Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 4, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free april 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 newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor David Lee managing editor Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 educating Energy ministers Canadas Energy ministers have no Choice but to Deal with suggestions for a Green or Public reinvestment in Energy or any other Way to reduce emissions of Carbon environment minister Lucien Bouchard has assured when governments finally decide to do something about the greenhouse the major decision will not rest in their As he unveiled his Green plan for the environment a Public invitation for Green talk Bouchard was Adamant that environment not Energy will drive the bureaucracy which will define the government it was not surprising that the Energy ministers who gathered in the clean Mountain air of this week publicly did Little More than to say that the threat of climate change causes them prob their official communique warned of significant economic dislocation and significant changes in life style if Canada does affirm prime minister Mulron yes Call for an International pact to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions with Strong measures at the Energy ministers agreed that the Federal government should hear from canadians in the dozens of meetings which Bouchard has planned for the airing of his Green Bouchard Assurance would sound More reassuring if his plan had held by the measures his department suggested in an earlier version which was leaked to the news it contained proposals for several major environmental including an increase in the Price of Oil and Gas to reflect the damage which Carbo based fuels do to the Bou cards Retreat from proposals to questions How about taxes would be More defensible if the Energy ministers also went on hold while the environment ministers decide what to nothing of the sort is Bouchard Green plan asks canadians whether Energy Mega pro sects Are too environmentally Energy ministers from Alberta and Ontario apparently had made up their minds As they began talks to create a new partnership to pay for the Oslo Oil Sands Plant which was abandoned by the Federal government in its last Bouchard Green plan asks canadians what part nuclear Energy should play in combating global warm Federal Energy minister Jake Epp has More than maintained the status quo of taxpayers investment in nuclear this years Energy budget gives atomic Energy of Canada limited a per cent increase to and International nuclear Energy programs a very Large increase to Bouchard Green plan asks canadians what role Energy efficiency and alternative Energy use should play in reducing atmospheric Epps budget eliminates million this fiscal year alone in renew Able Energy technology for Oil substitutes and Low Cost Energy their budget description items not Canadas Energy ministers in time will be required to put in place whatever Steps governments take to reduce Carbon As canadians debate what Price is they should hear very clearly the views of those policy Energy ministers should be at the discussion not quietly proceeding with business As usual while those who advocate environmental defence make their Case to the ministers most overworked air controllers the Canadian aviation safety Board considers the country air traffic control system to be generally members of the Public May be forgiven for being unimpressed by the considering the emphasis placed on the workload of controllers in the boards latest the report Points to the shortage of air traffic controllers which resulted from a mistake by the Federal government a few years the government believed that air traffic was about to and cancelled air controller training just before the Combina Tion of deregulation and Competition put a greater number of aircraft into the since despite attempts to catch the traffic has grown faster than the Supply of they Are expected to be in Short Supply for the next five according to the or for the next according to the Canadian air traffic control Asso the Canadian air traffic control system has about controllers and should have an extra the shortage is made up by having controllers work overtime and by giving up some of their regular Days neither practice contributes anything to the safety of air the Case considers Canadas skies to be generally both it and transport Canada should be taking Steps to make sure that there is no deterioration of the current safety if new controllers cannot be trained fast or once the congestion in the skies runs ahead of their experience the advised by the should not hesitate to impose reductions on the number of flights the shortage of new controllers May become More serious during the next when 900 of the nations controllers will be in a position to although there Are at present about 300 students being enrolled for training each fewer than one in three will actually air traffic control is a problem which arose during the 1980s and which promises to become More Complex in the crowded skies Are not necessarily dangerous As Long As safety standards Are not these according to the Are working at they must be made to work just As Well in the a cautious Canadian custom hire some hecklers the liberals should not be throwing hecklers out of their leadership they should be hiring some to come in and give the candidates a rough the new Liberal Leader will become Leader of the opposition in the House of each time the Leader rises to ask a the supporters of the government will scream taunts and much like the excited fans at a wrestling this is called parliamentary with Good the Liberal Leader May become prime which involves standing on the opposite Side of the same aisle and taking the same kind of organized some politicians learn to Deal with heckling and some never those who do not tend to have Short and unhappy