force should take As its guide the Means of assessment proposed by the National research Council with respect to agricultural a com Mittee of the Council has suggested this Basic Rule for weighing pest control methods the benefits should be characterized As the difference Between the benefits of one method and those of the next Best alternative which May require Little or no pesticide the Dollar costs of the health and environmental consequences of each pest control method should be weighed against its if that route is the task Force might Well find that we should have been spending our millions to construct better drainage to inspect factory lots where rain barrels sit and mosquitoes and to invest in biological control it might suggest such labor and for a More costly control they might at Long last be by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press when the celebrated Bush Quayle ticket swept to Victory in the United states some months grave con Cern was expressed in Many quarters Over what might happen if the Accident prone George Bush stepped in front of a speeding bus or slipped on the soap while getting out of the Bath the Prospect of president Quayle made hearts Stop All Over the free the Vic president was clearly a but All might be Well if president Bush could be steered Clear of banana skins and open a fool is a fool some hectic months into the Bush it seems Clear that the sudden Elevation of Vic Epresi Dent Quayle into the Oval office would hardly make a bit of differ a fool in the White House is a fool in the White whether his name is Dan or americans still believe that the president of the United states is the most important individual in the world and second Only to god in the there May have been a period of about 15 minutes Back in the 1960s when this estimate of presidential importance was More or less but in recent years attention has been shifting the recent dramatic events in Eastern Europe have made activities on the International scene even More of a president who earlier pledged to bring Back the Good old managed to turn Back the american clock to a period around the recent invasion of Panama had an uncanny aspect of Dejavu and brought to mind the Heady Days of Teddy Roosevelt and the foreign policy initiatives of the United fruit what was behind the decision to return to the foreign policies of yesteryear it is True that president Bush had been described As a wimp and a do nothing and it May Well be that in order to establish himself As a Man of a decisive he gave the order to Send in the the american masses have Al ways loved a it worked for Ronald Reagan in tiny it worked for George Bush in the mopping up operation took longer than but it at least allowed the president to get in a few More rounds of Golf and a bit of fishing before the last shot was of May be Deci but he is also he did you May Send the marines into China last summer after the chinese government smashed the student on that occasion he sent some top envoys to Chat up the chinese leaders and keep Trade channels after Why stick your neck out another matter of is another for one it happens to be for the More or less invented Panama after the digging of the Panama canal and it has More or less run the Little country Ever appointing dicta running the Panama has been known to presidents As the Back Yard and to Send in the marines is As natural As dropping Down to the Corner drug store for a so what is All the fuss about apart from the unfortunate fact that people got killed and that Many poor citizens of Panama had their Homes shot up or burned the invasion was the stuff of which television series Are bizarre twist it has everything a loudmouthed dictator nicknamed pineapple face who is wanted on a drug rap in Miami and May even have out standing parking tickets outside Cia Headquarters in Washington it has a bizarre twist in which the despised pineapple face seeks Sanctuary with the papal Nuncio it has terrific Rock music by David Bowie and other stars As forces attempt to blast their enemy into submission with loud by the does anyone remember a Short Story by White called the supremacy of Uruguay in which a banana Republic Ham mers its neighbors into submission by flying Over them in aircraft equipped with loudspeakers Broad casting Bing Crosby singing please life imitates Art once it was a famous even though the panamanians forgot to surrender during the first ten minutes of the Battle and even if Gener Al Noriega rats on his old Cia Boss George there Are times in every nations history when it wants nothing More than to turn on a smaller neighbor and Knock the Dejesus out of after Why should glasnost get All the headlines Rob exciting in his december 27 review of the Royal Winnipeg ballets Nutcracker Neil Harris referred to some slight traces of fatigue in the it is encouraging to note that whatever they they had most emphatically and most assuredly disappeared by the time of the company evening performance on 30 it is evident to All who have been following the performances of the Rob that their technical Standard is constantly rising dramatically so in some the Overall technical level of dancing by the whole company was very High the corps de Ballet has never looked better the divertissement in act ii were danced with singular and the act ii grandpas de Deus was an absolute Model of technical the principals nutcrackers in a the growing strengths of the Rob in its Mastery of the classical Reper Toire and of classical style Are one of the most exciting and promising manifestations of dance in and Are to be watched with special and indeed Corey Keeble howlers surely the review of the ribs Nutcracker 