Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 27, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free april 1990 Winnipeg free press Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Cariton 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 no More people zoning the Manitoba court of Appeal has done the people of Winnipeg a service in striking Down the cites bylaw which has restricted the location of group it May not seem that Way to civic officials who will continue to have to Deal with the human frailties which surface when agencies try to create Homes for people who share common rather than common the court of Appeal has wisely determined that the bylaw which required the agencies to win approval of Community committees before setting up their Homes amounts to people it is objectionable and contrary to the charter of rights and the Agency hearings before Community committees often became a focal Point for the least admirable of human qualities and a often misguided protectionist defence of neighbourhood status when Homes were established for old people who Are mentally or physically people who Are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse or in other ways rebuilding their fear was the neighbors discovered that the residents Are people who mow the Wash the dishes or do the laundry As or better some they Are not a hugely disruptive an exhaustive Ontario study of Halfway houses several years ago found that the Homes neither reduced property values nor increased rates of a University of Manitoba study showed that most Winni Eggers do not oppose group Homes for the mentally ill in their neigh but would feel More comfortable if they were not right next the noting backyard Nimby syndrome will persist because fear and ignorance Are persistent human it cannot be legislated or regulated neither should City Council have Given it so Fertile a place to grow As the Community committee hearings when what is involved is not hazardous of a Busy Industrial but other human there is an irony in the lengthy attempt on the part social agencies to have the bylaw the Oxford Street group Home which faced yearlong opposition before it opened to eight mentally disabled adults in has been it was too costly to the River Heights neighbors who opposed including those who moved in took no notice that the District has been Home to adults who lived under one roof because they faced common some were Young and not in a financial position to own Homes ind Epen some were single parents who wanted backyards in which their unrelated children could some were simply single and sought and deserved companionship in a residential the Manitoba court of Appeal has ruled that people cannot be restricted in Winni Eggers can Only Benefit from the discovery that they have Little to fear from people who differ from City administrators should now comply with the they will better serve All residents if they put in place an informal procedure through which those who fear group Homes can meet their prospective learn More about How those Homes function and begin to live with not shun they should direct their efforts to helping people to mend not erect mayor Norrie proclaims mayor Bill Nomes proclamation announcing a civic Day of sorrow for victims of the chernobyl nuclear Accident ventured beyond the usual terms of mayoral proclamations and denounced the policy and action of the soviet ukrainian nationalists and Patri ots in Winnipeg can rejoice at their Success in winning the mayors support for their Well understood other May wonder where their mayor ought to draw the the proclamation accused the soviet authorities of covering up the it judged inadequate the medical care of radiation victims and dismissed As unacceptable the cleanup of the affected it described the chernobyl reactor explosion and fire As the biggest nuclear disaster in what the mayor believes happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the proclamation does not when the mayor is defending his policy in debate within the he is a debater like any other and is under no particular constraint beyond the Ordinary rules of Courtesy and when he attempts to speak for he should take special care to ensure that he Speaks for All of he issues formal comment on matters of which he and the civic departments he directs have no he needs to beware of attaching his office to assertions he might have difficulty Norries proclamation of a sikh National Day which happened to coincide with a Christian festival aroused one set of his refusal to proclaim a Gay Pride week in support of a faction of the homosexual Community aroused another set of any number of political National commercial charitable causes and special interests would dearly love to recruit the mayors prestige in support of their some rational doctrine beyond the number of local voters for and against should govern the mayors choices of the causes with which he will formally associate his generally mayoral proclamations should not be they should say the things that everyone agrees with but that no one else gets around to they should draw attention to the quiet Volunteer the self sacrificing Good deeds that tend to be taken for granted and do not win the attention and Praise they plenty of Winni Eggers quarrel with the policy of various foreign governments and they find Means to express their a mayor can make his views known when he wishes to take sides in such a issuing a formal proclamation Over the civic Seal attacking a foreign is an exercise of Power and not merely an expression of private Winni Eggers adhere to an enormous Range of religious few Days on the Calendar Are not holy Days for someone in the the is a civil official and not a religious mayoral proclamations related to religious festivals provoke a Day of sorrow for the chernobyl victims is entirely the formal mayoral proclamation for such a Day could express views with which All Winni Eggers wholeheartedly the next time the mayor is invited to Issue a proclamation attacking the work of a foreign he should beg the line forms on the right