Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 22, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press july focus Fossa it of Jill nip has policy problem Elna probably the nost politically foolish unit to the Saskatchewan new democratic party has done in the last 10 years happened in Stilt traumatized by their crush ing defeat by Grant Devine and the tories a year the nip believed it needed to signal it had gotten the voters Given this rather fragile psycho logical it want Long before the nip began examining its con not surprisingly the party turned its attention to its uranium development which had been a noncontroversial Issue for the Public at but divisive within the nip the party rejected its former policy supporting uranium devel instead it adopted a Posi Tion calling for a moratorium on new uranium mines and a phase out of existing in a weak need Effort to Demon Strate some economic Respo Sibili the revised nip uranium policy stipulates existing mines will not be shut Down until alternative employment becomes the transparency of that condition is there is no Realis tic employment alternative in Northern Saskatchewan within the foreseeable so in the Dps revised uranium policy is a As the nip is trying to have it both ways when it comes to what some see As the difficult moral Issue of Saskatchewan being part of the nuclear fuel when the nip was in it aggressively pursued uranium de it eagerly jumped into bed with foreign multinationals As join venture partners in uranium mine All the while there were visions of untold wealth pouring into government coffers from the worlds richest uranium deposits in North Ern As for the morality that was handled by the nip govern Dale Eisler in Saskatchewan ment sounding pious about nuclear to was of to mine uranium and sell it to but we dirty our hands by actually refining it Here or building our own nuclear Power this holier Chanthou approach to uranium development where Saskatchewan takes uranium Money and looks Down its nose at those who buy it was always morally unfortunately for the its new no policy on uranium development has Only made its political problems while there was always a relatively Small Environ mentalist lobby opposed to the Dps pro uranium mining a majority in the party and among the general Public supported the province exploiting its uranium re by flip flopping on uranium de the new democrats look both inconsistent and this whole Issue of what an nip government would do with the provinces uranium sector raises questions about the party ability to manage the the majority of people see the Dps revised uranium policy As unreal is a sentiment that could under mine nip credibility on other eco nomic development it turns the political problem created by the Dps uranium policy has been aggravated in recent Days by the spectacular Success of an initial Public share Issue by came co the Saskatoon based uranium formed from the amalgamation of Smyc and federally owned Al Dorado came co raised million by Selling million shares in two the rapid Uptake of the came co shares reflects Public Confidence in the company and the uranium Indus Saskatchewan uranium deposits Are worlds ment on either moral or economic try future in clearly this creates a bigger quandary for the Dps uranium in effect we have a situation where the nip is saying it wants to shut Down not Only one of the strongest sectors of our natural re source but one developed by a previous nip government using Public the illogic of that position is self especially when you real ize there is no groundswell of pub Lic opposition to uranium develop what the nip needs to do is finally confront the uranium Issue head on and take an Nequi Coval either it believes in uranium development or it its been trying to have it both ways for years and As a result it looks not Only but Dale is Puliti Itil Idi tur fur a Mutlu Avi Hutc Lewun Reading and racism in Toronto schools Toronto compared to other minorities in the prov Black students drop out of Ontario school system in disproportionate they also occupy More places in vocational schools and fewer places in classes for advanced according to a government Why has this happened Accord ing to a study prepared by an organization quaintly named the anti racist directorate of the Ontario ministry of there Are several reasons schools lend to Stream Black students into Basic programs that Lead nowhere the school curriculum does not Deal extensively with Black studies or Black history teachers know Little about Black cultures some people assume that Blacks Are not part of the fabric of society there Are few Black teachers in the school system to act As role in the words of Ralph executive director of harambee Centre in which helps Black youngsters to stay in kids make a conscious decision not to remain in school because it is not Bruce Mcdougall in Ontario meeting their neither Agard nor the anti racist directorate say How the needs of Black students differ from those of or Brown nor do they suggest How the school curriculum could accommodate the needs of a Black student whose ancestors came from or anti Gua with the needs of students of sri or indonesian students currently enrolled in Ontario schools can Trace their ancestry to any of 189 that a lot of culture to cram into a school Day and still learn How to dissect a calculate the length of a Hypotenuse and write a Gramatis Cally Correct in any Correct grammar seems less important than Correct politics in the angry world of the Lennox for a member of the Black action defence committee in Toron recently wrote an article for a local newspaper taking to task the racist society that apparently pre vails in judging from his he know a parti Ciple from a although he also claims to be a but