Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january 1991 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 Bruce Rudd publisher n Daff Filo ring Pacjon editor David Lef Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 subsidizing Gas exports Manitoba natural Gas customers have been ordered to subsidize the transmission of Alberta natural Gas to new customers in the northeastern United the sub Sidy will probably be though in the next rate increase applications by Manitoba Gas utilities before the Public utilities the Filmon govern ment should try to head it off before it gets that the Canadian subsidy for Gas customers was ordered in november by Canadas National Energy Board after seven months of hearings in Tran Canada pipelines intends to double its Gas transmission system so As to ship vastly increased volumes of Gas into new England and other the question before the neb was who will pay for the the neb answer issued on november 6 was that All to cps customers will pay for it and that includes residents and businesses in Winnipeg and other Manitoba cities that Are supplied with natural since to cps expansion program will Cost the effect on Gas users who have to pay for it will be the Iroquois pipeline running from Eastern Ontario across new York into new 29 per cent of which is owned by will account for two thirds of the expansion which Cpl requires on its transmission system within another major element is service to Ocean state Power whose new Gas fired electric generating stations in Rhode Island will be supplied from the Cpl these sales of Gas depend partly on the Price of the Gas coming out at the Consumers end of the if the Consumers had to pay the Cost of building the lines to bring the Gas to it is not certain they would buy Alberta Gas from Gas from sources or Mexico or even from Algeria might prove in the when a pipeline company has found a new customer within the area it serves and has to expand its line to serve that the neb has allowed the pipeline company to spread the Cost of the expansion equally among old and new when the expansion is modest relative to the that is a reasonable in this Cpl is attempting to double its rate base by reaching out to a new the has accepted to cps claim that the doubling of a system is no different from the addition of a new customer and should be financed by the same when the neb lays Down the pipeline those become costs which inter City Gas and the Manitoba Public utilities Board pass no questions to Gas customers in the decision to compel Manitoban to subsidize to cps grandiose expansion and new England Energy is contrary to common sense and sound if those customers need Alberta they should pay the Cost of shipping which includes the Cost of expanding to cps Canadian Manitoba Energy minister Harold Neufeld is eager to keep the Gas rates Down in Manitoba by cutting off Gas service to customers who Are too slow in paying their he should be equally concerned about Manitoban subsidizing Gas supplies for he should see what Steps he can take to get the new users to pay their Neufeld should review the nebs november 6 tolling he should consider whether an appointed body in Ottawa should Force Manitoban to donate a Gas pipeline As a foreign Aid project for Energy starved new he should search for through political pressure or regulatory to excuse Manitoban from making their Little Comfort for Consumers the White Winters of childhood 1i7nh Nopo t Alp Cal Fly there is More than one Way to curb the Zeal of manufacturers and advertising agencies which Are too eager to nudge Consumers to buy products through claims that they protect the the american Way is for state attorneys and Environ mental groups to launch legislators to submit and consumer groups to stage Boycotts against products that claim but benefits to the it does seem to Mobil chemical retreated from its advertising claim that its hefty garbage bags Are photo degrade consumer and government groups had complained that the bags have Little Chance of degrading quickly in Landfill seven states Are still suing Mobil to have the company take Back the Stock that still carries the attorneys general in another 10 states merely threatened to sue american Environ products and company agreed to Stop the biodegradable promotion of its bunnies disposable there have been other similar cases in the where 751 new products that touted ecological soundness were placed on the Market last the Canadian Way is to create a grinding by slow certification process for manufacturers to gain the governments Seal of the ecology that was announced Way Back in then government officials decide to Chat about the need for voluntary guidelines for claims on All products whose makers wont wait for the they give no thought to mandatory compulsory the con Sumer affairs department would be too difficult to More a made up largely of Industry and advertising was named to suggest what Good guidelines might there is Little Comfort in the Canadian Only the Consumers association of Canada and an Ontario recycling group have a voice alongside vendors inter ests in this Calm and concealed and if nothing results from canadians May never no company is Likely to spend a great Deal to advertise its former Canadian Consumers May be More patient and ready to invest a great Deal More Faith than their american counterparts in institutions to protect their or they May simply be More willing to be easy Manitoba jobs for Alberta while the loss of 52 Winnipeg jobs to Alberta is particularly since it is so easily seen As the result of political Arm at least two Manitoba governments managed to negotiate the retention of 130 lottery jobs by this in the they fended off the demand of the Alberta government that the entire Headquarters of the Western Canada lottery Corpora Tion be moved to that Alberta has a Strong argument for a bigger share of lottery Headquarters citizens of Alberta buy More of the tickets sold by the corporation than do the citizens of Saskatchewan and Manitoba Alberta