Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg pita press january Page focus Canada is lagging in science research Liberal leadership race is on in Earnest and it will Surprise no one that the three front running con tenders Are earnestly promising to Lead canadians toward a gentler have had the Wisdom not to follow the example set by John when his leadership was under review two years Turner stood before a vast audience of convention delegates and served up an Agenda that dealt Only with the need to abolish soup train youth and maintain Universal a peace offering to his critics on the All candidates speaking this week have stressed the need for an economic growth if any one doubts the need for such a As our living Stan Dards fall behind those of other industrialized they might revise their views after an encounter with Fraser a onetime practising medical Mustard founded the Canadian Institute for advanced and has for a decade been trying to energize business and government to Lay a foundation for a leading Edge research his Point is that the Well being of our society depends on our capacity to produce goods and services that the world will want to and that in global markets today Means we must have the capacity to inno better health he offers findings from a variety of studies that show that the better off a society or a group in society the better its health and the higher its capability to fend off ill this phenomenon does not appear to relate directly to variations in Access to health or advances in the medical who offered the findings in an appearance last month before a commons commit is As mystified As anyone As to Why the correlation but it would be useful to keep them in mind As the opening of the Liberal leadership contest brings on a nationwide debate Over party direct ions and they Are one and quite reason for canadians to understand that Canadas Industrial future has to be Joan Cohen Ottawa editor a matter of compelling what is of overriding import As Mustard carefully pointed is that Canadas Industrial Sec Tor has not been generating sufficient income to pay for the various consumption functions and that includes Job training and recreation activities that were put in place a couple of decades either we have to produce and sell or Cut Back on training and Leisure ser the crunch is with so is the according to this ener Getic what canadians need to More than specific is a National consensus on the nature of the Effort to be science is reshaping world Trade Mustard presentation touched on several aspects of this including the often cited need to make investment capital available to Industry at a minimal his focused largely on methods of obtain ing the science based innovation that is reshaping world Trade nations or regions that work out How to achieve Mustard Are nations that fail to capture the require ments to do that will they will become fading a classic example of a nation that has failed to couple science based innovation with its Industrial sector has been great Britain throughout this the real question is whether North America is putting itself in the same Situa consumer machine tool textiles and automobiles Are All depending on a capacity to develop new knowledge and apply in each of a major study last year showed the now has a negative Trade and the commercial air Craft Industry could soon follow with the decline has come a major decline in incomes for males in the past 15 years in Canada that decline May now be Little fiddling what then our As Mustard has Long been arguing is that we have a lot of people doing Basic research in universities and we have some industries doing a Little fiddling at the we do not have anything in the the is in the same the Middle Core is where the longer term research takes place High risk work on artificial Intelli gence and for out of direct applications by companies would come for for Canadas Forest Indus try it should be possible to develop an automated machine that would work on Steep using its artificial senses to find the adjust the cutting and carry out the rest of the with Canada would have a product that could be sold world the Basic sensing apparatus and artificial intelligence would be developed at a pre competitive As a Lon term once Deve this strategic technology would have uncounted numbers of potential which individual firms could develop and Mustard argues that in no coun try in the world is that Central Core of research left to Industry to i the has financed most such Core research through its de Fence the japanese have various including a billion bicycle built by a National it can be done through tax in Canada a spinoff opera robotics is one area in which Canada should concentrate efforts Tion called headed by Gordon a former top bureaucrat with a nationwide reputation for his work in promoting University based is at tempting to organize a set of projects that would develop artificial intelligence capacities for Industrial with Ottawa and the provinces together putting up 70 per cent of the it has so far been not by Ottawa but by proprietary demands from the not a single province has yet signed into the Ontario has been the Pivot Al politicians have been just As slow As canadians in coming to understand the need for the Long term research Effort and govern ment support behind in Mustard sees additional opportunities for should it get its acts to be hospitable to re Canada could be the place where companies domicile parts of their they could develop innovative products and then with the Border opened up by the free Trade they could ship the finished products Back to the Home political promises do not mean As scientists Nave Learned to their great dismay since if and the Liberal leadership would begin to think about Canadas future in the terms set out by a much needed National will to could begin to take that could take us a Long thousands seek children to adopt As abortion rate is soaring Toronto a married couple in Toronto have tried for 10 years to conceive a As time has the a free Lance film and his a chartered have resorted to special and Fertility drugs none More than a year As they both approached their 40th the couple decided to adopt a daunted and demoralized by the red tape and Long delays involved in adopting through Public they arranged a private a few weeks they brought Home a three Eskold boy from the Domin ican the procedure Cost them another married a social Bruce Mcdougall in Ontario worker and a civil have succeeded three times in conceiving a but on each the wife has miscarried after Only a few Are now consider ing a third married couple has tried unsuccessfully for two years to conceive a the a consultant in her Early feels frustrated and increasingly anxious As time goes the a restaurant feels especially when he considers that his wife once conceived a child by another Man but decided to end the pregnancy with an now Are considering they face a Long almost families in Ontario have gained the approval of a local childrens Aid society to adopt a another