from which has produced so Many unusual comes an interesting suggestion for cleaning up the atmosphere on the Larry a member of the South coast air Quality management says the cheapest Way to cleaner air is to new cars to people so poor that they can afford Only pollution producing older Berg says that cleaning up the emissions of older cars can Cost Between and for every ton of pollutants the automobile makers can prod uce new which if used would reduce emissions for a net Cost of about a society would save Berg if it gave away new cars rather than trying to Force repairs to the old the More conventional solution to the pollution the suggestion May have once those behind it solve one Small they will have to devise a system which will determine who is qualified for a free new car while still being perceived As being fair to people who will have to clean up their own until they Are Able to solve this obvious the suggestion can be guaranteed the support of Only those eligible for new cars every three or four the application line forms on the fighting the Dairy Industry by Leonard Shifrin special to the free press Ottawa would you be less Likely to use a Low calorie sugar substitute in your Coffee if it was a Green or purple powder instead of White of As the politically powerful Dairy Industry Well we Are less Likely to use Margarine on our bread if it is Orange or White rather than sales drop in when Ontario was the Only province that prohibited it from being the average ontarian consumed 40 per cent less mar Garine than other since when Quebec introduced a Sim Ilar Margarine sales in that province have fallen per the governments of the two prov inces with the bulk of Canadas Dairy Farmers Are protecting them from Competition from Farmers who grow canola and whose oils Are used to make that could be shrugged off As nothing More than everyday politics if it want just like the result is killing heart disease has Long been Cana Das number one As the Federal health departments scientific review committee on nutrition observed in its recent the evidence linking saturated fat intake with elevated blood cholesterol and the risk of heart disease is among the most persuasive of All diet Dis ease it should reduce their consumption of saturated butter is 50 per cent saturated Margarine contain As Little As 15 per not everyone who eats lots of saturated fat develops High Choles and not All those with elevated cholesterol have heart attacks or neither do All smokers get nor All dangerous Drivers wind up maimed or killed in Auto the Margarine Industry contends that the Laws in Ontario and Quebec violate the charter of rights free Dom of expression the color of food conveys a message to Consumers about its and Margarine is being forced to convey a message of lesser palatability than thus the charter test has fizzled in the trial judge said the Ontario Law did violate Freedom of express but this could be justified under the Charters reasonable limits reasonable limit the court of Appeal didst think Freedom of expression was but said even if it the govern ments goal of protecting the daily Industry would justify the measure As a reasonable limit on that free backed by such groups As the heart and stroke foundation of on Tario and Ontario medical Assoc a the Margarine Industry is ask ing the supreme court of Canada to hear its what i think it should be arguing is that the Ontario Law discriminates against the labelled wrappers As Well As requiring no yellow the act requires restau rants which put Margarine rather than butter on the table to declare the fact with a a note on the or labelled wrappers around each shades of the Days when lepers had to announce their presence with Bells and shouts of unclean is it any wonder Ontario restau rants use butter last the supreme court ruled that the test of Charte Violat ing discrimination int the govern ments intention in passing a piece of but the effect of the it seems Clear to me that a Law which encourages Consumers to buy butter and restaurants to serve it has a discriminatory effect on those who suffer from the disability of being susceptible to elevated Choles Terol and heart there is no Point saying such people can protect themselves by avoiding restaurants and ignoring color palatability in buying because most of them have no Ink Ling of their disability until a heart attack or stroke suddenly tax troubles your timely articles on errors in income tax returns april 8 have Only confirmed what most canadians have Long suspected the current income tax system is far too com plex for the average now it appears that even the professional tax preparation services can not agree on How a typical return should be and How do we know that the higher priced account ing firms Are any to mention Revenue Canada itself simply this situation is a travesty of Justice for which canadians should be having generally accepted that income tax is a necessary and potentially fair Means of Canadian taxpayers deserve that it be Clear and straightforward enough for the average person to Why should filing cause Many such worry and aggravation Why should so Many of us have to pay for preparing our and still not be certain that it will be done Cor i Iwanij 139 3m3 Tough Job to file tax restly even if accounting firms could handle the volume of the quoted estimate of for a typical family is several years ago there was considerable publicity regarding How the Federal department of finance and Revenue Canada were going to simplify the income tax what a hoax instead of the system became More in the while our Atten Tion was the higher rates of taxation were removed on higher once the tax Burden was shifted from the wealthy onto the backs of the average but now the average taxpayer must pay again for the privilege of paying higher and even then its a Crapshoot As to whether gets it done fairly and our income tax system could be made fairer and even raise More Revenue in some by a few simple i refer to the old a Buck is a Buck where All no matter How earned is treated the same for would eliminate the nonsense of