Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 29, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba 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 Bruch i Rudd Publ Islin John Dafoe editorial Edillor David Lee managing Milor Winnipeg free press est 187 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 the report is needed now the aboriginal Justice inquiry excuses for failure to produce a report Are getting thinner and the likelihood of a useful result from its efforts grows less with each new delay and each fresh layer of the provincial Cabinet should require delivery of a report at an Early Date such As the last Day of february and should wind up the commission on the following if judges Alvin Hamilton and Murray Sinclair cannot say something useful at that nearly three years after they started it is unlikely they will be in a better position six months or a year the vast volume of information and opinion Trie inquiry heard can support More reflection and writing than two commissioners can do in the next few the data assembled so far should be made available to researchers and to the general or to an enlarged inquiry so that the reflection and writing can it should not be kept bottled the inquiry excuse in for no production of its promised report was too much because the hearings had continued for Many the transcript filled pages of typescript and therefore the commissioners could not write their report on on that the commissioners won Cabinet approval for an Extension to october they missed that deadline and won a further Extension to january 1991 the Day after it fell to Tom executive director of the to announce last week that the judges Are missing this weeks now they Are asking for a six month Extension to july its a rather imprecise science to determine when a body of work As Large As this will be these dates get chosen rather Mcmahon estimating the time for such tasks became a precise science in 1958 when the British political scientist Northcote Parkinson published the Law that bears his name work expands to fill the time available for its the work continues because the government extends the because of the subjects Complex Ity the position of native people in relation to Canad an society the work can continue As the time the events and the testimony slip deeper and deeper into the already the Winnipeg the Royal Canadian mounted police and the Manitoba attorney generals department can claim to have dealt in their own Way with some of the deficiencies aired at the inquiry solutions proposed by the inquiry for dealing with those same deficiencies risk seeming no longer one judicial inquiry cannot straighten out the relations Between Manitoba society and its aboriginal it should draw conclusions from the specific cases it explored and it should propose the Steps Manitoba should take it should do so promptly before it becomes an object of being both right and wrong president George Bush is both right and there is no As he that it is kind of sick to deliberately create in the persian Gulf a crude Oil Slick that covers an area greater in size than the City of human not just one sick is an Apt explanation for the estimated billion litres of the valuable resource now lying in Gulf Birds and Marine life Are As Well As the water Supply of 18 million among them thousands of american it is not healthy to do Bush is in his claim that Saddam Hussein gained nothing in releasing the at the very his action diverted coalition planes and bombs to the pumping station where Oil spewed into the Northern As some news outlets reported the american it was history first known use of an full and laser guided bombs to Stop it is a very Good military tactic to Cut an enemy Supply or to seriously harm water supplies in a desert conflict Are not a Good Deal of International attention and concern has also been diverted to the defence of saudi arabian desalination More than half the regions water Supply could be threatened by Slicks that together stretch Over an area equal to the distance Between Winnipeg and president Bush May also be incorrect when he says the foul Oil release is an act of a Las gasp Saddam Hussein made it perfectly Clear before the conflict began that he had no intention of following the rules and conventions of Western the burning of Oil in Kuwait tanks and the release of Oil into the far from being an out of Bounds May be Only the first grim efforts in a less less Nintendo like North americans once again have the advantage of living very far from the with few the people who warned most clearly that a Gulf War would cause As much environmental havoc As might be created by bombs were the people who lived in the Region or had spent some time the senior science adviser to Jordans King Hussein was very so too was a a Kuwait Oil executive in exile in Bernard a Nobe prizewinning car heard iraqi warnings that War would be fought Over an Ocean of burning those fears were All but forgotten until Saddam began to use the weapon of the dumping is Likely to harm Saddam help support for the Effort and increase desire for a Quick Resolution to the it is painful to get the graphic reminder of the sickness of human destruct who Speaks for Rural Canada by Stewart Macleod Thomson news service Ottawa in All that being written these Days about holding Canada together and lord knows theres lots of it a Central question is whether wed be better served by a prime minister from Quebec or one from English a More compelling it seems to is whether wed be better served by a prime minister from rather than can strange Price coincidence coincidence can explain Many but not the drop in gasoline prices in Winnipeg and the publication of a Public opinion poll which shows that 71 per cent of canadians believe the major Oil companies will use the Gulf War to take unfair advantage of perhaps the prices dropped because two out of three canadians support government the most unlikely theory is that the Oil companies simply concluded that the bulk of the