27 was written not by Neil Harris but my Malaprop who else could utter such howlers with such aplomb writing with the Breezy familiarity of the Mala prop repeatedly deplores the weak Ness in the corp while praising the i have not seen the so i cannot comment on the Justice of the but i can protest the injustice to the English language which contains no such what your reviewers meant to criticize was the weakness in the dancing by the or the As in corps de and Only malaprops tin deaf to the nuances Between English spelling and French could have confused Divertie ments for maybe you could give your reviewer a break from culture and let him cover irs Alic better write copy for Moti Sho Jania College environment there is much breast beating at the moment about conservation of the i am finding that school students cant name six wild six fish or even six what has our educational system done Walter Krivda the letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters rom writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to new thrust one form of education that up until recently has been neglect or otherwise undervalued is the now newly embraced distance Edu this is a worldwide phenom Enon taking on an array of and delivery in Canada there Are several such one institution being solely devoted to distance education Athabasca uni in a spark has been the article strike a spark for education free 22 illustrates the ongoing need for re form in education in order to address the need for excellence in education at All distance education housed within the continuing education division at the University of Manitoba is designed to prepare normally neglected Seg ments of our population that is the geographically disadvantaged in this Case to meet the demands of a fast changing the father of adult Malcolm has predicted that obsolescence will become the Public enemy 1 for adults and youth who dont keep Pace with the deluge of societal changes which Are already manifesting themselves As we enter the two examples of such populations include adult learners who re Side in Rural or Northern regions of the province who normally Are firmly rooted in their locations thus requiring extraordinary efforts to seek education on Campus and Young individuals who Only by living in their Remote Home towns find the Means to pursue educational a new thrust behind distance education involves a strategically planned approach to achieving advancement in technological delivery systems and in making accessible a wider array of educational Active the political Goodwill for Mak ing these things happen in distance education in Manitoba is alive and picking up momentum As is evidenced by the recent ministry of education Grant of to the University of Manitoba continuing education division for the purpose of establishing a first year of University by distance education Daniel Dreefke University of Manitoba continuing education division Millican data May through the columns of your ask your readers if they have any information regard ing my grandparents Charles and Isabella Millican or any of their they were married in Winnipeg on april Manitoba Community services inform me they have no Trace of this marriage in their rec my father William and i Are anxious to Trace his or it is not known whether Charles and Isabella were bom or died in Canada or Scotland where my father William was i realize i do not hold much information but any further assistance they could provide would be sincerely Millican 875 Kings East Didsbury Manchester m20 opt England Doublespeak Fred Cleverley unearthed an Insi Dious bit of hypocrisy that Ive been seeing much More of lately the virtual censorship of Christian expression by those who justify them selves with murky humanistic Doub like multiculturalism or if Only those catchwords meant what they As Cleverley then the Faith Section of the free press would have carried at least one article about the Christian and the classified Section of the free press would have offered to share Billy grahams space with other religious columnists instead of eliminating Graham i think the free press is quite sensitive to the needs and concerns of its so if christians Are concerned about these its up to us to speak up More about the press is run by human by people who have their own personal biases and and they can Only strive for not achieve Garth Bucholz Winnipeg painful to in the free press dated septem Ber to reviewer Brad Oswald said of cod co and the kids in the Hall the Csc premieres its thursday night comedy Block with this terrific cod co might be the funniest show on i have viewed All episodes of both shows and have found Sev eral of them to be Vul almost while others lacked these they were mainly senseless rub the Globe and mail said cod co was painfully i found it unbearably painful but not the least bit of the kids in the the to reviewer for the san Francis co examiner said it was a classic in the i think he must still be suffering aftershock from the i asked several of my friends to View these a few of them did so and reported agree ment with my others stomach them More than a few minutes and turned to Law or mystery both shows recently won gemini cod co was the Only entry in its category which goes to show what a gemini is anything or anyone can win airing such tripe As Canadian Content in prime time is a scandalous waste of funds by the it is also an affront to viewers Why does the Csc serve us comedy that revolves around the human reproductive and excretory organs can the Csc not find comedy such As bless me father and minister on pcs or almost anything else Brown Winnipeg we Call it communism and this is How it ;