political once the other Side learns that a politician can be unnerved or thrown off stride by persistent that politician is Likely to be interrupted and mocked at every Public at the liberals Winnipeg leadership forum last the leadership candidates had a Friendly crowd to work they also encountered three people who Are opposed to the free Trade agree is the Liberal party who wanted to Advance their views by interrupting the speakers and making them state their views on free they followed the example which members on both sides of the commons set on every sitting Day of that the organizers of the meeting asked the hecklers to leave when they called the police to arrest and remove if the leadership candidates Are known to be thin skinned and unskilled at Public then that was by far the Wisest but will those candidates do when they have to address a thoroughly unfriendly meeting the police Are not always available to remove persistent hecklers from the commons for political debate in Canada is becoming More and More a matter of carefully scripted statements made in settings designed for television where no jarring note is sounded and no question even the cannot forever keep their new Leader inside that kind of plastic insulated from rude remarks or persistent they had better find out which candidates can take it and which they had better let the hecklers now i dont believe that canadians Are an a demonstrative As witness the fierce and emotional debates Over Meech free Trade and in the past the canadians claim they Are More compassionate than americans and ready to open their hearts and help the less canadians Are supposed to be an outgoing so How does one explain the Cus Tom of canadians to hedge on their True feeling i am referring to not a widespread response by canadians when asked for their opinion on All manner of Lazy response not bad is a it is a it reveals precious Little and that May be the subconscious aim of the it is also a Lazy ask people How they Are and in variably they will answer not it is a insipid it evades the not bad is Nei ther Here nor if not bad is tantamount to Why dont peo ple say so major reference sources do not reveal the origin of the dictionaries themselves cast the phrase in different Funk and wag Nalls Canadian College diction Ary Calls not bad rather random House defines it As Tolera Bly Good not without the noncommittal response is a reluctance to open up and speak from the or has it become a form of speech without thought of its meaning the problem is that the greeting How Are you is not regarded As a question deserving an Earnest an but As an opener to a conver Val Werier when people ask How Are you they May not have the slightest desire to delve into your state of Well its a ceremonial they Are merely engaging in the niceties of social the emphasis is on you dont want to go into says one and the other person Doest want to go into that Why its not people will also say that they give a noncommittal answer because they feel there really is no real desire to know How you Are individuals have their own anti ties and problems and Are not recep Tive to an outpouring of calamity and triggered by the innocuous How Are they Are not prepared for such an unrestrained particularly from a passing not bad serves the purpose of stifling a conversation of different meanings still in a world where Competition and technology Are being advanced As the finest Way to run the it is essential to value and nourish human How Are you does take on differ ent meanings dependent on the tone and inflection of the the answer wont be an ambiguous not bad if a Friend is asked in a caring manner How he is and How life is treating the response elicited Hydro study i refer to Val Weiers article Hydro and the environment in the March 21 Issue of the free Werier makes a useful and generally factual contribution to the and in my View this is an improvement for the editorial Page of the free Weiers memory goes Back to 1970 in some but fails when he states Hydro has spent More than million Over the years on Engi Neering evaluations for Conaw Apa but has examined environmental impacts Only the past to my knowledge the first environmental study that included specific recommendations for Conawa a was undertaken by the Manitoba department of natural resources in 1974 and actions taken As a result include the ongoing study of Brook which has been report Nelson River de in the scientific the next significant study was the lower Nelson overview study completed by local consultants for Mani Toba Hydro in March an important recommendation was that implementation of Conaw Apa should be preceded by the completion of an environmental Impact the study plan for environmental also prepared by local was issued in 1988 and forms the basis for the later phases of study now being it appears that Hydro did have the necessary environmental recommendations when Early decisions were made for Goodwin unfriendly i have lived Here the last eight months and have yet to be convinced that Manitoban Are Friendly As your licence plates i have never driven in a City with As Many inconsiderate i have been Cut off by Drivers Chang ing lanes More times than i can i have been Given rude Ges dirty looks and had horns honked angrily at me because i slow Down and if when the traffic Light changes to i have lived in numerous other Cana Dian and in my has As Many irresponsible and care less Drivers As in my other main complaint concerns potential is it not proper business etiquette to respond to a letter of application with resume i have applied to Over 30 places of employment and to Date have received eight letters in As far As i am rude not prevails in the attitude of Many that i have dealt with is much like the Winters cold and miserable Robertson Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters torn readers writers must live their name and address names will be used and letter Are subject to