grossing up dividends and the special treatment of capital limits for resp contributions would be More fair in coming years where Many types of income will be another improvement would be to scrap the nonrefundable tax cred where so Many errors Are and go Back to straight deductions from the multitude of deductions could be simplified and the Ideal tax return needs Only three sections sources of listing of deductions and one tax calculation on the the surcharge can be eliminated by adjusting the Basic tax which brings me to the Manitoba tax forms tic and tic to which Are also notorious for causing it is bad enough that Manitoba tax must be computed by two different then there is the repeated give Back and take away by Way of a sur a reduction and two surely there must be a better White Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to prejudice the free press reported that judge Sinclair told a conference on native education affirmative action in education rein forces the sense of inferiority of native there is nothing ironic about affirmative action Speaks of the word Means less than half but it also refers to Chil those who have not reached the age of children Are entitled to special giving advantages to people because of their race or ethnic background implies they Are inferior for these affirmative action is prejudice which excludes those who receive it from full participation in Gordon Pratt president Manitoba progressive party Winnipeg visual arts i would like to respond to the ongoing debates about government support to the visual arts recently covered by your for the Benefit of your readers i feel that i should begin my state ment by positioning myself in the Canadian Art in 1972 i confounded and do direct de plug in at that time the first artist run Centre on the Prairies and today one of the oldest artist run centres in i have raised funds from the private and Public sectors both Here in Manitoba and in i have received Grants As a director of plug in and i have also personally been in receipt of Grants for the curating of exhibit video and for Art at the provincial and civic Levels i have sat on Art juries or Grants to artists and artist run presently i am on the Board of directors of video an artist run production and distribution Centre in i am also involved in a number of ongoing Art projects As a consequence of my own his i feel that i can add another level to this the Issue that has been neglected in the discussion of government sup port to the visual arts is very Sim ple what is the definition of a Grant my understanding has been that a Grant is an award of Excel Lence Given to you by your a system i have been pleased to be associated with for the last 20 there Are others who seem to suggest that a Grant can be likened to a guaranteed annual however sporadic or Small the amount of this Assumption then allows the argument that the granting whether by jury or other Art is i assume that this stance is based on the fact that the Grants Are Public funds and that the distribution of these Grants should in some Way reflect in other rooted in this no Tion of fairness everyone should be supported in their Art it is obvious that at this Point in time there is neither the political will nor the funds to bring these changes nationally or i would like to add that the admittedly with operates most of the time within a Well defined spirit of Gen i am concerned that this very important discussion be go verned by reason and not distorted by a i should also Tell you that within the last two i applied for a video production Grant from the Manitoba arts i was not i will try Suzanne Gillies Winnipeg dangerous Job natural resources officers Are dedicated to the conservation of fish and wildlife for the Benefit of All too they face dangerous situations at All hours of the Day and in june of 1989 two natural re sources officers were shot at As they pulled up illegal Gill nets on Lake one of the High powered Rifle bullets hit the water Only 20 feet from the recently the individual responsible was found guilty of a charge of dangerous use of a he was Given a suspended sentence and is prohibited from possessing a fire Arm for three this sentence does Little to support the work done by the Mani Toba natural resource officers association Meroa feels and in dangerous Viola tors such As this warrant real deter rents from the the Meroa requests support of the Public to help protect us As we protect your re Doug Maxwell mock debate totalitarianism is not out of style there is still the Liberal party left to perpetuate that style of dealing with just handcuff and throw into jail those who disturb at one a political forum presumed questions and if liberals had expended As much Energy and commitment to educate the Public of the Content and portent of the tories so called free Trade if they had a portion of the commitment to the continuing sovereignty of Canada As have Mem Bers of citizens concerned about free today the liberals would be the not the As it Many sitting members in the opposition owe their election to the fact that there were citizens concerned that the Public should be citizens such As judge Margorie the Council of Ca the pro Canada to name who won seats for Many successful Liberal these members seem to have forgotten this now they cannot or will not answer questions to any such commit ment to Deal with free Trade put by those who elected the re sult of such questions earns for those who would pose them the title of the liberals Best Means of avoid ing the question and foiling the questioner is to resort to the brute Force of very tall policemen physically removing the theirs was a mock while supporting the tory aim to suppress information and discussion of the which the tories themselves said could Only be pulled off if the Public was to restore Canada to the state of an Sovereign which has an Independent foreign policy instead of a rubber stamp made in is our the liberals have just told us they do not share that a which we could not would indicate there Are thousands of canadians who Bernice Baldwin ;