High priced crude they purchased had worked its Way through the system at just the time the poll was made what should happen now that the major companies have lowered their prices by about two cents a litre from what they were last week and about four cents a litre from what they were at their most recent Peak what should not happen is for the government to lose interest in what Canadian Consumers Are being asked to pay for Federal Energy minister Jake Epp says he sees no evidence of Price gouging so Manitoba minister for consumer and corporate de is a bit More cognizant of what the Price signs read these the inaction of both Federal and provincial govern ments will Lead Many Consumers to wonder whether the men at the top really know what the Price of a litre of gasoline is these a recent Survey of the French Cabinet revealed that not a single member could without asking his what was being charged for a litre of gasoline in Paris or for a Paris metro Epp and Connery do have evidence of what the competitive Price of gasoline should it is reflected at where Oil companies get no Buffer period in which to work crude through their delivery it should be simple to adjust for taxes and the difference in currency and to determine what a reasonable charge should if this task is too Connery should rely on the Price being charged in he should then deduct what it costs to ship gasoline from Winnipeg to and decide what the gasoline pumps should be set at failing these canadians should encourage More Public opinion feeling alienated both questions might seem rather academic to the present apart from the Joe Clark Blip of 1979 and the John Turner Micro lip of we Haven had a no Quebec prime minister since and we Haven had a Rural oriented prime minister since its True the Quebec question raises a More urgent since that province obviously feels alien whats More frequently overlooked is that much of Rural Canada has similar while politicians of All stripes Are bending Over backwards to under stand Quebec no one seems to have the same concerns about Rural this Point was driven Home again during All those yearned interviews with our political particularly prime minister Brian Mulron absolutely nothing emerged to indicate there was any gut feeling for Small town or Rural some of the comments indicated a Complete insensitivity to these parts of the take Mulroney answer to questions about the dismantling and privatization of such institutions As via air Canada and Petro you have to have much Confidence in a country to think that it was held together by air Canada or he As for via it was costing hundreds of millions of dollars that taxpayers dont have to subsidize trains that nobody was this has nothing to do with our sense of nation yes it prime minis perhaps not if you live in Toron Montreal or but when you hit the real trains have a great Deal to do with our sense of among today crop of there Are probably very few who have Ever viewed Canada through a train window or talked with other canadians in a railway waiting trains and planes 1 would even argue in smaller air Canada also contributed to our sense of nationhood far More than regional feeder lines that might change names every few months and have no National Iden More than trains and perhaps the one institution that contributed More than anything else to our sense of Unity was the Post and that put in the past tense with some 750 Post wrong target your weasel words about free 21 was aimed at the wrong the Only weasel words about War lately have been from the with your article being a recent How dare you attempt to Lay blame for a sinister word plot at military feet our men and women in combat do not need any grammatical shield to protect them from the realities of War that surround them every second of the gratuitous charges from the Comfort of an office almost Miles away is quite in the Gulf War presents us with the interesting spectacle of government and military officials try ing to convince the population and the Media that it May be a Long and costly the Media is resisting the idea and is attempting to compensate for the fact it has been unable to show anything More inter Esting than Patriot trails leading to a Flash in the Cloudy night Canadian Pilot in the awful reality of what is Hap pening in Iraq is denied the North american who Are reduced to reporting results but still insist in overstating the Story and trying to sensationalize items with the repeated use of words like iraqi fury and terror from the a particularly distasteful practice in Canadian Media is the continuing attempt to portray the worry and distress being Felt by the families of personnel serving in the Gulf this self serving and mercenary approach is designed Only to sell More papers by preying on the discomfort of As a serving Soldier who has been away from Home for Long periods of i know that if anyone attempted to manipulate my family that id implant the reporters microphone where the Sun Doest a similar Fate would be All the More uncomfortable for the camera i respectfully ask that you devote your editorial writing talents to More important issues and avoid taking unfounded cheap shots at those who deserve colonel James Cox Royal Canadian regiment Winnipeg working mothers i do a stayathome Mother who enjoyed Reading the article women work free i have two concerns that i would like to the first concern is about the Terra working Mother that appeared in the mothers who choose to be at Home with their children Are working mothers As this term be used just to describe women who choose to Combine motherhood with jobs outside the my other concern was that the reporter should have interviewed one or two stayathome mothers to find out How they shared household chores with their Cindy Kelly Winnipeg letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to unappreciated the would like to express our support for the nurses of Manitoba during this difficult Peri in nurses Are Over unappreciated and Many nurses have a great Deal of