he makes All the right even if his meaning is a Little from the vast maw of Privi lege boomerangs sic counter phrases designed to confound the who think that they should be thoroughly pissed simply be cause they have been constantly pissed on Farrell observes with oracular dominance will scheme sic the Way it can and the dominated will continue to be irrevocably As for newspaper far Rell says they Are High Decibel advocates for the they Mere gargoyles hang ing off the wrapping up his trenchant com Farrell the Battle is is there still occasion for honorable and creative solutions shortly after this article Farrell travelled to Mon Treal to stimulate the Downtrodden in that City with his appearing at a demonstration held in response to the in of a Young Man by a Montreal police Farrell and another Toronto Dudley gave the most Radical and angry according to newspaper they told the crowd that metro Toronto police officers Are no better than those in Montreal when it comes to racism against if this distinct society is about you have a responsibility to bring the whole Damn thing far Rell in the spirit of Honor Able you dont have to be any particular color to take offence at farrells misguided but you have to know How to and most people learn to read in if students leave school before they learn to distinguish a genuine idea from an emotional How will they Ever learn to Cope with Lennox Farrell North meets South but wests worries Are main concern by feed Cleverley Winnipeg free press rapid City one of the reasons the premiers of West Ern Canadian provinces started meeting More formally with the governors of Western states is a Mutual feeling of frustration with on the part of the and with As far As the americans Are this frustration was evident Sun Day when the first North american free Trade meeting was held which included such secondary govern ment representatives As Canadian state governors and the governors of Mexico Border the participants were obviously delighted to get some first hand Contact with people at their own level in three rather than having to make do with third hand information relayed from their respective Federal a Continental free Trade zone will quite those responsible for governing provinces in Canada and states in the and in by gathering these representatives together to meet As Indi the governors and premiers could identify problems which might not be considered too important in Federal but which were a con Cern at the provincial any recommendations made As a result of past meetings Between Canadian premiers and governors have no Legal status in the relationship Between Canada and the International on both sides of the Are a matter for Federal if free Trade is expanded to include neither will future meetings have any Legal standing with the government of that As two Canadian premiers Manitoba Gary Filmon and Saskatchewan Grant Devine sit with their counterparts in South Dakotas Black Hills this they need look no further than Regina to see proof positive that their meet Ings produce this in the third round of negotiations toward a new set of bilateral air agreements be tween Canada and the will be taking the original schedule of these which Are aimed at a new which has been dubbed open had All the meetings in Eastern and Cana Dian meeting in Regina this at the annual meeting of Western Canadian premiers attended by two governors George Mickelson of South Dakota and George sinner of North Dakota the informal Alliance of premiers and governors issued a Strong recommendation that at least one negotiating session for new air routes be held in the their argument was that the new if it could be hammered would include new links in the West and so some of the talks should be held in the same general their voices were the schedule was and the Regina meeting was added to the Western premiers and governors Are a bit behind the Strong links that have been forged along the Eastern where governors and pre Miers have been meeting for this years meeting of Western gov being held in the largest City of the Host governors is the second at which representatives from Canada have had a formal place at the conference table and the third that has been International in last year at Fargo marked the first time chairs were reserved for Canadian premiers at the Western governors association Ca Nadian premiers had appeared As guest speakers at earlier but last year the arrangement be came a bit More the formal Ity was continued this year in in where the two governors who attended arrived with a min Agenda of their which resulted in a remarkably Strong statement calling for Cross Border action on a whole Range of topics from to the Protection of the to the need for compatible environmental first discovery the statement itself did Little at the what was a series of meetings held at the bureaucratic level which have been beneficial to All who the first discovery made at these meet Ings was that there was no monopoly on the problems faced by Wes which turned out to be remarkably similar on both sides of the the second discovery was that there was no monopoly on the expertise needed to Deal with the North and South Dakota and Minnesota share the same problems dealing with the conservation of wildlife a they share the same waterfowl Many of the same water ways and certainly Many of the problems that recognize no International the meetings which have resulted from the decision taken by the pre Miers and governors to work More closely together have produced a better at the official of what other jurisdictions Are the freewheeling style of the governors meetings Are a far cry from diplomatic Courtesy which prevail sat the National any Canadian Premier or mexican governor who sits Down with his