editing swill City taxes i would like to compliment your Radha Krishnan for the excellent investigative cover age of City Hall that he has been providing for the past year or in the article problem in the March 24 edition echoed the frustrations shared by myself and Many other taxpayers with the current civic adm Nistra everyone knows that the Popula Tion of Winnipeg is increasing at a very slow it is equally Clear that the level of services that Citi Zens Are receiving has not gone no major new programs have been added in Many Many services and facilities that the City needs Are Long such As a freeway sys what other City of Winnipeg size is so lacking in express roads a system of fast Public Tran sit the property tax Load continues on its relentless climb up Ward year after councillors go through an annual tinkering ritual to add or subtract a few percentage Points from the tax but never get Down to the fundament the fundamentals ought to be the same As in the private sector increased productivity and Quality consistently year after that is the real Job of our elected to ensure that we As taxpayers Are getting our moneys Worth from the civic we should be getting More services and facilities from the same number of dollars year after not the administration should not be presenting the Council with alternatives As to what services should be Cut in order to keep tax increases to acceptable they should be telling Council How they Are going to provide More services year after year for the same tax dollars by becoming More productive and qual Many of us voted for the candidates in last election in the Hope that things would As of their first budget they Are batting Zero for let us Hope that by this time next they Are ready to get a Joseph Leven Winnipeg handouts 1 would like to say a few things about the Federal government and the goods and services if the Federal tories would Stop giving out these big monetary hand outs to the third world amounting to hundreds of millions of or Start getting repaid with interest for these handouts instead of forgiving then maybe the goods and services tax would not be As a mortgage Holder i would like to see my loan forgiven but that would never because in a Charity starts at Here in its getting to the Point where Canada should think of itself before we become a third world country As and bankrupt to the Money that is wasted on foreign Aid would be better spent on health care and child care in Canada As it is our Ion Parrish Winnipeg a very interesting picture appears in the free press March 28 on Page 2 vietnamese pigs dressed in female the pig handler explains that they have a new change of clothes every Day because they Are it seems to me that the focus of this picture is it should be on the Canadian pigs the the reporter and the editor who perpetrated this most women will automatically react angrily to such but it occurs to me that a second glance will show that the three Little pigs mentioned above have done them selves far More harm than they can possibly do to any Esme Langer Winnipeg packaging i could not agree More with your waste in a Blister on March it is absolutely Amaz ing and disturbing that Consumers throw out so much garbage resulting from excessive Howe the free press frying pan had better take care when it Calls the packaging Industry Kettle although the free press is in the business of Selling its package is the As a consumable a newspapers useful life is Only about 24 whats a Darold newspaper Worth i suggest it is less than Zero and in fact is a liability to society which is left with the Burden of disposing of the one could even argue that the information in a newspaper is excessively packaged compared to other Media such As radio and at the end of its useful the newspaper is no different and indistinguishable from the foam Blister packs and laminated would be Frank and if real concern is expressed about a people need to be Able to speak of their emotions and feelings to a not bad can be destructive in human relations in other too often people Are Loath to Praise an event or the performance of an Indi a habit too prevalent in the form of levity employers Are As parsimonious with Praise As a Beaver with it is not the custom of senior staff in institutions or corporations to go out of their Way to Praise subordinates for a Fine its a put Down to be told after an unusual accomplishment that it was not its a misanthropic not it can be used As a form of in one family the term is an no matter How superlative a repast was enjoyed by the or How warming was a it is not it is the greatest accolade we can said one family we go higher than not bad can turn out to be a preferred in the experience of one lawyer with a strange Assort ment of when he greeted one client with the ceremonial How Are the client shot Back whats your business a receptionist at an office replies Pas she is not of French origin but she thinks it sounds better than not so heres an lets enliven the meeting of people with responses in another not bad could sound exotic in the splendid variety of tongues in our cardboard which end up at the curb awaiting the Partrige As Consumers we have the Choice not to buy your product in order to save society the Cost of the Landfill Sites in major which Are just too according to your i disagree that Consumers must take what is Consumers can and Are making a difference in the Way businesses and government respond to the growing garbage what will the free press do to eliminate the newspaper As a major source of garbage will it do nothing until forced into action by the same regulators of the packaging Indus try How about financially support ing a Community program to collect and Recycle newspapers to paraphrase the last sentence in your the free press would be Wiser to exercise one Choice it has always had to Lead by example rather than to try to bait the Public and the Robert Bamburak Winnipeg its from Are you Here f ;