Are awaiting yet in the most recent year for which statistics Are Only 306 families in the province succeeded in adopting an infant through a Public some childrens Aid Socie ties in Ontario have closed their waiting sending thousands of other prospective parents to private adoption in the people in Ontario Are having fewer since the provinces birth rate has fallen from 16 births for every people to less than the gradual increase in the number of people in the to million this year from about 8 million in has occurred More through migration than in the people who worried about overpopulation in the 1970s and encouraged a reduction in the size of families might now feel concerned that they did their jobs too since the Early families in Ontario have grown from an average of people in 1971 to people in the number of eight person families has fallen from 000 to there Are now almost 1 million families in the province that consist of Only two up 50 per cent from Over the same Peri the number of abortions in Ontario has More than to a for every 100 live births in the there Are now 21 Abor it seems bitterly ironic and profoundly sad that fewer than 700 couples in Ontario managed to adopt an infant either publicly or privately last while More than women gave up a potential infant to no doubt some of the women or their children would have suffered physical harm had they Given others would have suffered and still others would have lost their whatever their All of these women Felt that abortion was the Best option that our society could give something seems amiss in a society in a million a game of solitaire can entertain half the something seems amiss with the values of a society that encourages one in five mothers to abort her while other families eagerly wait to adopt Many people in Ontario think that the government should deny women the option of having an by denying women the they we would resolve the yet the question that arises from this bewildering situation is not whether women should have the Choice Between abortion or child but Why so Many women feel they have no iranians struggle under revolutionary burdens by Robert Stone special to the free press the last thing iranian president Hoja Tolis Lam Hashemi Ali Akbar a Sfanjani needed was yet another Public display of contempt for the United Hes spent a great Deal of Energy trying to appear a reasonable Man who open on both Domestic and foreign policy since his inauguration last he has mounted an adroit Campaign of Subtle diplomacy trying to convince the West not to give up on the As read Between the lines by the local diplomatic seems to indicate a willingness on the part of the iranian president to Deal but every time a Sfanjani starts to make a move the radicals step in to spoil since coming to Power Hes been on record As offering to help free the american hostages in his conditions were that Ameri Ca Stop its bullying ways and thaw iranian assets Frozen in american Banks which has been partly so far so then late last year the Iran unexpectedly passed a Law Al lowing Iran to arrest wanted americans anywhere in the world a tit for Tat response to an american decision to allow its la enforcement people to arrest accused terrorists outside the a Sfanjani had desperately wanted the 10th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy in Tehran to pass quietly last but then Ali Akbar Mohtashemi the Radical hed snubbed by denying him the Post of Interior minister organized an hysterical anti american crowds of Black fist shaking yelled Marg bar Amrita at the front Wall of the nest of now part Auto repair pan school for revolutionary it was another embarrassing blow to Raf Sanjenis credibility and it raised questions about just who is running Ayatollah Khomeini unchallenged authority has been unevenly divided Between a Sfanjani and his one time the spirit Ual Leader of the Ayatollah Ali and since inheriting his part of the old mans Khamenei has turned a bit he keeps warning a Sfanjani not to stray from the straight line of the As a Sfanjani attempts to streamline the dogmatic clerics entrenched at every level Are blocking his most important mid level civil servants com Plain that fundamentalists Are positioning themselves for administrative coups in Sev eral at least while he was they say Khomeini had the Power to curb the less rational instincts of his but appeals to the Imam from All quarters Are falling on the deaf ears of a dead construction brigade workers erecting the huge dome Over his Tomb to the South of Tehran say pilgrims Are getting in the Way of the like the great shia shrines at Mashad and peasants straggle in from around the country to tie Little votive ribbons on the Grill work surrounding the Marble in the absence of the imams Stern and Puritan vision the ground has the once vigilant revolutionary guards organization has transformed into a vast Busi Ness Empire that uses Stro Garm tactics against its its holdings include construction publishing food processing munitions factories and a very prosperous the martyrs in certain parts of Uptown mullahs have even become somewhat of a despised class and Many have taken to wearing civilian otherwise they can be seen on Street Corners finding it next to impossible to Flag Down the Drivers Glide Sud Denly absorbed in something on the other Side of the quietly the severity of the system is relax the Early rigor has been too difficult to the revolution and its bloody after math have faded a Little in Peoples the Fervour once Felt by the throng has since religion no longer unites an embattled opposition to the it has lost its hold on the less persians were always lackadaisical about their religion before the revolution and they Are slowly returning to their old As Iran searches for stability after a decade of it is suffering a major identity crisis that extends from the political leadership to every Corner of after a War concluded on bad terms it must begin doing business with countries that can help rebuild the As satanic As these countries still look to it is obvious to everyone that Panis Lami cism didst catch the iranian state retains its authority but the euphoria is a thing of the it is still too soon to write the obituary of this virtually none of the ideological questions it posed have been but after the great spasm that Shook the iranian nation its people Are traumatized and seeking nothing but Tran no one had a Clear idea of what to expect from the the recently half educated society is disoriented and trying desperately to reconstitute Iran has been it has endured one of the most profound changes of National direction in the 20th and confined by the absence of a political Iran is not a Happy discontent is a habitual state of people Are still afraid and conditions Arent bad enough to bring them into the Street to make them forget their personal Iran is Dea bored and the country must now rebuild its Politi Cal and Legal it will take some doonesbury by Garry Truc eau Point of this new 15 to urfa 1h5 foam Alan Olyou Suffi in nows Olf psf v i i ;