responsibility in terms of human health and comparing nurses in pay equity terms to pastry chefs is we do not feel that the nurses de mands Are As physicians at the provinces largest emergency we interact with Many Rural nursing we realize All too Well How High efficient and effective health care depends on physicians rarely save lives or successfully treat serious medical conditions without the assistance of competent nurses Are a vital and essential component of the health care people directly involved in patient care such As nurses do not like to go on strike due to the very essential nature of their when a strike does the blame lies at the feet of the it is the present and preceding government which neglected or ignored health care problems for so Long that Vola tile situations have it was not too Long ago that physic ians in Manitoba were forced into strike situation due to the refusal of our present government to negotiate in a fair and reasonable now the nurses find themselves in the same lately there have been rumblings of backs work this is not an acceptable not Only is it wrong in any country claiming to be a democracy but it would Only make the nursing crisis in this prov Ince much we urge physicians and the Public to support the nurses and demand that the government respect the value of nurses and resolve this dispute in a fair and rapid my and 10 other doctors Winnipeg no free lunch your recent better than a free was somewhat mis in some areas the new compact fluorescent lamps May be cheaper to use than the conventional incandescent but that is not so in Supe Valu currently Sells for the new i Watt the equivalent of a conventional 40watt which is currently priced at four for the Supe Valu product carries a computation on the Side wrapping suggesting the compact has a hour life versus for the Conven for the Normal residential Homeowner paying cents per of electricity the Cost of Power for hours of the compact is versus for the conventional All taxes but when you add in the Cost of one newfangled bulb at plus taxes against 10 old fashioned 40 the comparative costs of bulb plus Power Are for the new one against for the con no free lunch Herel if we could buy the new style equivalent of a 100watt conventional for the same Price of we could turn these figures around and effect a saving with the new but nobody currently stocks larger bulbs and no one even seems sure they Are being if Winnipeg Hydro wants us to use the new they Are going to need to Market them around the Alice Herbert Winnipeg Flag burning an open letter to All those pacifist individuals who Are carrying on that grand old tradition of the six that of burning the Chain ing themselves to inanimate and in general just making a nuisance of i am certainly glad that they were not around during the thirties when that other madman was having his Way with most of because Chamberlain and his ilk were of the impression that a mad dog can be reasoned i wonder what All those patriotic people who fought and died so we could have the Chance to live in Harmony with others would say if they could see the Symbol of Freedom that waved so proudly desecrated and be fouled by such a group of i would much rather fight and even die before i would allow Hussein to subjugate if he would use chemical warfare on his own what would he do us until such time As those individuals who believe that a mad dog can be reasoned with have a solution to the problems of preventing bullies and cowards from imposing their will on they had Best leave the Flag Schell Winnipeg secret Deal i am writing to Clear up some general misunderstanding about the relationship Between the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and the discontent in it is my opinion that before the last Federal Mulroney made a secret Deal with the Premier of Bourassa was to deliver Quebec to Mulroney and ensure passage of the free Trade agree in Mulroney promised Quebec the Meech Lake a they were like two school Giddy with excitement Over their Little Bourassa and Quebec Politi offices turned Over to private enter prise in the past its Proba Bly no longer if successive governments Over the last two decades had any feel Ings whatsoever for what makes Canada tick in smaller commune none of these closings would have the new Canada Post corporation now is making big Bucks and actual mail deliveries May be just As efficient although i Harbor some doubts but not everything can be measured in economic ludicrous decisions perhaps the most ludicrous Dou ble decisions Ever taken by govern ment came in the 1970s when the closings of Rural Post offices were accompanied by an initiative to in crease the Federal presence in smaller the Trudeau government spent untold millions to erect billboards claiming credit for new while dismantling the most popular Federal presence it was breathtakingly but then neither Pierre nor most of his had spent much time socializing in Rural Post Mulroney Hast i think our leaders have been dead wrong in saying these institutions have nothing to do with our sense of they have everything in the world to do with but Urban afflicted with that billboard have never been Able to grasp the no wonder we have cans campaigned hard for they were energized with greed for the Power that Meech Lake promised them More Power than they had dared dream of Only a few years they delivered Quebec to Mulroney and the free Trade Deal Mulroney failed to keep his part of the he failed to deliver Meech Bourassa and Quebec Federal and provincial politicians Felt cheat they believe they paid the they sold a part of but they did not get the Power that was now they Are angry and to vent their anger they Are leading the people of Quebec away from Quebec was not cheated out of Meech Lake by English or by Elijah Harper or Clyde Wells or Jean or whoever Mulroney chooses to blame Tomor Row for the Sake of the Mulroney and Bourassa should admit what they have done and they should step David Densmore Winnipeg How do i know youre not a minor r i i ;