counterpart had better be prepared to Deal with Blunt language when differences in opinion Manitoba Gary at his first formal meeting last had to defend his governments Export of Hydro Power and its effect on North Dakotas soft Coal Grant Devine had to defend a gov emment owned Potash Industry and its effect on private Potash mines in new before they return the governors of Mexico Border states will most probably have had their fill of concerns from both the and Canada about wage Levels in their country and How these affect Continental no one at this years meeting intends to avoid a full discussion of the rather controversial environmental standards which exist in and if anyone wants to know How literacy standards anywhere can affect free there Are people Here who Are willing to explain the mat democracy should Rule War against mosquitoes the bulk of the Mosquito complaints pour ing into Winnipeg insect control Headquarters Are no suprise from the cites second class second class in Mosquito Are those who Are denied Relief because they live within 300 feet of someone who objects to it is not the City who has turned some of its taxpayers into second class it is the provinces 1988 Law which gives the am fog Ging crowd special those who want their property fogged can scream and but City Crews will turn their machines off As soon As they come within 100 meters of the property of anyone who has registered his what the Law quite is to give anyone opposed to fogging a degree of Comfort control Over six or seven houses on either Side of his if this does not seem quite or not quite please direct any comments to Premier Gary Bill Norrie will with that it is not his it is a problem which be comes More noticeable now that Mosquito which trigger fogging by catching As few As 25 mosquitoes in 24 Are catch ing up to two thousand times As it to memories Long enough to reach Back 16 to recollections of the Vintage Steve Zybas method of dealing with a provincial government which was acting contrary to the wishes of the majority of the mayors on a Friday morning when the provincial Cabinet was the mayor led a Convoy made up of the entire City fogging Fleet and ordered it parked in front of the neatly jamming cars belong ing to Cabinet ministers in their parking Fred Cleverley then the in the full View of the news Media he had tipped them to the Story himself made his Way to the Cabinet room and hammered on the door until it was in no Uncertain mayor Juba outlined the risk of Western Equine encephalitis he perceived in the swarms of and absolved himself of any responsibility should one Winnipeg Ger die of the the Means to prevent the mayor was in the fogging Fleet the province would not let him this All took place about ii Oclock in the three hours at a news con Manitoba health minister bounced that fogging would begin that to this Day no one has succeeded in proving whether fogging really controls As its advocates or or it is really an ineffective and expensive exercise that does More harm than As its opponents a fact mayor Juba did was respond to the wishes of the majority of the u was a habit he had that kept him in office for More than 20 despite the obvious problem with the mos Quito population being experienced this no one is going to insist that Winni Eggers with medical problems be subjected to sprays or fogging which May aggravate their in the interests of the province and the City should take another look at the present Many of those who complain to the cites Bug department suspect they Are victims of a conspiracy of sorts made up of people because they Are opposed to any form of insect Are taking action which re sults in whole streets and areas being by passed by the fogging reports that some of the requests not to fog have been solicited from but Are respected do not help matters the present situation May be the result of purely technical because no one has been Able to design a fogging system which can be turned on and off to match property perhaps it is time to turn the engineers Loose on issuing the orders now so that the work can be carried out during the Winter months when the mosquitoes Are not nearly so it is difficult to argue with the right of any property owner to forbid the use of or other control measures on his it is just As difficult to argue that this right not to be fogged exceeds the right of people who want mosquitoes controlled to get whatever Protection is the argument former mayor Juba used still Western Equine encephalitis re Mains a deadly disease which can take lives within a matter of Days of How Many preventable deaths is an acceptable number to guarantee the rights of those who wish not to be fogged just because the disease has not been either Active or deadly for a number of years does not guarantee that there is not another 1941 lurking in the perhaps even this More than three dozen Manitoban died from this which is spread by a particular Type of in that Are people who oppose any kind of insect control somehow More important than those who want the bugs killed Are the wishes of those who claim to be on the Side of the environment More important than those who sincerely wish to avoid serious and possibly death does the voice of one Winni pegged who happens to hold a particular View count for More than the voice of another who happens to hold a different View and How about the wishes of those who dont care one Way or another about the and who Are not a bit concerned about insect carried but who simply want to be Able to enjoy the few warm Days and nights Manitoba gets in the course of a year u is a question that begs a democratic but a solution in which every vote counts Sqq Newbury by Harry Trudeau aim05ta hp560nnahave 1 just hi5 to fuss Eor Tomt zmtw5hock than i ;