could operate its own lottery with prizes big enough to continue to attract the kind of sales now being made Manitoba and Saskatchewan could a firm stand against any Job sharing at All could result in the loss of More than double the number of jobs that will move because of the present some eyebrows will be raised about the fact that the marketing division of a three province lottery will now have to operate from the Small Community of it is no coincidence that the Community lies within the Rural Riding which sent Alberta Premier Don Getty Back to the legislature in a by election after his old constituency in Edmonton had thrown him perhaps the fact that there is so Little real marketing required to sell lottery apart from making sure that the grand prize is Large accounts for the corporations Confidence that it can Market its tickets As efficiently from Stettler As it did from there is no Given the healthy financial condition of the that the division will not see people Laid off now that it has a new Manitoba opposition Gary said the Manitoba government was acting like a Doormat for Alberta in allowing the the records of Manitoba contain Many statements from former nip Cabinet ministers that if Alberta put its foot Down on lottery there was Little Manitoba could do about the Manitoba government has obviously decided it was time to Stop fighting Over the move and keep what it could from the by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press a Friend remarked the other Day that there is something about this Winter that reminds her strongly of the Winters of her i have had the same but we have been unable to decide just what it is that tugs at the chords of perhaps it is the this has been an unusually White we have not been overwhelmed with but there has been plenty of it and it has usually been that Type of Snow that twinkles at the feeling of whiteness has been enhanced by the fact that the cites works department appears to have been going easy on Snow removal on the perhaps As an Economy the result has been that Many of our including some of the main Are covered with packed and polished giving the impression of unbroken White Ness everywhere we the custom of Clearing the streets right Down to the Concrete or Asphalt May be one of fairly Long but my memories of the late 1930s and the 1940s includes Winter streets that were covered with hard Snow that reflected sunlight in a special similar to what we have seen this teams of horses in those sleighs and horse wagons were common on Winnipeg not to mention steaming heaps of horse am i mis taken or do i recall blowing of City streets that was done with teams of horses the Advent of the High powered Sno plow and Snowblower made it possible to remove most of the Snow from City streets shortly after it it was a Boon to motor but not at All Good for sleighs or for children interested in playing Street forty years ago when most of the residential streets were covered with packed Snow the Roadway be came a playground on cold Winter afternoons Between school and Din in the great Canadian tradition we played using a fro zen horse Bun As a puck and taking our own Sweet time about getting out of the Way of passing late for dinner today i wince at the bus Stop when the wind blows at Back in the forties cold air was like Champagne and we played happily outside until our feet froze and our noses went remember the agony thawing feet the misery of Frozen ears i was always in the Doghouse in the Winter because i was regularly late getting Home for Are children late for dinner these Days or does the Mother of 1991 simply bring the pizza to the television room when i was a boy my great regret was that my birthday did not come in the As a july child i could Only envy other boys who had tally hos As their birthday on win Ter saturdays in the forties the streets of River Heights and cres cent Wood became country lanes As the birthday Talle hos clip chopped and jingled through the Frozen willing teams from the Cambridge stables pulled us at Speed along King Sway and Haskins and out Over roads across the open Prairie that would later become South rivet we raced the we pushed each other although warned not we Rode on the we pelted other passing birthday parties with we fell off and got left missing the hot dogs and birthday it was on a Talle Yho when i was ten or eleven that i dirty business Energy minister Jake recently announced the first Sale of a Candy nuclear reactor in 10 the reactor was purchased by South and the minister has High Hopes that this Deal will revive can Adas ailing nuclear Iron the purchaser has an extensive list of human rights atomic Energy of Canada limited in its Zeal to proliferate All things has made yet an other Deal with an oppressive Mili tary the previous Sale was to under India developed its nuclear bomb from a Canadian and Argentina has also made reactor deals with Epp has informed the Canad workers at Candy an Public that million will be forthcoming As a boost to the what he neglected to mention was that the Canadian taxpayer has been picking up the Tab for the 10 years of sales drought to the tune of Well Over no country has a method of safely disposing of nuclear waste that is toxic to our ecosystem for millions of polls have shown Over the last few years that the Canadian Public is firmly against nuclear lets get out of this dirty business once and for Dave Taylor spokesperson for concerned citizens of Manitoba misses Point in response to those people who wrote letters to the free press on december 16 and 19 criticizing a letter by which appeared in your december 5 it seems very obvious that they have All missed the Point made by the Samuels was not evaluating women As those people would Lead readers to he merely suggested that As a part solution to the Bleak economic women who Are living on double be they married or Relin Quish their positions in order to make room for unemployed married women who Are forced to work to provide decent lifestyles for their families because of Low in comes of their and single i would suggest that those who criticized Samuels for his views take a course in Reading comprehend miss Tarnava Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters rom writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to nepotism nursing roles during the past few the Public has been faced with Many conflicting reports about nurses and their while some people support the there Are others who look at published reports of salary Scales and begin to question the nurses a key question that arises just what is it nurses do that makes them Worth so much As a patient during several child birth i valued the nurses who expressed genuine inter est in my needs and fears and who helped me to be clean and Comfort Many other hospitalized people will make the same this idea of the nurse As a supportive Parent figure is Only part of the if my safety or the health of my emerging infant was at risk during the births these qualities would not have held the same value As the nurses skills and experience in ensuring that Neces sary professional care was provid the health care system is Chang modified admission and Dis charge guidelines leave Only the sickest and neediest patients in the institutional their needs Are More Complex and treatments More technology and scientific knowl Edge is exploding and nurses Are expected to use this expanded knowl Edge base to make sound decisions about patient the fact is that to protect and preserve a patients safety and the nurse must offer much More in addition to a caring and supportive in Many the nurse provides the sole link Between the patient and the physician during the numerous hours of each Day when the physician is not present at the for the seriously recent Surgi Cal or Labouring health conditions May change in minutes or the patient relies on the nurse to identify evaluate their seriousness and determine the Best course of the nurse who monitors a fetal heart rate or a blood pressure becomes responsible for analysing its significance and developing pertinent nursing at times this might include communicating concern to the amid All the changes in health and the increasing numbers of health care the nurse remains As the key frontline work the nurse assists the weakened or bedridden client to avoid skin pneumonia and blood the nurse teaches the newly diagnosed coun Sels the grieving patient and advocates for those who require so we need to ask ourselves this what kind of person do i want As a nurse when i require health care someone who is Capa if wages must be adequate to attract and keep such individuals in the profession of Nurs How much is this Worth to us Daryl Brooks Winnipeg i read a december 18 headline in the free press with interest disaster Board nepotism labelled nip Leader Gary doer found it absolutely wrong and Liberal Leader Sharon Carstairs attacked it As absolutely i presume that both doer and Carstairs therefore think it is equally wrong and disgraceful that the Mega is trying to Force nepotism into the hiring practices for senior management at the Manitoba Public now that is some thing that should put the whole pub Lic service into disrepute Huebert Winnipeg no need to strike i cannot see How the earn ing Between and per year at a time when most Manito bans with a lot less income Are either losing their jobs or Are ready have the nerve to go on strike and expect everyone to feel sorry for i agree that they should not have to Wash floors and hand out food of if one wants More one has to work if they ask for another in perhaps enough Money would be available to employ people to work at that i am a Journeyman Carpenter with 30 years my apprenticeship lasted four working All i am Able to earn approximately i am expected to own my Worth and i need a vehicle to get me and my tools from Job to if the unions pursue their line of thinking that every Price increase has to be answered by a strike and suddenly realized How Nice the girls looked with Rosy Cheeks and Straw in their up to then i haunt no do they still build forts in Back Yards and in vacant lots january was the great time for fort abandoned Christmas Trees stolen along the lanes made a perfect roof to cover Snow you entered through a out of the you Felt snug and you could not understand Why your parents insisted that you could not sleep there after it was like an you freeze to As the january darkness fell we sat in the scented shadows of our fico Vered ignoring the Call to dinner that echoed Down the frosty we were warlike in those i am sorry to at some Point in the Winter City work Crews broke up the packed Snow on the residential streets and piled the broken slabs along the curbs in High we walked along those Mounds going to and from ignoring the Side walks and ignoring warnings that we might fall off into the path of an oncoming this was the Moun Tain path to school and we were intrepid troops marching to icy missiles it was too cold for snowballs so we used the hard slabs thrown up from the when one hit you on the head you saw we raided forts built by other children and fought pitched Battles with our icy mothers warned us that we would lose an nobody Ever those were the White Winters of our years they live on in especially when there is whiteness As far As the Eye can see or when lamplight flashes off the falling an increase in then the get will soon Rise to 27 per i wish that government would finally take a stand and not give in to every civic Union that is blackmail ing the Bogen Winnipeg thanks to nurses in november of 1988 i had a very real life threatening had it not been forthe nurses in Grace Hospital i definitely would not be alive these people worked on me constantly for 15 hours to Stabi Lize me enough for an operation and i sincerely feel that they can never be paid too much for the knowledge they possess or their professional once again thank you to All the nurses who helped me survive this terrible Robert Horn Winnipeg excuse the men in solitary Are complaining about overcrowding i ;